Columns - Irish Examiner

Fergus Finlay

Lock up our economists until they agree a white smoke solution

IT’S time that all the leading economists in Ireland were locked up.

Tue, 10 Mar, 2009

How two million pairs of hands can help save this land of 1,000 parishes

FRESH thinking and a winning mentality. That’s what I heard the Taoiseach call for on Saturday night.

Tue, 03 Mar, 2009

Let’s get real, Taoiseach: scorch the junior ranks and abolish the Seanad

I SAW Ceann Comhairle John O’Donoghue on the news the other night, talking about the members of the Oireachtas feeling pain and yet being determined to give a lead.

Tue, 24 Feb, 2009

Government in freefall because it made ordinary people suffer first

IT’S apocalypse now.

Tue, 17 Feb, 2009

Only time will tell if Cowen can deliver on his church-gate speech

MUCH as I don’t want to admit it, I don’t always play golf brilliantly.

Tue, 10 Feb, 2009

America gets a real leader and we get Cowen’s €2bn bundle of misery

EIGHT days compared to eight months. Eight days of hope, of energy, of a palpable sense of new direction.

Tue, 03 Feb, 2009

Child abuse: let’s have one national agency with force of law behind it

A GROUP of senior bankers have gone to see the Minister for Finance.

Tue, 27 Jan, 2009

The State’s worst-ever crisis was handled successfully by 10 men

AT the end of June 1938 the world was moving inexorably towards war.

Tue, 20 Jan, 2009

For a government of all the talents we need only change a single word

OUR country is facing an emergency.

Tue, 13 Jan, 2009

It’s at least eight years too late for Bishop Magee to set things right

A SHIP is at sea.

Tue, 06 Jan, 2009