Declan Lynch

5 days ago | independent.ie | Declan Lynch

Declan Lynch: As Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael throw tantrums, the right keeps gaining groundAn anti-immigration march in Dublin city centre. Photo: David ConachyIt was reported that Nama chief Brendan McDonagh withdrew his name from consideration for the role of housing “tsar” after Fine Gael “blocked” the appointment.

6 days ago | independent.ie | Declan Lynch

Declan Lynch on radio: Skorts belong to Gaelic games’ Soviet Union phaseGAA is under fire over the skort controversy. Photo: SportsfileThe great music writer Bill Graham described the old Soviet Union as “like an entire continent being run by the GAA”. He was referring not to its ideological leanings, more the obsession with protecting the system against the intrusion of alien concepts such as common sense. A system in which “Congress” would always have a crucial role, even a sacred one.

1 week ago | independent.ie | Declan Lynch

Declan Lynch on radio: Skorts belong to the GAA’s Soviet Union phaseGAA is under fire over the skort controversy. Photo: SportsfileThe great music writer Bill Graham described the old Soviet Union as “like an entire continent being run by the GAA”. He was referring not to its ideological leanings, more the obsession with protecting the system against the intrusion of alien concepts such as common sense. A system in which “Congress” would always have a crucial role, even a sacred one.

1 week ago | independent.ie | Declan Lynch

Declan Lynch: Donald Trump’s power trip is putting people off travelling to USUS president Donald Trump during an executive order signing at the White House. Photo: BloombergIt was the presidency of Franklin D Roosevelt that established the idea of the First Hundred Days as a unit of measurement of how things are going at the White House.

2 weeks ago | independent.ie | Declan Lynch

Declan Lynch on radio: ‘It’s fair to say we are less diminished by some deaths than by others’ Radio reviewsAdolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini in Rome in May 1938. Photo: GettyOn Bowman: Sunday (RTÉ1, Sundays, 8.30am) there was a kind of nostalgic celebration of the deaths 80 years or so ago of two men, Adolf Hitler and his radio propagandist who was raised in Galway, William Joyce – or “Lord Haw-Haw”.