If we simply had consensus and “solution focused” politics, we would only need to screen civil servants for those qualities, and let them get on with it.
Voters, in both this election and future elections, should take careful note.
This time, there’s nobody else to blame if it all goes sideways.
As goes Prosperous, so goes Ireland?
Stephen Donnelly status: Sweating.
The only question of interest is whether the second Healy-Rae seat, in the possession of Danny, is at risk.
The stunning thing here, really, is that the polling consistently now has Sinn Fein on course to lose seats, rather than gain them, at the next election.
Odds and ends from the Editor.
It’s just one poll, but this is the best news the party has had in some time.
Far be it from me to second-guess Colette Browne, the communications director for the Social Democrats, but in her position I am not sure that I would have agreed, during a cost of living crisis, to have my party leader photographed for the Sunday Independent wearing made-to-order clothes with a labelled value of over €1000. […]
20 months on, and we’re now reduced to having politicians urging citizens to root out a fifth column that threatens the national struggle.
Unbelievable. And yet, entirely in character: Soc Dems @RoisinShortall says she has “serious concerns” about Govt’s proposed extension of emergency Covid powers and says extension should only be six weeks. pic.twitter.com/jZzsbYepg5 — David Murphy (@davidmurphyRTE) May 25, 2021 As of today, the Social Democrats will vote against any extension of the lockdown powers. On one […]