If the two parties don’t commit to a pact before the general election, voters may reasonably conclude they are not really serious about being in government and having their policies implemented
Pat Leahy
Pat Leahy columns
Nastier lead-in, more focus on migration and less on green issues, and Sinn Féin’s need to get back to basics
The message from the two budget boyos is that with inflation under control there is little justification for another glut of one-off giveaways
The new mayor of Limerick will have a job unlike any other in Ireland, with potential to strengthen local government and local democracy
The local and European elections are not a crystal ball. But they are a huge political event, which will both tell us things about the state of Irish politics
What exactly will it be illegal to say in future that it is not currently illegal to say? Nobody seems to know
There needs to be a second half of the plan beyond telling the continuing arrivals that they’re on their own. All this just plays to the “Ireland is full” gang
Too many on the left are content to whine from the sidelines, wary of the responsibility of power and unwilling to make the compromises that forming a Government require
Already there are four key signs about where his priorities will lie - and they don’t include scrapping with the Opposition
The united Ireland conversation involves listening to people who don’t agree with you and whose advice you don’t want to hear
It’s like no other job in the country. If you think anyone can do it, you have no idea what’s involved
We were all waiting, says one Government insider, like waiting for a kettle to boil, when it wasn’t plugged in
Relations across the cultural chasm in the Coalition have been deteriorating for months, with Fine Gael and Fianna Fail ministers increasingly given to mutterings about their Green colleagues
In fairness to us, we really have some neck. There is literally no end to our chutzpah
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