Columns - Irish Examiner

Victoria White

Marketing is not business of art, so let’s get creative on how we treat arts

Arts funding should never be given the agenda of projecting a positive image of its country of origin, writes Victoria White.

Thu, 15 Dec, 2016

It’s time to start outlawing the charging of fees for State schools

Why does the State spend an annual figure of €6.75m on the Protestant Block Grant which supports Protestants who need it with school fees? asks Victoria White

Thu, 08 Dec, 2016

President Higgins spoke for me and many others with his Fidel Castro lament

Fidel developed a country which had the best living conditions in Central America, writes Victoria White

Thu, 01 Dec, 2016

Post-truth society needs to know difference between fact and gossip

Once gossip takes the place of factual news you are marking time until your democracy collapses, writes Victoria White.

Thu, 24 Nov, 2016

Survivors of abuse deserve far more than a ‘deafening silence’

Kerry Lawless warns that only media pressure will force an appropriate response from the Church of Ireland, writes Victoria White.

Thu, 17 Nov, 2016

Donald Trump won because the liberal elite forgot the uneducated poor

Donald Trump was handed the presidency by Barack Obama, who failed to reverse policies of inequality, writes Victoria White

Thu, 10 Nov, 2016

If Trump is elected the fault will be US’s love of ruthless individualism

If the worst happens, don’t blame the FBI or the Russians. Blame capitalist individualism, writes Victoria White

Thu, 03 Nov, 2016

$With no established industry, let’s ban fracking before it begins$

With no established industry, let’s ban fracking before it begins

It is estimated internationally that 6% of the wells the frackers bore through the rock will leak, writes Victoria White.

Thu, 27 Oct, 2016

When it comes to childcare, Ireland is closer to America than Europe

Two-thirds of crèches nationwide have vacancies... 20,000 cots and tubby chairs which need to be filled, writes Victoria White

Thu, 20 Oct, 2016

This budget incentivises behaviour that damages babies and toddlers

I will fight until I am a toothless granny against the full-time institutionalisation of babies and toddlers, writes Victoria White.

Thu, 13 Oct, 2016