Columns - Irish Examiner

Editorial

Talking a good game about ending inequity

THERE are few more revealing insights into a community than the behaviour, negative or positive, seen in a national school classroom. 

Sat, 22 Oct, 2016

Public sector pay wars - Polarisation may spawn a Thatcher

THIS small, barely solvent Republic is being dragged kicking, and screaming — and unprepared — towards a very dangerous crossroads.

Fri, 21 Oct, 2016

Freedom of Information Act - Extend act to help consumers

THE Freedom of Information Act is one of the great tools in supporting a participatory, transparent democracy. 

Fri, 21 Oct, 2016

An ever-changing Ireland - More secular

IT is a characteristic of this society that Official Ireland often lags behind the real Ireland, the one we all live in. 

Fri, 21 Oct, 2016

Destroying the world around us - A changing picture for our wildlife

IF, in 1926, the year David Attenborough was born, you wanted to see a tiger more than likely you’d have to go to a zoo, a museum, or maybe the local Big House.

Thu, 20 Oct, 2016

Michelle Obama - First Lady of the first ladies

ON Tuesday night Barack Obama hosted the last state banquet of his second US Presidency. His guests were Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and his wife Agnese Landini.

Thu, 20 Oct, 2016

Colonising the museum - Share chamber

IT seems bizarre and depressingly symbolic that a wing of our National Museum might be closed and its education programmes curtailed while the section of Leinster House usually used by the Seanad is renovated.

Thu, 20 Oct, 2016

Public pay strike action - Cruising into a ‘Winter of Discontent’

THOSE of a certain age may recall Britain’s industrial crisis of the late 1970s that paralysed our nearest neighbour and brought Margaret Thatcher to power.

Wed, 19 Oct, 2016

Employment scheme survey - JobBridge actually worked

THE Indecon survey of JobBridge is something of a swan-song, as Social Protection Minister Leo Varadkar had indicated last May that the controversial internship scheme would be scrapped and replaced by one ‘more fit for purpose’.

Wed, 19 Oct, 2016