Article Category: Last Refuge

HOWLIN’S MASTER PLAN

September 20, 2018
BRENDAN HOWLIN appears to have survived the leadership heave orchestrated by Alan Kelly and... Read more »

KEAVENEY COMEBACK?

September 20, 2018
FORMER Fianna Fáil TD and ex-Labour Party chairman Colm Keaveney received quite a splash... Read more »

THE ‘REAL’ OPPOSITION

September 20, 2018
THE SCHIZOPHRENIA inside Fianna Fáil – is the party in government or opposition? –... Read more »

COVENEY BACKSLIDES ON ISRAEL AGAIN

September 20, 2018
SUDDENLY the government and the EU has become scrupulously attached to the spirit and... Read more »

GRANNY GRANT GYRATIONS

September 6, 2018
SHANE ROSS’S granny grant budgetary demand to finance minister Paschal Donohoe provoked the obligatory... Read more »

ZAPPER VARADKAR’S FAVOURITE

September 6, 2018
CHILDREN’S MINISTER Katherine Zappone is a model Independent minister and never gives Leo Varadkar... Read more »

O’ROURKE SELLS BRIDGE TO VOTERS

September 6, 2018
Kildare North is one of the few Fianna Fáil success stories, with James Lawless... Read more »

LABOUR LEADERS LOST

September 6, 2018
THERE is something tragi-comic about the bitter in-fighting over the Labour Party leadership when... Read more »

SEÁN GALLAGHER’S VENGEANCE

August 23, 2018
IT WAS never a question of if but rather when Seán Gallagher would enter... Read more »

TO HELL OR SLIGO

August 23, 2018
FIANNA FÁIL’S Roscommon-Galway AGM was expected to be dominated by the controversy surrounding Mary... Read more »

TWO LEADERSHIP CHALLENGES LOOMING?

August 23, 2018
THE Fianna Fáil offer – or capitulation to Leo Varadkar’s offer of a 2020... Read more »

AK47 SALVO AGAINST HOWLIN

August 9, 2018
BRENDAN HOWLIN fought back against a flurry of statements from various councillors and other... Read more »

SF BORDER POLL ‘U-TURN’

August 9, 2018
SINN FÉIN has done a U-turn of sorts on the timing of a border... 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,... 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... Read more »

FIANNA FAIL FLEES VULTURE FUNDS

July 26, 2018
EXTRAORDINARY scenes occurred in the Dáil chamber recently when outspoken Fianna Fáil TD John... Read more »

THE REBEL MAYOR NIAL RING

July 26, 2018
NEWLY elected Lord Mayor of Dublin Nial Ring was a perfect gent when hosting... Read more »

HOWLIN’S HOPEFULS

July 26, 2018
LABOUR leader Brendan Howlin laid out his candidate stall recently, naming nine contestants that... Read more »

DUBLIN FINE GAEL POLL SURGE

July 26, 2018
ONE reason why some Fine Gael ministers want to force a general election is... Read more »

CONOR LENIHAN COMEBACK?

July 12, 2018
FORMER MINISTER Conor Lenihan made a surprise visit to his old stomping ground of... 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... 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... Read more »

FINE GAEL SEARCHING FOR WOMEN

July 12, 2018
THE DAMNED gender quota for general election candidates coupled with the current feminist upsurge... 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... Read more »

SINN FÉIN COALITION SPLITS

June 28, 2018
A SINN FÉIN ard fheis campaign by front bench housing spokesperson Eoin “Brainiac” Ó... 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... Read more »

HELEN McENTEE FOR EUROPE

June 28, 2018
LOOKS as though Fine Gael’s junior Europe Minister Helen McEntee has seen the writing... 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... Read more »

BERTIE AHERN –  THE LOST LEADER

June 13, 2018
BERTIE AHERN has become a totemic figure in dissident Fianna Fáil circles discontented with... Read more »

SAVING LABOUR FROM ALAN KELLY

June 13, 2018
IS former Labour leader Pat Rabbitte trying to stimulate a debate on impending regime... 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... Read more »