Dublin Letter
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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
July 15, 2023
8 mins
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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
November 22, 2020
13 mins
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Outright theft or incompetence by the mighty, even in plain sight, is seldom if ever punished in Ireland, rather as if this were a cold wet Sicily and omerta were spelt with an apostrophe. Far more certain than any evidence of probity is the certainty that, yet again, things will end badly
June 23, 2020
12 mins
The latest
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Had Sinn Fein fielded candidates in every constituency at the recent election it would almost certainly have formed a single-party government. The Army of the Irish Republic would be answering to the IRA Chief of Staff and Ireland's police taking orders from the IRA man running the Department of Justice. Yes, it is that bad
March 5, 2020
16 mins