Mary McAleese - Strutting without Purpose
Mary McAleese is the living, breathing personification of the colour pale pink – easy on the eye, unthreatening and acceptable to the fashion police. By Justine McCarthy
Politics
Constituency Shuffle
Musical Seats in Dublin
While the constituency revision affords the best politician of the last Dáil, Joe Higgins, a chance to return in Dublin West next time (it has got an extra seat), another of the Dáil's best TDs, Ciaran Cuffe, is facing a challenge in Dun Laoghaire, which has lost a seat. Either he goes or Barry Andrews of Fianna Fail goes.
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Party's over for the PDs
Michael McDowell was largely but not entirely to blame for the Progressive Democrats' election debacle. Others contributed handsomely to the defeat and now there seems little point to the party's continuance By Adam Maguire
Q&A with Eamon Ryan
Eamon Ryan
Green Party TD and Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
The abandonment of Socialism
The Labour Party has never defined a distinctive position, it has floundered ideologically and failed electorally. By Niamh Puirséil
A nice little earner
Both Fianna Fáil and the Greens promised a reduction in the overall number of ministers. Instead, the number of junior ministers has been increased yet again, now seven more than Fianna Fáil promised. By Joe O'Malley
Eamonn Gilmore promises no change
The new Labour leader has abandoned the radicalism of his leadership bid of five years ago. He is following the same course as his predecesors and seems fated to fail as they did
Left unity on the Agenda
Is the highly successful Seanad deal between Sinn Féin and the Labour Party a harbinger of things to come? That's the anxious question which diehard opponents of Sinn Féin – both in the media and in political life – are putting. And all the indications are that from their point of view things are going to get worse.
Eoghan Harris a media phenomenon
In spite of the contraction and absurdities, Harris adds to the gaiety of the nation and will add a lot to the gaiety of the Senate and there is a basic integrity
Eoghan Harris and The Workers Party
For over 20 years Eoghan Harris was a secret member of the Workers Party. During that time he denied his membership and threatened libel actions against those who asserted otherwise. During that time funds were solicited from the Soviet Union for a media venture involving him which was to be an opponent of the capitalist press.