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A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

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Systemic corruption

NEITHER Government nor opposition has the moral authority to introduce or support the fitting of a hair shirt on ordinary citizens while they are still wearing silk shirts themselves.

Cowen’s last chance?

Nature’s way

New state of affairs

Distant drums

Political fallout

Showing the way

LEADING by example ... all credit to our children and welfare recipients.

Mon, 14 Dec, 2009

Men of vision

WE should erect a monument in Newry to those visionary British statesmen who foresaw the economic benefits of partition for the great majority of the Irish people.

Fri, 27 Nov, 2009

Feeling the strain

WHICH is deadliest — swine flu or a new strain of blue flu?

Wed, 11 Nov, 2009

Credible cuts

CUT ministerial salaries and Dáil membership by 50% ... then we might believe.

Sat, 17 Oct, 2009

Not held to account

NOTICE how Fine Gael and Labour merely sought an apology from John O’Donoghue for fleecing the taxpayer over several years.

Mon, 21 Sep, 2009

New course

IS a condom on a plate the new After Eight or an inter-course option?

Sat, 05 Sep, 2009

Economic fantasy

THE taxpayer is to take over the banks’ bad debts so they can be free to lend again to people whose capacity to repay is either currently or imminently non-existent.

Tue, 01 Sep, 2009

Propaganda is having the opposite effect

ALL the same old names with the same tired old arguments for and against the Lisbon Treaty are back in your letters pages.

Mon, 10 Aug, 2009

Changing times

FAREWELL to the welfare state.

Sat, 18 Jul, 2009

System failure

SOME people believe our politicians should be confined to Leinster House all summer long in the hope they might do something to revitalise the economy.

Sat, 11 Jul, 2009

Lead by example

THE political and administrative elite need not expect the rest of us to take any more pain until they show they are willing to lead by example.

Mon, 23 Mar, 2009

Major breakthrough

Cork crisis ends... sure the global one isn’t a bother after that.

Thu, 12 Mar, 2009

Enough is enough

PLEASE, sir, may we have some good news?

Mon, 16 Feb, 2009

The national fiddle

OBSCENELY overpaid politicians, top civil servants, lawyers, judges, media ‘stars’, bankers, company managers, etc, etc, etc.

Mon, 09 Feb, 2009

Paying for the high-fliers

YOU report (February 3) that it cost us an astounding 164,000 to send Willie O’Dea and Mary Coughlan on the Government jet to Texas to plead with Michael Dell not to abandon Limerick.

Wed, 04 Feb, 2009

Low credit rating

SO that other great seer of the Irish banking system — the Central Bank — now informs us we’re in for a hard time for at least two years.

Sat, 31 Jan, 2009

Self-sacrifice

SO 11 junior ministers volunteered to become kamikaze pilots in the national interest while their commander was in Japan (January 15).

Fri, 16 Jan, 2009