David McCann
@dmcbfs.bsky.social
Lecture, Write & Commentate about Politics & Elections. Columnist with @irish_news All musings are my own.
🆕 Stormont Sources speaks with the Economy Minister @caoimhearchibald.bsky.social about what Sinn Fein
wants to achieve by 2027.
We also chat about the recent Lucid Talk poll.
Available to listen here and wherever you get your podcasts stormontsources.com
wants to achieve by 2027.
We also chat about the recent Lucid Talk poll.
Available to listen here and wherever you get your podcasts stormontsources.com
May 29, 2025 at 2:38 PM
🆕 Stormont Sources speaks with the Economy Minister @caoimhearchibald.bsky.social about what Sinn Fein
wants to achieve by 2027.
We also chat about the recent Lucid Talk poll.
Available to listen here and wherever you get your podcasts stormontsources.com
wants to achieve by 2027.
We also chat about the recent Lucid Talk poll.
Available to listen here and wherever you get your podcasts stormontsources.com
🚨@StormontSources is now Live!
This week @sdlp.bsky.social Leader @clairehanna.bsky.social is on the podcast to discuss their budget ideas and how they will work with other parties to achieve unity.
Plus, some discussion on compulsory voting and the EU/UK deal
Listen: stormontsources.com
This week @sdlp.bsky.social Leader @clairehanna.bsky.social is on the podcast to discuss their budget ideas and how they will work with other parties to achieve unity.
Plus, some discussion on compulsory voting and the EU/UK deal
Listen: stormontsources.com
May 22, 2025 at 1:53 PM
🚨@StormontSources is now Live!
This week @sdlp.bsky.social Leader @clairehanna.bsky.social is on the podcast to discuss their budget ideas and how they will work with other parties to achieve unity.
Plus, some discussion on compulsory voting and the EU/UK deal
Listen: stormontsources.com
This week @sdlp.bsky.social Leader @clairehanna.bsky.social is on the podcast to discuss their budget ideas and how they will work with other parties to achieve unity.
Plus, some discussion on compulsory voting and the EU/UK deal
Listen: stormontsources.com
🆕What's the Labour Government doing for Northern Ireland? @dmcbfs, @timcairns and Michael assess Sir Keir Starmer's policy announcements on immigration and more.
Plus: Eurovision.
🎧Streaming now on your podcast app and on YouTube.
Plus: Eurovision.
🎧Streaming now on your podcast app and on YouTube.
May 16, 2025 at 5:32 PM
🆕What's the Labour Government doing for Northern Ireland? @dmcbfs, @timcairns and Michael assess Sir Keir Starmer's policy announcements on immigration and more.
Plus: Eurovision.
🎧Streaming now on your podcast app and on YouTube.
Plus: Eurovision.
🎧Streaming now on your podcast app and on YouTube.
May 8, 2025 at 5:23 PM
New: Stormont Sources N. Ireland Politicians’ Reactions to the Death of the Pope.
Plus, the Aontu Bill on presidential voting rights for Northerners.
🎧Streaming now on your podcast app, and on YouTube. stormontsources.com
Plus, the Aontu Bill on presidential voting rights for Northerners.
🎧Streaming now on your podcast app, and on YouTube. stormontsources.com
April 25, 2025 at 7:51 PM
New: Stormont Sources N. Ireland Politicians’ Reactions to the Death of the Pope.
Plus, the Aontu Bill on presidential voting rights for Northerners.
🎧Streaming now on your podcast app, and on YouTube. stormontsources.com
Plus, the Aontu Bill on presidential voting rights for Northerners.
🎧Streaming now on your podcast app, and on YouTube. stormontsources.com
Stormont Sources will be doing a Q&A episode in the next few weeks.
If you have a burning political question you'd like us to address, please get in touch.
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If you have a burning political question you'd like us to address, please get in touch.
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April 21, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Stormont Sources will be doing a Q&A episode in the next few weeks.
If you have a burning political question you'd like us to address, please get in touch.
✉️ Email: [email protected]
📱 WhatsApp: 0333 404 6507 (Use the word Stormont)
💻 If you're on X send us a tweet @stormontsources
If you have a burning political question you'd like us to address, please get in touch.
✉️ Email: [email protected]
📱 WhatsApp: 0333 404 6507 (Use the word Stormont)
💻 If you're on X send us a tweet @stormontsources
How much visibility should political leaders have in the media?
Plus, Kellie Armstrong joins us to consider three years since the Assembly passed the Integrated Education Act.
Streaming now on your podcast app.
Plus, Kellie Armstrong joins us to consider three years since the Assembly passed the Integrated Education Act.
Streaming now on your podcast app.
March 20, 2025 at 6:17 PM
How much visibility should political leaders have in the media?
Plus, Kellie Armstrong joins us to consider three years since the Assembly passed the Integrated Education Act.
Streaming now on your podcast app.
Plus, Kellie Armstrong joins us to consider three years since the Assembly passed the Integrated Education Act.
Streaming now on your podcast app.
Latest Stormont Sources is now live
We are looking stateside this week asking did the boycott of the White House work and how did those who attended do?
