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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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
Mary Lou McDonald: “A United Ireland Will Happen Within A Decade”
I’ve some mixed views on the British journalist Owen Jones, who cleaves a little bit too much to the censoriousContinue Reading
Bobby Storey, Paddy Holohan And Sinn Féin’s Very Bad Week In Opposition
This week should have seen Sinn Féin in the sunny uplit lands of opposition, to borrow a phrase from UKContinue 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
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
Poll: Sinn Féin 25%, Fianna Fáil 22%, Fine Gael 17%, Greens 9%
I’d treat this with caution until we get the details but a poll commissioned by Sinn Féin through the well-knownContinue 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
Mary Lou McDonald And Sinn Féin’s Approach To A Reunited Ireland
So what are we to make of Monday’s Associated Press interview with the Sinn Féin leader, Mary Lou McDonald, whereContinue Reading
Mary Lou McDonald Scolds The Tone Deaf Iona Institute
The Sinn Féin leader, Mary Lou McDonald, throwing shade at the interminably smug David Quinn and other members of theContinue Reading
Tánaiste Frances Fitzgerald Resigns, Saving Fine Gael’s Minority Government
And with one bound she is gone! Or rather, with a few gentle nudges in the right direction from seniorContinue Reading
The Othering Of Mary Lou McDonald By The Right-Wing Press
Mary Lou McDonald is almost certain to be the next leader of Sinn Féin. Kim Bielenberg writes filler pieces forContinue Reading
A Fine Gael-Sinn Féin Coalition Government? Not This Side Of A Reunited Ireland
If one were to believe the country’s right-leaning press, from newspapers to current affairs’ websites, Sinn Féin is a partyContinue Reading
Likelihood Of Future Fianna Fáil And Sinn Féin Post-Election Deal Grows
Despite vociferous denials and protests to the contrary, by both politicians and journalists, since the general election of 2011 theContinue Reading
Enda Kenny, A Taoiseach On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown
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
Fergus Crawford And Mary Lou McDonald, Or The 1% Attacks The 99%
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
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
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