Columns - Irish Examiner

Terry Prone

Obama must be decisive if he does not want to be a one-term president

HE CAME into office on a wave of promise and promises.

Mon, 22 Aug, 2011

No easy answers as to why ordinary people were stirred into looting

YOUR 2-year-old upends his bowl of soggy cornflakes, putting it squarely on top of his head.

Mon, 15 Aug, 2011

Sun, sea, sand and mobile phone calls from work — give us a break

SOME people are really organised.

Mon, 08 Aug, 2011

Confusion over US debt deal down to an overly balanced media

BY THE time you read this, America’s two big political parties may have done a deal on the economy.

Mon, 01 Aug, 2011

Kenny and Noonan: a tale of genius, sharp wit and the capacity to listen

THIS is a guess.

Mon, 25 Jul, 2011

Tapping into the public mood can make you seriously hacked off

DURING last week’s pinking of Dáil Éireann, courtesy of Mary Mitchell O’Connor, one politician after another, one ex-politician after another, told us we shouldn’t be talking about the Miss Piggy episode.

Mon, 18 Jul, 2011

Battling for the ceremonial impotence of being an earnest President

IT’S completely illogical, but I still have the feeling that there’s a president-shaped person hiding in the long grass somewhere, who will emerge in the coming weeks to a chorus of “the very man/woman”.

Mon, 11 Jul, 2011

Speaking of stirring political rhetoric — don’t mention Leinster House

LEO Varadkar is extremely witty. To this I can testify, having seen him in action at the Trim Swift Festival at the weekend.

Mon, 04 Jul, 2011

Nationalist hero or child molester? Judging the past by modern morality

I DON’T know much, but I do know this.

Mon, 27 Jun, 2011

Claiming a mistake won’t get you off the hook when you’re exposed

THE redundant “so” is getting to me.

Mon, 20 Jun, 2011