Ian O’Doherty

Ireland has failed the victims of Storm Eowyn

6 February 2025 5:46 pm

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

25 January 2025 4:38 am

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

16 January 2025 2:37 am

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

4 January 2025 4:30 pm

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

16 December 2024 7:48 pm

‘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

8 December 2024 11:00 am

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

1 December 2024 4:31 am

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?

25 November 2024 11:22 pm

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

13 November 2024 6:19 pm

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

20 October 2024 6:00 pm

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

9 October 2024 5:00 pm

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

4 October 2024 7:26 pm

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

26 September 2024 9:22 pm

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

8 September 2024 4:30 pm

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

1 September 2024 6:57 pm

For the average member of the Irish political, media and NGO complex there are several political issues in Ireland which…

Ireland’s embarrassing social media crusade

16 August 2024 4:45 pm

Some Spectator readers may recall the rather charming story of the small local newspaper in West Cork which took on the might…

The trouble with Ireland’s balaclava ban

7 August 2024 3:45 pm

Balaclavas were once the preserve of bank robbers and members of the IRA, but this week they were worn by…

Ireland’s ridiculous racism tsar

13 July 2024 6:44 pm

The Republic of Ireland has always prided itself on its lack of racism. Take the fact that two of the…

Sinn Fein’s immigration stance has blown up in its face

10 June 2024 9:45 pm

It’s been three days since Ireland went to the ballot box to decide the local and European elections and, much…

Ireland is rewarding Hamas for 7 October

23 May 2024 8:57 pm

For once, the Irish government has actually done something it promised. The problem is that it’s precisely the wrong thing,…

Ireland is furious about Britain’s immigration mess

30 April 2024 10:00 pm

‘We will not be used as a loophole in another country’s immigration challenges.’ Those were the angry words of Irish…

The real reason Ireland is going to recognise Palestine

14 April 2024 4:30 pm

When the Irish foreign minister Micheal Martin recently stood up and announced to the Dail that Ireland would officially recognise…

How it all went wrong for Leo Varadkar

21 March 2024 5:58 pm

Genuinely shocking political announcements are relatively rare in the Republic. It’s a small country, with an even smaller political and…

Dublin is a city on the edge

26 November 2023 10:45 pm

At 1.30 p.m. last Thursday, a horrific knife attack was perpetrated outside a school on Parnell Street in Dublin’s north…

The sinister push to expel the Israeli ambassador to Ireland

18 November 2023 7:31 pm

There have been diplomatic tensions between Ireland and Israel almost since the latter was founded. Ireland only established diplomatic relations…