Leo Varadkar: Soft On Vulture Funds, Soft On The Causes Of Vulture Funds
In many ways Leo Varadkar is the embodiment of modern right-wing politics in Ireland: socially liberal, economically conservative. While weContinue Reading
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Leo Varadkar: Wealthier Counties Should Keep Their Own Local Property Taxes
Does Leo Varadkar not understand the basis of the country’s general taxation system? Of how progressive taxation and fiscal redistributionContinue Reading
Sinn Féin’s Westminster MPs Should Take Up Their Seats. In Dáil Éireann
The likelihood that the withdrawal agreement between the European Union and the United Kingdom will be defeated by a majorityContinue Reading
Micheál Martin Begs Leo Varadkar Not To Call A General Election
Political desperation. That is the only reasonable explanation for the missive sent by the leader of Fianna Fáil, Micheál Martin,Continue Reading
Leo Varadkar’s Fine Gael, The United Ireland Party
As was noted over on the Cedar Lounge Revolution, Brexit is not just causing chaos in the politics of Britain.Continue Reading
Ruth Dudley Edwards On Leo Varadkar’s “Outsider” Parentage And Sexuality
During the two terms of Barack Obama’s presidency in the United States of America, conservative journalists and politicians in theContinue Reading
Leo Varadkar’s Criticism Of The Irish Press And News Media
Leo Varadkar’s love-hate relationship with the press is well-known, as is his desire to control “the story”. However the FineContinue Reading
Will Brexit Give Leo Varadkar A Stepping Stone To Irish Unity?
There was some confusion last Wednesday about Leo Varadkar’s comments to a weekly meeting of Fine Gael members of theContinue Reading
Constitutional Reform In Ireland, A Success Story For The Right And Not The Left?
Like many political observers I was more than a little apprehensive about the outcome of last Friday’s referendum on repealingContinue Reading
The Dog-Whistle Rhetoric Of Brexit Britain Is Obsessed With Leo Varadkar
One of the more noxious effects associated with the rise of Brexitism in the United Kingdom has been the returnContinue Reading
UUP Lord Kilclooney Attacks Leo Varadkar With “Typical Indian” Jibe
For over thirty years, the Monaghan-born politician John Taylor, who sits as Lord Kilclooney in the upper house of theContinue Reading
Leo Varadkar Blames His Phone For Use Of Unaccountable Private Email
Most politics’ watchers will remember the issue of the private email server which got Hillary Clinton into such trouble inContinue Reading
A Failure Of Irish Government And Irish Politics As 10,000 Left Homeless
How on earth has Ireland’s politics come to this? Degenerated so deeply that a sizeable body of elected representatives canContinue Reading
Leo Varadkar’s PR Outfit, The Strategic Communications Unit, And Ireland 2040
With most of the country focused on the exceptionally bad weather this week, scant attention has been paid by theContinue Reading
The Stormont Talks Failure. Britain Swaps EU Rule For DUP Rule?
She came, she saw, she fucked off home. That summed up yesterday’s visit by Theresa May, the United Kingdom’s crisis-proneContinue Reading
Sammy Wilson Calls Leo Varadkar A Nutjob As The DUP Lobbies For Gerrymandering
Despite the claims made by her sympathisers in the Irish and British press, it’s become clear that last weekend’s seeminglyContinue Reading
Dublin Hints At Shared Authority With London Over The North Of Ireland
When it comes to the United Kingdom’s legacy colony in the north-east of Ireland, the political concepts, joint-sovereignty and joint-authorityContinue Reading
Leo Varadkar, From Love Actually To A Spaceman Came Travelling
I rarely listen to Newstalk radio, which has turned into the Daily Mail of Irish broadcasting, its schedules filled withContinue Reading
The EU And Ireland Wins Major Concessions From Britain As DUP Sidelined
The final, much-delayed agreement between the United Kingdom and the European Union – including, Ireland – has been published, spellingContinue Reading
The DUP And Arlene Foster Blocks Compromise “Soft Border” Deal Between Ireland, The EU and Britain
Early on Monday morning it seemed as if several months of torturous negotiations between Dublin, Brussels and London had paidContinue Reading
Former UK Government Minister Links Brexit Animosity Towards Ireland To World War II
Another day and another round of bizarre opinions from politicians in Britain as the rancorous Brexit schism between the UnitedContinue Reading
The Madness Of Brexit Britain, From David Trimble To Iain Duncan Smith
The insanity continues. David Trimble, the former chief of the centrist Ulster Unionist Party, now eclipsed among pro-union voters inContinue Reading
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