Up the Ra, Anglophobia and the Star Spangled Fenian

The following article first featured in the Gaelic American and is syndicated with permission of the author. After the Irish women’s soccer team was taped singing “Celtic Symphony” a couple of months ago, and more recently the Leinster Rugby stadium...

/ 08/01/2023

Twitter’s Irish Spies: How Has Musk Takeover Impacted Dublin Operations?

With Twitter’s Senior Policy Director Sinéad MsSweeney opting to jump rather than be pushed in the face of Musk’s radical streamlining of the company, the question must be asked how is the global corporate shakeup affecting the office politics on...

/ 07/01/2023

Nkencho Inquiry: Is Ruth Coppinger Trying to Rebuild her Career off the Nigerian Vote?

Instigating a lukewarm attempt at US-style race rioting in Clonee of all places, the GSOC inquiry into the death of Nigerian blade enthusiast turned anti-racist martyr Goerge Nkencho may loom large over the politics of 2023.  Shot by the Armed...

/ 06/01/2023

Has War with Russia Failed to Energise Europe?

When the poet Lamartine noted in 1839 that ‘La France s’ennuie’ (France is bored), he had hit on something quintessential to the zeitgeist of modern Europe. Whilst the previous revolution of 1789 had been precipitated by the political hunger of...

/ 05/01/2023

Grooming Accusations Levelled at Soc Dem Councillor Owen Hanley

Earlier today, videos were posted to Twitter in which a teenage man accuses Social Democrats councillor for Galway City East, Owen Hanley, of sexually grooming him on social media when he was underage. Hanley has been accused by this teenager...

/ 02/01/2023

Éire Nua: Gaelic Corporatism’s Lost Future?

The following first appeared on Substack and is syndicated with the permission of the author. With the impending reality of the next Irish government being formed by Sinn Féin, I felt that it would be instructive to analyse some of...

/ 22/12/2022

Pavee Future: Where do Travellers fit into the New Ireland?

Machetes, car rammings, and armed Gardaí dispatched to patrol the streets of a rural town, the all too predictable goings on in Rathkeale have led to us all rolling our eyes as yet again traveller violence bleeds out into the...

/ 21/12/2022

Who is behind the pop-up NGO East Wall Here For All?

In the past couple of weeks, a newly-formed NGO calling itself East Wall Here For All, has established its online presence and made an appearance leafletting residents in East Wall. The organisation has been created to lobby in support of...

/ 19/12/2022

Leo The Loin Hearted Returns: A Taste of What Is To Come

Christmas has come early for Leo Varadkar who, having recently got his rocks off in a Dublin gay disco, has returned as Taoiseach, as chief of the Irish and, more particularly, of anyone else who rocks up in our green...

/ 18/12/2022

Fine Gael’s Vested Interests in Censorship Legislation

Between Helen McEntee’s Hate Speech Bill and the Media Regulation Bill, the Irish government has ramped up its efforts to contain online political dissent. The coalition government’s continued mismanagement of political crises has contributed to a growing public discontent in...

/ 17/12/2022