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Half a century after the public learned that boys at a Belfast group home were sexually assaulted by senior staff, a key question remains unanswered: was British intelligence implicated in the abuse conspiracy, and did Kincora serve as a ‘honeypot’ to entrap and blackmail powerful figures?

A vast trove of declassified files on Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual, political, and intelligence escapades released by the US Department of Justice has once again thrust disgraced former Prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor into the spotlight. With British police reportedly reviewing Andrew’s past sexual activities and links to Epstein, questions are growing about whether Britain’s spy agencies were aware of Andrew’s alleged escapades with minors.

If the darkest rumors turn out to be true, it will not be the first time a British royal had been embroiled in a child rape conspiracy with spy agency involvement. Back in 1980, a scandal erupted when the Kincora Boys’ Home in occupied Ireland was exposed as a secret brothel run by powerful pedophiles. Chief among the alleged perpetrators was Lord Mountbatten — Andrew’s great-uncle.

From the very beginning, hints began to appear that MI5/MI6 knew of the child abuse taking place Kincora, and could have even been running the group home as part of a dastardly intelligence plot. With Britain’s domestic and foreign spies engaged in a savage dirty war in Ireland, and both services running operatives in Republican and Unionist paramilitaries, Kincora would have provided an ideal means of recruiting and compromising potential assets. Official investigations have strongly insinuated British intelligence chiefs had a close bond with many individuals who ran the Boys’ Home.

In May 2025, veteran BBC journalist Chris Moore published a forensic account of the case titled Kincora: Britain’s Shame. Featuring four and a half decades of firsthand research by the author, its groundbreaking contents have been met with general silence by British mainstream media.

In the book, Moore argues persuasively that the Boys’ Home was just one component of a more extensive child abuse network extending across British-occupied Ireland and beyond — in which London’s spying apparatus was not only aware, but likely complicit.

In 2023, Moore met personally with Kincora victim Arthur Smyth in Australia. Smyth’s stay at the Home was brief, but the horrors he endured there left him scarred forever.

“Having interviewed a number of Kincora survivors, I found Arthur’s story familiar. Sent to the Boys’ Home by a Belfast divorce court judge aged 11, he was continually preyed upon by the pedophiles who ran it, and intimidated into silence,” Moore told The Grayzone. “Arthur was also brutally abused repeatedly by a man he knew only as ‘Dickie’, who raped him while bending him over a desk.”

In August 1979, two years after Smyth escaped Kincora, he learned the true identity of ‘Dickie’ was none other than Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, a member of the royal family and Queen Elizabeth II’s cousin. Mountbatten had just been murdered in an apparent IRA bombing attack on his fishing boat off the coast of Ireland. Though the British government appears to remain committed to concealing his crimes from the public, Mountbatten’s pedophilia was common knowledge among both British and US intelligence for decades.

As early as World War II, the FBI had identified Mountbatten as “a homosexual with a perversion for young boys.” A Bureau file detailing this was later identified by historian Andrew Lownie. After requesting other files the Bureau maintained on the royal, Lownie was informed by US authorities they had been destroyed.

Lownie says he was told by an FBI official that the files were only disposed of “after [he] asked for them” — indicating they were “clearly” shredded at the request of the British government.

Kincora conspiracy begins to unravel

Within months of Kincora’s opening in 1958, boys at the facility began coming forward to inform the adults around them that they were being routinely sexually abused. The Boys’ Home was repeatedly visited by police throughout the decades that followed in response to reports of rape and other mistreatment. Despite repeated investigations, time and time again, complaints were ultimately dismissed by the police.

Reports of sexual abuse spiked dramatically in 1971, when a prominent loyalist named William McGrath became the group home’s housefather, and was placed directly in charge of the boys’ day-to-to lives. Moore documented numerous harrowing accounts in which victims described being sadistically raped by McGrath to the point of internal bleeding, with the boys’ silence ensured by threats of violence.

Moore attributes police inaction to the “skillful manipulation” of Kincora’s director, Joe Mains, who successfully convinced officers that accusers were simply lying as revenge for perceived slights by the staff.

As an extremely well-networked figure in British-occupied Ireland, with deep links to prominent Unionist politicians and Protestant paramilitary groups, McGrath enjoyed virtual impunity. He also headed Tara, an armed Masonic loyalist faction covertly run by the British Army, which effectively functioned as an intelligence operation.

In conversations with colleagues, McGrath was known to boast about his work with British intelligence, and the regular trips to London which it entailed. A police source confirmed to Moore that MI6 had an interest in McGrath since the late 1950s, and that “everything McGrath did from this point on was known” to British intelligence. Small wonder campaigners firmly believe Kincora was exploited to compromise and control Unionists, who committed pedophilic offenses at the Home.

The horrifying abuse at Kincora finally surfaced in January 1980 when the Irish Times published an explosive report that triggered a police investigation, which was led by a veteran detective named George Caskey. According to Moore, it took Caskey just three days to decide that Kincora’s leadership were likely guilty.

Within weeks, Caskey’s team had identified dozens of victims of McGrath and others at Kincora, who each gave detailed statements about the abuse they suffered there. Based on their testimony, Mains, McGrath and fellow high-ranking staffer Raymond Semple were suspended from the group home, and arrested a month later. Curiously, Mains and Semple readily admitted their offenses to police, but McGrath aggressively protested his innocence. Resisting interrogation with such skill that investigating officers believed he had rehearsed for their questioning in advance, he made a number of bizarre, cryptic comments.

For one, McGrath declared he was the victim of political intrigue and the accusations against him were bogusly cooked up by the pro-British Ulster Volunteer Force paramilitary faction, among other people “out to destroy me.” He refused to elaborate on who they were, or why he believed he was being maliciously targeted in this manner. McGrath furthermore promised “other stories” and a “rebuttal to these allegations” would “come out in court,” but again declined to expand any further.

In December 1981, Mains, McGrath, Semple and three other individuals found to have abused young boys at two other state-run group homes in occupied Ireland finally stood trial. McGrath was the only defendant to plead not guilty. Present in court at the time, Moore recalls widespread anticipation McGrath’s testimony would “open a Pandora’s Box, laying bare the truth about Kincora and exposing an uncomfortable – some might say unholy – alliance between the British government and unionism, and perhaps even details of a secret MI5 operation.”

However, at the last minute, McGrath’s lawyer made a shock announcement – his client had changed his plea to guilty. McGrath’s volte face elicited a ripple of exasperated sighs across the courtroom, where over 30 Kincora victims had gathered, preparing to testify. Though all six men were convicted of sexual abuse of boys across three Belfast children’s homes, their relatively light sentences drew outrage. In the end, Mains was jailed for six years, while Semple received five years and McGrath, just four.

MI5 proposes creating ‘false files’ to sabotage investigations

For Moore, McGrath’s change of heart raises obvious suspicions that someone persuaded him to keep his mouth shut about “what had been said to him and by whom.” The police investigation established the six men knew each other and shared information about abused children in state-run boys’ homes, but did not explore the possibility they were part of a wider pedophile ring. The most significant official probe into Kincora since, the Northern Ireland Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry (HIA), initially raised hopes such information might emerge when it was launched in 2013.

That probe, which centered around allegations by British intelligence whistleblowers Colin Wallace and Fred Holroyd that the UK security state was complicit in systematic child rape at Kincora, appeared to leave MI5 extremely uneasy about the potential for British spies’ darkest secrets coming to light in occupied Ireland.

The HIA, however, appears to have been set up to fail. With no ability to compel MI5 or MI6 to produce records, the commission was forced to accept only whatever heavily redacted files the agencies voluntarily provided.

The decision to limit the scope of the HIA’s oversight came despite appeals by prominent figures including victims of sex abuse at Kincora, parliament’s home affairs committee, and former military officials, who claimed British intelligence was complicit in abuses at Kincora, and demanded the Inquiry be granted the ability to subpoena sensitive documents and witnesses.

As anonymous security and intelligence operatives spoke via videolink in the HIA hearings, Inquiry chair Judge Anthony Hart appeared to take their testimony at face value.

The Inquiry’s handling is all the more shocking given the contents of a June 1982 document provided by MI5 to the HIA showing how the agency’s higherups planned to counteract the inquiry itself.

