Person: Paul Feeney

A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

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Fine Gael hasn’t saved the country

The Taoiseach’s call (Irish Examiner, January 23) to ‘return the Coalition for the sake of recovery’ defies common sense. Not for the first time, Irish people are being sold a pig in a poke.

Syria, like so many recent wars, is all about the money

NAMA is nothing short of economic treason

Question everything – let’s not have an Irish Enron

IT’S been quite a while, but GUBU is making a comeback. An acronym for grotesque, unbelievable, bizarre and unprecedented, the phrase was paraphrased from a comment by then Taoiseach Charles Haughey while describing a strange series of incidents in 1982 that led to a double murderer being apprehended in the house of the attorney general. It was a bizarre happening, an unprecedented situation, a grotesque situation, an almost unbelievable mischance.

Wed, 05 Aug, 2009

Taxpayer suffers to save property developers

IN his business section column (July 25), Brian O’Mahony probably raises the question that’s on everyone’s mind: what about everything else besides the banking crisis? What about unemployment, Bord Snip, Lisbon II, the property crash, schools and garda stations closing, our senior citizens, medical card and health cuts, as well social welfare, children’s allowance cuts, etc.

Fri, 31 Jul, 2009

Reality check

I READ that politicians in the North are being offered health checks before returning to parliamentary duty.

Thu, 18 Sep, 2008

Disability booklet could have been printed here

NOBODY in Ireland should have any issue with the role of the National Disability Authority (NDA) in monitoring the national disability strategy.

Wed, 30 Jul, 2008

Criticism of VHI clinics does not make sense

DOCTOR James Binchy of the Irish Association for Emergency Medicine claims says that “treatment for serious conditions was being delayed as a result of patients having to be transferred from the (new VHI) clinics to hospital A&E departments” (Irish Examiner, June 23).

Thu, 29 Jun, 2006