Irish Freedom Party Archives

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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 »

Janice Boylan Irish Military Mali Coolock Says No IFP Hermann Kelly Timmy Dooley Aontú Mal O’Hara Fintan O’Toole Josepha Madigan Eoghan Harris Ukraine War Micheál Martin Middle East Philip Ryan Seán Clancy Simon Coveney Hugo MacNeill Mountbatten Neasa Hourigan Green Party Martin NPT Ivana Bacik Independents Limerick Hospital Overcrowding Barry Cowen

RIGHT ON!

July 25, 2024

THAT MOST reasonable figurehead in the new right, Hermann Kelly, leader of the Irish Freedom Party (IFP), made a most mature, statesmanlike appeal... 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 »

DUBLIN EU NEW RIGHT COMPETITORS

May 16, 2024

THE RASH of candidates on the new right in the Dublin EU constituency – seven candidates come under this category – constitutes a... Read more »

NEW RIGHT TO WIN LOCAL/EU SEATS?

May 2, 2024

THE NEW right is dominating headlines now with vituperative social media comments and arson attacks on buildings supposedly intended to house immigrants and... Read more »

MONEY TO BURN

April 4, 2024

With European and local elections fast approaching, many candidates to the right of Fine Gael are declaring their intention to stand with the... Read more »

BRITISH AND IRISH RIGHT WING

February 22, 2024

When the notorious British far-right activist Stephen Yaxley Lennon (aka Tommy Robinson) arrived in Ireland in February last year, he caused a significant... Read more »

FAR-RIGHT’S INTERNAL SPAT

November 30, 2023

IN THE aftermath of the recent Dublin city riots, the gyrations of the far-right Irish Freedom Party (IFP) was striking as evidenced by... Read more »

FAR RIGHT DÁIL TANTRUM

October 5, 2023
The far-right activists who attended the recent Call to the Dáil protest outside Leinster House were an eclectic bunch. While there were National Party,... Read more »

PROFILE: JUSTIN BARRETT

September 7, 2023

OVER THE almost four decades that Justin Barrett has been active on the extremes of Irish politics, he has shown a remarkable consistency... Read more »

IRISH FREEDOM PARTY ‘FAKE NEWS’

August 24, 2023

PRESS OMBUDSMAN Susan McKay recently ruled on a complaint from Hermann Kelly, leader of the Irish Freedom Party. It was Kelly’s fifth complaint... Read more »

CHASING AFTER FOOL’S GOLD

August 10, 2023
The surreal nature of the crisis enveloping the National Party (NP) began with the revelation of the €400,000 worth of gold bars stored in... Read more »

Budget Jack Chambers Nicki Minaj B’Tselem Phil Hogan UCD IRTA DIGI Katy Brown Rory Godson Pallonji Mistry Shark Hanlon Frances Ruane Taste of Dublin Listowel Writers’ Week Paddy Curran Harvey Norman Anton Savage Paul Hourican Enda O’Coineen PfP Red C Poll IFTA Ben Gilroy Luke Comer Sue Spence Fingleton Aubrey McCarthy Matt Cooper Parker Green Danny McConnell Gayle Killilea Maura Derivan Ed Honohan INS Arts Council EDAF Emuse Rosslare Golf Club Mairead Casey Colm O’Rourke Stephen Connolly Peter Aiken John Malone Tom Barry Anthony Halpin Ian Kehoe Kevin Bakhurst Geraldine O’Leary Dennis Horgan RUSI Gareth McAllister Ryevale House Joe Macken RUC Omagh Patrick Connolly Paddy Cosgrave The Ditch Newstalk Fake Tan Fred Logue Ian Paisley Sean O’Riordan Margaret Sweeney Jay Bourke Ellie Kisyombe Francesca McDonagh Ted Cunningham National Space Centre An Irish Goodbye Oscar Robert Quirke Ciara Kelly Executive Women Gathering Doug Taylor Florian Haufe Robbie Henshaw Bill Shipsey Breaking the Silence L’Ecrivain Ronan McNally National Lottery Michael Roche Energy Action Balls.ie Newspapers VAT Abbey Theatre Patricia Madden Irish Banking Culture Board Randox Aoife Gallagher Book Dalai Lama Trinity Trevor White RTÉ Chairperson Shane Houlihan Noel Smyth IKC Bob Geldof Landlord Ireland Neutrality Ukraine

UNA MCGURK’S WRIT

June 15, 2023

OUTSPOKEN SENIOR counsel Una McGurk has been tweeting about the incoming hate speech legislation but she has also been keeping an eye on... Read more »

MALACHY STEENSON’S EURO PLANS

February 9, 2023

WORKING-CLASS Dub hero Malachy Steenson has recently been at more public protests against migrants than the number of political parties he has joined... Read more »

FAR-RIGHT ECO MILITANTS

February 9, 2023

“BUILDING RESILIENT communities” is the tagline for Think Local, a one-day conference at the Shearwater Hotel in Ballinasloe later this month that claims... Read more »

KELLY’S HEROES

December 15, 2022

HERMANN KELLY, leader of the Irish Freedom Party (IFP), has been reinvigorated in recent weeks. Not only has he led his party activists... Read more »

‘NAZIS AND NUTTERS’

December 1, 2022

MANY WERE non-plussed at muffled media reports of an incident at the Lough Erne Resort in Co Fermanagh a fortnight ago involving the... Read more »