Donegal South-West By-Election – isolated example or pointer to the future?
I agree with Paddy Healy’s analysis
http://paddyhealy.wordpress.com/2010/11/27/analysis-of-donegal-sw-by-election/#respond
– it now appears that Donegal may not be an isolated regional example, following publication of the most recent Red C Poll placing Fianna Fáil in fourth place behind Fine Gael, Labour, and Sinn Féin.
This suggests many supporters / voters of the Labour Party and Sinn Féin may be open to the argument of rivals who are further left – the United Left Alliance – that coalition with Fianna Fáil or Fine Gael should be ruled out in principle.
Pearse Doherty TD Sinn Féin – A Lifer?
Full marks to the Socialist Party irritant Mark P for winkling out important information –
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This came to our notice via a Cedar Lounge Revolution discussion :
“Pearse Doherty was unusually up front in expounding SF’s pro-life position on abortion:
Sinn Féin – Senator Pearse Doherty has given a written personal commitment to oppose any legislation that would make abortion available in Ireland and supports a law to protect the human embryo from deliberate destruction”
http://prolifecampaign.ie/?page_id=520
Note also the statement by independent left Thomas Pringle. Read the rest of this entry »
“Right-Wing Think Tank Praised Ireland’s ‘Economic Freedom’ … and Then Its Economy Crashed”
“Right-Wing
Think Tank Praised Ireland’s ‘Economic Freedom’ … and Then Its Economy
Crashed”
Tomás Ó Flatharta 