Fine Gael has published their Unified Ireland Blueprint…
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Fine Gael published their Unified Ireland Blueprint at their Ard Fheis in Cork yesterday. https://www.finegael.ie/app/uploads/2026/11/Fine-Gael-Blueprint-Unified-Ireland.pdf I’ve been curious to see where it will land on bread-and-butter issues, as I think this is what will most influence northern middle-ground voters who’ll …
Open Sunday – discuss what you like…
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The idea for Open Sunday is to let you discuss what you like. Just two rules. Keep it civil and no man/woman playing. Comments will close at 12 pm on Monday.
Open sunday – politics free zone…
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In addition to our normal open Sunday, we have a politics-free post to give you all a break. So discuss what you like here, but no politics. Comments will close at 12 pm on Monday.
Sinn Féin rescued by Orange Order: new LucidTalk poll…
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Back in the summer Sinn Féin’s poll rating showed they had lost a quarter of the votes won in the last Assembly election, and almost a third down on their all-time-high in the 2023 Council elections. Today’s new LucidTalk poll …
Weekly Bulletin 06/11/26
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Calls for unionist unity fell flat this week as division continued, with MP Carla Lockhart quitting the DUP on Monday. Thursday’s budget negotiations produced no breakthrough, leaving Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Bryant decrying “abnormal” politics, while DUP MP Gavin Robinson …
London and Dublin are miles apart on the Troubles Bill.
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Scenes at the Ballymurphy Inquest Distracted by the political antics over Drumcree – not to mention the ill fortunes of Trump – you may not have noticed that the new Troubles Bill is in trouble itself. Promoted as the final …
Storytime with Houdi – The Winnebago…
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The political atmosphere in Northern Ireland was turning for the better in 2007 despite the premature death of progressive Loyalist David Ervine. Sinn Féin were waving flags for the PSNI instead of protest posters. A new comedy duo in Stormont, …
An Orange perspective on Garvaghy Road and the Case for Unionist Unity…
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From Drumcree Hill to today’s Assembly, the denial of Portadown Orangemen’s right to walk a public road is unchanged. A veteran protester argues that only a single, unified unionist party can unseat Michelle O’Neill, and calls on Gavin, Jon and Jim to make it happen at the ballot box.
Micheál Martin’s pluralist approach is an upgrade to Sinn Féin’s ‘dummymandered’ single option future
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Nationalism risks its own form of “dummymander”: reading the 2021 census as a countdown to unity, much as Texas Republicans redrew their maps on demographic assumptions and lost. The Taoiseach’s new body offers a stronger path, preparing for several futures and engaging every tradition, so that consent is earned rather than assumed.
Collapse the Executive? What unionists think…
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In the first of a series of reports on its latest LucidTalk poll, the Belfast Telegraph is reporting on the popularity of the unionist party leaders, plus Carla Lockhart and Jamie Bryson amongst the supporters of each of the unionist …