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The referendum on increased powers for Oireachtas Committees deserved to fail. Had the public debate that some members of the government this past weekend wistfully suggested might have made a difference to the final result taken place, the net result might have been failure by an even larger margin than a 53% ‘No’. There was [...]

With Sean Gallagher now taken out of his Presidential hopes, convicted fuel-smuggler and Gallagher-accuser Hugh Morgan has changed his story for a second time. He now says the invite to the FF fundraising event may not have been issued by Gallagher at all, but by former FF TD for Louth Seamus Kirk. Kirk himself says [...]

The Evening Herald has claimed that SF Presidential candidate Martin McGuinness is the main suspect in the murder of two policemen gunned down in an IRA ambush in Derry: SINN Fein Presidential candidate Martin McGuinness is the main suspect in the brutal murder of two policemen, the Herald can reveal. Sergeant Peter Gilgunn (26) and [...]

Update: Gallagher on facebook denying he is man in a 1992 photo cited on David Cochrane (of politics.ie)’s twitter page. Sinn Fein’s allegations linking Gallagher to a cheque for €5,000 for FF have been undermined following the revelations that the accuser has convictions for cross-border fuel-smuggling and tax-evasion and leased his General Election HQ to [...]

It’s ironic that in the run up to the referendum on De Valera’s draft Constitution in 1937, the proposed role of the President was one of the most contentious areas of political debate. Fine Gael feared that De Valera was ultimately planning for a Presidential dictatorship of sorts. Such fears were misplaced. The Presidency, as [...]