What if an easily accessible paper was drawn up illustrating the following:

What may have been earned for the people if the banks were nationalised when there were profitable
What effective and efficient public utilities could have delivered for us (in money terms) if kept in state control
The benefits (again, in financial as well as the obvious [...]

It looks likely that there will be 14 Sinn Féin and up to 10 progressive left deputies in the incoming Dáil.
These 24 progressive left representatives need to eclipse Fianna Fail as the opposition to the incoming conservative administration and ensure that victory could be grasped from the jaws of defeat, so to speak.
This is a [...]

As opinion polls keep rolling in and showing either a FG/Labour coalition of a majority FG government, perhaps its time to turn some attention to what is likely to happen in the few months after the election.
If any of what FG and Labour is saying is to be accepted then the incoming government will be putting [...]

Fine Gael and a increasingly unsure Labour Party are saying that any alternative to compliance with the terms of the IMF/EU deal is a reckless gamble. Vincent Brown (whether mischievously or otherwise) rounded on Eoin O Broin of Sinn Fein on the basis that burning the bondholders and the strategy [...]

Margaret Thatcher has been out of office since the early 1990’s, yet her imprint on Britain and Ireland has outlived her premiership by two decades.
Thatcherism’s fan club in Ireland - The ‘Progressive’ Democrats and all who they influenced in both Fianna Fail and Fine Gael - only lasted in office from the late 80’s until, [...]

There is very little time left to write anything ‘political’ that isn’t going to be swamped by the multitude of candidates who will be prostrate before us in the coming 10 weeks or so.  I should know,  I was one of those creatures back in 2002.  I wish all progressive candidates well.  [...]

The bookies and pundits are putting Fine Gael and Labour together as the new government. Fair enough, the figures add up.
But, would Labour really be using their political strength to make the required difference. The prospect of partnership must be seductive to the Labour leadership. In previous coalitions they did manage to introduce some [...]