Columns - Irish Examiner

Ryle Dwyer

Taxpayers and customers suffer in banks’ equal-opportunity rip-off

ALLIED Irish Banks was exposed this week as having ripped off at least €14m since 1996 by systematically overcharging foreign exchange customers.

Sat, 08 May, 2004

Warrant blunder is overshadowed by damage done to judicial system

IT is ironic that Brian Curtin has been the centre of attention this week, while the architects of the court debacle have been left relatively unscathed.

Sat, 01 May, 2004

We must defend Vanunu and the humanitarian values he stands for

MORDECHAI VANUNU was released on Wednesday after serving almost 18 years in jail for telling the truth about Israel's surreptitious efforts to develop nuclear weapons in 1986.

Sat, 24 Apr, 2004

We may take a sip of comfort from the return of Guinness to Dublin

RUMOURS that Guinness was planning to wind up operations at St James's Gate, Dublin, and move its headquarters to the Park Royal Brewery near London were finally killed off this week with the news that the Park Royal operation is being closed down instead.

Sat, 17 Apr, 2004

Danger lurks everywhere in the strange world of Michael McDowell

“A CROWD of us were going along the Shepherd’s Bush Road when out of a lane came a chap with a donkey — just the sort of donkey and just the sort of cart they have at home,” Michael Collins once recalled.

Sat, 10 Apr, 2004

It’s only right for FF to ditch the pretence of representing the people

WHEN Eamon de Valera founded a new party in 1926 its official name was Fianna Fáil: The Republican Party.

Sat, 03 Apr, 2004

Patricia is far too trigger-happy to acquaint herself with the facts

“WE HAVE to be concerned about trigger-happy Americans armed here,” MEP Patricia McKenna said on the television news on Monday evening.

Sat, 27 Mar, 2004

Let's do better than the indifference we showed during the Holocaust

The Archbishop of Armagh Seán Brady gave an interesting St Patrick's Day message recently.

Sat, 20 Mar, 2004

Democrats would do well to learn simple lessons from the past

JOHN FORBES KERRY, the new JFK, essentially wrapped up the Democratic nomination for the US presidency this week by winning nine of the 10 party primaries on super Tuesday.

Sat, 06 Mar, 2004

How one American spy’s scheming fed the myth of Irish neutrality

TODAY marks the 60th anniversary of the famous American note demanding the recall of Axis representatives from Dublin on the grounds that they supposedly posed a threat to the forthcoming Allied invasion of Europe.

Sat, 21 Feb, 2004