Columns - Irish Examiner

Victoria White

We need to learn lesson and reduce energy bills in our schools

JUST when the Mammies and Daddies’ pockets have stopped hurting from the new shoes, new clothes and new books, they are faced with paying “voluntary” donations to our schools.

Thu, 30 Aug, 2012

Fine Gael trying to pull off same kind of con job as FF post-Treaty

HE JUST didn’t get it. Fianna Fáil had campaigned against the 1921 Treaty with Great Britain, which established the Free State and allowed the North to opt out. But they had worked it ever since.

Thu, 23 Aug, 2012

We need to make raising children a pathway to power for women

RAISING children is a passion.

Thu, 16 Aug, 2012

We love to talk about the weather, but barely a word about our climate

WE HANG over the half-door and stare at the sky.

Thu, 09 Aug, 2012

We need to support mothers and children to become pro-life society

WHAT would a pro-life country look like?

Thu, 02 Aug, 2012

Minister Burton faces difficult choice over reform of child benefit

I GET €732 a month.

Thu, 26 Jul, 2012

I will celebrate an immediate alcohol sponsor ban, but I won’t drink to it

WE HAVE seen the line between what’s right and wrong, what’s good and bad.

Thu, 19 Jul, 2012

Strength of mothers, not their weakness, which thinkers fear

I COULDN’T wait to get my hands on it.

Thu, 12 Jul, 2012

Protestant abuse history has been swept under the carpet

WE put on our hats on a Sunday morning and march off to church with faith in our hearts and smiles on our faces.

Thu, 05 Jul, 2012

State’s services must catch up with what parents already know

IT’S nearly two weeks since psychologist Tony Humphreys sparked outraged by saying children on the autism spectrum were shutting down because of an “absence of expressed love” from their parents.

Tue, 21 Feb, 2012