The Irish Politics Newsletter

Donald Trump is the economic Anti-Christ

The original article.

https://www.irishpoliticsnewsletter.ie/p/the-prophecy-of-st-malachy

In his first year back in office, President Trump reported at least two point two billion dollars in income. About one point four billion of it came from cryptocurrency.

The same week that figure landed, analysts counted the other side of the trade. Nearly a million wallets that bought his meme coin were down a combined three point eight billion dollars. The coin itself had fallen about ninety-seven per cent from its peak.

This is the story of that gap. Of a family firm that sold almost half of itself to an Abu Dhabi royal days before the inauguration. Of an American technology partnership with the Emirates that followed. And of a constitutional machine that still has rules on paper but no grip on the man in the office.

Bad news for democracy, advertisers and you.

https://www.irishpoliticsnewsletter.ie/p/online-ireland-is-a-bot-farm

The Art of the Post-Career Mea Not-So-Culpa

The lake will outlast Trump's latest decree.

Brendan ‘Bik’ McFarlane was a vicious sectarian murderer – Sinn Féin should not eulogise him

The Russian ambassador to Ireland keeps threatening the country.

https://www.irishpoliticsnewsletter.ie/p/russia-warns-ireland-again

On 3 Aug 1916, Roger Casement was hanged in Pentonville Prison. Joseph Zerhusen, a German soldier & his interpreter, shared recollections of Casement, his time in Germany & events leading to the Banna Strand landing in the programme ‘Roger Casement Remembered’ with RTE's Proinsias Mac Aonghusa.

On the anniversary of the death of John Hume, some poignant words of wisdom from the great man. "You can't eat a flag".

John Hume: You see, what he meant by that was it was on the streets of the time elections were taking place, as they always did with both sides waving flags. And young people are getting all excited. And my father was standing watching this with me, and he tapped me on the shoulder, and he said, “Don’t you get involved in that stuff, son”. I say, “Why not, Dad?”. And he says, “You can’t eat a flag”. In other words, what he was saying is that real politics is about the living standards, about social and economic development. It’s not about waving flags at one another.”

In “It’s Still a Pogrom,” The Irish Politics Newsletter examines the June 2026 violence in Belfast that erupted after a Sudanese man was charged with the attempted murder of Stephen Ogilvie. Masked groups moved through the streets, chanting “Foreigners out,” burning bins, cars, and buses, and targeting people in their homes.