Tag: Migration
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...
Mass Migration and the Origins of the Irish Housing Crisis
Despite the economic recovery that Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil keep reminding the public about, homeownership remains an ambition confined to those willing to sacrifice their blood, sweat, and tears to achieve. Even during the economically murky era of the...
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...
Espionage War Beckons As Nationalists Declare Victory in Austria
East of the Shankill Road, Vienna is potentially the most perilous place to play politics in Europe. Now almost sixteen years to the day since the ambiguous death of nationalist leader Jörg Haider, his FPÖ party is again on the...
The Ghanaian Four : Have Irish Courts Opened Up a New Asylum Sea Route?
The legal plight of four Ghanaian fishermen, stranded in Galway following the capsizing of their vessel in March, looks to have set legal precedent late last month as the Department of Justice granted their application for work visas. Recruited by...
The Professor’s Party Comes of Age: What the AfD Can Teach Irish Populism
The European political arena is still ringing with Sunday’s not-so-surprising triumph for Germany’s Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) in two regional elections in Thuringia and Saxony that placed them comfortably ahead of Berlin’s ruling green-left coalition. Irish press coverage scarcely goes...
After the Belfast Riots: How Will Northern Nationalism Respond to Replacement Migration
We, as the emerging Irish nationalist right in this country, must state in no uncertain terms our utter abhorrence towards loyalism and refuse any co-operation, formal or otherwise, with such a virulently anti-Irish ideology. There is no moral or political...
Is Thornton Hall The First of Many?: Refugee Slumland Arriving to Swords
No sooner than the ink was dry on a ministerial order enabling the Department of Integration and An Garda Siochána to brush aside a community picket were the wheels set in motion to turn the 67-hectare greenfield into a custom-built...
[BREAKING] EU Promises in Arabic To Defend Indigenous Peoples – But Not Europeans
The European Council pledged to defend the rights of indigenous peoples in an Arabic-language statement published Thursday. The press release labels native populations “among the world’s most marginalised communities.” The document was published in English, with an Arabic translation. As...
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...