Category: Articles
TENI in Tatters? Trans NGO Sees Mass Resignations Amid Harassment and Financial Woes
The Burkean has taken inordinate interest in TENI Ireland the past year, the nation's premier trans advocacy group noted for their rather sloppy accounts and links to the corridors of power. They have been essential in giving Ireland arguably the...
Boston Mayoral Election: Has Diversity Broken the Back of Irish America?
A glass ceiling was left shattered on the other side of the Atlantic this week with the triumph of Michelle Wu in the Boston Mayoral Election. A second generation Taiwanese American, Wu, who sits pretty on the progressive wing of...
The Shepherd Leads His Flock Astray
Is the Pope Catholic? Is Ireland Catholic? A picture is worth a thousand words, they say. An idiom, a rhetorical question, and an adage have been used to demonstrate the power of language. It is the power of language which...
Baseless ‘Far-Right’ Witch-hunt Reaches Official Ireland
While the NGO-Media complex has been stirring up bogus claims about the so-called ‘far-right’ in Ireland for years now, the last few days have seen the infection spread to oversight bodies within Official Ireland. Yesterday, the Standards In Public Office...
With Every Ardfheis, More Republicans Leave Sinn Féin
As the dust settles on the 2021 Sinn Féin Ardfheis, the Free State’s assimilation of the Provisional Movement is complete: Sinn Féin has trod the ways of Fianna Fáil evolving from a revolutionary militant party to a “slightly constitutional” party...
Inside RTÉ’s Hate Speech Lobbying
Control over the public airwaves was a key feature in the Troubles and looks set to play a similar role in the fight against populism in years to come, as RTÉ's recent submission to the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI)...
Zuckerberg’s Metaverse: Is Clownworld Entering Virtual Reality?
Mark Zuckerberg announced yesterday that Facebook Inc. would be rebranding, with immediate effect. Henceforth, Meta Platforms Inc., or just Meta, will move focus away from apps and platforms such as Facebook and Instagram, and towards Metaverse content. But what is...
Fine Gael’s Drive for non-EEA Immigration
The Republic’s already lackadaisy immigration regime was crowbarred open just that bit wider yesterday with the announcement by Minister for Enterprise Damien English to liberalise the permit scheme for non-EEA workers. Potentially one of the most meaningful decisions for migration...
Liberties Mosque Decision Underlines Demographic Change in Dublin 8
The red bricked laneways and apartment blocks of the South Inner City Dublin have been visited by conspicuous demographic transition the past decade. Generally regarded as a solid working class area favourable to republican and left politics, since the Crash...
Has the Irish Government Been Funding Terrorists in the Middle-East?
Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney has asked for clarification from Israeli officials after the Jewish state designated six NGOs operating within Israel as being terrorist organisations, some of which receive funding from the Irish Government. In a statement made...