When asked to justify their role as a junior coalition partner, Labour Party ministers and TDs usually argue that they have protected “core” social welfare rates, which otherwise would have presumably been slashed by Fine Gael. It can’t be denied …
Labour
Misplaced sympathy for Joan Burton
It was all so horrifying. The defenceless lady trapped in her car, the baying crowd jeering and banging and leaping, like gibbons throwing faeces, the heroic Garda almost overcome by the designs of a mob. Is this Ireland, a civilised …
Minister coy over future of third-level funding
The newly installed minister for education, Labour’s Jan O’Sullivan, today ducked the chance to lay out a vision for the future funding of third-level education in Ireland.
In a speech this afternoon at an Irish Universities Association (IUA) symposium, the …
A letter to my Labour Party TD
TCD graduate says he has lost faith in Labour
Harry McEvansoneya
Contributor
I have never reached out to a local TD before. I have always thought it the preserve of the crazies who rave about water fluoridation, or the local businessman trying some parish pump deals. But some things …
Labour in terminal decline?
A litany of broken promises, public rebellions and embarrassing cock-ups have left the Labour Party in disarray. Conor McGlynn questions whether Labour will be able to turn around their fortunes and avert catastrophe before electoral wipeout.
In June 2010, an …
The Student Doth Protest Too Little
InDepth Editor
What is the role of the student? How are we perceived? What do we expect of ourselves? We’re drunk and loud on Harcourt Street at three in the morning. We’re discussing Montaigne in Walter Mitty’s over …