Irish Election - Coverage of Irish Politics, News and Current Affairs

I finally got my hands on it. I had trouble finding it anywhere on the internet, so someone may have already beaten me to it.
Anyways here it is. Pee Flynn destroying his political career in one interview. The quality is not the best as it was recorded on VHS nine years ago, but it is [...]

Today’s Sunday Business Post poll certainly contains some eyebrow-raising figures - particularly where it shows a majority in disbelief of Bertie Ahern’s tribunal performance to date. But to the probably relief of Ahern, and the Fianna Fáil party as a whole, this majority is not maintained when the topic moves to those who call for [...]

The Dail Ministers: Mary Hanafin
Genius work by this blogger. Some blogs might be shite, as they say in their intro post, but this one won’t be one of them. Take a read of the intro to see why Mary is the first Minister to be profiled in what promises to be a pretty decent lineup.

While the Indymedia commenters go on about the Fianna Fail-Green Party coalition openly colluding with these US torturers and murderers, in their protest that involved putting Liam Mellows in a orange boiler suit, Niall O’Brolchain is in one of the pictures next to Michael D. What struck me about this is Labour are having problems [...]

Bertie-hooray, Enda & Eamon-boo. Below is the Fianna Fail response to the gains it has seen in the Irish Times and Sunday Business Post over the week. As you can see, it is thrilled with its performance but it strikes me that this is also a boot that they have been waiting to apply for [...]

Progressive Democrat Leader by March
Following the meeting today they expect the rule-changes and leader to be in place by March. Leaders will be taken from inside or outside the Dail.

The trend since the election has been the return of the 2+ party system and this poll does little to dispel that impression. Following closely on the Irish Times poll midweek, there is good news for both of the big parties in today’s Sunday Business Post poll. Fianna Fail are up four to 36% while [...]

Libertas Spending More Cash
John notes that Libertas estimate they will be spending E1.5 million on their forthcoming no campaign. He raises some good points on the nature of deriving that funding. Arguably though, Libertas is itself a forseeable outcome when all of the major politi

There are two small but interesting pieces in the Irish Times today concerning Labour and the PDs. The PDs are meeting in Galway today in a meeting organised by Noel Grealish to discuss future direction. Though the meeting is due to be “councillor-driven” and Mary Harney won’t be present it is interesting and symptomatic of [...]

When caught in a storm, long-term thinking is understandably sacrificed to more short-term concerns – like getting out of the rain. You’re wet, you’re going to get wetter (the bus stop has no shelter), and you’re just hoping you don’t get a chill or, worse, pneumonia. What you do afterwards can be considered when you’re [...]

At the risk of moving Cian’s much more interesting post a little down the screen, it’s perhaps worth noting that the resignation of Peter Hain from Gordon Brown’s Cabinet raises yet again the very different standards for resignation in the UK and Ireland.   Hain, who clearly botched the management of donations to his failed campaign [...]

Thought you would look. Its a new site which hopes to turn busy women into political campaigners. Log on over there if you are interested in the condition of the health service but more particularly the standard of women’s care.
It has a number of actions already on the site which allow you to send a [...]

Frank Dunlop won’t tell the Mahon tribunal which person, then seeking a High Court appointment and who subsequently got it, met him in February 2000. Here’s the complete list of current justices, although in principle someone could have cycled in and out of the job during the interval and not be on this list. [...]

They’re being voted on at the moment. As expected, the motion to make it party policy to support the treaty fell short of the required 2/3 majority. But the motion to make it party policy to oppose the treaty will also fail. So the only one that really matters is the third [...]

Don’t You Dare Hold our Vote on your ‘Europe Day’
New blog The Irish Conservative reckons that government will hold the EU referendum on Europe Day, May 9, and this amounts to a measure of government propaganda. Legitimate pro-EU propaganda will conincide with a vote on the EU treaty. Unless the date is

A writer for The Dubliner magazine, Robert O’Byrne, has written 3,442 words attempted to define what it means to be Middle Class in Ireland today. The title of the article is In Defense of the Middle Class, but apart from dwelling on clichéd notions of class in the 19th Century he doesn’t seem to know [...]