Fr. Murphy’s loving heart is admirable. All too often today, however, people confuse love with niceness, which in this case would mean not challenging the boy’s jihadist sentiments and trying to disabuse him of them. He will have to attend a “deradicalization” program, but those are predicated upon the false assumption that the true Islam […]
Ireland: Thousands take to the streets to protest government mass migration agenda
The president of Ireland, Michael Higgins, has encouraged mass migration, saying: Irish society should make efforts to “understand and accept the complexity of [different] identity” by reflecting on its own history of mass migration, including the Great Famine, the Flight of the Wild Geese and more recent periods. False moral equivalences have interfered with the […]
Ireland: Convert to Islam appeals against her conviction for being a member of the Islamic State
It may not be a question for the courts, but it is for Irish society: whether or not she ever held a gun or fired a shot, does Lisa Smith hold the Islamic State’s ideology? Will she teach it to her daughter and others? Or would it be “Islamophobic” even to consider the implications of […]
There is a Rising Tide of Anti-Immigration Sentiment in Ireland
There is a rising tide of anti-immigration sentiment in Ireland: “‘We’re being taken for fools’: How soaring migration came back to bite Ireland’s political elite,” by Michael Murphy, Telegraph, March 30, 2025: By early 2025, the impact was undeniable: tourist visits to Ireland had dropped 30 per cent year-on-year. Spending fell even further. “I was called […]
In Ireland, Out-of-Control Immigration is Wreaking Havoc
The soaring immigration in Ireland is wreaking havoc in the country. It is destroying the sense of wellbeing, costing the state a fortune in benefits, arousing resentment especially among the Irish poor, who are suffering the most from the government’s mad policy of favoring — in housing, health, and transport — the mainly Muslim economic […]
Ireland of the Thousand Welcomes? Not if You’re Israeli
A dismal little tale from dear dirty Dublin, as James Joyce called it, where an Israeli visitor found himself spat upon, and sworn at, by two harridans, for the crime of being a Jew from Israel. Where’s that Cead mile failte we hear so much about? It’s Gaelic for “a hundred thousand welcomes.” When I […]
What’s the Matter with Ireland?
Why is Ireland, which produces such good poets — Paul Muldoon, Seamus Heaney, John Montague come swimmingly to mind — now so maddeningly anti-Israel and, let’s face it, so disgracefully antisemitic? I thought there was something wrong when, many decades ago, I learned from a relative in Kinvara, County Galway, that when Hitler died, then […]
In Ireland Today, the Antisemitism is So Wide and Deep That One Despairs
The government of Ireland has just announced that it has adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism. Here is that definition: “Antisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, […]
Anglican Church of Ireland Canon David Oxley Claims Jews See Themselves as ‘Master Race’
Anglican Church of Ireland Canon David Oxley has claimed that Israelis see Jews as a “master race”: “Irish Catholic Archbishop: Israeli response to Hamas ‘merciless and disproportionate,’” by Michael Starr, Jerusalem Post, January 2, 2025: Martin is the latest Irish religious leader to issue harsh criticism of Israel’s conduct during the Israel-Hamas War, with Anglican […]
Irish Archbishop Gives His Imprimatur to the Most Grotesque False Charge Against Israel
Eamon Martin, the Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, has a spittle-flecked message for Israel:”Irish Catholic Archbishop: Israeli response to Hamas ‘merciless and disproportionate,’” by Michael Starr, Jerusalem Post, January 2, 2025: “I highlight Gaza not only because of the severe impact of this conflict but because it is emblematic of the failure […]