Ireland
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Meanwhile in what the settlers call the Mainland (referring to the neighbouring island), this writer was at first wishing that the Great White Hope of the English Labour Party would lose his election. The benefits of this are clear: utter turmoil in a party that cannot find a minimally competent and likeable person in its…
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When does a dead-end settlement like Moygashel ever make the news other than this time of year, and for this exact reason? Now Macdara is not about to argue that one should cry over the fortunes of white settlers and give them what they want, far from it. He only wishes to ask the elites…
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The English Genocide Corporation then chooses to explore in a little more detail exactly what had transpired. You see a former member of the colonial police explained that the risks for officers trying to “access something at the height” would have taken time and created tension in the community. “It’s not something that police would…
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What better occasion for your correspondent to pick up his poison pen again than the Glorious Twelfth? Once again the good citizens of Moygashel taunted the State into recognising the impunity with which they can insult and threaten the native people of Ireland, by turning their spite towards others, in this case Muslims. Naturally the…
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We have been blackmailed. A tiny number of men held the State to ransom by showing off their big hard throbbing vehicles. Imagine for a second that these were people of colour, feminists, environmental activists, anti-zionists; no matter what demographic of people shut down the country, the response would have been swift and unsympathetic. The…
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I Wonderful new New York City Mayor Mamdani is not perfect. It sinks the heart that he turned up to a St Patrick’s Day celebration in sash—ready with references to James Connolly and the anti-apartheid activists at Dunnes Stores—but had not prepared a response to the obvious question he would be asked, a natural follow-on…
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How appropriate at Samhain to turn to some ghouls. A spectre is haunting Ireland, the spectre of Fascism. The Far Right cannot get one of their own onto the ballot paper, but they have managed to make themselves into the story, with the compliance of the Liberal Right more keen to report on empty ballots…
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The headline of the election of the new Uachtarán na hÉireann is of course, the extraordinary election of Catherine Connolly herself. Her pretty flawless campaign demonstrated not only her principles but also an unexpected and astonishing ability to keep a ball in the air. We have maintained the tradition, now more than thirty years of…
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I Do not listen to those who say that this shambolic Presidential campaign is reminiscent of the last time there was a Fianna Fáil implosion during such a campaign, with Brian Lenihan in 1990; in fact the last time there was a Fianna Fáil implosion during a Presidential election was with Seán Gallagher in 2011.…
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I Perhaps your correspondent was just awaiting a piece of good news in order to pick up his poison pen once again. The English State, once capable of sustained judicial conspiracies against Irish people, has proven that it cannot now even get a showtrial right, and has had to dissolve its case against Mo Chara.…