Bruce Arnold

Chief Critic of the Irish Independent, writing about art, theatre, music and politics

Bruce Arnold: Columns


Bruce Arnold has been a political journalist in Ireland since 1962, contributing to The Guardian, Hibernia, The Sunday Press, The Sunday Independent and other publications. He has worked full-time for the Irish Independent since he joined the paper in 1972 as Political Commentator. He currently writes a weekly Political Column and an Arts Column as well as being the paper’s chief Theatre Critic. A selection of these articles may be read here. During and since the Referendum on the Lisbon Treaty he has written extensively on the subject and these articles are collected together here for the first time.

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