Opinion

Friday 27 October 2017

Tents where homeless people live along The Royal Canal in Dublin. Photo: Colin O'Riordan

Letters

Problem of the banks goes much deeper than tracker scandal

Much of the criticism of the tracker mortgage scandal is hypocritical and ignores the fact that the questionable and damaging decisions are much wider in their consequences than that particular issue.

Editorial

GAA's 'lads culture' is damaging to women

Is it prudish for a basic expectation of decency to precede social occasions? Have we gone past the point whereby to go out to enjoy oneself must involve the humiliation or debasement of someone else?

Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe. Photo: True Media

Editorial

Change in the banking culture is long overdue

King Canute had an easy time of it in his beating back of the waves compared with the progress made by successive finance ministers in dealing with our banks.

Letters

Had Humphries been on the dole, he'd have got 10 years in jail

Tom Humphries deserves equal and fair treatment from the judicial system. This has not happened. The very things that mitigated him getting a soft sentence, ie. being a pillar of society, his penmanship, his job, his status, all of those should have been factors that saw a stiffer sentence imposed.

Opinion

Isn’t it funny how, when you look back on things, everything seems to be linked in some small way?

I've had one of those weeks where I've taken a meandering walk down memory lane. It all started with a trip to my Mum's home county of Cork, scene of many childhood holidays.

Dr Peter Boylan. Photo: Gareth Chaney / Collins

Letters

We are getting incomplete information in abortion debate

Dr Peter Boylan's contribution to the Oireachtas committee on the Eighth Amendment appears to have been one of the more aggressive and arrogant versions of the recent 'Trust me, I'm a doctor' efforts.

Editorial

Hard Border - and all its problems - looking likely

The British political scientist Prof Tim Bale summed up Brexit rather pithily in Dublin recently. "The bad news is that there is no good news," he said.

Gene Kerrigan

From storms to Stormont, it's all spin to Leo

There are good things and bad things about the Belfast Agreement, but anyone treating it as a political poker chip is gambling with other people's blood. And that seems to be what went on last week.

Eoghan Harris

In spite of spats, Leo is following Micheal's tough line on Sinn Fein

Hurricane Ophelia hurt but Hurricane Regina Doherty was full of hot air. She told Morning Ireland that Fianna Fail had never raised pensions and could not be trusted on them.

Declan Lynch

Let us go to Denmark with feelings of deepest despondency

When we were drawn against Denmark in the World Cup play-offs, for a few moments a sense of euphoria came over us. It was probably not quite the sort of win that requires the spraying of Champagne, but it was certainly enough to be breaking out the exclamation marks on Twitter.

'new Irish home borrowers were charged an average interest rate of 3.2pc.' (Stock photo)

Dan O'Brien

There is no justification for massive bank profits - steps must be taken

Irish banks, collectively and on average, are much more profitable than banks across the rest of the euro area. That has been the case for four years. These facts are not as widely known as they should be.