Fianna Fail and Fine Gael competing over tax cuts.  Let’s look at two of them. First up is Fianna Fail’s proposed cut in the capital gains tax rate – from…

Is there any justification in maintaining that election 2020 is a two-way race between Fianna Fail and Fine Gael? In the Irish Times MRBI poll – the first poll whose…

It was said of the French Bourbon kings that they learned nothing and forgot nothing.  Fianna Fail are the modern-day Bourbons. ‘Fianna Fail is pledging to give first-time buyers €1…

The campaign’s first poll coming from Behaviour & Attitudes (the fieldwork was done prior to the election called, so the first published poll) shows progressives and Fianna Fail out in…

During elections there is always a danger of promise-inflation.  But Fine Gael is looking to be the most inflationary of all.  They have promised increased public spending increases, tax cuts,…

This post follows on from last week’s post which suggested we don’t have to see Irish politics as defined by a two-way contest between Fianna Fail and Fine Gael.  There…

While elections can throw up surprises there is one thing we can be fairly certain of:  either Fine Gael or Fianna Fail will lead the next government.  Will they combine,…