Article Category: Last Refuge

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 »

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 »

Haughey’s money

April 19, 2018
THE progress of Vincent Browne’s long awaited biog of Charles Haughey has seen the... 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 »

Fine Gael MEPs DEMAND HUGE DEFENCE SPEND

March 22, 2018
THE four Fine Gael MEPs demanding an end to Irish neutrality and massive defence... Read more »

Catherine Noone’s complaint

March 8, 2018
SENATOR Catherine Noone’s complaint about a Fine Gael colleague and senator’s dismissive, misogynist and... Read more »

CORK PROBLEMS FOR BLUESHIRTS

March 8, 2018
THE shrieks of betrayal from former Cork North-West Deputy Áine Collins at the recruitment... Read more »

‘PAYBACK TIME’

March 8, 2018
IN an amusing article in the Sunday Independent last weekend Liam Collins accused Rupert... Read more »

KATE HOEY’S TRACK RECORD

March 6, 2018
NOT even the DUP has explicitly called for the abandonment of the Good Friday... Read more »

MARY LOU’S COALITION DILEMMA

March 6, 2018
THE only people more horrified by the prospects of a Fine Gael/Sinn Féin coalition... Read more »

RINGER THREATENS TO GO INDEPENDENT

February 22, 2018
ONLY when Enda Kenny became Fine Gael leader and then Taoiseach did he manage... Read more »

SINN FEIN DISSIDENT IS IN DEMAND

February 22, 2018
SINN FÉIN’S latest political casualty, Cllr Noeleen Reilly, will be a loss to the... Read more »

AK47 Ultimatum

February 22, 2018
IT IS just under five months since Deputy Alan Kelly gave Labour leader Brendan... Read more »

FINE GAEL’S CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS

February 8, 2018
THE portrayal of ethical and personal agonising by Fine Gael ministers and TDs over... Read more »

SF’s right to choose

February 8, 2018
LOUISE O’REILLY’S compliment to Leo Varadkar’s statement on the referendum to repeal the Eighth... Read more »

OPINION POLLS – THE REAL STORY?

February 8, 2018
NATIONAL opinion polls show Leo Varadkar and Fine Gael streaking ahead of Micheál Martin’s... Read more »

IREXIT PARTY BORN

February 8, 2018
IT LOOKS as if an anti-EU party with candidates running in the EU elections... Read more »

McDowell v Ross

February 8, 2018
LEGAL EAGLES can be as bitchy as politicians when they fall out and former... Read more »

MATTIE McGRATH’S LEGION OF THE REARGUARD

January 25, 2018
FRESH from his mischief making at the Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment, Mattie... Read more »

LEO THE PROVO

January 25, 2018
SURPRISINGLY little comment followed the sharply contrasting responses in the Dáil from Taoiseach Leo... Read more »

Israeli Embassy

January 25, 2018
THE withdrawal of the Israeli Embassy from Dublin indicates just how ineffective the government’s... Read more »

SAVING PASCHAL DONOHOE

January 25, 2018
THE recent nomination of Mary Fitzpatrick as sole Fianna Fáil candidate in Dublin Central... Read more »

Taking on Michael Twee

January 11, 2018
THERE will be a presidential contest, regardless of current incumbent Michael D Higgins’ agenda,... Read more »

NIMBY: NOT IN MURPHY’S BACK YARD

January 11, 2018
FRESH from the PR blunder of Conor Skehan’s reappointment as chair of the Housing... Read more »

MICHAEL NOONAN’S LEGACY

January 11, 2018
DESPITE Fine Gael’s national poll lead, Fianna Fáil apparatchiks claim that polls on the... Read more »

MARTIN TO PULL PLUG?

January 11, 2018
THE chances of an early election have been dismissed by all and sundry in... Read more »

GLOVES OFF IN THE DAIL BAR

December 14, 2017
WHO needs a Strategic Communications Unit (SCU) when the Fine Gael press office is... Read more »

PROVOS V FRANCES

December 14, 2017
FRANCES FITZGERALD was forced to resign by Fine Gael TDs withdrawing their support rather... Read more »

Billy Timmins’s return

December 14, 2017
BILLY TIMMINS re-entry to Fine Gael has upset calculations in Wicklow and may prove... Read more »