Rule no 1 - judge not lest ye be uncoolMy sister-in-law was on the telephone the other nightSat Feb 17 2001 - 00:00
Putting faith back into hope and charityGeorge W. Bush has caused a furore by declaring that faith-based charities may have access to federal dollars to implement their…Sat Feb 10 2001 - 00:00
FG vote a dubious victory of image over substanceSo John Bruton has been toppledSat Feb 03 2001 - 00:00
Silence is harder to challenge than spinPeter Mandelson enjoyed being the living embodiment of spin, which is the belief that if you are skilful enough you can get the…Sat Jan 27 2001 - 00:00
`Fair City' missed opportunity on abortionGiven the cut-throat battle for TV ratings, it was probably inevitable that sooner or later the scriptwriters of RTE's Fair City…Sat Jan 13 2001 - 00:00
Witnessing the death of the Irish mammyMy much-loved mother-in law, Pat Conroy, died in her own bed on New Year's EveSat Jan 06 2001 - 00:00
Some reasons to celebrate the story of ChristmasGiven that Christmas is a time of blatant commercialism, which puts unbearable strain on the poorest in our society and reminds…Sat Dec 23 2000 - 00:00
Time for a cool, hard look at where Europe is goingSomewhere buried between the Budget and the Clinton visit lies the Treaty of NiceSat Dec 16 2000 - 00:00
Children are unheard in the childcare debateWho speaks for children in the childcare debate? What baby, given a choice, would choose to spend time in a creche rather than…Sat Dec 09 2000 - 00:00
Bringing choice to worlds of work and familyLast weekend a conference was held in Lismullin Conference Centre in Co Meath on the theme of Women, Work and the FamilySat Nov 25 2000 - 00:00
Compassion ousts ideology in abortion debateThe seismic change in political attitudes to abortion signalled in the fifth progress report of the All-Party Oireachtas Committee…Sat Nov 18 2000 - 00:00
Woman with a sense of historyMary Warnock is perhaps best known for her work with the controversial Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, and as a…Sat Nov 04 2000 - 00:00
FF deserves to lose bet on tax individualisationSometimes I think about 10 people in the country understand the move made towards individualisation of the tax code, and five…Sat Oct 28 2000 - 01:00
Smear against Dana shames her fellow MEPDana Rosemary Scallon has upset some powerful people, if one of the statements released about her recent lobbying is anything…Sat Oct 21 2000 - 01:00
Design of boys' programme intrinsically flawedLast Monday night, Willie O'Dea caught my attention with this remark on Questions and Answers about the "Exploring Masculinities…Sat Oct 14 2000 - 01:00
Selecting embryos a dangerous precedentWhen is a child a child? Or to put it another way, when is a child regarded as a full member of human society, entitled to the…Sat Oct 07 2000 - 01:00
President's advocacy of a positive, living faithThe President's position was not fairly represented by those who did the initial reports on her speech to the National Conference…Sat Sept 30 2000 - 01:00
10 years too late to start our debate about EUPrompted by Sile de Valera's minor outburst in Boston, our Taoiseach has generously given us all permission to debate about the…Sat Sept 23 2000 - 01:00
The price of the boom era is too highThe Eircom a.g.m. made for wonderful theatre, with seething throngs of angry shareholders determined to make a point, but resigned…Sat Sept 16 2000 - 01:00
Review of single-parent payment avoids issuesDermot Ahern, Minister for Social, Community and Family Affairs, called for a rational debate on the question of lone parents…Sat Sept 09 2000 - 01:00
Tragedies stemming from middle-class malaiseAn act of violence outside a nightclub in Dublin ended another life tragically and senselessly this weekSat Sept 02 2000 - 01:00
Media miss message of Knock phenomenonMy mother loved Knock. She died last OctoberSat Aug 26 2000 - 01:00
Madcap militarism no solution for ColombiaFather Brendan Forde' decision to stay in Colombia is not a very Celtic Tiger thing to doSat Aug 19 2000 - 01:00
100,000 welcomes, except to hungry childrenIn Victorian times, children were to be seen and not heardSat Aug 12 2000 - 01:00
Why I cannot think of abortion as murderIn spite of having written on many occasions about abortion, some of the ways I think and speak about it still seem internally…Sat Aug 05 2000 - 01:00
Carers for children in crisis deserve the bestHorrific cases involving children and young people make headlines with depressing regularitySat Jul 29 2000 - 01:00
Is State abusing procedures for asylum-seekers?Something very disturbing is happening to the way in which applications for refugee status are being processed in this StateSat Jul 08 2000 - 01:00
Media's role in O'Flaherty case under scrutinyDr Jim McDaid may have had a minor attack of histrionics when he declared the Irish media to be a threat to democracy as great…Sat Jul 01 2000 - 01:00
Moving beyond maintenance in drug addictionOn Saturday June 3rd a large, expensive advertisement appeared in newspapersSat Jun 24 2000 - 01:00
Playing politics with the accommodation crisisThere are two imperatives in the housing crisis - one is to be seen to be doing something, the other is to do the right thing…Sat Jun 17 2000 - 01:00
RTE wants to know: are we boring you yet?As Charlie Bird works himself into a lather describing the "meltdown" in Leinster House, it seems as if the management in RTE…Sat Jun 10 2000 - 01:00
A model way to do business that benefits allPutting Hugh O'Flaherty's nomination on hold will undoubtedly please manySat Jun 03 2000 - 01:00
Parents slow to speak of some scary facts of lifeMary Hanafin launched an advertising campaign this week to encourage young girls not to smokeSat May 27 2000 - 01:00
It's time to put levels of corruption in contextThere is an orgy of secret-telling going on. We even know half of the Third Secret of FatimaSat May 20 2000 - 01:00
Claim of suicide risk in X case not challengedOne of the most startling aspects of the Oireachtas committee hearings on abortion has scarcely been mentionedSat May 13 2000 - 01:00
Bureaucrats make aiding women in crisis harderThe Eastern Regional Health Authority (ERHA) may well yet be awarded the Blundering Bureaucratic Diktat of the Year awardSat May 06 2000 - 01:00
Face refugee fear before it hardens into racismOn November 1st, 1999, Sister Joan Roddy wrote to the Department of Justice on behalf of the Irish Catholic Bishops' Refugee …Sat Apr 29 2000 - 01:00
Treating believers as outsiders can have risksOn Wednesday last, in the light of the revelations made by Mr Frank Dunlop at the Flood tribunal, Vincent Browne declared that…Sat Apr 22 2000 - 01:00
Ideological divide failing children at riskThere are some hard questions to be asked about our treatment of children, especially those most at riskSat Apr 15 2000 - 01:00
Individualisation hasn't gone away, you knowDear, oh dear. Charlie McCreevy is beginning to look more and more like Margaret Thatcher, with his overweening self-confidence…Sat Apr 08 2000 - 01:00
