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From the Business Post’s tracking poll; Fianna Fail: 33% (-2)

University College Cork PhD Candidate and Griffith College law lecturer Fiona De Londras seems to have confused opinion with fact when she wrote recently in her first contribution to IrishElection.com that in Ireland ‘our taxes are high’. It was a throwaway remark in a comment article supporting Justice Minister Michael McDowell for his robust views [...]

Firstly since our brief fliration with fame on Tuesday we have added two players to the line-up. JG from Julius Geezer has come on board and a man who needs no introduction Mick Fealty from Slugger O Toole has bolstered our line-up. We are always looking for more bloggers and anyone interested in joining up [...]

It is clear that the one reason that the Green Party took place in Kilkenny Mary White. In the last General election Deputy Leader Mary White was eliminated on the 7th of 8 counts. Gaining 10% of all transfers. She is one of the hopes for a seat in the next Dail for the greens. [...]

Kerry people are an odd bunch. Rarely are we accredited as a barometer of the nation at large and 2007 looks to continue that reputation for exceptionalism. The Kerryman carried a story earlier this month about a leaked internal poll from FF. The poll suggested a number of interesting outcomes for the next election. The [...]

The Green Party have a blog of their convention here

This Easter, as people are no doubt aware, marks the 90th anniversary of the 1916 Rising which occurred in Dublin, Galway and other scattered parts throughout Ireland and involved members of the Irish Volunteers, the Irish Citizen Army, Cumann na mBán and various smaller groups (such as the Hibernian Rifles) and myriad individuals who joined [...]

Recent posts and comments on IrishElection.com have opened up the question of different models of public, private and hybrid systems of provision for healthcare. The issue seems capable of rational analysis to arrive at the most suitable solution for the time and place we are at in Ireland. I don’t believe that a purely ideological [...]

Environment Minister Dick Roche has come out with an attack on the Green Party saying “Over the past decade the Irish economy has been transformed. Real and substantial gains have been made. Yet at every stage of this remarkable transformation, the Green party has been there shouting ’Stop’,” This is quiet interesting as one would [...]

This government has won two elections. Both times the country was in the throes of astounding economic growth, general good feeling coursed through the veins of the all-important middle ireland (or celtic cubs if you will). Economic success we believed was premised on sound corporate involvement in social partnership. The unions and employers were at [...]

We argued recently that the country’s version of proportional representation was inimical to political accountability because it resulted in a fragmented political opposition, manifested in an increasing number of independent TDs.  Not surprisingly, this issue has been on the minds of the independents.  But the tentative solution contains at least one inherent contradiction: in the [...]

The one thing that Bush can do is divide people. In America people tend to either love him or hate him. In Ireland we have the same figure. You would think that it would be either Ian Paisley or Gerry Adams. An anti-Irish man or an alleged “former” IRA chief of staff. But no Gerry [...]

I knew as soon as i posted on being on radio that I should have held on. Still it was always going to happen on a week like this. Irishelection.com has been bumped to probably next week with Dunphy on the Breakfast show. I hope its only a delay but ill keep all you avid [...]

As you can see from below, the interview which Frank Neary has started with Killian Forde (SF Councillor) and which will continue through the week, focussed on issues of globalisation and the new economy that has taken shape in the preceding 20 years or so. And there are a vast number of people out there [...]

Read yesterday’s introduction to Killian Forde Frank: Killian Forde, you’ve been on Dublin City Council since 2004. You put in twenty hours weekly as a public representative for the Donaghmede area where you live with your Kosovar wife Teuta, whom you met while working in the Balkans with the UN, and your son Enis. You [...]

Ah Fintan O’Toole Fintan Fintan Fintan what are we going to do with you. Yesterday in the Irish Times apart from the piece on the Irish Election site. We had a piece from the boald Fintan. Basically it is about Martin Cullen’s meeting and “welcoming back of US troops from Iraq” in New York over [...]