My book CHARLES HAUGHEY: GLORY, GREED AND GUNS is out now in all good bookstores @GillHessLtd @eriu_books @bonnierbooks_uk

Delighted to announce that my book CHARLES HAUGHEY: Glory, Greed and Guns is shortlisted for the Biography of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards 2026. Voting is open here: irishbookawards.ie/vote/

The response to our notice of the launch of the book ‘Charles Haughey: Glory, Greed and Guns’ far exceeds the available space in the Royal Irish Academy (RIA). So we have to resort to a first come, first serve arrangement on next Wednesday. Apologies.

CHARLES HAUGHEY: GLORY, GREED AND GUNS Out 22nd October. Pre-order now via the link in my bio. #charleshaughey #erubooks #irishhistory #irishpolitics #vincentbrowne

‘A Light That’s Both Historical and Eternal’ nytimes.com/2026/04/12/opini… via @NYTOpinion

Rory O’Hanlon was a lovely man.

The Thucydides Trap Is Coming for America nytimes.com/2025/11/21/opini… via @NYTOpinion

Like the vast majority of us, Ivan Yeats is of minor significance. We should get on with dealing with what matters, such as the widening inequality in our society of which housing is a related major issue.

Ed Maloney, perhaps the most brilliant Irish journalists of the last 50 years, has died in New York.

The people of Israel should be forced to watch Eurovision.

Simon Harris in ordering FG councillors not to vote to allow other presidential contenders a nomination, was depriving people of a wider choice for the presidency.

Fianna Fáil TDs would need to be even madder than they are already to vote for Jim Gavin, not knowing what he stands for.

Without knowing anything on where he stands on crucial issues.

There is something bizarre that Fianna Fáil TDs etc are being asked to vote for Jim Gavin as the party’s nominee for the presidency, without knowing nothing on what he stands for. They do know what Billy Kelleher stands for, so why not go with him?

Thank you for the birthday wishes.

Joe McAnthony was an outstanding investigative journalist. His investigation of the Hospitals Sweepstakes was brilliant. The Sunday Independent editor at the time, Conor O’Brien, anticipated a backlash and published the full 10,000 word script on just one Sunday. That backlash included a massive threats from Tony O’Reilly, who in the prearranged presence of O’Brien’s wife, said if he ever replicated that, he, O’Reilly, would ensure he would never get work as an editor or journalist in Dublin again.

The prospect of Mairead McGuinness becoming President is appalling. She voted against a motion in the European Parliament to provide further resources to save lives in the Mediterranean. She then gave a false explanation for doing so. She has to be stopped.

Joe McAnthony has died.

It’s wonderful how our politicians are grappling with the calamitous world events that have unfolded, including Verona Murphy’s threat to democracy here and perhaps Europe. Well done.