Category: Articles
The Ghanaian Four : Have Irish Courts Opened Up a New Asylum Sea Route?
The legal plight of four Ghanaian fishermen, stranded in Galway following the capsizing of their vessel in March, looks to have set legal precedent late last month as the Department of Justice granted their application for work visas. Recruited by...
The Professor’s Party Comes of Age: What the AfD Can Teach Irish Populism
The European political arena is still ringing with Sunday’s not-so-surprising triumph for Germany’s Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) in two regional elections in Thuringia and Saxony that placed them comfortably ahead of Berlin’s ruling green-left coalition. Irish press coverage scarcely goes...
SF Housing Policy Announced: Delusional On Migration
Today, Sinn Féin released a policy document on the housing crisis and what they pledge to deliver if elected to government. The document mirrors how Sinn Féin have approached the topic (and nearly every other) in recent years: trying to...
Stormont Puberty Blocker Dispute: Sinn Féin Tests Waters on Collapsing Trans Agenda
Left-unity on both sides of the border seems to be the primary casualty in this week’s standoff between Sinn Féin and other left-wing parties as Michelle O’Neill backed a wider UK-wide initiative to pull the use of puberty blockers for...
John Crawley’s ‘The Yank’: Diaspora Idealism Versus Ceasefire Liberalism
The Yank: The True Story of a Former US Marine in the Irish Republican Army is the story of a man who plighted his troth to the Irish Republic and has remained faithful to it through thick and thin. In...
FACT CHECK: Did The Catholic Church “Incarcerate 80k Women” as RTÉ Claim?
The Claim: On 25/08/2024, RTÉ posted an ad for a documentary on the mother-and-baby homes. It included the claimed that "between 1922 and 1998, over 80,000 unmarried mothers were incarcerated in church-run mother and baby homes." https://twitter.com/RTEOne/status/1827754813414654045?t=B0UE9tlEOL-vMDL6oOW8Ew&s=19 The Facts: In...
After the Belfast Riots: How Will Northern Nationalism Respond to Replacement Migration
We, as the emerging Irish nationalist right in this country, must state in no uncertain terms our utter abhorrence towards loyalism and refuse any co-operation, formal or otherwise, with such a virulently anti-Irish ideology. There is no moral or political...
McDowell’s Return: Right-Wing Mainstreamer or Pseudo-Populist Charlatan?
Erstwhile ex-PD leader Michael McDowell looks to be stretching his political muscles in time for an autumn election with an op-ed in the Irish Times Wednesday on runaway asylum numbers a firm sign that the seanadóir is itching for one...
THE XL BULLY HAS NO PLACE IN IRISH SOCIETY
A baby girl who was viciously attacked in North Kerry by a dog suspected to be an XL Bully is seriously injured and receiving treatment at Cork University Hospital. The dog was since destroyed and the case is now under...
Is Thornton Hall The First of Many?: Refugee Slumland Arriving to Swords
No sooner than the ink was dry on a ministerial order enabling the Department of Integration and An Garda Siochána to brush aside a community picket were the wheels set in motion to turn the 67-hectare greenfield into a custom-built...