Category: International
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BREAKING: Asylum Centre Blockades Have Spread to Another Town
As of 8pm, Sunday 21st, a blockade of a suspected site of new asylum plantation near the village of Scool, Co. Clare has begun. This follows a similar blockade nearby in Inch, Co. Clare. Locals stated that the blockade is...
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REVEALED: Ireland is the 7th-most Immigration-Sceptic Country in the World
New data from the Alliance of Democracies Foundation has revealed that Ireland is the 7th most immigration-sceptic country in the world. With 23% of Irish people saying that less immigration is one of the top-three issues for them, almost twice...
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Niall Collins’ Gaffe: “On The Ditch” and Ireland’s Looming Regime Change
“The real point is that all this doesn’t matter a fiddler's fart on the Cliffs of Moher to the country’s real problems.” - Breandán Ó hEithir As the prospect of war grips most European cabinets, France teeters, and populist governments...
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Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration, and Youth Spends €1.3 Billion Since 2020
Publicly available on the government’s website is the expenditures list for the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration, and Youth. Below it is represented in a graph which visibly demonstrates the massive surge in government spending induced in part by...
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Biden in Ireland – Liberal Ireland’s Papal Visit
Joe Biden has come and gone, in a short visit that will not soon be forgotten. The main reason for the event was the commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement. The first day of his three-day...
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Yes to Europe? The EU’s War on the Irish Family
The following first appeared on the Substack ‘Creeve Rua’ and is syndicated with the permission of the author. This year marks the 50th anniversary of Ireland’s entry into the European Union, or as it was called then, the European Economic...
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“Sous les pavés, chomâge.” What I saw at a French riot.
https://twitter.com/TheBurkeanIE/status/1646524050989260800 Bottles and bricks fly through the air from one side of the boulevard and smash into a policeman’s riot shield. Here and there the crowd keeps its distance from the heat of small bonfires that have been made out...
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The Government Announces Anti-Irish “Action Plan Against Racism”
On Tuesday, the Irish government released its "National Action Plan Against Racism", a far-reaching broad suite of policies designed to stifle criticism of mass immigration and empower corrupt NGOs and hostile foreign nationals to entrench their privileged status in Irish...
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Multipolarity and France’s Collapsing African Empire
Françafrique: Empire Denied To the untrained eye, a recent wave of coups in tinpot African states has precious little relevance for European politics. However, the ousting of France from swathes of West Africa by Russian-backed juntas portends one of the...
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From Tanks to Think Tanks
When Churchill made his famous 'Iron Curtain' address, it seemed apposite to the zeitgeist of the time. Alas, now, the curtain swaying across Central Europe, from the Baltic to the Bosphorus Straits, and from Bialystok to the Black Sea, is...