Leo Varadkar’s “Food Parcels” Jibe At Mary Lou McDonald Backfires. Bigly!
Back in the 1950s the author and playwright Brendan Behan famously dismissed the average scion of the Anglo-Irish Ascendancy, theContinue Reading
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Back in the 1950s the author and playwright Brendan Behan famously dismissed the average scion of the Anglo-Irish Ascendancy, 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
The likelihood that the withdrawal agreement between the European Union and the United Kingdom will be defeated by a majorityContinue Reading
With the Labour Party stalling at 5% or thereabouts in the national polls, its electoral future seems pretty bleak. However,Continue Reading
Given the ongoing speculation about the creation of a Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin coalition government following the next general election,Continue Reading
There is a lot of unwarranted scepticism about the effectiveness of electoral polling at the moment. Observers point to supposedly “unexpected” resultsContinue 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
So the Wicklow TD, Stephen Donnelly, has walked away from the party he helped found, confirming rumours of dissension in theContinue Reading
Independent TD, Danny Healy-Rae, living proof if ever there was one that evolution is not always a forward moving process, has staged anotherContinue Reading
There seems to be a fair degree of pessimism surrounding the outcomes of the recent national and regional elections, one resultingContinue Reading
I abase myself before the might of the Establishment! From the Guardian: “Enda Kenny has been re-elected as prime ministerContinue Reading
So here it is, the momentous agreement (!) heralding a return of the dog-eared Fine Gael government dumped by Ireland’s voters inContinue Reading
It seems that we are to have a new government after weeks of politicking, as the leading component of theContinue Reading
Rank hypocrisy is the key hallmark of the political establishment in Ireland, you say? Surely not! From the Irish News,Continue Reading
Way back in June of 2013 a post on the Cedar Lounge Revolution asked, “Is the Seanad really a dumping groundContinue Reading
Today was the first session of the post-election Dáil Éireann, the thirty-second incarnation of Ireland’s legislature since the revolutionary assembly of 1919-21. In the centenaryContinue Reading
From the tabloid news and current affairs website, The Journal, a brief puff-piece reporting on RTÉ’s “Sunday With Miriam” radio show whereContinue Reading
I’ve alluded to the phenomenon of the “seat bonus” or “bounce” in a previous review of the results from the recent general election,Continue Reading
So the general election of 2016 is finally, finally over. The Labour Party has managed to scrape one last seat in the constituency of Longford-WestmeathContinue Reading
With all the post-election manoeuvring going on at the moment, particularly in the press and the online commentariat, there seemsContinue Reading
So that’s it, bar the odd recount or legal challenge. The general election of 2016 is over. Until the nextContinue Reading
With the general election just weeks away, and with all the polls pointing to a minority, Fine Gael-led government ofContinue Reading