Columns - Irish Examiner

Editorial

Defend our way of life peacefully - Brussels terror attacks

AGGRESSIVE, fundamental Islam is as incomprehensible and as impenetrable to the liberal Western mind as suicide bomb attacks on busy transport systems be they airports or subway stations.

Wed, 23 Mar, 2016

Dangerous criminals - Prison officer’s funeral

AS world attention focused on the terrorist atrocities in Brussels, the funeral of the latest victim of Irish terrorism was held in Belfast.

Wed, 23 Mar, 2016

If the US and Cuba can get along ...Forming a government

PRESIDENT Barack Obama yesterday became the first American leader in 88 years to visit Cuba. The last, Calvin Coolidge, arrived on Cuban shores in the battleship USS Texas and was greeted by salvos from massed artillery.

Tue, 22 Mar, 2016

Impossible to understand - Tragedy in Buncrana

EVERYONE on this island, especially if they have children, cannot fail but to be moved by Sunday’s tragedy in Buncrana, Co Donegal. Almost a whole family, a whole set of dreams and hopes like your own, were washed away.

Tue, 22 Mar, 2016

Two’s plenty - Easter eggs

JUST as much as everyone likes to enjoy a good time, no one looks forward to meeting the office killjoy. Life is too short to offer the naysayers an ear to bend even if they sometimes speak the truth. Today’s report that some Irish children will be given, by people who imagine themselves responsible, up to 15 chocolate Easter eggs is one such moment.

Tue, 22 Mar, 2016

Seanad elections - So much for the promises of reform

ALMOST three years ago the Government asked a simple enough question: Do you want to abolish the Seanad or leave it as it is?

Mon, 21 Mar, 2016

Mental health supports - Explain plan to axe funding

ONE of the things we have done well is to change attitudes towards mental illness. Not so long ago, those who suffered a bout of mental illness were condemned to a twilight life where they were never free of the perception that they were weak and maybe unreliable.

Mon, 21 Mar, 2016

Forever changing history - Parity of esteem

EVEN in a country that regularly relives its past, and occasionally with a maudlin sense of dispossession as we do, this will be a week of unprecedented ceremony. History will hang, like cordite, in the air.

Mon, 21 Mar, 2016

End delusion, tackle underachievement

This week, most of us celebrated St Patrick’s Day with the usual Irish verve, with our devil-may-care indifference to the circumstances of our everyday reality. Over the coming days, we’ll do something similar, even if a shade or two more sombre, as we recall the Easter Rising of 1916.

Sat, 19 Mar, 2016