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Posts Tagged: Fine Gael

Garvan Walshe: Sinn Fein say they want to reassure Unionists. Good luck with that.

As long as their activists call them “colonialists” and candidates glorify the IRA, the idea is as convincing as a Hannukah greeting from Jeremy Corbyn.

By Garvan Walshe | 13 February 2020 | 57 comments

Ed McGuinness: The threat from Sinn Fein to the Union is serious

Their negotiating stance is often very aggressive and unyielding. They will seek to cause maximum damage at a critical time.

By Ed McGuinness | 11 February 2020 | 80 comments

Sinn Fein in government. What’s the fuss about?

Of course the result is a bad one. But we encourage the party to co-govern in Northern Ireland, so can scarcely object if now does so too in the Irish Republic.

By Paul Goodman | 10 February 2020 | 145 comments

Irish complacency is Sinn Fein’s opportunity

An extremist party is gaining support – from those wishing to protest housing shortages and hospital overcrowding.

By Harry Phibbs | 4 February 2020 | 31 comments

Paul Bew: Merkel has let alternatives to the backstop out of a bottle. So there’s no putting them back in.

It really is something when a significant part of the EU leadership joins the list of agnostics. No wonder there is nervousness in Dublin.

By Lord Bew | 25 March 2019 | 61 comments

WATCH: Varadkar – “Today is not a day for negotiations”

The Taoiseach was speaking ahead of today’s talks with Theresa May and Northern Irish political leaders.

8 February 2019 | 113 comments

Paul Bew: The Backstop would undermine the Good Friday Agreement – but there is a way out of this paralysis

Under international law, it can only be a temporary arrangement – and this must be put in explicit, legally binding, terms.

By Lord Bew | 28 January 2019 | 57 comments

Henry Hill: The courts have called time on Bradley’s passive policy towards Ulster

Also: Welsh Tory leadership hopefuls would put pacts with other parties to the membership; unionists turn on Robinson over united Ireland comments; and more.

By Henry Hill | 2 August 2018 | 17 comments

Lord Ashcroft: My Republic of Ireland focus groups on Brexit. They both agree that the UK is making a terrible mistake.

“Two years later no-one knows what they want, even the Tory party. Theresa May says one thing and Boris Johnson says another.”

By Lord Ashcroft | 25 May 2018 | 109 comments

Henry Hill: Welsh Labour prepare for leadership race as Jones announces departure

Also: DUP maintain a tough line on Brexit as Sinn Fein try to woo unionists with Senate appointment; and SNP have to delay devolution again.

By Henry Hill | 26 April 2018

Brexit. How Britain’s lack of interest in Ireland, and Ireland’s lack of imagination about Britain, join to threaten disaster

Dublin likes to cite the Belfast Agreement, and we certainly all need what it exemplified – that’s to say, a good old-fashioned face-saving fudge.

By Paul Goodman | 26 November 2017 | 259 comments

Henry Hill: DUP accuse Irish Taoiseach of ‘going backwards’ on Brexit

Also: Veteran Welsh Labour nationalist floats party split over Brexit; rival parties joined DUP to push for no back-dating of donor transparency in Ulster; and more.

By Henry Hill | 2 August 2017 | 7 comments

The DUP are right to reject the Irish Government’s border demands

Calls to move customs and immigration checks to the Irish Sea prioritise nationalist sentiment over Ulster’s real economic and constitutional position.

By Henry Hill | 28 July 2017 | 88 comments

Henry Hill: Labour MPs demand that Birmingham bomber faces justice

Also: SNP split on path forward as Salmond plots return; Welsh Assembly to exclude monoglot English-speakers from posts; Irish leader opposed Ulster poll.

By Henry Hill | 19 July 2017 | 15 comments

Garvan Walshe: Voting is not, and can never be, a matter of consumer choice

If people vote for the pork, that’s what we’re all getting, even those of us who preferred beef or vegetables.

By Garvan Walshe | 10 March 2016 | 27 comments

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