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Fergus Finlay

If anyone can reform our social welfare system, Joan Burton can

DEAR Joan

Tue, 15 Mar, 2011

Mix respect, teamwork and hope to deliver a coalition recipe for success

ONE word in particular kept popping into my head at the Labour Party Conference on Sunday afternoon.

Tue, 08 Mar, 2011

Brandt’s grand coalition should be a guiding light for our new government

THE turbulence in Egypt and Libya, which is now spreading throughout the middle East, has some playing out to do. It is bound to have international repercussions, and it’s impossible to see the shape of all of them.

Tue, 01 Mar, 2011

The polls are wrong, but here are my three sure election bets

WATCH my body language.

Tue, 22 Feb, 2011

Make decency and fairness the building blocks of a new society

I’VE been travelling a lot over the past few days.

Tue, 15 Feb, 2011

Kenny may be shunning debate, but it’s Martin who has nothing to say

WE don’t need a televised debate — or two, or three — to tell us who’s likely to make a better Taoiseach.

Tue, 08 Feb, 2011

Getting rid of Fianna Fáil is just the first step for betrayed voters

I’VE never begrudged paying taxes — until now. It was a friend and colleague of mine who said that, as she looked at the shipwreck that used to be her pay-slip.

Tue, 01 Feb, 2011

Whether Cowen stays or goes, it’s the end of Fianna Fáil as we know it

ACCORDING to the last census there are 4,239,838 of us living in this republic.

Tue, 18 Jan, 2011

Our Health Minister really does need a break — a very long one

I READ at the weekend that the Minister for Health had spent part of her holidays over Christmas in a luxury hotel in Thailand.

Tue, 11 Jan, 2011

Senate must be scrapped, but not as death-bed action of Government

WELL, that was a year to say good riddance to, wasn’t it? The year we lost our independence.

Tue, 04 Jan, 2011