Tag: asylum
An Irish Boriswave? James Lawless Floats Visa Bonanza in India
Around the time Taoiseach Martin was clenching his teeth in the Oval Office last month, his party comrade and Minister for Further and Higher Education James Lawless touched down in New Delhi for what could be argued to be an...
Analysis in Decay: Burn Them Out!: A History of Fascism and the Far Right in Ireland by Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc
Clare-based historian Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc has published a new book titled Burn Them Out!: A History of Fascism and the Far Right in Ireland (2025). This is a hot-button topic and certainly one of interest to readers of the...
Athlone Standoff Shows Irish Asylum Saga Reigniting Post-Election
Fresh life is being breathed into the Republic’s asylum drama as Athlone locals faced off against authorities against plans to impose a 1,000-man refugee centre in the northern suburb of Lissywollen. Already subject to a well-attended public meeting, an intense...
Will We see a Sinn Féin Lurch to the ‘Right’ Post-Election?
Around this time last year, I had a conversation with a Sinn Féin TD in Dublin. This TD has been a party member for decades. He isn’t a Johnny-come-lately or some eccentric who somehow ended up in the Dáil in...
Portarlington’s Squatter Standoff and Mary Ward Update: October 17th, 2024 Asylum Roundup
Former Sinn Féin and now Independent Cllr. Aidan Mullins has drawn attention to a bizarre situation in which fifteen asylum seekers have been placed in a Co. Laois house despite having no right to be there. IPAS claims they have...
Citizen Journalist Vindicated: Philip Dwyer Beats Garda Harassment in Court
Citizen journalist Philip Dwyer has had his bail conditions rescinded on appeal Monday afternoon after punitive harassment by An Garda Siochána following his work documenting state harassment of protestors in Coolock the past month. The restrictive bail conditions had originally...
Ireland’s Indian Migration Spike: A Statistical Breakdown
In the last few years, there has been extensive immigration to Ireland. A lot of the migration has come from reasons related to the Russian-Ukraine conflict, inflows through other asylum pathways, and then illegal migration. The purpose of this piece...
Conor McGregor Migration Tweets: Dogwhistle or Nationalist Embrace?
Over the past two years or so, it has become evident that there is at least one Irish celebrity partially on our side. That celebrity being Conor McGregor. He has regularly posted tweets of an Irish nationalist nature even going...
Dublin Asylum Protestors Bring It Their Doors (On Bikes)
The inner city dubs gathered at Connolly Station last Sunday on bicycles to take part in the sort of "direct action" that is shaking the establishment to the core. The sun was shining bright which boosted the morale of the...
Replacement Migration: 2% of Irish Republic’s Population Asylum Arrivals
It comes as no surprise to the reader that Ireland’s demographics are changing, but it is evermore shocking as to cognitive dissonance held by the Irish government regarding the unsustainable, mass influx of refugees which it quite forcibly began following...