While folks may know that “Gubu” has its origins in the words used by Taoiseach Charles Haughey to describe the capture of the killer of two young people in the home of the Attorney General, Patrick Connolly: grotesque, unbelievable, bizarre and unprecedented, many will not know the full story of the… well… eh… bizarre… events that led to that extraordinary Haughey press conference.
As the book’s blurb states Harry McGee expertly tells the story of the aristocratic Malcolm Macarthur and retraces the events of the hot summer of 1982, from Macarthur’s senseless cold-blooded murder of Bridie Gargan and Dónal Dunne, through the cat-and-mouse Garda manhunt to Macarthur’s eventual capture in the most unlikely of locations. Continue reading “My Summer 2023 Political Reading List”→
If there was a general election this week, the most likely outcome would be another general election.
But there is no general happening next week, or next month. In truth… barring some major political catastrophe… there is no chance of an election this side of the 2024 Local and European elections, but the shape and context of that next election will be framed once the summer recess is over.
As the government could continue into 2025 as the polling could be held as late as the start of March 2025 it could decide to deliver another Budget next year. It is possible, but also unlikely as the feel-good impact of that Budget (assuming there were any) would not be felt in voters’ pockets until later in 2025. Continue reading “Is Sinn Féin flatlining from its “known knowns”?”→
derekmooney.ie 