Tag: Ireland

The Azure Forum: NATO’s Irish Think-Tank?

Established in 2019, the Azure Forum is a British foreign policy think-tank based in Ireland. Largely flying under the public’s radar, the Azure Forum has been active in foreign policy debates in the media and pro-Atlanticist media circles. Protecting National...

/ 21/06/2023

The Irish Establishment is Not Ready for a Politicised Presidency

Not just a novelty tea cosy, Michael D Higgins has thrown the fox into the Atlanticist henhouse with a robust defence of Irish neutrality ahead of a blatantly rigged forum on defence policy.  True to his contrarian anti-war roots the...

/ 20/06/2023

Irish Neutrality Committee Rigged by Pro-NATO Gov 

 With the war in Ukraine turning into even more of a meat grinder, Ryan Kiersey takes a look at the machinations of our own government to force the Irish people into the conflict through a citizen's assembly-style charade. Ireland’s Consultative...

/ 19/06/2023

A Fiscal Policy for the Irish Right? The Abolition of the USC & Reformation of Government Spending

The lot of right-wing populism in Ireland is primarily focused on the changing social fabric of the nation. As the government repeatedly and consistently alienates voters with its high tax, high migration, high rent society, political traffic will drift towards...

/ 11/06/2023

Wandering in the great outdoors: A Gaelic tradition

Walkabout, trekking, hiking, journeying - whatever you call it or however it's done there seems to be an innate affection among the Gael for the less-beaten track, including pilgrimages, our rebels on the run, and of course hiking trails.  Pilgrimages...

/ 06/06/2023

WATCH: Gardaí Force Migrants into Galway Town – Residents Pledge to Resist

Yesterday evening, Gardaí forced 2 busses of migrants past residents of the area of Ballybrit Industrial Estate, Co. Galway who had been blockading the site to prevent its use as a migrant accommodation centre. Footage showing busses arriving, council workers...

/ 02/06/2023

Thoughts on Surviving the Battles of Pearse Street

The night of Friday 12th May saw me in Pearse Street and Saturday saw me outside the Custom House, then back to Pearse Street, before returning home via James Joyce’s old stomping grounds of Finn’s Hotel and Trinity’s forbidding walls....

/ 23/05/2023

Children At Risk? Migrant Exposes Himself, Defecates at Co. Clare Asylum Centre As Locals Protest

The Burkean has received reports and evidence of a migrant exposing himself and defecating by the road at the site of an ongoing standoff between angry locals and the government (who are trying to plant the area with foreign men)....

/ 22/05/2023

BREAKING: Asylum Centre Blockades Have Spread to Another Town

As of 8pm, Sunday 21st, a blockade of a suspected site of new asylum plantation near the village of Scool, Co. Clare has begun. This follows a similar blockade nearby in Inch, Co. Clare. Locals stated that the blockade is...

/ 22/05/2023

THIS IS HOW WE WIN: Support Your Local Tractor Blockade

The past few months have seen the growth of a social movement the likes of which hasn't happened in Ireland for decades. Irish people have realized that a new plantation is going on, and everyone in politics and the media...

/ 17/05/2023