Profit not the only motivationEverybody knows that innovation comes from the private sector. Individual entrepreneurs have great ideasTue Jun 17 2003 - 01:00
Politics of revenge don't workAgainst the wall is a huge, 20-ton double column of steel, misshapen and mangled like a dry stick thrown casually into a fire…Tue May 20 2003 - 01:00
Dr Martin sent to the rescue Fintan O'TooleThere is a famous, and therefore probably apocryphal, story about the late Frank Cluskey asking about Michael DTue May 13 2003 - 01:00
Freedom, with allies like these?The Bush administration wants us to understand that the invasion of Iraq is not an American, or even a US-UK warTue Mar 25 2003 - 00:00
No room for democrats in new IraqFor some of us who marched against war last Saturday there was, amid the euphoria of a massive, good-natured crowd, one nagging…Tue Feb 18 2003 - 00:00
Secrets and lies over our US supportIn the derision which is being heaped on those who protest against the use of Shannon Airport for the US military build-up in…Tue Jan 21 2003 - 00:00
Let's get the facts straight Mr CullenLast Friday on Morning Ireland, David Hanly interviewed the Minister for the Environment, Martin CullenTue Jan 14 2003 - 00:00
High drama on and off the stageTHEATRE: The good, the bad and the ugly - Irish Times critics look back on 2002 and assess the best and worst in the arts world…Mon Dec 09 2002 - 00:00
ReviewsFrank Pig Says Hello, Liberty Hall, Dublin: "When I was a young lad twenty or thirty or forty years ago I lived in a small town…Sat Nov 02 2002 - 00:00
ReviewsFrank Pig Says Hello, Liberty Hall, Dublin: "When I was a young lad twenty or thirty or forty years ago I lived in a small town…Fri Nov 01 2002 - 00:00
The desire to be seen doing somethingTime and again in recent years the question has had to be asked: where were the guards? Garda action on political, planning and…Tue Oct 29 2002 - 00:00
The Bard of D'Olier Street strikes backThe Bowl of Bertymandias, or a Vision in a Dream by Bertie Shelley-Coleridge (with apologies to Tom Humphries)Tue Sept 17 2002 - 01:00
Pretending we're on top of the worldThe notion that 'we' are rich and successful is an illusionTue Aug 13 2002 - 01:00
ReviewsFathers generally had a rough time in 20th-century Irish male literatureFri Jul 12 2002 - 01:00
Martin fails to end era of bad bloodThere is, let us imagine, a car which, because of massive design faults in its engine, belches out poisonous gasesTue Jun 25 2002 - 01:00
FF stands by its friends, no matter whatAs I was saying a few weeks ago, the boys are back in townTue Jun 11 2002 - 01:00
RTE deserves to be granted independenceThe result of all of this is a deep public resentment of the licence fee itselfTue Jun 04 2002 - 01:00
Let's get back perspective and recall a true World Cup tragedyThis is what it's like to have your World Cup ruined.Tue May 28 2002 - 01:00
FF is rubbing our noses in it with Burke appointmentApproached on foot or glimpsed from the window of a passing car, all you see is the smiling face and a single word, in an elegant…Tue May 14 2002 - 01:00
Le Pen vote a wake-up call for democratsIn April 1915, with the European left drowning in the tide of nationalism and militarism unleashed by the first World War, the…Tue Apr 23 2002 - 01:00
ReviewsConversations on a Homecoming Lyric Theatre, Belfast If Irish people of a certain age find it hard to believe that the good …Sat Apr 20 2002 - 01:00
ReviewsConversations on a Homecoming Lyric Theatre, Belfast If Irish people of a certain age find it hard to believe that the good …Fri Apr 19 2002 - 01:00
Naughton, Molloy and clientelismIn the wake of Bobby Molloy's resignation and the Naughton affair, there is much talk of clientelismTue Apr 16 2002 - 01:00
Nicholas NicklebyPavilion Theatre, Dún Laoghaire: Offacially, this adaptation of Charles Dickens's Nicholas Nickleby is set in the 1950s in order…Thu Mar 28 2002 - 00:00
Time to cut down new orthodoxy for an older, reliable woodIf the fiasco of the Abbotstown pool tells us anything it is that the new orthodoxy of privatisation is even worse than the old…Tue Mar 26 2002 - 00:00
