The real problem here is that all of this likely means that the next General election will see a result quite similar to the last one.
Every week, in this job, I get emails from people who believe – for whatever reason – that the Government is actively working against the interests of its own people
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.
They’re still going to slice open your wallet. They’re just going to give you an injection, first, so you don’t feel it.
The truth about Paul Murphy is this: That if there were, ever, a fully socialist Ireland, he would denounce it as not socialist enough.
It’s the kind of thing that, if it were being proposed for, say, Boris Johnson, would have the Irish media in apoplectic form.
They are a party that pretends to represent the working people, but actually represent the concerns of the ruling class, almost in their entirety.
on the substance, Willie O’Dea is right: Fianna Fáil has become, in Government, functionally indistinguishable from Fine Gael.
At present, Ireland is on course for a disastrous pensions reckoning
In fact, by the standards of western, English-speaking democracies, the Irish Government is in a very strong political position, relative to the main opposition.
It paints a picture, whether intentional or not, of a closed shop political class whose cultural and economic similarities overcome any superficial policy differences.
It has not been much remarked upon, in the early days of the new year, that there is one political certainty in 2022: The year begins with Micheál Martin as Taoiseach. It will end with somebody else in the job. Mr. Martin made a deal to take power, and at the centre of that deal […]