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Miriam O'Callaghan in the Independent offers perhaps the strangest take of all on 2023.
Falling or flying, we need to do ourselves a favour and leave the fake positivity behind as we take on 2024
2023 was a year where fake positivity was the dominant response? 2023?
Shane Coleman in the Business Post offers a very unlikely prediction for the next government as a means of preventing you know who from being in power:
Fianna Fail won more seats than the next five parties (Fine Gael, Labour, National Labour, Clann na Pobltachta and Clann na Talmhan) combined and ended up on the opposition benches as the five parties along with independents cobbled together a government. Don't rule out a 2024 version – FF/FG/Labour/Soc Dems/Greens and independents – being in place by this time next year.
The article here has some good points, but the use of the term 'centre' for the supposed 'middle-ground' of Irish politics gifts too much to the self-perception of parties that are of the centre-right and right of centre:
It seems centrist politicians don't know where the middle is. This has consequences.
On the political spectrum that is now more a horseshoe than a line, as Fine Gael moved further to the political right especially in housing, Fianna Fáil is manoeuvring into Fine Gael's former space, with Sinn Féin now occupying the political vacuum left by Fianna Fáil. In this game of musical chairs, Sinn Féin's move to the centre (aided and abetted by old-school Fianna Fáil housing policies) has left a space for smaller parties and Independent politicians to fill, which they will increasingly continue to do.
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