by Michael O'Dwyer Connolly | Mar 23, 2018 | Articles
Many Western pundits these days like to ask the question: do Russia’s elections actually matter? After all, the incumbent Vladimir Putin is virtually guaranteed to win. The short answer to this question is yes. However short answers are boring, and they never properly...
by Michael O'Dwyer Connolly | Mar 19, 2018 | Articles
Photo Credit: Ciaran Cooney – eiretrains.com Effective public transport – something that all of us, irrespective of our ideological positions, should be able to agree that every modern country needs. Public transport is absolutely integral to the daily running...
UCD’s Gender-Neutral Toilets
by Michael O'Dwyer Connolly | Feb 28, 2018 | Articles
Just recently University College Dublin announced that they are planning to re-designate 170 toilets as gender neutral and construct new transgender changing facilities. Supposedly this move is part of a new university policy to provide a welcoming campus for...
The National Party: An Essential Alternative?
by Michael O'Dwyer Connolly | Feb 27, 2018 | Articles
Justin Barrett. (National Party) In November of 2016 a group of endeavouring Irish nationalists announced the formation of a new political party, the National Party. Founded in order to combat what they perceive to be the dangerous trajectory upon which the nation...
by Michael O'Dwyer Connolly | Feb 12, 2018 | Articles
In the years before its collapse, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics had an underdeveloped and horrifically mismanaged economy. The Russian Federation inherited the vast majority of this mess in 1991. With the collapse of the USSR, many well-to-do figures within...
