It's an odity in this country that we insist on universal entitlements but bristle at universal charges, writes Gerard Howlin

It is not about learning from mistakes. It is not about cultural change. It is about public humiliation, writes Gerard Howlin

It’s an odd thing that on the one hand everything proceeds on from the enormous fact of the economic crash but, conversely, almost nothing has changed, writes Gerard Howlin

On waste collection, our choice as a country is to sit in our own squalor or change. Every time we put out the bin, we are doing the equivalent of peeing in the public swimming pool.

Shane Ross’s Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2016 is part of a broader agenda, writes Gerard Howlin.

Gerard Howlin believes Leo Varadkar was right to know Fianna Fáil would not pull the house down over her appointment to the Court of Appeal.

Leo must go on. He must risk events, prove his capacity to handle them... convince of his credibility, writes Gerard Howlin

In the great film The Last Mitterrand the dying protagonist and president of France identifies indifference as the critical quality required for leadership. It’s the necessary detachment — especially from friends and former causes.

Palestinian flag flying atop our municipal buildings is about attaining the summit, in a hierarchy of victims, says Gerard Howlin.

Around the country members are meeting the two men who want the privilege of being Taoiseach, writes Gerard Howlin.