I’ve written a piece of analysis for the online edition, which should be going up about now. Here is it (written slightly less informally than the blog).
There was never even a remote possibility that today’s Cabinet reshuffle would emulate Albert Reynolds’s sacking of eight Ministers when he became Taoiseach in 1992.
Before they disappear under the receding wave of time, here are some impressions of the recent elections. In the course of the campaign, some people complained they were boring but the present writer didn’t find that to be the case.
In happier times . . . or maybe not: Gerry Adams (left) and Christy Burke
(Photograph by Matt Kavanagh)
In politics you have to expect the unexpected. Who would have thought that, in getting sacked as Minister of State for Trade and Commerce, John McGuinness would have become a focus of public discontent with the current state of things.
When John and Mary saw eye-to-eye;
Michael Finneran on left (Photograph
by Eric Luke)
So are we in for a period of dissent in Fianna Fáil that will be reminiscent of the Haughey era? John McGuinness is certainly not taking his dismissal as a junior minister lying down. But could he seriously undermine Cowen’s leadership?
Mary Coughlan and John McGuinness in happier times, with still-in-situ Minister of State Michael Finneran on left (photograph by Eric Luke) (more…)
Someone asked me what the Fianna Fáil ardfheis was like. “It was like a very large country wedding,” I replied. (more…)
Sometime in late April or early May there will be flurries of analysis pieces all headlined ‘Obama: The First 100 Days’.
There’s no doubt about it. It is an enticing headline and implies the first weathervane of how the leader is coping with the new job; and the first signs of the imprint they may evenutally make. (more…)
It’s shaping up to be a lively Dáil session when the TDs reassemble at Teach Laighean this morning and already there is a fairly decent story for the journos to get their teeth into. Fine Gael wanted an emergency debate on the economy, the Government said No, now FG are refusing to give pairings to FF ministers jetting off to the UN and sundry other destinations. (more…)
Event: The Lisbon Treaty falls.
Implicaton: Brian Cowen’s reign as Taoiseach is off to a rocky start.
Event: The economy plunges south. (more…)
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