Category: Politics
Are the Taliban Burkean Conservatives?
A Historicist Revolt in Jurisprudence “The Guilty Have No Past” – Death in June Edmund Burke’s ‘Reflections on the Revolution in France’ cemented, in the eyes of conventional scholars and lay people alike, his place as the father of modern...
5 Things We Learned From #MerrionGate
Irish political scandals are often as unbelievable as they are mind-numbing. In this sense, Merriongate is no exception. The idea that politicians, lawmakers, and other senior gombeens would be dumb enough to attend a private shindig during a period of...
Paddy’s Populist Pivot — Is Cosgrave Our Guy?
What to do when yuppies go rogue? That must be the question ruminated upon by elements of our government at the political noises being made by former tech golden boy Paddy Cosgrave, famous by way of the ill fated Web...
Ireland Should Prepare Against Afghan Asylum Surge
The slow-motion disintegration of the American sponsored Kabul regime will invariably impact upon the country’s threadbare asylum system in the years ahead. While the battlefields and refugee camps of Helmand and Greece may be the furthest places imaginable from the...
Splitters! — Connolly Youth Movement on Death’s Door?
Tough Times at Connolly Barracks At one time the most spirited outfit on the Irish Left, it would appear that the Connolly Youth Movement (CYM) has entered a period of dormancy on the back of a schismatic year and lockdown...
Triumph of the Repeal: RTÉ Airs Pro-Abortion Propaganda Film
The 2018 referendum to repeal the 8th Amendment in Ireland will be remembered for decades, if not centuries, as a turning point in Irish history. Its passing marked the definitive end of Holy-Joe hegemony in Ireland, which had long been...
Irish Times Group Claims €3 million in State Subsidies as Revenue Falls 8%
One of the more financially viable names in Irish journalism through its skillfully administered Trust, the Irish Times Group reported an 8% contraction in revenue for the year 2020 according to its annual financial report . With annual turnover falling from €110...
TENI’s Troubles: Ireland’s Largest Trans NGO Has Funding Suspended Over Accounting Irregularities
Dark clouds have appeared over the nation's most vociferous trans advocates TENI Ireland, with a decision by the HSE to terminate public funding over flawed accounting. In emails seen by The Burkean, TENI, a regular feature on the NGO circuit,...
Thousands March In Dublin Against Irish Government’s New ‘Apartheid’ Legislation
Thousands marched in Dublin this Saturday afternoon in protest against controversial new government legislation described, which has been described by some as implementing a system of medical ‘segregation’ and ‘apartheid’ in the country. The Legislation, seemingly passed in response to...
Toward a Rightist Corpus – An Interview with Imperium Press
Introduction “Liberal elites are not stupid. We have a tendency to underestimate the enemy, but they do not run the show without reason. If they do not want you to read old books (and they do not), then they have...