Multipolarity and France’s Collapsing African Empire
Françafrique: Empire Denied To the untrained eye, a recent wave of coups in tinpot African states has precious little relevance for European politics. However, the ousting of France from swathes of West Africa by Russian-backed juntas portends one of the...
Rats in the SU: An Examination of NCAD’s Regular Rodents
A new development in NCAD’s ongoing struggle with campus hygiene has emerged in recent weeks, as Luje and Saorla from the SU have released a series of angry videos over NCAD’s pink room’s latest rat problem. The pink room is...
Mary Kenny and Ireland’s Blossoming Cancel Culture
The news broke earlier this month that Mary Kenny was successfully no-platformed by trans activists angered at her being booked to speak at the University of Limerick. Kenny was due to give a talk on the topic “The Media and...
Irish Government Proposes Transgender Education in Primary Schools
Government ministers, including the Tanaiste and Taoiseach, have voiced their intent to introduce a transgender education programme into primary schools. The predatory nature of such an ‘educational’ programme is lost amongst government leaders, who in the far-left ideological bubble of...
Has Migration Pushed Sinn Féin to the Centre?
Traditionally Sinn Féin have been able to rely on a solid core of the working-class vote. For example, leading up to the Sinn Féin surge in the 2016 election, support was rising for the party among the working class and...
The Coming Youngfella Summer: Dublin’s Delinquent Renaissance
Virgin Media correspondent Sarah O’Connor has filmed the greatest piece of journalism in Irish history. A century of post-Independence Irish political development, and over a millenia of Irish heritage has culminated in the intricacies of modern Dublin’s ethnographic landscape, as...
The Fall of the House of Desmond and the Plantation of Munster
In the late 16th century private dispute between two Old English families, the Butlers and the FitzGeralds, erupted into two rebellions against English rule that left the population of Munster devastated by plague and famine, with thousands of English families...
The Renaissance and Political Realism
“In them for the first time we detect the modern political spirit of Europe” – Jacob Burckhardt, ‘The Renaissance in Italy’ Via the Renaissance, allow me to concisely consider the birth-throngs of modernity: the ur-aesthetic-political-conceptual conceits and peculiarities its victims...
Ireland’s Golden Visa Blunder: Did Chinese Intelligence Benefit from Visa Scheme?
The Irish government has opted to close its “golden visa” scheme in recent weeks, as the exploitation of the system by Chinese assets has spooked the government amidst growing concerns over Chinese activities in Europe. Ostensibly marketed towards Irish Americans,...
From Tanks to Think Tanks
When Churchill made his famous 'Iron Curtain' address, it seemed apposite to the zeitgeist of the time. Alas, now, the curtain swaying across Central Europe, from the Baltic to the Bosphorus Straits, and from Bialystok to the Black Sea, is...