Already this morning, you’ll find, if you look for them, tweets from journalists about how the turnout is low in Ireland’s four bye-elections, which are taking place today, and will be counted tomorrow. Conventionally, the media does not discuss the specific issues around a campaign on, or before, polling day, and even though no such […]
The big news this morning is that the Social Democrats have decided that the time is ripe for a vote of no confidence in Eoghan Murphy: “THE SOCIAL DEMOCRATS are to table a motion of no confidence in housing minister Eoghan Murphy. Party co-leader Róisín Shortall confirmed this morning that the party will publish the […]
Former American President George H.W. Bush, as he was losing his campaign for re-election to Bill Clinton way back in 1992, famously complained that try though he might, he couldn’t compete with Clinton on “the vision thing”. In that election, Bush, a man who had served his country for fifty years and served with honour […]
It’s been a rough morning for Fianna Fáil’s by-election candidate in Dublin Fingal, Senator Lorraine Clifford-Lee. After this website revealed on Saturday evening that the Senator had sent a number of openly racist tweets, she found herself on the front page of the Irish Independent this morning, claiming amongst other things that she had been […]
Fianna Fáil by-election candidate, Senator Lorraine Clifford-Lee complained in 2011 that she had to sit beside a “black, Brazilian dwarf” on a Dublin Bus journey. Several tweets have emerged from Senator Clifford-Lee, dating to 2011 and 2012, and have been circulated on twitter by political opponents. Several of these tweets refer to travellers in particular, […]
They’re at it again. Fianna Fáil spokespeople are being trotted out this morning across the airwaves to make the case that now would be a very bad time for an Irish general election, and that it would be better for everyone if the Government – which Fianna Fáil says is useless – stayed in office […]
It is quite the spectacle, for those interested, to observe the current row between Ireland’s two largest political parties. Fianna Fáil, as anyone who has not spent the last week on a hillside in the remotest part of Mongolia will know, have been uncovered taking part in what appears to be a widespread practice of […]
A fascinating proposal from Fianna Fáil’s justice spokesman – I look forward to seeing the uptake in his own constituency of Dublin Bay South. Jim O’Callaghan made the proposal that families should take in asylum seekers in conversation with Fine Gael Minister David Stanton in the Dáil this morning. He suggested that families who housed […]
A slick new ad from the Government party right here, explicitly designed to stoke fears that Fianna Fáil would bankrupt the country if trusted with power: Everyone should watch this video. Has Fianna Fáil learned nothing? For more, see: https://t.co/f4uGy2PH0n #RecklessFF pic.twitter.com/hRIAb8BPSr — Fine Gael (@FineGael) September 8, 2019 The core criticism here is perfectly […]
An Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, has claimed that one of the reasons we have overruns in the health service is down to what he described as a “recruitment surge rather than the recruitment crisis.” The Taoiseach also maintained that overspending can be attributed to the fact “that extra people are hired every year beyond what is […]