Analysis in Decay: Burn Them Out!: A History of Fascism and the Far Right in Ireland by Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc
Clare-based historian Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc has published a new book titled Burn Them Out!: A History of Fascism and the Far Right in Ireland (2025). This is a hot-button topic and certainly one of interest to readers of the...
FF-FG’s New Mudguard? Regional Independents and GE24
The dust has settled after the election of 29 November 2024 General Election. While in some corners the failure of any Nationalist candidate to be elected has resulted in fighting and the blame game, this only serves to highlight how...
The Dangerous Folly of “No Political Solution” and the Irish Right
In every election, social media addicts jump up and down to declare this was Ireland’s “last chance”. Sometimes they’ll hurriedly throw their name on the ballot and run amateur campaigns, before declaring that the results were either rigged or making...
Will We see a Sinn Féin Lurch to the ‘Right’ Post-Election?
Around this time last year, I had a conversation with a Sinn Féin TD in Dublin. This TD has been a party member for decades. He isn’t a Johnny-come-lately or some eccentric who somehow ended up in the Dáil in...
Parochialism vs. Populism: What Next For the Rural Independent Group?
A video published by Gript on April 12th, interviewed independent TDs Mattie McGrath and Michael Collins on the idea of a new party that would put “Ireland first” and speak up for rural communities which have been left behind. Undoubtedly...