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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 »

Forum on International Security CitizenGo Micheal Martin

THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING

June 1, 2023
WHEN TÁNAISTE Micheál Martin went on the offensive in relation to The Ditch and it’s exposure of corruption among the political classes, he was... Read more »

MI6 SEEN BUT NOT HURD

May 18, 2023

Sir Simon McDonald, the former boss of the British Foreign Office, has just released his memoirs, Leadership: Lessons from a Life in Diplomacy.... Read more »

FRONTEX TOOLS UP FOR ACTION

May 18, 2023

Recently the 2023 budget of Frontex, the European border and coast guard agency, was released and lay bare the hundreds of millions of... Read more »

HATE-FREE SPEECH

May 3, 2023
As far back as November 2019 Garda Commissioner Drew Harris told the Policing Authority that Ireland was beginning to see a rise in right-wing... Read more »

MOBILE MEDIA ETHICS

April 19, 2023

A common trope in the Irish media is the accusation of censorship by the Chinese Communist Party and the Russian government. According to... Read more »

NEW IRA HASN’T GONE AWAY

April 6, 2023

In the last few years, a number of militant dissident republican groups have announced ceasefires or merely faded away. The Republican Network for... Read more »

THE RIGHT STUFF?

March 23, 2023

NADIA DOBRIANSKA, the Irish-speaking Ukrainian refugee, has over the last year maintained a high profile in the Irish media. In recent months, for... Read more »

SWIFT JUSTICE?

March 8, 2023

FOLLOWING THE shooting of detective chief inspector John Caldwell at Omagh last month, PSNI chief constable Simon Byrne was quite bullish in his... Read more »

THE SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA

February 22, 2023

EARLIER THIS month United Nations general secretary António Guterres rang alarm bells when he told the general assembly (in the context of Russia’s... Read more »

TWITTER’S EMERALD ISLE

February 9, 2023

POLITICAL AGREEMENT was reached on the Digital Services Act (DSA) by the European Commission after much haggling in April 2022. The legislation aims... Read more »

ALTERNATIVE PATRIOTS

January 26, 2023

On JANUARY 12, 11 protests – eight in Dublin – were organised against the provision of accommodation for immigrants in Ireland. The plan... Read more »

IRISH ARMS TO ISRAEL

January 12, 2023

THE CONTROL of Exports Act was passed in 2008 to ensure that Ireland would finally be in compliance with the provisions of the... Read more »

IRISH AMBIGUOUS ARMY

December 15, 2022

MICHEÁL MARTIN lost his cool with Cork TD Mick Barry of Solidarity in the Dáil recently. Barry was questioning the presence of Nato... Read more »

‘NAZIS AND NUTTERS’

December 1, 2022

MANY WERE non-plussed at muffled media reports of an incident at the Lough Erne Resort in Co Fermanagh a fortnight ago involving the... Read more »

UNARMED COVENEY

November 17, 2022

THE DEFENCE department released a press release last month regarding the information and networking event it had organised in the Aviva Stadium could... Read more »

OOH AH, UP THE RUC

November 2, 2022

ALMOST 25 years after the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, you might be surprised to discover that the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC),... Read more »

ENOCH BURKE PROTESTERS

October 19, 2022

ENOCH BURKE is now well into his second month in prison after he breached an injunction instructing him to stay away from Wilson’s... Read more »

DOUBLE DUTCH

October 6, 2022

IN THE last fortnight Dutch MEP Paul Tang travelled to the Emerald Isle as he had a bone to pick about the thorny... Read more »

IRELAND COMPLICIT IN MALI COUP?

September 22, 2022

IRISHMAN Rory Keane has risen to become head of the Brussels-based United Nations Liaison Office for Peace, which exists to improve UN co-operation... Read more »

IRISH MILITARY INDUSTRIAL PLAN?

September 8, 2022

ALONG WITH the huge increase in defence funding ‘agreed’ by the Government (a planned rise from €1.1bn to €1.9bn by 2028), there has... Read more »

PEACE IN COVENEY’S TIME?

August 11, 2022

DESPITE CHAMPIONING armament for the Irish Defence Forces, foreign minister Simon Coveney has been central to a strategy of appeasement by the United... Read more »

IRELAND CALLING!

July 28, 2022

THE US based Antelope Hill Publishing (AHP) has developed a niche market by publishing out of print works by fascist and Nazi ideologues... Read more »

NINE-YEAR TRIAL

July 14, 2022

In December 2013, a fortnight after an armed ambush on a convoy of PSNI vehicles in Ardoyne, Belfast, Colin Duffy, Alex McCrory and... Read more »

SIEGE MENTALITY!

June 30, 2022

MANY IRISH politicians and commentators have been exercised by Boris Johnson’s cynical domestic ploy in transferring asylum seekers to Rwanda. Sinn Féin’s Michelle... Read more »

GREENS RESILE ON NEUTRALITY

June 16, 2022

A MAJOR fault line has developed within the Irish Greens. Eamon Ryan and a majority of the parliamentary party seem at odds with... Read more »

IRELAND’S NEUTRAL CIVIL WAR SKIES

June 2, 2022

THE MOST recent issue of An Cosantóir, official magazine of the Irish Defence Forces, is a special edition commemorating the centenary of the... Read more »

GENTLE EU POLICING

May 19, 2022

WITH THE housing crisis; the logistics of helping Ukrainian refugees; and the furore over the National Maternity Hospital, a lot of the business... Read more »

THE POWER OF BABEL

May 5, 2022

AFTER THE death of George Floyd two years ago, protests erupted all over the USA, which police were barely able to contain. Curfews... Read more »

DISSIDENT GROUPS’ EASTER TREAT

April 20, 2022

APART FROM Sinn Féin there are others that lay claim to the tradition of Irish republicanism and they haven’t gone away either, you... Read more »

DALY AND WALLACE RETALIATE

April 7, 2022

IRISH EUROPHILES felt humiliated by the electorate’s rejection of constitutional referendums on the Nice and Lisbon treaties in 2001 and 2008 respectively. While... Read more »

SINN FEIN SPOOKED BY RUSSIA?

March 24, 2022

CENTRAL TO the war in Ukraine are the separatist ‘People’s Republics’ of Donetsk and Luhansk, which were established by Russian backed armed groups... Read more »

UKRAINIAN FASCISTS?

March 10, 2022

LAST SEPTEMBER Simon Coveney was visiting the USA for the start of the 76th Session of the UN, when he made time to... Read more »

THE COMMISSION ON DEFENCE’S MEMBERS

February 24, 2022

THE COMMISSION on the Defence Forces includes retired officers from the Irish, Finnish and Norwegian defence forces and a handful of civil servants,... Read more »