Article Category: Last Refuge

SF BORDER POLL ‘U-TURN’

August 9, 2018

SINN FÉIN has done a U-turn of sorts on the timing of a border poll, but its political opponents as well as some... Read more »

SOC DEMS: STALE BUT NOT MALE

August 9, 2018

CONGRATS to the Social Democrats, whose political ambition belies their effete image as cuddly, social justice champions and who recently eclipsed their left-wing... Read more »

O’DEA SLAPS IT UP TO MARTIN

August 9, 2018

REPORTS claiming that Willie O’Dea is part of a simmering revolt against Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin are well wide of the mark.... Read more »

FIANNA FAIL FLEES VULTURE FUNDS

July 26, 2018

EXTRAORDINARY scenes occurred in the Dáil chamber recently when outspoken Fianna Fáil TD John McGuinness rose to introduce his private members’ bill, the... Read more »

THE REBEL MAYOR NIAL RING

July 26, 2018

NEWLY elected Lord Mayor of Dublin Nial Ring was a perfect gent when hosting royal couple Harry and Meghan in Dublin’s Docklands recently.... Read more »

HOWLIN’S HOPEFULS

July 26, 2018

LABOUR leader Brendan Howlin laid out his candidate stall recently, naming nine contestants that would sweep into the Dáil at the next election.... Read more »

DUBLIN FINE GAEL POLL SURGE

July 26, 2018

ONE reason why some Fine Gael ministers want to force a general election is that their own polls say the party is riding... Read more »

CONOR LENIHAN COMEBACK?

July 12, 2018

FORMER MINISTER Conor Lenihan made a surprise visit to his old stomping ground of Dublin South-West recently where, at his own request, he... Read more »

FRANCES AND PRECOCIOUS VLAD

July 12, 2018

THERE’S INGRATITUDE and ingratitude and then there’s Frances Fitzgerald’s attitude to her leader, Leo Varadkar. Fragrant Frances quipped at a fundraiser for Mary... Read more »

SINN FEIN’S PRESIDENTIAL DELUSIONS

July 12, 2018

HAS Mary Lou McDonald driven Sinn Féin into a no-win situation with her demand for a presidential election and the proposal that SF... Read more »

FINE GAEL SEARCHING FOR WOMEN

July 12, 2018

THE DAMNED gender quota for general election candidates coupled with the current feminist upsurge is causing serious problems for the lads in the... Read more »

FG AND JUDGES STILL FIGHT SHANE ROSS

June 28, 2018

THE rearguard action by judges and their Fine Gael supporters against Shane Ross’s Judicial Appointments Bill has reached the stage of political and... Read more »

SINN FÉIN COALITION SPLITS

June 28, 2018

A SINN FÉIN ard fheis campaign by front bench housing spokesperson Eoin “Brainiac” Ó Broin TD to unseat longtime apparatchik Dawn Doyle as... Read more »

O’CONNELL RED FLAG

June 28, 2018

KATE O’CONNELL’S spin machine scored a hit with a recent Mail on Sunday splash – Minister Faces Revolt Led By Kate O’Connell, screamed... Read more »

HELEN McENTEE FOR EUROPE

June 28, 2018

LOOKS as though Fine Gael’s junior Europe Minister Helen McEntee has seen the writing on the wall in Meath East as well as... Read more »

CIVIL WAR IN FIANNA FÁIL

June 13, 2018

MICHEÁL MARTIN’S threat to impose a whip on Fianna Fáil TDs over pending abortion legislation could lead to a real crisis for his... Read more »

BERTIE AHERN –  THE LOST LEADER

June 13, 2018

BERTIE AHERN has become a totemic figure in dissident Fianna Fáil circles discontented with Micheál Martin’s leadership and Meath West TD Shane Cassells... Read more »

SAVING LABOUR FROM ALAN KELLY

June 13, 2018

IS former Labour leader Pat Rabbitte trying to stimulate a debate on impending regime change in the party with his provocative column in... Read more »

RAINING ON MARY LOU’S PARADE

May 31, 2018

SINN FÉIN’S Mary Lou McDonald had a very good referendum campaign but she has a real problem with her two dissenting anti-abortion TDs,... Read more »

HEALY-RAE DYNASTY IN TROUBLE

May 31, 2018

DANNY HEALY-RAE may have hammed up his professional Kerryman act too much and his seat is in danger from Fianna Fáil. Danny’s Dáil... Read more »

LABOUR’S LETHARGY ON REPEAL THE 8th

May 17, 2018

JUDGING by the limp effort of various Labour TDs in the repeal the 8th referendum, some have learned the lesson of the gay... Read more »

GERRY ADAMS HAS GONE AWAY, YOU KNOW

May 17, 2018

WHAT a witty and even perceptive response Leo Varadkar gave to Mary Lou McDonald’s tribute to the late Monica Barnes in which the... Read more »

MICHEÁL MARTIN V JOHN McGUINNESS

May 17, 2018

FIANNA FÁIL became embroiled yet again in theological and legalistic arguments about going all out against the government last week, this time over... Read more »

ROISIN SHORTALL’S JOURNEY

May 17, 2018

BEING the most politically correct party on the planet, it behoves the Social Democrats to be at the coalface of the repeal the... Read more »

HELPFUL HOGAN’S EU REAPPOINTMENT

May 3, 2018

IRELAND’S EU commissioner, Big Phil Hogan, appears to have his second term on the commission wrapped up following a two-years courtship of Leo... Read more »

FINE GAEL GOES FOR SHANE ROSS’S THROAT

May 3, 2018

THE Greek chorus that most of the media has become in Fine Gael’s campaign against Shane Ross has gone into overdrive again. Independent... Read more »

FERGUS FINLAY’S FUTILE FANTASIES

May 3, 2018

FERGUS FINLAY received a pointed riposte from President Michael D Higgins to his bombastic yet crafty statement that his presidency would be quite... Read more »

FINE GAEL SIRENS’ SEANAD BID

April 19, 2018

THE Newman blue blouse coven – TD Kate O’Connell, her sister and parliamentary aide, Theresa Newman, and third sister, would-be senator Mary Newman... Read more »

MICHEÁL MARTIN’S REPEAL THE 8th RISK

April 19, 2018

IS the political media corps so invested in a Yes to repeal the 8th referendum that none of them wants to consider the... Read more »

SINN FÉIN BLOCKS DUBLIN MAYOR FROM DÁIL

April 19, 2018

DUBLIN’S Sinn Féin mayor Mícheál Mac Donncha raised his already high profile stint as mayor with pimpernel activities in Israel and the occupied... Read more »