Category: Politics
SIPO: Sinn Féin 2020 Election Budget Only A Third of Fine Gael’s
SIPO have released their standard election report for the February 2020 General Election. Held on the eve of the lockdown, the 2020 election was the trouncing of Fianna Fáil and its third consecutive election loss under Micheál Martin. Sinn Fein...
Catfight at the NWCI: Is Ireland’s NGO Consensus Breaking?
It has been a politically inclement week for Ireland’s premier femoid advocacy group the National Women's Council of Ireland (NWCI), with scorned Fine Gael hitting out at the group’s alleged favouritism towards left-leaning and opposition TDs. Receiving generous state annuities...
Flat Earth Thatcherism: Has Economic Liberalism Sunk the Irish State
When the late Margaret Thatcher told Woman's Own magazine that there is no such thing as society, she could just as well have been referring to present-day Ireland, where Thatcher would be considered quite progressive by her acolytes in Sinn...
Benefacts Goes Offline: Is the State Trying to Run Cover for NGO Complex?
Formerly an essential resource for keeping track of the nation's elephantine NGO sector, the Burkean looks despondently at the effective closure of the transparency website Benefacts. Providing oodles of information, from funding to governance boards on thousands of NGOs, the...
Irish Nationalism and Foreign Influences: Some Thoughts
Our Evola, Only Better The transformation of Irish nationalism in the last half-century is perhaps not more marked than in the change in how Irish nationalists define themselves; and how one may define themselves in political thought necessarily originates from...
Soros at the Oireachtas: INAR Lobbies to Fastrack Hate Speech Legislation
A Thursday morning Oireachtas press conference and media photo op encapsulated just the latest attempts to enshrine British-style hate crime and hate speech legislation on the Irish statute books, as INAR Ireland led the way on enhancing Garda powers. In...
Musgraves Leads Charges on Lobbying for non-EEA Migration
The diminishing ability of Eastern European labour pools to placate the needs of a post-covid Irish economy is being demonstrated with the increasing lobbying of major employers for non-EEA migration. As reported in the weekend edition of the Sunday Independent...
Housing and Ireland’s Secret Power Struggles
In my rambles around Dublin Bay North, that salient bordered by the Malahide Road, the sea and the coast road back to Fairview, I have come across two homes, one opposite Sutton Marina and one on the Baldoyle Road, both...
Finis Britannia-Is Unionism Really in Collapse?
The banality of northern politics has been upended recently by the news of the resignation of the Unionist First Minister and what appears to almost certainly be the commencement of a snap “election”, called several months early. “At last,” some...
Jimmy Carr & Inappropriate British Outrage
The furore that has gripped the English press in recent days over a tasteless joke rightfully invokes ridicule and mockery of the English psyche - the English Government calling for new laws to punish comedians comes at an opportune time;...