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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.
Critical Analysis
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?
Critical Analysis
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.
Critical Analysis
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.
Critical Analysis
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.
Critical Analysis
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.
Critical Analysis
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.
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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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.
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.
The French government has effectively suspended the right of assembly in towns and cities across the country, as a week of protest movements continues to intensify across Albania, Belgium, Serbia, France, Spain and Italy.
Red Network councillor Madeleine Johansson has condemned a recent vote by South Dublin County Council (SDCC) to rezone a parcel of open space land opposite Liffey Valley Retail Park on the Coldcut Road for residential development.
A petition has been launched to remove Brenda Power, a known far-right activist and barrister, from serving as a decision-maker on the State’s asylum appeals body.
Minister For Higher Education James Lawless met with Epstein-linked Bill Gates for advice on promoting Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies in Ireland.
Say what you will about the ICCL (Irish Council for Civil liberties), their authoritative if quite liberal action in protest of the government moving to break chat encryption is raising a serious issue.
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.
A new policy paper from Trinity College Dublin is bringing the housing crisis in Gaeltacht regions to the fore, where Gaeilgeoirí continue to be priced out.
Irish dairy and beef farmers have expanded production, yet continue to suffer from unreliable incomes as processors prioritise profits.
The veneer of polite politics versus destruction is crumbling. France is mature enough to realise that, Albania is mature enough to realise that, when will we?
A group of 36 women and children are facing an illegal eviction from Rendu Apartments on William Street North. A reporter from Aontacht Media spoke to those affected to hear their accounts of the chaotic situation they find themselves in.