Affairs of the Nation

Affairs of the Nation

BRUTON LURKS WITH INTENT

THE studied but pregnant silence of Richard Bruton in the fevered Fine Gael leadership war could yet presage a surprise bid from the man that nearly unseated Enda Kenny seven... Read more »
WHO editor Lisa Gaughran and Publisher Mike Hogan

Affairs of the Nation

LISA GAUGHRAN’S SETTLEMENT

HAVING weathered a high profile legal action from top magazine publisher Norah Casey of Harmonia (the company behind the likes of Irish Tatler, Woman’s Way and U magazines), Lisa Gaughran... Read more »

Affairs of the Nation

EUGENE McDERMOTT’S €7M REPRIEVE

THERE WAS a surprising ruling in the High Court earlier this month when Judge Max Barrett threw out a €7m judgment against former high profile Kildare stud farm owner Eugene... Read more »

Affairs of the Nation

Affairs of the Nation

MARTIN BENDS TO O’CALLAGHAN

THAT spat between Fianna Fáil’s Jim O’Callaghan and justice minister Frances Fitzgerald about whether or not O’Callaghan had alerted Fitzgerald to the Tusla file on Maurice McCabe has all the... Read more »
Mary Coughlan

Affairs of the Nation

MARY COUGHLAN JOINS SENECA GROUP

INTERESTING TO see that Ann Carrigy has just stepped down as a director of the new nursing home group, Seneca Healthcare. The fledgling company is the brainchild of a pair... Read more »

Affairs of the Nation

MAHON: FINAL ACT?

WITH Joe Murphy’s court case against the Mahon Tribunal finally listed for hearing next week, the paying public may learn at last what went on backstage at what was once the greatest blockbuster –... Read more »

Affairs of the Nation

TERENCE’S TITLES

Terence O’Rourke (Left) A REPORT in The Irish Times last week focused on a hefty fine levied by the Central Bank against an advisory firm called Kinsale Capital Management (KCM)... Read more »

Affairs of the Nation

REFERENDUM BLUES FOR PRIDE FESTIVAL

WHILE MEMBERS of the gay community often find themselves moving ahead of trends, it turns out that the directors of Dublin Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgendered Queer (LGBTQ) Pride company are... Read more »
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Affairs of the Nation

Trinners Shinners

INTERESTING to see that the student unions of Trinity College, UCD and NUI Galway will hold referendums on whether the unions should support a united Ireland. Even more interesting is... Read more »
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Affairs of the Nation

Letters to the Editor

WHITE WASH? Dear Editor It is perfectly understandable that Ronan Fanning would give a wide berth to a diplomatic report attributing offensive and sensational expressions to a person then still alive... Read more »

Pillars of Society

Pillars of Society

Paul Reynolds

COMMISSIONER Nóirín O’Sullivan is the cop in the eye of the storm over Sgt Maurice McCabe but RTÉ crime correspondent Paul Reynolds is also... Read more »

The Young Bloods

The Young Bloods

Second Captains

The Second Captains – journalists Eoin McDevitt (36), Ken Early (38), Ciaran Murphy (34), Simon Hick (41) and Mark Horgan (35) – took a... Read more »

Fit to Print?

Fit to Print?

RE-IMAGINING RTÉ

ON April Fool’s Day last year RTÉ board chair Moya Doherty announced the appointment of Dee Forbes as director general saying: “The appointment of Dee Forbes stands to mark a... Read more »
irish-times

Fit to Print?

Irish Times inequality

JANUARY WAS undoubtedly a bad month for the paper of record, with its rivals gleefully seizing upon an admonishment by the Works Relations Commission for a breach of equality legislation... Read more »

Fit to Print?

