Dr Ruairi Hanley discovers that loose talk not only can cost jobs, but can potentially scupper presidential campaigns, too.
The citizens who shot JR
March 22, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Dr Dermot J Ward examines the peculiarities of the JR system — which has nothing to do with oil tycoons from Dallas, Texas
Waking from make-believe to reality
July 29, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Messers Cowen, Lenihan, Harney and Drumm have tried to sell us a load of old cobblers on the State’s finances and the health service — and we’ve bought it, says Dr Garrett FitzGerald As the country goes down the tubes to keep German pensioners happy in their dotage, and the IMF waits in the wings [...]
Watching the Blueshirt civil war
July 1, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Faced with a choice between the Fine Gael leadership contest and the World Cup, Dr Ruairi Hanley knew which was going to prove the more entertaining viewing On June 17, I rose late, as is traditional when I have a day off. Over a breakfast of petrol-station sausage and coffee, I considered whether I should [...]
Enda survives to tell another tale
June 24, 2010 By Leave a Comment
I have been known to have a pint or two in the same joint that Enda Kenny, who last week survived a confidence vote in his party, has been known on occasion to have a pint or two. Generally we encounter each other on Tuesday and Wednesday nights, late, when the bar is empty, and [...]
Harney rules out tax breaks for GPs
June 1, 2010 By 1 Comment
Minister for Health Mary Harney has indicated that the Government is ‘unlikely’ to be in a position to make any further incentives available to GPs to build and equip new primary care centres. Responding to a question in the Dáil from Labour TD Ciarán Lynch, Ms Harney said that the HSE was offering to take [...]
The media are listening to the roar of Leo the Lion
May 13, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Given the alternatives on the Fine Gael front bench, Dr Ruairi Hanley is not too surprised with the meteoric rise of the capable Dr Leo Varadkar You really have to hand it to Dr Leo Varadkar. Three years ago he was a young first-term Fine Gael county councillor whose name would only have been recognised [...]
The politics of shallow spin
May 13, 2010 By Leave a Comment
By the time this column appears, the British general election will be well over. As I write this, the third and final televised debate was last night. The consensus today is that David Cameron won, Nick Clegg got beaten on the issue of immigration and Gordon Brown did not do enough to save himself from [...]
Putting a doctor ‘back’ in the House
May 12, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Mulranny GP Dr Jerry Cowley could send a political dynasty crashing to the ground and cost a high-flying junior minister his Dáil seat, writes Kealan Flynn The Labour Party continues to consolidate its stellar performance nationally, even catching falling stars from the now-defunct Progressive Democrats. However, only twice in its history has Labour won a [...]
Examining the body politic
April 27, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Dr Dermot Ward reports from the UK on the health of the British body politic and how the upcoming election may shape the NHS On April 15 just gone, I witnessed a small piece of British history. For an uninterrupted one and a half hours on ITV tele-vision, the leaders of the two main political [...]
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