Article Category: Last Refuge

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 »

HEALY-RAE DYNASTY IN TROUBLE

May 31, 2018
DANNY HEALY-RAE may have hammed up his professional Kerryman act too much and his... 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... 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... Read more »

MICHEÁL MARTIN V JOHN McGUINNESS

May 17, 2018
FIANNA FÁIL became embroiled yet again in theological and legalistic arguments about going all... Read more »

ROISIN SHORTALL’S JOURNEY

May 17, 2018
BEING the most politically correct party on the planet, it behoves the Social Democrats... 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... 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... Read more »

FERGUS FINLAY’S FUTILE FANTASIES

May 3, 2018
FERGUS FINLAY received a pointed riposte from President Michael D Higgins to his bombastic... 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... Read more »

FINE GAEL SIRENS’ SEANAD BID

April 19, 2018
THE Newman blue blouse coven – TD Kate O’Connell, her sister and parliamentary aide,... 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... Read more »

MARTIN’S DECK CHAIRS

April 5, 2018
MICHEÁL MARTIN’S last throw of the dice in the gambling den of electoral politics... Read more »

JUSTIN McALEESE FALTERS

April 5, 2018
THE prospects of Justin McAleese taking a seat for Fianna Fáil in the lush... Read more »

Kate O’Connell’S Choir Girls

April 5, 2018
KATE O’CONNELL, Simon ‘Covetous’ Coveney’s altar girl in the Fine Gael leadership contest, famously... Read more »

CATHERINE NOONE’S DÁIL AMBITION

March 22, 2018
FINE GAEL Senator Catherine Noone is preparing to parachute into Dublin South-West (DSW) as... Read more »

Brendan Howlin’s bland buddies

March 22, 2018
LIMPING Labour leader Brendan Howlin appeared this week at a public meeting organised by... Read more »

MATT CARTHY: SF’S NEW CROWN PRINCE

March 22, 2018
THE retirement at the next election of long serving Sinn Féin TD, Caoímhghin Ó... Read more »