Category: Politics
Logical Fallacy and the Fake Nationalism of Neo-Sinn Féin
Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam This famous quote from Padraig Pearse is possibly the greatest source of confusion in Irish politics today. To be clear, this is not the fault of the author. Pearse, in this short statement, outlines...
Protests and the Irish Right: A Harmful Indulgence
Protests and street-action have recently captured the imagination of many on the Irish Right. The desire to stage protests is not a new one, but an old one finally realised. The decimation of an effective left-wing opposition at a street...
Irish Birth Rate Falls 24% in 5 Years
“In our time all Greece was visited by a dearth of children and generally a decay of population, owing to which the cities were denuded of inhabitants, and a failure of productiveness resulted, though there were no long-continued wars or...
The Fall of Antifa: A message to Left Republicans
Five years ago, Identity Ireland were attacked on the Luas by members of Antifa. This assault ended up marking the end of the inept political party, which has degenerated into a YouTube channel which posts once a season. That attack,...
GolfGate: Irish Political Class Enters Collapse Mode
Another political nail was driven through the coffin of the luckless Martin premiership this morning, with news of the resignation of Minister for Agriculture Dara Calleary on the charge of violating fresh new lockdown protocols he himself had signed off...
Damage Control: Varadkar’s Dabbling with Rightist Populism
Last week, Leo Varadkar did something a little unexpected. He published a tweet seemingly bemoaning Sinn Féin’s new disdain for white middle class men. I say a little, because, when considering the context, Varadkar’s new found desire to stand up...
Ireland: The EU’s New Debt Colony
"Try again. Fail again. Fail better" writes Samuel Beckett in his 1983 story "Worstward Ho." Micheál Martin obviously took this quip to heart when he went to Brussels and opened the veins of the Irish taxpayer so he could get...
Paddy Holohan and the Shape of Sinn Féin to Come
It would appear the more centrist elements of the Irish establishment have yet to learn its lesson with regards what to do with an electorally insoluble Sinn Féin. Aiming to test the old proverb, our media is attempting to flog...
The Green Grass on a Slippery Slope: Paedophilia Apologism and the Roderic O’Gorman Controversy
Recently if you have been following long threads of arguments on Twitter, you’ll have heard about a controversy involving our new Minister for Children. If you have only a vague idea of it, it will probably be an impression of...
The Erasure of Western History
Remember when you were told that slippery-slope arguments are fallacious? Such a style of argument became particularly relevant during the last decade, often invoked by the right and ridiculed by the left. A slippery-slope argument was at the core of...