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Gene Kerrigan Opinion Panicking politicians, pound-shop messiahs

There was a moment back in June when it dawned on me this might not go so well. To be fair, the politicians hit the ground running. When the first case of coronavirus hit us at the end of February, the National Public Health Emergency Team (Nphet) had been in business for a full month.

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Gene Kerrigan Opinion Whiskey not the cure for soured relations

Right now, we desperately need competent political leadership, but that's something our politicians have always dodged.

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Gene Kerrigan Opinion Patriotism, the last refuge of the scoundrel

Let's look on the bright side. Let's look at those for whom the coronavirus crisis has been something of a blessing.

Gene Kerrigan Opinion 'Greed is good' won't cut it in a pandemic

Yes, I was annoyed, and resentful too, when I saw the video of those kids crushed into a house party in Sligo. And, yes, they were reckless and selfish.

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Gene Kerrigan Opinion Truly clueless hold the deepest convictions

Journalists are supposed to reveal if they have a personal stake in matters about which they're writing. So, here goes.

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Gene Kerrigan Opinion Politicians on a collision course with public

During a pandemic, a risky act of self-indulgence is an act of indifference against your neighbours.

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Gene Kerrigan Opinion We're playing with a handicap: FF and FG

The political chaos of the past week involved two kinds of self-indulgence.

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Gene Kerrigan: Meat plants are the real scandal that stinks

It was a simple Freedom of Information request on a matter than didn't send the pulse racing. But it says a lot about the reality of how we're governed.

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Gene Kerrigan Opinion Meat plants are the real scandal that stinks

It was a simple Freedom of Information request on a matter than didn't send the pulse racing. But it says a lot about the reality of how we're governed.

RESIST THE URGE TO TWEET: Tánaiste Leo Varadkar

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Gene Kerrigan Opinion Some white, middle-class men are more equal than others

And so, with a defiant tweet, the White Lives Matter movement was born. "If you are white, male or even worse middle-class, Sinn Féin doesn't want you," tweeted the current leader of Fine Gael.

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Gene Kerrigan Opinion We had the Patrick's Day 'like no other' and the summer 'like no other' - dare we hope the Christmas is old-style?

Looking forward to Christmas? Any plans yet? Next Saturday it'll be a year since Brown Thomas opened its 2019 Christmas Shop.

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Gene Kerrigan Opinion 'Desperate' to get a break, after 37 days

The fun thing about this three-cornered Government is the way the phases of excitement and scandal merge into one another.

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Gene Kerrigan Opinion Well, €96k here, €16k there, it all adds up as politicians seem determined to reduce even further our respect for parliament

In recent days, Fianna Fail and Fine Gael have been forced to move fast, in the open. We've seen with unusual clarity the underbelly of their type of politics.

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Gene Kerrigan Opinion First on the agenda, gut low-paid workers

So, we've taken a hiding from a disaster we didn't see coming, but it's okay. The political parties assure us that we're "all in this together".

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Gene Kerrigan Opinion Hey, wait now... his car's bigger than my car

It took months for Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Greens to cobble together a Government. It took days for them to turn it into a laughing stock.

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Gene Kerrigan Opinion SF caught between the future and the past

Sinn Fein took a hiding last week, and deservedly so. There was, unsurprisingly, a "gotcha" element in the media coverage that followed Bobby Storey's funeral.

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Gene Kerrigan Opinion Cheer up, we're getting 20 mini-ministers

Last week, by chance, I found myself back in 1985. I had received a query related to a story that appeared in Vincent Browne's Magill magazine all those years ago, written by the late Derek Dunne.

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Gene Kerrigan Opinion Are the Greens a movement - or a prop?

Green Party members have been studying the proposed Fianna Fail/Fine Gael programme for government. Such diligence is necessary, laudable and a waste of time.

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Gene Kerrigan Opinion Please tell the Dail the crisis isn't over yet

Up to now we were fairly united in the fight against Covid-19. The scientists spoke with one voice and they made the running.

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Gene Kerrigan Opinion Varadkar's very Irish definition of racism

Like the rest of the world, we watched the American horror show unfold last week - sickened, enraged and, at times, finding it hard to believe.

'Voters who want change are not spoilt for choice. ' (stock photo)

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Gene Kerrigan Opinion SF are not out in the cold, over half a million fed-up voters have already brought them in

Is it time for our political establishment to bring the Shinners in from the cold?

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Gene Kerrigan Opinion Remember how we're all in this together?

Did you hear the interview with yer man Pat "Supermac's" McDonagh? The fabulously rich burger guy?

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Gene Kerrigan Opinion Who has been spying on the President?

Heads up. Be careful who you speak to, files are being opened and notes are being taken.

Gene Kerrigan Opinion Politics of the-least-we-can-get-away-with

Last week, Leo Varadkar promised to "reshape" society, when we rebuild the economy that's been kicked into semi-consciousness by Covid-19.

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Gene Kerrigan Opinion Green eejits and looking after millionaires

This week, a big thank you to Leo Varadkar for restoring a sense of reality to my poor, befuddled mind.

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Gene Kerrigan Opinion Amid the carnage, politics goes on as usual

Well, that's put yer man Holohan back in his box, wha'? Get up the yard, Tony, we're not having some baldy bugger with a medical degree making Cabinet members look like they're not up to the job.