Columns - Irish Examiner

Fergus Finlay

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

We will all be losers if this winter is blighted by widespread strikes

‘You don’t win a strike,’ Paddy Cardiff used to say. ‘When it’s over, you try to recover from it’, writes, Fergus Finlay.

Tue, 04 Oct, 2016

Trump could be triumphant based on US electorate’s hatred of Hillary

Trump faces a media audience that has already given him a fool’s pass, writes Fergus Finlay.

Tue, 27 Sep, 2016

The smart money says there is no university funding crisis in Ireland

There are 9,443 universities in 206 countries. All of ours are comfortably in the top 10%, writes Fergus Finlay.

Tue, 20 Sep, 2016

Secrecy surrounding NAMA needs to be undone

Government is largely composed of people who opposed the wall of secrecy around NAMA, writes Fergus Finlay.

Tue, 13 Sep, 2016