Ireland
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I While it was clearly the correct thing to do, not to mention a demonstration of a minimal ability to engage in diplomacy, the coordinated recognition by Ireland, Norway and Spain of Palestine came with a large serving of self-importance. Why the need for the leaders of all three cretinous Government Parties to stand side…
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As the Liberal Right continues to promote the Extreme Right in Respectable circles—looking for a local Führer to help them sell more papers and gain more viewers or votes—we find that the killing has started. Josip Štrok and David Družinec were attacked in Clondalkin by extremists on 30 March. Štrok, who was 31 years old,…
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I Tom Murphy’s Bailegangáire does not exist—town without laughter—but almost any town in Ireland could be called Bailegangaeilge—town without Irish—except that it would be known instead as Ballygongwailga. It surprises and disappoints this writer that the Irish people consent to live in a land of makey-uppy placenames. The worst recent example that your correspondent has…
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Your correspondent hesitates to comment on current events, preferring to write by the candlelight of Retrospect. Nevertheless recent developments in both parts of the country seem to require better commentary than Macdara has seen from the zombie media, so here are his thoughts. Of the permanent Partionist Party in the twenty-six county state, three wings…
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I To expand a bit on a recent letter: the Irish Government that collapsed in early 2011, the Government of the 30th Dáil, was notable for a number of reasons. In the first place, its willingness to lie about things that took no more effort to disprove than a look at the day’s news: as…
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After surveying some of the Giants of the Irish political landscape, and while recognising that he has gestured towards her existence before, Macdara wants to explain why he has chosen Claire Hanna as his next subject. In short, the present writer expects that Hanna, currently a lower-order saint in the Partitionist firmament, might find herself…
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Your correspondent offers a special edition of Profiles in Scourge: a group profile covering the Martin family, otherwise styled the Green Party. I As a function of the stipulation in Bunreacht na hÉireann that the number of Government Ministers must not exceed fifteen, the State presently finds itself with extraordinary ministerial titles that combine multiple…
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It amazes Macdara that our Tánaiste is only 63, since he seems to have been hanging around the Cabinet since the middle of the last century, and in all honesty could pass for 83; put him next to Biden and you have to wonder which is which. What must a man of such lengthy service…
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We’ve been working on the Santa Claus issue for a number of weeks now emmm and it’s important to say to all children in the country emmm that we regard emmm Santa Claus’s travels eh as essential travel for essential purposes and therefore he is exempt eh from the need to self-quarantine for fourteen days…
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US President Kennedy arranged for a book to be published in his name in 1956, Profiles in Courage. To honour the quality of current Irish politicians, Macdara hereby inaugurates a new feature for this site: Profiles in Scourge. And who better to start off with than our head of government, though when the present writer…