To the extent that Fine Gael is winning back votes, it is winning them back from people who want to see some change, but not loads of change.
All the evidence you’ll ever need that we are governed not only by buffoons, but by dishonest and unprincipled buffoons.
Giving the power to shape the country’s future to people who do not have to live in that future would not only be grossly unfair, but a potentially catastrophic error.
To a lot of people watching around the world, it came across as deeply weird, angry, and obsessive.
Putting up with some clutter on the lampposts is a very small price to pay for living in a country where we get to be consulted about how we should be ruled.
Middle class acceptability is a prerequisite for political success, and for the moment, for many of those seeking election on a patriotic platform, that ingredient is almost entirely lacking.
Fewer councillors means fewer Senators.
One of the basic jobs of elected officials is to see things coming. There are some candidates running in these elections who did see this problem coming, and warned about it.
Far down the ballot paper, it’s more about keeping people out than it is voting people in.
Under such reforms, the old national political establishment would lost much of its power. But so would national populist leaders and movements.
Independent candidate for the European and local elections, Malachy Steenson launched his campaign at a press conference in Buswells Hotel this afternoon. Steenson is running in the four seater Dublin European Parliament constituency and as a candidate for the North inner city ward in the elections for Dublin City Council. The North inner city ward […]
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