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Aoife Moore Risks Her Backside: Derry Journo Takes Up Joe.ie Editorship

More has been said in private about journalist Aoife-Grace Moore than is ever likely to make it safely into print here at The Burkean. We will leave it at that. The Derry-born scribe has carved out a prominent media profile […]

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6 July 2026

Labour Party Spins Ogbu’s Dodgy Dates?

A sloppy statement from Labour HQ in defence of party golden girl and new mayor of Galway, Cllr Helen Ogbu, is likely to engender less media attention than it actually should following media questioning of the timeline by which she […]

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30 June 2026

Jeffrey Donaldson Blackmail Claims Add Dark Reality to United Ireland Push

A political iceberg, arguably so gargantuan that it would sink Northern politics in its entirety if fully vindicated and take a chunk of the post-Brexit UK’s with it, is passing by our very eyes as PSNI/MI5 operatives, respected columnists and […]

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29 June 2026

Does Irish Politeness Empower Mass Migration?: A Reflection

A growing number of people believe that today, Cork City in Ireland is enough to make a grown man cry. Reminiscent of many of our European cities, the Cork metropolis has morphed into a disfigured multicultural melting pot of immigrants […]

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28 June 2026

Palantir on the Irish Border? Reform, Thiel, and Brexit After the Windsor Framework

While the media has been understandably salivating at the revelation of Peter Thiel and Big Tech bigwigs heading to Wicklow as part of the semi-secretive Dialog networking group, the increasing chumminess between the AI giant and the would-be Reform government […]

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26 June 2026

The Springhill Inquest: Belfast Families Left Wanting Amid Westminster Power Games

The Springhill families waited more than half a century for what should never have required an inquest to say: that their dead were not lawful targets, not threats, not unfortunate collateral in a “clean” military operation, but civilians killed by […]

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16 June 2026

The Phoenix is Goosed! Left Wing Gossip Magazine Set to Shut

Goldhawk is finally biting the dust and this time the legendary Phoenix won’t be rising from the ashes. According to the Irish Times this morning, Ireland’s favourite bimonthly gossip rag is shutting up shop for good at the end of […]

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15 June 2026

The de Brun Case: Irish Medical Council Sets Politicised Precedent for Whistleblowers

Social media comments critical of NPHET and the mere attendance at a protest critical of lockdown resulted in Rush-based medical practitioner Dr Marcus de Brun being found guilty of medical misconduct by the Irish Medical Council in what can only […]

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14 June 2026

House the Irish? NGOs Prepare Human Rights Blockade to Irish First Housing Policy

The government’s Housing and Residential Tenancies Bill, presented to the Oireachtas this month, would if implemented introduce very (very) basic residence requirements for access to social housing waiting lists. Applicants would be required to demonstrate both a legal right to […]

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12 June 2026

Belfast Botched Beheading: Will Open Borders Risk Peace in the North 

An Irishman lies seriously injured after a savage knife attack by a man reportedly believed to be Somalian on Kinnaird Avenue, North Belfast. The brave locals who intervened did more to protect Belfast than the Crown Forces did. They risked […]

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9 June 2026