Columns - Irish Examiner

Fergus Finlay

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

I foresee poll bashing for Cowen as Harrington completes Paddy Slam

EACH year at this time, a small but select band of us gathers around ancient fires in a hidden part of the forest.

Tue, 30 Dec, 2008

Ghost of Christmas past delivers our leader to a fate worse than debt

AND then the ghost dropped him, and the Taoiseach was plummeting towards earth, down, down.

Tue, 23 Dec, 2008