Eamon Ryan and Eoghan Murphy mix-up could see interesting poll results, writes Caroline O’Doherty

How interesting it is to note in yesterday’s Irish Examiner (January 18) that Paul Bradford and Lucinda Creighton rue the abolition of town councils.

Leo Varadkar, the health minister, has said he would like to remain on in his position after the general election — but only if he is given the authority and resources.

With Lucinda Creighton’s new flat rate tax of 23% people on the minimum wage will be worse off! (Irish Examiner, October 6). For years people in this category have been struggling with paying bills, property tax and water charges.

It can’t be easy juggling a one year old and a new political party. From motherhood to gym classes, renting to creche fees, Lucinda Creighton tells all to John Meagher.

Renua Ireland leader Lucinda Creighton says her party would be willing to consider entering a coalition after the next general election with Enda Kenny and Fine Gael.

Officially, Friday’s Carlow/Kilkenny byelection is all about replacing former Fine Gael TD Phil Hogan, who was ‘promoted’ to Europe after the Irish Water debacle.

Lucinda Creighton and Simon Coveney have changed their stance on same-sex marriage and are likely to vote yes in May. The campaign is in a hopeless mess, writes Bruce Arnold.

A while back, I was glancing through the Sligo Champion newspaper, and I noticed, a couple of pages in, the face of Tom MacSharry, the mayor of Sligo.

What's in a name? Everyone is hung up on the naming of Lucinda Creighton's new party, writes Caroline O’Doherty 

Renua Ireland’s policies are as notable for what’s missing as what’s included as the party’s 42-page policy summary has little on many of the major issues providing headaches for the current Government.

Meaningless name and lack of policies suggest this new party will be aimless. The launch has raised Creighton’s profile in the run-up to the general election, but this is not the heralding of a new dawn in Irish politics, writes Shaun Connolly

To give the forthcoming referendum the title “Equality” is unfair, biased and disingenuous, because it suggests that all those who vote against it are in favour of inequality.

I can’t help but wonder if Lucinda Creighton will have missed the boat in launching a new political party within the next eight weeks, or was that the launch last week? I’m not too sure.

Lucinda Creighton says she wishes to establish a new political party, but also says that she will be voting for same-sex marriage in the forthcoming referendum.

Is it just a case of Lucy In The Sky With Diatribes, or can Ms Creighton really deliver the well-deserved boot Irish politics needs?

Senator Paul Bradford - and the husband of Lucinda Creighton - said he has not yet decided whether he will run for a seat in the Dail when his wife sets up her new party.

From a wannabe Southside Evita to one of the few TDs with a spine — Lucinda Creighton has been called it all.

OH Lucinda, you had to tease us right up until the very end, didn’t you?

EVERY year at this time I go to very considerable lengths to tell you what you can expect in the coming year.

Politicians come out with some odd things on social media sometimes, but this tweet from Leo Varadkar really takes the biscuit.

Politicians come out with some odd things on social media sometimes, but this tweet from Leo Varadkar really takes the biscuit.

Will there ever be an end to the sort of the political teasing we are forced to endure? 

EARLIER this week the all-powerful, life-giving or life-denying European Central Bank published the results of its stress tests on 130 of Europe’s banks. Only 25 failed and just one — and what a welcome “just” that is — is Irish.

IT’S that time of year again. The great and good of public life pack their buckets and spades and head off to the wilds of Donegal to muse over the road less travelled.

Blues, soul, R&B, pop, gentle acoustics, raucous rip-roaring rock numbers, reggae — and whatever you’re having yourself.

TO SAY that Westport House has been in the family for generations doesn’t quite capture Lady Sheelyn Browne’s impressive lineage — her connection to the 400-acre Co Mayo estate goes right back to her 14th great-grandmother, the “most notorious woman in all the coasts of Ireland”, pirate queen Grace O’Malley.

Lucinda McNerney didn’t know she had a genetic heart condition until she suffered cardiac arrest while in hospital for a sore throat. Now she is raising awareness of the importance of screening.

If exasperated headmaster Enda Kenny thought expelling Blueshirt bad girl Lucinda Creighton to reform school was going to make her change her ways, he was very much mistaken.

I read with interest Alison O’Connor’s piece (Opinion, Jan 10), on Lucinda Creighton’s new public face. One has to agree the emergence of a new political party is somewhat passé after the bailout.

If media exposure equalled political success then surely Lucinda Creighton would be fast-tracked to the office of the Taoiseach by now.

It was cold turkey for a Co Donegal family because Kailee Flinter waited until Christmas Day to make her arrival.

Intrusive surveillance dominated the EU summit, but Enda Kenny had far bigger things to worry about than the phone tapping fury erupting between the US and Germany — he had Lucinda Creighton on his case.

The Fianna Fáil leader said that he would join forces with the Reform Alliance to campaign for a No vote in the Seanad referendum.

Rebel TDs kicked out of Fine Gael for opposing the abortion legislation could be let back into the parliamentary party after a period of time, according to a junior minister.

Incoming European Affairs Minister Paschal Donohoe has pledged to use his new role to try and facilitate Ireland’s exit from the bailout programme.

How come the little known Dr Reilly can come out of nowhere to become Ireland’s Minister for Health?

THIS column might never reach your eyes. Ireland will surely have fallen off its axis, now that the X case legislation has passed the Dáil.

Lucinda Creighton has never been afraid to express her opinion and always divided opinion in Fine Gael, writes political correspondent Shaun Connolly.

Though hardly at his most eloquent, Enda Kenny still spoke for most TDs when he declared: “I am going to get rid of it this evening.”

SO THAT’S what you meant, Lucinda Creighton, by “a politics of substance, not of sound-bites.” You have risked your political career for your beliefs. Even if the boys are right when they say you will pay the penalty for making your party sweat, you can sleep easy at night.

Leo Varadkar said it will be a "long road" back to the Fine Gael Parliamentary Party for Junior Minister Lucinda Creighton if she votes against the abortion legislation today.