A Delicate BalanceReview: If it were a movie, the soundtrack of Edward Albee's 1966 play would be Bob Dylan's song from the same era, Ballad of…Fri Mar 15 2002 - 00:00
Lovers at Versailles Spring AwakeningLovers at Versailles is reviewed by Fintan O'Toole and Spring Awakening is reviewed by Gerry Colgan today's Irish Times.Fri Mar 08 2002 - 00:00
Two Plays After Gate TheatreWatching any of Anton Chekhov's great plays with the benefit of hindsight, it is hard not to be haunted by the knowledge of what…Thu Mar 07 2002 - 00:00
I was a teenage ProvoAt the time of Bloody Sunday, 30 years ago tomorrow, I was 13. I remember the burning of the British embassy in Dublin.Tue Jan 29 2002 - 00:00
The Garda and the new 'gentry'Sometimes fleeting, relatively inconsequential images are more eloquent than long, detailed analysisTue Jan 08 2002 - 00:00
Claim of political meddling in job at IMMAThe former chairman of the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA)has told The Irish Times that four approaches, including one from…Thu Dec 20 2001 - 00:00
The irony of shaking a hand covered in Irish bloodOne of the things we like to say about Americans is that they have no sense of irony. It may well be trueTue Dec 18 2001 - 00:00
Rape-camp analogy for Brothers was fairThough it might surprise Breda O'Brien to hear it, I had a friend in the Christian BrothersTue Dec 11 2001 - 00:00
DogAt the beginning of the 20th century, an Irish writer had high hopes for the establishment of a new kind of theatre in Dublin…Fri Dec 07 2001 - 00:00
On Such As WeSince he emerged as a formidable playwright in 1988, Billy Roche has been the laureate of the unremarkableThu Dec 06 2001 - 00:00
Religion should not be a cover for paedophilesThere is no innate connection between Catholicism and paedophiliaTue Dec 04 2001 - 00:00
My Brilliant DivorceThe oddest sound in Druid's production of Geraldine Aron's new play is not the explosion of fireworks on stageFri Nov 30 2001 - 00:00
The Gallant John-JoeWhat is it about Tom Hickey that makes him such a unique presence on the Irish stage? There's his courage, of courseThu Nov 29 2001 - 00:00
Cloning story a blow to change on abortionOn Sunday, Emily O'Reilly reported in the Sunday Business Post that Ogra Hizbollah (aka Youth Defence, aka the Mother and Child…Tue Nov 27 2001 - 00:00
Nightmare On Essex StreetThe estate of Carl Jung, the Swiss psychologist, could probably claim royalties from the current Dublin theatreFri Nov 23 2001 - 00:00
Theory of conspiracy against men is dangerous rhetoricFirst, an apology to readersTue Nov 20 2001 - 00:00
Moby DanThe basic conceit of Moby Dan, the first part of a three-play festival from the much-loved Barabbas company, is that of an imaginary…Thu Nov 15 2001 - 00:00
Rise in family violence needs careful analysisOn a quiet Sunday afternoon in the main street of an ordinary Irish town, a two-year-old child, grand-daughter of the local postman…Tue Nov 13 2001 - 00:00
A time to stop making up history - and start making itOne of the clichΘs that governs perceptions of the Irish is that we are a people obsessed with the pastSat Nov 10 2001 - 00:00
ChairBehind all its many forms and conventions, there are three things a piece of theatre can be: a story, a spectacle and a ritual…Fri Nov 09 2001 - 00:00
Security is best terror defenceEvery government has a right, indeed a duty, to defend its citizens from attackTue Nov 06 2001 - 00:00
No Place Like HomeWhy have the Troubles inspired relatively little lasting drama? One answer lies in the nature of the dominant form of theatre…Fri Nov 02 2001 - 00:00
Sheridan not the right type to get State honourIn the early 1830s, a 12-year-old black house slave in Baltimore, Maryland, secretly taught himself to readTue Oct 30 2001 - 00:00
Abandoning our grip on the airwavesOne of the mathematical laws of political life is that the more a government insists on its nationalistic credentials, the less…Tue Oct 23 2001 - 01:00
New ways of dealing with the mysteriesAn outsider looking at events in Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin last weekend might have concluded that nothing much changes with…Tue Oct 16 2001 - 01:00
