Columns - Irish Examiner

Fergus Finlay

We’re being led by people who think they know their onions

We’ve had two examples this week and they illustrate the point beautifully.

Tue, 22 Jul, 2003

We have nothing to fear and everything to gain from equality

TODAY, the DLCG meets the Taoiseach. Why is it so important a meeting and what is it about?

Tue, 15 Jul, 2003

Let’s stop booing Bertie, but make him put his house in order instead

THOUGH it’s not my main business of the week, I want to start by saying that the booing of Bertie Ahern should stop.

Tue, 08 Jul, 2003

Thanks for your kindness to us, but fear for your right to speak out

FIRST of all, I hope you won’t mind if I use this space to say thank you to the literally hundreds of people who wrote, telephoned and e-mailed my missus and me after the piece we wrote in the Irish Examiner last week.

Tue, 01 Jul, 2003

Denying human rights is not the way to foster the can-do spirit

I WANT to suggest a compromise between what seems like two entrenched positions.

Tue, 24 Jun, 2003

Let’s remember Bertie’s promises during Olympic opening ceremony

SO, we’re nearly there. The Games will begin next Saturday, with a spectacle capable of being enjoyed around the world.

Tue, 17 Jun, 2003

Bertie, you have the cash. Spend it on our most disadvantaged people

By Fergus Finlay THERE’S a woman called Mary Kinsella.

Tue, 10 Jun, 2003

We’re the responsible half million — and they treat us like idiots

I’M writing this on my 53rd birthday. No, it’s okay, don’t worry, this is still a political column. I’m not on the cadge.

Tue, 03 Jun, 2003

Spending cuts are funding FF’s five-year plan to buy your vote

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, I suppose I should say. It’s never really clear when the anniversary of a government is — the current one, for instance, wasn’t voted in by the Dáil until June last year. But we have just passed the first anniversary of their election.

Tue, 20 May, 2003

Let’s use an existing law to stop drinks firms targeting our children

DO you know what a rainbow is? Do you know that girls have been treated in the Sexual Assault Unit in the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin with the amount of alcohol in their systems that is normally found in the morgue?

Tue, 13 May, 2003