Joe Horgan

Money the be all and end all

05 May 2010

I RECALL that one of the enduring claims against those who opposed privilege, the ascendancy of the business classes and the worship of the entrepreneur was that they were involved in the politics of envy and that they just did not do joined-up thinking.

Founding fathers would be horrified

28 April 2010

THINKING back again on something I touched upon last week, namely the TD Ned O’Keeffe’s objection to the Financial Regulator on the grounds of his being an Englishman, I actually realised that the blundering, objectionable O’Keeffe may well have stumbled upon something.

Just who dictates who is Irish?

21 April 2010

A 15-year-old schoolboy was stabbed to death in Dublin recently.

What will we worship instead of the Church?

14 April 2010

IT just so happened that the night before Good Friday I spent a pretty miserable half-hour watching some RTÉ programme whereby some hopeful people with business ideas pitched up in front of five suited business experts hoping to get money and backing for their schemes.

We have plenty to get angry about

07 April 2010

THE COVERAGE of the Passport Office industrial dispute here in Ireland was nothing short of a summary of our times.

Our different perceptions of Ireland

31 March 2010

THE TRUTH is that we always see Ireland from afar.