Tag: Dublin
Dublin City and the Cost of Not Planning
The central issue to be taken from this data is not whether demographic change is desirable or undesirable. It is whether the Leinster House Government planned for it and its consequences. In Dublin Central, where housing need, homelessness and population...
Whistleblower Cafe and Jenny “Big Balls” Maguire: Questions a Confident Irish Left Could Answer
Parisian café culture in the late eighteenth century had spelled doom for the Bourbons long before the guillotine fell on King Louis. London’s “penny universities” performed much the same service for poor King Charles. No doubt conscious of the historical...
Gangsta Rap Politics: Middle Class, Middle Aged Journalists and their Vicarious Thrills.
For "polite society" or the segregated suburbs, the gangster becomes a vessel through which forbidden traits can be experienced indirectly - aggression, ruthlessness, rebellion, freedom from rules. Gangsta rap offers a safe, commodified view into a world they do not...
Bowling Alone on O’Connell Street: Atomisation and Modern Irish Life
“Every Civilization passes through the same necessary phases. First, the organic unity of a high Culture, rich in meaning, belief, and communal purpose. Then, as it reaches its zenith, the Culture hardens into mere Civilization—mechanistic, intellectualized, and devoid of the...
Car Rams into Anti-Immigration Protesters in East Wall
At least one man has received medical attention after a car rammed into an unknown number of anti-immigration protesters in East Wall on Wednesday evening. The incident is said to have taken place at around 8pm, with multiple videos appearing...
Dublin Fights Back Against the Asylum Industry
Introduction: The Day Dublin Fought Back The 12th of January will be etched forever in our nation’s history as the day when working-class Dubliners defied the asylum industry. A day where they said no to gombeen hoteliers parasitically profiteering off...
East Wall: Dublin Working Class Turns Against Asylum Racket
Men, women and children from East Wall, Ballybough and North Strand gathered in their hundreds to protest outside the nearby Old ESB offices on East Wall Road today, which has been transformed, literally overnight, into a military style barracks for...
Who Lets Moore Street Rot?
Wandering down Moore Street the morning after hoodlums rammed Garda cars in Cherry Orchard, I chanced upon a glimpse of Dublin in the rarified ol' times. There, guitar in hand, surrounded by a phalanx of smiling Gardaí, was actor Phelim...
Dublin Does Sodom and Gomorrah
Given the current state of Dublin's inner city, it seems the slums of a century and more ago have been painted over to cater to Sinn Féin's LGBT++ zeitgeist. Dublin, in a word, is a kip; it combines all of...
Dublin’s Globalist Aesthetic
Dublin is in many respects a bloated provincial town - one stretching out in kilometers in each direction to accommodate over a million people, as opposed to a kilometer in each to accommodate ten thousand. Large buildings are the exception...