Vincent Browne State silent over Garda informerFreddie Scappaticci has a glittering career ahead (that is assuming he is indeed "Stakeknife", which, in the nature of these …Wed May 14 2003 - 01:00
Sea change on Shannon overflightsOn July 21st, 1959, a Mr Kimber from the British embassy in Dublin called on the secretary of the Department of External Affairs…Wed Apr 09 2003 - 01:00
Shocking, awful cost of warThey are fighting around one of the great sites of our Western civilisation, from where, the Bible tells us, came the progenitor…Wed Mar 26 2003 - 00:00
FF a master of the art of equivocationSome 66 years ago Fianna Fáil could not take a stand on a moral issue eitherWed Feb 19 2003 - 00:00
Subverting a safeguard of TravellersThe Government is on the verge of undermining one of the few bulwarks against discrimination concerning the most vulnerable group…Wed Jan 22 2003 - 00:00
O'Malley has nerve looking for apologyDes O'Malley has a nerve demanding apologies from RTÉ for its suggestion that he may have doctored the Book of Evidence for the…Wed Jan 08 2003 - 00:00
One to watch: how media will report on their ownOPINION/Vincent Browne: Tony O'Reilly has wielded more power in Irish society since he bought control of Independent Newspapers…Wed Dec 11 2002 - 00:00
Rabbitte must lead, not followThere is more to Pat Rabbitte than the quick rejoinder and the witty asideWed Oct 30 2002 - 00:00
Respect is absent for the other victimsWhy has there been not even a whisper of concern over the lives slaughtered in Afghanistan?Wed Sept 11 2002 - 01:00
Fairness: it means more than footballYet again yesterday morning The Irish Times led the newspaper with the FAI/Sky story, having done so on several days previously…Wed Jul 17 2002 - 01:00
Europe must still be called to accountThe Euro-Taliban have rallied, the Jihad for Europe has commencedWed Jul 03 2002 - 01:00
Voting No to Nice and the secret councilThere remain compelling reasons for voting No in the Nice referendum and nothing the Government has done or Ministers have said…Wed Jun 26 2002 - 01:00
Face to face with church arroganceOn Saturday evening last I visited the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in RomeWed Jun 19 2002 - 01:00
Wake-up call for a new governmentA New Minister for Finance, such as Noel Dempsey, might not have such loyalty to past decisions and might be more progressive…Wed Jun 05 2002 - 01:00
Fine Gael and the right to die issueOne of the great ethical issues of our time is about to be played out in front of our eyes. It concerns the right to dieWed May 29 2002 - 01:00
Labour is the real loser in this electionIt was not Fine Gael but the Labour Party that polled worst in Election 2002Wed May 22 2002 - 01:00
CORI man on mission of justice for the poorVB: CORI seems all very worthy, but are you representing anybody but yourself? What evidence is there that any appreciable section…Sat May 18 2002 - 01:00
Greens offer best hope of taming FFThe appalling vista may be about to happen, a Fianna Fáil overall majorityWed May 15 2002 - 01:00
Most of our TDs are outstandingIt is the calibre of the TDs that is the most striking feature of a prolonged review of their performance I have just completed…Wed Apr 24 2002 - 01:00
Thorn in the side of new world orderHugo Chávez may have been in Bertie Ahern's mind when he visited George Bush in Washington before St Patrick's DayWed Apr 10 2002 - 01:00
Unanswered questions in Guerin case investigationOn the morning after the murder of Veronica Guerin on June 26th, 1996, John Bruton, then Taoiseach, spoke in the Dáil during …Wed Mar 27 2002 - 00:00
Let us keep fetters on Fianna FailFine Gael's nervous breakdown is worrying for more than those directly concerned with the party's mental healthWed Mar 20 2002 - 00:00
The obscenity of Abbotstown and neglected poorIt is the whole Campus Ireland project that is the scandal, not the aquatic centre and whether the contract concerning it was…Wed Mar 13 2002 - 00:00
Noonan goes from bad to worseUntil Sunday night Michael Noonan's prospects were dismalWed Jan 30 2002 - 00:00
Side doors distract from the importantMichael Noonan could have done with a Dermot O'Leary on Friday nightWed Jan 16 2002 - 00:00
