O’Brennan Blows A Gasket: Has Trumpism Broken Maynooth’s Globalism’s Kingpin Academic
Time is ticking on Ireland Inc. rediscovering itself in time for the fallout of the new Trumpian age with a Dublin managerial class so far found to be lacking when it comes to replacing the American dollars that keep the...
Kneecap: Why the Irish Left Will Regret Legitimising Ethno-Nationalism
The Northern Troubles famously originated in a Civil Rights movement that went off the rails and ignited a sectarian timebomb primed since partition. An attempt to import MLK-style civil agitation into the six counties kicked the canister onto a society...
After Kyiv? Taoiseach’s European Tour Incites Russian Warning
Taoiseach Micheal Martin flew to Brussels February 10th to meet European Union’s top liberal technocrats from Antonio Costa, President of the European Council, to Roberta Metsola, President of the European Parliament. The trip further saw Martin attending French President Emmanuel...
Storm Éowyn Recovery Bad Start for Ireland in Multipolar World
As far as bad omens for a new chaotic world of politics the sight of Romanian and Danish planes flying into Dublin Airport to provide emergency power generators should be scarred into our memory. An above average Atlantic storm Éowyn...
Seanad Election 2025: Ireland’s Anti-Woke Fightback Draws Blood?
Norris, Bacik, Ruane, Flynn, Robinson. A conceit to residual Protestant hegemony and ironically styled as a mix of Mussolini’s very own Senate and Pope Pius XI’s antidote to Marxism as expressed via the vocational panels, the Irish Seanad has earned...
Trump’s USAID Shutdown to Hit Irish NGO Complex
While not a direct target of its initiatives, the shuttering of Washington’s USAID network is likely to have a ripple effect in Ireland where our nation’s foreign aid programmes have become interwoven with the Democratic wing of the American establishment...
Saint Brigid’s Day; Official Ireland’s Gaia Cult?
The decline of social Catholicism in Ireland has thrown up a multitude of phenomena, not least the growing official worship of Imbolc and a progressive retelling of Saint Brigid. Bríd, the Gaelic woman who brought Christianity to Louth, the saint...
O’Callaghan Steps Onto the Asylum Hot Seat
Within the Irish Cabinet there are some portfolios earmarked for political death. Health is the most obvious one having consumed the career of Mary Harney most famously with Varadkar avoiding too much political flak in the post before moving on...
The Magdeburg Attacker’s Irish Connection
Six dead at a Christmas market in Magdeburg eastern Germany was just the latest price to pay for the German state’s decades long pursuit of open borders mania. While a cynical media spin tried to pin the attack on the...
Surveying the Wreckage: Greens Have Left Ireland Ill-Prepared for Trumpian Era
The regime change in Washington is swiftly being felt in Western capitals Dublin included with the now ex-Minister for Integration Roderic O’Gorman appearing on the national broadcaster Monday to decry a new alliance between Trumpism and Big Tech. https://twitter.com/RTEUpfront/status/1881459892520652916 Rather...