Si’s huge bounce in the polls is just because of sfs huge drop. Which in itself is fairly inexplicable since most of the issues and policy promises are the exact same as when they were riding high in the polls.
It’s the political equivalent of 2 million people trying pay 500 quid a pop for oasis tickets when noel and Liam Gallagher have been separately touring playing the exact same songs for years and there was no big hoo ha about it. see also the rise and fall of anxiety around covid and restrictions, vaccines etc. We’re incredible people for a what way is the wind blowing bandwagon.
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so is harris by those pesky scoliosis kids
The SF IRA lads are seething at the FG resurgence.
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SI is where MLM was four years ago- the darling leader.
He is a massive improvement on varadkar which tells all about our previous leader
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I’m like a bishop in a 1950s all Ireland hurling final throwing in the ball before all hell breaks loose.
This reminds me of the Scrap Charlie sketch where PJ Mara relentlessly drags Haughey around Ireland on the chicken and chips circuit to press the flesh of the little people. To places like sunny Tubbercurry sur Mer.
“Mao’s long march in the land of the Chinese people? My long march in the land of the Chinese take away.”
Simon Harris I think has perversely benefitted from everybody’s first impression of him being that he is an Irish equivalent of the Harry Enfield “Tory Boy” character. Any further impression you make after that can’t really be any worse, only better.
People assumed he was Lord Snooty of Blackrock. Then they found out he didn’t come from Blackrock, but from Greystones. A small win in terms of impression.
Then they found out he didn’t go to a fee paying school. A bigger win in terms of impression.
Then they found out he did French and Leisure Management or whatever he did, in DIT Aungier Street, and dropped out after a year. Another small win. He’s now becoming Mammy’s Mixed Up Son.
But by far the biggest impression improver he made was during the abortion referendum. He took off his cheap, ill fitting blazer, rolled up his shirt sleeves, tousled his hair and became a Warrior For Women. He became The Listener. He became Beto O’Rourke. He became “Mr. I Care”.
That was a very smart move and Mammy and her daughters haven’t forgotten it.
He’s now attending Munster hurling championship matches and I’ve no doubt he’ll turn up at the Little All-Ireland. That’s a smart move too.
We were all wrong about him. Until we’re proven right, which will inevitably happen.
Nobody really knows what scoliosis is so nobody cares. Until a scoliosis parent makes a heart rending appearance on Katie Hannon Live some dark night late November and it gets TRACTION, without most people having seen it.
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Varadkar wasn’t very popular really, it’s remarkable to ended up being Taoiseach.
I know someone in the Taoiseach’s office. While Harris is off at the Ploughing and the Rose and commenting on anything that moves, the day to day work is piling up on his desk.
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He looks fairly shook in that photo. Like a fella that is waking up frozen at 7am, having fallen asleep in the hotel reception at the afters of a wedding.
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The word is that Harris doesn’t want to call an election until after the Paddy’s Day junket in March. But now that there is a new US junket announced for next month, maybe he’ll go after that.
The Dail has to be dissolved by February 19th. I’m not sure what that means for the latest election date, how long you can drag a campaign out for. But I don’t think it would be a clever election move at all to be seen swanning around Washington a week before an election, I think it would backfire badly.
Have the scales finally fallen from Clifford’s eyes? He previously engaged in a shameful attempt at both sidesing as regards violence and the threat of violence by the far right.
That’s actually a decent column though. Harris’s comments were indeed a disgrace.
Paul Murphy filleted him on bog 3 last night.
That’s a decent article. I started it wanting to disagree with Clifford and thinking I’m glad Harris is finally acknowledging immigration is a problem and ended it sort of agreeing with Clifford.
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I absolutely despise the phrase ‘bog 1/2/3’ for Irish TV channels. Associate it with the worst type of cunt. Although I don’t think Mike hunt is a cunt despite his name
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Mick has gone further right in his columns and podcast in recent years. I was disappointed in him as i thought he was fairly reasonable in the past. He lives near me and his kids are in the gaa club and he always seemed an alright sort. It is indeed a good column.
That’s a good column. I first looked at buying a house twenty something years ago and the housing market was a mess, it’s been a mess ever since and seems to be getting worse.
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I think he suffers with crohn’s disease and he can often look washed out. It can’t be easy to be dealing with in a job like his. Note this does not in any way mitigate his cuntishness.
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If Harris is unhappy with country’s immigration policy, maybe he could have a chat with the man in charge of the place and see if he can get something done?