Tag: Trump
The Gaza Board of Peace and the Irish Illusion
Although Trump's self-serving Gaza Board of Peace has no end of critics, it is a useful weathervane to gauge where the world, Ireland included, is going. The Board exists to enrich its members and to secure their interests. The Palestinians,...
Imperial America: Ireland and Washington’s Expanding Biometric Border Regime
The rupturing of transatlantic relations continues to define the diplomatic calendars of both Iveagh House and European capitals with scant attention being paid to moves by Washington to hoover up the biometric data of EU citizens. Referred to by policy...
Ireland Will Miss Globalism When it’s Gone
Greenland. Gaza. Ukraine, Maduro, Iran. History is not so much “returning” as kicking in the door with a hatchet. The geopolitical Goldilocks zone Ireland slipped into after the Cold War (the one many readers of this publication love to backtalk)...
Michael McDowell’s Blog-Diplomacy
In an August 20th article written by the former Tánaiste and Attorney General, Senator Michael McDowell castigates the Ukraine peace negotiations established by United States President Donald Trump. McDowell characterises President Trump’s negotiation tactics with Russia as a kind of...
De Valera, Schrödinger, and Why Ireland Will Not Attract anti-Trump Scientists
Let's imagine, in one of Erwin Schrödinger's parallel universes, I was charged with providing the brain power for a Max Planck Institute based in an Ireland at peace with the world and with itself. No problem. I would charter a...
Could Trump Tarriffs Break Fine Gael’s Patronage Networks?
Simon Harris, the TikTok Tanaiste and Minister of Foreign Affairs, has had a particularly rough time these past few weeks. Focusing too much on actually governing Ireland at the time when it faces an economic crossroads, he has left his...
MAGA’s Atlantic Vassal: What a Trump Presidency Could Demand from Ireland
The implications of JD Vance’s February Munich Security Conference speech are fast reaching the Department of Foreign Affairs halls as the Taoiseach girdles his loins for a potentially bruising White House visit this St. Patrick’s Day. Ireland has so far...
The New Transatlantic Relationship: What Are Ireland’s Strategic Objectives for a Second Trump Term
Vengence is coming to the Potomac and all counts point to Leinster House being lamentably underprepared. Days shy of an American presidential election and even projections point to a second and likely proactive Trump White House term but in a...
The Shepherd Leads His Flock Astray
Is the Pope Catholic? Is Ireland Catholic? A picture is worth a thousand words, they say. An idiom, a rhetorical question, and an adage have been used to demonstrate the power of language. It is the power of language which...
After Trump: The State of Democracy in America 2020
As America approaches a general election, it is worth examining it’s politics, and Irish people’s attitude to them. Irish people have more of an affinity with the Democrats because we are spoon-fed their culture, and therefore are inclined to the...