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
Tag: Labour Party – LP
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
Labour TD Gets The Jitters
By all accounts a number of Labour TDs are casting extremely nervous eyes over their shoulders at the Sinn FéinContinue 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
An Island Nation Once Called Ireland
Following on from my post here on the government plans to demolish uninhabited housing estates left behind by the evaporationContinue Reading
Socio-Economic Cleansing – The Irish Way Of Doing Things
So the Fine Oibre government is considering demolishing forty of the ”worse” ghost estates in the country. From the Journal:Continue Reading
Ireland’s Realpolitik
From the Irish Independent newspaper an example of how the establishment in Ireland, political, media, business and judicial, differentiates betweenContinue Reading
Faraway Revolutions Always Seem Greener
I like and admire Uachtarán an hÉireann, Michael D. Higgins. I actually voted for him (well, he was my secondContinue 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
Pat Rabbitte Meets Seán And Síle Citizen – Again
Pat Rabbitte, rottweiler of the Labour politburo, seems to have a habit of coming a cropper in hotel bars and publicContinue 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
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
From Boycott To Frankfurt, Only Our Rivers Run Free
“When apples still grow in November When Blossoms still bloom from each tree When leaves are still green in DecemberContinue Reading
A Pluralist Ireland? Does That Include The 1.7 Million Irish-Speakers?
A new report on the administration of primary schools in Ireland and the teaching of religious studies has been published by the Forum on Patronage and Pluralism inContinue Reading
The Empire Strike Back!
The results from the 2011 Census of Ireland published last week revealed continued growth in the Irish-speaking communities of the nation and theContinue Reading
Smells Like No-Irish Spirit
I have frequently pointed to the complete and utter bullshit that passes for a genuine commitment to equality between Irish and EnglishContinue Reading
The State Of Irish – In The Irish State
In today’s Irish Times (following on from yesterday’s bizarre anti-Irish rant by Ann Marie Hourihane) Finbar McDonnell examines the Fine Gael-Labour coalition government’s attitudes to it’s IrishContinue Reading
What About Our Irish Rights?
The much heralded Constitutional Convention is finally on the horizon after many a false dawn. According to the Irish Times: “TheContinue Reading
Young Fine Gael – The Irony Is In The Name
Over the last year I have catalogued on An Sionnach Fionn the inherent hostility of the right-wing Fine Gael party to the Irish languageContinue Reading
From Irish Ireland To English Ireland
There’s been something of a surprise result from Latvia where a national referendum has rejected moves to make Russian theContinue Reading
Discrimination Dressed As Reasonableness… Isn’t It Always?
An article in the Irish Times decries the alleged “preferential” treatment given to Irish-speaking children in the education system because some studentsContinue Reading
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