Columns - Irish Examiner

Fergus Finlay

The general election starts here as parties jostle for pole position

IT’S game on, as they say. The next election starts now.

Tue, 15 Jun, 2004

We’ve had enough cynicism and arrogance — it’s time to hit back

MY esteemed colleague Terry Prone is usually right. Her analysis and insight often beats me to the punch on a Monday morning and leaves me green with envy.

Tue, 08 Jun, 2004

Don’t be swayed by Michael McDowell’s scare tactics

SO, if we had passed Michael McDowell’s referendum, we’d have stopped the little baby Chen from becoming an Irish citizen?

Tue, 25 May, 2004

Whistleblower and Charlie Bird doing the bank regulator’s job

IN a previous incarnation, I worked briefly with AIB’s managing director in Ireland, Donal Forde. He’s the man who has been taking the public flak over the latest AIB fiasco, the accidental ripping-off of their foreign exchange customers.

Tue, 18 May, 2004

We can’t undo the torture — but we can turn away its perpetrators

SO do you think we should welcome President Bush to Ireland in June?

Tue, 11 May, 2004

It was a great day — but we’re still being betrayed by this Government

THE best team at home and abroad. That was the Fianna Fáil slogan in 1989, the last time a European election was combined with an election at home — on that occasion a general election.

Tue, 04 May, 2004