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If the world was a secondary school, and governments were its students, modern Ireland would be the insecure, sycophantic nerd who gets picked last for games, bumped into lockers, and victimised by noogies and atomic wedgies on a daily basis. Amid the ongoing energy crisis, with fuel and electricity prices surging to unsustainable levels, many […]
French Border Police, Spanish National police and Europol have cooperated to bust a criminal enterprise engaged in forging and distributing fake IDs and EU travel documents. After raiding houses across France and Spain, 17 individuals were arrested – three in France and 14 in Spain. Cash, fake IDs and counterfeiting equipment was seized during the […]
The European Parliament has voted to put economic sanctions on Poland as the country struggles to accommodate 1.5 million Ukrainian refugees. Poland – one of the EU’s poorest countries – has accepted 1.5 million Ukrainian refugees in two weeks since the Russian invasion began. The number of Ukrainian refugees entering Poland rises to 1.52 million […]
You know that our country is in a bad position when we’re in the midst of a major crisis, and the people in charge think that key words mean the precise opposite of what they actually mean. This week, amid the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, Defence Minister Simon Coveney decided to tell the Dáil […]
The European Parliament called for the legalisation of abortion in Ireland. The opinion, passed in Strasbourg by 321 votes to 122; it carried no legislative weight but provoked a storm of political controversy. It was not the first and wouldn’t be the last time institutions within the European Union would admonish Ireland for it’s pro-life […]
President Zelensky, the toast of the western world, is not a perfect Democrat. But we cannot be blinded by contrarianism.
According to AA Ireland, petrol and diesel costs are at record highs as Applegreen warns of massive increases in fuel costs for consumers. The comments come as fuel prices soar across Europe due to a variety of factors. These include inflation, supply chain issues from the Covid lockdown, government charges like Carbon Tax, and overreliance […]
ISIS have celebrated Russia’s war in Ukraine, calling it “divine punishment” and expressing hope that the conflict will spread to other European countries. According to an editorial in ISIS magazine Al Naba (“The News”), the Russian invasion of Ukraine is “divine punishment” sent upon the European “infidels” by Allah. They say that the conflict “will […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that the heavy Western sanctions leveled against his country are “akin to a declaration of war” amid his ongoing invasion of Ukraine. The sanctions imposed on Russia for its invasion of Ukraine have been severe, with certain Russian banks being kicked off the SWIFT financial system, and Western countries […]
Amid the Russia-Ukraine conflict, the push to end Irish neutrality is now in full swing, with the government dragging the public kicking and screaming towards yet another woefully unpopular policy change. They did it with raising our corporate tax rate (which the public opposed). They did it with carbon tax (which the public opposed). And […]
The truth is that from a purely nationalist perspective, the calculations do not change much whether an aggressor considers us neutral or not