Stormont Elections: 42% Pro-Union, 41% Pro-Unity, 16% Other
A lot of partisan views have been expressed on the results of last week’s regional elections in the north ofContinue Reading
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A lot of partisan views have been expressed on the results of last week’s regional elections in the north ofContinue Reading
According to the latest polling, from the “Oirish” edition of The Sunday Times, Sinn Féin is currently at the topContinue Reading
I’ve some mixed views on the British journalist Owen Jones, who cleaves a little bit too much to the censoriousContinue Reading
This week should have seen Sinn Féin in the sunny uplit lands of opposition, to borrow a phrase from UKContinue Reading
Back in the 1950s the author and playwright Brendan Behan famously dismissed the average scion of the Anglo-Irish Ascendancy, theContinue Reading
A rather odd report from Extra.ie, the tabloid-style Irish news and culture website, on a recent appearance by Simon Coveney,Continue Reading
From hero to zero. That seems to be the perennial fate of Micheál Martin, despite ten years of certain newspapersContinue 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
I’d treat this with caution until we get the details but a poll commissioned by Sinn Féin through the well-knownContinue Reading
It’s often claimed that the UK leader Harold Wilson was the first one to make the observation that “a weekContinue Reading
If Sinn Féin went into the general election with the widespread belief that it was going to suffer serious lossesContinue Reading
If the first opinion poll of the general election had a question mark or two about its methodologies, the resultsContinue Reading
So what are we to make of Monday’s Associated Press interview with the Sinn Féin leader, Mary Lou McDonald, whereContinue Reading
The Sinn Féin leader, Mary Lou McDonald, throwing shade at the interminably smug David Quinn and other members of theContinue Reading
And with one bound she is gone! Or rather, with a few gentle nudges in the right direction from seniorContinue Reading
Mary Lou McDonald is almost certain to be the next leader of Sinn Féin. Kim Bielenberg writes filler pieces forContinue Reading
If one were to believe the country’s right-leaning press, from newspapers to current affairs’ websites, Sinn Féin is a partyContinue Reading
Despite vociferous denials and protests to the contrary, by both politicians and journalists, since the general election of 2011 theContinue Reading
So Enda Kenny’s premiership has survived for another day following last night’s unsuccessful vote in Dáil Éireann on the proposed motion of no confidence inContinue Reading
On Friday morning the Sinn Féin vice-president, Mary Lou McDonald, was confronted by a self-styled “concerned citizen” on O’Connell Street inContinue Reading
The controversial Fine Gael TD, Catherine Byrne, has a brief exchange of words with a member of the general public visiting DáilContinue Reading