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

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

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.

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

One of the first rules of crisis communications is that you gather your facts before opening your mouth, writes Fergus Finlay