Tag: NGO
Who is behind the pop-up NGO East Wall Here For All?
In the past couple of weeks, a newly-formed NGO calling itself East Wall Here For All, has established its online presence and made an appearance leafletting residents in East Wall. The organisation has been created to lobby in support of...
Political Ireland’s €215k Diversity Payday
With storm clouds gathering around the second coming of Leo Varadkar to the tanistry, the public purse strings are opening again to secure a new funding stream for the diversity lobby in Ireland. Announced Monday by the Department of Local...
TENI Fails to File Accounts for Fourth Year Amid Harassment Claims
Defying charity regulators yet again, it would appear that the trans charity TENI has missed another deadline for filing its financials-its fourth in as many consecutive years. Missing a September 30th deadline, the trans group which has been plagued by...
Civil Society Assemble! Maynooth Issues Report on Combating Right Wing Populism
Resisting the Far Right: Civil Society Strategies for Countering the Far Right in Ireland is a recent publication by the academic jokers of Maynooth University, which was once synonymous with the supposedly far right Catholic Church, before this obvious rot...
The SPLC’s Irish Debut
Another weekend and another acronym as the Sunday Independent played host to yet another counter extremism think tank and their reportage on the dreaded yet still unformed ‘Irish far right’. The adroitly named Global Project Against Hate and Extremism (GPAHE)...
Left Wing Advocacy Groups Advertises Student Role at €1.78 an Hour
Specialising in the production of progressive audio-visual content and campus activism, ‘STAND’ is a little known website and advocacy group funded through the Department of Foreign Affairs and their Irish Aid programme. Existing under the umbrella of the Suas Educational...
Tavistock’s Irish Legacy
A longstanding bolthole for the Republic’s gender reassignment service, the closure of the specialist Tavistock clinic owing to the findings of an independent review is sure to have an impact on the treatment of Irish children at home. Coming under...
Hate Speech in Ireland: The Road Ahead
Kicked into the legislative long grass by Charlie Flanagan, rumblings by the Department of Justice this week indicate an intention to finally cut the Gordian knote on viable hate speech legislation this autumn. Specifically mentioned within the Programme for Government...
Is Kinnegad Just the Beginning? Asylum Wave Inbound for Ireland
The following quote is Roderic O'Gorman's sole explanation for the increase in the number of non-Ukraine related asylum seekers in Ireland so far this year. "Since the lifting of international travel restrictions post-Covid-19, there has been a significant increase of...
Beware of the Risen Aul One: Reflections on Pride vs Joe Duffy:
“I see the worst in people. I don’t need to look past seeing them to get all I need. I’ve built my hatreds up over the years, little by little” – Daniel Plainview, ‘There Will be Blood’ We Kill Our...