Good candidates make their supporters feel smart for voting for them. Bad ones openly advertise themselves as clueless.
Until you see all these people on stage, facing off against each other, the polls are a bit of a nonsense.
A gilded cage.
What’s the job specification
Undemocratic process and an increasingly partisan role
The full line up.
#GE24: Moments after saying politicians should be “respectful” and avoid “personal” attacks, Taoiseach Simon Harris said he has “no intention” of apologising for calling incoming US President Donald Trump a “gowl”, and says he doesn’t think this will damage Irish-US relations:
Early indications.
A week before the election.
In modern democracies, political offices are just one of a whole series of interlocking institutions that wield political power. Capturing one of them is not enough. There are no shortcuts.
Passed the House
Taoiseach Simon Harris distances himself from a letter in which President Higgins gave the Iranian regime his “best wishes”, saying the letter is not government policy: “We have fundamental differences with Iran, and I’ll always continue to call out their human rights abuses.”