Article Category: Last Refuge

ANNUAL 2022: INDEPENDENTS/TROTS – INDEPENDENTS LEFT AND RIGHT

November 17, 2022

THE INDEPENDENTS and minor parties of the left continue to cheerlead from the sidelines but they have little tangible achievement of which to... Read more »

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MARTIN WANTS FOREIGN POST

November 2, 2022

IN THE increasingly fevered world of ministers obsessed with and angling for preferment in the December change-over and reshuffle, the word is that... Read more »

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FF LEADER EYES UP COALITION WITH SF

November 2, 2022

ONE WISHFUL scenario being propagated by the media, and by the Irish Times in particular last week, is that even if Sinn Féin... Read more »

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WILL GALLAGHER BE REPLACED AS AG?

November 2, 2022

DUE TO a mixture of Fianna Fáil domination and coalition formation, Fine Gael legal eagles have provided just one attorney general in the... Read more »

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THE NORTH IS A FAILED ENTITY

November 2, 2022

SINCE JANUARY 2017 the executive and assembly of the supposed state of Northern Ireland have only functioned for 18 months. Before that, the... Read more »

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FIANNA FÁIL MARCH ON DUBLIN

October 19, 2022

MICHEÁL MARTIN has hit on a devilishly clever plan to boost Fianna Fáil’s alarmingly low support base in Dublin, with its recent ard... Read more »

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MARY, MARY AGAIN CONTRARY?

October 19, 2022

MARY HANAFIN may be poised to perform a political Lazarus act and attempt a return in Dún Laoghaire at the next general election,... Read more »

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TIMMY DOOLEY’S HEALTH WARNING

October 19, 2022

THAT MOST persecuted section of society, senior HSE managers, were ambushed by Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael backbench TDs last June, according to... Read more »

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DEIRDRE OF THE SORROWS

October 19, 2022

IS COUNCILLOR Deirdre Conroy some sort of political masochist? As a Fianna Fáil by-election candidate in Dublin Bay South (DBS) last year, Conroy... Read more »

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BACIK’S NO-SHOW ON COST-OF-LIVING PLATFORM

October 6, 2022

A RARE left-wing unity manifest itself recently with Sinn Féin, the Social Democrats, People Before Profit and left Independents as well as the... Read more »

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VARADKAR’S ‘BAD’ PRESS

October 6, 2022

CLEARLY INTENT on hitting the ground running as he faces into his rightful place as taoiseach in two months’ time, Leo Varadkar must... Read more »

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SDLP SPLIT WITH FIANNA FÁIL

October 6, 2022

THE ANNOUNCEMENT of the split sounded more like non-consummatum than divorce as the two partners to the supposed union, Fianna Fáil and the... Read more »

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FF ARD FHEIS

October 6, 2022

A MISCHIEVOUS leak from disloyal Fianna Fáil sources to the Irish Daily Mail spoke of “abysmally low” numbers having registered to attend the... Read more »

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McDOWELL TO TAKE OUT RYAN IN DBS?

September 22, 2022

GREEN PARTY leader and climate minister Eamon Ryan has been roughed up by political hit man and ex-minister Michael McDowell, repeatedly in recent... Read more »

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CATHERINE MURPHY’S CRUSADE

September 22, 2022

YOU HAVE to hand it to Social Democrats co-leader Catherine Murphy for sheer chutzpah in the face of the embarrassing conclusions in Justice... Read more »

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HAS FF TURNED A CORNER?

