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Terry Prone

Terry Prone is an author, columnist and one of Ireland's most well known commentators on communications, politics and public life.

Terry Prone: Like others with dementia, Bruce Willis is being robbed of his dignity and privacy

S Terry Prone: Like others with dementia, Bruce Willis is being robbed of his dignity and privacy

Fame does not protect us from the reality that the person with dementia is the loser. Once diagnosed, they lose all of their rights, starting with the right to privacy

Mon, 13 Oct, 2025

Terry Prone: Sorry state of some sculptures a reminder in how not to memorialise people

S Terry Prone: Sorry state of some sculptures a reminder in how not to memorialise people

Sometimes an obelisk is the safest way to remember people and events

Mon, 06 Oct, 2025

Duchess of Kent funeral

S Terry Prone: Charities should never have dealt with that serial dud, Sarah Ferguson

England’s Duchess of York had a dodgy past — long before the closeness of her links to paedophile and child trafficker Jeffrey Epstein were revealed

Mon, 29 Sep, 2025

Terry Prone: We may be better at 'performative empathy' than at being informers

S Terry Prone: We may be better at 'performative empathy' than at being informers

It was State bureaucracy, and not the concern of individuals, that activated the investigation into a missing three-year-old boy

Sun, 21 Sep, 2025

Russian invasion of Ukraine

S Terry Prone: No way back this time for Labour’s self-pitying moral chameleon Peter Mandelson

Power, influence, and position have been taken from Mandelson previously, and he always recovered. This time, however, no recovery is possible. He’s done

Mon, 15 Sep, 2025

Eamon De Valera 50th anniversary

S Terry Prone: Bertie Ahern’s past political bombs come back to blow up in his face

The rationale for Bertie's rejection, and the manner in which it was executed, are resonant of his own past modus operandi

Mon, 08 Sep, 2025

Terry Prone: Man’s desperate dive into rotting rubbish to retrieve his wife’s rings

S Terry Prone: Man’s desperate dive into rotting rubbish to retrieve his wife’s rings

Landfill managers deserve to have award ceremonies

Mon, 01 Sep, 2025

TV Garraway 2

S Terry Prone: There is nothing healthy, physically or emotionally, about fat camp TV

What is it about weight that delivers such a dire permission to people whose opinions have not been elicited?

Mon, 25 Aug, 2025

Terry Prone: Frank Grimes was a forgotten titan of Irish stage and screen

S Terry Prone: Frank Grimes was a forgotten titan of Irish stage and screen

His portrayal of the dignified, hopelessly naïve curate in RTÉ’s 'Strumpet City' won him the Irish equivalent of an Oscar

Mon, 18 Aug, 2025

Terry Prone: The touch paper has been lit for the presidential conflagration

Terry Prone: The touch paper has been lit for the presidential conflagration

Mairead McGuinness will be the best candidate Fine Gael ever lost, while Gareth Sheridan is learning politics is not for the faint-hearted

Thu, 14 Aug, 2025