Columns - Irish Examiner

Fergus Finlay

We need to fix our democratic deficit, but saving the Seanad saves nothing

WHEN you’re sitting on a bench overlooking Clew Bay, under the bluest sky and over the bluest water you’ve ever seen, it’s hard to imagine that there’s anything in the world that needs reform.

Tue, 23 Jul, 2013

Taoiseach, now is the time to help victims of barbaric surgical procedure

DEAR Taoiseach,

Tue, 16 Jul, 2013

In our greed for ideology, we gorged on light-touch regulation

THE MORE I listen to the ‘Anglo tapes’, and the commentary about them, the more I think we’re falling into a trap.

Tue, 09 Jul, 2013

Banking inquiry is vital because Anglo tapes are only telling half the story

WE ARE indebted to two types of whistleblowers — the deliberate and the accidental.

Tue, 02 Jul, 2013

Taking the tribal element out of Dáil will help process of reform

BACK in the Nineties I went to visit the Bundestag.

Tue, 25 Jun, 2013

Snowden deserves our thanks for revealing world of surveillance

PRESUMABLY, if Edward Snowden ever returns to America, or is captured and brought there, he will meet at least the same fate as Jim Larkin.

Tue, 18 Jun, 2013

The Seanad has never been a seat of democracy and should be abolished

MY neighbour, Hamish McKean, and I shared a unique experience the other night, at 11.29pm.

Tue, 11 Jun, 2013

Latest creche fiasco gives us an opportunity to finally get things right

THANK you Prime Time, for a powerful and brilliant piece of public service broadcasting.

Tue, 04 Jun, 2013

At sixes and sevens and shattered from the Shattergate shenanigans

ALL my life (as far back as I can remember, anyway), I’ve had a theory that we live our lives in seven year cycles.

Tue, 28 May, 2013

Government badly needs to change its tune and inspire some optimism

THAT was a really disappointing Eurovision, wasn’t it? I found it really hard to figure out.

Tue, 21 May, 2013