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Vincent Browne

Vincent Browne

Vincent Browne, originally from Broadford, Co Limerick, he began his journalistic career by reporting from Prague from August to November 1968 on the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia for The Irish Times. He may have been the worst foreign correspondent ever. He edited Nusight magazine in 1969 and 1970 and in September 1970 he went to Belfast as the Northern Ireland news editor of the Irish Press group. He worked for the Sunday Independent from 1974 and in 1977 he founded Magill magazine and was editor of that until 1983. He was editor of The Sunday Tribune from 1983 to 1994. Since then he has been a columnist for The Irish Times. He presented a radio programme “Tonight with Vincent Browne” for RTE from 1996 to 2007 and since 2007 he presents a television programme “Tonight with Vincent Browne for TV3 (Mondays to Thursdays).

Archbishop John Charles McQuaid with then taoiseach John A Costello and (standing behind) Costello’s ADC, Mick Byrne. Costello told the Dáil: “I, as a Catholic, obey my church authorities and will continue to do so . . . There will be no flouting of the authority of the bishops in the matter of Catholic social or moral teaching.”
In Kenny’s book the Constitution is king . . . not the church

Column: In the early years of the State, government leaders pronounced their devotion to the Catholic hierarchy

President Michael D Higgins was saying the current ethos of the EU project, founded on the idea that markets know best, irrespective of the social cost, is an abomination. Photograph: Frank Miller
President has free run and should continue to speak out

Column: Michael D Higgins can resist any Government demands that he seek prior approval for statements

Three of the world’s richest men, according to Forbes magazine’s annual list of billionaires worldwide: Warren Buffett, Carlos Slim and Bill Gates.
Taking a closer look at how the super rich make it

Column: The vast fortunes of the 10 wealthiest people in the world allow them enormous power over much of humanity

Praveen Halappanavar with a photograph of his late wife, Savita: there were deficiencies in her care but none is likely to have caused her death. Photograph: Cyril Byrne/Irish Times
Politicians are still not willing to take the hard decisions on abortion

Column: Savita Halappanavar’s death was not caused by confusion about the law

Grappling with “objectivity” and “impartiality” – Bob Collins, chairman of the broadcasting authority, arriving to appear before the joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, at Leinster House recently. Photograph: Eric Luke
Broadcasters’ rights also deserve protection

The BAI seems to think that impartiality is achievabe in the treatment of current affairs, and that a sanction will achieve or ada(...)

Government has no interest in real political reform

Column: Constitutional change just another empty election promise

“While Fianna Fáil were the culprits in office, Fine Gael and Labour were complicit in the policies that caused the crisis.” Clockwise from left: Enda Kenny, Eamon Gilmore, Gerry Adams and Micheál Martin at the interdenominational service of prayer for the assembly of the 31st Dáil in St Ann’s Church in Dublin. Photograph: Matt Kavanagh
Expectations of political change have been utterly dashed

The electorate appears content with the political culture that caused the economic crisis

At Tiffany’s on Fifth Avenue in New York an engagement ring costing $1 million or more can be bought on the second floor.
Modern world neglects to ask why elites hold vast hoards of wealth

Wasn’t the rage of the Russian workers and peasantry against the power and riches of the Romanovs justified?

Barcelona model could save ailing newspapers

Businesses can suceed without relentless drive for profit

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