Tag Archives: Fine Gael

Seanad Éireann

Posted on June 27, 2020 by fitzjameshorse

Now that a Platform for Government has been agreed between with Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Green Party and a government will be formed with six ministries each going to FF and FG and three going to the GP……..I … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Brid Rodgers, Dáil, Eamonn Ryan, Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, Green Party, Ian Marshall, Leo Varadkar, Mark Durkan, Micheal Martin, Quintin Oliver, Regina Doherty, SDLP, Seamus Mallon, Seanad Éireann, Timmy Dooley, Tina McKenzie, Trevor Ringland | Leave a comment

The General Election 2020

Posted on February 10, 2020 by fitzjameshorse

A great day in Irish History. It reminds me of those big days in the French Revolution. We seem to have started in 2016 with reminding ourselves about the Easter Rising Proclamation, progressed thru the two Referendums and the Irish … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Dáil, Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, Sinn Féin | 4 Comments

The Party’s Over…..

Posted on March 4, 2019 by fitzjameshorse

Are we witnessing the death throes of the Social Democratic and Labour Party? I have never subscribed to the notion that SDLP has been finished for years. That’s just Sinn Féin talking themselves up and Slugger O’Toole talking up their … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, Mark Durkan MP, SDLP | 5 Comments

Sinn Féin: You Have To Laugh

Posted on January 27, 2017 by fitzjameshorse

Only January but an early contender for “Stupidest Political Comment of 2017”. The author is a TD and regarded as one of the brains of modern Sinn Féin. But he must be taking lessons from Donald Trump. Taking a wild … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Eoin O Broin, Fine Gael, Sinn Féin | 3 Comments

History: Public And Private

Posted on July 5, 2013 by fitzjameshorse

Here is an interesting thing…well almost. Consider the domestic scene in suburban Dublin in the 1960s. An elderly gent hears the postman drop the mail thru the letterbox. He picks up the bank statement, the phone bill and finds a … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, History, Irish Civil War, Irish Postcards, Michael Collins, Postcards, President Eamonn de Valera, Richard Mulcahy, Sean T O'Kelly | 7 Comments

Irish Labour Party Deserves All It Gets

Posted on June 21, 2013 by fitzjameshorse

I have no sympathy for the Irish Labour. Nominally a sister Party of the SDLP, it has been remarkably unsupportive of SDLP down the years. I recall a walkout at a 1970s SDLP Conference whenConor Cruise O’Brien …a truly awful … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Alliance Party, David Cameron MP, DUP, Eamonn Gilmore, Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, Irish Labour Party, Liberal-Democrats, NI21, Nick Clegg MP, Pat Rabbitte, SDLP, Sinn Féin, UUP | 10 Comments

Meath East

Posted on March 29, 2013 by fitzjameshorse

Yesterday’s by-election. Fine Gael held on to the seat. Low turn out which causes the political overclass “too posh to voteTompkins think that None of the Above or Apathy won. Alas it was Fine Gael…the Blueshirts. You couldn’t love them … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Dáil Éireann, Direct DEmocracy Ireland, Eamonn Gilmore, Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, Labour Party, Meath East, Micheal Martin, Pat Rabbitte, Sinn Féin | 32 Comments

Is That George Lee On “Prime Time”.

Posted on March 26, 2013 by fitzjameshorse

Ah George Lee…don’t ya just love him? For ages he was the RTE Economics Editor. And suddenly he decided he wanted to be a politician…for Fine Gael. At the Dublin by-election caused by the death of Seamus Brennan, in June … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Fine Gael, George Lee, journalism, Journalists, Prime Time, RTE, RTE Prime Time | 18 Comments

Bertie Ahern…A Bit Of A Chancer?

Posted on March 25, 2012 by fitzjameshorse

The Mahon Report which was published earlier this week did NOT determine that Bertie Ahern, the former Taoiseach was corrupt. It merely noted that as Minister for Finance he did not have a bank account of his own……which is to … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Bertie Ahern, Charles Haughey, Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, John Bruton, Labour Party | Leave a comment

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