15 Aug 10
Parnell Summer School, Woodenbridge Wicklow, August 2010: (Speech from chapter of book published after Christmas) Irish Times media report.
Ógra Fianna Fáil Belfast conference August 2010.
Magill Summer School, Donegal July 2010 speech: Political Reform, the beginning, middle and end. Irish Times media report.
Byrne / Perry Summer school Gorey June 2010 speech The redefinition of the Irish [...]
29 Jul 10
An enlightened swap of ideas between factions from the Middle East and North has lost its gleam to rigid mindsets in the IRISH TIMES JUNE 29 2010
DAVID HAD just finished his three years of military service in the Israeli army when we first met about 10 years ago at a reconciliation centre on the Falls [...]
22 Jun 10
As a culture we permit alcoholics the luxury of euphemisms. We are delighted to indulge our leaders the same way, writes ELAINE BYRNE in the IRISH TIMES June 22 2010
ALCOHOLISM IS a deeply engrained cultural phenomenon that we celebrate in Ireland with euphemisms that mask its black destruction.
The alcoholism grows into the white elephant in [...]
15 Jun 10
Enda Kenny brought FG back from the dead but doubts are growing as to whether he has what it takes to win power, writes ELAINE BYRNE in the IRISH TIMES JUNE 15 2010
RICHARD BRUTON joined a large Fine Gael contingent to celebrate the marriage of a popular member of the party’s organisation last Friday.
08 Jun 10
As an undertaking family, the mortuary became an extension of our home. Death was normal, writes ELAINE BYRNE in the IRISH TIMES JUNE 8 2010
BEFORE WE built our funeral home, we planted potatoes in the top field. Delicately measured rows of hand ploughed drills with seeds waiting to grow. They were then proudly harvested in [...]
01 Jun 10
Civic society is doing much to break down the Border but our politicians could do an awful lot more, writes ELAINE BYRNE in the IRISH TIMES June 1 2010
MARTIN MCGUINNESS was not what I expected at last week’s North/South consultative conference in Farmleigh.
The Deputy First Minister for Northern Ireland spoke at length about the rosemary [...]
11 May 10
Ireland’s economic future is being decided by events far beyond our shores, which we cannot influence, writes ELAINE BYRNE in the IRISH TIMES May 11 2010
DEMOCRACY IS a fragile thing. It becomes even more delicate when taken for granted. For many, the duty of citizenship to democratic action ends when a vote is cast at [...]
02 May 10
Will the terms of reference for the Irish Banking Inquiry be as wide as that of Iceland?
The Irish public does not have any such opportunity to engage in an inquiry which from the outset is perceived to lack legitimacy because of the decision to hold the investigation in private, unlike similar inquiries in the [...]
27 Apr 10
Loyalty to Fianna Fáil and its leader was Brian Lenihan snr’s lodestone. His son must take a new direction, writes ELAINE BYRNE in the IRISH TIMES April 27 2010
‘WILL THE Taoiseach indicate when the legislation on wandering horses will be introduced in the House?”
When Brian Lenihan made his first, rather unremarkable, Dáil contribution 14 years [...]
15 Apr 10
Thanks to David Molloy for this brilliant presentation on Ireland’s electoral system. oireachtas-facts2
David is an Irish Politics student at Trinity College Dublin.
Dr. Elaine Byrne is a weekly Irish Times columnist and adjutant lecturer on Irish politics in Trinity College Dublin. She writes on political reform, corruption, citizenship and Irish history. Her first book: Political Corruption in Ireland will be published by Manchester University Press in 2010.
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