The Sunday Times poll which shows Labour attracting only 11% support and coming in fifth place after independents and others should serve as a wake up call to Labour Party members.
It is well known that Labour always gets a hammering in elections after propping up Fine Gael led governments. However this poll rating is not [...]

If Darren Scully, the Fine Gael mayor of Naas, was feeling ‘sad’ yesterday, there is every chance his melancholy has taken a turn for the worse as today has progressed. Yesterday Cllr Scully was ‘sad’ preemptively, in case anyone would think him racist for refusing to deal with ‘Black Africans’ because of their ‘aggressive attitude‘. [...]

Worldbystorm of Cedarlounge has just put up a post on The Just Society. I want to focus on a particular aspect of that document, one which ties in with the present banking crisis.
On pages 10 to 12 of the document, the authors concern themselves with Irish banking and monetary policy.
They noted that ‘neither the [...]

A couple of cheers for Minister Leo, putting both his feet in the mouth of the Government. In a refreshing dose of realism he stated what everyone knows - we’re not going back to the markets anytime soon.
Unfortunately, this realism landed the Minister in a bit of warmish water. Not because of [...]

The Restaurant Association of Ireland and Ibec won’t like it. Fine Gael certainly won’t like it. The army of commentators armed only with superficial and out-of-date analysis won’t like it. But the report on the Joint Labour Councils written by Kevin Duffy and Dr Frank Walsh does a good job [...]

A Land Fit for Falangists!
“This is our country. This is our journey. Yes, we are in times without precedent but I believe that for Ireland this current crisis is the darkest hour before the dawn, that we have a generational lightness of soul, that in the long Hibernian nights on the western edge of Europe [...]

I’m updating this article which was first published on November 22nd 2008 and reposting it after the publishing of the final report of the Moriarty Tribunal. I felt it was necessary to complete Denis O’Brien’s story as related here, particularly as this article is getting a bit of attention today due to google searches for [...]

The old adage that children should be seen and not heard seems to have been a mantra taken to heart by some members of the political establishment in the run up to the recent general election. As the narrative of the election was dominated by discussions around the country’s fiscal meltdown, children’s issues were reduced [...]

Is End O’Kenny. Our Very Own Tracey Ireland!!
Do you remember growing up the very amazing clever animated television program show The Thrunderbirds Are Go!? No. Me neither. I am too old. In Spain, when I was grow up, all we had was comic magazines about the Crusades and oranges on a stick. But a [...]