Joe Loughnane, a People Before Profit election candidate in Galway and the founder of the Galway Anti-Racism Network [GARN], has been expelled from People Before Profit following a meeting of their Steering Committee. The Steering Committee said that there was no place in PBP for Joe following ‘his violent attack on a former partner’. Mr […]
Reada Cronin, a newly elected Sinn Fein TD for Kildare North, regularly made controversial statements in the years before she was elected, including statements where she said she would be ‘unsurprised’ if ‘loads of judges’ were paedophiles; that she had thought a picture of monkeys in a building was a photo of the Israeli embassy […]
The election count is underway this morning after a shock exit poll predicted SF, FF, and FG would each receive 22% of the vote. SF usually underperform relative to the exit poll, -1% or so, FG usually perform as the exit polls predicted, and FF usually over-perform relative to the poll, +1 – 2% or […]
People Before Profit candidate Joe Loughnane, running in Galway West, has been accused of assaulting Roisin Bowyer, a prominent Sinn Fein activist in the city. Ms Bowyer took to Twitter to post a series of photos which she said showed the aftermath of Mr Loughnane spitting on her and breaking her phone when she refused […]
The parliamentary assistant of Fine Gael TD Kate O’Connell, Teresa Newman, caused some embarrassment for the party on Tuesday night when took to Twitter to describe Mary Lou McDonald in a manner that was described as dehumanising, sexual, and objectifying. Ms Newman made the remarks as a response to Mary Lou McDonald’s answer to a […]
In the closing days of the election Fine Gael have begun an all out attack on Sinn Fein in constituencies across the country. Fine Gael candidates have been given leaflets, to be given out in the last days of the campaign, saying that “only Fine Gael can be trusted to not do a deal with […]
The response of Fianna Fail and Fine Gael to Sinn Fein surging ahead in the polls show that the parties are too out of touch to actually stop Sinn Fein’s rise. According to polling Sinn Fein are now, at worst, tied with Fianna Fail as the most popular party in this country, and at current […]
The Green Party have released their election manifesto this week, you can read a copy of it HERE. It’s a brave document, in parts good, in parts a reminder of why the Green Party have the reputation they do. As you read it you find yourself repeatedly agreeing with the normal parts of the manifesto […]
In a sudden reversal of policy for Fianna Fail Micheál Martin yesterday pledged to introduce an emergency rent freeze if elected. This comes one day after Fianna Fail published legal advice they had been given which said that such a freeze would be unconstitutional. Between Tuesday, when Fianna Fail launched their housing policy, and Wednesday, […]
In a radical move that will leave businesses, farmers, and the public scrambling Fianna Fail leader Micheál Martin has pledged that he will bring down greenhouse gas emissions by ‘at least 8% a year’ if elected. The Irish Environmental Protection Agency [EPA] had previously said that they projected that by 2030 Ireland would have reduced […]
Joe Loughnane, who is standing in the coming election for PBP in Galway, has put out a statement admitting that a recording of him saying that he had “sorted a lot of drugs for a lot of people in this city” was legitimate and that he had made that statement. He says that he only […]
FG have chosen to go to the country rather than let a no confidence vote in Simon Harris go ahead. FG have seen off a ridiculous number of no confidence motions since their last election, but they’re now on the verge of calling a general election to avoid facing what should be a pretty routine […]