Programme For Government: Good News For Cyclists And Pedestrians?
The draft programme for government agreed by Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Green Party commits the forthcoming coalition toContinue Reading
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The draft programme for government agreed by Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Green Party commits the forthcoming coalition toContinue Reading
Are the wheels about to come off the new multiparty coalition government before it can even trundle out of theContinue Reading
It seems that the Green Party is going through some of the same growing pains that effected Sinn Féin inContinue 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
As regular readers know I have a rather low regard for the political and social commentary of the newspaper columnistContinue Reading
So it’s all over in the counts for the local government elections for 2019 with the final results from theContinue Reading
Following nearly three days of counting the results of UK-administered local government elections in the north-east of the country areContinue Reading
Interesting times in Irish politics. The north-east is to see the departure of veteran DUP leader Peter Robinson, the firstContinue Reading
The Language Commissioner, Rónán Ó Domhnaill, has offered a carefully worded response to an article published in last week’s Irish Examiner by the eco-conservative journalist VictoriaContinue Reading
In light of the recent ruling by the courts that the Gardaí failed to follow the law by not producingContinue Reading
It really is our fault. Yes, you and me, and all the other fools who year after year, decade after decade,Continue Reading
In an interesting if factually flawed article the surprisingly authoritarian newspaper columnist Victoria White, the eco-activist wife of the Green Party’s lame duckContinue Reading
Over the last few weeks I have been receiving unusually frequent and comprehensive PR releases from the Green Party’s press office, sometimesContinue Reading
In most normal Western-style democracies men and women associated with environmental movements tend to be on the broad Left orContinue Reading
The headline figures from the RTÉ exit poll have been published and they are showing a huge jump in supportContinue Reading
I’ve been sent a Green Party / Comhaontas Glas press release in relation to its Irish language polices in the run-upContinue Reading
The results from the latest Sunday Independent-Millward Brown poll (7th July, 2013) are in and while I’m sceptical of voterContinue Reading
A minor political event which has probably passed most observers by. Jenny Muir, long-time left-wing Belfast blogger and would-be BritishContinue Reading
As a Gaelic Republican I suppose my politics lie somewhere on the social-democratic centre-left. Sometimes my opinions veer towards theContinue Reading
A few days I wrote ago about the judgement by a British court in the North of Ireland ruling thatContinue Reading
While walking through the woods around Binn Éadair (Howth) recently I came across a discarded election poster for the Green Party, theContinue Reading