Death to Diplomacy: The Ireland-Israel War
‘Irish Twitter’ rocked with moral self-aggrandizement yesterday on the news that Israel will close its embassy to Ireland. This follows an ever-growing list of diplomatic offenses by Ireland to Israel,…
Trump 2.0: The Democrat Approach
The world is adjusting to the prospect of another Trump term in the US. The Democrats suffered a defeat far worse than 2016. Not only did Kamala Harris lose the…
Eoin Hayes and the Palantir Problem
Another election, another major scandal involving the Social Democrats and the Middle East. During the Local Elections in June, the party came under fire for deselecting a Jewish candidate for…
Trump: Projecting Strength
As Notre Dame de Paris was re-presented to the world in all its recovered grandeur, so too was Donald Trump. After nearly half a decade of being burnt out and…
Lawfare: The New Conquest
In our supposedly “post-war” society, we are sometimes quick to look back at the military conquests of history and consider it all so quaint. In the 21st century, we feel…
Fianna Fáil and the Silent Strategy
The count is mostly finished in Ireland and the result is in: every party is claiming victory! To figure out who actually won this election, it makes the most sense…
Trump and the Future of the Irish-American Relationship
Pundits and politicians have warned us for months of the apocalyptic outcome of a second Trump presidency in the US. They have told us that Trump’s America First policies would…
Handshake or Billboard? The Best Strategies for Campaigning
Driving through Pennsylvania during the summer, I was bombarded every mile or so with massive billboards. Some had a bold Trump-Vance logo, others had focus group-tested slogans about Harris-Walz being…