Article Category: Last Refuge

SINN FÉIN GOES BACK TO BASICS

February 21, 2019
SINN FÉIN is still struggling in the polls following its disastrous presidential campaign and... Read more »

FRANK O’ROURKE TD: SIMPLY THE BEST

February 21, 2019
“IF A cow calved in Ardclough, Frank would claim to be its father” is... Read more »

MICHEÁL MARTIN’S STRATEGY

February 21, 2019
SIGNS OF establishment anxiety about the government’s durability were visible last weekend and they... Read more »

FINE GAEL FLEES FROM HEALY-RAES

February 21, 2019
DANNY HEALY-RAE’S clownish antics on climate change and sundry issues are beginning to wear... Read more »

GRAND COALITION LOOMING

February 7, 2019
ENDA KENNY was not so bad after all, is the growing sentiment among certain... Read more »

BITCHIN’ BARRY BLAMELESS

February 7, 2019
LIBERAL BIGOTS and left-wing zealots have been routed by the Fine Gael national executive... Read more »

VLAD PLOTS COVENEY’S EXILE

February 7, 2019
INTENSE SPECULATION about Phil Hogan being a shoe-in for reappointment to the EU Commission... Read more »

KINGSTOWN LADIES AT RISK

January 24, 2019
MARY HANAFIN’S unquenchable ambition has not been dulled by her 30 years in politics,... Read more »

FINE GAEL VS TICKET TOUTS

January 24, 2019
THE GOVERNMENT’S effort to slay ticket touts – on street corners around Croker and... Read more »

TIERNAN BRADY’S RACE

January 24, 2019
THE DUBLIN Fianna Fáil Euro nomination contest is tightening, with gay campaigner Tiernan Brady... Read more »

LABOUR’S MOVEABLE VALUES

January 24, 2019
LABOUR LEADER Brendan Howlin’s wheeze in sponsoring outgoing INTO general secretary Sheila Nunan as... 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 »

VLAD’S VARIOUS ELECTION STRATEGEMS

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

HAS BYRNE BURNED HER BRIDGES?

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

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 »