The long term trajectory of Irish politics is broadly unchanged. B
In this atmosphere, the prospect of all the major players bleeding votes to alternative options at the next election is high
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“Probably.”
It’s the contrast between a country that takes politics seriously, and a country in which nobody, nobody at all, takes any real responsibility for governing.
Anyone who knows of Fine Gael is aware that the party’s brand is based largely on being a laissez-faire, pro-business, low tax party. In 2018, then-Taoiseach Leo Varadkar tried to position his party as the party of tax cuts, making bold promises and big assurances of cuts for years to come. And that certainly sounds […]
on the substance, Willie O’Dea is right: Fianna Fáil has become, in Government, functionally indistinguishable from Fine Gael.
“The Brazilians must be falling over in stitches because of what is happening in this country”
The trouble with writing about Ireland at the moment is that it is increasingly difficult to convey to the reader the full scale of the insanity that is going on, while not ending up sounding like a hysteric yourself. But nonetheless, it is important, too, to record things that are true, and here’s a statement […]
It’s one thing, you know, for politicians to lie to you and me. We’re used to it. We don’t expect any better. We’re so used to it that we can actually translate them automatically. For example, “well Miriam, I’m glad you asked me that” means “I am now going to answer a totally different question”. […]