Anxious to distance themselves from the horrors of Kincora, the British spy agency discussed creating “false files” to counteract “lines of enquiry which it was anticipated” that Caskey might pursue. In other words, MI5 was actively seeking to deceive police investigators through forgery.

But the HIA later declared it was “satisfied” that “the suggestion was not pursued,” concluding that the “false files” were not produced for the purposes of misdirecting the inquiry.

Kincora coverup continues

In 2020, it was revealed that extensive police records on investigations into Kincora from 1980 to 1983 had conveniently been destroyed roughly around the time the Inquiry was established.

The files which survived show the HIA received a number of tips suggesting MI5/6 were indeed entangled in pedophilic abuse at Kincora, only to consistently understate their significance.

For example, MI5 told HIA it had no records of William McGrath working for the agency. Conversely, documents produced by the intelligence service indicate how in April 1972, McGrath, who was “commanding officer of the Tara Brigade,” had not only been plausibly “accused of assaulting small boys,” but “could not account for any cash that had been handed to him over a period of a year.”

The HIA accepted MI5’s risible explanation that this information was not passed on to local police because it was unclear McGrath’s attacks on the boys were pedophilic in nature, rather than simply physical. “We ought not to assume that ‘assault’ would have been interpreted at the time by…[MI5] as being of a sexual type,” an internal document presented to the Inquiry declared.

Responding to a separate MI5 document from November 1973 noting McGrath was implicated in “assaulting small boys,” the HIA noted British intelligence was legally obligated to report such an “arrestable offence” to the police, and that by not doing so, it could be argued “the MI5 officers who had this information were in breach of that duty.” But the Inquiry concluded that “to take that view would be unjustified for several reasons,” primarily that “an unidentified member of Tara” was the source of this “unsubstantiated allegation.”

Similar mental gymnastics were employed to downplay the contents of an October 1989 MI6 file detailing “various allegations surrounding the Kincora Boys’ Home,” which revealed the spy agency “certainly ran at least one agent who was aware of sexual malpractice at the home and who may have mentioned this” to his handler. Judge Hart stultifyingly concluded, “it is quite possible the [MI6] officer misinterpreted what was discussed at the meeting.”

The HIA also insisted MI5 was unaware McGrath worked at Kincora until 1977. But that claim was effectively contradicted by the Inquiry itself, which unveiled MI5 documents from January 1976 clearly stating, “McGrath was reported in March 1975 to be warden of Kincora Boys’ Hostel.” A police memo from November 1973 dispatched to MI5’s director similarly noted McGrath was a “social worker” at Kincora.

Whitewash inquiry implicates MI6 chief in Kincora

As part of its probe, the HIA ordered “searches of documents and records” held by MI5, MI6, GCHQ, and the Metropolitan Police on allegations of child sex abuse by public figures and servants. In response, MI5 released files listing 10 powerful individuals, including diplomats, government ministers, and lawmakers, who Britain’s domestic spying agency had evidence to suggest may have been involved in pedophilic abuse.

Chief among them was veteran spy and dark arts specialist Maurice Oldfield, who oversaw MI6 operations in occupied Ireland throughout the 1970s, first as its deputy then chief. Shortly before his April 1981 death, Oldfield was outed as gay, which precluded him from serving with the agency under contemporary recruitment rules. Resultantly, “MI5 conducted a lengthy investigation to determine whether” Oldfield’s sexual proclivities “posed a risk to national security by making him vulnerable to blackmail or other pressure.”

Over the course of “many interviews,” he “provided information about homosexual encounters with male domestic staff, referred to as ‘houseboys’, whilst serving in the Middle East in the 1940s and hotel stewards in Asia in the 1950s.” Media reporting prior to Oldfield’s death suggested he was “a compulsive” user of “rent boys and young down-and-outs,” which was well-known to his security detail. However, the HIA repeatedly exonerated Oldfield of any wrongdoing, despite receiving bombshell evidence implicating him in the horrendous pedophilic acts perpetrated at Kincora.

Unbelievably, its report concluded “there is insufficient information in the records to deduce whether the term ‘houseboys’” was “used simply to describe domestic staff or to denote youth, leaving ambiguity over the ages of the other parties.” This is despite an anonymous MI6 officer telling the Inquiry the agency possessed four separate “ring binders” documenting Oldfield’s “relationship” with Kincora, his “friendship” with its chief Joe Mains, and potential personal connection to “alleged crimes at the boys’ home.”

Heavily redacted files published by the HIA also indicate MI5 was “aware of allegations” that occupied Ireland’s police knew Oldfield was intimately embroiled in the scandal. An internal agency telegram noted well-grounded suspicions the MI6 chief “was involved in the Kincora boys home affair in the course of occasional visits to Northern Ireland (associated with his job) between 1974 and 1979.” Still, the Inquiry dismissed this as proof of MI5/6 involvement in the child abuse conspiracy, on the grounds these excerpts referred purely to “allegations.”

The Kincora coverup continues today. In April 2021, the BBC announced “a new season of landmark documentaries… set to shine a new light on remarkable stories from Northern Ireland’s recent history.” Among the scheduled films was Lost Boys, which told the hideous tale of how numerous children inexplicably vanished in Belfast during the Troubles. It concluded the cases were all linked to pedophilic abuses at Kincora. Interviewees included several former police officers, who believed their inquiries into the disappearances had been systematically sabotaged by British intelligence.

On the eve of transmission, Lost Boys was pulled from broadcast. BBC managers were reportedly “shocked by its content, particularly evidence of MI5’s involvement in covering up the Kincora saga.” Moore, who consulted on the film, told The Grayzone there are strong insinuations British intelligence took a keen interest in the documentary’s producers, AlleyCats. “The home of one staffer involved in editing Lost Boys was burgled,” he says. “Another Alleycats member suspected a break-in, but could not be entirely certain.”

Having investigated Kincora since it first came to public attention, Moore concludes “MI5 and its cohorts in the police believe they can do what they want with little or no regard for the truth, the law or democracy,” noting British intelligence “somehow persuaded the government to bury Kincora files until 2065 and 2085.” The veteran muckraker also recently learned his private communications with journalists investigating other cases of criminal activity by MI5/6-sponsored loyalist paramilitaries – including murder – have been heavily surveilled.

“The British state has illegally spied on people trying to expose the truth in Northern Ireland for many years, in what they call a ‘defensive operation’. Senior local police chiefs have admitted surveillance tactics were deployed against 320 journalists and 500 lawyers over a decade, including me,” Moore concluded. “My telephone was monitored due to probing government-funded loyalist killers. Like many police officers who’ve looked into these matters, I’m all too aware of how authorities frustrate criminal investigations.”

Original article:  thegrayzone.com

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The outspoken new Irish president on Israel and NATO was inaugurated today and already the knives are out for her, writes Mick Hall.

As Catherine Connolly was inaugurated as Ireland’s 10th president in Dublin Castle today, efforts intensified to undermine the country’s neutrality as it weighs moves to punish Israel for genocide.

Connolly, 68, was elected after winning over 63 percent of the vote in a landslide victory last month, her robust defence of anti-war and anti-genocide positions resonating with the Irish electorate, while causing alarm in Western corridors of power.

These are signs that the victory of the anti-imperialist left has served to galvanise establishment forces, both at home and abroad.

A former White House national security advisor, Robert C. O’Brien, writing in The Wall Street Journal last week, warned the Trump administration would “no longer tolerate countries that reap the benefits of America’s economic strength and military power, while pursuing policies that undermine American interests.”

“Ireland’s President-elect embodies the antagonism towards American interests,” he wrote, adding:

“Ireland is finding its voice in international affairs, but it’s one that seems increasingly hostile to US interests. Ireland is the most antagonistic country to Israel in the Western world … Ireland was one of the first Western democracies to recognise a Palestinian state unilaterally, and it is at the forefront of allegations of ‘genocide’ against Israel. Meanwhile Dublin courts Chinese investment with no mention of Beijing’s human rights record, economic coercion or regional aggression.”

In January, Ireland formally intervened in South Africa’s case brought against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) which alleges a breach of the Genocide Convention. Ireland has also remained out of NATO, refusing to militarise with most of the rest of Europe.

