The West's Awake

20/02/2023

How the Media & Senior Government Ministers work in lock-step.

10/02/2023

John Waters Interview Part I - Good migration philosophy vs orchestrated migration

07/02/2023

“I’m very concerned about the rise of the far-right and indeed the rise of racism in Ireland. Refugees are welcome here” - Leo Varadkar, Taoiseach. February 2nd outside Government Buildings

29/01/2023

Buy the author a coffee. ☕️ Settle down there now. Settle down. Triggering title I know. With a little mischievous duality thrown in for good measure, for the times we live in - don’t you know. As a rule of thumb, I try to avoid usage of foul language as much as possible in my writing. Especia...

24/01/2023

Buy the author a coffee. ☕️ Migration misinformation and misdirection is at peak levels as Ireland buckles under the weight of humanity carelessly tossed onto our shores over the past 12 months. The Irish state, NGO sectors and even the Garda Commissioner seem hell-bent on terrifying the nation ...

20/01/2023

Patrick E. Walsh may be a name familiar to some of you keeping an eagle eye on excess deaths in Ireland. During the summer of 2022 he began collating data fr...

15/01/2023

Buy the author a coffee. ☕️ I just had a thought and it is a pretty simple one. So, I’ll keep this little ditty short. Now, to be exact, it’s more of a question than a thought really. One that we might consider asking our politicians at every opportunity.

03/01/2023

It’s become a bit of a tradition of mine to commence any New Year’s resolutions on January 3rd. The reason for this deviation from the norm is pretty simple. January 3rd is the anniversary date of my most successful resolution six years ago. One that is still (touch wood) trundling along nicely ...

29/12/2022

I came across Aidan Killian in February of this year when I was organising a creatives event in Doolin, Co. Clare. An enlightened spirit passed on his name &...

27/12/2022

Buy the author a coffee. ☕️ In 2023 a phrase is going to become popular in Ireland. So, I thought, maybe, even as the lights dim on 2022, that it still might be a good idea to get a little ahead of the posse and become familiar with this expression and what it means. Especially, considering some...

19/12/2022

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18/12/2022

Mattie McGrath raised the issue of the WEF elephant in the Irish room during yesterday’s Dail sitting, a forum which rubberstamped Varadkar as the new Irish Taoiseach. His five minute oration was met with schoolboy sniggering from the two men supposedly leading this nation, Varadkar and Martin. A ...

02/12/2022

If you enjoyed my latest Interview or writing consider supporting below:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/lynbrook19kMy reasons for wanting to talk with Ewan were...

21/11/2022

A modern-day immigration plantation & population famine has taken root on Irish shores
Irish government knew in January, before the war, that a huge influx of asylum seekers were coming

Irish government knew in January, before the war, that a huge influx of asylum seekers were coming

15/11/2022

The Ireland of 100 million Cead Milliún Failtes........

10/11/2022

Rival gangs engage in morning street brawl on the streets of Wicklow.

08/11/2022

☕️ Click here - to make a one-off contribution coffee contribution or Revolut to The government, to my mind, are involved in a sleight of hand with regard to refugee migration into the country this year. While the whole of Ireland is consumed by the Ukrainian refugee crisis and Irelan...

05/11/2022

Today, I got the opportunity to chat with Dr. Anne McCloskey. We covered her university years, membership of Sinn Fein in the 70s, later with Aontu, Her acti...

03/11/2022

This country must be running like a finely oiled machine. No, wait a minute, scratch that let’s try a different analogy. This nation must be running like one of those precision Swiss clocks if our Taoiseach has time to accept an invite to address, the epicenter of centuries old elite privilege, Ox...

31/10/2022

☕️ Click here to support my work with a coffee donation There was a gap in the ditch connecting the two small fields. I wouldn’t have spotted it at all only but for the Friesian heifer strolling through it at her leisure. It was a long ancient mound packed tight with hawthorns, brambles, some ...

26/10/2022

Another true scholar gypsy. Larry C. Johnson is a veteran of the CIA and the State Department’s Office of Counter Terrorism. His website A Son of the New Ame...

26/10/2022

How many more young men need to die?

21/10/2022

When you spend any amount of time in Aisling O’Loughlin’s company the most immediate observation you feel pulsing is her passion. Today’s conversation with h...

20/10/2022

A little piece inspired by a poignant piece of poetry by Aine Fortune.

17/10/2022

A discussion on his early love of writing, the destruction of reader attention span in the tech age, Why newspaper word count began to reduce in the late 1980s , and much more besides.

17/10/2022

Watch now (113 min) | A discussion on his early love of writing, the destruction of reader attention span in the tech age, Why newspaper article word count began to reduce in the late 1980s , and much, much more....

15/10/2022

1 year and 150 articles later I am somehow, someway still ploughing along

14/10/2022

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11/10/2022

Ryan & Irish government drafting text for emergency legislation to take over the oil supply in the event of an "unlikely" oil crisis. But wait a minute...an oil crisis is very likely indeed.

10/10/2022

Over 100 missile and drone strikes across all cities and regions of Ukraine.

03/10/2022

Why the people who got the vaccine question right still have an important role to play.

26/09/2022

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Buy the author a coffee. ☕️ Or small one off contributions via Revolut to Nothing is ever certain in life but it looks increasingly likely that Italy’s next Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, will be from the so called “ Far Right “. My approach to dealing with this hollowed out te...

15/09/2022

Countess Urlovia von der Crazy and her State of the Union address.

Buy the author a coffee. ☕️ When Countess Urslovia von der Crazy stepped out to give her State of the “Animal Farm “ Union address yesterday she was decked out in the gorgeous bright colours of the new European super-state. Unfortunately, a camera crew was not on hand to capture the perfect ...

11/09/2022

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17/05/2022

"Ireland is dying both a fast and slow death. I think perhaps attention span is one of the root causes of the speedier type of decay"

The Plantation of Leinster House.

https://westawake.substack.com/p/the-plantation-of-leinster-house?sd=fs

The consciousness of the country is broken.

26/04/2022

Why Elon Musk is "Useful"
https://westawake.substack.com/p/why-elon-musk-is-useful

A young mind trying to fit in to the world around him

18/04/2022

The Great Irish Reset.

https://westawake.substack.com/p/the-great-irish-reset?r=ui5xq&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=direct

Let’s first state aloud a very real fact. Ireland is not a sovereign nation in any meaningful sense. Unfortunately, by the end of this piece you may well conclude that isn’t even your biggest or most immediate future problem. But we’ll get to that in due course.

14/04/2022

https://westawake.substack.com/p/stephen-donnelly-chooses-who-over?r=ui5xq&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Ireland will be signing up to the WHO pandemic treaty

12/04/2022

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A counter-narrative look at the world. My name is Gerry O'Neill and I have been self-publishing for over 6 years. Interviews, Observations, humor and information!

12/04/2022

Staggering agriculture inflation figures released by the CSO today.
Fertilisers prices up over 130%, year on year, to February 2022. Eggs and Milk up nearly 30%. Potatoes > 20%.

https://westawake.substack.com/p/cso-release-staggering-agriculture

Fertilizer up 130% - Input prices up 28% and Output prices up almost 20% - February 2022