Columns - Irish Examiner

Ryle Dwyer

We must not allow disabled people fall victim to our litigious society

THE Special Olympics have certainly highlighted the plight of people with mental disabilities. Some of them have been the most articulate spokespeople for their own cause.

Sat, 28 Jun, 2003

From Kevin Barry to Iran: a lesson Bush and Blair have never learned

By Ryle Dwyer

Sat, 21 Jun, 2003

How could they not know they had broken a law of their own making?

IT has long been argued that the best government is the one that governs least, just as the best referee is the one who imposes himself least on a game.

Sat, 14 Jun, 2003

By any standard, we’ve been going downhill for more than 30 years

JACK STRAW, the British Foreign Secretary, complained this week that the British invest too much faith in selecting judicial figures to chair inquiries.

Sat, 07 Jun, 2003

Dev’s secret war on the side of the Allies destroys neutrality myth

“LIKE it or not, Ireland is no longer neutral and this is crunch time,” Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny declared on Thursday.

Sat, 31 May, 2003

FG failing to provide opposition as PDs struggle to prove their worth

WITH inflation growing at twice the current European average, we are clearly in troubled waters, and the ship of State is taking on water.

Sat, 24 May, 2003

Dirty tricks are common currency of undercover agents everywhere

By Ryle Dwyer

Sat, 17 May, 2003

Health portfolio a poisoned chalice for beleaguered Martin

NOBODY is asking who stitched up Mickey Martin, because everybody knows who did it. It was Bertie Ahern. “He’s the man,” as Charlie Haughey once said.

Sat, 10 May, 2003

Democracy is being used as a badge of legitimacy for self-gain

THE Americans are promising democracy in Iraq, but at the same time they are saying that they are not going to allow a fundamentalist regime come to power there.

Sat, 03 May, 2003

The time is right for Adams to confront old republican demons

BRITISH Prime Minister Tony Blair was explicit about the assurances that the IRA have to give if The Good Friday Agreement is to progress at this stage.

Sat, 26 Apr, 2003