Article Category: Last Refuge

HEATHER’S 1916 AMNESIA

August 26, 2021

IS HEATHER HUMPHREYS trying to start another civil war now that we have begun commemoration of events leading up to the same conflict?... Read more »

VARADKAR TO FACE DPP SCRUTINY?

August 12, 2021

IT HAS been said that former FF agriculture minister Dara Calleary, was not big enough to be given a free pass for his... Read more »

ZAPPONE’S FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION

August 12, 2021

KATHERINE ZAPPONE’S title of special envoy for freedom of expression was bestowed on her by the minister for foreign affairs, Simon ‘Covetous’ Coveney,... Read more »

HOTEL CALIFORNIA, DUBLIN 2

August 12, 2021

ZAPPER’S MERRION hotel guests included tánaiste Leo Varadkar, for obvious reasons, ie, Vlad is leader of the party to which Simon Coveney –... Read more »

LEADERLESS BLUESHIRTS

August 12, 2021

GENERAL EOIN O’DUFFY must be gyrating in his grave as Fine Gael resembles a rudderless, high-born rabble with neither its most capable nor... Read more »

SOC DEMS LEADERSHIP HEAVE

July 29, 2021

LABOUR’S BYELECTION triumph was not the root cause of the current split in the Social Democrats but it was certainly the catalyst to... Read more »

DAMNED LIES AND MARTIN’S STATS

July 29, 2021

MICHEÁL MARTIN’S PR maestro, Paul Clarkson, has been busy and successful in commandeering media exposure for the Fianna Fáil leader in recent months... Read more »

LABOUR’S SEAT TARGETS?

July 29, 2021

IVANA BACIK’S Dublin Bay South byelection triumph has emboldened Labour and there has been much talk of a possible resurgence of the party’s... Read more »

IVANA’S COMRADES OLD AND NEW

July 15, 2021

MEMBERS OF the Labour family clasped byelection winner Ivana Bacik to their bosom last week in a heart-warming display of comradeship, with former... Read more »

FINE GAEL KNEW DEFEAT WAS NIGH

July 15, 2021

FINE GAEL handlers – director of elections Simon Harris, Leo Varadkar and others – knew well before the day of the byelection vote... Read more »

BACIK’S MANY ISSUES

July 15, 2021

IVANA BACIK’S brand of south Dublin liberal feminism was more than enough to secure the support of Ireland’s media class ahead of the... Read more »

RIGHT-WING RETREAT

July 15, 2021

IT’S BEEN a bad year for former chairperson of the Irish Freedom Party Dolores Cahill, forced to resign from the party last March... Read more »

FINE GAEL’S CUNNING BYELECTION PLAN

July 1, 2021

WHAT A clever ploy Fine Gael came up with in the Dublin Bay South (DBS) byelection (before that Irish Times poll) with minister... Read more »

BLUESHIRTS REVOLT

July 1, 2021

DISCONTENT AMONG the Fine Gael grassroots at what is described as the control freakery of Leo Varadkar and the party’s career officials has... Read more »

MINUTE MEATH MATTERS

July 1, 2021

EFFORTS BY nine Meath county councillors to prise from council officials the recordings of their own council deliberations on the county development plan... Read more »

BOYLAN WON’T BE PRESS-GANGED INTO DUBLIN BAY SOUTH

May 20, 2021

MUCH AGONISING in Sinn Féin about its choice of candidate in the Dublin Bay South (DBS) byelection with electoral asset, former MEP Lynn... Read more »

SEÁN LEMASS DOUBLY HONOURED

May 20, 2021

SO ESTEEMED is the late taoiseach and Fianna Fáil leader Seán Lemass in the eyes of today’s party members that the party held... Read more »

THE FIRST (AND LAST) ITEM …

May 20, 2021

BRENDAN BEHAN suggested that the first item on the agenda of any organisation should be the Split. It seems that this same proposition... Read more »

BOYLAN WON’T BE PRESS-GANGED INTO DUBLIN BAY SOUTH

May 20, 2021

MUCH AGONISING in Sinn Féin about its choice of candidate in the Dublin Bay South (DBS) byelection with electoral asset, former MEP Lynn... Read more »

KATE GETS DOSE OF THE BLUES

May 20, 2021

KATE O’CONNELL’S melodramatic wail about a Leo Varadkar leadership faction undermining her prospects of a nomination in the Dublin Bay South byelection is... Read more »

SEÁN LEMASS DOUBLY HONOURED

May 20, 2021

SO ESTEEMED is the late taoiseach and Fianna Fáil leader Seán Lemass in the eyes of today’s party members that the party held... Read more »

THE FIRST (AND LAST) ITEM …

May 20, 2021

BRENDAN BEHAN suggested that the first item on the agenda of any organisation should be the Split. It seems that this same proposition... Read more »

HAZEL CHU’S CUL-DE-SAC

May 6, 2021

THE POINTED reference last weekend by Green councillor Claire Byrne to her status as “not a stranger” to the constituency was actually a... Read more »

KATE O’CONNELL COMEBACK?

May 6, 2021

THERE IS a perception abroad that former Fine Gael TD Kate O’Connell is a busted flush and that any residual delusions of ministerial... Read more »

DUBLIN BAY SOUTH FF SHOOT-OUT

May 6, 2021

THE REAL battle in the Dublin Bay South byelection will be the effort by Micheál Martin’s favoured candidate, barrister and councillor Claire O’Connor,... Read more »

PRESIDENT’S UNCIVIL LINE ON CENTENARIES

April 22, 2021

THE LOOMNG centenaries of the Treaty and Civil War are causing tremors among various politicians, especially those in Fine Gael and especially also... Read more »