Ireland Archives — Genspect

The ICCL Puts Children Last

“The faintest of all human passions is the love of truth.” — A. E. Housman On January 16th, The Irish...

23rd January 2026

Facing Consequences – Gender Recognition in the Irish High Court

Recently Irish media reported a story about a man who is encountering difficulties as a result of legal gender...

21st November 2025

Genspect Contributes to HSE Ireland’s Gender Healthcare Evidence Review

Genspect has submitted peer-reviewed research to HSE Ireland’s consultation on their updated Model of Care for gender healthcare services....

29th August 2025

Behind the Flags

Following publication of our recent article, in which we discussed the meaning and purpose of progress pride flags on display...

30th July 2025

The Otto Case: How a Man’s Crimes Were Blamed on a Woman
Letters from Ireland

Genspect is delighted to welcome back journalist Paddy O’Gorman to Inspecting Gender with his Letter from Ireland. A celebrated...

28th July 2025

Bí Cineálta – Be Kind Part 2

In Bí Cineálta, Part 1, we contemplated the message that schools are sending to the community when they fly the progress pride...

22nd July 2025

Bí Cineálta – Be Kind Part 1

Recently, I drove past my old primary school and noticed the progress pride flag flying, presumably for the month...

21st July 2025

Genspect Submission to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024

As part of its pre-legislative scrutiny of the Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024, the Joint Committee on Children and...

8th July 2025

RTÉ’s Not-So-Kid-Friendly Toy Show Appeal

The Toy Show – We love it! The RTÉ Late Late Toy Show is an annual special broadcast each November...

23rd June 2025

Ireland’s Inclusion Agenda is Progressive Mirage

Last week, Ireland released two flagship policy documents: the National LGBTIQ+ Inclusion Strategy II (2024–2028) and the National Women’s Council Strategic Plan...

17th June 2025

The Ripple Effect: From Silence to Stirring

Even though the UK has been in turmoil over trans issues for years, with whistleblowers emerging from the Tavistock...

16th June 2025

Cancel Culture: Local Flavours May Vary
In every country, cancel culture has its own style – but the goal is always the same: to silence the truth-teller.

In Britain, cancellation appears swift and merciless. One day you’re a respected figure; the next, you’re trending for all...

10th June 2025

Ireland’s Gender Recognition Act – Part 2

In Part 1, we looked at the Gender Recognition Act 2015 – what it is, and the implications of...

29th May 2025

Ireland’s Gender Recognition Act – Part 1

This year marks a decade since the introduction of Ireland’s Gender Recognition Act 2015. The meaning and implications of...

26th May 2025

Single Sex Spaces in Ireland – What’s the Story?

Recently, whilst trying on clothes in the ladies’ fitting room of a well-known Dublin department store, I had an...

8th May 2025

The Lush Campaign: A Dangerous Ideology

I went on Spirit Radio this morning to talk about the Lush controversy. In this interview, I spoke about what it...

6th May 2025

Letter from Ireland, what is a woman?

Under Irish law, a man becomes a woman if he says he is a woman. Under British law, you...

4th May 2025

Bathbombs and Body Politics: How Corporate Activism Markets Medical Transition to Kids

A disturbing new development has emerged in Lush’s controversial campaign: according to The Times, children as young as seven were...

29th April 2025

Break the Silence

Irish Broadcasting Sector: Servants to Lobbyists, Not the People The objectivity, impartiality and independence of the Irish broadcasting sector...

27th April 2025

Tús Nua on Gender?

Many people in Ireland are feeling tentatively hopeful right now as we witness significant change in the UK regarding...

25th April 2025

The mystery of the disappearing “gender identity”

Yesterday’s ruling by the UK’s highest court, the Supreme Court, clarified that the word “woman” in their jurisdiction, the 2010 Equality...

17th April 2025

Words of War, Words of Peace

I grew up in Belfast when the air was thick with tension, spoken and unspoken. Language wasn’t just communication,...

15th April 2025

When the Witch They’re Hunting is You!
"It would be almost laughable… if it weren’t so utterly terrifying"

The Witch Hunt Begins I stood in front of the Big Fish at a “Let Women Speak” event in...

17th March 2025

Gaels for Fair Play: Petition

A Shocking Policy Change One morning, in February, 2023, I was idly browsing through my phone when a story...

17th March 2025

Paddy O’Gorman’s Letter from Ireland

Genspect is delighted to welcome back journalist Paddy O’Gorman to Inspecting Gender with his Letter from Ireland. A celebrated...

2nd March 2025

An Eventful Year in Ireland

The year 2024 has been a good one, I believe, for the gender critical movement in Ireland. During the...

14th January 2025

Barbie Kardashian and the Gaslighting of the Irish Public

The sex offender now known as Barbie Kardashian is a 22-year-old Irishman who was placed in the women’s section...

1st November 2024

The Irish MoU on Conversion Therapy: A Concession amidst Ideological Persistence?

On Friday, 12 July 2024, three organisations – The College of Psychiatrists of Ireland, The Irish Association for Counselling...

8th August 2024

Letters from Ireland: On “Gendered Violence” and Media Double Speak

Natasha O’Brien, aged 24, was beaten unconscious by a 22-year-old man, Cathal Crotty, on a Limerick City street on...

8th July 2024

Eurovision, Non-Binary Representation and a Controversial Conference in Dublin

For this letter from Ireland, I shall tell you about two things that have gone on in the gender-ideology...

30th May 2024

On Simon Harris, Ireland’s New Taoiseach

The Republic of Ireland has a new Taoiseach (Prime Minister). This follows the resignation of Leo Varadkar following the...

14th April 2024

Gender Ideology Under Fire in Ireland

As an Irish person with sex realist (often called “gender critical”) views, I am feeling safer, and more optimistic,...

27th March 2024

Mind the Gap: Religion and Gender Identity in Ireland

A slow-burning religious revolution is transforming Ireland. The Catholic Church has waned to a smidgin of its former significance...

17th January 2024

Leading doctors lodge formal complaint about HSE treatment of Irish children with gender identity issues

On Friday the 15th of December 2023, the Irish national broadcaster Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ) broke the news that...

24th December 2023

Irish Woman who was Refused Entry to NWC’s Annual Meeting has Lost her Discrimination Case

An Irish woman who was refused entry to the National Women’s Council of Ireland Annual General Meeting in June...

5th November 2023

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