It’s fascinating to see the dynamic of the critique of Brian Lenihan that has been offered over the last few days. We started early over on the CLR, granted, though neither Garibaldy or myself in…
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Election Daze
Okay, it’s finally here. So let’s talk briefly about outcomes. The issue of coalition is problematic. It’s true that if, for example, the Labour Party went into government with Fine Gael then that might ameliorate…
The bailouts: Let confusion be unconstrained…
This weekend I read the Sunday Business Post with some eagerness. Here would be the answers I required, that many require, about the bailouts, both the banking one and the ECB/IMF one – which aren’t…
Another godsend for Sinn Féin and the further left…
….or if Cowen is secretly working for the opposition are Shortall and Rabbitte secretly working for the ULA? The shenanigans over the past twenty four hours in relation to the Finance Bill, as noted by…
Spending and cutting, no, spending, no, cutting, no taxing. Ah… no taxing.
Consider this… Fine Gael said last night it would back the Government’s four year economic strategy to reduce the deficit, but insisted it favoured cutting spending rather than raising taxes. The party’s communications spokesman Leo…
Government, Governance and Private Sector…
In a way the contribution that has remained with me the most from my very limited attendance at the Desmond Greaves school was William Kingston. Kingston, who is Professor and Research Associate at the School…
Latest Poll Watch: Are We Seeing a Fundamental Shift?
Okay, let’s keep in mind my caution about the current polls… but the most recent one this weekend from the Sunday Business Post was – despite showing no variation from the previous one, bar a…
As the Dust Settles
An interesting comment on the allegations surrounding Gerry Adams brother was added to a piece on the topic on Irish Left Review a couple of weeks ago. It’s one of three comments, but is of…
The Inexorable Political Rise…
It’s interesting reading the article by Harry McGee in the Irish Times about Sinn Féin and its current troubles. That topic, though, is for another day, albeit I find it hard to disagree with him…
Reading the Runes… the Latest Polls and the Left…
There’s been so much news in the past week or two that it’s difficult to remember that the Sunday Business Post ran a poll the results of which were published on the 22nd of November….
The Socialist Party of Ireland 1971 – 1982
Pdf of SPI 1973 Report of the 1st national congress here: SPI73REPORT As a means of opening the discussion on the SPI the accompanying document was donated by Mark P (for which many thanks and…
The Rise and Rise of the Irish Left
Let’s think happy thoughts for a brief while because much else is… well, less than happy. So, here’s something that cheered me up at least a bit and it’s a point that is rarely touched…
2.5 More Years…2.5 More Years
It’s not up there with “5 more years”, battle cry of both Republicans and Democrats in the not too distant past, now is it? But that’s the reality we’re now facing in the wake of…
After the Green Party
Recently on the Cedar Lounge Revolution smiffy raised an interesting point which was that the future path of the Green Party might be quite similar to that of Democratic Left. I hadn’t thought about it…
Sins of the Father
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