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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... Read more »