An infrastructure of people, ideas, and places built up in better times has been ground down, writes Gerard Howlin

Emotion without reason is dangerous. Reason unhinged from imagination is sterile, writes Gerard Howlin.

The three ‘establishment’ parties may be diminished, but they command a clear majority writes Gerard Howlin

Panic-stricken before an election Alan Kelly will make a mark on our cities that will blight them long-term, writes Gerard Howlin

There will be little sympathy for former IFA General Secretary Pat Smith, who received a well-buttered exit, says Gerard Howlin.

The paltry representation of women on-air today belies the fact that from the foundation of the State women were fully equal and indeed a majority among electors, writes Gerard Howlin

The enactment of power in economic crisis by Haughey after 1987 and of Gilmore after 2011 was remarkably similar, writes Gerard Howlin

DAWN French, great comic and Vicar of Dibley, was asked in a newspaper interview at the weekend what she thought was more important, ambition or talent, writes Gerard Howlin.