Person: Peter Molloy

A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

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Taoiseach doesn’t have to answer all questions

Shaun Connolly’s article (Jul 7) on Enda Kenny is essentially a reprise of his scathingly contemptuous remarks regarding An Taoiseach, delivered on RTE radio on Friday morning.

We must defend the status of marriage

‘Non-recourse’ mortgages could be the answer

Let’s have fewer U-turns and more leadership

We need a referendum on pay cuts and benefits

Let’s have penalty points for anti-social behaviour

YOU quote CSO figures that show a 57% rise in public order offences in the past five years (March 19).

Wed, 26 Mar, 2008

Up to speed

IT’S great to know I’m not alone in complaining about our variable speed limits chaos.

Mon, 25 Jun, 2007

Illogical speed limits should be changed

I RECENTLY spent a few days in Mayo, driving around the Newport/Westport area.

Mon, 11 Jun, 2007

McDowell sets a dangerous precedent

ON Pat Kenny’s radio programme last Monday, Justice Minister Michael McDowell defended his action during the televised leaders’ debate in challenging Gerry Adams on the Colombia Three and FARC.

Thu, 24 May, 2007

Minister throws toys out of the pram

PERHAPS the only thing left to admire about Michael McDowell is his brass neck.

Thu, 10 May, 2007

Consultants don’t earn more than those in UK

PETER MOLLOY (Irish Examiner letters, April 25) inaccurately claims that Irish hospital consultants are paid more than their UK counterparts.

Sat, 28 Apr, 2007

Cork’s ‘Taj Mahal’ took wing in Dublin

MY fellow Dubliner Peter Molloy has accused Cork people of building a Taj Mahal airport (Irish Examiner letters, April 9).

Thu, 19 Apr, 2007

SF’s abstentionist MPs can’t serve the voters

SINN Féin Cllr Kieran McCarthy (Irish Examiner letters, April 14) dismisses my proposal (Letters, April 11) that his party should take up their seats at Westminster.

Thu, 19 Apr, 2007

Foreign parliament? No thanks

ON the off-chance that Peter Molloy was actually trying to make a serious argument (Irish Examiner letters, April 11), I would like to point out the following:

Sat, 14 Apr, 2007

Sinn Féin MPs must sit in House of Commons

IF the nationalist community in the North, and we in the south, needed a confidence-building measure from the DUP then surely Ian Paisley’s visit last week was it in spades.

Thu, 12 Apr, 2007

Airport high-fliers pay the price

MATTHEW O’MEARA (Irish Examiner letters, April 4) has a good moan about Cork’s lack of political clout with regard to the airport and its debt, concluding that “maybe Roy Keane is right: Cork doesn’t matter”.

Mon, 09 Apr, 2007

Benchmarking is not an option to end dispute

IS the Government sending a signal to the nurses’ union that if they take their claim through benchmarking, a nod-and-wink way will be found to grant it?

Sat, 07 Apr, 2007

Child’s right and mother’s right to choose

THE proposal to enshrine the rights of the child in the constitution will require considerable debate.

Tue, 13 Mar, 2007

Economic success not due to Government

AS the election approaches, we are constantly reminded of the debt of gratitude we owe Government for the success of the economy.

Tue, 27 Feb, 2007

Redundant ‘fifth column’ threat to health service

WHEN the HSE was formed, there should have been multiple redeployments, early retirements and redundancies among staff of the defunct health boards.

Mon, 26 Feb, 2007

Consultants must be given tools to do the job

SHORTLY before reading Peter Molloy’s letter headlined ‘Health service must not be held to ransom by powerful, wealthy clique’ (Irish Examiner, January 30), I took a call from a surgeon in a Dublin hospital.

Sat, 03 Feb, 2007

Kenny’s immigration speech moderate and balanced — unlike McDowell’s

INTRIGUED by the reaction to Enda Kenny’s recent speech on immigration, I took the trouble to go back and read the full text. Far from being a right-wing, nationalist diatribe, I found it to be a moderate and balanced call for development of coherent policies and measures to help immigrants.

Fri, 02 Feb, 2007

Health service must not be held to ransom by powerful, wealthy clique

IT’S increasingly difficult not to see hospital consultants as arrogant and greedy professionals with a stranglehold on the health service and a willingness to hold hostage the most vulnerable members of our community — those in need of hospital care.

Tue, 30 Jan, 2007

First-time investors shut out young couples

UNTIL recent years, first-time house buyers (FTBs) were predominantly young couples forming families and trying to buy a home rather than making a property investment.

Wed, 24 Jan, 2007

Halt public funding for constituency offices

YOU highlighted the failure of political opponents to exploit Tony Killeen’s embarrassment that his constituency office made representations on two occasions on behalf of a convicted sex offender (Irish Examiner, January 17).

Mon, 22 Jan, 2007

Clamping and meters more forms of taxation

OWEN KEEGAN, county manager for Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown, has revealed his new year’s gift to residents of the borough: car clamping.

Sat, 13 Jan, 2007

Suitable gift for a great propagandist

ALL the year-end reviews of politics in 2006 included Justice Minister Michael McDowell’s extraordinary ‘Dr Goebbels’ outburst, which was quite ironic coming from the most prolific propagandist seen for many decades in Irish politics.

Thu, 04 Jan, 2007

BUPA departing with a healthy surplus

BUPA claims risk equalisation would cost it €161m over the next three years compared with projected profits of €64m under the current system.

Thu, 21 Dec, 2006

Resist moves to ban Christian symbols

THE recent case of the British Airways lady suspended because of her insistence on wearing a cross reminds me, sadly, that we’re now in the season when the ‘politically correct police’ may be seeking quietly to ban Christian symbols in public places.

Mon, 18 Dec, 2006

Clarifying the issue

THE debate on lowering the age of consent is coloured by a concern that the law will be seen as sending a signal that sex at 16 is acceptable to society.

Fri, 15 Dec, 2006

Bigger Dáil chamber a waste of public money

IT’S reported that construction of a new state-of-the-art Dáil chamber is to be considered as part of a major review of the Leinster House complex.

Tue, 05 Dec, 2006

Government addicted to tax on bad habits

THE European Court of Justice has dashed hopes of cheap imports of alcohol and tobacco from other EU member states. Now, as the budget approaches, we can expect calls for excise duty increases to help wean us off our multiple addictions — alcohol, tobacco and oil.

Wed, 29 Nov, 2006