Fianna Fáil, A Party Without A Cause
My family has been dwelling in Dublin city and its environs since the mid-1800s, part of the mass rural exodusContinue Reading
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Sinn Féin And Fianna Fáil 2016
Today’s Irish Times Ipsos MRBI poll makes for some interesting reading, not least with the dramatic surge inContinue Reading
Defenders And Defilers Of The Irish State
Apparently Gerry Adams TD, leader of the political party the polls declare the most popular in the country, has issuedContinue Reading
Maíria Cahill And Micheál Martin’s Cynical Opportunism
Maíria Cahill, a member of a respected Republican family from Belfast and a former youth activist with Sinn Féin, hasContinue Reading
The Morning After Poll
The headline figures from the RTÉ exit poll have been published and they are showing a huge jump in supportContinue Reading
Ireland And Scotland, Our Democracies, Our Voices
The recent polls in Ireland and Scotland make for interesting reading in the run-up to the European and local electionsContinue Reading
ASF – The European And Local Elections
Several readers of An Sionnach Fionn have asked me how I intend to vote in the upcoming European and local elections. Though some people might objectContinue Reading
Political Shenanigans
Enda Kenny, Taoiseach na hÉireann, on the importance of water conservation and the dilemma faced by tens of thousands ofContinue Reading
The Irish Media In Panic Mode
Reading Ireland’s national and regional newspapers the worried expectations of the media establishment that Sinn Féin and various smaller partiesContinue Reading
Ireland, The Dysfunctional Poster-Child Of Minority Rights
The Hidden Ireland blog has a short post listing a number of motions on the Irish language from this year’sContinue Reading
Latest Poll Numbers
Despite the hammering Sinn Féin has taken in the national media the latest poll from Paddy Power/Red C reveals theContinue Reading
Your Flexible Friend
So independent Teachta Dála Colm Keaveney, a former member of the nominally left-wing and socialist Labour Party, is to joinContinue Reading
The Labour Party, Not Waving But Drowning
There may well be something anomalous about the latest Irish Times/Ipsos MRBI opinion poll but even with that caveat inContinue Reading
Fianna Gael? Media Hype Or Media Wish Fulfilment?
For some time now certain sections of Ireland’s right-wing media have been hyping up the idea of the country’s twoContinue Reading
Fianna Fáil And The Brown Shirts
The Belfast cumann of Fianna Fáil wishes the Orange Order a happy July 12th (with a lovely photo of uniformedContinue Reading
Labour Party Circling The Drain
The results from the latest Sunday Independent-Millward Brown poll (7th July, 2013) are in and while I’m sceptical of voterContinue Reading
Fianna Fáil Moves North – Again
Will this be another false dawn for Fianna Fáil’s oft promised yet rarely materialised intention to organise as a political party in the north-eastContinue Reading
Ain’t Nothing Change But The Weather
One definition of madness is doing the same thing over and over but expecting a different result each time. SoContinue Reading
When In Doubt Kick Fianna Fáil Out!
Two days away from An Sionnach Fionn sitting in an anodyne hotel conference room with twenty strangers doing ISO AuditContinue Reading
Voting Fianna Fáil – Like A Dog Returning To Its Vomit
Another weekend, another poll, this time a telephone survey of 1000 voters by Millward Brown on behalf of the Sunday Independent newspaper. I’m always waryContinue Reading
Another Poll – Fianna Fáil Voters Abandon The Fine Gael Fold
Two weeks ago I queried the possibility of the next incarnation of An Dáil becoming more like the Israeli Knesset: a host of independents, smallContinue Reading
Polls, Politics And Conspiracy Theories
One weekend, two polls, and the results look good for both Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin. However things are notContinue Reading
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