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Many people are aware of what happened to Paudie Gahon who was a Louth teenager raped by a member of one of the elite Belfast Brigade IRA families, the Marleys. Séamus Marley is the son of Larry who organised the H Block escape in 1983. Someone else now claims to have been the mastermind, but […]
People everywhere were sickened and horrified last April when three teenage boys became the victims of an acid attack in Earlscourt Housing Estate in Waterford. A large group of older boys, most around 18/19 years old, threw acidic drain cleaner in the younger boys’ faces without provocation. The victims received severe burns and scars to […]
There’s understandably been grave concern in Fine Gael over the last week at the direction of the General Election campaign. Their party is third in the polls. Their star feminist candidate called the Taoiseach autistic. Their best photoshoot involved Simon Coveney eating a sausage roll. Nobody cares about Brexit. Sinn Fein are on the march. […]
The good news in this election campaign, if you’re an undecided voter, is that every problem the country has can be easily solved if you just vote the right way. If you want a tax cut, you’re going to get one. If you’re concerned about your pension, don’t worry – that will be fixed. If […]
A recent Irish Times/MRBI pre-election poll (20/1/20) has indicated that an overwhelming majority of Irish voters – no less than 75% – now want a change of government. Significantly, over one in three voters believe “it is time for a radical change of direction for the country.” Given the abysmal failures of judgment and leadership […]
Brexit day is a hugely important day for Fine Gael in the context of this general election campaign, because in many ways it’s a day of genuine triumph for the Government. Whether the fears of societal collapse and economic catastrophe on foot of Brexit were ever based in fact, or whether they were exaggerated, the […]
There are plenty of voters and citizens who might feel that they have few reasons to shed any tears over the downfall of Fine Gael Senator Catherine Noone. The Senator, who imploded her own political career two days ago by making extraordinarily offensive and false remarks about her own party leader, has racked up a […]
If you were to distil Ireland’s emergent culture wars down to their purest, most unadulterated essence, you probably couldn’t come up with a better few lines than this response to a questionnaire on cycling by the Chairman of Renua Ireland: TheJournal's first Election Q&A is up. We asked each party their policies on cycling in […]
If you were the kind of person who bets, and if you had the chance to lay odds on which political party would produce the single dumbest policy of the General Election, you’d never go far wrong betting on Solidarity/People Before Profit. And if you’d made that bet, then today you would have won. A […]
Well, this will come as a relief to the hundreds of thousands of voters up and down the country who are presently losing sleep at the prospect of the election depriving the nation of its finest politician: “Children’s minister Katherine Zappone has said she would be willing to work in a government led by Micheál […]
It might be hard to remember, in the full flush of this morning’s feeding frenzy around her, that Senator Catherine Noone has been widely regarded, for the past few years, as one of the brightest stars in the Fine Gael heavens. On paper, she is the perfect candidate, and the perfect politician, for the new […]
Next week, just days before the general election, secondary school teachers across the country will go on strike to protest against continued pay inequality for their profession. In Ireland in 2020, we still have the objectively absurd situation where two people, teaching the same subject, in the same school, for the same number of hours, […]
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