Article Category: Last Refuge

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 »

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 »