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PROFILE: RODERIC O’GORMAN

September 5, 2024

JUST AS the Green Party faces up to the imminent slashing of its dozen TDs to about half that number – on a... Read more »

Climate Disinformation Coillte Climate Action EU Livestock NDC Claude Etchelamendy Ed Brophy Richard Boyd-Barrett Kish Dale Crammond Frank Mitloehner Shell Greenwashing Meta Data Centres Ireland

ON YER BIKE!

July 25, 2024

In the recent European election campaign, Fine Gael’s Regina Doherty was ridiculed over her Trumpian claim that the Green Party had turned Dublin... Read more »

MICHAEL COLLINS TO REPLACE GREENS

July 11, 2024

AS THE Greens go down in the polls and their ability to play a coalition role looks increasingly doubtful, there is quiet satisfaction... Read more »

WHAT’S IN A NAME?

May 30, 2024

The decision by the Electoral Commission to make Laois and Offaly two three-seat constituencies at the next general election is a significant problem... Read more »

CATHERINE MARTIN’S LATEST VACANCY

May 2, 2024

THE RETICENCE of arts and culture minister Catherine Martin when it comes to filling vacancies on the boards of the national cultural institutions... Read more »

FACIAL ‘APARTHEID’?

November 15, 2023

In June justice minister Helen McEntee backed off a confrontation with her Green Party colleagues in Government when she agreed to remove aspects... Read more »

Mary Lou McDonald has said SF’s place is at the heart of the ‘European project’, which is in contrast to Gerry Adams’s previous opposition to the EU.

ANNUAL 2023: OPPOSITION – SINN FÉIN: LEFT OR RIGHT?

November 15, 2023
Can the forward march of Sinn Féin be halted? Will the party be left like Peri at the gates of paradise gazing on the... Read more »

Soc Dems leader Holly Cairns will be hoping her party can reap some benefit from disillusioned Labour voters. Polls

ANNUAL 2023: INDEPENDENTS/TROTS – NON-REPUBLICAN LEFT SQUEEZED

November 15, 2023

READING HEADLINE coverage of political opinion polls, things could hardly be better for opposition parties and for the left in general. The conventional... Read more »

Garret Kelly Brigadier General Philip Brennan

MILITARY COUP INSIDE GREENS

July 13, 2023

REACTION INSIDE the Green Party to its barely reported debate about abandoning the triple-lock mechanism – which requires Dáil, government and UN Security... Read more »

GREEN ATTACK ON SF

June 29, 2023

The ongoing pearl-clutching about the prospect of a Sinn Féin government has been joined recently by the Green Party – and where better... Read more »

TRIPLE-COCK-UP BY GREENS

June 1, 2023

THE BUSINESS POST recently had on its front page a piece about the Green Party’s shift towards abolition of the triple lock –... Read more »

PROFILE: NEASA HOURIGAN

April 19, 2023

THERE WAS a time when Green Party members would have been calling for smelling salts to revive themselves if its TDs and other... Read more »

Janice Boylan Irish Military Mali Coolock Says No IFP Hermann Kelly Timmy Dooley Aontú Mal O’Hara Fintan O’Toole Josepha Madigan Eoghan Harris Ukraine War Micheál Martin Middle East Philip Ryan Seán Clancy Simon Coveney Hugo MacNeill Mountbatten Neasa Hourigan Green Party Martin NPT Ivana Bacik Independents Limerick Hospital Overcrowding Barry Cowen

O’REILLY V HOURIGAN

March 22, 2023

THE GREEN Party chairperson and ultra-loyal lieutenant of Eamon Ryan, senator Pauline O’Reilly, is gunning for Neasa Hourigan TD as the latter contributed... Read more »

GREEN PARTY DROPS TRIPLE LOCK

March 8, 2023

THE FIANNA FÁIL leader and Tánaiste, Micheál Martin, will be pleased with Cabinet colleague Eamon Ryan, who recently persuaded his now-domesticated Green Party... Read more »

YOUNG BLOOD: ANLUAN DUNNE

February 22, 2023

CAN TRALEE’S Anluan Dunne confound the critics in Kerry and lead a Green march forward for the party in this most inhospitable of... Read more »

Garret Patrick Kelly Eamon Ryan is hoping that the Green party will benefit from the ‘climate emergency’ being at the top of the global political agenda, but closer to home he has his work cut out trying to make headway on domestic bread-and-butter issues.

GREENS DIVIDE ON NEUTRALITY

February 9, 2023

THE ONGOING mystery continues surrounding the Green Party’s policy on defence, security and neutrality – for long the most sacred of Green principles... Read more »

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CATHERINE MARTIN’S UNJUST TRANSITION

January 12, 2023

WITH THE Arts Council planning to significantly expand its scale, maybe one of the new hires could keep an eye on the activities... Read more »

Budget Jack Chambers Nicki Minaj B’Tselem Phil Hogan UCD IRTA DIGI Katy Brown Rory Godson Pallonji Mistry Shark Hanlon Frances Ruane Taste of Dublin Listowel Writers’ Week Paddy Curran Harvey Norman Anton Savage Paul Hourican Enda O’Coineen PfP Red C Poll IFTA Ben Gilroy Luke Comer Sue Spence Fingleton Aubrey McCarthy Matt Cooper Parker Green Danny McConnell Gayle Killilea Maura Derivan Ed Honohan INS Arts Council EDAF Emuse Rosslare Golf Club Mairead Casey Colm O’Rourke Stephen Connolly Peter Aiken John Malone Tom Barry Anthony Halpin Ian Kehoe Kevin Bakhurst Geraldine O’Leary Dennis Horgan RUSI Gareth McAllister Ryevale House Joe Macken RUC Omagh Patrick Connolly Paddy Cosgrave The Ditch Newstalk Fake Tan Fred Logue Ian Paisley Sean O’Riordan Margaret Sweeney Jay Bourke Ellie Kisyombe Francesca McDonagh Ted Cunningham National Space Centre An Irish Goodbye Oscar Robert Quirke Ciara Kelly Executive Women Gathering Doug Taylor Florian Haufe Robbie Henshaw Bill Shipsey Breaking the Silence L’Ecrivain Ronan McNally National Lottery Michael Roche Energy Action Balls.ie Newspapers VAT Abbey Theatre Patricia Madden Irish Banking Culture Board Randox Aoife Gallagher Book Dalai Lama Trinity Trevor White RTÉ Chairperson Shane Houlihan Noel Smyth IKC Bob Geldof Landlord Ireland Neutrality Ukraine

EAMON RYAN’S RED FACE

December 1, 2022

THERE MAY be a few red faces at Green Party headquarters this week as a result of the Energy Action board deciding to... Read more »

‘UNITED’ GREEN PARTY

December 1, 2022

THE GREENS put on a show of unity and purpose last Saturday in a convention that was several galaxies distant from traditional gatherings... Read more »

GREENS DIVIDE ON CETA

November 17, 2022

GREEN PARTY TD Patrick Costello has gone from naive radical to triumphant litigant fighting the EU-Canada trade deal, Ceta, with his successful Supreme... Read more »

WHITHER THE GREENS?

August 25, 2022

RECENT POLL figures for the Green Party by the Business Post/Red C (4%), Irish Times (3%) and Sunday Independent (4%) will have many... Read more »

FINE GAEL MOONLIGHTERS

July 28, 2022

LEO VARADKAR is incensed with those members of his parliamentary party that have followed the lead of TD, John Paul Phelan, in their... Read more »

CYANIDE WASHING?

July 28, 2022

On Richard Bruton’s watch as environment minister a brave new era of mining opportunities was launched, sparking a surge in licensing that has... Read more »