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It may seem like a peculiar thing to suggest before it even takes office but the next government is going to face a series of political, economic...
Sinn Féin slumped, the Greens wilted, the centre held, and the Donald returned: those were the four most important trends and events in Irish...
Getting ready for arguments about politics at home over the Christmas? Wondering about how you’ll explain Irish politics to visiting foreign...
Election campaign done and dusted, and a comparatively slow-motion government formation process is under way. I’ve been watching the Disney Plus...
Leave aside for now the wrangling over the construction of the next government that began before all the votes were counted and will continue, I...
Just under a week to go. Right about the time you are reaching for your Saturday morning Irish Times, the votes will be tumbling out of the ballot...
I suppose this is what we expected, isn’t it? The first week of the campaign has seen all parties embark on an incontinent splurge of promises to...
Most of the chatter was about how the Dáil had to pass the Finance Bill, which was rushed through the chamber at breakneck speed this week....
You don’t have to look very hard to see that the sniping between the two old frenemies has gone up a notch or two as the election approaches. The...
This week, the Climate Change Advisory Council issued its annual review, warning the Government that the rate of progress in cutting carbon...
Readers of a certain vintage may recall Bertie Ahern’s trials and tribulations regarding his finances during the late-stage Celtic Tiger period....
Back to the political world’s favourite subject. The time is fast approaching – and will arrive probably next week, I think – when decisions...
Assessing the plans for the invasion of Iraq by US forces in 2003, General David Petraeus famously demanded: “Tell me how this ends.” He never got...
And so, as before, they were able to do nearly everything. For the third year in a row, after the Covid years, a €10 billion budget that will run a...
Sinn Féin gathers in Athlone for its ardfheis today in a state of uncertainty and disquietude that is unfamiliar territory for the party....
One of the ways public life works in Ireland is that those with proximity to power tend to find their interests protected rather better than those...
Though you’d never guess it from the reaction within the Department of Finance, there are worse disasters that could befall the country than a €14...
The excavation of the darker sides of Irish life in past decades continued this week with the publication of the report by senior counsel Mary...
Name-tags affixed to uniforms, school shoes bought, bags packed with books and copies and pencil cases and (if they must) iPads: children across...
The Cabinet – and everyone else – skedaddled out the door this week as fast as they could as the August break beckoned after a long political term....