Article Category: Last Refuge

HEALY-RAE DYNASTY IN TROUBLE

May 31, 2018

DANNY HEALY-RAE may have hammed up his professional Kerryman act too much and his seat is in danger from Fianna Fáil. Danny’s Dáil... 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 referendum, some have learned the lesson of the gay... 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 tribute to the late Monica Barnes in which the... Read more »

MICHEÁL MARTIN V JOHN McGUINNESS

May 17, 2018

FIANNA FÁIL became embroiled yet again in theological and legalistic arguments about going all out against the government last week, this time over... Read more »

ROISIN SHORTALL’S JOURNEY

May 17, 2018

BEING the most politically correct party on the planet, it behoves the Social Democrats to be at the coalface of the repeal the... 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 commission wrapped up following a two-years courtship of Leo... 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 against Shane Ross has gone into overdrive again. Independent... Read more »

FERGUS FINLAY’S FUTILE FANTASIES

May 3, 2018

FERGUS FINLAY received a pointed riposte from President Michael D Higgins to his bombastic yet crafty statement that his presidency would be quite... Read more »

FINE GAEL SIRENS’ SEANAD BID

April 19, 2018

THE Newman blue blouse coven – TD Kate O’Connell, her sister and parliamentary aide, Theresa Newman, and third sister, would-be senator Mary Newman... 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 referendum that none of them wants to consider the... 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 mayor with pimpernel activities in Israel and the occupied... Read more »

MARTIN’S DECK CHAIRS

April 5, 2018

MICHEÁL MARTIN’S last throw of the dice in the gambling den of electoral politics now approaching end game has as much to do... Read more »

JUSTIN McALEESE FALTERS

April 5, 2018

THE prospects of Justin McAleese taking a seat for Fianna Fáil in the lush pastures of Dublin Rathdown have been talked up a... 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 described Leo Varadkar’s supporters as “choir boys singing for... 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 a candidate at the next general election and her... Read more »

Brendan Howlin’s bland buddies

March 22, 2018

LIMPING Labour leader Brendan Howlin appeared this week at a public meeting organised by his party on the topic of Brexit. He was... 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 Caoláin – as weighty and formidable as Mary Lou... 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 spending have repeatedly protested – like the lady that... 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 patronising treatment of her appears to have died a... Read more »

‘PAYBACK TIME’

March 8, 2018

IN an amusing article in the Sunday Independent last weekend Liam Collins accused Rupert Murdoch’s Irish titles of regularly “taking a side” in... Read more »

CORK PROBLEMS FOR BLUESHIRTS

March 8, 2018

THE shrieks of betrayal from former Cork North-West Deputy Áine Collins at the recruitment of Independent Cllr John Paul O’Shea indicates Fine Gael’s... Read more »

KATE HOEY’S TRACK RECORD

March 6, 2018

NOT even the DUP has explicitly called for the abandonment of the Good Friday Agreement but British Labour Party MP Kate Hoey, originally... 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 than the Sunday Independent are many members of SF.... Read more »

RINGER THREATENS TO GO INDEPENDENT

February 22, 2018

ONLY when Enda Kenny became Fine Gael leader and then Taoiseach did he manage to best his Mayo running mate, Michael Ring, at... 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 party and will doubtless take a chunk of first... Read more »

AK47 Ultimatum

February 22, 2018

IT IS just under five months since Deputy Alan Kelly gave Labour leader Brendan Howlin “less than” six months to either shape up... Read more »

FINE GAEL’S CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS

February 8, 2018

THE portrayal of ethical and personal agonising by Fine Gael ministers and TDs over the abortion referendum and the planned 12 weeks abortion... 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 Amendment was apt but surprisingly amicable coming from a... 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 Fianna Fail but there is something strangely unreal about... Read more »

IREXIT PARTY BORN

February 8, 2018

IT LOOKS as if an anti-EU party with candidates running in the EU elections next year will definitely emerge from last weekend’s Irexit... Read more »

McDowell v Ross

February 8, 2018

LEGAL EAGLES can be as bitchy as politicians when they fall out and former justice minister Alan Shatter – a mere solicitor –... Read more »

LEO THE PROVO

January 25, 2018

SURPRISINGLY little comment followed the sharply contrasting responses in the Dáil from Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin to blundering... Read more »