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One headline over the weekend covered the Green’s latest promise to ban corporate donations, preventing “builders and bankers” (presumably also horticulturalists and bodhran makers?) from donating to political parties.

Am organising a pol-bloggers get together in Galway this Saturday, just before the main course at the Irish Blog Awards.  All authors and commentators on this blog welcome or any other interested parties. Venue : Dáil Bar, Middle street, Galway Time: 5.30 – 7.30pm., 27th March (just before the IBA) Who : All polbloggers welcome… [...]

Trying to cut some numbers to take account of the myriad comings and goings experienced in the current Dáil. Anyone want to poke holes? Sure am missing something. First draft looks like this:

So Boy George has bit the bullet. Fallen on his own sword, hoist by his own petard, crashed and burned, came a cropper. At 1pm today former RTE economist and more recently celebrity by-election candidate, George Lee, announced he is resiging his Dáil seat and his membership of the Fine Gael party. It wasn’t happening [...]

This post stems from a discussion in the comments section under ‘All politics is local‘. We were comparing and contrasting the UK and Irish systems in terms of how rooted politicians must be within their local constituencies. I think there is significant difference between the two jurisdictions, to some degree due to FPTP (First Past [...]

Before we allow too much distance behind us, I wanted to pen a few thoughts on the year gone by, and the political highs and lows, as seen from my (quite openly subjective) perspective. As a practising Fianna Fáiler my comments will reflect mainly on government / party fortunes during the year but I will try [...]

It appears the unions have managed to scuttle their own ship before it even left port with the events of the past few days. They always looked to be leaking, at least to those on land, but are they now holed below the waterline? There was going to be a challenge from the start in [...]

So it’s the bank holiday weekend and am contemplating the jump/gain/reversed decline of Fianna Fáil in the latest RedC poll (+1 ) with one eye on the news feed whilst the other lingers on the TV where the X factor is witnessing once more the critics confounded by the seemingly inorexable rise of the ‘terrible [...]