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We are looking stateside this week asking did the boycott of the White House work and how did those who attended do?
Listen here stormontsources.com
March 13, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Latest Stormont Sources is now live
We are looking stateside this week asking did the boycott of the White House work and how did those who attended do?
Listen here stormontsources.com
We are looking stateside this week asking did the boycott of the White House work and how did those who attended do?
Listen here stormontsources.com
The latest Stormont Sources is now live!
Looking at the Programme for the Government and the DUP Deputy Leadership
Listen here stormontsources.com
Looking at the Programme for the Government and the DUP Deputy Leadership
Listen here stormontsources.com
March 7, 2025 at 8:39 AM
The latest Stormont Sources is now live!
Looking at the Programme for the Government and the DUP Deputy Leadership
Listen here stormontsources.com
Looking at the Programme for the Government and the DUP Deputy Leadership
Listen here stormontsources.com
The latest Stormont Sources is now live.
Our first guest is @eointennyson.bsky.social who speaks to us about where the @allianceparty.bsky.social goes next.
stormontsources.com
Our first guest is @eointennyson.bsky.social who speaks to us about where the @allianceparty.bsky.social goes next.
stormontsources.com
February 27, 2025 at 2:45 PM
The latest Stormont Sources is now live.
Our first guest is @eointennyson.bsky.social who speaks to us about where the @allianceparty.bsky.social goes next.
stormontsources.com
Our first guest is @eointennyson.bsky.social who speaks to us about where the @allianceparty.bsky.social goes next.
stormontsources.com
February 20, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Welcome inside politics in Northern Ireland.
David McCann, Tim Cairns - former SpAd to First Minister Peter Robinson - and Micheal McKernan - former SDLP SpAd who worked in the Executive - bring analysis of Stormont politics.
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David McCann, Tim Cairns - former SpAd to First Minister Peter Robinson - and Micheal McKernan - former SDLP SpAd who worked in the Executive - bring analysis of Stormont politics.
🎧Subscribe to the podcast now
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February 19, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Welcome inside politics in Northern Ireland.
David McCann, Tim Cairns - former SpAd to First Minister Peter Robinson - and Micheal McKernan - former SDLP SpAd who worked in the Executive - bring analysis of Stormont politics.
🎧Subscribe to the podcast now
stormontsources.com
David McCann, Tim Cairns - former SpAd to First Minister Peter Robinson - and Micheal McKernan - former SDLP SpAd who worked in the Executive - bring analysis of Stormont politics.
🎧Subscribe to the podcast now
stormontsources.com
@otoolematthew.bsky.social speaking about accountability and opposition at @ulsteruniversity.bsky.social
February 18, 2025 at 6:47 PM
@otoolematthew.bsky.social speaking about accountability and opposition at @ulsteruniversity.bsky.social
The end result?
A series of meetings between ministers of both governments resulted in the agreement of initiatives on trade, tourism, culture, and energy.
O'Neill and Lemass met again in Feb 1965. In 1967, O'Neill met Jack Lynch, which is when Paisley threw snowballs.
A series of meetings between ministers of both governments resulted in the agreement of initiatives on trade, tourism, culture, and energy.
O'Neill and Lemass met again in Feb 1965. In 1967, O'Neill met Jack Lynch, which is when Paisley threw snowballs.
January 14, 2025 at 4:59 PM
The end result?
A series of meetings between ministers of both governments resulted in the agreement of initiatives on trade, tourism, culture, and energy.
O'Neill and Lemass met again in Feb 1965. In 1967, O'Neill met Jack Lynch, which is when Paisley threw snowballs.
A series of meetings between ministers of both governments resulted in the agreement of initiatives on trade, tourism, culture, and energy.
O'Neill and Lemass met again in Feb 1965. In 1967, O'Neill met Jack Lynch, which is when Paisley threw snowballs.
The meeting is broadly welcomed across the island.
The media in Northern Ireland welcomes the new approach. However, elements within Unionism voice their unease about O'Neill's secretive approach, and Ian Paisley mounts a strong campaign outside.
The media in Northern Ireland welcomes the new approach. However, elements within Unionism voice their unease about O'Neill's secretive approach, and Ian Paisley mounts a strong campaign outside.
January 14, 2025 at 4:59 PM
The meeting is broadly welcomed across the island.
The media in Northern Ireland welcomes the new approach. However, elements within Unionism voice their unease about O'Neill's secretive approach, and Ian Paisley mounts a strong campaign outside.
The media in Northern Ireland welcomes the new approach. However, elements within Unionism voice their unease about O'Neill's secretive approach, and Ian Paisley mounts a strong campaign outside.
Back to O'Neill. Who cared and valued his image as a moderniser and a liberal. To have the leading Unionist newspaper urging a new approach mattered.
It also provided an opening for O'Neill's chief rival in the party, Brian Faulkner.
It also provided an opening for O'Neill's chief rival in the party, Brian Faulkner.
January 14, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Back to O'Neill. Who cared and valued his image as a moderniser and a liberal. To have the leading Unionist newspaper urging a new approach mattered.
It also provided an opening for O'Neill's chief rival in the party, Brian Faulkner.
