According to wikipedia the phrase “curate’s egg” refers to something that is partly good and partly bad, but as a result is entirely spoiled. Modern usage has tended to change this to mean something having a mix of good and bad qualities. I am still veering between the two definitions in the context of this [...]
What has happened this past year? Sixteen months ago we had a new leader, a new hope and an approval rating in the high seventies or even eighties. Which obviously means FGers, Labour, all sides wanted to give the new guy a chance.
Within FF there was excitement, we’d liked Bertie, loved his focus on the [...]
The referendum season is really rolling now that we’re just over a week to polling day. The Fianna Fáil campaign which was initially slow to get out of the blocks, received a real lift when Taoiseach Cowen finally got his seat at the top table and immediately injected some pace taking to the country in a [...]
Budget 2008 will be presented on Wednesday and for political anoraks there’s something terribly satisfying about the fact that Minister Cowen has restored the hallowed nature of the occasion and the air of revelation and expectation that surrounds it. In recent years the ceremony of budget day had begun to diminish as the month long [...]