Ireland is indeed facing growing pressure over its refusal to align with the imperial West. Even its civil society bodies are coming under scrutiny from U.S. neo-conservatives.

Graham Chimes In

Republican lawmaker Lindsey Graham over the weekend threatened consequences on the Football Association of Ireland (FAI), which voted overwhelmingly for its board to request that the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) immediately suspend Israel from European competitions.

Members of Irish soccer’s governing body had cited violations by Israel’s Football Association of two UEFA provisions – to implement and enforce an effective anti-racism policy and Israeli clubs playing in occupied Palestinian territories without the consent of the Palestinian Football Association.

Graham promised to “make those who participate in this effort to marginalize Israel in sports, and elsewhere, pay a heavy price when it comes to access to the American economy.”

In July, Graham also joined U.S. envoy to Israel Mike Huckabee and other U.S. lawmakers in criticising the Irish government’s plans to ban trade with businesses operating within illegal Israeli settlements.

The Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025 was first tabled in 2018, passed by majority votes in both the Seanad (upper house) and the Dáil (lower house), but had been stalled by successive governments after “veiled threats” of economic consequences by U.S. lawmakers, which have included Irish-Americans like Peter King.

Graham in July said he hoped “Ireland will reconsider their efforts to economically isolate Israel.”

“I do not believe these efforts would be well received in the United States and they certainly would not go unnoticed,” he said on X.

The bill is expected to be watered down by the centre-right Irish coalition government, to head off coercive moves by the U.S.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu between U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham, left, and
U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, on a trip to the Golan Heights in March 2019 for a briefing by an Israeli military commander on the situation in the region (Matty Stern/U.S. Embassy Jerusalem)

Connolly a Formidable Anti-war Voice

What they may not be able to water down is the voice of Connolly.

She replaces Michael D. Higgins, another former Irish Labour Party member, who served two seven-year terms and whose criticism of Israel over the past two years contributed to Israel withdrawing its ambassador from Dublin in December 2024.

Connolly may prove even more strident in her public foreign policy positions.

In the lead-up to the Israel import ban vote on Oct. 24, she had pointedly criticised NATO “warmongering” and Israel’s genocide in Gaza. She also voiced support for a border poll over Irish reunification, as outlined in the 1998 Good Friday peace agreement that brought an end to decades of political violence in the north of the partitioned island.

She told an often hostile media that Hamas formed “part of the civil society of Palestine” and that only Palestinians should choose who governs them, a rebuff to the Trump administration’s 20-point neo-colonial ‘peace’ plan. Connolly bluntly stated that Israel was an out-of-control state committing a genocide.

When scrutinised over her attitude to the Western proxy war in Ukraine, the former barrister and psychologist said the conflict could only be resolved by diplomacy and that German rearmament reminded her of the military build-up in the 1930s.

Her elevation to Ireland’s constitutional figurehead and its moral voice on the world stage was the result of a disparate opposition’s ability to form a collective voting bloc, possibly learning from previous mistakes.

In June last year, Connolly joined a panel alongside other veteran activists, including former northern civil rights leader Bernadette Devlin Aliskey, in support of Clare Daly’s failed bid to retain her European Parliament seat.

The staunch NATO critic lost, disadvantaged by smears carried by media outlets that suggested she was a Russian asset and by several other leftist candidates also standing.

This time, unity among the left saw Ireland’s biggest party Sinn Fein, as well as Labour, People Before Profit and the Social Democrats, getting behind Connolly.

Getting her elected to what is largely a ceremonial role may prove vitally important as a means of countering pro-war and anti-genocide narratives in the country, which are being pushed heavily by establishment media.

From Threats to Threat Inflation

These narratives are now coming thick and fast.

A report entitled Peak Ireland by security-state aligned London think tank Policy Exchange, released on Oct. 30, argued that Ireland was freeloading “off the security umbrella provided by the US, the UK, and other European states.”

But, it said, the country was vulnerable to U.S. tariffs and trade negotiation shifts, as it continued to challenge Washington’s foreign policy settings. Its contents were covered by Ireland’s major news outlets.

Interestingly, former U.S. national security advisor O’Brien wrote the foreword to the report.

In his Wall Street Journal op-ed, O’Brien too criticised Ireland’s “pitiful investment” on defence, which amounted to 0.2 percent of GDP.

“Ireland lacks key technical defenses, like radar systems and efficient cyber and human intelligence networks, leaving the country open to espionage and cyberattacks from Russia, China and extremist nonstate actors,” he wrote.

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— Barry Andrews MEP (@BarryAndrewsMEP) November 6, 2025

Several media outlets found ways of writing stories around these talking-points, referencing concerns by unnamed Irish and European military and security leaders about the country’s ability to carry out security operations after it takes up the six-month rotational E.U. Presidency from July next year.

Of specific concern was Ireland’s lack of radar and defence capability when hosting the European Political Community summit next year, usually attended by up to 50 leaders. It was reported that a delegation from an unnamed Baltic country raised concerns about security with Irish officials at a meeting in Dublin last month.

The stories were hinged, or maybe unhinged, on a manufactured fear that Russia is sending drones deep into European airspace to probe nations’ defences as part of a hybrid warfare campaign.

Claims that drones were being launched from tankers used by Russia to transport its oil – its so-called ‘shadow fleet’ – were repeated uncritically. No evidence has been presented for this.

Mystery drones have recently closed Brussels Airport, with similar issues reported in Denmark in September.

The reporting forms a long line of narrative-driven stories seemingly designed to engineer fear and justify a more militarized and NATO-aligned stance by Ireland.

Ironically, Irish Defence Forces gave away its key radar systems used to direct anti-aircraft missiles, known as Giraffe, to Ukraine earlier this year. The Irish Times reported the Government is now purchasing at speed a multi-million Euro counter-drone system.

Neutrality Under Threat

The inauguration of Catherine Connolly. (Government of Ireland)

What lies at the centre of these propaganda pieces is a desire to bring Irish politicians and the public to an intellectual position the logic of which would undermine the rationale to retain the country’s neutrality, a position it has maintained since the state was established in 1921.

In widely reported remarks in early November, Ukraine’s first deputy minister for foreign affairs, Sergiy Kyslytsya, said neutrality was “a thing of the past.”

Speaking at the European Commission’s offices in Dublin, he warned Russia could flood far-off nations with drones or bring its systems down with cyberattacks. He suggested Ireland should follow the path of former neutral countries Finland and Sweden in helping to confront the threat.

Others have been even more forthright, expressing utter contempt for not just neutrality, but Irish sovereignty itself.

A former senior NATO commander, British Rear Admiral Chris Parry, last week told Westminster MPs and House of Lords members in a briefing that any future united Ireland would pose a strategic threat.

He said the loss of Northern Ireland would deepen the threat to Britain posed by Chinese and Russian submarines, and also recommended NATO hold naval exercises in Irish waters, whether Dublin agreed or not.

In a country like Ireland, with its bitter colonial legacy and where many keenly recognise Western war propaganda, comments from the likes of Parry may put accumulative pressure on the Irish government to compromise on neutrality, but such remarks will also likely antagonise large sections of the Irish public.

Unpicking Triple Lock

Key to dragging Ireland into NATO-captured EU security arrangements is the unpicking of its Triple Lock, designed to keep Ireland out of Western imperial interventions.

The Triple Lock means no more than 12 Irish Defence Forces members can be sent on an overseas mission, unless there is a United Nations Security Council mandate, approval from the Irish government (Cabinet), and approval from Dáil Éireann (the Irish parliament).

The Irish government therefore cannot move unilaterally, even if it manages to get a majority vote through Parliament and regardless of how much pressure is exerted from the E.U. and powerful NATO countries to circumvent the U.N.

European NATO nations are pushing plans to insert ‘peacekeepers’ into Ukraine, an arrangement Russia has signaled it will reject as part of any negotiated peace settlement.

Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Micheál Martin discussed peacekeeping and prospects for a ceasefire with Zelensky by phone in September.

Although the Irish Government has not linked the two issues, it may not be a coincidence that it is bringing forward legislation to ditch the need for a Security Council mandate for peacekeeping missions, making it a Double Lock instead.

Connolly herself could speak out over the issue, putting pressure on the Government to agree to a referendum to change the Triple Lock, something the Government claims is unnecessary, as it supposedly does not compromise neutrality.

