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Morrissey at the 3Arena Review: A Gael Day Out

After almost two long years since his last appearance in Dublin, Morrissey returned to his parents’ home city to perform at the 3 Arena on Saturday, 31st May 2025. As expected with a Morrissey gig, he had crews of fans […]

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4 June 2025

Will Irish Republicanism Manage a ‘Vibeshift’ on Migration Question?

Irish Republicanism has gone down a bad road, and it needs to turn back quickly, for its own sake and for the nation’s sake. Republicans are now making themselves into enemies of ordinary Irish people. This is unprecedented and serious. […]

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3 June 2025

Ireland Found Her Moral Conscience With Palestine, Now It Needs Her Sovereignty 

Events since October 7th have precipitated a rare moment of national coherence in Ireland. The rights and wrongs of Dublin’s Palestinian stance aside, Gaza has touched a deep racial nerve in Western Europe’s only post-colonial nation, unifying and electrifying the […]

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29 May 2025

De Valera, Schrödinger, and Why Ireland Will Not Attract anti-Trump Scientists

Let’s imagine, in one of Erwin Schrödinger’s parallel universes, I was charged with providing the brain power for a Max Planck Institute based in an Ireland at peace with the world and with itself.  No problem.  I would charter a […]

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28 May 2025

Sovereignty as Sin? Why Irish Catholics Should Oppose Mass Migration

““Ní múchfar an tine seo, a lasadh ar an cnoc seo, go brách….” The Catholic Church in Ireland may be bruised, but it is not broken. Despite scandal, secularisation, and dwindling vocations, it remains a vital force in Irish civic […]

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26 May 2025

“Something to do with not liking Churchill,” Laura Perrins and the Anglophile Death Drive

Conservatives often like to hover between “my country, right or wrong” and some abstract defence of “the national interest.” But some rightists in Ireland appear to want to buck that trend entirely—and instead park themselves squarely on the tarmac at […]

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25 May 2025

Nigeria’s Black Axe Gang and the Next Generation of Irish Crime

Although most of her critics consider Nigeria’s Dr Ebun Joseph an overweight, overpaid, and overpampered charlatan, her Black Axe gang compatriots are no joke. Conservative Garda estimates reckon there are at least 1,600 of these Nigerians involved in bank account […]

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24 May 2025

PSNI Centrestage At Dublin Antifa Conference

The left in Ireland has devoted much ink to pinning the nationalist right as a front for HM’s government, with little reciprocal attention going in the opposite direction. On Monday, however a senior PSNI constable sat down with leading left-wing […]

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21 May 2025

Who’s Afraid to Mention Dublin’s Roma Crime Spree?

When Gerry the Monk Hutch recently stood as a general election candidate, he suggested that immigrants should “bring your toolbox and bring your skills” with them to Ireland.  Although Nigeria’s Black Axe organised crime network and a number of Indian […]

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18 May 2025

Dogwhistles or not, Starmer’s Asylum Clampdown Will Send Shockwaves to Ireland

Harsh rhetoric and policy reforms meant to fend off a growing Reform electoral challenge could give rise to yet another round of the Anglo-Irish asylum wars, as UK PM Keir Starmer announced new measures to curb irregular and excessive migration. […]

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17 May 2025