Article Category: Last Refuge

INTRIGUING SCENARIO AHEAD FOR SENATE

February 25, 2016
THE most intriguing scenario will transpire should Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil TDs not form a joint majority in the Dáil and a consequent... Read more »

Sexist Labour

February 25, 2016
WOMEN voters in Louth will surely flock to support Senator Mary Moran following her persecution by Labour’s ‘sexist old boys’ club’. Moran’s running mate,... Read more »

ENDA’S NEXT CABINET

February 25, 2016
IF Enda Kenny only has eight places to fill in a Fine Gael/Fianna Fáil cabinet, then who are the winners and losers, and how... Read more »

FIANNA FÁIL’S CABINET MEMBERS

February 25, 2016
IF the Dáil arithmetic breaks down the way the polls predict and if Micheál Martin can persuade Fianna Fáil delegates to support a coalition... Read more »

O’Callaghan AG?

February 25, 2016
HAS Jim O’Callaghan’s time come at last? The Fianna Fáil legal advisor’s election record is not a happy one but he has had the... Read more »

ADAMS TO LOSE TOP SPOT IN LOUTH?

February 11, 2016
GERRY ADAMS will not be deposed as Sinn Féin leader nationally any time soon, but he could well lose his pre-eminence in Louth to... Read more »

Union Blueshirts

February 11, 2016
WHO are the Larkinites in the Fine Gael parliamentary party and why did five of them (out of 94) sign up for the Ictu... Read more »

MONEY ON FF TO TAKE SIX IN DUBLIN

February 11, 2016
DUBLIN is supposed to be a graveyard for Fianna Fáil but perusal of Paddy Power’s constituency odds – a combination of research and money... Read more »

KATE O’CONNELL Vs LUCINDA IN DBS

February 11, 2016
ENDA KENNY and most of Fine Gael in Dublin Bay South would be ecstatic if they were able to retain two seats in Sir... Read more »

Gender Fodder

January 28, 2016
FEMINISTS will hardly be impressed at the remarkable appetite that Enda Kenny and Micheál Martin are exhibiting for candidate gender quotas in recent, high-profile... Read more »

HANAFIN’S FAUSTIAN PACT

January 28, 2016
MARY HANAFIN’S electoral strategy in Dún Laoghaire is converging with that of Fine Gael nationally as she delivers daily two-finger gestures to her party... Read more »

JOAN’S GOOD NEWS

January 14, 2016
JOAN BURTON’S Department of Social Protection jumped to her defence recently against a most impertinent suggestion from rival general election candidate, Dublin West Independent... Read more »

PERRY DISASTER FOR FG

January 14, 2016
PRESUMABLY the Standards in Public Office (Sipo) will not insist that the massive half-a-million euro legal costs for Fine Gael’s High Court case against... Read more »

HOWLIN’S BALANCING ACT

January 14, 2016
IT has gone largely unreported but Brendan Howlin has blown a large hole in Joan Burton’s central election message that Labour’s return to government... Read more »

JIMMY DEENIHAN’S GENDER AGENDA

December 17, 2015
THAT damned gender quota being imposed on the Good Ol’ Boys in Fine Gael has led to internal convulsions among candidates and one of... Read more »

Noel McCarthy’s Skills

December 17, 2015
YOU have to hand it to political chameleon Cllr Noel McCarthy in Cork East whose recent electoral journey has been chronicled in The Phoenix... Read more »

LABOUR SPLIT OVER FINE GAEL

December 17, 2015
REMARKS from various Labour backbenchers about the dangers of returning to the grizzly embrace of Fine Gael unless Labour return with at least 15... Read more »

CORK ELECTION FEUDS

December 4, 2015
CONVULSIONS inside the four main parties in Cork East could result in three sitting TDs out of four – David Stanton and Tom Barry... Read more »

BRENDAN HOWLIN’S LEADERSHIP CAMPAIGN

December 4, 2015
FINGER pointing at Alan Kelly for the recent leak about Labour’s election prospects to both The Irish Times and Irish Independent could be a... Read more »

AK47 OUTGUNNED BY ALL SIDES

November 20, 2015
ENVIRONMENT minister Alan ‘AK47’ Kelly is facing not only vastly superior fire power from the much bigger guns on Fine Gael finance minister Michael... Read more »

BLUESHIRT SPLIT IN CORK

November 20, 2015
ENDA KENNY has gone out of his way to support his beleaguered junior minister for Europe, Dara Murphy, in Cork, as well as Europe... Read more »

Keaveney Feeling Insecure?

November 20, 2015
FIANNA FÁIL TD Colm Keaveney is facing security issues on more than one front. While he has requested that the Dáil authorities investigate the... Read more »

THE LEFT AND SINN FÉIN

November 20, 2015
THE hysterical media reaction to Sinn Fein’s electoral transfer proposal ignores several factors, the chief one being that a natural pattern of transfers between... Read more »

KENNY’S BIG BLUNDER

November 6, 2015
THE shambles that was Enda Kenny’s agonising over and eventual retreat from a November election helps to explain a 3% drop in the latest... Read more »

BERTIE’S BOYS RETREAT TO FINGAL

November 6, 2015
TWO reports in The Sunday Times a fortnight ago indicated the bitterness of the BEGOBs (Bertie’s Good Ol’ Boys) at being routed and outmanoeuvred... Read more »