Fear Is the Key As a teenager, I read many of Alistair MacLean’s books. One title has stayed with me ever since: Fear Is the Key. Those words encapsulate precisely the strategy of our would-be controllers. And, to be fair, […]

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16 October 2025

In elections across the continent, European voters are demanding the parties of the New Right form government, and have in many cases come to detest the liberal values of the status quo.

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11 October 2025

Ultimately, Chat Control is not about “protecting children” so much as Brussels establishing a continental surveillance template that weakens US tech dominance, undermines free speech, and creates a model authoritarian regimes from Belarus to Beijing could copy.

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8 October 2025

As long as any part of world is underpinned by relativism there is no point in discussion unless it is to wean the world away from relativism. And maybe that’s why Charlie Kirk’s speeches cut so much to the bone and caused such controversy. Not because he touched on taboo topics, but because he – wittingly or otherwise – was chiselling away at the foundations of relativism.

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7 October 2025

Irish unity, if it is to mean anything, must not be brought about by surrendering our hard-won right to govern ourselves or on discarding the moral vision that sustained our people in darker times.

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5 October 2025

O’Brien’s move from party politics to this new enforcement role mirrors a broader shift: as street-level activism loses traction, Ireland’s NGO class is embedding itself inside regulatory frameworks. For the open borders left, the fight is no longer about rallies but about direct access to Brussels, Dublin, and Silicon Valley’s moderation boards.

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3 October 2025

Had Connolly genuinely been interested in the Palestinian people, Yarmouk Camp is less than 3 kilometres from where she stayed in Damascus, and Shehabi could have introduced her to several of the Palestinian regiments whose volunteers fought and died alongside the Syrian Army.

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2 October 2025

Since dragging the party from the wreckage of 2011, the Martin–Seán Dorgan axis has reshaped Fianna Fáil through a mix of polite purges and weaponised gender quotas. In the rush to shed the boom-year legacy of Cowen and Ahern, Fianna Fáil has sprinted to the centre, leaving its grassroots thirsting for something more traditional.

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29 September 2025

Irish nationalism, fuelled by the tragedy of the Famine, found itself nurtured by emigrants in the prosperous industrial economy of the United States.

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28 September 2025

Those who have participated in these murderous acts are all accomplices in the killing of innocent children. They no longer share the heritage of Ireland as “the land of saints and scholars.” No, for them it is “the land of savages and psychopaths.”

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27 September 2025