Category: International
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...
After Kyiv? Taoiseach’s European Tour Incites Russian Warning
Taoiseach Micheal Martin flew to Brussels February 10th to meet European Union’s top liberal technocrats from Antonio Costa, President of the European Council, to Roberta Metsola, President of the European Parliament. The trip further saw Martin attending French President Emmanuel...
Storm Éowyn Recovery Bad Start for Ireland in Multipolar World
As far as bad omens for a new chaotic world of politics the sight of Romanian and Danish planes flying into Dublin Airport to provide emergency power generators should be scarred into our memory. An above average Atlantic storm Éowyn...
Trump’s USAID Shutdown to Hit Irish NGO Complex
While not a direct target of its initiatives, the shuttering of Washington’s USAID network is likely to have a ripple effect in Ireland where our nation’s foreign aid programmes have become interwoven with the Democratic wing of the American establishment...
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...