AS A COUNTRY we may not be able to get our complex, nuanced and violent past out of our system, but that’s not to say we can’t all band together and agree to get one big ‘Sinn Féin is the IRA’ bashing session out of the way and then move on, allowing a more mature,… Read more »
FOLLOWING on from Brendan Howlin’s resignation as party leader the Labour party have wasted no time in finding a suitable successor and will now seek to appoint a grave digger to finish off the job believed to have been initially undertaken in 2011. “We need someone with the relevant experience to ensure this hole we’ve… Read more »
TAKING EVERY necessary precaution during nascent government coalition talks with Fianna Fáil, Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald is currently being placed in a highly secure hazmat suit, to give her a fighting chance against catching the devastating Fiannafáilvirus. Such is the panic and paranoia around the all-consuming infection, the phone with which McDonald used… Read more »
ALTHOUGH a new government has yet to be formed from the aftermath of GE2020, a freshly-invigorated and triumphant Sinn Féin have already begun to lay the groundwork for a Unity Referendum; an all-island poll to gauge the desire to finally reunite Northern Ireland with the Republic, a question that has been brewing in the four… Read more »
AS IS TRADITION now in Irish elections none of the the biggest parties are anywhere close to having enough seats to rule on their own, so the Irish public will watching closely as parties begin negotiations over potential coalition formations. How do the numbers work and what realistic combinations gets the country closest to a… Read more »
DUP leader Arlene Foster has taken to drinking Gaviscon straight out of the bottle this week, following a series of events that have caused her party ‘nothing but grief’, including the stunning general election performance of Sinn Féin in the Republic. Crucified with the heartburn and getting by on less than three hours sleep a… Read more »
AS SENIOR Fine Gael figures and those on the ground involved in the party’s grass roots begin to hint that party leader and Taoiseach Leo Varadkar should resign after a disappointing election performance, sources close to the Taoiseach suggest he was utterly devastated for close to 30 seconds. “Bless him, he was inconsolable at the… Read more »
AS the final seats in the new Dáil were filled following GE2020, a clear message has been sent to candidates with controversial views on immigration, racism and human rights; you are not welcome here, unless of course you’re already here, in which case you’re grand. Newly-sprung far-right parties such as the Irish Freedom Party, Anti-Corruption… Read more »
BURYING her head in her hands, Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald can’t believe Waterford TD David Cullinane was shouting ‘Up The Ra’ 0.02 seconds after being elected and has asked all TDs to refrain from such things for at the very least, a full week. “We can ‘Up the RA’ in private all we… Read more »
RECENTLY swayed voter Martin Rellis explains his reasons for opting out of his routine Fine Gael/Fianna Fáil support in favour of a Sinn Féin government, citing a more straight up approach when it comes to electing politicians. You wouldn’t hire a carpenter to unclog a toilet, so why would you elect a bunch of rich… Read more »