There is no clamour from Irish people for a Hate Crime laws. As highlighted by Gript, the Bill recently discussed in the Seanad is a catastrophic Orwellian mess, yet it is supported by every mainstream party. The only dissenting voice in the Seanad debate was the independent Sharon Keogan. Few…

Feeling that you have a home, that you are a link in a generational chain, and that your inherited history is a tale of heroism and success rather than disgrace and attenuation; most people need these things. In his own life, Joe Biden has outsourced the location of these…

Among other people Josh Hawley came out this week to posit that the future of Republicans is as a Working Class Party. Andrew Yang said something similar, that Democrats in the US cannot appeal to normal Americans because they’re obsessed with policing speech. It’s been common since 2016 to hear…

I get into the same argument with my father at every Irish election: I don’t want to vote because all the choices are so terrible; he gets mad at me because voting is a sacred duty, though that’s not how he puts it. …

Earlier in the week, while speaking about clashes between lockdown protestors and Gardai, Garda Commissioner Drew Harris digressed to talk about his broader role in monitoring political speech.

Thought experiment: you travel to the airport to go on holidays but upon arriving find that you can’t board your flight. Despite the validity of your papers, you discover to your dismay that your country’s border control agents don’t recognise the idea of travel, Passports, countries, national sovereignty or citizenship…

Dear Ms Mitchell I read with some dismay the following report from Irish examiner website, 10th June 2020: “Ireland has a racism problem and some statues of racist figures may need to be removed, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said… Mr Varadkar said a statue of Sean Russell, an Irish republican…

Watching the attempts in the last week by activists to infect Irish life with the alien mind-viruses of Black Lives Matter and White Privilege, there was something nagging at me. Their entitlement, the willingness to position their material interests as a moral imperative, their insistence at centering public life around…

Brexit and Covid have provided a canvas on which we can paint our national complexes with greater clarity than ever before, and there is one in particular that we have been painting clearer and clearer over the last year. …