The latest and most serious attempt to overturn the referendum which overwhelmingly approved changes to the criteria governing eligibility for Irish citizenship in 2004 comes before the Seanad on Wednesday. There have been, as we have noted before, several other Private Members Bills tabled by communist TDs, but this one in the name of Labour […]
November 1920 in many ways marked a turning point in the War of Independence. It was a month in which the military conflict reached new levels with around 100 killed on both sides. It also witnessed a marked escalation in the number of officially sanctioned reprisals against the civilian population who by this stage, outside […]
It would appear once again that it is an ill Pandemic that blows no favours. Last month it emerged that one of Ireland’s premier recruitment agencies, CPL Resources, had been given the contract by the Health Services Executive (HSE) to hire contact tracers as well as additional student and graduate nurses. The contract was valued […]
The case of Dublin businessman Richard O’Halloran, who is being held against his will in China, raises several serious issues. O’Halloran is a director of a Chinese aircraft leasing company, CALS, and has been refused permission to leave the country since last March due to a court case involving the owner of CALS, Min Jiedong. […]
The furore over the video played by Irish soccer manager, Stephen Kenny, prior to Ireland’s match against England appears on the face of it to be somewhat farcical. The “motivational” film – whose efficacy might best be judged by the fact that Ireland lost 3 – 0 – seems to have offended certain people because of […]
This Saturday will mark the hundredth anniversary of one of the most dramatic days in the Irish War of Independence. On Sunday November 21, 1920 the killing of 16 British intelligence and military personnel was followed by a retaliatory attack by British forces on a Gaelic football match between Dublin and Tipperary in Croke Park […]
Governments seldom fulfil promises made in pre election manifestos or even Programmes for Government. So the small and fractured Green Party can be happy that when it disappears again from public prominence, it will have left yet another toxic legacy as it did in 2011. For a party that only won 7% of the vote in the […]
As Ireland’s trading relationship with China continues to expand, so too does the interest of the Chinese Communist Party in using this as the basis for expanded political influence. Total bilateral trade between the two countries in 2019 was over $15 billion, with a balance of around $5 billion in Ireland’s favour. That in itself […]
As the Covid lockdowns continue in all parts of the island, there continues to be criticism of the heavy-handed approach adopted by both jurisdictions. The northern lockdown is due to end on Friday, but there is a strong possibility that it will be extended. First Minister Arlene Foster said earlier that she hoped that there […]
In June 2004, the Irish people voted in a referendum which inserted a new Article 9.2 into Bunreacht na hÉireann to limit the right to claim citizenship to children born here who had at least one parent who was an Irish citizen. An unforeseen consequence of the Good Friday Agreement had led to an amended […]
Much is being made here of Biden being a “friend indeed to Ireland.” Actually if you examine these paeans what you generally find is that the purveyor of this means that he will be a friend to their friends, and unlike Trump, knows some mediocre poet who is also their chum. Real cosmopolitans are our […]
One of the noticeable aspects of the Trump campaign, which Irish people would not have noticed inside the echo chamber of the lazy and biased reporting of RTÉ and other D4 emigres in Washington, was the prominence of non-white people among Republican candidates and supporters of the President. When it seemed that things were going […]