Tag: Green Party
Fact-Check: Green Party Press Officer Claim About “Racist Irish Twitter Users”
The Claim: Manus Carlisle (Policy and Press Officer for Green Party MEP Grace O'Sullivan) yesterday claimed that a profile picture of an Ireland First account was used "hundreds of times by the same person spreading nonsense" and that "the large...
Green Party Not Welcome? Division Between the Centre and Far-Left Following Pro-Migration Rally
Centre Left vs Far Left Divide at the Pro-Migration RallyIt appears there is trouble in paradise as Ireland’s pro-migration front has been showing deep divides since the even day before the Saturday March by Le Chéile took place. The night...
Dublin Trucker Protest: Has Haulier Resistance Flatlined Already?
Populism came to town on wheels Monday with the commencement and subsequent cessation of what was supposed to be an indefinite blockade by truckers against rising fuel prices. Loosely organised around the haulier group ‘The People Of Ireland Against Fuel...
Ireland’s Retrofitting Debacle: Are Green Politics Just a Mask for Corporate Takeover?
Though I'll tell my great grandchildren that it was the luck of the Irish that saved my hide from the Great Covid Pandemic, the more numerate amongst them would point out that, by the Irish regime's own estimates, 5,019,908 of...
Don’t Let Government Memory-Hole the Pandemic
And just like that, NPHET clicks its fingers and the pandemic is over. The curfew is ended, limits on capacity are lifted, and the use for Covid certs domestically is withdrawn - the demands of the ‘far right anti vaxxers...
Eat the Bugs Paddy: Does the Irish Meat Industry Have a Future?
The centrality played by the cow in Irish life is hard to ignore. From our nation's mythological cradle, right up to contemporary politics, our bovine friends have remained silent sentinels over Irish history. With Ireland lacking major mineral deposits to...
German Elections: Did the Centre Hold?
In Brendan Simms’ 2013 work Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy, he argued that the geopolitical history of Europe since the fall of Constantinople could be boiled down to the question of mastery over Germany. The land of the Rhein, Oder,...
An Rabharta Glas — Green Left: Ireland’s Latest Radlib Monstrosity
“Radlib: Short for Radical Liberal. Used as an insult among leftist groups for people who claim to be radicals or leftists, often to feel good about themselves, but express liberal, uninformed or otherwise non-leftist views about important topics such as...
Hazel Chu: Has Diversity Politics Come Back to Haunt the Greens?
Has Hazel Chu reached too far and tipped over the boat? Or was there some other motive to her gambit to which we are not privy? Despite the rancour from some elements of the Green Parliamentary Party at her attempt...
TCD LawSoc’s Award to Simon Harris an Act of Obliviousness
To the audible sigh of half the country, Trinity College’s LawSoc has engendered a certain degree of online criticism for its announcement to award former Health-turned-Higher Education Minister Simon Harris the (supposedly) coveted Praeses Elit award for his work as...