Tag: oireachtas
Hate Speech Split in Fianna Fáil?
Oireachtas TV likely hit record numbers in the low hundreds this week as anxious right-wingers tuned in to watch a Seanad debate on hate speech laws. McEntee’s Bill experienced a cakewalk through the lower house last month, with a gaggle...
Hate Speech Bill Passes Dáil
The Irish government, arguably now the most progressive regime in Europe, has been playing catch up with the European Union in recent years as the country desperately tries to atone for its conservative history. Wednesday, the 26th of April, the...
“A Change Will Do You Good”: Roderic O’Gorman’s 2004 Trans Treatise
Much maligned by the Irish people, Minister Roderic O’Gorman has become one of the most prominent members of the coalition government amidst the various controversial progressive policies he has patroned. Article contents:O’Gorman’s Nauseating Dáil RecordStrange BedfellowsTranssexual Propaganda from 20 Years...
Parochialism vs. Populism: What Next For the Rural Independent Group?
A video published by Gript on April 12th, interviewed independent TDs Mattie McGrath and Michael Collins on the idea of a new party that would put “Ireland first” and speak up for rural communities which have been left behind. Undoubtedly...
A Critique of the Recent Joint Committee on Asylum.
Introduction On Tuesday the 21st of February, in an event that further damaged the idea that the Hard-Left in Ireland are out of power in Ireland, the Oireachtas held a Committee meeting on Integration and Refugees. If this were a...
Leo The Loin Hearted Returns: A Taste of What Is To Come
Christmas has come early for Leo Varadkar who, having recently got his rocks off in a Dublin gay disco, has returned as Taoiseach, as chief of the Irish and, more particularly, of anyone else who rocks up in our green...
Carol Nolan Breaks Dáil Taboo on Immigration
The self regulated omerta on mass migration was broken in the Dáil today with criticisms aired by Independent TD Carol Nolan on unsustainable levels of asylum related inward migration into the state. Finding fault with the government’s failure to provide...
Is the Trinity Seanad Race Already Sewn Up?
Nominations are closed, ballot papers are being posted and the University of Dublin's 2022 Seanad by-election is on. It is a large field of 17 candidates, with representatives of minority communities, family therapists, former ambassadors, Continuity Greens, Dissident Greens, students,...
Soros at the Oireachtas: INAR Lobbies to Fastrack Hate Speech Legislation
A Thursday morning Oireachtas press conference and media photo op encapsulated just the latest attempts to enshrine British-style hate crime and hate speech legislation on the Irish statute books, as INAR Ireland led the way on enhancing Garda powers. In...
Seanad By-Elections 2021: Dáil Éireann’s Rotten Borough
The Seanad has very few powers in Ireland, and generally serves nowadays as less of a meritocratic chamber to scrutinise legislation or to represent Southern Unionists, and more as a placeholder for those with ambitions to be kept on life...