''The Hibernian'' was a monthly Irish magazine with the subtitle "Faith, Family and Country". Twenty-nine issues were published between May 2006 and September 2008. It was launched in May 2006, by Gerry McGeough, formerly a member of the

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national executive, as editor, and Charles Byrne, a 28-year-old from Drogheda, who writes as "Cathal O Broin" (the Irish-language version of his name). Although similar in name, the magazine itself was never associated with the

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.Ex-Provo gives new life to Irish clerical fascism
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, August 2006 The magazine advocated a form of "faith and fatherland" nationalism which emphasised the persecution of Catholics in previous centuries and saw Irish identity as inseparably bound up with Catholicism. It often published articles on Irish history written from this perspective, as well as devotional articles and political/social comment. However, its publication was not without controversy and it was accused of being "a publicity vehicle for McGeough and the extreme right in Ireland". Issue number 25 from May 2008 featured

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on the cover and carried an extensive interview with him. The magazine regularly promoted the

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, often in a manner sympathetic to the Society of St. Pius X and to sedevacantists. It also promoted the activities of Fr.

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, editor of the ''Fatima Crusader'' magazine, who accuses the Vatican of concealing the content of the

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. It published numerous articles alleging that the international banking system is run by money-manipulating conspirators and advocating national and personal

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. It also supported distributivism. An article in the November 2007 issue refers to Cardinal

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as a "sourpuss old Brit".Cian Ua Ruairc "The agony and the ecstacy" p. 17 The final issue (September 2008) announced that the magazine was closing because of restrictions placed on McGeough as a result of his impending prosecution. The issue also includes an Irish-language prayer for the canonisation of

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, a profile of Deirdre Manifold (Galway-based author of ''Fatima and the Great Conspiracy'') expounding her view that the Irish are "the Chosen Race of the New Testament", and an article advocating

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. The final article "Is it time to listen to heaven" by Joe O'Brien declares that the fate of the ''Hibernian'' shows "you cannot win against naturalism.. on a material level with political rallying, diplomatic maneuvring, or even military force... In order to defeat naturalism we must appeal to supernatural support".

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