Sinn Féin is at the edge of the centre. Whether it is Promised Land or quicksand remains to be seen, writes Gerard Howlin.

With income tax we are dangerously out of kilter with the tax norms of countries we want to emulate, writes Gerard Howlin

Fine Gael today has no sense of how to become competitive outside its own comfort zone, writes Gerard Howlin.

It is in the gritty detail of difficult policy decisions that lies the ultimate test of character. In that regard, there is more going on this week than the main headlines indicate, writes Gerard Howlin

Vested interests within the system benefit from work practices that are costly in cash, and contribute to keeping people ‘living on the list’ in pain, writes Gerard Howlin.

Free speech is upheld, but political caprice is unrestrained, in an Oireachtas where voluntary restraint is in short supply, writes Gerard Howlin.

Revitalising small towns takes many things: A bus or rail service is one of them, writes Gerard Howlin.

The single issue wholly within our control, amid much uncertainty, is public sector pay, writes Gerard Howlin

Martin Luther shattered the notion of universal or objective truth. ‘I’ was placed at the centre of the cosmos, undermining all hierarchy, writes Gerard Howlin