The Proposed Coalition: Fianna Fáil Dissent, Fine Gael Smugness, Green Party Unease And Russian Bots
Are the wheels about to come off the new multiparty coalition government before it can even trundle out of theContinue Reading
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Are the wheels about to come off the new multiparty coalition government before it can even trundle out of theContinue Reading
Back in the 1950s the author and playwright Brendan Behan famously dismissed the average scion of the Anglo-Irish Ascendancy, theContinue Reading
Can we hear the awkward movements of a ménage à trois between Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and the Green PartyContinue 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
So what’s next in Irish politics following the unexpected outcome of Saturday’s general election? Sinn Féin has recorded a significantContinue Reading
I’d treat this with caution until we get the details but a poll commissioned by Sinn Féin through the well-knownContinue Reading
A recent episode of the David McWilliams’ Podcast examining some of the startling results in the latest general election polls.Continue Reading
It’s often claimed that the UK leader Harold Wilson was the first one to make the observation that “a weekContinue Reading
While all the usual caveats apply, with high polling results for Sinn Féin rarely translating into equally high voting comeContinue Reading
If the first opinion poll of the general election had a question mark or two about its methodologies, the resultsContinue Reading
So it’s all over in the counts for the local government elections for 2019 with the final results from theContinue Reading
It’s been claimed that Fine Gael paid an electoral price for the controversy involving the Fine Gael TD Maria BaileyContinue Reading
If the latest polls are correct Fine Gael is likely to emerge as the biggest winner from the forthcoming electionsContinue Reading
Such is the pace of the Brexit beast as it charges towards the no-deal cliffs, by the time I publishContinue Reading
The news that Mark Durkan, the former leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party, has suspended his party membershipContinue Reading
In many ways Leo Varadkar is the embodiment of modern right-wing politics in Ireland: socially liberal, economically conservative. While weContinue Reading
Does Leo Varadkar not understand the basis of the country’s general taxation system? Of how progressive taxation and fiscal redistributionContinue 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