Columns - Irish Examiner

Gerard Howlin

It’s not easy being an outsider in a country that’s living on the edge

Perhaps Islamic terrorism is a globalised commodity that anyone anywhere can simply download off the internet, writes Gerard Howlin

Wed, 10 Aug, 2016

Mobile devices ensure we are never disconnected from work, even on holiday

You arrive at the Taj Mahal or the pyramids only to take selfies of yourself for Facebook, facing the camera but away from the wonders of the world, Gerard Howlin.

Wed, 03 Aug, 2016

We can only hope we survive this post Brexit era of tumult and discontent

Inward-looking suspicion gives permission to people to pass the buck in terms of responsibility for their own lives, writes Gerard Howlin

Wed, 27 Jul, 2016

How a Brian Friel film calls to mind the many perils of magical politics

Unseemly ráméis has been coming from the grandstands of the Irish establishment about the limitations of new politics, writes Gerard Howlin.

Wed, 20 Jul, 2016

Pulling the plug on Enda as leader could send Fine Gael down drain

What is required from Fine Gael is nerve and imagination to leave its comfort zone, writes Gerard Howlin

Wed, 13 Jul, 2016

Rhetoric reduced to ridicule as reality is rendered in a riddle

All editing is over. Speech, projected on new platforms, has become the newly authoritative medium, writes Gerard Howlin.

Wed, 06 Jul, 2016

Fast and fundamental change is a fearful thing, but change we must

They have created a future where there will be no Britain — ‘Great’ or otherwise, writes Gerard Howlin

Wed, 29 Jun, 2016

Because of their sovereignty, the UK decision cannot be reversed

Unlike a still-United Kingdom the concept of a referendum whose results are final, is alien to us, writes Gerard Howlin

Wed, 22 Jun, 2016

There will always be maniacs but the US chooses to put the means of perpetration within easy reach

No state can always protect its people from acts of evil mania. But the US chooses to put the means of perpetration within easy reach, writes Gerard Howlin

Wed, 15 Jun, 2016