This basically comes down to a question of who you believe: Sinn Fein? Or your lying eyes? “Sinn Fein”, will come the answer from lots of you who believe the party can do no wrong. Here’s Michelle O’Neill, with the latest line on this, which is a load of nonsense: “There has been considerable controversy […]
Clever: Sinn Féin has proposed giving every adult and child a government funded gift voucher to spend in pubs, restaurants and hotels to kick-start the tourism industry. Under the €1bn scheme every adult would be given a €200 voucher and every child would get €100 to spend in local businesses that sign up to the […]
We hear all how Sinn Féin represents change from the Fianna Gael/Fine Fáil monopoly. But nobody ever stops to ask – what kind of change does Sinn Féin actually represent? Ben Scallan comments #gript
A bid by the Democratic Unionist Party in the north to outlaw abortions on the grounds of disability has gained support and put pressure on Sinn Féin to support a change in the law to protect some people with disabilities. Abortion legislation, imposed on the region by the British Parliament in Westminster has remained enormously controversial ever since […]
Last weekend’s interview with Mary Lou McDonald by Hugh O’Connell attracted a lot of attention because McDonald had told him that she might well have joined the IRA. Of course she did not, choosing instead to join Fianna Fáil while in college, and only joining Sinn Féin in 2002. She was elected to the European […]
There are probably two things one might say about Mary Lou McDonald’s claim to the Sunday Independent that given the chance, she’d have been in the IRA, armed to the teeth and taking potshots at lads from Bolton who were unlucky enough to get posted to Northern Ireland. If you’re the anti-SF type, there’s the […]
While US President Trump threatens to pull the US pharma industry out of Ireland, tanking the economy, Leo Varadkar thinks it’s a good time to needlessly insult him. Ben Scallan comments. #gript
The Green Party is a remarkably patrician outfit. Its elected representatives are invariably academics, lawyers or involved in “clean” enterprise. That is reflected in fact that their youth wing is almost exclusively based in the four main universities. The Young Greens, albeit with just one rep on the National Executive, will nonetheless play a key role […]
An Irish Examiner story, for the record, not one of ours. We have higher standards, you see. Anyway, here’s what they wrote. It went super-viral online, as you might expect: “A number of TDs have raised the question of new allowances to allow them to purchase office equipment while they work from home during the […]
Pop quiz: Who said this, on January 23rd? Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin has said his party will not form a “grand coalition” with Fine Gael after the general election. Mr Martin said his party was only interested in creating a new government with other “centre” parties such as Labour and the Greens. Asked if […]
An interesting report in the Examiner the other day that, with all the Coronavirus news, got a little bit overlooked. But it’s genuinely surprising that it’s taken this long for something like this to be floated: A number of Fine Gael ministers do not believe a government can be formed and that a second general […]
What kind of mentality observes the global lockdown and horrifying death toll from the Coronavirus and acts as if the real problem is that there might not be enough abortions? At a time when heroic men and women on the frontline are making enormous sacrifices to save lives, abortion supporters are fretting that COVID-19 might be preventing […]