The most memorable staged image from the 1997 Fianna Fáil election campaign remains the quasi-religious poster of Bertie Ahern aglow under the text ‘People before Politics – leadership through understanding’. [...]

Now I, for one, am glad to know that De Bert is not corrupt. Who amongst us has not had bags (literally, shopping bags) of large-denomination notes the origin of [...]

The Mahon/Flood tribunal will end up costing over €300 million, and people are asking hard questions about it.  They want to know how an inquiry could possibly cost that much. [...]

The Mahon Tribunal report is due out shortly, so this is going to be a dynamically changing post as information emerges. This is the day we find out what Mahon [...]

It was fascinating to hear Micheál Martin apologising at the Fianna Fáil Árd-Fheis, although precisely what he apologised for  is open to debate.  Martin has a gift for appearing sincere [...]

In the same week that a man in Kerry wrote to the media revealing that his children are hungry because all his money goes on the mortgage, we have the [...]

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