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W.T. Cosgrave
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WT became the most ruthless of them all
Sunday January 10 2010
TV3 is to be commended for its major new documentary on the office of Taoiseach, the first episode of which went out last week.
Bouquets and brickbats for 2009
Sunday December 27 2009
THE comparison of a famous Seanad debate on censorship in the Forties to "a long, slow swim through a sewage bed" could well have been coined for 2009. And yet surprisingly, in spite of the 'bonfire of the Celtic Tiger vanities', by the year's close, the Government and establishment had escaped unscathed from their responsibility in nearly destroying the State. Instead, the sight of the chief culprits being praised for their response to the fire they started quenched the hope that we might finally experience some form of moral awareness in Irish politics.
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.
On right path but sins of the Church not forgotten
Wednesday July 29 2009
THE Government's post-Ryan Commission child protection blueprint marks the most important step in a tortuous process of draining the murky landscape of abuse which has mired Church and State since the foundation of the Irish State in 1921.
Political failure is at heart of this crisis
Sunday July 26 2009
Crisis, declared the Minister for Finance, Brian Lenihan, at the end of his budget speech on October 14, 2008 "also brings with it... opportunity to work together in the best interests of our citizens".
Counihan's emerging Rebels are the real deal
Sunday June 21 2009
T here is a school of thought which says that this powerful Cork team has peaked too soon and it follows, therefore, that they won't be around when we get to the third Sunday in September.
Why us ... and why here?
Saturday May 30 2009
In November 1972, AJ Wallace, a 24-year-old former inmate of Artane Industrial School, who moved to London after his release, wrote a letter to the Taoiseach Jack Lynch:
Anniversary date row mars FG's 75th party
Tuesday September 09 2008
THE 75th anniversary of the foundation of Fine Gael will not be marked with any elaborate celebrations or events, it emerged yesterday.
Minister's powers . . . US . . . Plane speaking . . . WT vs Dev
Thursday May 01 2008
- In light of the announcements of new appointees to the Central Bank and Financial Authority of Ireland, and in no way casting aspersions on the people nominated, can I ask what requirements these people meet and why the Finance Minister has sole authority on these matters?
Books for School: Balancing the books at school
Tuesday April 29 2008
Political correspondent Aine Kerr reported (Irish Independent, April 23) the refusal of Education Minister Mary Hanafin to distribute a recent biography of WT Cosgrave, despite the fact that her department had distributed 2,000 copies of Diarmuid Ferriter's biography of the founder of Fianna Fail, 'Judging Dev', to schools throughout the country.