It also provided an opening for O'Neill's chief rival in the party, Brian Faulkner.
Today is the 60th anniversary of the O'Neill/Lemass summit, the first meeting between the two heads of government in 40 years.
Lemass: I shall get into terrible trouble for this
O'Neill : No, Mr Lemass, it is I who shall get into trouble for this
A 🧵on how it happened
Lemass: I shall get into terrible trouble for this
O'Neill : No, Mr Lemass, it is I who shall get into trouble for this
A 🧵on how it happened
January 14, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Today is the 60th anniversary of the O'Neill/Lemass summit, the first meeting between the two heads of government in 40 years.
Lemass: I shall get into terrible trouble for this
O'Neill : No, Mr Lemass, it is I who shall get into trouble for this
A 🧵on how it happened
Lemass: I shall get into terrible trouble for this
O'Neill : No, Mr Lemass, it is I who shall get into trouble for this
A 🧵on how it happened
"Sinn Féin has lost more than 100,000 votes since 2020, copping the biggest swing away from an incumbent opposition party in the 21st century"
Read: tinyurl.com/y29n66nm
Read: tinyurl.com/y29n66nm
December 4, 2024 at 5:48 PM
"Sinn Féin has lost more than 100,000 votes since 2020, copping the biggest swing away from an incumbent opposition party in the 21st century"
Read: tinyurl.com/y29n66nm
Read: tinyurl.com/y29n66nm
Difference in shares from 2020
FF -0.3%
FG -0.1%
SF -5.5%
FF back at the top for first time since 2007. Although lower than 2016.
FG down slightly but worst vote share
SF copping the biggest swing away from a main opposition party in 21st century. 2nd best share though.
FF -0.3%
FG -0.1%
SF -5.5%
FF back at the top for first time since 2007. Although lower than 2016.
FG down slightly but worst vote share
SF copping the biggest swing away from a main opposition party in 21st century. 2nd best share though.
December 1, 2024 at 12:43 PM
Difference in shares from 2020
FF -0.3%
FG -0.1%
SF -5.5%
FF back at the top for first time since 2007. Although lower than 2016.
FG down slightly but worst vote share
SF copping the biggest swing away from a main opposition party in 21st century. 2nd best share though.
FF -0.3%
FG -0.1%
SF -5.5%
FF back at the top for first time since 2007. Although lower than 2016.
FG down slightly but worst vote share
SF copping the biggest swing away from a main opposition party in 21st century. 2nd best share though.
Change based on these tallies.
FF -0.3%
FG -0.4%
SF -5.4%
SD +1.9%
LAB +0.3%
PBP +0.3%
FF -0.3%
FG -0.4%
SF -5.4%
SD +1.9%
LAB +0.3%
PBP +0.3%
November 30, 2024 at 7:22 PM
Change based on these tallies.
FF -0.3%
FG -0.4%
SF -5.4%
SD +1.9%
LAB +0.3%
PBP +0.3%
FF -0.3%
FG -0.4%
SF -5.4%
SD +1.9%
LAB +0.3%
PBP +0.3%
1977: The last time a single party won an overall majority.
It was also the last time a party received more than 50% of the FPV.
It was also the last time a party received more than 50% of the FPV.
November 28, 2024 at 11:00 PM
1977: The last time a single party won an overall majority.
It was also the last time a party received more than 50% of the FPV.
It was also the last time a party received more than 50% of the FPV.
Fianna Fail vote share since 2011
2011-17.4%
2016-24.3%
2020-22.2%
Average % share is 21.3%.
All three are the worst vote shares at a GE in the party's history.
2011-17.4%
2016-24.3%
2020-22.2%
Average % share is 21.3%.
All three are the worst vote shares at a GE in the party's history.
November 28, 2024 at 10:57 PM
Fianna Fail vote share since 2011
2011-17.4%
2016-24.3%
2020-22.2%
Average % share is 21.3%.
All three are the worst vote shares at a GE in the party's history.
2011-17.4%
2016-24.3%
2020-22.2%
Average % share is 21.3%.
All three are the worst vote shares at a GE in the party's history.
Here is one of the Fine Gael anthems from then.
November 24, 2024 at 5:52 PM
Here is one of the Fine Gael anthems from then.
#OnThisDay 1982, the third Irish General Election in 18 months was held.
Garret Fitzgerald leads Fine Gael to their (at that time) best result, winning 70 seats and nearly 40% of the vote.
Fine Gael and Labour form a coalition government.
Garret Fitzgerald leads Fine Gael to their (at that time) best result, winning 70 seats and nearly 40% of the vote.
Fine Gael and Labour form a coalition government.
November 24, 2024 at 5:42 PM
#OnThisDay 1982, the third Irish General Election in 18 months was held.
Garret Fitzgerald leads Fine Gael to their (at that time) best result, winning 70 seats and nearly 40% of the vote.
Fine Gael and Labour form a coalition government.
Garret Fitzgerald leads Fine Gael to their (at that time) best result, winning 70 seats and nearly 40% of the vote.
Fine Gael and Labour form a coalition government.
My first beer pic on here
November 23, 2024 at 5:53 PM
My first beer pic on here