Geraldine Kennedy

Geraldine Kennedy

Geraldine Kennedy was editor of The Irish Times from 2002 to 2011

Maire Geoghegan Quinn
‘Madam Politician does a disservice to the women who served as ministers’

Geraldine Kennedy: There is something demeaning about the way Martina Fitzgerald portrays the 17 surviving women Ministers

September 1979: Pope John Paul II signs the visitors' book at Áras an Uachtaráin as the president, Dr Patrick Hillery, looks on.
Geraldine Kennedy: Papal visits underline Ireland’s progress

For many reasons we are not the same people visited by John Paul II in 1979

Bertie Ahern: will his achievements be eclipsed by his shortcomings? Photograph: David Sleator
Judging Bertie Ahern: ‘We all partied, but he served the drinks’

The former taoiseach resigned 10 years ago this weekend. We assess his legacy

The 1983 abortion referendum was the most divisive political campaign I can ever remember. File photograph: Pat Langan/The Irish Times
Geraldine Kennedy: Why I am a reluctant Yes to repeal Eighth Amendment

It’s a long way from what I voted against in 1983 to the right to abortion at 12 weeks ‘without any indication’

Acting Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin. Photograph Maxpix
Geraldine Kennedy: Lack of trust between Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael is real obstacle

A national coalition is on the way, even if TDs don’t quite see it that way yet

What is needed now is for politicians, particularly the leadership of Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil, to be big and imaginative enough to think outside the box. File photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times
Geraldine Kennedy: How a new government can be formed

We could have the most constructive, representative and exciting Dáil ever

Current and former female members of the Oireachtas in Leinster House. Photograph: Houses of the Oireachtas collection
Geraldine Kennedy: Gender quotas alone will not ensure balance

Ireland ranks among countries such as North Korea for proportion of women in politics

There are 166 seats in the current Dáil requiring 84 TDs to form a majority Government. There will be 158 seats in the 32nd Dáil elected in 2016, requiring 80 for an outright majority. Photograph: Alan Betson, Irish Times
Geraldine Kennedy: This election will be different to any other

The 2011 election was the most seismic in memory and it left a very changed political landscape for 2016

Charles Haughey greets Geraldine Kennedy at the 1983 Fianna Fáil ardfheis. She had earlier been advised that her security could not be guaranteed at the event. Photograph: Jack McManus
Did ‘Charlie’ give us the real man? Yes, but he was more intelligent and more dangerous

Haughey expended huge energy achieving power and then did not know what to do with it

Geraldine Kennedy and Colm Keena leaving the High Court on October 23rd, 2007, after losing the case brought by the Mahon tribunal. Photograph: David Sleator
A cold, calculated decision to step outside the law

The Ahern story had to be published; and there was a duty to protect sources

File picture of Ian Bailey in Dublin from 2012. Mr Bailey has brought a civil action for unlawful arrest against the State over the Garda investigation into the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier in west Cork in December 1996. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire
Scale of Garda station phone taping revealed

Bandon recordings ‘could expose State to damages of €2.5m over Ian Bailey case’

Attorney General Máire Whelan instructed the Garda not to destroy tapes from stations around the country.
Attorney General ordered Garda not to destroy tapes

Callinan was seeking permission to destroy archive of recordings made in Garda stations

Bruce Arnold and Geraldine Kennedy, the journalists named in the telephone tapping affair, reading Government statements at a press conference in 1983. Photograph: The Irish Times
Geraldine Kennedy: Phone-tapping files a disappointing public record of historic events

State papers from 1983 include none from the Department of Justice

Dr Eamonn Moloney, consultant psychiatrist, Cork University Hospital; Prof Veronica O’Keane, consultant psychiatrist, Tallaght Hospital and TCD; and Dr Yolande Ferguson, consultant psychiatrist, Tallaght Hospital, attending Monday’s hearing of the Oireachtas health committee. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins
Time limit a key issue arising from health committee hearings on abortion

Opinion: Government must provide unambiguous answer to question raised by Archbishop Diarmuid Martin

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