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

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

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

Israel may be wrong in many of its policies, especially in colonising the West Bank, but we are hypocrites, writes Gerard Howlin

What is at stake is a radically different use in other hands of potent instruments of control — namely time and information, writes Gerard Howlin

Underlying public outrage is fuelled by the fact only some, can put their money beyond reach, writes Gerard Howlin

The complexity of civil-service structures is being dangerously underestimated by independent TDs, who have no experience of it, writes Gerard Howlin