Analysis 8 min read

Nobody Fired Anything

Between October 2025 and March 2026 users of a far-right imageboard built and shared an autonomous doxxing agent, and produced dossiers on four private individuals. …

Analysis 8 min read

The Tell

Peter Cleere's rural-housing piece and Gary Gannon's Dublin city-centre piece read like twins and are opposites. One asks you to feel and gives you nothing …

Analysis 10 min read

The Eleven Cookies

The grievance behind the fuel protests and the riots is real. The research says it is not personal poverty but a collective sense of lost …

Commentary 5 min read

Weaponise the Welcome

A US export-control order has reclassified frontier AI as a munition, barring foreign nationals, including a leading lab's own immigrant engineers, from its most capable …

Analysis 7 min read

Ireland Has No Buffer

Ireland's exposure to the 2026 oil shock is not that the tankers stop. The crude never stopped. It is that a country importing four-fifths of …

Analysis 14 min read

The decision Ireland keeps not making

England's universities are closing departments and shedding thousands of staff, and the regulator's own figures say more than a third ran a deficit last year. …

Analysis 14 min read

You Are the Transmission Mechanism

On 11 June 2026 the ECB raised rates for the first time since 2023, choosing the one anti-inflation instrument that works by squeezing mortgaged households, …

Analysis 21 min read

The Plan That Never Says Ireland

The World Inequality Lab's Global Justice Report is the first fully quantified plan to treat inequality compression as a precondition for keeping the planet habitable: …

Analysis 9 min read

A Matter of Time

For the first time in history there is medicine that corrects the genetic fault behind epidermolysis bullosa, the disease that makes a child's skin as …

Analysis 15 min read

Corruption in Miniature

A small branch of an anti-corruption party fast-tracked an insider's motion to national conference, then quietly screened out two members' motions on a pretext it …

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