In Ireland, the choice is between energy, experience, and change. Those aren’t ideas, but marketing slogans.
Why winning the popular vote really does matter, actually.
Sinn Fein would need to be afflicted by an absolute earthquake not to hold their two seats, and FF and FG should both just about have enough.
What the American right has done has been to create over 40 or 50 years the infrastructure to build towards victory. There are no shortcuts to doing the same here in this little country of ours.
Jerusalem, if it bothers to look, will be amused.
Trump is in the process of de-racialising American politics, and this can only be a good thing
As for Fianna Fáil? Well, they’ve just plain made a mess of it.
The point is this: You went to their door. They didn’t invite you.
“Yet all this amounts to is a cheap psychological trick, one that has been played on electorates around the world for two decades now at least.”
Society can’t continue to have it both ways: Either what Ms Phillips did is empowering, legal, and should be tolerated, or it is deeply damaging to women and very bad for men.
There might be some tensions in that house, you’d guess, with one sister fighting to re-elect Fine Gael and the other campaigning against it as an independent.
Cairns, like other party leaders (including, this time, Michael Collins) has the disadvantage of being unable to devote herself full-time to the constituency.
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