Every child born here on November 10, 2012, was born full of potential but about 30 of them will an entire lifetime where discrimination will be the thing they’re guaranteed, writes Fergus Finlay

Powerful interests that stand with Trump believe in one thing - the ability to bend the free market to their purposes, writes Fergus Finlay

I didn’t know, to my shame, that the experience of women being degraded at the hands of men was so universal, writes Fergus Finlay

Am I the only one in Ireland who believes that we are going to bizarre lengths over the whole issue of privacy? Am I the only one who thinks that a national identity card is, in principle, a bloody good idea, and the sooner we all have one the better?

Back in 1967, on April 11 to be precise, the then minister for finance delivered a very long and very remarkable budget speech. 

Fergus Finlay has never come across nationalism that seemed essentially to be based on snobbery. If there is one in the world, he thinks Catalan nationalism might qualify

Early education is seen internationally as one of the keys to breaking the cycle of poverty — wouldn’t you think that a country that has one-in-nine of its children living in consistent poverty would finally start to put a value on the things that can break that cycle, writes Fergus Finlay.

I hope O’Leary comes through this crisis... But I also hope he learns some humility, writes Fergus Finlay

One of the things that never ceases to amaze me is the drive and the creativity of people living and working in rural Ireland, writes Fergus Finlay

The only logical solution... is for Britain to declare that it will withdraw from the North, writes Fergus Finlay.