Columns - Irish Examiner

Gerard Howlin

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

By not supporting the arts, the State is impoverishing imagination

Art is served up piecemeal at home; but more generously abroad for special occasions, writes Gerard Howlin.

Wed, 08 Jun, 2016

The instincts for self-preservation by our institutions are astonishing

Like the sex lives of football players, we all want to handle a currency we can trade-up in, writes Gerard Howlin

Wed, 01 Jun, 2016

The real cost of leaving the EU may be the dismantling of the UK

In a scenario of dislocation and disadvantage... after Brexit the UK will go the way of the USSR, writes Gerard Howlin

Wed, 25 May, 2016

Revolutionary artists led the Rising, yet witless governments kill off art

Consideration of the arts takes up 600 words in a 160-page programme for government, writes Gerard Howlin

Wed, 18 May, 2016

Taoiseach will try balance geography and gender with talent and loyalty when picking ministers of state

TWELVE ministers of state are expected to be appointed by the Government at today’s cabinet meeting, writes Gerard Howlin. 

Wed, 11 May, 2016