Normally when a political party replaces an ageing leader with a leader in his/prime, the expectation is that this will give the party a bounce. People will see the new leader the way we look on the first snow-drops or a tentative daffodil tip pushing clear of the soil: something new and fresh and maybe […]
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Leo steps out and names the enemy
Some people will be pleased, some people will be nervous. But it’s safe to say that all Irish political parties – including the DUP, whose leader Arlene Foster is to visit Dublin today – are alert to the changes Leo Varadkar has said he will introduce as Taoiseach. Last month, he said that he was concerned […]
A Concerned Citizen in Grafton Street
I’m so glad that ‘Concerned Citizen’ (didn’t there used to be one of those commenting on this site for a while?) made the noisy intervention he did when Mary Lou McDonald was making a speech about Sinn Féin’s economic policies. It was dramatic and it showed self-serving standards by both the Concerned Citizen and the […]
Poll position?
Picture by bluecatdublin There was an interesting and even impassioned article in the Belfast Telegraph a few days back by Bill White. In it he made the case for polls, which he said had received some bad publicity, having failed to predict the Tory majority at the last election. He points out that they got […]
What does the Westminster election mean for Ireland? TUT talks…
Picture by Maurice If you buy The Irish Times or view it online you’ll notice that Stephen Collins et al are looking at the ‘Irish’ implications of the British General Election. (If you don’t know why I’ve put ‘Irish’ in inverted commas, you should probably stop reading now.) They wonder what lessons can be […]