Commentators on Politics.ie are 94% full of shit. Irish Politics is so awful because the stakes are so low. # Right. We've given Labour enough time to get their act together, we've had a rest after the election, let's get fucking stuck in. # Maradona orders paddling pool full of cocaine, fifty litres of Mezcal, [...]

Note: regular readers of Slugger O’Toole will call this entire article whataboutery.  It is.  I’m predicting a possible future here, so don’t hate me if you don’t like the scenario I depict. Please don’t cry, and certainly don’t have nightmares. I had three strange conversations about Lisbon today, from three sides of the debate around [...]

I don’t usually comment on Irish politics.  It is, after all, their country, and they can do whatever they want to it.  But the latest posters for the Lisbon Treaty Referendum, put up by the intensely nasty campaign group Cóir should ensure that this referendum should be as nasty as they are. Let me be [...]