Europe's Human Rights Failure Starts at Home

The test is not whether leaders condemn racism abroad, but whether a Congolese IT worker in Dublin, a Roma man in Teplice and an asylum-seeker at the Belarus border can expect equal protection.

The Lost Opportunity: Economic Democracy in the 1969 Irish Labour and 1971 Sinn Féin Programmes

Within this febrile atmosphere, two distinct documents emerged that, despite their radically different political trajectories, shared a profound and forward-thinking ambition: the democratisation of the economy in favour of those who created its wealth.

A Scenic Place to Visit, A Hard Place to Live

In the tourist towns that sit near the border of West Cork and South Kerry the housing crisis isn’t an abstract national problem that appears in the broadsheets.

Fighting for Israel? McEntee Floats Irish Deployment In Mission To "Combat" Hezbollah

Defence Minister Helen McEntee has stated that she wishes to see Irish troops sent to Lebanon as part of a new EU mission created on the backdrop of Israeli and US pressure on the Lebanese government to suppress Hezbollah.

Real Ukrainians In Kiev Protesting Zelensky, “Professional Ukrainians” In Dublin Want Sanctions

Are you on the side of those Ukrainians who are critical of the Zelensky regime and will face legal consequences if forced back? Or are you siding with professional Ukrainians and NGOs receiving 200,000 euros of Irish taxpayers’ money to push war propaganda?

Wake Up, NATO Rugby Dad, Before They Take Your Gobdaw “European” Son

Helen McEntee told the Dáil it was "absolutely crazy" that five countries could decide where Ireland sends its troops. That line speaks directly to the rugby dad: a middle-aged middle-management bravado that mistakes military alignment for maturity. 

President Catherine Connolly Should Tactically Resign Over Neutrality

President Connolly has it within her power to tactically resign the presidency at an opportune moment to kill the bill. If she resigns, it was the Left who saved the day with a brave sacrifice that will define the political destiny and identity of this nation for decades to come.

Israel Is Preparing To Annex The Whole Of The West Bank Right Now

Yesterday, Netanyahu flew to Hebron in a flak jacket and promised to destroy entire neighbourhoods and build settlements on the ruins in a military operation larger than we’ve seen in decades.

Budget 2027: The Irish Economy And The Strange Myopia Of The Left

The economic dependence of the Dublin government cannot be separated from a rapid militarisation and the drive to war. The Irish state has more than doubled its military budget, is signing up non-citizens to the army and has integrated into European and NATO structures aiming at war with Russia. 

How Revolutionary Groups Reproduce Authoritarianism

In the modern Leninist cult, modelled on the Bolshevik top-down structure, an anachronistic Politburo entrenches itself as the central committee, establishing a bureaucratic inertia which festers the solidification of internal party despotism.

Ruling Without Remedy: Palestine, Grassroots Movements, and the Limits of the ICJ

International law has repeatedly affirmed the rights of the Palestinian people and the abuses of core features of the Israeli occupation. Yet the gap between judicial pronouncements and conditions on the ground remains stark.

Who Owns the Soil? Reading ‘Ground Rent is Robbery’ Today

In 1974, Official Sinn Féin published a slim, yellow-covered pamphlet with a title that was less a slogan than a verdict: ‘Ground Rent is Robbery.’ Reading it now, half a century later, it's striking how much of it still lands.