Operation Sophia: When Ireland’s Open Border Agenda Undermined Neutrality
Rhetoric is meeting reality this week as the Irish government began the legislative process of dispensing with the ‘Triple Lock” mechanism putting requirements on UN, Cabinet, and Oireachtas approval for any deployments of more than 12 Defence Forces personnel. Thanks...
MAGA’s Atlantic Vassal: What a Trump Presidency Could Demand from Ireland
The implications of JD Vance’s February Munich Security Conference speech are fast reaching the Department of Foreign Affairs halls as the Taoiseach girdles his loins for a potentially bruising White House visit this St. Patrick’s Day. Ireland has so far...
Bowling Alone on O’Connell Street: Atomisation and Modern Irish Life
“Every Civilization passes through the same necessary phases. First, the organic unity of a high Culture, rich in meaning, belief, and communal purpose. Then, as it reaches its zenith, the Culture hardens into mere Civilization—mechanistic, intellectualized, and devoid of the...
An Irish Twitter Files? Gript Garda Snooping Hints at Wider Espionage at X’s European HQ
A sloppy legal attempt by An Garda Siochána to access Gript's private X messages indicates the ease with which Irish authorities and other actors may have once had free reign to spy on Twitter users before Elon Musk’s takeover of...
Why Can’t Ireland Have an AfD? The Blunt Answer
German and, by extension, European politics is about to become out of kilter. Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), a party repeatedly labeled by the German security services as a threat to constitutional democracy and with an explicitly ethnic-nationalist platform of remigration...
O’Brennan Blows A Gasket: Has Trumpism Broken Maynooth’s Globalist Kingpin Academic
Time is ticking on Ireland Inc. rediscovering itself in time for the fallout of the new Trumpian age with a Dublin managerial class so far found to be lacking when it comes to replacing the American dollars that keep the...
Kneecap: Why the Irish Left Will Regret Legitimising Ethno-Nationalism
The Northern Troubles famously originated in a Civil Rights movement that went off the rails and ignited a sectarian timebomb primed since partition. An attempt to import MLK-style civil agitation into the six counties kicked the canister onto a society...
After Kyiv? Taoiseach’s European Tour Incites Russian Warning
Taoiseach Micheal Martin flew to Brussels February 10th to meet European Union’s top liberal technocrats from Antonio Costa, President of the European Council, to Roberta Metsola, President of the European Parliament. The trip further saw Martin attending French President Emmanuel...
Storm Éowyn Recovery Bad Start for Ireland in Multipolar World
As far as bad omens for a new chaotic world of politics the sight of Romanian and Danish planes flying into Dublin Airport to provide emergency power generators should be scarred into our memory. An above average Atlantic storm Éowyn...
Seanad Election 2025: Ireland’s Anti-Woke Fightback Draws Blood?
Norris, Bacik, Ruane, Flynn, Robinson. A conceit to residual Protestant hegemony and ironically styled as a mix of Mussolini’s very own Senate and Pope Pius XI’s antidote to Marxism as expressed via the vocational panels, the Irish Seanad has earned...