The Burkean

https://www.theburkean.ie/articles/2026/08/05/joe-loughnane-returns-disgraced-pbp-candidate-returns-to-galway-activist-circuit Joe Loughnane's Big Return? Disgraced PBP candidate welcomed back with open arms to Galweigan left despite drug dealing and assault allegations.

More than meets the eye as UDA moves against Neo-Nazi fringes? https://www.theburkean.ie/articles/2026/07/25/the-udas-antifascist-feud-more-than-meets-the-eye

The Burkean looks at the mysterious funding streams behind Ceannas House a transatlantic policy institute headed up by Emma DeSouza. https://www.theburkean.ie/articles/2026/07/22/ceannas-house-transatlantic-funding-for-a-united-ireland

Is the American Democratic deep state laundering stories through the Irish Times? https://www.theburkean.ie/articles/2026/07/17/conor-gallagher-investigates-how-usaid-influenced-irish-times-aughinish-coverage

ublic reporting has already placed the total cost of the Presidency at more than €293 million, including €125 million allocated to the constabulary. The official response does not appear to contradict that wider figure. It simply separates the ordinary programme costs from the security operation required to make the spectacle possible. https://www.theburkean.ie/articles/2026/07/13/the-presidency-of-what-irelands-e293-million-brussels-performance

A new hand takes to the centre stage at Joe. The Burkean looks at Aoife Grace Moore's new tenure at the battered clickbait site. https://www.theburkean.ie/articles/2026/07/06/aoife-moore-risks-her-backside-derry-journo-takes-up-joe-ie-editorship

2006 or 2010, what is happening with the timeline discrepancies on Helen Ogbu's asylum claims? https://www.theburkean.ie/articles/2026/06/30/labour-party-spins-ogbus-dodgy-dates

Any constitutional transition on this island will take place inside a landscape full of old intelligence files, informers and kompromat encompassing both sides, and both governments. Northern politics has been distorted by hidden British security power with very little indicating the spooks will leave on the last boat to London if unification comes. The recent Kenova investigation found a “maverick culture” where agent handling was sometimes treated as an “off the books” dark art, and said security forces repeatedly withheld or failed to act on threat-to-life, abduction and murder intelligence to protect agents https://www.theburkean.ie/articles/2026/06/29/jeffrey-donaldson-blackmail-claims-add-dark-reality-to-united-ireland-push

The facts are that because the Irish (and British) are so polite and socially civil to the migrant population, many migrants have become emboldened by it and now mistake civil/political generosity for idiocy. https://www.theburkean.ie/articles/2026/06/28/does-irish-politeness-empower-mass-migration-a-reflection

Will a future Reform government opt for Palantir to surveil the border ?https://www.theburkean.ie/articles/2026/06/26/palantir-on-the-irish-border-reform-thiel-and-brexit-after-the-windsor-framework

"It confirms the same grim arrangement that the British state kills Irish people on Irish soil, denies, delays and then reserves to itself the authority to apologise when the facts can no longer be contained." https://www.theburkean.ie/articles/2026/06/16/the-springhill-inquest-belfast-families-left-wanting-amid-westminster-power-games

Synonymous for its Pillars of Society, Youngbloods and its Goldhawk columns the mag had turned its hand to becoming Ireland’s antifascist webzine of note despite its recursive stories and self-sabotaging paywall. The past year the Burkean has lost track of the amount of pieces penned about Keith Woods’ alleged connections to British nationalism (sigh really?) as younger and hungrier outlets on the left, namely The Ditch, outflanked the Baggot Street title. https://www.theburkean.ie/articles/2026/06/15/the-phoenix-is-goosed-left-wing-gossip-magazine-set-to-shut

"School closures, vaccine mandates, lockdown policies, the treatment of dissenting scientific voices and the social costs of restrictions have all become subjects of legitimate public debate. Positions once dismissed as beyond the pale are now openly discussed in mainstream political and academic circles." https://www.theburkean.ie/articles/2026/06/14/the-de-brun-case-irish-medical-council-sets-politicised-precedent-for-whistleblowers

"The presence of a relatively similar group has had the consequence of maintaining the British occupation of the six counties, one conjectures with horror regarding the rotten fruit that awaits us in an increasingly diverse Ireland" On recent atrocities. https://meonjournal.com/read/foreigner-fatigue

Who actually runs the country again? IHREC prepares strategic litigation against housing preference for Irish nationals. https://www.theburkean.ie/articles/2026/06/12/house-the-irish-ngos-prepare-human-rights-blockade-to-irish-first-housing-policy

"This is what mass immigration and open borders with Britain means in practice. Ordinary people paying the price for policies they never consented to." https://www.theburkean.ie/articles/2026/06/09/belfast-botched-beheading-will-open-borders-risk-peace-in-the-north

https://www.theburkean.ie/articles/2026/06/07/dublin-city-and-the-cost-of-not-planning The recorded 2025 new-build social housing output for Dublin City Council was 1,375 units. Of these, 72 were local-authority new builds, 1,058 were Approved Housing Body new builds and 245 were Part V new builds. The gap between target and output is therefore central to any discussion of implementation.

"For all its revolutionary rhetoric, the modern Irish left often appears less meaningfully Marxist than instinctively populist riding the coattails of a ethnically driven national liberation story surely to eat them alive again as it has multiple times since 1798. A loose moral coalition of activists, republicans and disaffected millennials rather than a disciplined movement with a coherent theory of state governance. " https://www.theburkean.ie/articles/2026/05/27/whistleblower-cafe-and-jenny-big-balls-maguire-questions-a-confident-irish-left-could-answer

The Burkean speaks to Councillor Malachy Steenson ahead of this week's Dublin Central Byelection. "If those voters conclude that the left is more comfortable speaking about distant causes than boarded-up houses on their own streets, then its moral authority begins to crack. Hutch may express a rawer protest vote, but Steenson is attempting to give that anger a clearer and more ideological form." https://www.theburkean.ie/articles/2026/05/18/dublin-central-by-election-is-the-inner-city-primed-for-migration-backlash

https://www.theburkean.ie/articles/2026/05/15/the-department-of-finances-doomed-savings-scheme "Believe it or not, it need not be done this way. In the United States, citizens can buy shares and ETFs through ordinary brokerage accounts, receive dividends, hold their investments for as long as they wish, and pay capital gains tax when they actually sell. "