There is every reason to fear what despotic Trump may do in the next two years
In yet another lie, US president Donald Trump posted on Truth Social, his social media site, that he had “very good news for our Farmers and Ranchers”. He continued: “The United States is working on a massive Deal with respect to the purchase of Potash from Belarus. The pricing would be substantially less than we […]
Citizenship is more than a residence right and our laws are not racist
Contrary to what some people assert, there is nothing racist in Ireland’s law of nationality and citizenship. When the independent Irish State was created in 1922, its Constitution provided at Article 3 that the citizens of the Irish Free State were those born in Ireland or either of whose parents was born in Ireland, or […]
It is not racist to have concerns about economic migrants abusing asylum laws
Whether in France, Germany, Spain or Britain, the issue of uncontrolled immigration is contributing in a significant way to European political instability. Few people have a problem with controlled or legal migration based on permission granted by the host state through visas and work permits, or as permitted under EU law for migrant workers who are EU citizens. In […]
A Failed Border Poll Is Worse Than Futile
British prime minister Andy Burnham caused a flap when he said holding a poll on Irish unity was “off the table”. To some, his words seemed categorical, dismissive and at variance with the Belfast Agreement, which provides for a poll on Irish unity to ascertain the wishes of a majority of the people of Northern Ireland. It obliges the […]
Ireland is hopelessly undefended and radical review is required
One lesson we can learn from the war in Ukraine is that warfare itself is constantly evolving. When Putin’s invasion started we witnessed his armoured columns driving towards Kyiv and ending in smouldering ruins. Presumably Putin envisaged his tanks rolling into Kyiv utterly unscathed, just as Soviet tanks rolled in to Dubcek’s Prague in 1968 […]
What a shameful, disreputable clown Donald Trump is
Camp Humphreys is the largest US overseas military base in the world. More than five square miles, it contains a huge runway and is home to a garrison of more than half of the 28,000 US army personnel located in South Korea. Its construction was intended to place most US soldiers in South Korea a safer […]