The leader of left-wing government in Ireland is resigning after suffering a resounding defeat in a double referendum earlier this month. In a shocking announcement on Wednesday morning, Taoiseach (Ireland’s word for prime minister) Leo Varadkar shared that he would…
In a long line of David-versus-Goliath political victories that includes Trump, Brexit, Orbán, Milei and the recent Voice referendum in Australia, Irish voters have delivered a stunning rebuke to their political betters by voting down two proposed changes to the…
I’ve spent years researching different ways of celebrating New Year’s Eve around the world. I guess I was looking for one that doesn’t include the typically Spanish colossal hangover on the 1st, after spending the whole night drinking, dancing (if…
I just took a trip with old geezers. I signed up for a dreaded package tour, this one for Ireland, and found myself surrounded by a mix of oldsters and retirees. How could that happen? Other than three 20-30-somethings traveling…
Ireland’s far-left government is in the midst of passing some of the most extreme legislation on so-called hate speech that the Western world has ever seen. The Criminal Justice Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences bill would prosecute…
Irish journalists were out for blood earlier this month. Questions needed answering — but questions about what? The 11,754 homeless Irish citizens? Inflation at 8.5 percent? The prime minister leaking state documents to pals? No. A lady boxer gaffed on…
As I touched down in Ireland the morning of Easter Sunday, I was saddened to think how sparse the Catholic faith — and with it, conservatism — has become in that once-proud bastion of sainthood. Still sometimes called “the land…
It seems a strange thing to us in America, as we have lived under a written constitution for the better part of two and a half centuries. But Britain has lived with its unwritten constitution much longer than that, and…
The Irish-American party bosses of Tammany Hall are no longer kingmakers on the Potomac, but, still, there remain enough voters from Boston to Baltimore who count themselves Sons of Erin to justify inviting the Taoiseach (our prime minister) to the…
