Tag: aras25

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Citywest Riots, President Connolly, and Record Soiled Ballots: Ireland’s Liberal Consensus is Finished

While Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael recover from the rubble of a titanic political screw-up that will be studied for decades to come, the entire political establishment would do well to remember that the Irish public were not the only...

/ 27/10/2025

Centre Right Duds: Can Ruth Dudley Edwards Stop Making Catherine Connolly Cool

One of the smoothest cakewalks in recent Irish political history is unfolding as we speak with Galway socialist Catherine Connolly running rhetorical rings around centrist contender Heather Humphreys in the penultimate days of Áras ’25.  Unfazed by mutterings about dissident...

/ 20/10/2025

Left, Right or Centre: Who Will Claim Ireland’s Post-Neutrality Space?

Perennial Irish misgivings about the nation’s place in the Anglo-American military alliance or EU militarisation are unlikely to avert a date with destiny in the not too distant future about Dublin’s threadbare defence policy. Caught between the Scylla of a...

/ 01/09/2025