The meat and poultry plants of Tyrone and Armagh are rarely discussed in polite political debate. They should be. Within them lies a concentrated example of how modern Ireland’s economic model actually functions. It functions by prioritising speed over safety, […]

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16 December 2025

If the state succeeds in scaling its systems, reception centres, and so on, Ireland could stabilise its asylum regime and integrate smoothly into the EU’s new migration framework. If it fails, the country risks slipping into an uncomfortable halfway house between a fracturing EU and a soon to be Reform-led UK never mind the question of the North.

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10 December 2025

A long-running criminal case against former Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) MEP Gunnar Beck has collapsed in spectacular form at a German district court, bringing an end to a series of accusations that had shifted dramatically in scope over two years.  […]

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3 December 2025

A sovereign Ireland cannot permit London to define identity in the Six Counties, nor Brussels to regulate it in the 26. The Irish people must remain the authors of their own social order. Rather than being clients of remote technocracies, we should be custodians of a nation rooted in history, culture and collective memory.

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1 December 2025

The thing is McCullagh is no random RTÉ cub news presenter. He is, of course, an historian and published author in his own rite. His quip revealed a deeper institutional bias not just at RTÉ but within the political establishment that has held sway in Ireland now over the last few decades.

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28 November 2025

Three motions with one unmistakable policy direction dominate Wednesday’s Dáil schedule, as the coalition moves to opt Ireland into a trio of EU multi-annual funding programmes underpinning the Union’s migration, security and justice agenda. The first motion locks Ireland into […]

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25 November 2025

If the pessimistic reading is correct, then we should expect attempts to influence Irish politics and capture the state accelerate in the coming years. America, which has been a counterbalance against the British in Ireland for decades, is pulling back from Europe.

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21 November 2025

Another important fallacy that fuels this narrative is the idea that a Universal Basic Income will boost personal freedom. The premise being that one is not free to make choices unless one possesses sufficient material means to back them up (you are not free if you cannot afford a home or you have to settle for a job below your expectations out of economic need, for instance).

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20 November 2025

Stable governance is about more than just the consistency of party policy and action, but the calibre of people participating within the system. To reiterate Fico’s statement, debate “between the best for the best ideas.” Parties require the power to implement policies for which they received democratic mandate, but this confers a responsibility to ensure the calibre of persons elected on the party ticket. 

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19 November 2025

On this day, the 18th November we remember all the fallen Croatian soldiers and killed civilians in War for Croatian independence, as well as 85 foreign volunteers who fell for our freedom. Vukovar is not just a Croatian symbol, its a testament to heroic defiance of a Christian Europe against the evils of Communism and Socialism.

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18 November 2025