the gist Archives – Caricatures Ireland by Allan Cavanagh

Friday Cartoon: Gardai Facial Recognition Technology

04/04/2025 by Allan

Gardai Facial Recognition Technology cartoon. Two uniformed Gardai face a bank of screens with streets on them. Each screen has figures with red rectangles around them. One Guard is turning to the other and saying "this is great, I'm terrible with faces."

Here’s another of my cartoons from The Gist’s Christmas Recap of 2024. This one features the controversial urge to use facial recognition technology as a security theatre panacea.

Friday Cartoon: Green Party and the Irish General Election 2024

21/03/2025 by Allan

Irish Election Cartoon Black and white cartoon depicting Leo Varadkar, Simon Harris, Micheál Martin and others hiding behind Roderic O'Gorman as a disgruntled electorate stare at him over a ballot box labelled GE 2024

Irish Election Cartoon: this is another from the batch of cartoons I did for Simon McGarr over at theGist.ie in a cartoon roundup of the year 2024. It depicts Leo Varadkar, Simon Harris, Micheál Martin and others hiding behind Roderic O’Gorman as a disgruntled electorate stare at him over a ballot box labelled GE 2024.

Friday Cartoon: Trump Keir Starmer Downing Street Cartoon

07/03/2025 by Allan

Trump Keir Starmer Downing Street Cartoon: A huge imposing Donald Trump about to sit his big horrendous arse on top of 10 Downing Street while a despondent Prime Minister Keir Starmer looks on with his moving box nearby, as the recently vanquished Rishi Sunak drags his Conservative Party suitcase away behind him.

This Trump/Starmer/Sunak cartoon is from December before Trumpageddon was fully unleased on the world, even if we all knew what was coming.