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EU’S BEST FORM OF DEFENCE

October 31, 2024

THE European Union’s appointment this autumn of Lithuania’s Andrius Kubilius as the blocs first defence commissioner is a clear sign of an increase... Read more »

‘FUTURE TERRORISTS’ ALERT

October 17, 2024

EU authorities have recently reached agreement on when a person should be regarded as a “potential terrorist” or as a “violent extremist threat”.... Read more »

MORE SPLITS ON THE RIGHT

October 3, 2024

THE IMPROVING performance of the Alternative for Germany and the Austrian Freedom Party in local elections illustrates the political potential for right-wing populist... Read more »

RTÉ: FIRST CASUALTY

September 19, 2024

Missing in action, presumed dead, the fate of Dubliner Alex Ryzhuk, a member of the Ukrainian Army’s 3rd Assault Brigade, hit the headlines... Read more »

RIGHT-WING DIVISIONS

September 5, 2024

With the general election imminent, Ireland’s new-right candidates are frantically trying to finalise preparations for their campaigns. Throughout August, however, internal divisions and... Read more »

NEW RIGHT (DIS)UNITY

August 22, 2024

EFFORTS BY disparate new right groups to translate anti-immigration sentiment into unified electoral success have been seriously undermined by a section of the... Read more »

MARTIN LIVING IN INTERESTING TIMES

August 8, 2024

THE RECENT public unveiling of the prototype for a new armoured combat vehicle by the Taiwanese Army might prove embarrassing for the Irish... Read more »

CIARAN MULLOOLY’S ‘INDEPENDENCE’

July 25, 2024

THE ANNOUNCEMENT by the European Democratic Party (EDP) that it had received and accepted an application for membership from newly elected Irish MEP... Read more »

JUSTIN BARRETT RIDES ON

July 11, 2024
SOME OBSERVERS feared that a poor showing for new-right movements in Ireland in the local government and European Parliament elections might push a section... Read more »

NEW-RIGHT RIFTS

June 27, 2024

FOLLOWING THE recent elections there has been feverish speculation about how Ireland’s new right could have a significant impact on the Irish political... Read more »

NOT ALL RIGHT ON THE NIGHT

June 13, 2024

DESPITE THE hype, the results of the local government and European Parliament elections were underwhelming for a number of Ireland’s new right-wing parties.... Read more »

TOP OF THE NEW RIGHT

May 30, 2024

POLLS INDICATE that, if a breakthrough for new right-wing candidates is to come about, Independent Ireland (II) candidates are the ones most likely... Read more »

BRITISH ARMS FOR A UNITED IRELAND!

May 16, 2024

WHEN EUROPEAN Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and Josep Borrell, the EU’s high representative for foreign affairs and security policy, recently introduced... Read more »

HELEN O’SULLIVAN’S BELGIAN BLUES

May 2, 2024

LAST MONTH’S new-right National Conservatism conference in Brussels descended into farce as the mayor of the Saint-Josse-ten-Noode municipality, Emir Kir, tried to prevent... Read more »

FAR RIGHT SPOILING FOR A FIGHT

April 18, 2024

DESPITE THE attention the far right in Ireland has received in recent years, it has had little or no success in elections. However,... Read more »

MONEY TO BURN

April 4, 2024

With European and local elections fast approaching, many candidates to the right of Fine Gael are declaring their intention to stand with the... Read more »

DISSIDENT DRUMS

March 21, 2024

THE MOOD at dissident republican Easter commemorations this year is likely to be subdued with no sustained armed campaign under way, while the... Read more »

IRVING IN A STATE OF DENIAL

March 7, 2024

THROUGHOUT FEBRUARY there were reports that convicted Holocaust denier David Irving, who dismissed the Auschwitz gas chambers as a “fairy tale”, had fallen... Read more »

BRITISH AND IRISH RIGHT WING

February 22, 2024

When the notorious British far-right activist Stephen Yaxley Lennon (aka Tommy Robinson) arrived in Ireland in February last year, he caused a significant... Read more »

IRISH FAR-RIGHT FEARS

February 8, 2024
THE PLIGHT of British far-right activist Sam Melia – who was convicted in January at Leeds Crown Court for inciting racial hatred and intentionally... Read more »

IRELAND AT NATO MEETINGS

January 25, 2024

Last June, when President Michael D Higgins commented on the Government’s Forum on International Security, he talked of a dangerous “drift” away from... Read more »

ORBÁN’S IRISH YOUNG EAGLES

January 11, 2024

When Hungary takes over the presidency of the Council of the European Union for six months in July, Viktor Orbán hopes that the... Read more »

DREW HARRIS’S COP OUT

December 14, 2023

Garda Commissioner Drew Harris’s credibility in the aftermath of the Dublin riots rests on his claim that no one could have anticipated the... Read more »

FAR-RIGHT’S INTERNAL SPAT

November 30, 2023

IN THE aftermath of the recent Dublin city riots, the gyrations of the far-right Irish Freedom Party (IFP) was striking as evidenced by... Read more »

FACIAL ‘APARTHEID’?

November 15, 2023

In June justice minister Helen McEntee backed off a confrontation with her Green Party colleagues in Government when she agreed to remove aspects... Read more »

PALESTINIAN REPUBLICAN LINKS

November 2, 2023
In the last month Irish politicians from Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil, Sinn Féin, the Social Democrats and even Labour have walked a fine line... Read more »

ARMS AND THE CORKMAN

October 18, 2023

LATE last month Tánaiste and defence minister Micheál Martin rolled out the red carpet for a visit from the European Defence Agency (EDA),... Read more »

IRELAND’S DISCREET NATO INVOLVEMENT

October 5, 2023
REPMUS IS an annual Nato exercise that takes place in Portugal’s Troia Bay. While there have been many congratulatory media reports about the Irish... Read more »

PHILOSOPHICAL RIGHT-WINGERS

September 21, 2023

NOT ALL right-wing Irish politicos are street activists and some would affect a certain disdain for such extremist behaviour. Take the European Conservative (EC),... Read more »

CYBER WAR IN EUROPE

September 7, 2023

In May Dr Richard Browne, the director of Ireland’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), revealed to the Oireachtas committee on foreign affairs that... Read more »

O’DUFFY LIVES!

August 24, 2023

For years one of the most controversial far-right summer schools has been the American Renaissance (AR) conference, organised by the New Century Foundation... Read more »

CHASING AFTER FOOL’S GOLD

August 10, 2023
The surreal nature of the crisis enveloping the National Party (NP) began with the revelation of the €400,000 worth of gold bars stored in... Read more »

DECOMMISSIONING ARMS?

July 27, 2023

LAST MONTH the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), the most prominent of Britain’s defence and security think tanks, issued a report, “The Defence... Read more »

FAR RIGHT ALLY WITH PRO-LIFE

July 13, 2023
NUMBERS AT the annual Rally for Life, organised by the Life Institute, have continued to fall. Only a few thousand showed up this year,... Read more »

UKRAINE-RUSSIA IRISH ARMS LINKS

June 29, 2023

SPENDING on military hardware and weapons by governments world-wide reached a new high of just over €2 trillion in 2022. Fuelled by Russia’s... Read more »

INTERNATIONAL BRIGADE SWAPS SIDES

June 15, 2023

RTÉ HAS certainly avoided any friction with the Government line on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and its coverage of events over the last... Read more »