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Fergus Finlay

Look, we have to pull together despite our grudging Government

IT was 1960s music that was playing at the end of the protest march the other day. Protest songs, Bob Dylan, that sort of thing. I’m comfortable with that sort of music myself – it makes me feel nostalgic, in fact. But I couldn’t help wondering whether it said more about the organisers of the march than it did about the protesters. Somehow, it all seemed a little out of date.

Tue, 10 Nov, 2009

‘Operation Jedward’ a perfect plot to make us forget the doom and gloom

HE wasn’t in good humour.

Tue, 03 Nov, 2009

Enda could electrify the nation if the Seanad was just for starters

I WAS watching the news the other night and saw someone I’d never seen on television before.

Tue, 27 Oct, 2009

If we don’t invest in troubled kids now we’ll pay a very high price later

IT hurts, doesn’t it?

Tue, 20 Oct, 2009

A new programme for government. Who do they think they’re kidding?

ON Saturday, I went to an education conference where Garret FitzGerald spoke about the decline of moral authority in Ireland.

Tue, 13 Oct, 2009

We’re angry and we have lost hope — we desperately need a new start

SO, next business.

Tue, 06 Oct, 2009

Party days of the Celtic Tiger have left us with a nasty hangover

DAN O’BRIEN is probably one of the people that Bertie Ahern thought would be better off committing suicide.

Tue, 29 Sep, 2009

Europe the only friend we’ve got in our hour of need — so vote Yes

WE don’t need Europe.

Tue, 22 Sep, 2009

All those slash-and-burn experts are making me shout at the radio

IS it just me or has the whole world gone mad?

Tue, 15 Sep, 2009

Eamon, your hour has come. Get out there and lead from the front

DEAR Eamon, I hope you don’t mind my writing you this letter.

Tue, 08 Sep, 2009