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 […]
Politics is supposed to be a simple enough activity. The basic idea is that various parties put forward ideas for how the country should be governed, the voters choose between the various offerings, and the people who get the largest number of seats in the parliament then have the power to form a Government that […]
Mattie McGrath is a politician a lot of people deeply admire (full disclosure, since people writing about politics really should tell you these things: He got my number one vote last Saturday) but come on now, this is a bit of a rush of blood to the head, isn’t it? “Independent Tipperary TD Mattie McGrath […]
A strange sight this morning, as Sinn Fein’s newly elected TDs arrived in Dublin for a Parliamentary Party meeting to talk about their strategy ahead of the first meeting of the new Dáil: Sinn Féin gathering for a meeting of its expanded parliamentary party. Not sure who this new fella in the middle is. Anyone? […]
When photographer Sam Rowley first published his ‘Station Squabble’ photo, it was so good many people thought it had to be photo-shopped. But it was real, and has now won an award from the Natural History Museum’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition. The perfectly-timed shot of two tiny mice seemingly caught in a life-or-death […]
One of the benefits of Sinn Fein’s electoral triumph is that the Irish public will soon see ideas beloved of the left for a generation put, at along last, into practice. For two decades now, for example, the Irish people have been told that if Sinn Fein was in Government, US troops would have to […]
In Ireland, the pundit class moves like a herd. Nobody wants to get too far away from the conventional wisdom, even when the conventional wisdom settles around a nonsense idea, as it is today. Fianna Fáil sources are now telling people that the party does not want to do business with Sinn Fein, and is […]
Cullinane insisted to reporters today that he had never distanced himself from the IRA and would not be retracting the comments.
Four days before the February 8th vote an Ibsos/MRBI poll for TG4 claimed Danny Healy-Rae was in danger of losing his seat in Kerry. He took the seat comfortably. Danny’s brother, Michael Healy-Rae said commentators and pollsters were to be congratulated on being consistently wrong. As Danny told Virgin Media, his stance of putting the people before the […]
Some of the country’s most high-profile TDs are set to lose their seat in Election 2020. Meanwhile, several candidates who were predicted to to be in trouble look set to retain their seats or are in contention for a last seat in constituencies expected to go down to the wire. Kate O’Connell of Fine Gael […]
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 […]
Leading pro-life group Life Institute says its Vote Pro Life blitz is reaching 300,000 people in the last week of the electionThe group issued a “Find Your ProLife Candidate” information campaign this week, producing what it described as a “comprehensive and carefully researched” listing of candidates who support the pro-life position. In a email to […]