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Sunday 23 August, 2020



# Journalism

# Journalism

Lise Hand: 'Journalism matters. And this week has been a crucial reminder of that'

Aug 23rd 2020, 7:53 AM 27,490 Views 35 Comments

“Behind every headline, at the heart of the story but not part of the story, are journalists.”

Saturday 22 August, 2020



# Golfgate

# Golfgate

'Here we are again. A global crisis rages and a government clown car is ablaze with a conflagration of its own making'

Aug 22nd 2020, 12:05 AM 79,174 Views 134 Comments

Lise Hand draws parallels between Fianna Fáil past and present: “It was this lethal combination of incoherence and arrogance which did it for the government in 2011.”

Friday 6 March, 2020



# Ge2020

# Ge2020

Lise Hand: A leadership race in the midst of the Covid-19 outbreak? Labour can't catch a break

Mar 6th 2020, 10:56 AM 11,895 Views 19 Comments

Lise Hand says Labour members hoping the leadership race would revive the party must be wondering if they accidentally ran over a family of black cats.

Tuesday 25 February, 2020



# Ge2020

# Ge2020

Lise Hand: Mary Lou was borne aloft in a tricolour-draped golden palanquin carved from the bones of fallen Elites

Feb 25th 2020, 9:49 AM 79,215 Views 170 Comments

Lise Hand was at the Sinn Féin rally in Cork last night, the first in a series planned for this week.


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Friday 21 February, 2020



# Opinion

# Opinion

Lise Hand: After a long day, the prospect of an 'accidental' Green Taoiseach gave us 15 seconds of comedic drama

Feb 21st 2020, 10:02 AM 56,019 Views 72 Comments

The vote for a new chieftan had none of the usual frisson of anxiety and anticipation, writes Lise Hand.

Tuesday 11 February, 2020



# Column

# Column

Lise Hand: We might get a female taoiseach but gender balance stays stubbornly skewed

Feb 11th 2020, 12:02 AM 27,609 Views 91 Comments

Ireland had six crucial decades when the nation was being shaped where women were absent from the top table of government. But what now?, asks Lise Hand.

Saturday 8 February, 2020



# Ge2020

# Ge2020

Lise Hand: Reckoning day as 531 candidates put themselves at the mercy of democracy

Feb 8th 2020, 7:00 AM 11,833 Views 28 Comments

Lise Hand looks back at the four-week campaign and towards a bloody count.

Wednesday 5 February, 2020



# Ge2020

# Ge2020

Lise Hand: 'Nobody wiped the floor with anyone else... except perhaps Miriam O'Callaghan'

Feb 5th 2020, 11:10 AM 55,087 Views 111 Comments

A behind-the-scenes look at last night’s RTÉ Leaders’ Debate.

Sunday 2 February, 2020



# Brexit

# Brexit

Lise Hand in London: 'Empires end, not with a bang, but with a last burst of delusion'

Feb 2nd 2020, 10:22 AM 38,864 Views 125 Comments

The party was a bit flat and the Prime Minister was not often spotted. Lise Hand reports from London.

Thursday 30 January, 2020



# Ge2020

# Ge2020

Lise Hand: Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil are asking 'What can we do about Mary Lou?'

Jan 30th 2020, 7:00 AM 67,099 Views 141 Comments

After a jump in recent opinion polls, the ‘big two’ parties are worried about a Shinner surge, writes Lise Hand.

Sunday 26 January, 2020



# Column

# Column

Lise Hand: Most voters in the real world don’t give a monkey's if Leo Varadkar smoked hash

Jan 26th 2020, 7:00 AM 20,601 Views 68 Comments

The bleak first week of the election campaign meant any moment of lighter drama was welcomed by all, writes Lise Hand.

Thursday 23 January, 2020



# Ge2020

# Ge2020

Lise Hand: Will they? Won't they? Shades of Love Island as big parties can't avoid recoupling talk

Jan 23rd 2020, 6:50 AM 17,169 Views 45 Comments

Who needs bikinis and palm trees and hook-ups when we have Leo Varadkar and Micheál Martin post-breakup? asked Lise Hand who was in Ballymount last night for the Virgin Media Big Debate.

Tuesday 21 January, 2020



# Events Dear

# Events Dear

Lise Hand: Meticulous election planning meaningless as parties skid on first banana skins

Jan 21st 2020, 6:30 AM 29,427 Views 33 Comments

Election candidates can find themselves at the mercy of the news cycle but they shouldn’t be blindsided by issues known to Joe Duffy and their canvassers, writes Lise Hand in her first column for TheJournal.ie.

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