Ireland Archives — Genspect

The “Ladies” Gaelic Football Association

Anyone who has spent time in Ireland will know that the national sports – Gaelic football, hurling, and camogie...

7th December 2025

A Pub Conversation

In an Irish pub, it’s not rude to speak to a stranger. If you stand around the bar, as...

5th December 2025

Answering Varadkar on the Gender Recognition Act

Former Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Leo Varadkar writes in the Sunday Times in celebration of the Gender Recognition Act in Ireland,...

24th October 2025

Tough Election Questions from a Transitioned Irish Female

In 2015, when I was in my fourth year of secondary school, I began questioning the implications of legally...

22nd October 2025

Lay Your Cards on the Table

Once upon a time, most of us had never heard of gender ideology, also known as trans ideology. Everybody...

13th October 2025

Barbie Kardashian is out of prison

Barbie Kardashian says he regrets not yet having raped the two women he threatened while he was in prison...

6th October 2025

Single Sex Toilets are No Joke

This week Irish comedian Graham Linehan was arrested in the UK for tweets stating in no uncertain terms that men should...

5th September 2025

The Cult Connection Part 2 – Information Control

The Cult Connection Part 1 looked at what a cult is – a group or movement with a shared commitment...

26th August 2025

The Cult Connection – Part 1

The word “cult” is often bandied about by critics of the transgender movement, but is it an accurate or...

6th August 2025

Why Genspect Is Following WPATH Across the World

It began, as these things so often do, over tea and indignation. I was in a teashop in Cloughjordan,...

1st 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Colonisation of the Irish Curriculum: Part III

Autumn is well upon us. The last of the burnished leaves cling to stark silhouettes of trees and darkness...

25th October 2023

The Folly of Preferred Pronouns Policy in Irish Higher Education

On the 5th of October 2023, the Irish Times reported that South Eastern Technical University (SETU) lecturer Colette Colfer...

22nd October 2023

Gender Ideology and the Breakdown of the Chain of Trust in Irish Education: Part 2

In Part 1 of this series, we explored extreme gender ideology being promoted by activists in Irish schools and...

13th September 2023

The Colonisation of the Irish Curriculum: Part II

In Part I of this series, we explored how gender ideology was exported from foreign NGOs into Irish classrooms....

12th September 2023

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