I’d like to have some cheerful news from the Old Sod to report, something about the Book of Kells at Trinity College becoming the centerpiece of a son-et-lumiere exhibition in dear dirty Dublin, about a breakfast buffet that now includes verulamium-cum-plover-eggs sunnyside up at the Gresham Hotel, about the Liffey finally being cleaned up enough for Dubliners […]
International Union of Muslim Scholars tightens cooperation with Islamic centers in Ireland and across EU
“The IUMS has special ties with Ireland because it was founded there in 2004 by Sheikh Yousuf Al-Qaradawi.” Sheikh Yusuf Al Qaradawi was a highly influential, Al Azhar-educated Egyptian Islamic scholar, head of the World Association of Muslim Scholars, and a foremost Muslim Brotherhood figure. For decades, Al-Qaradawi was regarded as spiritual leader of the […]
Ireland: Muslim teen who stabbed priest gets 8 years, victim says we must ‘respond to hate with love’
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, […]