Fianna Fáil Spokesperson on Social Protection Willie O’Dea has published legislation to crack down on big bonuses for senior bank staff over the next five

Fianna Fáil Spokesperson on Social Protection, Willie O’Dea TD, says that the suggestion by Minister Joan Burton that people earning over €100,000 should pay tax

AS we have seen time and again since it came into office, this government is absolutely obsessed with communications. Its capacity for announcements, reannouncements and

A few months ago I wrote about how ministers in this Government could be divided into three distinct categories: the High Flyers, the Passengers and

IN Switzerland they managed to find a particle so infinitesimally small that it once only existed in theory; while in Ulster Bank they cannot find

THE publication of the new Dail constituency boundaries had TDs and commentators transfixed for most of last Thursday. The fact that the report was due

FOR the past few weeks political debate has focused on bank debt, bond rates and the future of the euro. These are all vitally important

What a difference a week makes, or in this case doesn’t make. Last week I was reflecting on how the people decided to pass the

At the start of the referendum campaign, Enda Kenny declared that the Fiscal Treaty vote was more important than a general election. Fine words, but

Brian Farrell’s 1971 book Chairman or Chief was one of the first major political works to analyse the role of Taoiseach. It categorised the holders