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 City and the Cost of Not Planning
The central issue to be taken from this data is not whether demographic change is desirable or undesirable. It is whether the Leinster House Government planned for it and its consequences. In Dublin Central, where housing need, homelessness and population...
We Are Living Way Beyond Our Means
Amid rising energy costs, it is worth considering how there can be such a severe cost of living crisis in such a wealthy country as Ireland. This is because much of the cost of living crisis is predicated on a...
The Wisdom of the Tribe and A Valediction Forbidding Yawning
Government-funded education is problematic for reasons too numerous to cover in this short essay. Suffice it to say, that a strong argument can be made for what I will call the bare-bones essentials. What is the most important subject for...
The Leaving Cert Politics And Society Course Is Still A Pain In The Posterior
Although my earlier piece castigated the Leaving Cert History syllabus, its faults are as nothing compared to the Leaving Cert Politics and Society farce which, to his credit, Peter Caddle previously filleted here as long ago as June 2018. Bad and all as...
Whistleblower Cafe and Jenny “Big Balls” Maguire: Questions a Confident Irish Left Could Answer
Parisian café culture in the late eighteenth century had spelled doom for the Bourbons long before the guillotine fell on King Louis. London’s “penny universities” performed much the same service for poor King Charles. No doubt conscious of the historical...
Instability in Britain, A Border Poll in Ireland: Britain’s EU Reset and the Border Poll Mirage
Starmer’s reset with the European Union is not romance. It is repair-work. Britain wants easier trade, smoother regulation, security co-operation, a veterinary agreement here, a goods arrangement there and all the little devices by which a state may edge back...
In Galway West Ireland’s Fractured Populist Right Begins to Find Form
Noel Thomas: Independent Ireland’s Opening in Galway West The more immediate electoral threat to the old party system in Galway West comes from Noel Thomas and Independent Ireland. Thomas is not an outsider in the sense of being unknown locally:...
Revisionists Run Rampant with Leaving Cert History Syllabus
In his far-ranging Gript essay castigating the proposed new Leaving Cert history syllabus, the Iona's Institute's David Quinn posits that the syllabus carries an explicit anti Catholic agenda, where the students are shoe-horned into believing that the Catholic Church and groups...
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...