There might be some tensions in that house, you’d guess, with one sister fighting to re-elect Fine Gael and the other campaigning against it as an independent.
In Dublin Bay South, big beasts will do battle – and one or more must lose.
“Conservative, or right leaning, or alternative media is of no use to anybody if it’s just propaganda. That’s a hill I’ll die on”
Editor’s note: This piece was originally published on March 2nd, 2020. With the possible exception of Simon Harris, it’s difficult to think of anybody who has personified the domestic agenda of Fine Gael over the past several years more than Kate O’Connell. When, in 2016, she unseated ex-Fine Gael TD Lucinda Creighton, it seemed to […]
A party that has two such high profile, and similar outbursts, in a year, has some kind of a problem that needs to be fixed.
O’Connell said she would not be leaving the party because of “one person”, however.
When I was in my mid-twenties, journalist Justine McCarthy wrote a vicious article attacking me in the Irish Independent. Actually there were two articles, over two consecutive weeks, both a big splash covering the front page of what was then the weekend section of the paper. I was reminded of that hatchet-job, and of winning […]
It was a glorious day at Crumlin Children’s Hospital recently, when staff and patients were honoured by an impromptu visit from Her Serene Highness the Princess Rathgar herself: “A high-profile Government TD has admitted she was embarrassed to witness the overflowing A&E in Crumlin Children’s Hospital when she attended at the weekend with her sick […]
“‘Entirely inappropriate’ – anger as Fine Gael Youth leader attends US right-wing conference” This was the headline that greeted the group of 11 students and young professionals shortly after landing in Dublin Airport recently on a crisp Monday morning at 6 am. They had set off from Washington Dulles over 6 hours before and had […]