O’Callaghan Steps Onto the Asylum Hot Seat
Within the Irish Cabinet there are some portfolios earmarked for political death. Health is the most obvious one having consumed the career of Mary Harney most famously with Varadkar avoiding too much political flak in the post before moving on...
The Magdeburg Attacker’s Irish Connection
Six dead at a Christmas market in Magdeburg eastern Germany was just the latest price to pay for the German state’s decades long pursuit of open borders mania. While a cynical media spin tried to pin the attack on the...
Surveying the Wreckage: Greens Have Left Ireland Ill-Prepared for Trumpian Era
The regime change in Washington is swiftly being felt in Western capitals Dublin included with the now ex-Minister for Integration Roderic O’Gorman appearing on the national broadcaster Monday to decry a new alliance between Trumpism and Big Tech. https://twitter.com/RTEUpfront/status/1881459892520652916 Rather...
As Ethnic-Cleansing Beckons for Armenia Time to Take Ireland’s Azeri Lobby to Task
Most diplomats agree that it is only a matter of time before Azeri tanks cross the Armenian frontier yet again in what could be the final stand for the Christian nation’s statehood. A series of alliances involving Turkey, Russia, and...
The Varadkar Foundation? What is Behind the Former Taoiseach’s United Ireland Pivot
We live in an era of liberal politicos reinventing themselves through backroom foundations and institutes. The Clintons mastered the trade in the late 90s only to be outdone recently by Tony Blair as his eponymous foundation became the rallying point...
The Journal.ie Could Be the Next Big Loser in Facebook’s DEI Purge
Since its 2010 debut, The Journal.ie—owned by the advertising moguls the Fallon Brother—has blurred the lines successfully between tabloid and broadsheet journalism in Ireland. While not as cash-strapped as its clickbait-heavy rival Joe.ie, The Journal has faced criticism within our...
The Department of Justice’s Chinese Visa Scandal and Ireland’s Security Timebomb
While Department of Justice mandarins work on the double to embargo the names of companies and foreign bodies that benefited from a multimillion-euro visa scam that granted access to Ireland and by extension the UK and EU, questions must now...
Finn McRedmond’s Vibe Shift: What Comes After Woke in Ireland?
Three weeks shy of a second Trump inauguration is perhaps a decent interval to assess the past decade or so of the culture wars and how the tea lives are looking for our Emerald Isle. A reluctantly Anglophone nation without...
Dalit Human Capital – Western People Need To Stop Being Stupid
The Indians and MAGA Libs won, and they will get what they want from the Trump administration. Right-wingers are stupid, and lost again.
Elections, Reflections: Part I
“I am alone against hordesI cannot stop nor let goI stand here in the long cold hoursalone against every foe.”An Táin Bó Cúailnge This is part of a series of articles by a diverse range of figures working in Irish...