Connolly cannot legislate, only exercising discretional powers like the ability to send a bill to the Supreme Court to test its constitutionality. But there is nothing in the Irish Constitution that restricts anything she says in public.

One Irish outlet has reported the Government is planning for a visit from Zelensky, possibly in December. It remains unclear whether Connolly would receive him in the event of any such visit. If she did, there would be a risk for both parties.

A public engagement would invariably be used to put further pressure on Connolly to assume a more NATO-friendly position.

However, Zelensky risks being told some home truths in front of any cameras, primarily that diplomacy is the only way forward and that any other approach, including inflating threats posed by Russia, carries the unacceptable risk of an all-out war between European nations and Russia.

Connolly will likely act as a necessary and principled political bulwark against attempts to further propagandise Irish society and browbeat its population into renouncing its anti-colonial and anti-war instincts, as NATO threatens to consume it.

Original article:  consortiumnews.com

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Although Ireland’s recent Presidential election is of some minor international interest in its own right, the fact that it sheds light on ANTIFA’s wider colour revolution strategies gives it a much broader significance. Briefly, ANTIFA’s Catherine Connolly won the election after most other serious contenders were excluded from the race in the type of dirty tricks that is ANTIFA’s global hallmark, which left the election a straight fight between Connolly and the “conservative” Heather Humphreys, who was pilloried by Connolly’s IRA fellow travellers in mock oral rape simulations for being the wrong sort of Presbyterian for Connolly’s sectarian radicals, who instituted that and similar smear attacks.

Although Connolly was formerly a member of the Labour Party, she left that outfit, not over their overt support for the British war machine in Occupied Ireland but because they did not nominate her for a safe seat she thought was her God-given right. Not, as I previously explained, that Connolly believes in God because she has found over and over again that there are more Mercs and perks in attacking her late father’s simple Catholicism than there is in having a coherent set of beliefs on religion, Syria, Putin, free speech or the rights of Irish homeowners, which we will again look at in turn. Having been in the Catholic Legion of Mary as a teenager, not only does Connolly now say she joined that stodgy group mainly to have juvenile groping romps in the long grass with pimple-faced studs but that she and her 14 siblings were all rabid atheists at a time in Ireland when such a brood of iconoclastic ingrates would have been as rare as white blackbirds.

These videos here and here suggest that Connolly, who is the monkey to ANTIFA’s organ grinders, is too thick to keep her stories straight regarding free speech and her lucrative role as a barrister in evicting Irish house owners on behalf of foreign vulture funds, who have totally screwed over the Irish with the help of mercenary minded Quislings like Connolly.

As regards Syria, Connolly went on her jolly there with fellow Irish Parliamentarians Clare Daly, Mick Wallace, Maureen O’Sullivan and a bunch of their hangers-on, where Connolly first lied that she paid for the “research” trip herself before being forced to confess that she used Parliamentary research funds to pay for it and, as my own outlays for my own trips attest, have more than enough over from her Parliamentary slush fund to pay for some of the other free loaders who accompanied them as well.

As regards the “research” end of her Syrian jolly, Connolly was forced to admit she met Aleppan businessman and media mega star Fares Shehabi (since disappeared and tortured by her new ISIS mates) and that she visited Yarmouk Palestinian camp, which she lied that Assad’s army had flattened. Shehabi’s major crime is that he mocked Bana, the pint sized fraud ISIS used to threaten extermination on Syrian’s minorities and who was long ago debunked in this article, amongst literally thousands of others, for the pint sized fraud that she was.

And, as regards Yarmouk camp, not only was I a frequent visitor to it years before Connolly went there on her jolly but most Palestinians fought with Assad and not against him, the only exceptions being Connolly’s new found mates in the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas and, if Connolly had done (or had a brain capable of doing) the least bit of research or had she even read an informed article like this, she would have known all that. Thus, whereas Connolly lambastes Aleppan business man and media mega star Fares Shehabi for criticising pint sized Muslim Brotherhood propagandist Bana when that poisoned dwarf called for nuclear war against Syria, Connolly has nothing to say about Abdullah Issa, the 10 year old Palestinian child her new found “pro-Palestinian” mates publicly beheaded in Aleppo in 2016 and nor, of course, has this chancer anything to say about MI6’s ISIS proxies who are still slaughtering all around them in Yarmouk, Aleppo and Damascus iteself as I write. The woman, in short, is a flip flopping fraud for the truth is selfish, egocentric, narcissistic flip flopping careerists like Connolly, who has threatened the formidable Israeli navy with the lacklustre Irish navy (over which this opportunistic idiot has no control) don’t care a fig about the Palestinians or anyone else, who don’t fatten their bank accounts and Vladimir Putin, whom her new found mates in Ireland’s ANTIFA Army Council ordered Connolly to detest, is a crystal clear example in that regard.

That is because the CIA’s fascist proxies in Ukraine and the Caucasus are, like Hitler’s Nazis before them, fighting what they have been brainwashed to believe is a holy war for ANTIFA’s CIA bosses and woe betide anyone like Clare Daly and Mick Wallace who do not fully prostrate themselves on that altar. And although we could again harp on about the fascist criminal attacks ANTIFA orchestrated against Russia’s Dublin’s embassy, this nonsense is a part of the bigger picture of how NATO/ANTIFA badgers the Russian bear as well as Western enemies like the Catholic Church and, in Ireland’s case, the Gaelic Athletic Association, on its home front.

But, to stay with Russia for illustrative purposes, although Putin, Lavrov, Zakharova and the rest of them are bright buttons, if they are relentlessly badgered from infinite angles by packs of rabid NATO hacks then, like any other prey, they are over extended and intellectually sizzled. Throw unending swarms of NATO’s useful idiots against the Russkies and the CIA will hope to fry their brains.That is where ANTIFA comes in with their Pussy Riot slappers, their Femen slappers, their cross dressing Sarah Ashton-Cirillo and their cross dressing Zelensky snapping at Russia’s heels, as well as with their associates in Ireland, to whom we will soon return.

Though even Sinn Féin’s top brass are now forced to admit that Ireland is awash with sexual predators from all corners of the earth, Ukrainian spongers continue to play an inordinate role in these scams. Only in the last few days, a Ukrainian draft dodger was stabbed to death by an illegal African imigrant in an apartment complex neither of then had a right to be in and, following the rape of a 10 year old Irish girl by another illegal African immigrant, Anatoliy Prymakov, spokesperson for the Ukrainian community and founder of the CIA funded Ukrainian Action in Ireland, has claimed that he and his fellow draft dodging spongers are the main victiims of these never ending crimes against the Irish people. Catherine Connolly is on record saying Ireland needs more of this criminal diversity.

If Russia or anyone else wants to know what it is like to be robbed blind, they should look at the gangsters who were at the heart of Connolly’s “independent” campaign, as well as the Yankee ANTIFA heads who knocked up her website and the tens of millions of dollars the CIA pumped into those outfits through Chuck Feeney’s Atlantic Philanthropies, which has helped the Sinn Féin/IRA Sopranos “reformed” gangsters become the richest political outfit not only in Ireland but in Britain as well. Also central to Connolly’s campaign was the Labour Party of billionaire Ivana Bacik, whose grandfather, Charles, was a major Nazi collaborator and who is more Russophobic than the most embittered Azov Nazi you might come across getting his bottom drilled in a gay Kiev brothel. Then there are the People Before Profit Trotskyites, who are equally rabidly Russophobic and who, like their Sinn Féin/IRA mates, can’t differentiate between a baby boy or a baby girl but yet are never out of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Clonskeagh mosque because that is where the big money is.

As an aside here, let’s note that Trotsykite windbag Paul Murphy, who ducked out of the Gaza Flotilla and who is unsure whether his child is a boy or a girl, is now suing Heather Humphreys for claiming he was part of a well documented mob attack on a former Government Minister. Given that lawfare is a lucrative scam the IRA Sopranos long ago perfected, it seems the IRA and Sinn Féin are as happy to pass tips along to their Trotskyist mates as they are to grass up their former buddies to their Special Branch handlers.

