Democracy can be boring and expensive, but it’s all we have

There is something deeply disquieting about an election for the most significant office in the land which barely resembles a local town council contest, but the process should not be debased by cynicism

Michael D Higgins: streets ahead in the polls in his bid to be returned as the next president Rollingnews

Nothing is as it seems any more in politics.

A tribunal has fully exonerated a former minister whose ‘will she or won’t she’ resignation almost precipitated a general election. Another minister resigned without warning and without any calls from the opposition for his departure.

The budget speeches from the opposition benches had the curious spectacle of a good cop/bad cop routine by Michael McGrath and Barry Cowen. This continual ability of Fianna Fáil ...