Category: Articles
Irish Antifa Project: Conclusion
Entering into this project we had a series of strategic objectives to attain, in order to make the project worth our while. Firstly, we wanted to show that even complacent leftist apparatchiks, who are ensconced in a world of established...
Eduard Limonov: A Late Obituary and Brief Eulogy
It is a cold evening in Moscow. A small group of misfit followers are gathered by an old brutalist style Soviet monument, dedicated to the revolution of 1905. They fly a set of flags, the offensive mixes of blue, black,...
Normal People: Lecherous Chad-Worshipping Fantasies on Full Display
I expected to detest Sally Rooney’s ‘Normal People’. Arguably the most successful Irish writer of the 2010’s, her works have captured a key demographic: millennial women; not to forget the wine-gulping, perennially depressed older generations, vicariously re-living their spent youth...
The Irish Right’s Truther Problem
Truther: “one who believes that the truth about an important subject or event is being concealed from the public by a powerful conspiracy.” The term conspiracy theory is a disingenuous phrase, largely manufactured to discredit genuine concerns about political and...
The Attack on Homeschooling is an Attack on Families
Earlier last month, Harvard Law Professor Elizabeth Bartholet decided to come out and call for a ban on home-schooling. Right in the middle of a global pandemic where millions of parents have found themselves having to do just that. To...
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...
Red Faces at the Phoenix
Irish media has not been spared the recent Corona-induced downturn as the economy enters a prolonged viral hiatus. From the temporary lay-offs and streamlining of hacks at ‘Independent’ News and Media (INM), to a plethora of local titles hitting the...
Constructive Dialogues: Understanding and Misunderstanding the Gun Debate
Unquestionably, one of the most contentious issues in American politics is gun-control. Unlike other issues, such as immigration or climate-science, gun-related issues always appear after a serious shooting which often comes coupled with high casualties. When it comes to guns,...
The Programme for Government, not a Programme for Governance
The wait is over. Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have finally revealed the Green Party’s manifesto as the basis for their coalition. There are 10 broad and vague areas of interest with which they are seeking to entice the journalists...
Keelings: or How to Lose Friends and Infect People
As Ireland enters into the second month of its quarantine outrage has emerged at the importation of Bulgarian labour by the Ballyboughal-registered fruit company Keelings. Announced over the past 24 hours, it has been revealed that the company had chartered...