Not, of course, that Muslim Brotherhood blood money is the only skeleton in their collective closet. Though raping children has been a favourite R&R pastime for Connolly’s Sinn Féin and Social Democrats sectarians, Sinn Féin have a handy get out of jail card there for when they are well and truly trapped by such “pecadilos”. All they say is that raping this or that particular child or murdering this or that particular Protestant was “wrong”, as were their members to mock such crimes and we all must “move on” for the sake of the Good Friday Peace in our time Peace Agreement/cash cow these charlatans have been profitably milking for almost 30 years. They have repeatedly pulled much the same stunt over the last 30 years when they murdered whomsoever they or their handers disliked. Housekeeping, their British Labour Party handlers called their Mafia style crimes, which included mass murder, beating up within an inch of their lives their former prisoners, raping their children, robbing their families through their POW Dept scruffs and, in Seán Connolly’s case, robbing heavily pregnant women at knifepoint until his Special Branch handler had a gut full of this “good Republican”.

Although (Catherine) Connolly, in line with her Sinn Féin/IRA backers, now pretends to be fighting for a united Ireland or some such rot, all that is moot because, as this article explains, the Irish are not captains of their own ship; the Yanks, who have taken over the Emerald Isle as part of their peace in our time deal are, and it is they, together with von der Leyen, Kallas and similar spongers who will decide Ireland’s future and they are all quite happy to have another self serving chancer being Irish head of state and, more importantly, being another off shade of lipstick on the herd of foraging pigs that constitute Western imperialism.

And, though it is cathartic to see others here, here, here, here and here call out Connolly’s comrades for the charlatans that they are, that on its own won’t banish these Yankee Trojan horses from Ireland or anywhere else, as calling names alone will not stop these modern day Vandals, who play the perpetual underdogs and victims. Although POTUS Trump’s move to designate ANTIFA a foreign terrorist organisation is a step in the right direction, from an Irish point of view, it would be much better if he banned all Irish ANTIFA members, students in particular, from ever again entering the United States and slapped punitive sanctions on Connolly and their other pay to play Pied Pipers, most of whom owe their Peace Process fortunes to serial war criminals like Tony Miranda Bair and Bill Clinton of Orgy Island infamy. Though that might help, the ordinary Irish must shoulder the main burden of the coming fight, as must the British, the French, the Germans and the rest of them in their own do or die battles against their own CIA affiliated ANTIFA agents that Connolly and the CIA’s other Irish ANTIFA clones so amply epitomise.

By Darran ANDERSON

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“If God did not exist,” Voltaire wrote, “it would be necessary to invent Him.” Inventing Gods is a tricky business though. It requires actual work, effort, thought. It’s much easier to invent the devil, minor imps or even an entire demonology. You never think, especially as an airheaded boy, that you might be assigned a place in such a diabolical hierarchy or that you would grow up to demonise others in turn. Yet this encapsulates the way Troubles-era Northern Ireland was, and increasingly the way the rest of the West operates, innovators that we were.

My earliest memory of Margaret Thatcher, born a century ago today, was not a photograph or footage but graffiti on the side of Brutalist flats. It was painted rather than sprayed, in those days. Ireland being consumed by Great Britain, with the West coast of Scotland morphing into Thatcher’s face as she gnawed on Ulster with crazed eyes like Goya’s Saturn. I was scared shitless at the time but grew used to the image. And as the years passed, I would see her effigy dragged out and immolated in different places that all shared the common denominator of state callousness. Poll Tax riot sites. Post-Hillsborough Liverpool. South Yorkshire pit villages. Virtually anywhere in Scotland or Wales. Even the soundtrack had a sacrificial quality — Elvis Costello’s “Tramp the Dirt Down” or Morrissey’s “Margaret on the Guillotine”, which earned him a grilling from Special Branch for fear he’d dispatch the Prime Minister with a withering swipe of a flaccid gladioli.

There were any number of reasons for ordinary citizens to loathe Thatcher from the miners to Section 28 to the Belgrano, the third-degree burn catastrophe of deindustrialisation and the slow-burn catastrophe of financial deregulation. In Northern Ireland, she somehow eclipsed even the folk memory of the Black and Tans and Cromwell, entering the mythic. Even then, supernatural figures like the banshee, dearg due, the bánánach and the abhartach seemed sympathetic by comparison.

Few would admit it then, or now, in Irish Republican circles, but Thatcher was the demon Sinn Féin needed, and she became one of their greatest benefactors. It had been very difficult, after all, to galvanise total resistance to the securocrats of the previous Labour governments and Ted Heath’s administration. Here was an archetype. In attempting to destroy them, she made them what they are now.

Thatcher’s Northern Irish debut was a horror show. A month before her election victory, her advisor on the province, Airey Neave, was assassinated leaving the House of Commons. Neave had been a war hero, escaping Colditz, personally serving Nuremberg Trial indictments to the likes of Goering, Speer and Hess in their cells, and was known as a force to be reckoned with. The Irish National Liberation Army, a Marxist splinter group and rival of the Irish Republican Army, placed a bomb underneath his driver’s seat with a mercury tilt switch, which activated as he drove his Vauxhall up the exit ramp. As a shot across the bows, it was exceptionally brutal. It would also seem immensely counter-productive if the cause of a United Ireland and/or Civil Rights for Catholics were assumed to be the aims of the Republican movement; but assume, we should not.

If there were a time when it felt like the IRA would win, this was it. Thatcher felt it too, so she attempted to change the framing of the war into simple criminality and a law-and-order issue. “Northern Ireland is part of the United Kingdom,” she claimed, “as much as my constituency is”, which given Finchley at the time was not a place where civil rights activists were murdered with impunity or one section of the population had been subject to internment without trial or shoppers had their limbs blown off or daily assassinations were commonplace was a misnomer. Indeed, her insistence on normality just illustrated the abnormality of the place and situation — a colonised foothold of an island-nation effectively ruled over by a rheumatic and bellicose police force and a sash-draped organisation that were Cargo Cult British. Northern Ireland, to the British and the southern Irish, was Bedlam.

In reality, the Lady was for turning. Declassified records from 1983 reveal that Thatcher raised the idea of a “tactical withdrawal” to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Jim Prior, and it was only, seemingly, turned down because Prior argued that it would lead to all-out civil war. It is still hard for Unionists and Loyalists to accept such orphan judgements, but equally it is of cold comfort to magical thinking Republicans who are not going to conjure away a million or so Unionists/Loyalists when our day comes. At that point, escalation from an already horrific state of affairs was a likely possibility and the Republic government knew it. Yet it shows how close the IRA came to a United Ireland. At the same time, the high-profile attacks that had raised Republican morale had soured Irish American relations enough for the US to begin to stop the pipeline of support, forcing them to seek assistance from the nefarious enemies of my enemies.

This demonstrates a privately practical Thatcher, as well as the basket case of Northern Ireland. And yet she clung. Perhaps it was Airey Neave or doubts about her role in a world of old boys and hard men. But Thatcher made it personal and ultimately misjudged and lost. Her aim was not peace but unconditional surrender, with a degree of humiliation. For all the inevitable whataboutery, the British state was the only force that could have dialled down, if not turned off the violence, killing the civil rights issue with kindness for example, and yet Thatcher dialled it up.

At the same time, the comment by Sinn Féin’s Danny Morrison that she was “The biggest bastard we have ever known” was canny. There was no love lost, yet there’s a sneaking sense of  “We could do something with this”. Thatcher’s intransigence and militarism would eventually radicalise and galvanise the Irish nationalist community and ultimately spelt the decline of the moderate SDLP. She escalated the prison protests and hunger strikes into a battle of wills, locking horns with Sinn Féin, which made the latter seem totemically powerful to the Catholic community and then, because of the deaths of the hunger strikers, this spread to the international media. It also made the battle a sacred affair, with the saintly starving neo-Catholic martyrs versus the satanic Thatcher. Having made her name as the no-nonsense grocer’s daughter, she was ill-equipped for the irrationalism of Celtic eschatology.

So, Thatcher provided the devil that the faceless bureaucrats of the pre-Thatcher era could not. Her Iron Lady ego forced Northern Ireland out of multiple possible paths and into a binary where the citizenry had to pick for or against. This played into Sinn Féin’s hands, though they would never admit it, and is actually a strategy that the activist Saul Alinsky advocated in Seventies America — find or create a common enemy to centralise and radicalise opposition and push out other more ameliorative or alternative voices. I saw this in Derry where the SDLP, who had bravely had their heads cracked open on civil rights marches for years and largely came from trade union and teaching backgrounds, become overnight, thanks to Thatcher, the Stoop Down Low Party in the eyes of the community.

