Himmler, executioner of Jews, wrote of the extermination program, 'This is a page of glory in our history which has never been written and is never to be written.' That was the point about that Final Solution: it was such a shameful business that it had to be kept secret. Not so with Hamas and its proud Einsatzkommandos, whose cause is widely respected in Ireland, the only European nation to erect a statue in honour of a Nazi collaborator

Ireland's ruling caste, once the Catholic Church, is now the post-Christian, hard-line, doctrinaire liberal-left. The bishops of yore were occasionally obliged to consult the Ten Commandments. But Ireland’s liberal-left merely take guidance from those deathless moral compasses, their feelings. There is little in the way of freedom of speech for those of whom they disapprove -- and even that vestigial fragment of eroded liberties is under renewed attack

There have been ugly protests against the generosity the Irish state has shown to outsiders, especially in deprived areas of Dublin, where an emerging and deeply unpleasant resentment is evident. But to truthfully report and analyse such sentiment would be regarded as endorsing the new mortal sins of racism, misogyny, Islamophobia, xenophobia, homophobia and transphobia. So the Left establishment and its media say nothing

Journalistic critics of SFIRA have been marginalised into silence by SFIRA smear tactics and legal threats from SFIRA lawyers. Very few Irish journalists will now take on the SFIRA: the personal price is too high, not least because the Sinn Fein arm of the SFIRA alliance is the wealthiest 'political' party in Ireland

On the day before Queen Elizabeth's coronation, Peter O’Brien was arrested in Dublin and fined three pounds for crying out 'God Save the Queen'. At her funeral so many decades later, one of the mourners was convicted IRA terrorist Alex Maskey, who spent his latter 30 years working for peace. Her Majesty would have been pleased

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When a Russian bomber next enters Irish air space, I sincerely hope it will buzz Dublin at chimney-top height and dislodge the tiles on the Parliament's roof. If Ukraine falls, as fall it probably will, much of the free world will have some responsibility for its fate: but no free country anywhere will have played as abject, as cowardly and as sanctimonious a role as Ireland

No Irish prime minister has ever rejected, condemned or apologised for Eamon de Valera’s condolences upon learning of Hitler's death. Indeed, public sympathies have sometimes pointed in the opposite direction. No surprise, then, the Irish parliament's condemning with an almost Arabic extravagance Israel’s record towards Palestinians and Gaza

Each man, woman and child in Ireland now owes the world’s banks €34,000. But here’s the thing: the Irish remain devoted, abject Europeans, much as slaves might thank their masters for such lovely fetters. But don't mention that servility, or any other shortcoming, lest the howling begin