Last year we shelled out €900m to provide residential services for 8,000 people with an intellectual disability, writes Fergus Finlay

Too many lives are damaged each year by the rat race that we have imposed on young people, writes Fergus Finlay

The real casualty of homelessness is the future, writes Fergus Finlay

AS SOMEONE who believes in the concept of a national water authority, and who signed up to pay water charges, it gives me no pleasure to admit my mistake, writes Fergus Finlay.

DEAR ENDA, Joan, Michael and Brendan, I’m writing to you because you’re the four people who together constitute the economic engine room of the government. 

Does Bertie Ahern really expect us to believe that he wasn’t fully aware of the unhealthy relationship he built between developers and the banking industry? asks Fergus Finlay

The bottom line is that we need, and will need, a parliament that works, writes Fergus Finlay

I WISH I could send ye a postcard. 

The ordinary people of Greece face the prospect of deep and sustained hardship, of a kind that is unprecedented in a European context, writes Fergus Finlay

Company law was not designed to enable people to walk away from their obligations to