Critical Analysis
Put neutrality into the Constitution, let the 71% have their say, and put the Triple Lock to the people before anyone removes it, and if the government means what it says it has nothing whatever to fear from the answer.
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Yesterday was a powerful display of resistance. But one march does not stop a war machine. The EPC summit will end, the leaders will fly home, and the bombs will continue to fall on Gaza. The struggle against Irish complicity in genocide, and against the EU’s militarisation, must continue.
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Social Democrats TD Daniel Ennis has welcomed the lockdown of Dublin, praising “huge garda presence on every corner”, just days after Gardaí beat and brutalised ant-war protestors in the city.
Critical Analysis
Decolonisation demands more than symbolic appreciation, as it requires an interrogation of the ongoing colonial logics that continue to marginalise Gaeilge and its speaker communities.
Critical Analysis
If Ireland wants to take advantage of the wave of revolt in Europe, comrades of all fashions and occupations need to join together in a unitary struggle. After all, their grievances share the same root, which is the capitalists’ exploitation of the working class.
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The annual Remembrance Sunday spectacle at Belfast City Hall has once again laid bare the deepening political chasm within Irish republicanism. This reality was sharply articulated this week by the RSYM in a blistering social media rebuke of Sinn Féin’s participation.
Critical Analysis
“Operation: Raise the Colours” was an initiative started by right-wing actors in the United Kingdom to fly the national flag. The knee-jerk reaction of the liberal left, and its media apparatus in both cases was to disavow the nationalistic imagery in full, essentially ceding it to the Right.
The Socialist Republican organisation Anti-Imperialist Action (AIA) has released a statement calling for a concerted national effort against drug debt intimidation, the drug barons behind the scenes and the gardaí & PSNI officers who enable them.
Kaspar is one of three actionists who stormed Shannon Airport in November 2025. An Aontacht reporter gets his views on the solicitors' strike, the legal aid system and the impact of State persecution.
The new rules mean that Irish immigration officers will inspect the military documents of Ukrainian refugees, and refuse those who cannot provide “satisfaction of military obligations”.
Allianz is threatening legal proceedings against a number of people who signed a letter to schools who use the company for insurance, which pointed out that the company is complicit in profiting from Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
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