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

What if Pearse and Connolly had survived? Perhaps the first item on the agenda would have been a split, writes Gerard Howlin

There is a lot of furrowed browed tut-tutting about the rise of an unhouse-trained ‘nihilist’ left, writes Gerard Howlin

Proposals put forward for the strengthening of the Dáil should be pursued, argues Gerard Howlin