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 1% increase for Sinn Féin and a 1% decrease for the Independents, pretty telling in its own way.
Firstly the fact [...]

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 when he argues that
“There are some who believe Sinn Féin is in terminal decline, like other republican parties that preceded [...]

In last Sunday’s elections, Greece’s major social-democratic party PASOK has been returned to power, while the governing New Democracy, the traditional right wing party, suffered its worst ever defeat in its 25-year history. PASOK leader George Papandreou, son of Andreas Papandreou, becomes Prime Minister, while Kostantin Karamanlis, only two years since his re-lection, is dealt [...]

Last May we had a our local and European elections, we are now in the midst of another Lisbon referendum campaign, and at the moment even the well groomed terriers and mongrels sniffing each other’s butts in the street are making small talk about a coming general election. The one thing that we are all [...]

There’s a certain notion in the air that an election is near inevitable now. And, in one sense hasn’t that always been the case. But, it is correct that the chances of an election this year are better now than they have been. So, with that in mind what are the rumours swirling about out [...]

Okay, so there is an election on Friday for the local councils, The European Parliament, to get a TD elected in Dublin North Central and to complete George Lee’s transformation from a right-wing economic commentator to a right-wing politician in Dublin South.
I realise that we haven’t exactly done lots to help get out the left [...]

TASC which gets a mention around here regularly enough are now providing a number of online tools that aim to increase political participation in the EU elections by helping voters get the information they need before they vote on June 5th.
The online tools, Candidate Watch (candidatewatch.ie) and Vote Match (votematch.eu) are available on dedicated sites, [...]

I’ve read a couple of different pieces about the prospects for government amongst various potential parties and combined they allow for some useful insights into how the Irish political landscape may be developing.
Yesterday Fintan O’Toole had an impassioned column on his thoughts as to why Labour should wait… in other words to eschew entering coalition [...]

Like many people, when I heard that George Lee had been recruited by Fine Gael to stand in the Dublin South by-election I thought that was it - game, set, match. After all, he’s George Lee, tutor of the nation. So, when I saw that George Lee had penned an article in the Evening Herald [...]