Daniel K. Sullivan

I was struck when listening to the radio on last Tuesday night by the vehemence of Minister McDowell's response to the opposition during...

I was looking for some news on blogs and came across this awful story . And to think this is one of the so called progressive Arab nations t...

My nomination got a mention in the paper or should I say da paper today. One minor inaccuracy I'm a UL graduate and as such not an NUI ...

I was talking with someone from the NUI recently and it appears there may be something of a quandary over the registers of the two universit...

Last autumn, I declared my intention to contest the NUI Seanad panel. Since then I've been hugely encouraged by the support I've re...

I can't help wondering if the dangling of an offer of €300 per week for pensioners might not come to be seen as the PD's Eircom and ...

I seem to have gotten nominated for the Irish Blog awards in two categories, Best Political Blog and best Videocast. The full list of nomina...

With the proposal from the government that we should have new ethics legislation to stop Bertie doing what he did when he took cash for a ...

There was another dose tonight of what RTe believes passes for American style focus groups as part of a Week in Politics season. I think a n...

Recently, Minister McDowell appears to have lost the plot. He is coming across as petty and silly as his partner in government throws winks ...

The Tony Killeen saga drags on. According to our friends in the fourth estate he is coming under increasing pressure to resign. From where...

This story doesn't seem to going away, but it also doesn't seem likely to cost Killeen his job. My personal view is that as a TD he...

The nominations for the Irish blogs awards are now open and this is the post where one would normally expect to hear the poster asking/begg...

For all my talk about new technology and its potential impact on the next Irish general election you'd think I would make more of an eff...

We've had quite a few reports in total on Seanad reform down the years since the Seanad was created by DeVelera as part of his 1937 Cons...

Part of the basic problem with Risk Equalisation (RE) as the government have chosen to implement it is that the vast block of older people w...

The Garda commissioner has said today Dec 15th 2006 that of the 23 gun murders this year 8 are solved and they are close to solving 3 more. ...

Every budget time in Ireland there is a cap tiping reference to paying back our forefathers who made this country what it is. Now, I have no...

In today's Sunday Independent (Dec 10th 2006) on Page ten of the Life magazine, one of their writers a Pat Fitzpatrick does a Top Five p...

I wrote the following last summer and sent it to the local press. Needless to say, it didn't get carried by any of them. The reason for ...