Will The SDLP Disband If Fianna Fáil Expands Northward?
Here we go again. The last decade has witnessed many press reports on Fianna Fáil’s supposed intention to stand forContinue Reading
Tag: Labour Party – LP
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
Brendan Howlin, The Labour Party And A Reunited Ireland
My view on our mainstream political parties discussing the reunification of Ireland has always been: put up or shut up.Continue 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
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
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
FG And Labour Make Losses, FF And SF Make Gains, The Rest TBD
Despite the lingering pop-culture image of the radical “Irish rebel”, which was given a momentary fillip by the successful marriage equality referendumContinue Reading
No Irish Please, We’re Fine Gael And Labour
In former times the British-born journalist and occasional Confederate-apologist, Kevin Myers, regularly used his newspaper column to discuss his race theory ofContinue Reading
The TV3/Newstalk Leaders’ Debate
So to last night’s TV3/Newstalk debate where the leaders of three right-wing establishment parties sought to pummel into submission theContinue Reading
Joan Burton’s Campaign, From Farce to Fiasco
A poll suggests @labour is tumbling to the ground in #dubw #GE16 Bit like our press conference pic.twitter.com/nQb5dGao0j — SharonContinue Reading
The Labour Party Suggests Free Hugs For Narco-Terrorists
If one needed an example of leadership in Ireland, an illustration of the competency and acumen of our political classes,Continue 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
The Labour Party Fattens Up Before The Electoral Culling Begins
The Labour Party membership ready themselves for the coming electoral storm by burying their snouts deep in the salary-trough…
Joan Burton Falls Out Of A Boat In Vicious Attack By Sinister Water
An Tánaiste and Labour Party boss, Joan Burton, with her PR-handlers in a tiny boat, in a tiny side-trickle of aContinue Reading
How The Irish Government Covered Up The Murder Of An Irish Citizen
Forty-seven year old Séamus Ludlow, a quiet, unassuming life-long bachelor, was something of a man of habit. On the afternoonContinue Reading
Barricades Around The Winter Palace Of A Dying Coalition
The controversial Fine Gael TD, Catherine Byrne, has a brief exchange of words with a member of the general public visiting DáilContinue Reading
Threats, Intimidation And Absences In The Seanad Election
As stated in a previous post, I have largely avoided commenting upon the complex Maíria Cahill controversy, due in noContinue Reading
Political Policing Targets The People’s Representatives
So Paul Murphy TD and Joan Collins TD, members of Dáil Éireann or the lower house of the Irish legislature,Continue Reading
The Answer To Gun Violence Is Not More Guns
Yet again it takes a murder, and one with quasi-political overtones in the eyes of some exploitative journalists, before politicians and theContinue Reading
A Delirium Of Political Vacuousness
So, I’ve not too much to say while I’m smothered with a persistent cold which refuses all efforts to kill it offContinue Reading
Maíria Cahill And The Labour Party, Or Integrity Meets Avarice
To misquote a terrible old bigot who had a way with words, most political controversies end not with a bang but with a whimper. ThatContinue Reading
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