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
Tag: Dáil Éireann – Assembly of Ireland
Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, Greens Shuffle Towards Coalition Government
Watching yesterday’s performative politics in Dáil Éireann I was reminded of the words of the Mock Turtle’s song from Alice’sContinue Reading
Sinn Féin’s Westminster MPs Should Take Up Their Seats. In Dáil Éireann
The likelihood that the withdrawal agreement between the European Union and the United Kingdom will be defeated by a majorityContinue Reading
Former SIPTU Boss Jack O’Connor To Stand For The Labour Party In Wicklow
With the Labour Party stalling at 5% or thereabouts in the national polls, its electoral future seems pretty bleak. However,Continue Reading
Fianna Fáil Prepares Ground For A Future Coalition With Sinn Féin
Given the ongoing speculation about the creation of a Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin coalition government following the next general election,Continue Reading
Early 2017 Polls Are Trending Fianna Fáil And Sinn Féin
There is a lot of unwarranted scepticism about the effectiveness of electoral polling at the moment. Observers point to supposedly “unexpected” resultsContinue Reading
Micheál Martin, Fianna Fáil’s Cold War Warrior
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
Personality Clashes Push Stephen Donnelly Out Of The Social Democrats?
So the Wicklow TD, Stephen Donnelly, has walked away from the party he helped found, confirming rumours of dissension in theContinue Reading
Danny Healy-Rae, A Special Kind Of Stupid
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
Irish National And Regional Elections, The Dark Before The Dawn?
There seems to be a fair degree of pessimism surrounding the outcomes of the recent national and regional elections, one resultingContinue Reading
All Hail Our New Fine Fáil Overlords! All Hail The Continuity State!
I abase myself before the might of the Establishment! From the Guardian: “Enda Kenny has been re-elected as prime ministerContinue Reading
Text Of The Confidence And Supply Arrangement Between Fine Gael And Fianna Fáil
So here it is, the momentous agreement (!) heralding a return of the dog-eared Fine Gael government dumped by Ireland’s voters inContinue Reading
The Rejected Fine Gael Government Is Returned To Power By Fianna Fáil
It seems that we are to have a new government after weeks of politicking, as the leading component of theContinue Reading
Fianna Fáil, The Enabler Of Fine Gael And Labour Government?
Rank hypocrisy is the key hallmark of the political establishment in Ireland, you say? Surely not! From the Irish News,Continue Reading
Rejected General Election Pigs Looking For A Trough
Way back in June of 2013 a post on the Cedar Lounge Revolution asked, “Is the Seanad really a dumping groundContinue Reading
A New Dáil, A New Ceann Comhairle, An Old Taoiseach
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
Averil Power, Muire Na nGael
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
The Seat Bonus In The General Election Of 2016
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
The Final Seat Numbers For The 32nd Dáil
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
Fianna Fáil Is Neither Centrist Nor Progressive
With all the post-election manoeuvring going on at the moment, particularly in the press and the online commentariat, there seemsContinue Reading
The Winners And Losers Of General Election 2016 Were Foreshadowed In 2014
So that’s it, bar the odd recount or legal challenge. The general election of 2016 is over. Until the nextContinue Reading
Fianna Fáil’s New Slogan: Screw Our Republican Dead
With the general election just weeks away, and with all the polls pointing to a minority, Fine Gael-led government ofContinue Reading
