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Newstalk Partners with Soros NGO to Combat Populism
As the American presidential election rolls around and the potential for post-Covid electoral destabilisation emerges, the powers that be have commenced a new round of measures to clamp down on dissident voices. Zoning in on the tech platforms, the clampdown...
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GAA Bends the Knee to Diversity Lobby
An ideological mop-up operation appears to be the order of the day across a variety of Irish institutions. In the aftermath of the anti-racist protests, while we have not yet seen Irish statues deposited into rivers, there has nevertheless been...
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Fairer Future: Time to Let Fianna Fáil Perish
As four months of protracted political horse-trading come to a close, it appears to be a most Pyrrhic victory for Micheál Martin. With the Taoiseach's office within grasp and a decade of post-Crash reform under his belt, the future should...
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Ireland’s Top 10 Problematic Statues
A type of progressive iconoclasm appears to be the order of the day across much of the Western world this month. Buoyed on by the death of George Floyd, statues of historically racist individuals are biting the dust from King...
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Black Lives Matter Dublin: Irish Cultural Colonisation and Left Hypocrisy
Dublin's streets could have been mistaken for inner city Los Angeles yesterday as it played host to its very own ‘Black Lives Matter’ protest. Numbering the best part of three thousand strong, the protest came as the city is tentatively...
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Cahersiveen: Irish Asylum System Enters Meltdown
Flanagan’s Folly : DP Outrage in Cahersiveen As the days go by it becomes transparent that ongoing turmoil has blown the lid off the long existing fiasco of the Direct Provision system. A cause célèbre for both the open borders...
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The Irish Right’s Truther Problem
Truther: “one who believes that the truth about an important subject or event is being concealed from the public by a powerful conspiracy.” The term conspiracy theory is a disingenuous phrase, largely manufactured to discredit genuine concerns about political and...
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Red Faces at the Phoenix
Irish media has not been spared the recent Corona-induced downturn as the economy enters a prolonged viral hiatus. From the temporary lay-offs and streamlining of hacks at ‘Independent’ News and Media (INM), to a plethora of local titles hitting the...
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Keelings: or How to Lose Friends and Infect People
As Ireland enters into the second month of its quarantine outrage has emerged at the importation of Bulgarian labour by the Ballyboughal-registered fruit company Keelings. Announced over the past 24 hours, it has been revealed that the company had chartered...
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Anti-Americanism is Essential for Anti-Globalism
In August of last year Shannon Airport closed temporarily on account of a fire on an US chartered carrier flying American military personnel to the Middle East. The closure was a stark reminder of the continued presence of American personnel...