Stephen Collins bothers me. Every time I read his Irish Times column I get an uncomfortable feeling. Something just doesn’t seem right.
At first I thought it was because my views were diametrically opposed to his. Maybe it was the ideological gulf between us that bothered me.
But then I realised that I read a great many [...]

The Irish Times is often referred to as the quality newspaper in Ireland. It enjoys a wide readership with a reported circulation of over 120,000 for the period between July and December 2010. Even the use of the word “Times” in the title would seem to suggest a shared lineage with the Times of London. [...]

Update: The Irish Times has apologised….to the Communications Clinic.
And the courage of Broadsheet.ie
The Irish Times publishes an article by Kate Fitzgerald, published anonymously, which they obviously are perfectly happy with. The editor is experienced enough to know which articles or statements need to be vetted by their legal team in order to avoid putting [...]

For those who missed it, or simply don’t have a telly, Conor McCabe, author of Sins of the Father, was on Tonight with Vincent Browne last night to talk about the first installment of TV3’s three-part documentary The Rise and Fall of Fianna Fail.
You can watch it on the TV3 website here.
Below are some reviews [...]

It’s fascinating to see the dynamic of the critique of Brian Lenihan that has been offered over the last few days.
We started early over on the CLR, granted, though neither Garibaldy or myself in the day of and after Lenihan’s death did more than note firstly that this was a tragedy for him and his [...]

The current economic crisis in Ireland has highlighted many of the problems in Irish society that perhaps we all knew were there to a greater or lesser degree. For me the one interesting aspect of the past three years has come in our media. It has been discussed elsewhere (see Gavan Titley’s piece in [...]

Anyone trying to make sense of Ireland’s crisis, and looking for an alternative to the right-wing consensus shared by the three major parties and virtually the entire print media, is most likely to find their starting-point in the writings of Fintan O’Toole. O’Toole’s columns in the Irish Times, his regular appearance on radio and TV, [...]

The front page story on the Sunday Independent really says it all. Apparently, the Labour Court has awarded a pay increase to Bord na Mona workers. The Sindo no like. How dare workers get a pay increase? And in this dislike they make some claims which show how dumb [...]

It’s open season on public sector workers again. The Sunday Independent has a front-page shock-horror headline - €1bn pay rise bonanza for public sector. Other commentators and employers’ spokespersons have been having their go’s as well.  But then there’s Stephen Collins. Stephen has a statistic. You’ve been warned:
‘Average earnings in the British [...]

Today in Berlin our “Taoiseach-elect” Enda dealt in a most business-like fashion with the German Chancellor Angela Merkel, described as the most powerful politician in Europe at the moment. A bullish Enda said after the meeting was over:
“I made it perfectly clear to the chancellor that, from our point of view, the corporation tax and [...]