Article Category: Last Refuge

VLAD’S VARIOUS ELECTION STRATEGEMS

January 10, 2019
RECEIVED WISDOM has it that Leo Varadkar will not allow any sitting party TD... Read more »

HOWLIN AND CORBYN TO UNITE?

January 10, 2019
EAGER NOT to get left behind, Labour leader Brendan Howlin told the party conference... Read more »

HONOHAN MASTERS MARTIN AND O’CALLAGHAN

January 10, 2019
TWO STINGING letters winged their way to Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin over the... Read more »

MARTIN’S UNWILLNG FAVOURITE

December 13, 2018
A CONVENTION to select Fianna Fáil’s Dublin candidate in the European elections is likely... Read more »

MICHEÁL MARTIN’S MUTINOUS MEMBERS

December 13, 2018
FIANNA FÁIL leader Micheál Martin’s March reshuffle was intended to supplement and beef up... Read more »

DE REAL LEADER IN CORK?

December 13, 2018
THE UNSP0KEN but very real tension between Fianna Fáil’s leader, Micheál Martin, and his... Read more »

BRIAN HAYES’S FLAK OVER BANK JOB

November 29, 2018
THE PHOENIX readers will recall that, when MEP Brian Hayes departs the EU Parliament... Read more »

MCALEESE BOWS OUT

November 29, 2018
FIANNA FÁIL HQ’s strenuous efforts to foist Justin McAleese on Dublin Rathdown have blown... Read more »

FEMALE, PALE BUT NOT STALE

November 29, 2018
A SURPRISINGLY tense selection battle recently took place for the honour of representing the... Read more »

FINE GAEL’S HARD TARGETS

November 29, 2018
THOSE WHO wonder why Leo Varadkar is afraid to pull the trigger and go... Read more »

CORK DAUPHIN BOWS TO SAUDI PRINCE

November 1, 2018
THE most remarkable aspect of Tánaiste and foreign minister Simon Coveney’s feeble reaction to... Read more »

CASEY EYES UP DONEGAL DÁIL SEAT

November 1, 2018
DONEGAL’S triumphant and Trumpian Peter Casey told Donegal Daily four years ago that he... Read more »

‘TIGER’ O’DONOGHUE’S POLITICAL COMEBACK

November 1, 2018
WHAT on earth is former justice minister, arts minister and Ceann Comhairle John O’Donoghue... Read more »

CANNEY’S NEW ALLIANCE

October 18, 2018
NEW JUNIOR minister Seán Canney may or may not be grateful to his former... Read more »

BEWARE PERFIDIOUS ALBION!

October 18, 2018
HISTORIC FEAR of treacherous England has provoked the government into warning ministers to “resist... Read more »

VARADKAR TO PULL PLUG?

October 18, 2018
LEO VARADKAR and some of his Fine Gael cabinet members now regret that they... Read more »

HAS BYRNE BURNED HER BRIDGES?

October 18, 2018
FOLLOWING her threat not to vote confidence in housing minister Eoghan Murphy, junior minister... Read more »

PASCHAL VS MARY LOU VS PARTY RIVALS

October 4, 2018
FINANCE MINISTER Paschal Donohoe has made a bold move in his Dublin Central constituency.... Read more »

HIGGINS NO-SHOWS

October 4, 2018
MICHAEL D HIGGINS has shown yet again that he is anything but a naïve... Read more »

SHERLOCK GETS BACK ON THE WAGON

October 4, 2018
LABOUR TD Seán Sherlock, caused some concern among party TDs and senators recently as... Read more »

HOWLIN’S MASTER PLAN

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

KEAVENEY COMEBACK?

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