Premium Gene Kerrigan Opinion Lads, it’s time you got the message – the Fianna Fáil party is over This is embarrassing. For the past 10 years, the Irish people have been sending the same message to Fianna Fáil. And the party keeps pretending not to hear what the voters are saying.
Premium Gene Kerrigan Opinion RTÉ reporting has had a revamp – would you like some panache with that crisis? We need to talk about RTÉ news and current affairs. There’s something odd going on out there. And, no, this is not one of those complaints about how everyone in RTÉ is an overpaid Leo Varadkar fan.
Premium Gene Kerrigan Opinion Beware the fourth wave - aka the Fine Gael variant Micheál Martin says we're in the "final stretch" of this pandemic. I don't know if that's true (neither does he), but it might well be. Certainly, the next couple of weeks are dangerous, with a possible fourth wave about to hit.
Premium Gene Kerrigan Opinion A quiet phone call is all it takes in this great little nation These days, they're coming in threes, the revelations about how things work in this great little nation.
Premium Gene Kerrigan Opinion Leaky Leo pulls a sneaky, but who cares? Does anyone remember when Fine Gael was the "law-and-order party"? In those days, the party's ard fheis was awash with scowling people who emerged from the womb demanding tougher laws, longer sentences and the imposition of martial law on Dublin's northside.
Premium Gene Kerrigan Opinion The colour of greed is pure shamrock green We'll call him George, though he has never gone by that name. He had troubles long before he ever became a client of J&E Davy Stockbrokers.
Premium Gene Kerrigan Opinion Dead Horse guy has nothing on Davy mob Early last week, I was pretty angry about the photo of that eejit sitting on the dead horse. Horsey people kept saying what matters is how Gordon Elliott's behaviour gives the racing business a bad name. That is not what matters.
Premium Gene Kerrigan Opinion We can't start dancing on thin ice now Things are on edge, right now. And there's trouble ahead: two separate but related kinds of trouble.
Premium Gene Kerrigan Opinion Propaganda? No thanks. We're exhausted Three things will decide how this goes, and right now two of them are in rag order.
Gene Kerrigan Opinion Image merchants don't cut it in a pandemic Are you totally confident that the Martin/Varadkar Government knows how to deal with the pandemic crisis?
Premium Gene Kerrigan Opinion Moaning Mick full of dangerous hot air In our hour of trouble, must we still put up with the insipid buffoonery of Michael O'Leary, the Prime Minister of the Republic of Whinge?
Premium Gene Kerrigan Opinion Lockdown hokey-pokey needs a shake-up The EU behaved stupidly on Friday. The vaccine distribution is a mess. Political leadership on both parts of this island and farther afield has been weak.
Premium Gene Kerrigan Opinion No room for game-playing in context of Covid The Government got a slagging for dropping its three-day school opening plan for Leaving Cert students.
Premium Gene Kerrigan Opinion Dangerous missteps on the Walk of Doom Taoiseach Micheál Martin did the Walk of Doom again last week. That's the little drama they stage these days when he wants to impress us with the calm authority he brings to the task of fighting Covid.
Premium Gene Kerrigan Opinion Nphet is fallible, but it's the best tool we have Suddenly, everything has changed. We'd become used to assuming that if the majority of us remained careful we might thwart the virus.
Premium Gene Kerrigan Opinion No bailing Martin out of FF's denial of reality Some people were a little confused by the behaviour last week of the Taoiseach Micheál Martin. And no one seemed more confused than Mr Martin himself.
Premium Gene Kerrigan Opinion Taken to the cleaners by the People Who Matter It's raining money. All some people have to do is stand still and watch the waves of money approach.
Premium Gene Kerrigan Opinion No magic involved, just money and science There are people writing tabloid headlines telling us the "magic jab" is coming to save us from Covid-19 and restore normality.
Premium Gene Kerrigan Opinion The truth, the Woulfe truth, and nothing but The truth is in the transcript of what was said in the Dáil on Thursday - and what was not said.
Premium Gene Kerrigan Opinion Kidding ourselves thinking adults in charge Given the dangers of the next few weeks, what we need is coherent political leadership. We don't have that.
Premium Gene Kerrigan Opinion Imagine that: we're doing something right In the coming days and weeks, small groups of people - judges and politicians - have two big decisions to make. Some of this will affect the rest of us.
Premium Gene Kerrigan Opinion We're the good guys, the rules don't apply The Government last week decided to let all State officials know they needn't be too fussy about observing the rules of confidentiality.
Premium Gene Kerrigan Opinion Even if he loses the election, Trump wins Win or lose on Tuesday, Donald J Trump has been an extraordinarily successful president. Far more successful than, for instance, Barack Obama.
Premium Gene Kerrigan Opinion Revelling in the new FF-FG v Nphet rivalry There are times when I envy the headbangers - those groups that promote crank politics in which everything is either deep state or fake news. Or both.
Premium 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.
Premium 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.
Premium 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.
Premium 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.
Premium 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.