Sinn Féin May Need To Reform. But So Does Our News Media
According to the latest polling, from the “Oirish” edition of The Sunday Times, Sinn Féin is currently at the topContinue Reading
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According to the latest polling, from the “Oirish” edition of The Sunday Times, Sinn Féin is currently at the topContinue Reading
In a recent and rather pessimistic article for the News Letter the unionist commentator Alex Kane coined a pithy phrase toContinue Reading
The journalist John Lee has taken to the tabloid website Extra.ie to admonish Micheál Martin, Leo Varadkar and Eamon RyanContinue Reading
Last week Sinn Féin decided to celebrate its long-awaited assumption of the leadership of the post-election Opposition in Dáil ÉireannContinue Reading
I’ve held off from commenting on the increasingly likely government partnership between Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil in the hopesContinue Reading
From hero to zero. That seems to be the perennial fate of Micheál Martin, despite ten years of certain newspapersContinue Reading
The hysteria gripping the political duopoly that has held onto the levers of power in Ireland for most of theContinue Reading
Watching yesterday’s performative politics in Dáil Éireann I was reminded of the words of the Mock Turtle’s song from Alice’sContinue Reading
It’s often claimed that the UK leader Harold Wilson was the first one to make the observation that “a weekContinue Reading
If the first opinion poll of the general election had a question mark or two about its methodologies, the resultsContinue Reading
So, it turns out that today’s big announcement by Fianna Fáil of its long-heralded expansion into northern politics is lessContinue Reading
While the reasons for Peter Casey’s surprise showing in last week’s presidential election are more complicated than the superficial analysesContinue Reading
Well that was a bit of a PR disaster. Last night’s surprise announcement that Sorcha McAnespy, a Fianna Fáil member andContinue Reading
Political desperation. That is the only reasonable explanation for the missive sent by the leader of Fianna Fáil, Micheál Martin,Continue Reading
As was noted over on the Cedar Lounge Revolution, Brexit is not just causing chaos in the politics of Britain.Continue Reading
The thought occurs that while Sinn Féin may be showing early signs of stress in the balancing act between nationalContinue Reading
Despite vociferous denials and protests to the contrary, by both politicians and journalists, since the general election of 2011 theContinue Reading
As the Irish Times has noted, talk of a reunited Ireland is very much in the air. This is reflected inContinue Reading
So I’ve just discovered that at some stage during the day, between going to work this morning and returning home this evening, the island of Ireland was hurtled backContinue Reading
Despite the electoral trauma of the last decade Fianna Fáil has clawed its way back into second place behind its historic rivalsContinue Reading
So is it Colum Eastwood, the SDLP leader, or the members of the press who are sending mixed messages on the regional party’sContinue Reading
The post-referendum effects of the Brexit vote in the UK continue to ripple out across the European Union, lapping up onContinue Reading