Affairs of the Nation

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Affairs of the Nation

CHARLIE MCCONALOGUE’S EXTENSIONS

THERE HAS been some odd behaviour by agriculture minister Charlie McConalogue in relation to vacancies on the board of the Irish National Stud (INS). Irish Farmers Journal/Irish Field chairman Matt... Read more »
Laurie Mannix

Affairs of the Nation

LAURIE MANNIX’S STAR SIGNING

CONGRATULATIONS TO Laurie Mannix and her team at lobbying and PR firm MKC Communications, which has landed former secretary general of the Department of Finance Derek Moran as a consultant,... Read more »
Cormac Devlin

Affairs of the Nation

FF DUBS OUT TO GET McENTEE

MORE THAN one media reference last weekend to Fianna Fáil backbenchers’ anger at Helen McEntee spells internal coalition trouble for the justice minister, especially as the FF group consists of... Read more »
Micheál Martin

Affairs of the Nation

FIGHTING EXTREMISM

THE Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) presents as a welcome antidote to all things extreme. It also claims to be “fiercely independent” in the intro to its recent report on... Read more »
Derek Blighe

Affairs of the Nation

STANDING BACK AND STANDING BY

FAR-RIGHT activists have been accustomed to the policy of Drew Harris for the gardaí to stand back as they have not only pushed the Overton window further to the right... Read more »
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Affairs of the Nation

FRANCES RUANE’S REPORTS

GOLDHAWK PRESUMES there will be little enough Christmas spirit on show between the Arts Council (AC) and the Abbey Theatre this month as the touchy subject of money continues to... Read more »
Connor Murphy

Affairs of the Nation

RTÉ BOARD’S EMPTY SEATS

FOLLOWING IAN Kehoe’s decision not to seek a second term on the beleaguered RTÉ board, there is a second man overboard as a result of tech whizz Connor Murphy’s decision... Read more »
Mary MacMahon

Affairs of the Nation

MARY MacMAHON’S HEADACHE

WHILE THE president of the Irish Planning Institute (IPI) should be focusing her energies on the publication by Darragh O’Brien last month of the Planning and Development Bill 2023, Mary... Read more »
Pat McCormack

Affairs of the Nation

POOR FARMERS SHOCK!

Despite the constant moaning and demands for bailouts coming from the sector, overall agriculture incomes have improved in recent years. However, according to the outgoing president of the Irish Creamery... Read more »
Dame Louise Richardson

Affairs of the Nation

DAME RICHARDSON: NO TRIPLE LOCK

ANTI-TERRORIST EXPERT Dame Louise Richardson was hand-picked by Tánaiste and foreign minister Micheál Martin, to chair his forum on defence and security policy and also to compile a report on... Read more »

Pillars of Society

Chris Andrews

Pillars of Society

PROFILE: CHRIS ANDREWS

CHRIS ANDREWS TD is the latest Sinn Féin politician to be accused of abusing defamation law via his High Court action against the Irish... Read more »

The Young Bloods

Sarah Kiernan and Conor Cochrane

The Young Bloods

YOUNG BLOOD: SARAH KIERNAN & CONOR COCHRANE

While talent managers such as Noel Kelly, Joanne Byrne and Andrea Roche are almost as recognisable as their respective stables of clients, Mullingar-based couple... Read more »

Fit to Print?

Fintan O'Toole

Fit to Print?

DUNNE-HAUGHEY: THE REAL STORY

Last Saturday Irish Times finance guru Cliff Taylor posted an account of how the story about Charlie Haughey’s £1.1m bung from Ben Dunne was researched and published back in 1996.... Read more »
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Fit to Print?

HELEN MCENTEE’S BAD PRESS

IRISH TIMES political editor Pat Leahy directed his sardonic derision at Helen McEntee last weekend following her embarrassing efforts to posture as a plausible justice minister on television following the... Read more »
David Quinn

Fit to Print?

SINS OF THE FATHER

IT MAY be a coincidence but the fact that Sunday Independent columnist David Quinn wrote two weekly columns supporting Israel in three weeks (not “a column” as Quinn claims) probably... Read more »

Last Refuge

Helen McEntee

Last Refuge

McENTEE: MISSION IMPOSSIBLE ENDS

UNLESS SOME additional, damaging information emerges in the next week or so, justice minister Helen McEntee will survive the current crisis. However, the real damage is not that inflicted on... Read more »
Maria Bailey

Last Refuge

MARIA BAILEY’S FORTUNE SWINGS

WHAT A reversal of fortune ex-Fine Gael TD Maria Bailey secured last month when Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) apologised unreservedly for two articles it published in the Daily Mirror in... Read more »
Drew Harris

Last Refuge

LOYAL MEDIA ‘NO’ TO RESIGNATIONS

There was much vexed huffing and puffing from Government politicians and the media alike last weekend over the perceived failure of the justice minister and Garda commissioner – Helen McEntee... Read more »
Colum Eastwood