September 22, 2022

FIANNA FÁIL ministers and TDs – and not just Micheál Martin loyalists – will be heartened to see the two most recent poll... Read more »

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MARTIN’S SHARED FUTURE

September 22, 2022

FIANNA FÁIL’S ard fheis next weekend is just one of several meetings that could affect Micheál Martin’s future as party leader. A large... Read more »

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DALY AND WALLACE TARGETED

September 8, 2022

MEPS CLARE Daly and Mick Wallace continue to be singled out for special treatment by the media as well as Government politicians. The... Read more »

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CALLEARY BACK AT COURT

September 8, 2022

THE UNASSUMING if still ambitious figure of ex-minister Dara Calleary can be seen stalking the corridors of power again, albeit as a mere... Read more »

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PASCHAL DONOHOE’S VIRTUE SIGNALLING

September 8, 2022

BENEATH THE Blueshirts bonding bonhomie at their Kilkenny think-in this weekend, there will undoubtedly lurk some malicious thoughts and no small resentment at... Read more »

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LEO TO SWITCH CONSTITUENCY?

September 8, 2022

SPECULATION SURROUNDS the personal intentions of Leo Varadkar at the next general election and in particular whether he will leave Dublin West for... Read more »

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BARRY COWEN’S CAMPAIGN

August 25, 2022

BARRY COWEN’S supporters in Fianna Fáil have been working overtime, pushing out a leadership election message via the sympathetic pages of the Irish... Read more »

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BARRISTERS FIGHT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS

August 25, 2022

THE BAR of Ireland’s human rights committee has had a mixed press recently, with its front-of-house personalities offering different perspectives on human rights... Read more »

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WHITHER THE GREENS?

August 25, 2022

RECENT POLL figures for the Green Party by the Business Post/Red C (4%), Irish Times (3%) and Sunday Independent (4%) will have many... Read more »

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IRISH FREEDOM PARTY CHAIR

August 25, 2022

MANY PEOPLE would have been surprised to learn that the chair of the right-wing, anti-immigrant Irish Freedom Party (IFP), Michael Leahy, was the... Read more »

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SABINA HIGGINS’S CRITICS

August 11, 2022

WHAT AN interesting group of politicians vied with each other to stick it to Sabina Higgins over her outrageous suggestion that negotiations for... Read more »

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DOGS THAT DIDN’T BARK

August 11, 2022

WHERE WERE the radical opposition parties when the Government let slip the dogs of war from among their favourite media servants against Sabina... Read more »

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NORMA FOLEY’S SCHOOL RUN

August 11, 2022

While Government party leaders and whips worked frenetically to fend off a no-confidence vote just before the Dáil broke for its summer recess,... Read more »

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MARTIN’S LOYAL MINISTERS

August 11, 2022

WHAT A curious story the Irish Mail on Sunday published last weekend, headlined “Martin’s loyalists hit back at rebels” and spread over the... Read more »

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ANTI-MARTIN CAMP DIVIDES

July 28, 2022

IT’S NOT exactly a split but Micheál Martin will be pleased enough to detect a disagreement about tactics among those members of his... Read more »

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CATHAL CROWE’S PLANNING PROBLEM

July 28, 2022

FIANNA FÁIL TD, Cathal Crowe, a key member of the parliamentary party, is embroiled in a planning row over the construction of his... Read more »

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FINE GAEL MOONLIGHTERS

July 28, 2022

LEO VARADKAR is incensed with those members of his parliamentary party that have followed the lead of TD, John Paul Phelan, in their... Read more »

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MARTIN “DANCES ON LEMASS’S GRAVE”

July 28, 2022

MICHEÁL MARTIN would be foolish to dismiss the most concerted attack on any Taoiseach that has ever emanated from what is effectively the... Read more »

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McCONALOGUE TAKES THE MICA

July 14, 2022

JOE McHUGH TD appears to be in the firing line of mica campaigners in his Donegal constituency given that he felt compelled to... Read more »

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GEOGHEGAN COMEBACK

July 14, 2022

THE NOTION that James Geoghegan, model Fine Gael candidate and a barrister possessed of an unrivalled judicial pedigree, was going to walk off the... Read more »

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RUNNERS AND RIDERS IN NAVAN

July 14, 2022

PARTY DISCIPLINE has gone out the window in both Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael when it comes to Our Lady’s hospital in Navan.... Read more »

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