Category: International
An Irish Boriswave? James Lawless Floats Visa Bonanza in India
Around the time Taoiseach Martin was clenching his teeth in the Oval Office last month, his party comrade and Minister for Further and Higher Education James Lawless touched down in New Delhi for what could be argued to be an...
Could Trump Tarriffs Break Fine Gael’s Patronage Networks?
Simon Harris, the TikTok Tanaiste and Minister of Foreign Affairs, has had a particularly rough time these past few weeks. Focusing too much on actually governing Ireland at the time when it faces an economic crossroads, he has left his...
Welcome to the Yookay: How Ireland Should Prepare for a post-English UK
“The future of England is not one of revolution or renaissance, but of entropy”-Anthony Burgess As of the time of writing, it would be hard not to notice a sense of unease within the United Kingdom on this side of...
The Shield and the Sham: Inside Michael McGrath’s NGO Army
The nullification of election results in Romania, the continued clampdown against the German AfD, and now the barring of Marine Le Pen from running for the Elysee Palace in 2027 all point to a growing tendency by Euro-lib elites to...
How the Irish Government Could Push for an All-Island Asylum Policy
The Irish border issue looks to become septic yet again. Not through Brexit mishaps or the perennial issues of smuggling and paramilitarism but the very 21st phenomenon of mass migration.Belfast, not Rosslare or Dublin Airport is becoming the primary entry...
Ireland’s New Atlantic Relationship: Will the Patrick Collison Drop the Ball on Replacement Migration?
A diplomatic sigh of relief could be heard on this side of the Atlantic as the Taoiseach avoided a verbal spanking courtesy of the new Trump administration during the perfunctory Saint Patrick’s Day visit. A positive diaspora-driven image of the...
Operation Sophia: When Ireland’s Open Border Agenda Undermined Neutrality
Rhetoric is meeting reality this week as the Irish government began the legislative process of dispensing with the ‘Triple Lock” mechanism putting requirements on UN, Cabinet, and Oireachtas approval for any deployments of more than 12 Defence Forces personnel. Thanks...
MAGA’s Atlantic Vassal: What a Trump Presidency Could Demand from Ireland
The implications of JD Vance’s February Munich Security Conference speech are fast reaching the Department of Foreign Affairs halls as the Taoiseach girdles his loins for a potentially bruising White House visit this St. Patrick’s Day. Ireland has so far...
Why Can’t Ireland Have an AfD? The Blunt Answer
German and, by extension, European politics is about to become out of kilter. Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), a party repeatedly labeled by the German security services as a threat to constitutional democracy and with an explicitly ethnic-nationalist platform of remigration...
O’Brennan Blows A Gasket: Has Trumpism Broken Maynooth’s Globalist Kingpin Academic
Time is ticking on Ireland Inc. rediscovering itself in time for the fallout of the new Trumpian age with a Dublin managerial class so far found to be lacking when it comes to replacing the American dollars that keep the...