Tag: Ireland
How the Irish Government Could Push for an All-Island Asylum Policy
The Irish border issue looks to become septic yet again. Not through Brexit mishaps or the perennial issues of smuggling and paramilitarism but the very 21st phenomenon of mass migration.Belfast, not Rosslare or Dublin Airport is becoming the primary entry...
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...
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...
Trump’s USAID Shutdown to Hit Irish NGO Complex
While not a direct target of its initiatives, the shuttering of Washington’s USAID network is likely to have a ripple effect in Ireland where our nation’s foreign aid programmes have become interwoven with the Democratic wing of the American establishment...
Saint Brigid’s Day; Official Ireland’s Gaia Cult?
The decline of social Catholicism in Ireland has thrown up a multitude of phenomena, not least the growing official worship of Imbolc and a progressive retelling of Saint Brigid. Bríd, the Gaelic woman who brought Christianity to Louth, the saint...
O’Callaghan Steps Onto the Asylum Hot Seat
Within the Irish Cabinet there are some portfolios earmarked for political death. Health is the most obvious one having consumed the career of Mary Harney most famously with Varadkar avoiding too much political flak in the post before moving on...
The Magdeburg Attacker’s Irish Connection
Six dead at a Christmas market in Magdeburg eastern Germany was just the latest price to pay for the German state’s decades long pursuit of open borders mania. While a cynical media spin tried to pin the attack on the...
Surveying the Wreckage: Greens Have Left Ireland Ill-Prepared for Trumpian Era
The regime change in Washington is swiftly being felt in Western capitals Dublin included with the now ex-Minister for Integration Roderic O’Gorman appearing on the national broadcaster Monday to decry a new alliance between Trumpism and Big Tech. https://twitter.com/RTEUpfront/status/1881459892520652916 Rather...
The Varadkar Foundation? What is Behind the Former Taoiseach’s United Ireland Pivot
We live in an era of liberal politicos reinventing themselves through backroom foundations and institutes. The Clintons mastered the trade in the late 90s only to be outdone recently by Tony Blair as his eponymous foundation became the rallying point...
Elections, Reflections: Part I
“I am alone against hordesI cannot stop nor let goI stand here in the long cold hoursalone against every foe.”An Táin Bó Cúailnge This is part of a series of articles by a diverse range of figures working in Irish...