Watch the whole video here, so you can be sure that we’re not being unfair to Aodhán O’Riordáin, Labour TD, and, apparently, staunch opponent of owning your own home: During today's debate @AodhanORiordain raised the issue of changing the way we view housing and put a bigger emphasis on creating diverse communities creating a better […]
The Labour Party’s new policy is a new policy, technically speaking. But it is not a new idea. It is, in fact, almost 50 years old and was first proposed in the Kenny Report of 1973. The report is so old, in fact, that its author, Justice John Kenny, has been dead since 1987. The […]
The headline above is entirely accurate, and, at the same time, a little misleading. You might think, to read it, that the various main party candidates in the Dublin Bay South bye-election were engaged in a war over the legality of abortion, with one or two expressing a pro-choice view, and one or two dissenting. […]
Yesterday Leinster House hosted yet another festival of virtue signalling or what was billed as a debate on the Labour Party’s proposal to pursue a “national aggressive suppression strategy” to bring about Zero Covid. This is something many experts believe is impossible – and in any event is that not what the much heralded vaccine […]
Another entry in the very large file of evidence that exists for Aodhán O’Riordáin being Ireland’s most shameless politician: We are against the Investor Court System in #CETA and how it will impact on everything from workers’ rights to environmental standards. That’s why @labour TDs and Senators agreed today we will vote against the Govt […]
It is a good time to be a worker. Well, apart from the lockdowns. And it’s probably not great if you are in hospitality. Or tourism. Or in the airline industry. Ok, let’s start again. Leaving aside COVID (who doesn’t want to do that!?) the next few years and decades will be a good […]
Peadar Tóibín’s Aontú have drawn level with the Labour Party on 4% in the latest Ireland Thinks opinion poll for the Mail on Sunday, which also shows that about 20-25% of Irish voters would not take a Covid vaccine. More on the vaccine below, but first, here are the party figures: 🚨Poll🚨Ireland Thinks / Mail […]
On June 11th, 2004, sixteen and a half years ago, the Irish people went to the polls to vote on the 27th amendment to the constitution. The proposal in front of them was to strip from the constitution the automatic right to citizenship conferred on every child born on Irish soil. Instead, prior to the […]
In the midst of a housing crisis that dominated the General Election earlier this year, and in a country with – at last count – ten thousand homeless people, Dublin City Council was last night presented with a plan to build 850 new homes in Coolock. 250 of these would have been social housing. The […]
Like a lot of centre left parties around the world, Jacinda Ardern’s New Zealand Labour Party entered the recent New Zealand election pledging to raise taxes on the rich. At first glance, New Zealand Labour and it’s leader is everything the Irish left dreams of having here in Ireland – a young, unabashedly liberal, female […]
A judge has ordered the arrest of former Labour senator James Heffernan (40) after the Limerick man failed to appear at Dublin District Court on charges of theft and an offence against the Public Order Act.
On Saturday, more than three weeks will have passed since the General Election, and Ireland still has no obvious Government in sight. It is now expected that the next attempt by the Dáil to elect a new Taoiseach may not take place until the end of March. Yesterday, Aontú leader Peadar Tóibín noted the somewhat […]