Gerard Howlin

Rural Ireland is the sharpest point of political pressure on Government irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/0…

Gerard Howlin: Michael Healy-Rae reminded the Government of its real Opposition: rural Ireland irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/0…

Health minister Jennifer Carroll MacNeill could manage through to next post, or election, but authority is what remains after you leave the room. irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/0…

Gerard Howlin: Jennifer Carroll MacNeill has big ambitions - but can she succeed in health? irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/0…

☘️Delighted to contribute to RTÉ’s analysis on the Taoiseach’s visit with President Trump tomorrow, Saint Patrick’s Day. 👇

I told him that my father was Jewish, spoke of the impressive war record of my Jewish grandfather, of the number of Jewish men in all of the allied armies, but he was indifferent. Did he, I asked, want to clarify or rethink? “No thank you, I think I’ve made myself clear. Goodbye.” ✍️ Michael Coren Article | spectator.com/article/roald-…

How the spin unfolded around the new investment scheme was both entertaining and educational, offering observers an insight into the DNA of Simon Harris as a politician, writes Gerard Howlin irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/0…

Gerard Howlin: Simon Harris can’t stop announcing his new investment scheme. It says a lot about him irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/0…

Constantly sprinting, but a man who has never run a marathon, Harris knows he has an electoral and a reputational deficit to overcome. irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/0…

🧐 2024 was peak Prudent Paschal?

Ireland voting against #Mercosur is bad politics in Brussels for no political gain at home. Its a vote that sabotages our national interest on trade, undermines our credibility in EU and makes leaders look like followers.

Re; Martyn Turner's cartoon in my post above. A perfect example of "the hate filled void in empathy" I refer to in my article, just the day before, in the same publication.

Micheál Martin is a victim of his own success irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/1…

Gerard Howlin: Micheál Martin’s genius was playing a weak hand well. Not any more irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/1…

@HMcEntee @nicolemannion4 And it was a Chanukah celebration not any random group of people who were attacked.

Credit due to @LaceyDermot for having the guts to oppose this wrong-headed proposal from the get go. Proposal to rename Herzog Park to be withdrawn after international criticism jrnl.ie/6889586

Denaming Herzog Park by the City Council would disgrace Dublin. This is a piece I wrote in March about othering Jews in the city, but its worse. irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/0…

Excellent Statement by Ireland’s Foreign Minister Helen McEntee on Herzog Park. It is wrong & misguided of others to transpose well-founded opposition to practices & policies of current Israeli gov’t into condemnation of all things Jewish and Israeli! gov.ie/en/department-…

If @DubCityCouncil axe the name Herzog from the park in Rathgar, it will go down as a decision of extraordinary pettiness and cruelty. It achieves nothing but hurt among Dublin’s tiny Jewish community, who are blameless in all this. Government should step in here @JamesBrowneTD