Category: Ireland
The Varadkar Foundation? What is Behind the Former Taoiseach’s United Ireland Pivot
We live in an era of liberal politicos reinventing themselves through backroom foundations and institutes. The Clintons mastered the trade in the late 90s only to be outdone recently by Tony Blair as his eponymous foundation became the rallying point...
The Journal.ie Could Be the Next Big Loser in Facebook’s DEI Purge
Since its 2010 debut, The Journal.ie—owned by the advertising moguls the Fallon Brother—has blurred the lines successfully between tabloid and broadsheet journalism in Ireland. While not as cash-strapped as its clickbait-heavy rival Joe.ie, The Journal has faced criticism within our...
The Department of Justice’s Chinese Visa Scandal and Ireland’s Security Timebomb
While Department of Justice mandarins work on the double to embargo the names of companies and foreign bodies that benefited from a multimillion-euro visa scam that granted access to Ireland and by extension the UK and EU, questions must now...
Finn McRedmond’s Vibe Shift: What Comes After Woke in Ireland?
Three weeks shy of a second Trump inauguration is perhaps a decent interval to assess the past decade or so of the culture wars and how the tea lives are looking for our Emerald Isle. A reluctantly Anglophone nation without...
Blame the Centre Not Sinn Féin For Mass Migration
This article was first published on the following Substack and is syndicated with the author's permission. Global interest in the Irish situation has risen since the November riot in Dublin, which was sparked by the stabbing of three school children...
FF-FG’s New Mudguard? Regional Independents and GE24
The dust has settled after the election of 29 November 2024 General Election. While in some corners the failure of any Nationalist candidate to be elected has resulted in fighting and the blame game, this only serves to highlight how...
The Dangerous Folly of “No Political Solution” and the Irish Right
In every election, social media addicts jump up and down to declare this was Ireland’s “last chance”. Sometimes they’ll hurriedly throw their name on the ballot and run amateur campaigns, before declaring that the results were either rigged or making...
Elections, Reflections: Part I
“I am alone against hordesI cannot stop nor let goI stand here in the long cold hoursalone against every foe.”An Táin Bó Cúailnge This is part of a series of articles by a diverse range of figures working in Irish...
A Nationalist Strategy for the Seanad Elections
The following article first appeared in June in Meon Journal and is syndicated with permission. Neither the figures given nor the text has been altered. Many people don’t have a clue how the Seanad works, what its purpose is, or...
When Fintan Met Derek: RTÉ Documentary Puts Irish Whiggism Under the Microscope
The rhetoric was trite. The narrative was stale. But while the hour-long RTÉ biopic on the life and times of Fintan O’Toole didn’t tell viewers anything new about the person it was covering it nonetheless revealed a lot about the...