All posts by Michael Sceilg

FF-FG’s New Mudguard? Regional Independents and GE24

The dust has settled after the election of 29 November 2024 General Election.  While in some corners the failure of any Nationalist candidate to be elected has resulted in fighting and the blame game, this only serves to highlight how...

/ 27/12/2024

The Dangerous Folly of “No Political Solution” and the Irish Right

In every election, social media addicts jump up and down to declare this was Ireland’s “last chance”.  Sometimes they’ll hurriedly throw their name on the ballot and run amateur campaigns, before declaring that the results were either rigged or making...

/ 22/12/2024

Will We see a Sinn Féin Lurch to the ‘Right’ Post-Election?

Around this time last year, I had a conversation with a Sinn Féin TD in Dublin.  This TD has been a party member for decades. He isn’t a Johnny-come-lately or some eccentric who somehow ended up in the Dáil in...

/ 11/11/2024

Parochialism vs. Populism: What Next For the Rural Independent Group?

A video published by Gript on April 12th, interviewed independent TDs Mattie McGrath and Michael Collins on the idea of a new party that would put “Ireland first” and speak up for rural communities which have been left behind.  Undoubtedly...

/ 20/04/2023