by Brendan Ogle | Jan 13, 2020 | Election 2020
The General Election is already effectively underway and it looks like it will be formally announced in the coming days. It’s already being pitched by the media as a presidential style election whose main purpose will be to decide if Leo Varadkar or...
by Brendan Ogle | Dec 12, 2019 | Jeremy Corbyn
Brendan Ogle’s latest blog on the UK General Election “in an era of Prime Minister Boris Johnson and President Donald Trump, in a world which has swung inexorably to the right and where greed is now considered not only good but great, finding a person...
by Brendan Ogle | Dec 6, 2019 | Peter McVerry Trust
New Blog by Brendan Ogle. This week we had an emergency debate on a vote of no confidence in the Minister responsible for that emergency, Eoghan Murphy. Just days before we had four by-elections where barely one quarter of the electorate bothered...
by Brendan Ogle | Nov 4, 2019 | Direct Provision
Brendan Ogle: On Saturday, I was to speak at the 35th Anniversary of a stellar event when we Irish stood up against racism. It was when eleven young Dunnes Stores workers in Dublin refused to handle South African goods to highlight the then system...
by Brendan Ogle | Jun 6, 2019 | Election 2019
The recent local and European elections need to be reflected upon, in terms of where we are at in the hoped for delivery of Ireland’s first progressive Government. To save time, we need not fall into the trap of overly complicating what such a Government...
