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 [...]

Labour is primarily an urban party and must make inroads in rural constituencies if it wants to succeed, writes ELAINE BYRNE in the IRISH TIMES April 20 2010
 
EAMON GILMORE is good at oratory. His “One Ireland” rhetoric at the Labour Party’s annual conference in Galway paid tribute to the hope of an Ireland defined by [...]

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.

Who will be accountable when we discover, like in Iceland, that no global bogeyman was to blame for our banking collapse? asks ELAINE BYRNE in the IRISH TIMES 14 April 2010
 
THE SPECIAL investigation commission, established by the Icelandic parliament, published its nine-volume 2,300-page report yesterday into the causes of Iceland’s ecnomic collapse.
 
It found the collapse [...]

Thank you for your kind invitation to speak to this 88th ASTI annual conference and for your patience over the next fifteen or so minutes.
 
As a former pupil of an ASTI school, Tullow Community School in County Carlow, I am especially proud to recite before you the motto of my alma mater which neatly encapsulates [...]

As the teacher union conferences get under way, more focus needs to be given to the future of Irish education, writes ELAINE BYRNE in the Irish Times APril 6, 2010
 
THE ANNUAL teacher union conferences are currently under way and much of the focus over the next week will centre on their response to the public [...]

RENEWING THE REPUBLIC: This series has shown a thirst for political reform coupled with an uncertainty about how to achieve it, writes ELAINE BYRNE in the Irish Times April 3 2010
 
ACCOMPANYING THIS series has been an image of our national flag, contorted at the centre by a knot. The narrative embarked upon by the various [...]