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Sinn Féin is now, by a short head, the North’s largest party with 25.5% of the vote. The reduction in its total vote from 174,530 to 171,942 since the 2005 General election can be attributed to its withdrawing from South Belfast, where it had taken 2,882 five years ago. Since then, the Sinn Féin leadership […]
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Ireland should abandon the Euro which was established for political not economic reasons and so has not worked Anthony Coughlan The political purpose of establishing the Eurozone was to reconcile France to German reunification following the USSR’s collapse. This political agenda used economic means that most economists who were not EU-ideologues regarded as quite unsuitable […]
End division of Dáil representatives on the real left, from grass-roots campaigners Richard Boyd Barrett Fianna Fáil and the Greens face electoral disaster at the next general election. Fianna Fáil promoted the greed of bankers, developers and the super-wealthy, which has brought the economy to its knees. They championed the neo-liberal economic madness of ‘light […]
A citizens’ forum should be followed by formation of a new electoral force Déirdre de Búrca For many, politics is increasingly a discredited profession. The political parties that operate within the existing system are seen to be part of the problem, rather than the solution to our governance crisis. The prospect of creating a new political movement […]
Constantin Gurdgiev Weeks after the Croke Park talks about public-sector reform and Ireland’s Policy Kindergarten is still agitated by cuts in Government expenditure. The logic of arguments from the likes of Tasc, the Irish Times, and an army of Union-employed ‘economists’, is perverse: ‘In order to get the economy back on track, we need to […]
It doesn’t want economic, social and political transformation Joe Higgins A General Election must be held at the very latest in two years time. Very possibly it will take place much earlier and may be triggered by the Green Party suddenly discovering that it has an irreconcilable ‘principled’ difference with Fianna Fáil on some issue […]
In the mid-nineteen-nineties developer and architect, Paul Clinton, came up with an idea for a new street and shopping centre on O’Connell Street centring on the former Carlton Cinema site and brought together a group of four partners who had varying degrees of involvement. They developed ambitious plans for the ‘Millennium Mall’ retail scheme stretching […]