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Charlie, you’re my darlin’? Haughey: chieftain or chancer?
Charlie, you’re my darlin’? Haughey: chieftain or chancer?
For some people, choosing gifts for significant people in their lives is more of an ordeal than it should be. That is because they are…
Daire O'Criodain
Aug 16
Howlin’ at the moon: Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael should NOT have coalesced in 2020!
Howlin’ at the moon: Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael should NOT have coalesced in 2020!
On Friday, 15 July, The Irish Times published a dyspeptic piece of political commentary by Gerard Howlin. The headline conveys the TLDR…
Daire O'Criodain
Aug 2
Eye of newt and toe of frog: summer soothsaying on Irish politics
Eye of newt and toe of frog: summer soothsaying on Irish politics
Welcome once again to our semi-annual musings on the prospects for the Irish electoral steeplechase.
Daire O'Criodain
Jul 19
Pacta Sunt Servanda: Sacred? Sometimes!
Pacta Sunt Servanda: Sacred? Sometimes!
[This blog is operating to a fortnightly production schedule during July and August to facilitate downtime in France. Next edition will…
Daire O'Criodain
Jul 5
The Perils of Certainty: The UK Post Office Goes Rogue
The Perils of Certainty: The UK Post Office Goes Rogue
“If you have time to read only one book this year, this is the book you should read.” I wouldn’t quite say that about The Great Post Office…
Daire O'Criodain
Jun 28
Someone Left The Cake Out In The Rain
Someone Left The Cake Out In The Rain
Britain’s parliament is broken. It is a fire risk. It is insanitary. Asbestos worms its way through the building. Many of the pipes and…
Daire O'Criodain
Jun 21
The perils of prediction
The perils of prediction
Peter Murtagh was a relative novice as a journalist with The Irish Times in March 1982 when he met then Taoiseach, Charles Haughey…
Daire O'Criodain
Jun 14
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