The retirement from politics at the upcoming election of Eamon O’Cuiv will mark the departure of the last member of the DeValera family from the Oireachtas.
After leaving Fine Gael in 2018.
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At every single one of the general elections since 1981, the people of Cork North West have elected either a Moynihan, representing Fianna Fáil, or a Creed representing Fine Gael.
Given the lie of the land, everything here favours Fianna Fáil’s chances of picking up an extra seat.
This basic idea comes up so often in literature that one might begin to think it is inate to the human condition, and that Sinn Fein are a real-world example of the phenomenon.
Cavan-Monaghan is going to be a repeat of 2016, with five seats divided between three parties, with one of them losing out on a second.
For all the talk of being a democratic party, Sinn Fein has never held a contested leadership election.
When a media organ is suggesting – vaguely – that some people making some arguments might be Russian agents, then that media organ is not doing the public a service.
“The big structural issues, like planning backlogs or health capacity crises, or wider EU migration policy, are viewed consistently as being above the political pay grade.”
That yesterday’s budget was a cynical exercise in vote buying is beyond any doubt. The problem for the opposition is that if the usual laws of politics apply, then it is very likely to work.
“Independent Ireland TDs and MEPs will vote in accordance with the party’s policies, as they are the people who developed, negotiated, and adopted said policies”