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HARD-RIGHT DISUNITY

September 18, 2025

The series of anti-immigration rallies that brought thousands on to the streets over the spring and summer months in Grand Old Duke of... Read more »

IRISH QUISLINGS AMBUSHED

September 4, 2025

IN THE lead up to Remig 2025, a far-right conference organised by the Norgesdemokratene (ND) in Norway, Ireland’s National Party (NP) was keen... Read more »

GENERAL CLANCY’S NEAR ABROAD

August 21, 2025

WHILE Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin sat down in Alaska and during subsequent meetings and calls with Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European and Nato... Read more »

IRELAND’S NEUTRAL NATO PARTNERSHIP

August 7, 2025

In the same month that the Government underlined its plans to ditch the triple lock governing the deployment of Irish troops overseas, the... Read more »

LIFE ON THE RIGHT

July 24, 2025

HOW COULD it be controversial for the Primate of All Ireland Archbishop Eamon Martin to participate in an anti-abortion march? Well the matter... Read more »

IRISH RIGHT’S FOREIGN FRIENDS

July 10, 2025

THE DEBATE about whether the Alternative for Germany (AfD) should be banned has intensified. A visit by prominent National Party (NP) member Keith... Read more »

THE WHITE NORTH

June 26, 2025

FOR OVER a week in early June the pogroms in Ballymena, Larne and elsewhere in the north grabbed media headlines, while dramatic broadcasts... Read more »

PATRIOT GAMES IN DONEGAL

June 12, 2025

Donegal man Niall McConnell has been central to anti-immigration protests in Monaghan and Donegal over the last two months. His links to loyalists... Read more »

FREEDOM OF HATE SPEECH

May 29, 2025

When the European Commission issued a statement in early May outlining the sanctions Ireland will face for failing to implement legislation criminalising hate... Read more »

FAR-RIGHT COUPS

May 15, 2025

THAT LARGE anti-immigrant march in Dublin recently masked upheavals and faction fighting among new-right corporals jostling for ascendancy. Two casualties appear to be... Read more »

CONOR McGREGOR’S PALS

May 1, 2025

DESPITE THE rallying effect that Conor McGregor is having on the new-right scene and his close association with Donald Trump and Tucker Carlson,... Read more »

DISSIDENTS PEACE PROCESS

April 17, 2025

THE MOOD at dissident republican Easter commemorations in 2024 was subdued. This was because there was no sustained armed campaign under way but... Read more »

JERUSALEM FAR-RIGHT FURORE

April 3, 2025

ISRAELI PRESIDENT Isaac Herzog often refers to his Irish connections but, since the start of the war on Gaza, he has been quite... Read more »

THE FIRST ITEM…

March 20, 2025

When a gunman approached the taxi of Sean O’Reilly in Dunmurry, Belfast, in late February, he was aiming to kill the former republican... Read more »

LANIGAN’S BALL ON THE RIGHT

March 6, 2025

THE CONTRAST between the surge in support for the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) in last month’s German election and the calamitous fortunes... Read more »

BLIGHE AND DWYER VS THE LAW

February 20, 2025

After his elimination at the European election count in June, a bullish Derek Blighe, leader of Ireland First (IF), declared: “This is only... Read more »

AUSSIE NAZIS’ IRISH LINKS

February 6, 2025

It’s not every day that seventeen neo-Nazis are arrested. So when members of the National Socialist Network (NSN) were rounded up at a... Read more »

MURKY DEPTHS OF IRISH MILITARY

January 9, 2025

MicheÁl Martin and Dame Louise Richardson’s Forum on International Security Policy in June 2023 did not allow for unbiased debate and was widely... Read more »

RIGHT-WING RECRIMINATION

December 12, 2024

THE FAILURE of Ireland’s new-right parties and Independents in the general election was always likely to lead to some level of introspection and... Read more »

BLOOD AND HONOUR

November 28, 2024

With the National Party (NP) running nine candidates in the general election, most party activists have been busy campaigning in constituencies across Ireland.... Read more »

TAOISEACH HARRIS IS A TROTSKYIST

November 14, 2024

WHEN GLEN Moore of the Irish Freedom Party (IFP) won a seat on the 15th and last count in Palmerstown-Fonthill in the June... Read more »

EU’S BEST FORM OF DEFENCE

October 31, 2024

THE European Union’s appointment this autumn of Lithuania’s Andrius Kubilius as the blocs first defence commissioner is a clear sign of an increase... Read more »

‘FUTURE TERRORISTS’ ALERT

October 17, 2024

EU authorities have recently reached agreement on when a person should be regarded as a “potential terrorist” or as a “violent extremist threat”.... Read more »

MORE SPLITS ON THE RIGHT

October 3, 2024

THE IMPROVING performance of the Alternative for Germany and the Austrian Freedom Party in local elections illustrates the political potential for right-wing populist... Read more »

RTÉ: FIRST CASUALTY

September 19, 2024

Missing in action, presumed dead, the fate of Dubliner Alex Ryzhuk, a member of the Ukrainian Army’s 3rd Assault Brigade, hit the headlines... Read more »

RIGHT-WING DIVISIONS

September 5, 2024

With the general election imminent, Ireland’s new-right candidates are frantically trying to finalise preparations for their campaigns. Throughout August, however, internal divisions and... Read more »

NEW RIGHT (DIS)UNITY

August 22, 2024

EFFORTS BY disparate new right groups to translate anti-immigration sentiment into unified electoral success have been seriously undermined by a section of the... Read more »

MARTIN LIVING IN INTERESTING TIMES

August 8, 2024

THE RECENT public unveiling of the prototype for a new armoured combat vehicle by the Taiwanese Army might prove embarrassing for the Irish... Read more »

CIARAN MULLOOLY’S ‘INDEPENDENCE’

July 25, 2024

THE ANNOUNCEMENT by the European Democratic Party (EDP) that it had received and accepted an application for membership from newly elected Irish MEP... Read more »

JUSTIN BARRETT RIDES ON

July 11, 2024
SOME OBSERVERS feared that a poor showing for new-right movements in Ireland in the local government and European Parliament elections might push a section... Read more »

NEW-RIGHT RIFTS

June 27, 2024

FOLLOWING THE recent elections there has been feverish speculation about how Ireland’s new right could have a significant impact on the Irish political... Read more »

NOT ALL RIGHT ON THE NIGHT

June 13, 2024

DESPITE THE hype, the results of the local government and European Parliament elections were underwhelming for a number of Ireland’s new right-wing parties.... Read more »

TOP OF THE NEW RIGHT

May 30, 2024

POLLS INDICATE that, if a breakthrough for new right-wing candidates is to come about, Independent Ireland (II) candidates are the ones most likely... Read more »

BRITISH ARMS FOR A UNITED IRELAND!

May 16, 2024

WHEN EUROPEAN Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and Josep Borrell, the EU’s high representative for foreign affairs and security policy, recently introduced... Read more »

HELEN O’SULLIVAN’S BELGIAN BLUES

May 2, 2024

LAST MONTH’S new-right National Conservatism conference in Brussels descended into farce as the mayor of the Saint-Josse-ten-Noode municipality, Emir Kir, tried to prevent... Read more »

FAR RIGHT SPOILING FOR A FIGHT

April 18, 2024

DESPITE THE attention the far right in Ireland has received in recent years, it has had little or no success in elections. However,... Read more »