It all crystallised with the Hunger Strikes. Her insistence that the Troubles was criminal rather than political was self-defeating, inadvertently showing Sinn Féin, via Bobby Sands, the power of the ballot box. Their “Armalite and ballot box” strategy being an evolutionary device. She unintentionally gave them a way forward that has since proved immensely profitable. It was in both directions an exercise in cynicism. Thatcher was onto something when she said: “It would seem that dead hunger strikers, who have extinguished their own lives, are of more use to PIRA than living members.” At the same time, her insistence that the “PIRA have put the Catholic Community on the rack” during this time is abject, given everything the British state had put the Catholic community through.

Though Thatcher claimed as her mentor the wily Dubliner Edmund Burke, her ego meant she failed to pay heed to his wisdom, “It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.” Her opponents suffered from the same hubris as she did, dining out still on how close they came to taking her out in Brighton, endlessly repeating “Today we were unlucky, but remember we only have to be lucky once — you will have to be lucky always”, a quote that ultimately proved untrue and indulgent. Had they succeeded, there is every chance their actions would have resulted in martial law and more suffering for northern Catholics, along with more bolstering of their positioning. One more boost to the ascendancy of Sinn Féin, perhaps the true aim rather than a United Ireland or civil rights equity.

Today Sinn Féin are adjacent to the blob, and more equivalent to Sturgeon-era SNP — albeit with concrete-filled weapons bunkers and piles of bodies as unavoidable as the Brits’ or the Loyalists’. They talk of a United Ireland, only one under their tutelage and for their benefit. If it happens, and almost a million Unionists will require accommodating, it will, given the dire state of the south and the north, be an unrecognisable Ireland to that which we dreamed and to the one we must start dreaming afresh, with a knowledge of yesterday’s victims and without yesterday’s ghouls. Their day has come, and, like Thatcher’s, it has passed.

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The possibility of Irish peacekeepers being deployed to Ukraine is “categorically unacceptable” because “Ireland cannot be considered a neutral state,” the Russian Embassy has said.

In a statement issued today, the Embassy said it was monitoring the Irish Government’s rhetoric closely and “considers it categorically unacceptable and unsustainable.”

“It is important to emphasize that Ireland cannot be considered as a neutral state with regard to the conflict in Ukraine,” the Embassy remarked. “Given its openly Russophobic and pro-Ukrainian position, as well as its assistance to the Kiev regime, including military aid.”

The Embassy also argued that any attempt to justify the proposal under a United Nations Security Council mandate “would be deemed inadmissible.”

“Ireland is a member of the European Union and follows its foreign policy approaches,” the statement continued. “The EU is rapidly moving away from its originally strictly peaceful integrative agenda, while losing its independence in the decision making process and rapidly militarizing itself, turning in essence into a NATO appendage.”

Russia warned that it would reject any scenario involving Western military forces being deployed to Ukraine, claiming such a move could cause escalation.

“Russia categorically rejects any scenarios which envisage the deployment of the Western military contingents in Ukraine,” the Embassy said. “Peacekeeping services of ‘neutral’ Dublin, even if they are indeed genuine, should start first and foremost with the rejection of the rabid anti-Russian rhetoric.”

The statement concluded with a call for the Irish Government to avoid what it called attempts to “inflate its ‘peacekeeping’ reputation” at Russia’s expense.

“We call on the Irish leadership to stop any attempts to undermine the efforts to achieve comprehensive, just and sustainable settlement of the conflict over Ukraine,” the Embassy said. “And to refrain from cynical attempts to inflate its ‘peacekeeping’ reputation on account of the crisis in the provocation of which Dublin, along with other countries of the collective West, played no small role.”

The remarks follow comments earlier this week by Taoiseach Micheál Martin, who told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that Ireland was “open” to participating in a peacekeeping mission if it was appropriately mandated under the UN Charter.

As reported by Gript yesterday, Russia has already dismissed wider European proposals for a multinational deployment as “absolutely unacceptable.” Foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said her country had “no plans to discuss a foreign intervention in Ukraine in any form or format.”

Since the outbreak of the Ukraine war, Irish politicians have repeatedly asserted that Ireland is “not neutral” in relation to the conflict. Notably, in 2022, then-Taoiseach Leo Varadkar asserted: “In this conflict, Ireland is not neutral at all. Our support for Ukraine is unwavering and unconditional”.

Ireland’s Defence Forces have a long history of UN service, including missions in southern Lebanon since 1978. Under the State’s current “Triple Lock” policy, troops cannot be deployed overseas without UN Security Council approval. Critics argue this allows powers such as Russia and China to block Irish deployments, and the Government has proposed abolishing the mechanism. Proponents of the Triple Lock argue that it helps to ensure military neutrality.

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Stephen Ireland, the charismatic founder of Pride in Surrey (PiS), used to be regarded as something of a local hero. He was a trusted member of the community with a regular slot on local radio. And he was often seen being driven around by the police in their rainbow-emblazoned police car.

But then, in June, the mask slipped. He was sentenced for six counts of making indecent images of children, three counts of causing a child under 13 to engage in sexual activity, and the rape of a 12-year-old boy referred to in court as Child A.

In early 2024, Ireland had targeted Child A on Grindr, an adult hook-up site for gay men, and painstakingly arranged to bring him to the flat he shared with his partner, David Sutton, a volunteer at PiS. Once there, Ireland prepared chemsex drugs in a bong, lined up pornography, then raped the child.

The court heard that Child A had contemplated jumping in front of a train after his rape. Instead, the day after the rape, he told his teacher what had happened. Had it not been for the bravery of Child A, Ireland and Sutton might never have been investigated.

It was only then that Ireland’s carefully cultivated public image began to disintegrate. He and Sutton were arrested just days later in April 2024. Alongside Ireland’s rape of Child A, the pair were initially investigated for the distribution and possession of indecent images of children — but by August 2024, police had uncovered a combined total of 45 offences.

Despite the huge number of offences under investigation, Ireland went to great lengths to conceal even more. A phone owned by PiS and exclusively used by Ireland was disposed of and never found. Investigators discovered a message sent via another device from Ireland to Sutton telling him to “delete everything”.

All the while, Ireland had been pivotal to the PiS movement. His position allowed him open access to children and young people. He accompanied police on visits to schools to give talks on LGBT awareness and was also a patron of Educate and Celebrate, an organisation that promoted transgender ideology in nurseries, schools, and higher education facilities. How had someone like Ireland, with such dangerously twisted sexual proclivities, become so trusted in the community, particularly around children?

Since the sentencing, I have spoken with several whistleblowers, as well as those who claim there was “no evidence” that Ireland was operating in plain sight, and who have denied that evidence was ignored. But the whistleblowers all had evidence, which I was given access to, that the information they provided to police, other Pride members, and Surrey County Council should have prompted a robust investigation into Ireland.

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Dublin, where tech bros go to dodge tax, is now where spooks, censors, and failed Twitter moderators gather to dodge democracy.

A Friday morning conference hosted by Ireland’s ‘Centre for Justice and Law Reform” opens up a window into the intermingled and intermingling world of transatlantic intelligence, Dublin online censorship, and woke Big Tech as the former head of the CIA sat down with Irish officials to discuss combating the populist right.

Attended by Ireland’s and the EU’s online censor in the form of Coimisiún na Meán, the conference was also graced by the presence of Garda representatives as well as anti-Musk grandee Sinead McSweeney, famous for being purged in the clean-up of Twitter.

Focusing policy-focused strategies for defeating populists, the event was hosted by the  Centre for Justice and Law Reform ,which earlier in the week hosted British securocrat Robyn Simcox.

As a vocal anti-Trump voice in the US intelligence community, Brennan’s appearance begs the question why is a former CIA director involved in Irish or European debates on “populism” and disinformation?

