Columns - Irish Examiner

Fergus Finlay

Off with everyone’s heads! Give us head space please — and proportion

The default response to every controversy is killing the kind of public discourse we need, writes Fergus Finlay

Tue, 29 Nov, 2016

Disability Act should be a shining example, but it’s a shaming one

For generations, disability in Ireland has been seen as the remit of charity, but people with disabilities have begun to rebel against this idea, writes Fergus Finlay.

Tue, 22 Nov, 2016

Social democracy has let us down and it must battle to regain respect

Willi Brandt believed in a democracy where people had choices and voted as educated citizens, writes Fergus Finlay.

Tue, 15 Nov, 2016

The thing that has become clear is how broken America is

Winning won’t be enough tonight, because the thing that has become clear is how broken America is, writes Fergus Finlay

Tue, 08 Nov, 2016

We boast of our compassion, but have taken only one refugee child

Out of all the children who need to be relocated — children at risk, alone — Ireland has accepted one, writes Fergus Finlay

Tue, 01 Nov, 2016

New national agreement needed to stave off a winter of discontent

Ireland’s public servants are due a break. The question, I guess, is: ‘how is it to be engineered?’ asks Fergus Finlay

Tue, 25 Oct, 2016

An historic new era of affordable and universal childcare is born

The economic return on early years investment is much higher than for any other stage in a child’s life, writes Fergus Finlay

Tue, 18 Oct, 2016

Let's replace petty arguments over an extra fiver with an attempt to make the world a better place

We watch on as Aleppo, the third oldest city in the world, is blown into oblivion while our Dail chamber argues over who should get credit for an extra fiver on the pension. It makes you wonder what sort of world we live in, writes Fergus Finlay.

Tue, 11 Oct, 2016