Ireland’s Greatest Moments: An Alternative to the Newstalk Dribble
As Ireland’s Decade of Centenaries (2012 – 2022) comes to an end, the enlightened Newstalk team have drafted a list of Ireland’s “greatest moments” throughout the past 100 years. The following 20 bullet points have undoubtedly been deliberated upon for...
TENI Fails to File Accounts for Fourth Year Amid Harassment Claims
Defying charity regulators yet again, it would appear that the trans charity TENI has missed another deadline for filing its financials-its fourth in as many consecutive years. Missing a September 30th deadline, the trans group which has been plagued by...
Mná na h-Éireann: Hidden Politics and Irish Sport
The women footballers of Ireland celebrating making the 2023 World Cup Finals has drawn flak all of us could have done without. Just as the Limerick hurlers sang Seán South of Garryowen, so also did these women stir a hornet's...
Aristotle on TikTok: The Radical Right and Digital Rhetoric
The twenty-first century has, to date, presided over a period of rapid development in the capabilities of digital software. There have been a variety of social, political, and cultural repercussions derived from the vast network of communication services provided by...
The Irish Rally: Gaelic Ireland’s Medieval Fightback-Eoin MacNeill 1919
The following are tracts taken from the 1919 work Phases in Irish History by Eoin MacNeil courtesy of An Cartlann The most casual reader of Irish history knows that within a few centuries of the Norman invasion, the authority of...
Maynooth’s Secular Seminary Takes Aim at Inner City Schooling
The pampered prats of Maynooth University and RTÉ are at it again. This time, the focus of their ire is on central Dublin. An American academic, “an interdisciplinary scholar whose historical interests intersect with interests in architecture, the built environment...
Meloni Warts And All: Fratelli Win Should Be the Beginning Not the End for Italian Nationalists
With a commitment to move the Italian embassy to Jerusalem, abet the war effort in Ukraine and clamp down on illegal migration, Fratelli d'Italia romped home comfortably in this month’s Italian general election. Displacing Brussels favourite and arch-technocrat Mario Draghi,...
Will Aoife Gallagher Be My TradWife? Web of Lies (2022)
The ISD’s Belated Introduction Baron George Weidenfeld lived a rather charmed life in his 90 years on earth. An Austrian émigré turned renaissance man for modern times, Weidenfeld was a linchpin of post-war European diplomacy, an architect of the Israeli...
Black Operations: The Intelligence War Against the Real IRA and Lessons for the Political Right
John Mooney, the journalist and relay point for British and Irish intelligence agencies, said something rather interesting on a recent episode of his podcast The Dark State with Ciaran O’Connor of the ISD. Mooney claims that the emergence of “right-wing...
Little Cashes In: Kinzen Sold to Spotify
Cha-ching! It's been a red letter week for the anti-misinformation outlet Kinzen with the company’s sale to the multimedia giant Spotify for an undisclosed sum. Inaugurated with as much media ballyhoo and brown nosing as could be expected by RTÉ...