Columns - Irish Examiner

Ryle Dwyer

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

Here’s one antidote to cynicism — zero tolerance on election day

VINCENT BROWNE seems to become more cynical about politics in general and Fianna Fáil in particular every night on his RTÉ radio programme. Of course, he was one of the first people to write about Tom Gilmartin’s allegations back in September 1998.

Sat, 14 Feb, 2004