This is the oped, as filed, in the 13 July 2008 Irish Mail on Sunday. The things I didn’t have space to get into in this column include thoughts on a slight gender split that will be a caveat, but it doesn’t affect the main point: the difference between conditions in Ireland and the rest [...]

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My piece in the Wednesday Irish Daily Mail:
So as it turns out, gloomy economists aren’t the only ones who think the Irish government might have to bail out a bank. The Moody’s rating agency has built in the assumption of a rescue [in the unlikely event one is needed, which it [...]

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This column originally appeared in the 8 June 2008 Irish Mail on Sunday (not available online). Bonus material after the jump:
Trust in you? (In the print edition, accompanied by a still from the Jungle Book - certainly a first for an OpEd of mine, not counting extemp ones delivered aloud including, ‘time for bed’)

Richard Delevan
You’re [...]

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first published in the 4 May 2008 Irish Mail on Sunday…
Richard Delevan
Some of us were left cheering the British election results. One result in particular. An eccentric, rumpled right-of-centre journalist openly fond of a tipple can win a big majority, high office and the power to smite the very urban annoyances that were once just [...]

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This article first appeared in the 6 April Irish Mail on Sunday:
Richard Delevan
Once upon a time, everybody liked the old boss. He had emotional intelligence, a touch of glamour and a talent for outfoxing adversaries so successful that the very idea of outright opposition seemed pointless, frivolous, and churlish. People were prosperous and proud of [...]

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This column first appeared in Business & Finance magazine in November 2007.
Richard Delevan
In Ireland we - or at least the 70% of us who use a private car to get to work - are worried that Brian Cowen will look to balance the budget on the back of drivers by raising taxes on petrol and [...]

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This column was filed on 2 November and first appeared in November 2007 in Business & Finance magazine.

Richard Delevan
Journalism as we knew it died at about 11.15 pm Dublin time on November 1st, historians may record.
It was the moment on the conference call, staged by Google, in which it unveiled how far it had [...]

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This column first appeared in the Sunday Tribune on 4 November 2007.
A NEW SHAPE FOR MODEL FAMILY UNITSRichard Delevan
LABOUR’S love lost its Civil Union bill last week, but in defeat there was a victory. The debate revealed that no respectable opinion in this country will now stand in the way of affording legal recognition to [...]

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This column first appeared in the 28 October 2007 edition of the Sunday Tribune.
Fuel for the bonfire of breached trustRichard Delevan
TWO THOUSAND AND SEVEN will almost certainly be remembered as the year trust went up in flames.
We saw the first bank run in 150 years as people fearfully queued up outside of Northern Rock because [...]

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This column first appeared in Business & Finance magazine in October 2007.
Richard DelevanThis December the hippest gadget gift under Western Christmas trees may be a bright green laptop costing less than $200 but built for Third World children. A digerati version of the Make Poverty History wristband or a yellow “bracelet” sported by Lance Armstrong [...]

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