The Spider’s Web: Britain’s Second Empire
The 2017 documentary by the filmmaker Michael Oswald and the economist John Christensen examining the United Kingdom’s transformation into a global financialContinue Reading
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An Garda Síochána, A Police Force Mired In Controversy And Corruption
Repeated allegations of systemic corruption have been made by independent politicians and journalists against sections of An Garda Síochána, Ireland’sContinue Reading
A Patten Report For A Reformed Garda Síochána
In relation to the latest evidence of malpractice within the ranks of An Garda Síochána, one cannot but help feelContinue Reading
Renua – The Independent News And Media Party
Here we go again! Ireland’s right-wing media cartel, Independent News and Media, is beating the drums for its pet cause with renewed vigour:Continue Reading
Ireland Has Become The “Gun Land” Of Western Europe
Fearann claímh or “sword land” is a Medieval Irish term to describe a territory taken or held through violence. Perhaps unsurprisingly it wasContinue Reading
All Criminals Are Equal, But Some Criminals…
Julien Mercille, geopolitics’ lecturer at UCD, writing for the broadsheet.ie in August: “Last week confirmed once again that in Ireland, theContinue Reading
The Green Scare Or The Indo’s Greens Under The Bed Paranoia
“Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the Communist party?” For many people this infamous question immediatelyContinue Reading
The Answer To Gun Violence Is Not More Guns
Yet again it takes a murder, and one with quasi-political overtones in the eyes of some exploitative journalists, before politicians and theContinue Reading
It Pays To Be Adam But Rarely Eve
To be a woman in a world where some men have cast aside the necessary bonds of civilization is a dreadful fate indeed.Continue Reading
The Mexicanisation Of Irish Policing
For at least four decades allegations of systemic corruption have swirled around sections of An Garda Síochána, Ireland’s nationalContinue Reading
Girl Power Is Taken, Not Given
Sometimes, after glancing through news reports from around the world, I have to ask myself why one half of the humanContinue Reading
Same As It Ever Was
The thousands protesting against the imposition of unwarranted taxes and iniquitous government policies are crypto-terrorists. The Gardaí are being unfairly vilifiedContinue Reading
A Sickness At The Heart Of Britishness
As Britain witnesses the revelations of a decades old culture of institutionalised paedophilia and sexual abuse within the heart ofContinue Reading
Law And Order, Ireland
So the Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan has finally jumped ship after a catalogue of controversies involving allegations of systemicContinue Reading
The Island Of The Corrupt And The Corruptible
The importation, sale and production of illegal narcotics generates huge revenues for organised criminal gangs and their associates in mostContinue Reading
The GUBU Republic Of Ireland
It was former Taoiseach na hÉireann, Charles Haughey, who coined one of the more famous phrases in the lexicon ofContinue Reading
Alan Ryan And Post-War Ireland
It’s twelve months since Alan Ryan, Officer Commanding the “Real” IRA in Dublin City, was assassinated by members of theContinue Reading
Ireland 2013 – 35 Weeks, 59 Bombs
From the 1st of January 2013 to the 28th of August 2013 a total of 59 “viable explosive devices” (orContinue Reading
Ain’t Nothing Change But The Weather
One definition of madness is doing the same thing over and over but expecting a different result each time. SoContinue Reading
Who Dares To Speak? Morality Versus Venality In Modern Ireland
What other nation in Europe would have such little regard for its history? What other nation in Europe would beContinue Reading
Jeremy Brett – The Quintessential Sherlock Holmes
I’ve always been a bit of a Sherlock Homes fan (or the much more impressive Irish form, Searbhlach de Hoilm!),Continue Reading
The Mahon Report – A Plague On All Your Houses
The Mahon Tribunal has finally published its long-awaited report and like the lifting of the proverbial rock all sorts of nastiness hasContinue Reading
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