Very, very sorry to hear of the passing of Allan Armstrong, as noted by ColmB in Comments earlier today. A lovely person who was enormously generous with his time and his thoughts and whose quiet determination and sincerity was the foundation of good politics.  It was a pleasure along with others who write and comment […]

Fair dues to Joe O?Brien of the Green Party for noting that there was little push at Cabinet level (O?Brien himself is a Junior Minister) to find beds for asylum seekers.  Minister of State Joe O?Brien, who has responsibility for aspects of integration policy, said: ?I?ve been in the Cabinet subcommittees that were chaired by […]

Totted up the time Micheál Martin was in office as Taoiseach and he was there for six months in 2020, twelve months in 2021 and twelve months in 2022. Exactly two and a half years. Varadkar was in office for twelve months in 2023 and just three months in 2024. Harris could potentially be in […]

Pat Leahy notes that the Green Party was in good form this weekend for their annual convention.  There was an air of optimism and high spirits aplenty around the RDS on Saturday as Green Party members gathered in the unexpected sunshine for their party?s annual convention.   A few hundred delegates hooted and cheered their […]

Very very curious language used this weekend (more of which later) in a column in the Sunday Independent about ?protests? at politicians houses by the far-right. Perhaps most curious is the idea Paul Murphy was a ?random TD? – yet hardly random since he too had experienced exactly this sort of activity and had been […]