The time to go is gone. If it were ever a plan in the Government to cut and run for a general election the moment has passed.

There is no blame as articulate as the accusations of the implicated, writes Gerard Howlin

The double standards and discomfort of Michael D Higgins’ self-appointed adherents is comedy gold, writes Gerard Howlin

Fine Gael enjoys watching Micheál Martin hop on hot coals, and foolishly he gives it the pleasure, writes Gerard Howlin.

The fashionable attack on Trump-ology as fascism has enough basis to be credible, and sufficient foundation to inculcate fear, writes Gerard Howlin. 

It is an extraordinary comment on the Conservative Party that they have made Jeremy Corbyn electable.

The pushing and shoving over who really wants an election is the tribal violence of ward politics in a student union setting.

Okay folks, it’s showtime! The late PJ Mara’s open invitation to electioneer and party would have nothing on President Michael D Higgins, writes Gerard Howlin.

For all its posing as prudent, Fine Gael’s fiscal knicker elastic is not nearly as tight as its talk, writes Gerard Howlin.

Using arts to support Ireland is fine. Ireland supporting the arts is different, writes Gerard Howlin.