Category: International
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...
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...
“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...
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...
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...
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...
The Brahmins and the Border: Northern Protocol Debate Nears Potential End
Anglo-Irish relations, since a fallout over Brexit, are now orienting towards a short-term solution under the governments of British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and the Taoiseach Leo Varadkar. Both men, of Indian ethnic stock, by engaging in discussions over a...
Our Gallant Allies: How Will Irish Progressives Deal with Europe’s Turn Right?
With Ireland’s NGOcracy scrambling to put out fires at home, liberals took a minor spit take at the presence of An Taoiseach in Brussels hobnobbing with Órban and Meloni at this month's EU migration summit. A standard tête-à-tête, it constituted...
Trans Fiasco Topples Sturgeon: A Parallel for Ireland
Nicola Sturgeon has resigned as leader of the SNP amidst growing controversy over the Scottish government’s rampant progressivism. Under pressure due to the passage of the Gender Recognition Reform Bill and the Isla Bryton case, the SNP has alienated itself...
The Wakasugi Files: Are the CCP Penetrating the Irish Establishment?
In May 2019, a memorandum of understanding between the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC) and the Irish think tank AsiaMatters was concluded. At the ceremony, former Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney delivered a speech expressing his...