As emphasised by White House threats of travel bans, Coimisiún na Meán is increasingly seen as a backdoor for the Biden-era censorship complex, using acts such as the EU DSA, with many ousted Twitter figures like Sinead McSweeney reinventing themselves as online safety gurus in tandem,

Events like this show Ireland is being used as a pilot country for EU-US elite speech control cooperation and point to a shadowy nexus of transatlantic figures weaponising Dublin’s tech and regulatory space.

Foreign intelligence, EU regulators, and Big Tech are converging to form a new censorship-industrial complex. Dublin’s small size makes it the perfect testing ground for EU-wide digital control mechanisms.

John Brennan oversaw drone warfare, mass surveillance, and controversial CIA operations. Why is he being welcomed by Irish regulators and media authorities as a moral guide?

Is this Centre a neutral space for legal innovation, or a vehicle for elite consensus-building between international intelligence, tech, and Irish regulators?

What qualifies ex-Twitter staff—who helped build opaque, politically biased censorship systems—to advise a legal centre on justice?

Will this Centre become a watchdog for genuine reform, or a clearinghouse for elite consolidation of power over what citizens are allowed to say, read, and believe?

Ireland is fast becoming the testing ground for a transatlantic censorship model—and few seem to have noticed. This isn’t justice reform—it’s regime consolidation, dressed up in legal robes and ‘trust and safety’ jargon.

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The lady doth protest too much, methinks. Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Shakespeare certainly knew a thing or two about protests and protesters. Take Julius Caesar, where Mark Anthony riles up the crowd and turns them into a mob, who go hunting for Brutus, Cassius and the other conspirators. When they come across Cinna the poet, they butcher him even as the gentleman doth protest too much that he is Cinna the poet, not Cinna the conspirator, whereupon they decide to kill him anyway “for his bad verses”.

Just as Shakespeare’s protesting mob were essentially a tool of revenge for the scheming Mark Anthony, so also does the same apply to the protests of our own era. Across the north of Ireland, as I write, angry mobs are once again burning families out of their rented homes, this time Roma gypsies, as well as other, more innocent foreigners who have set up shop in the wrong parts of town and who are now forced to also pay for the serial crimes of the Roma and Nigerian criminal gangs that have been allowed run amok here.

There is, of course, a centuries’ long tradition of burning people out in the north of Ireland and the 1969 Belfast pogroms saw Europe’s biggest transfer of populations since 1945. The key take away looking back on those events is that those, like Rev Ian Paisley, who orchestrated the violence, were its biggest winners, as were, of course, those in MI6 who controlled the Ian Paisleys of that era not least because they used their gunmen in the British Army and the IRA to marginalise peaceful protests for the next 30 years.

If there is a lesson to be learned from the 1968-98 Irish Troubles, it is that the bank, in this case the British regime, always wins in such controlled circumstances, not least because there are always the Mark Anthonys and Ian Paisleys at the margins to direct the mob, like they are so many unthinking herds of stampeding cattle.

The only way around that, it seems, is for the people to go totally apeshit and, as in Paris in 1789, to attack the Bastille, a largely empty prison (which housed the Marquise de Sade) and pull not only it but the entire Ancien régime down around their ears. When we take the Vendée genocide and Napoleon’s Russian caper into account, we have to ask if it was all worth the candle just to allow Macron and his husband flaunt themselves in Paris on this and every Bastille Day.

As well as helping us to clearly identify some of the ingredients that make a successful protest, Japan’s Anpo protests would suggest that an eventual modus vivendi is possible. The Anpo protests were massive Japanese protests against the American occupation and the sexual crimes American GIs still commit in Japan to this day. Although the Anpo protests drew tens of millions of organised Japanese protesters onto the streets and mass fist fights also occurred in the Japanese Parliament, those radical fires soon petered out and, outside of the nutters of the Japanese Red Army, political discourse in the Land of the Rising Sun reverted to a Zen-like comatose state under the all-seeing and all-pervasive Pax Americana.

Switching to Europe, the anti-war movement was huge in southern Germany, not least because World War 3 was going to be fought there with Soviet tanks against NATO’s nuclear arsenal. The end result of all that 1968 anti-nuclear guff was to land Germany and Europe with the psychopaths of the German Green Party, who have yet to see an excuse to start a war with Russia they do not like.

The British secret service infiltrated every radical movement that sprouted in England’s fair and pleasant land, and they uprooted the miners and their communities more thoroughly than a farmer would ploughing a field, thereby ensuring there would be no further turbulence from those quarters.

If we take a bird’s eye view of all those past protests, we can see that the state generally holds firm and redeploys, orchestrates, infiltrates and misdirects. Let’s briefly look at each of those. Because the state holds all the levers of power, if it does not buckle and, if it is not made to buckle as Louis XV1 was, then it should carry the day. Thus, as long as Zelensky has his Galician Nazi Mafia and NATO supply chain, he may as well fight to the last Ukrainian conscript as he is unlikely to be starved out, as Assad was. If the Palestinians are making progress on one front, then, as we shall see, it is easy under the current circumstances for Israel to shine the spotlight elsewhere.

Just as with American football, so also does NATO work to a playbook where, with the aid of its media, it can generally control what the populace gets hot under the collar about and what they do not. The general rule of thumb is Galician Nazis necklacing Odessan trade unionists and Uyghur cut throats selling Alawite children into sexual slavery are kosher, and Russians or Iranians biting back is haram.

Greta Thunberg sailing to Gaza exemplifies much of this. Leaving her prior shenanigans to one side, it takes guts for anyone, let alone an under-sized Viking reject, to attempt to sail into Gaza and thereby put themselves totally at the mercy of the Israelis, who do not do mercy unless, as with Greta, there is an advantage to them in doing so. Although Greta was castigated by Russell Brand and other narcissists for being a narcissist on a selfie yacht squaring off against the selfie genocidists of the IDF, the Israelis, who love taking selfies of themselves in the stolen lingerie of Gazan women, made sure to selfie themselves giving her orange juice; one of the advantages of oranges, as fans of Martin Scorsese’s the Godfather will know, is they are good for filming in poor lighting conditions and, in this case, for trying to show up Greta as the hypocrites the Israelis are.

Before leaving the selfie yacht, it is important to note that the Israelis took French MEP Rima Hassan hostage on it and that she had to endure a hunger strike during her illegal Israeli captivity and that her fellow MEPs, along with EU muppets von der Leyen and Kallas, had nothing good, bad or indifferent to say about her treatment.

Still, even as MMA fighter Conor McGregor pointed out that Trotskyite hypocrite Liam Cunningham bottled out from sailing on that yacht, it is important to note that all of those who sailed made their own individual protests and they should be saluted for that. As should West Belfast MMA fighter Paddy McCorry, who battered an Israeli fighter in the ring, all while calling him a child killer.

McCorry is not the only lone Gazan protester and his actions undoubtedly gave heart to those American students who made their own individual graduation sacrifices against the Gaza genocide and it brought back memories to me of when we went to see Scorsese’s The Last Temptation of Christ, which a group of elderly Greek women were picketing because of its sacriligious nature, which saw Nikos Kazantzakis, the author of the book on which the film was based, excommunicated. We didn’t cross the picket and the smile of gratitude from those women was worth a hundred of Scorsese’s films.

Although Scorsese should not have made that film in deference to women like them in a world where Pussy Riot are hailed as heroes for defiling Russian cathedrals and, along with the silicone-brained Galician Nazis of Femen for “needlessly” insulting everything that is good and holy, such NATO affronts to decency are par for the course.

Still, McCorry and those Greek women and American students are minor victories in the bigger wars. We currently have a gang of locusts descending on Egypt to pretend to break the siege on Gaza but who are, whether they know it or not, trying to overthrow the Sisi government to help the Muslim Brotherhood conquer Egypt just as they and their MI6 handlers have conquered Syria.

But all of that brings us back, if not to the Nile and Cleopatra, then to Mark Anthony and his intrigues. Although Napoleon famously used “a whiff of grapeshot” to kill 100 Royalist protesters and to disperse the rest, the CIA now have Pussy Riot, Femen, Trotskyists, the Soros crew, the NDA, USAID and countless other front groups to sow dysentery in the ranks.

Look at the sorry state of the Philippines, which is being railroaded into war with China at a time when employees there can expect to be fired every 6 months to avoid accruing the most basic entitlements of long term employees. Whatever happened to the People Power Revolution?

