Category: Politics
Ireland’s New Electoral Commission and its powers: Another victory for the government in their war against Free Speech
In what might seem (to the untrained eye) to be another humdrum quango involved in the tedious business of organising elections lie many grave threats to Ireland’s struggling democracy. Ireland’s new Electoral Commission, founded in April of this year, will...
Solidarity Sabotaged? Infighting Cripples Left Response to Posie Parker in Dublin
It would have been hard to avoid the sense that some degree of change is on the cards Sunday, as Dublin's fair city played host to two well-attended Right-leaning events against a glaringly lacklustre response from the Left. On Merrion...
The Pegasus Plot: How Zionism Sapped Spanish Sovereignty
Both VOX and the general Spanish right are still licking their wounds a month after a snap election saw a grand coalition of populists and conservatives stumble at their overall objective of displacing the ruling socialist party (PSOE). Not the...
Fair City Propaganda: The NGO-RTÉ Disinformation Cartel
A new character on RTÉ's Fair City is intended to be a punching bag of "far right" clichés, but a look at the rest of the soap opera's cast and their links with astroturfed "antiracist" NGOs exposes the rot that...
If They Shot Dev Not Collins An Alternative Timeline
Setting: Glasnevin Cemetery August 22nd, 2022 in Ireland (but not as we know Her) A volley of ceremonial rifle rounds was heard shortly after Sinn Féin leader and President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State Eoin Ó...
The Powder Keg Reignites? The Western Balkans in an Era of Multipolarity
As the Russian war against Ukraine, and the ongoing crisis in Western Africa continue, it is clear to all that European and American security institutions have perpetuated systemic failures in their commitment to the liberal-humanitarian politics of the global era. ...
The Hibernian Archive: Irish Nationalist Magazine Now Online
Running from May 2006 to September 2008 The Hibernian was a small but powerful outlet for the Irish nationalist Right during the late 00s with a stridently Catholic and Republican editorial line. Under the editorship of Irish Republican volunteer and...
Visa Diplomacy: West African Carnage Will Have Asylum Blowback for Ireland
Has the African coup mania of the past two years paved the way for a cataclysmic regional war that will send another swarm of migrants hurtling toward Europe? Almost certainly so. The overthrow of a tinpot pro-Western regime in Niger...
The Querist: George Berkeley’s National Economic System
The following first appeared on the Substack ‘Creeve Rua’ and is syndicated with the permission of the author. While the trite cultural spat over George Berkeley’s colonial legacy interests me little, I’m glad the Bishop has been thrust into the limelight again,...
Irish Local Elections: How to be “The Controlled Immigration Guy”
The following article first appeared on Substack and is syndicated with the permission of the author. The signs are everywhere. Green Party councillors holding parish hall meetings on sustainability, Labour photo ops promoting new African and Indian members are surfacing...