Why does Ireland want hairdressers to lecture you about climate change?
In their seemingly relentless drive to spend other people’s money on initiatives they don’t want and didn’t ask for, the…
Ireland is looking terrifyingly vulnerable to Trump’s trade war
The Irish government has spent a lot of time trying to reassure voters that they have little to fear from…
The growing controversy over Ireland’s neutrality
As the war of words between Donald Trump and the EU continues to escalate, European countries have become increasingly concerned…
Can Ireland prove that it isn’t a ‘tax scam’?
Howard Lutnick, former CEO of the financial firm Cantor Fitzgerald, and now Secretary of Commerce in the Trump administration, has…
How Conor McGregor humiliated the Irish government
The Irish Taoiseach Micheal Martin will have felt some relief after his visit to the White House last week. While…
Ireland isn’t out of Trump’s firing line just yet
The Taoiseach Micheal Martin’s White House encounter with Donald Trump was controversial even before it was announced. Before any invitation…
Do Brits really want to move to Ireland?
As restrictions continue to mount for Brits travelling to Europe post-Brexit, perhaps the least surprising news was that last year…
Can Ireland win over Donald Trump?
Would Donald Trump invite Irish politicians to the White House for the traditional St Patrick’s Day visit this year? It’s…
Ireland is on a knife edge
Is Ireland a powder keg of racist, anti-immigrant sentiment, ready to explode at any moment? That was certainly the dominant…
Why won’t Ireland take in Palestinian refugees?
Oh, what a tangled web we weave. When Donald Trump made his rather provocative claim that the US would expel all…
Ireland has failed the victims of Storm Eowyn
Roy Keane, one of Ireland’s most famous sons, famously tried to live by the motto, ‘fail to prepare, prepare to…
How Ireland came crawling back to Trump
Before the US election in November, there was unanimity among the Irish political classes that Kamala Harris would comfortably win. This…
Ireland’s President has gone completely rogue
As Ireland’s octogenarian President, Michael D Higgins, enters the last few months of his final term in office, a man who was always outspoken in…
Ireland is not ready for Trump
It will be an uncertain year for Ireland. The Irish economy has for a long time been artificially propped up…
How Ireland declared diplomatic war on Israel
‘Tis the season of goodwill to all men. Except for the Irish and Israelis, that is, who have seen their…
How working-class Dublin turned on Conor McGregor
When Conor McGregor stood in the dock for his civil rape trial last week, the controversial MMA fighter was receiving…
Irish politics is stuck on a loop
It’s Green bin day! That was the general refrain of many Irish political wags as the country continues to tally…
Why won’t Irish politicians talk about immigration?
Ireland is gearing up for its general election this Friday – and what started out as a relatively moribund campaign…
Ireland’s suicidal Trump Derangement Syndrome
Ireland has a problem with America. Irish politicians and the country’s establishment would, of course, deny this. They would point…
Ireland has become a hostile environment for Jews
Is Ireland the most anti-Semitic country in Europe? Most Irish people would vehemently disagree. But if you asked: ‘is Ireland…
Why Threads is still the most terrifying film ever made
As we inch ever closer to Halloween, the inevitable lists of the scariest films ever made have already begun to…
Ireland’s puritanical attack on smokers
While the UK braces itself for a budget so tight we can already hear the pips squeaking from across the…
Ireland’s embarrassing hate speech fiasco
To the surprise of nobody and the disappointment of only a few, the Irish government has finally accepted reality and…
Enoch Burke is no free speech martyr
This week, when he was returned to Dublin’s Mountjoy jail for the third time in two years, Irish schoolteacher Enoch…
The Irish elite are terrifyingly out of touch
For the average member of the Irish political, media and NGO complex there are several political issues in Ireland which…