And, whatever happened to that Pepsi ad, which proclaims that the way to deescalate riotous situations is for a Pussy Riot/Femen bimbo to crack open a can of Pepsi? A better deal perhaps than CocaCola which, last time I checked, deprives Indian farmers of water and uses child labour in Colombia, things Martin Luther King Jnr mght have disapproved of, just as surely as he would have objected to the manner in which his whole message and legacy has been branded, packaged and marketed just like one more Pepsi/Coca Cola/Pussy Riot Kool-aid offering of no intrinsic value?

Not only must we dispense with our saccharine tooth but we must develop a more discerning palate that can differentiate between the different solutions and saviours that are on offer, all without falling into the paralysis of analysis.

Perhaps we also need another Bastille Day, where our own entire Ancien Régime comes tumbling down, lock, stock and barrel around our ears and, if we do, the Palestinian and Syrian genocides will have played their part in that, as they help to separate the righteous wheat, folk like Paddy McCorry, Greta Thumnberg and those elderly Greek women from the self-righteous chaff that AIPAC and similar groups fund to rule over and corral us.

And, though this cycle of protest and counter-protest will continue at both the micro and macro levels, the hope has to be that our People Power Revolution 2.0 will dispense with our Mark Anthonys and Ian Paisleys and fulfill our desire to be free from those who harried and held, and bullied and bribed, tyrants… hypocrites… liars! A timeless Everest of a mountain to be climbed, to be sure, but one we have some hope of surmounting if, finally, we know what we are about and how to go about it.

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Let’s imagine, in one of Erwin Schrödinger’s parallel universes, I was charged with providing the brain power for a Max Planck Institute based in a Crimea at peace with the world and with itself. No problem. I would charter a Jumbo jet, pack it with Iranian STEM graduates, fly it to Simferopol International Airport and take things from there. My silly example is important as the German regime funds its own Max Planck Society to the tune of €2 billion a year and its society is named after the great Max Planck, who is germane not only to this article but to the idiotic plans the European Union has to recreate the intellectual greatness of Planck’s Germany by poaching fifth rate Americans wishing to flee Trump’s America.

MI6’s Guardian newspaper informs us that tiny, inconsequential Ireland wishes to entice, on the cheap of course, American hotshots from Trump’s shit hole country to the Emerald Isle because Trump has made America ‘a cold place for free thinkers.’ Irish Minister James Lawless, who is putting his name to this madness, cited Ireland’s success in enticing Erwin Schrödinger to Dublin on the eve of the second world war, before going on about some apparently rampant Nazi style book burning epidemic currently raging in the United States.

This madcap Irish proposal to recruit top shelf American researchers, who are keen to escape Trump’s freeze on funding frivolous academic research and accompanying travel jaunts, is plagiarised from that of Belgium’s Vrije Universiteit Brussel, France’s Pasteur Institute and similar European institutions. That is to say, Europe’s Democratic fifth columnists are opening their cheque books to write derisory cheques that will attract only those worthless windbags previously discussed here and here, whom Uncle Sam rightly rejects and whom lunatics like von der Leyen and Kallas think will make the same sort of contribution to their war efforts as Werner von Braun and the Operation Paperclip lads did to Hitler’s. Too much ganja in Euroland.

Although there have been outstanding American physicists such as Steven Weinberg, to whose alma mater we shall return, the fact of the matter is the hot shots of the Chinese Peoples Liberation Army go to Tehran and not to Texas to brush up on all matters pertaining to missiles and drones. Though it may not be top of the class when it comes to endless LGBT parades, when it comes to STEM research, Tehran, with their Chinese compañeros, mirrors Max Planck’s top shelf Berlin.

Languishing in British captivity shortly after Germany’s surrender, Planck and his buddies heard that the Yanks had nuked Japan; they couldn’t believe it, as they had found the necessary calculations to develop the bomb beyond even their abilities. Planck, for all his unmatched genius, could not figure out that the Yanks’ Manhattan Project had the human resources of some 500,000 scientists the Third Reich’s physicists could not even dream about.

And nor could Erwin Schrödinger, who spent the War years holed up in neutral Dublin with his wife and mistress and where he delivered some of the most important ever papers in the field of physics. Schrödinger’s Irish sojourn was the result of some of the most audacious piece of head-hunting by Irish Prime Minister, Éamon de Valera, no mean mathematician himself, who wished Schrödinger to recreate Max Planck’s academic Vienna by the banks of the Liffey.

Had Hitler not put Schrödinger’s life in mortal danger and had Oxbridge turned a blind eye to Schrödinger’s domestic ménage à trois, then De Valera’s dreams might have come to naught. Although Schrödinger described Ireland as “the only place in the world where a person like me would be able to live comfortably and without direct obligations, free to follow all his fancies”, he returned to Austria in 1956, when the madness of the Hitler years were beginning to recede.

Though Ireland retained some bright sparks like Sir Ernest Walton, it is unlikely that Ireland, unlike Steinberg’s University of Texas at Austin, will ever be a home from home for a genius like Schrödinger again. That is because the days of lone geniuses like Schrödinger are now an anachronism and, as with the Manhattan Project, physics demands huge pools of talented geniuses and even bigger pools of money to drive forward their research.

And that brings us back to Steinberg’s University of Texas at Austin, which is the perfect exemplar of university funding as it gets roughly a third of its income from students’ fees, another third from research grants and another third from alumni donations which, in its case, depends on the fortunes of its football team, one of America’s best. There is absolutely no way an Irish university or any European university can compete with that.

If we move on to research, the University of Southampton’s engineering department gets big funding from Rolls Royce and the Royal Navy, to which it is attached. And, though bully for them in that, there is too much piggybacking on those contracts to make them viable over the longer term. Check out their vastly overpriced MBA, which I previously taught corporate finance in (as well as to Rolls Royce engineers and fighter pilots) and see their false claims that it opens careers for actuaries (whom I also taught) and other tough areas MBAs have no connection with.

MBAs are, at heart, crude money making exercises for the universities involved, and far too many British universities churn them out with no quality control for that reason, and for that reason alone. Indeed, without Chinese and other Asian students doing dubious master’s degrees, most British universities would be bankrupt as they do not get the donations or research grants the University of Texas at Austin and similar places get.

By and large, it is fair to say that, when it comes to serious, cutting edge STEM research, Europe and much of America are not in the race and autocrats like von der Leyen (plagiarised her thesis) and Kallas are not going to get them even to the starting line.

As things currently stand, students are reporting lecturers for using CHATGBT to write their lectures and even to give indivdual feedback. Although lecturers have been delivering sub par lectures for decades, the key point is that students are peripheral to university life, where the real action is writing research papers, promoting one’s sex playmates and going on overseas junkets.

Although the world is much better for the handful of papers Einstein, Schrödinger and Steinberg wrote, the reality is that most others have been free booters, who palm off sub-par tripe as having some great intrinsic value and it is within that framework that Europe’s headhunting for Biden’s droppings in the United States should be viewed.

Although Schrödinger was an undoubted feather in Ireland’s cap, Ireland also more recently allowed in lesbian charlatans Anne Gilligan and Katherine Zappone after the Yanks had a gut full of them and they even allowed Zappone to be a Minister for vulnerable children and to fiddle her over generous expense allowance, while her staff’s homosexual sex partners were kiddy fiddling Irish children. Too much ganja in Ireland.

On the subject of cheating, after I gave up teaching at UCD’s Michael Smurfit School of Business, my former colleagues were in the news for exposing Gary Santry, another American fraud, who had taken the university for a very expensive ride. Add in Nigerian grifter Dr Ebun Joseph and Israeli agent Ronit Lentin and Schrödinger is the exception proving the rule that Irish universities are incapable of doing due diligence.

All things considered then, the way to make the universities of Ireland, France, Belgium and the Netherlands great again is not to import American rejects but to cut out the ubiquitous, neo modernist LGBT and DEI dross peddlers from kindergartens and primary schools upwards, to make Irish, French, Belgian and Dutch academic labourers worthy of their keep and to look to chartering planes full of Iranian and Chinese STEM graduates, who can do the hard sums because they have something more than American, Nigerian and Israeli DEI/LGBT mantras between their ears.