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Is Fine Gael already in greater crisis than it realises?

Posted on July 7, 2013 by dsullivan

  Deeper problems could already have been set in train by a combination of the loss of the whip by four members of the Fine Gael parliamentary party and the highly prescriptive nature of the current Fine Gael party rules. … Continue reading →

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The actual new FG front bench

Posted on July 1, 2010 by dsullivan

Image via Wikipedia As got from p.ie, where there is mucho interesting discussion about it. Looks to me like Finance and the long term economy has been split which I think is a very good thing indeed. FINE GAEL FRONT … Continue reading →

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Fine Gael should split the Finance portfolio

Posted on June 28, 2010 by dsullivan

My own take on the line up for the new FG Front Bench is that the plan as suggested at the time of George Lee’s departure that the area of Finance and the economy needs a long term view in addition … Continue reading →

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The next Fine Gael Front bench

Posted on June 21, 2010 by dsullivan

Image by The Library of Congress via Flickr My Predictions for the new Fine Gael front Bench are below, note these are who I suspect having read my runes and the entrails of a passing goat that the train hit. … Continue reading →

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Where does Fine Gael go now?

Posted on June 18, 2010 by dsullivan

Image via Wikipedia I think this rural vs urban stuff is nonsense, Mark Coughlan of another parish noted that it seemed to be in areas where the PDs had once had a foothold or seat that the FGers were opposed … Continue reading →

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What the contest in Fine Gael is about

Posted on June 17, 2010 by dsullivan

Image via Wikipedia The contest in FG is not urban or rural as Elaine Byrne suggested but between the politics of “what” and “how” as compared with the politics of “who, and where and when”. There is a not inconsiderable number … Continue reading →

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What chances for a smooth change at the top of FG?

Posted on June 14, 2010 by dsullivan

I suspect that it is obvious at this point that the possibility of a change at the top of FG has increased in the last 48 hours and the likelihood of this change over being a smooth and relatively bloodless … Continue reading →

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Where are the FG conventions?

Posted on March 29, 2010 by dsullivan

Image by Cornell University Library via Flickr This time 5 years ago the electoral spectrum across the country was alive with talk of the likely runners and riders at Fine Gael conventions as newly crowned and clearly impatient local election … Continue reading →

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An open letter on Seanad Reform

Posted on October 21, 2009 by dsullivan

The proposal that Fine Gael policy should be to abolish the Seanad after the next election as announced by the party leader Enda Kenny leaves me in two minds. As a means to put down a marker to the government … Continue reading →

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Local Elections Predictions – 2009

Posted on May 29, 2009 by dsullivan

I think that the share of the national vote will be as follows FF will get 25% FF will get 33%, Greens 3% Labour15% SF 8% Independents 15 I think that FF will stay just over the 250 seat mark. … Continue reading →

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