Daniel K. Sullivan

I read this piece by Fergus Finlay ( updated link now in Irish Examiner archive ) in in Tuesday's Examiner* and I was positively seeth...

I posted last May about the possible problems that the excessive amount of 3 seaters in Ireland and FF's dominance of the 2nd seats in ...

I think too people overreact to the sight of election posters. Maybe it was growing up in town with a big festival (All Hail King Puck) but ...

I believe that Bert will called the election early on Tuesday May 1st, having all the other deputies come back to Dublin for the sitting whi...

Strangely, no Willie O'Dea in the Sunday Independent today. Where could he be? Hardly running about taking all these posters like the on...

or should that be hill-walking suburbanites? Anyway, junior minister Tim O'Malley has been in the local Limerick Press bemoaning the Lab...

I dabble in the punditry business from time to time and since the French are having themselves an election to select a new President, and be...

A Willie O'Dea for the 21st century? Willie spent years as a backbencher willing and able to try and defend all kinds of government nons...

Unanswered because it seems no one in the Dead Tree Press is asking them. I was drawn a fortnight ago to the Minister of Defence Willie O’De...

Use our PPS/RSI numbers Most students from Irish 3 rd level educational institutions will remember those ever so helpful notices in st...

I'm often struck by the manipulation of language in modern life. During the current dispute with the nurses, that odd grouping the Healt...

Get them while they are hot. Dail members Seanad Members I would say that Willie O'Dea has a question over his form. There is a re...

Or as Captain Flashhard might say "Slack Bowel". The other advice must be to avoid a dose of Chris Andrews as he might cause you t...

Kudos to the Irish Elections guys for this one

Water, water everywhere but not a drop to drink.

According to the Indo today " Senior TDs say the party will not "do a Fianna Fail" by pledging the sun, moon and stars in End...

After weeks of telling us that auction politics is bad for us the Taoiseach gave us a big dollop of the bad stuff last Saturday night. Tax c...

Christ, I'm either totally prescient or I really need to set myself up as a political consultant as soon as possible. About 2 years ago ...

I was struck by the comments in the Indo today from Evelyn Moles on the death of her sister Kate in the pile up on the N7. While she pleads...

What seems to have been missed by Cowen and other FF ministers who have chosen to defend the current stamp duty system is that those buying ...