The Desecration of Croke Park
The Eid al-Adha celebrations held at Croke Park made a lot of people very, very angry. The sight of some 200 traditionally clad muslims, praying in their traditional way, on the sacred soil of the Gaelic Athletic Association stung the...
March for Innocence Retrospective: The Emergence of a New Political Era
July 11th’s Anti-Paedophilia protest, March for Innocence will be remembered for many reasons. Among them no doubt will be the speakers. The protest consisted of a number of big name speakers, all of whom brought their best when the time...
The Erasure of Western History
Remember when you were told that slippery-slope arguments are fallacious? Such a style of argument became particularly relevant during the last decade, often invoked by the right and ridiculed by the left. A slippery-slope argument was at the core of...
The Irish Were Slaves. Deal with it.
Gaslighting is nothing new in modern politics. Day after day, massive media and political institutions both downplay the importance of certain elements of world history, while massively inflating others. For those of us critical of the contemporary world, this is...
Floyd Riots: A Critique of Impotent Rage, and the Future of Black Nationalism
There have been two main responses to the recent demonstrations in Minneapolis and other US cities. The first is that the rioting is justified to a greater or lesser extent. This stems usually from some argument that the destruction of...
Forget about Cancellation, The Leaving Cert Needs to be Retired
The current Coronavirus epidemic has, if nothing else, revealed the immense fragility of the Irish state. While this truth can be seen in many areas, ranging from healthcare to employment, it is most obvious in the farcical responses to the...
JK Rowling, and Why Fiction is Dying
‘You reap what you sow’. After spending years feeding the progressive beast, JK Rowling has finally learned the meaning of this proverb. How? Just like with any social media mob, it started when Rowling was caught espousing views that are...
Nigerian Remittance and the Morons who cried Racism
There’s no two ways of putting it, Noel Grealish TD was, and is right. No matter how many times the conceited moral guardians of Ireland’s political circus tell you otherwise, this fact is undeniable. He’s not a racist (whatever that...