Last Refuge

FINE GAEL – THE UNITED IRELAND PARTY

LEO VARADKAR recently revived the old title of Fine Gael, the United Ireland Party, in the introduction to the party’s policy on the north. The first sentence in the FG... Read more »

Hush Hush

Hermann Kelly

Hush Hush

FAR-RIGHT’S INTERNAL SPAT

IN THE aftermath of the recent Dublin city riots, the gyrations of the far-right Irish Freedom Party (IFP) was striking as evidenced by party president Hermann Kelly, who regularly distances... Read more »

Bog Cuttings

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Bog Cuttings

BOG CUTTINGS

TOUR DE FARCE A BENCH warrant has been issued for a man convicted in absentia for engaging in threatening and abusive behaviour and public intoxication after he cycled at a... Read more »

Fowl Emissions

Eamon Ryan

Fowl Emissions

LEGAL ARM OF CLIMATE MOVEMENT?

Prestigious Dublin law firm McCann FitzGerald seems keen to bring its moral authority and intellectual rigour to bear on the climate crisis, judging by an article on its website that... Read more »
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Fowl Emissions

JOHN MULHERN’S JETS

Kerry Airport CEO John Mulhern has applied for permission to build a new mini-terminal for private jets at the Farranfore facility, so that wealthy visitors to the Kingdom needn’t mix... Read more »

The Hot Air Brigade

Leo Varadkar

The Hot Air Brigade

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

I think we need to be tough on crime and tough on the causes of crime. Leo Varadkar speaking before the Dublin disorder, The Week in Politics, RTÉ, submitted by... Read more »

High Society

Tommy Kelly

High Society

TOMMY KELLY’S BRENT GEESE

IT’S BEEN a busy month for moneybags Tommy Kelly, who has finally secured permission for the renovation of his sprawling Seafield House in north Co Dublin after overcoming a problem... Read more »
Louise English

High Society

LOUISE ENGLISH’S NEW ADDRESS

WITH A hefty €12m price tag, Louise English and Colm Duggan are offloading their D4 pile and, while they have a substantial mews adjacent to the main house, the high-powered... Read more »

Behind the Scenes

Sharon Barry

Behind the Scenes

CATHERINE MARTIN’S EXPERTS

THE CLOSING date for applications to join the expert advisory committee of Culture Ireland (CI) has now passed, although it is unclear just how many people will be given the... Read more »
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Behind the Scenes

TAX TREATS

A PERUSAL of the list of beneficiaries of the Section 481 tax credit in the first nine months of 2023 reveals that 82 productions cashed in, with several recipients receiving... Read more »

Sport of Kings

Paddy Graffin

Sport of Kings

WEXFORD WOES

A STANDARD Wexford meeting in November wouldn’t seem like a candidate for too much drama but there was plenty on show between the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board starter Paddy Graffin... Read more »
Gordon Elliot

Sport of Kings

ELLIOTT’S ENTRIES

GORDON ELLIOTT claims he is addicted to training winners and he pulled out all the stops when targeting the €100,000 Troytown Chase at his local Navan Racecourse, fielding 14 of... Read more »

Moneybags

Darragh Lyons

Moneybags

MALIN CORP IN NEED OF A MIRACLE CURE

IT IS hard to understand exactly what is going on inside Malin Corp, the hotchpotch pharmaceutical investment holding company that Kelly Martin set up eight years ago before bailing two... Read more »
Michael Stanley

Moneybags

CAIRN HOMES’S MONTROSE BONANZA SECURES SHARE PRICE

IT IS now over five years since Cairn Homes lashed out a huge €107.5m for RTÉ’s 8.64 acre site in Montrose, south Co Dublin. Paying such a chunky premium for... Read more »

The Hot Water Brigade

Patricia Ghering

The Hot Water Brigade

PATRICIA GHERING’S ‘URBAN COMMUNITY’

HAVING WOUND up assorted interests in the UK, a controversial Dutch so-called property guardianship outfit now operating as Monoma has pulled the plug on its Irish venture. Monoma Ireland Ltd... Read more »
Michael Woodlock

The Hot Water Brigade

MICHAEL WOODLOCK’S TAX BILL

GOLDHAWK’S OLD pal, Michael ‘Flancare’ Woodlock, finds himself in a spot of bother with the dreaded taxman, although this will hardly come as a surprise, given his own description of... Read more »
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The Hot Water Brigade

JOHN TEELING’S ENDEAVOUR

GOLDHAWK spies a notice filed by Companies House in the UK advising that Endeavour Oil & Gas Ltd (EOG) is about to be struck off the register “unless cause is... Read more »
Stuart McGoldrick

The Hot Water Brigade

STUART MCGOLDRICK MOVES

FAST-GROWING digital mental health group Spectrum has just filed some unhealthy-looking figures but it looks like boss Stuart McGoldrick moved to raise a bucketload of cash at just the right... Read more »