A lack of transparency around the policy of Sinn Féin TDs taking only the average industrial wage, and a succession of irregularities in the financial methodology used by both individual TDs and the party itself around expenses casts a cloud of uncertainty over the party's claims to represent a break with the traditionally corrupt practices of the oligarchs of our political kleptocracy. By David Johnson.
As we digest the outcome of the Independent Child Death Review Group’s report into the death of children in care or known to the Health Service Executive, published yesterday by Minister for Children and Youth Affairs Frances Fitzgerald, we hear calls increased investment to put in place the safeguards that are required to ensure that this never happens again.
Of the murders of two women in January 2011, one has got blanket coverage, the other only passing attention. By Vincent Browne.
On Tonight with Vincent Browne, Fionnan Sheahan, Billy Kelleher, Eoghan Murphy and Niamh Lyons will consider Enda Kenny's tenure to date and ask: is he fit for purpose? {jathumbnailoff}
As long as this crisis is pushing Germany’s borrowing costs to zero, and causing tsunamis of capital to shift from Italy and Spain to its own enfeebled banks, Germany will not be eager do anything about it. By Yanis Varoufakis.
{jathumbnailoff} On Tonight with Vincent Browne, Joe Durcan, Marie Sherlock, Dimitrious Tsouros and Thomae Kakouli will be discussing the ESRI quarterly commentary and the outcome of the Greek election and its implications for Europe and for Ireland. Vincent shares his thoughts on today's ESRI news:
Getting the ball rolling in the right direction for Greece requires a government in Athens that is capable of looking its German partners in the eye and not blinking for a few minutes. But New Democracy won the day on a promise to blink from the outset. By Yanis Varoufakis.
Is there any group in Irish society more in need of moral guidance than those who purport to be the moral guardians, the Catholic bishops? By Vincent Browne.
Theresa Devoy's account of how she was subjected to symphysiotomy at the age of 18 in 1963, without her consent or knowledge, in barbarous circumstances and with awful consequences, was the most riveting interview I have conducted as a journalist.
