Ireland: Political Developments and Data in 2020

Lynch, Catherine; O’Malley, Eoin

doi:10.1111/2047-8852.12348

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“…Ireland saw a new government at the end of the year, which showed very few significant changes from the previous government (Table 1) except for one, its head. In the Programme for Government (PfG) signed in the summer of 2020, it was agreed that in the mid‐term of the government, the position of Taoiseach (Prime Minister) would be rotated, so the leader of Fianna Fáil , Micheál Martin, would cede the position to the leader of Fine Gael , Leo Varadkar (Lynch & O'Malley 2021: 186). This was an arrangement that had never been tried before, but never before had there been such an even distribution of seats among the top two government parties.…”

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Ireland: Political Developments and Data in 2022

Arlow

O’Malley

2023

Euro J Political Res Yrbk

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Ireland in 2022 saw the return of normal politics after two years of the pandemic. The ebbing of the health crisis saw the emergence or re‐emergence of new crises. The invasion of Ukraine had an impact on Irish politics as there was a surge of refugees accommodated in Ireland and an increase in inflation. The government introduced measures to mitigate the impact of the cost‐of‐living crisis, but the growing population and a lag in construction activity caused the housing crisis to worsen. None of what the government sought to do was able to mitigate these problems in the short to medium term at least. By the end of the year, the pressure the number of refugees had put on housing services led to anti‐refugee protests, hitherto unknown in Ireland. Ireland also saw a new Taoiseach (Prime Minister), though the government remained substantively the same following the planned rotation of the head of government.

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