All about the optics at Fianna Fail Redux
“There is no other Troy/For me to burn”, sang a young, angry Sinéad O’Connor back in the day. If she’d been watching the born-again fervour at the RDS last night, […]
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Is that a foot in your mouth, or are you just glad to see me?
I love Irish politicians. Just when I start to think that they might actually be capable of doing something intelligent, they invariably make a total mess of it. But just […]
Steady as she blows
The Christmas holidays came to an abrupt end this week, as the fairy lights and aroma of pine needles was replaced once again with the daily diet of austerity and […]
Rabbitte not the brightest spark
It was only a matter of time before this government let the privatisation genie out of the bottle. Word from Kildare Street is that a “minority stake” in the ESB, […]
Sympathy for the Bedevilled
We don’t make it easy on them, to be fair. The Irish are not an easy bunch to rule in a conventional sense. We don’t really pay much attention to […]
Don’t Say You Weren’t Warned
Politics is often nothing more than the art of being able to say “I told you so”, no matter what the outcome. There was “Straight Talkin’” Pat Rabbitte on Vincent […]
Breaking the bullying cycle
Even though I’m surrounded by them, I’m glad I’m not a teacher. My brother, my mother and my wife are all teachers, and I can safely say that with my […]
Meet the new boss…
At first I thought there was something wrong with my TV. When watching Dáil proceedings, a low humming could be heard. I switched TV, but the problem didn’t go away. […]
