Article Category: Hush Hush

JUSTIN BARRETT ON THE ROPES

June 4, 2026

A series of clashes on the streets with antifascists have meant that Justin Barrett and members of his party, Clann Éireann (CÉ), have... Read more »

STEENSON CAMPAIGN PLAYING IT SAFE

May 21, 2026

The contrasting performances of the two candidates from Ireland’s new right-wing networks in the Galway West and Dublin Central by-election races is quite... Read more »

KEITH WOODS’S SUPER RACE

May 7, 2026

LAST MONTH Keith Woods (pseudonym of Roscommon native Keith O’Brien), Ireland’s best-known far-right activist internationally, was in Rome to network with prominent American... Read more »

RIPPLE EFFECT OF ORBÁN’S DEFEAT

April 23, 2026

The end of Viktor Orbán’s rule in Hungary will have a direct effect on the network of activists, think tanks and media outlets... Read more »

‘MI5 HELL HOLES’

April 9, 2026

The number of commemorations over Easter week organised by dissident republicans might seem impressive but many of the groups active in this increasingly... Read more »

AUSTRALIAN NAZI’S OFFALY OFFENDED 

March 26, 2026

The recent appearance of Offaly man Graham Connolly on a livestream by Canadian antisemite and holocaust denier Alex Vriend goes to show how... Read more »

GENERAL CLANCY’S NATO STANCE

March 12, 2026

It was inevitable that once the US and Israel launched their war on Iran that calls for increased militarisation of the EU would... Read more »

COLLISON’S CHEEKY PINT OR TWO

February 26, 2026

The branding of Stripe co-founder John Collison’s Cheeky Pint podcast – in which he interviews “founders, builders and leaders” in the tech industry... Read more »

EU/US JOINT SURVEILLANCE?

February 12, 2026

United States proposals requiring tourists to submit social media data as part of its Electronic System for Travel Authorisation applications has seen quite... Read more »

WILD COLONIAL NAZIS

January 29, 2026

In the aftermath of 15 people being gunned down at Hanukkah celebrations near Bondi Beach, Sydney in December, Australia’s parliament last week passed... Read more »

IRISH RIGHT WING AND VENEZUALA

January 15, 2026

THE US military operation that saw Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro and his wife kidnapped revealed a similar analysis that Ireland’s new right shares... Read more »

‘MODERATE’ NATIONAL PARTY

November 27, 2025

WHEN PROMINENT National Party (NP) member Keith Woods (pseudonym of Keith O’Brien from Roscommon) hosted Ryan Williams on his podcast, he demonstrated just... Read more »

TALE OF TWO RIOTS 

October 30, 2025

FOLLOWING THE riots at Citywest, a series of articles contrasted the Garda response in Saggart to the Dublin riots in November 2023. These... Read more »

JUSTIN BARRETT’S RIGHT SIDE

October 16, 2025

A 34-PAGE Electoral Commission (EC) report last month on the contested leadership of the hard-right National Party (NP) seems to have finally brought... Read more »

RIGHT-WING SPLIT

October 2, 2025

JUST AS negotiations between various right-wing parties and Independent activists regarding the formation of a united right-wing party were concluded recently, news of... Read more »

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 »