John McManus

How much money is too much money to spend on shining a light in places that those with money and power would rather one was not shone?

Data Protection Commission appears to interpret its mandate in a way that is sympathetic to the companies it regulates

It would be a mistake for hospitals to view the provision of housing for staff as an opportunity to create a financial asset or an income stream.

John McManus: Like some of the other peculiarities of Anglo-Irish relations, the logic – for both sides – of the air defence treaty-not-a-treaty trumps the spiteful instincts of even the pettiest of political minds

Blackrock College will be tempted to distance itself from what happened, arguing it is a historical Spiritan problem, not a comtemporary difficulty

The most important rule is to have a clear point to make and get to it quickly

Vaccine proposal was killed off by a combination of Government’s terror and Opposition’s opportunism

“You have had your fun and now I am left to pick up the pieces”

Ireland lacks institutional wherewithal to do anything but lie low til Covid passes

Other European countries have taken a different approach to Ireland

EU roadmap sees capacity for large scale testing as a prerequisite for exiting lockdown

New case figures do not give an accurate picture of the spread of coronavirus

‘Many’ and ‘some’ are words people use when they don’t have accurate figures and oftentimes translate as ‘not a lot’

Events characterised by failure of the supposedly clairvoyant to predict the future accurately