The politicians are still stuck in the endless revolving door of “our tribe against your tribe”, writes Fergus Finlay

You can’t find a single sentence, in anything Donald Trump has ever said, that might constitute any kind of appeal to the better angels of our nature, writes Fergus Finlay

Boy, didn’t we get huffy last week when Angela Merkel told us we weren’t doing enough to help in the refugee crisis, writes Fergus Finlay. 

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