Tag: Labour

  • Caffeine, a calculator, a cart load of nostalgia and a catastrophic lack of sleep

    Caffeine, a calculator, a cart load of nostalgia and a catastrophic lack of sleep

    That, ladies and gents, is an armchair view of and a survival kit for the rigors of an Irish General Election. He says as he begins keyboarding this piece at 2:28am on a Monday night/Tuesday morning. All a guilty pleasure. In one of life’s great contradictions, you’d have thought the introduction of E-Voting machines would’ve…

  • Kelly falls on his sword after holding poisoned chalice

    Kelly falls on his sword after holding poisoned chalice

    It had been very quiet on the political scene in Ireland. Apart from the usual dross – general and understandable disdain for Eamon Ryan, Sinn Fein whinging about something or other and rumblings in certain quarters about a desire to replace Micheal Martin (also not difficult to fathom) but nobody with the cajones to do…