Columns - Irish Examiner

Pat Brosnan

Pub spy policy proves it: This government doesn’t have a clue

THE GOVERNMENT has come up with an incredibly original solution to the country’s drink problem.

Fri, 30 May, 2003

FF’s Fairy Tales of Ireland must not be forgotten by electorate

THERE’S a certain perversity in the apologia, and it cannot be described otherwise, issued by Fianna Fáil in relation to their general election manifesto this week, which puts me in mind of a quotation from St Augustine.

Fri, 23 May, 2003

With this government, every promise is a lie

THE country’s serious criminals must be quaking at the prospect of Michael McDowell’s answer to the shortage of gardaí.

Fri, 16 May, 2003

For true democracy in the North, the will of the people must prevail

DESPAIRING though the Northern Ireland peace process may be at the moment, the fact is that much progress has been achieved in the five years since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement.

Fri, 09 May, 2003

Our response to SARS proves that people are less valued than cattle

As a Rockies supporter, the minister would probably be more familiar with the local variety, rather than the SARS which at the moment is more like a Chinese puzzle.

Fri, 25 Apr, 2003

Good Friday shows up our ambivalent attitude to alcohol

A PROBLEM that will occupy the minds of a lot of people in this country today is not the state of the peace process in Northern Ireland, nor the future of Iraq.

Fri, 18 Apr, 2003

Pressure growing on IRA to make convincing move that war is over

ABOUT the only thing missing from the American triumphalism and razzmatazz in Baghdad was a press release saying that Hello! magazine had secured the photographic rights to Saddam’s numerous palaces.

Fri, 11 Apr, 2003

A hand-made chocolate would go down nicely in the school prefab

IN launching a Patriot missile at the Progressive Democrats, the Fianna Fáil TD for Carlow-Kilkenny, John McGuinness, delved very deeply into the realm of incredulity.

Fri, 04 Apr, 2003

Bertie deserves an Iraqi contract for ability to deconstruct language

KOFI ANNAN, the Secretary General of the UN, must have breathed a major sigh of relief when he heard the news from Dublin in the past 24 hours.

Fri, 28 Mar, 2003

Our ‘willing coalition’ launches a pre-emptive strike against all of us

DESPITE the charade witnessed in the Dáil yesterday, Ireland officially supports the US-contrived war against Iraq, which was launched 24 hours ago.

Fri, 21 Mar, 2003