Leo Varadkar Equates Being A Protestant With Being British In Ireland
Given the patently racist accusations made against him by right-wing British journalists and publications over the years, with allegations ofContinue Reading
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Sinn Féin May Need To Reform. But So Does Our News Media
According to the latest polling, from the “Oirish” edition of The Sunday Times, Sinn Féin is currently at the topContinue Reading
Irish Leaders North And South Are Less Than Inspiring
In a recent and rather pessimistic article for the News Letter the unionist commentator Alex Kane coined a pithy phrase toContinue Reading
The Continuity State Speaks. Forget Golfgate. Fear The Shinners!
The journalist John Lee has taken to the tabloid website Extra.ie to admonish Micheál Martin, Leo Varadkar and Eamon RyanContinue Reading
Confusion Over Barry Cowen’s Sacking Highlights Coalition Weaknesses
Last week Sinn Féin decided to celebrate its long-awaited assumption of the leadership of the post-election Opposition in Dáil ÉireannContinue Reading
Ending The Lockdown In Ireland. Too Fast, Too Soon?
Though the Fine Gael-led Government seems determined to speed up the country’s transition through the various stages of the lockdownContinue Reading
Leo Varadkar’s Lockdown: Picnics In The Phoenix Park, Accommodation In The Farmleigh Estate
While it would be unfair to place Leo Varadkar’s “picnic controversy” in the same scandalous category as that of DominicContinue Reading
Leo Varadkar’s “Food Parcels” Jibe At Mary Lou McDonald Backfires. Bigly!
Back in the 1950s the author and playwright Brendan Behan famously dismissed the average scion of the Anglo-Irish Ascendancy, theContinue Reading
The Fianna Fáil And Fine Gael Manifesto
I’ve held off from commenting on the increasingly likely government partnership between Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil in the hopesContinue Reading
Simon Coveney: Ireland Needs A Sinn Féin-Led Opposition?
A rather odd report from Extra.ie, the tabloid-style Irish news and culture website, on a recent appearance by Simon Coveney,Continue Reading
Micheál Martin Feels The Heat As FF Dissidents Break Cover
From hero to zero. That seems to be the perennial fate of Micheál Martin, despite ten years of certain newspapersContinue Reading
Sinn Féin And Green Party Rallies. Press Hysteria And Hypocrisy
The hysteria gripping the political duopoly that has held onto the levers of power in Ireland for most of theContinue Reading
Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, Greens Shuffle Towards Coalition Government
Watching yesterday’s performative politics in Dáil Éireann I was reminded of the words of the Mock Turtle’s song from Alice’sContinue Reading
Sinn Féin Tops Latest Irish Times Poll As Fianna Fáil Trails Behind
It’s often claimed that the UK leader Harold Wilson was the first one to make the observation that “a weekContinue Reading
Sinn Féin Jumps In New Polls, Fine Gael Suggests Grand Coalition With Fianna Fáil
If Sinn Féin went into the general election with the widespread belief that it was going to suffer serious lossesContinue Reading
Sinn Féin Surge In Latest Poll As Fine Gael Plummets
If the first opinion poll of the general election had a question mark or two about its methodologies, the resultsContinue Reading
Fine Gael And Sinn Féin Jostle For Second Place In New Poll?
In recent years I’ve tended to treat many of the more headline-making figures from polling by the Sunday Times/Behaviour &Continue Reading
An Irish Sea Border, The DUP And Loyalist Threats Of Bombs
Judging by the more informed speculation in the Irish and international press it seems that after two years of prevaricatingContinue Reading
The Daily Beast Gets It Wrong On Ireland And The UK Brexit
Nico Hines, the London editor of The Daily Beast, has co-written a rather misleading article on the question of theContinue Reading
Ex-SDLP Leader Mark Durkan Becomes Fine Gael European Candidate
The news that Mark Durkan, the former leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party, has suspended his party membershipContinue Reading
Donald Tusk: “Special Place In Hell” For Reckless Promoters Of Brexit
Donald Tusk, the President of the European Council, has used today’s meeting in Brussels with An Taoiseach Leo Varadkar toContinue Reading
Leo Varadkar: British Police And Army On The Border If No-Deal Brexit
An Taoiseach Leo Varadkar speaking yesterday on the issue of a no-deal Brexit with two rather poorly-informed if somewhat sympatheticContinue Reading
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