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Sean Lemass
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Last 12 years has corrupted this country's coming of age
Saturday January 16 2010
'The Curious Mind' is a collection of sound bites out of John Quinn's career as a broadcaster over 25 years. Lavishly praised in a foreword by Tom Collins, Professor of Education at Maynooth, the book is claimed by him as "a key contributor to the rethinking process which must now begin", with the added assertion that "it is entirely appropriate and timely that this book should emerge now".
In praise of liquid assets
Sunday January 03 2010
This week, Kevin McAleer casts his beady eye over the climate-change issue and concludes that we'll be quids in.
Facing down the toughest year in the life of Brian
Sunday December 27 2009
The Taoiseach talks candidly about the banking crisis and his brand of leadership, writes Jody Corcoran
Cowen and Lenihan not the first Punch and Judy show
Sunday December 20 2009
THE recurring rumours about supposed tensions between Taoiseach Brian Cowen and Finance Minister Brian Lenihan manage to be both tedious and wilfully ahistorical.
Contradiction of RTE 'earnings'
Saturday December 19 2009
Not for the first time has an Irish Independent reporter used the verb 'earn' to define payments made by RTE to its icons of celebdom; most recently by Ken Sweeney in his otherwise excellent report on average salaries at the broadcaster (Irish Independent, December 17).
Threat of garda strike has dangerous echoes of past
Sunday December 13 2009
THE unprecedented threat of strike action from the gardai last week conjured up a series of distinctly unsavoury historical parallels which should be closely assessed by the Garda Representation Association (GRA) before it carries out its plans.
Budget news coverage: It will go down in history but presenters couldn't live up to the sense of occasion
Thursday December 10 2009
THREE hours before Brian Lenihan delivered his Budget, RTE radio's Sean O'Rourke had deemed it "possibly the most leaked document of all time", an opinion shared on Newstalk by pundit Mark Mortell, who thought it "leaked to a phenomenal degree", and a little later by RTE1 anchorman Bryan Dobson, who felt that perhaps it had been "leaked to soften us up".
O'Brien spelled out the dark impulses of the Catholic faith
Sunday November 29 2009
The Royal Irish Academy played host this week to a peculiar conference, entitled Public Intellectuals in Times of Crisis: What Do They Have to Offer?
Smugglers get off too lightly here
Sunday November 29 2009
Sir -- The assertion by Jim Cusack (Sunday Independent, November 22, 2009), that gardai believe high taxes are fuelling tobacco smuggling into Ireland ignores the real reason for this epidemic.
Neil Blaney had a lot to offer
Friday November 27 2009
I AM disgusted but unsurprised by the image given of my father, Neil T Blaney, by Charles Lysaght in his review of the new book about Sean Lemass in the Irish Independent Book Review.
Ahern family mourning after sudden death of former taoiseach's nephew
Sunday November 22 2009
A SON of Maurice Ahern, the former Fianna Fail councillor, died suddenly yesterday. Dylan Ahern, who canvassed for his father and for his uncle, former taoiseach Bertie Ahern, in election campaigns, was a keen athlete and shared a love of running with his father. They both ran with Clonliffe Harriers athletic club in Dublin.
