Irish identity with integrity
Ireland’s mainstream media have long viewed Gript with hostility, resenting its challenges to their consensus and its habit of exposing uncomfortable stories. Now that a split has opened within Gript, some in the establishment seem quietly pleased, as though internal strain somehow vindicates their own complacency.
Hooked on History—But Fed on Lies The Irish have a peculiar weakness for historical myths. So many falsehoods are repeated uncritically in the media that…
Last night, TG4 once again set about rewiring Irish history, offering up a version of the past shaped less by scholarship than by a kind…
A major discovery at the former Tuam children’s home has finally driven a stake through one of the most corrosive falsehoods of modern Irish public…
Fintan O’Toole, Ireland’s most professionally aggrieved commentator, chief gaslighter of the Irish, once produced a list of things an Irish woman was allegedly forbidden to…
Welcome to a bookshop that doesn’t whisper. These are the titles that cut through spin, challenge the comfortable stories, and ask Ireland the questions it…
If the Irish Road Safety Authority, RSA, oversaw aviation safety, everyone would be afraid to fly. Ireland has the most dangerous road network in Europe,…
The term “clusterfuck” was not coined to describe the Irish civil service — but you’d be forgiven for thinking it was. I am sickened by…
The Matthew Hopkins Award For Outstanding Excellence in Invented Outrage and Historical Character Assassination Presented to: Liam Neeson and Catherine Corless. All Hallows Eve 2025,…
Professor Thomas Garavan of University College Cork, told the Irish Examiner that “I would have expected more evidence-based analyses supported by historical evidence, greater objectivity,…
