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Covid: the real and abiding symptoms
Covid has delivered us into conditions whereby the presumption of arbitrariness on behalf of ‘authority’ has become the default response to reality of…
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Diary of a Dissenter: The Week From My Window
What is a ‘contrarian’? Contrary to what? To the official diktats? To conventional wisdom? To the mob? These impulses, through all my time in media, had…
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The Scholar Gypsies: On the Traitor ‘Taoiseach’
Gerry and I discuss the latest assaults on our country and its people from, inter alia, the individual with the temerity to continue leading its…
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Diary of a Dissenter: The Week From My Window
My father’s people have been Mau-Maus for hundreds of years. No one else has rights to claim the fruits of their toil and suffering, or the windy tracks…
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On Legalise Freedom, with Greg Moffitt
‘Those of us who have children, grandchildren . . . how can we lie on our deathbeds and think that we left this mess behind?’
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May 2025

Diary of a Dissenter: The Week From My Window
Living in a country with an atrophied conversation is like being incarcerated in a house with only one small window, facing north, outside of which a…
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Ireland: Birthplace of the Totalitarian, Part II
In a certain sense, it's possible to see here a stream of continuity — not of events, direct meanings or cultural logic, but in the form of an…
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Diary of a Dissenter: The Week From My Window
'Militaries have protocols. Corporations have risk plans. Engineers have redundancies. But where was the plan for us—for memory, meaning, culture…
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Ireland: Birthplace of the Totalitarian, Part I
Ireland experienced the world's first totalitarianism, a tyranny of life-denial that bore down upon the most intimate aspects of human interaction and…
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Diary of a Dissenter: The Week From My Window
'Suddenly I made a couple of million bucks [on the internet], and the person who’s looking after my kid while I’m doing that has no leverage to get paid…
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A Conversation with Dr Eoin Lenihan
'Can we take our country back first, and afterwards decide what shape the world is?'
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Diary of a Dissenter: The Week From My Window
'When you ain't got nothing, you got nothing to lose/ You're invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal/ How does it feel/ How does it feel/ To be on…
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