US massacre entirely fails to move usIn the Museo del Prado in Madrid there hangs the huge, monumental work of Pablo Picasso, the most famous of his political paintings…Wed Jan 09 2002 - 00:00
Civilian death toll is not big newsMore than 100 civilians were killed in a small village, Qalaye Naizi, in eastern Afghanistan by bombs dropped from US aircraft…Wed Jan 02 2002 - 00:00
Little new in 'Prime Time' on arms crisisAny challenge to the easy and often self-serving assumption that Charles Haughey was the originator of all perfidy in Irish public…Wed Dec 19 2001 - 00:00
Minister, spare us the tears on refugeesJohn O'Donoghue has "vowed" (according to Monday's Irish Independent) that European police forces will "hunt down" the "vile …Wed Dec 12 2001 - 00:00
Higgins's case against the Donegal gardaiToday I hand over my column to a Dβil deputy, Jim Higgins of Mayo, to tell the story of a gross scandal within the Garda that…Wed Dec 05 2001 - 00:00
Politicians must take blame for inquiry fiascoFabien Barthez should take comfort from the judgment of the three High Court judges last Friday on AbbeylaraWed Nov 28 2001 - 00:00
Adams not for taking by QuinnA few years ago at a reception I was talking to two eminent members of the legal profession - a barrister and a judge of the …Wed Nov 21 2001 - 00:00
Kabul's fall is no mark of US successThe "success" in replacing the Taliban with the Northern Alliance in Kabul, even if followed by the capture of Osama bin Laden…Wed Nov 14 2001 - 00:00
US strong on theory, weak on evidenceThe two most respected newspapers in America, the New York Times and the Washington Post, have carried stories in the last few…Wed Nov 07 2001 - 00:00
Afghanistan bombing still not justifiedThere is so much else to write about - the failure in Northern Ireland to resolve conclusively by far the most important issue…Wed Oct 31 2001 - 00:00
A brief reply to vituperative US critics of stanceA Cathy Fincher wrote to me last week in response to my column of last Wednesday criticising the American bombardment of Afghanistan…Wed Oct 24 2001 - 01:00
Where trust is lost between nationsHe looks a bit like Tony Blair and speaks with a similar fluency and, at times, passion. But he is more cleverSat Oct 20 2001 - 01:00
Afghans the victims of US terrorismAll the news bulletins and news channels nowadays have "anchormen" or "experts" parading in front of huge maps of Afghanistan…Wed Oct 17 2001 - 01:00
Making a hue and cry about tax evasionThere is an emptiness about the things that would otherwise absorb usWed Oct 03 2001 - 01:00
A second atrocity is no answerI have watched the horrific events of last Tuesday and their aftermath from abroad, largely cut off from interaction with friends…Wed Sept 19 2001 - 01:00
Credit due to Robinson for great jobAt a time when we are being disgraced by the spectacle of hate from loyalist bigots in Ardoyne; by similarly terrifying bigotry…Wed Sept 12 2001 - 01:00
Bertie did not stand up to ZhuHow appropriate it was that the first guest to stay at the monument to Ireland's crass extravagance was a representative of a…Wed Sept 05 2001 - 01:00
The gift of a voice that has been a friend since childhoodVB: When did you realise you had a special voice?Sat Sept 01 2001 - 01:00
Clamour over asylum is racistJohn O'Donoghue is on his way to South Africa for the United Nations conference on racism, organised by Mary RobinsonWed Aug 29 2001 - 01:00
Policing in NI is key to peaceWhat the three people with connections with the republican movement were doing in Colombia (it now seems they were up to far …Wed Aug 22 2001 - 01:00
Meeting of minds still a long way offDuncan Shipley Dalton is an Ulster Unionist member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for South AntrimWed Aug 15 2001 - 01:00
Millions die amid West's calculated indifferenceTwo and a half million people have died in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the last three yearsWed Aug 08 2001 - 01:00
No progress at Genoa despite Bono contentionSo Bono was upset by my castigation last week of his antics at the G8 summit in GenoaWed Aug 01 2001 - 01:00
Geldof and Bono out of tune on G8The spectacle of Bob Geldof and Bono bear-hugging G8 leaders in Genoa on Saturday was revoltingWed Jul 25 2001 - 01:00
