Tag: Migration
Media Hush Over Galway Migrant Gang Rape?
Court reporting in Ireland is a gnarly affair at the best of times. From defamation risk to the protection of minors and victims, the profession is arrayed with a multitude of legal tripwires designed to bring down not just individual...
The UDA’s Antifascist Feud: More than Meets the Eye?
Political and institutional loyalism never operates more than a stone’s throw away from the UK security apparatus. Ever since Carson loaded rifles on the Larne right through to decades of collusion and contemporary spats between narco gangs in East Belfast,...
Labour Party Spins Ogbu’s Dodgy Dates?
A sloppy statement from Labour HQ in defence of party golden girl and new mayor of Galway, Cllr Helen Ogbu, is likely to engender less media attention than it actually should following media questioning of the timeline by which she...
House the Irish? NGOs Prepare Human Rights Blockade to Irish First Housing Policy
The government’s Housing and Residential Tenancies Bill, presented to the Oireachtas this month, would if implemented introduce very (very) basic residence requirements for access to social housing waiting lists. Applicants would be required to demonstrate both a legal right to...
Belfast Botched Beheading: Will Open Borders Risk Peace in the North
An Irishman lies seriously injured after a savage knife attack by a man reportedly believed to be Somalian on Kinnaird Avenue, North Belfast. The brave locals who intervened did more to protect Belfast than the Crown Forces did. They risked...
Dublin Central By Election: Is the Inner City Primed for Migration Backlash?
Dublin Central will go to the polls on 22 May to elect one TD, following the vacancy left by Paschal Donohoe. The official notice of poll lists fourteen candidates, including Malachy Steenson, standing as a non-party candidate, alongside PSF (officially...
Ellen Coyne’s Fringe: Women’s Coalition on Immigration Leaves IT Flummoxed
If Ellen Coyne was trying hard not to sound startled this week then it clearly isn’t working. The Joe.ie turned Irish Times corridor whisperer took to print and podcast to passively aggressively condemn the launch of Women's Coalition on Immigration...
DoJ: No Obligation For Ireland To Issue Visas After EU Trade Deal
The Department of Justice has sought to play down suggestions that the EU–India free trade deal will automatically open the Irish labour market to increased migration, stressing that control over visas and employment permits remains firmly in national hands. In...
Germany’s New “Totalitarian Democracy”: An Interview with Dr. Hans‑Georg Maaßen
Dr. Hans‑Georg Maaßen spent decades at the heart of the German security state. As a senior official in the Federal Ministry of the Interior and later as President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, he helped...
What Does Irish Right-Wing Unity Look Like?
The farmer and the cowman should be friends, Oh, the farmer and the cowman should be friends. The cowman ropes a cow with ease, the farmer steals her butter and cheese, But that's no reason why they cain't be friends...