Black Sabbath: The Return of Christian Heavy Metal
“I believe in God. I am no worshipper of Satan. My kids do not hang from the ceiling while sleeping in the attic.” - Ozzy Osbourne “A Christian man is a man who is within himself, who puts out good...
Will State Subsidies Kill Irish Journalism’s Credibility?
While the Hate Speech Bill was binned faster than Simon Harris’ tenure as the ‘TikTok Teesh’, the remaining systematic vestiges of its enforcement mechanism remain fully reusable by the long arm of the Media Commission. Styled Comisiún na Meán to...
How the Irish Government Could Push for an All-Island Asylum Policy
The Irish border issue looks to become septic yet again. Not through Brexit mishaps or the perennial issues of smuggling and paramilitarism but the very 21st phenomenon of mass migration.Belfast, not Rosslare or Dublin Airport is becoming the primary entry...
Ireland’s New Atlantic Relationship: Will the Patrick Collison Drop the Ball on Replacement Migration?
A diplomatic sigh of relief could be heard on this side of the Atlantic as the Taoiseach avoided a verbal spanking courtesy of the new Trump administration during the perfunctory Saint Patrick’s Day visit. A positive diaspora-driven image of the...
Operation Sophia: When Ireland’s Open Border Agenda Undermined Neutrality
Rhetoric is meeting reality this week as the Irish government began the legislative process of dispensing with the ‘Triple Lock” mechanism putting requirements on UN, Cabinet, and Oireachtas approval for any deployments of more than 12 Defence Forces personnel. Thanks...
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...
Bowling Alone on O’Connell Street: Atomisation and Modern Irish Life
“Every Civilization passes through the same necessary phases. First, the organic unity of a high Culture, rich in meaning, belief, and communal purpose. Then, as it reaches its zenith, the Culture hardens into mere Civilization—mechanistic, intellectualized, and devoid of the...
An Irish Twitter Files? Gript Garda Snooping Hints at Wider Espionage at X’s European HQ
A sloppy legal attempt by An Garda Siochána to access Gript's private X messages indicates the ease with which Irish authorities and other actors may have once had free reign to spy on Twitter users before Elon Musk’s takeover of...
Why Can’t Ireland Have an AfD? The Blunt Answer
German and, by extension, European politics is about to become out of kilter. Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), a party repeatedly labeled by the German security services as a threat to constitutional democracy and with an explicitly ethnic-nationalist platform of remigration...
O’Brennan Blows A Gasket: Has Trumpism Broken Maynooth’s Globalist 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...