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...
The New Nomos of the Earth: The Rise of Federal Populism
The consensus amongst liberals in the 1990s and, arguably, since Adam Smith, was a belief in the ‘de-territorialisation’ of the world. This was the belief that globalisation was a force for good, an economic version of Christendom, that the invisible...
Athena: Netflix Drama Portrays Collapse of France into Civil War
"The only way to love France today is to hate it in its current form”- Pierre Drieu La Rochelle The French cinematic Tiber has been foaming with much blood this week with Netflix's release of the racially charged film Athena. ...
Ireland’s Foreign Policy Stagnation on Display at UCD Event
As a consequence of an increasingly unstable international situation throughout the past decade, contemporary European foreign policy has begun to change. Since the end of the Second World War, and exacerbated by the collapse of the Soviet Union, European interests...
The Irish Families Displaced by Asylum Surge: The Burkean Interviews
This is the first of a series of exposés on the effect of the establishment's mass-asylum policy on the most vulnerable groups in Irish society. The last few years have not been the best for the Irish housing system. With...
Victory in Rome: A Report from the Fratelli Press Room
A report from a Burkean foreign correspondent on the Continent. "Because when I am only a number. When I no longer have an identity or roots. Then I will be the perfect slave at the mercy of financial speculators. The...
Cost of Living Protests: The Left Plays the Populist Game
Two years of the Irish Left hiding behind NPHET’s skirt came to an end this weekend as Dublin saw mass mobilisation for a march against the Cost of Living Crisis. Headlined by Taoiseach in waiting Mary Lou MacDonald and the...
Who Lets Moore Street Rot?
Wandering down Moore Street the morning after hoodlums rammed Garda cars in Cherry Orchard, I chanced upon a glimpse of Dublin in the rarified ol' times. There, guitar in hand, surrounded by a phalanx of smiling Gardaí, was actor Phelim...