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Vote of No Confidence It’s not the manner of your going— be it in an accident no one saw happen, not even the woman driving the car that hit you; or you slipping of your own volition into a lovely hot bath, clutching a large…

Last week, the general election happened. In a shocking twist of events, lots of people voted Fianna Fail, giving them the second highest number of seats after Fine Gael. In a not so shocking twist of events, Labour lost a vast amount of…

Phew! What an election, that was fun. It was so long, I drank that much coffee and slept that little my face felt like I was wearing a tea tree peel-away face mask, which is less pleasant than it sounds. Every election that I've been…

This week, the general election happened, and Twitter was awash with tweets about polling booths, exit polls, the demise of the country as we know it, and ballot papers. We also saw the whole of the internet transform into a viral campaign…

Election Night There were lovers once who thought they were alone one night in the Glasgow School of Art. Reckoned that only they could take a palette knife to scrape off their Sfumato surfaces, find each other underneath as blank …

The Voice That Galls To the voice on the radio, Sheltered in your suit And silken in the tie That keeps our wrists in bondage: You say you know our heartfelt headache As we live hand to mouth But ask us not to make a meal of it.…

1 in 5 women in Ireland experience domestic abuse. That’s according to Women’s Aid – a charity dedicated to stopping violence against women and children, and providing help and support to those who are directly affected by abusive…

It's general election season, I love it, it's like Christmas comes once every 5 years. As a successful politician - oh hold up! You didn't know? Yes, I Alison Spittle ran for election. Moate Community School was my constituency. Westmeath…

This week, Twitter said goodbye to Terry Wogan, watched as Hillary Clinton narrowly took Iowa, and laughed as Donald Trump didn't. We also celebrated Groundhog Day, were confused/delighted by Top Gear's newest presenter, and got ourselves…

Roslyn Fuller joins Conor and I on this week's episode, and we have Jonathan Victory on co-hosting duties. Roslyn Fuller is a columnist, lecturer in democracy and international law, author of the book Beasts and Gods: How Democracy Changed…