Columns - Irish Examiner

Gerard Howlin

Shallowness of Patrick’s Day brings home to us our lack of identity

FÁILTE IRELAND is a successful sales organisation that shapes Irish identity more than most.

Wed, 12 Mar, 2014

Articulating a credible future proving to be a major problem for Fianna Fáil

IF MICHEÁL MARTIN isn’t Tánaiste after the next election he’ll be toast. If Labour can’t deliver sufficient numbers to form a government with Fine Gael, the prospect of a Fine Gael-Fianna Fáil coalition will come into view.

Wed, 05 Mar, 2014

New Third Secretaries in foreign affairs must be vital cog for Ireland Inc

REPUTATIONAL collapse abroad and economic wreckage at home, remain bitter memories.

Wed, 26 Feb, 2014

Bugging debacle shows Shatter’s dual powers do not serve justice

THE last government was too long in power.

Wed, 19 Feb, 2014

GSOC must ask itself if it is fit and objective enough to do its job

The difference between last week’s big story — Pantigate — and this week’s — the alleged bugging of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission’s (GSOC) office — is about 100 yards.

Wed, 12 Feb, 2014

Paisley fails to get the last word as his political legacy is left exposed

PREACHER and prophet, a leader for his people in the wilderness and schooled in scripture, Ian Paisley’s encore last Monday was the welter of biblical anathema exchanged with his former deputy Peter Robinson and others once close to him.

Wed, 22 Jan, 2014