‘(S)INDO’ WOMEN FOR CHARLETON TRIBUNAL

THE Sunday Independent took another swipe at the Sunday Business Post last weekend via the Zozimus (Liam Collins) column with another litany of barbs about the “little newspaper” and irony... Read more »

Last Refuge

Last Refuge

FINE GAEL LEADERSHIP CONTEST – SIMON COVENEY

SIMON COVENEY’S Fine Gael leadership pitch is heavily dependent on securing support from the Enda Kenny old guard. But while the latter regard Leo Varadkar as an over-ambitious parvenu they... Read more »
Leo Varadkar

Last Refuge

FINE GAEL LEADERSHIP CONTEST – LEO VARADKAR

THE gay genie is out of the bottle in the Fine Gael leadership contest and two former Fine Gael operators-turned-hacks – ex-minister Ivan Yates and Gay Mitchell’s presidential campaign handler... Read more »

Bog Cuttings

Bog Cuttings

Bog Cuttings

Bog Cuttings

PENSIONER’S ‘amateurish’ GARDENING HOBBY A 74-YEAR-OLD South African man was handed down a three-year suspended sentence at Castlebar Central Criminal Court for growing cannabis with a potential street value of... Read more »

Fowl Emissions

Fowl Emissions

NOT-SO-WISE FOOD PLAN

CLIMATE DENIER Scott Pruitt was confirmed this month to head the US Environment Protection Agency. When working as Oklahoma’s attorney general, he took more than a dozen lawsuits against the... Read more »

Bird's Eye View

Bird's Eye View

RED LINES IN BELFAST

VOTERS IN the north next Thursday won’t be electing a new executive. They’ll be electing negotiating teams. No one, including Dublin and London, believes there’ll be an executive formed in... Read more »

The Hot Air Brigade

The Hot Air Brigade

The Hot Air Brigade

Everyone that’s worked in government knows that there’s such a thing as government bandwidth. Alastair Campbell interviewed on RTÉ Radio 1 Because this is where it gets even stranger. This... Read more »

High Society

High Society

High Society

LADY JANE’S RARE WIN

A RULING by the Bowler Hats of the Turf Club last month saw a horse trained by Noel Meade disqualified and the race awarded... Read more »

High Society

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High Society

CYRUS’S INDIAN BATTLE

A MEMBER of the family of the richest Irish citizens is embroiled in a bruising battle to regain control of the huge Indian Tata... Read more »

High Society

High Society

WESTPORT HOUSE’S €2M CHARGE

THE PURCHASE for a reported €10m of Westport House by Cathal Hughes and the rest of the Hughes clan has been welcomed in Co Mayo. But there is one small... Read more »

Behind the Scenes

Behind the Scenes

NO €40K HIKE FOR RAINBIRD

Sean Rainbird (Left) WHILE THE National Gallery of Ireland (NGI) has been generating plenty of publicity courtesy of the touring Caravaggio exhibition, a quieter story is unfolding behind the scenes... Read more »
Heather Humphreys

Behind the Scenes

HEATHER’S POT OF GOLD

WITH THE economy throwing off more cash, arts minister Heather Humphreys was able to dish out millions of euro to assorted arts and culture centres earlier this month. The three... Read more »

Behind the Scenes

SOS FROM ARDMORE SAS

LAST WEEKEND, there were 3,314 signatories to the Save Ardmore Studios (SAS) online petition, the numbers slowing to a trickle over the last month, despite a well-attended meeting in Bray... Read more »

Sport of Kings

Sport of Kings

MULLINS STILL The FAVOURITE

IN RECENT years, Willie Mullins has made the Cheltenham Festival his own and bookmakers seem to think this year will be no different for the Closutton maestro as he is... Read more »

Sport of Kings

TAMMY’S NEW ROLE

TAMMY O’BRIEN (Right) TAMMY O’BRIEN, for 20 years a star of the Coolmore and Ballydoyle operation, is moving on to take up a job with Newmarket-based bloodstock sales company Tattersalls.... Read more »

Sport of Kings

BRYAN COOPER’S PR

IT LOOKS like Gigginstown jockey, Bryan Cooper, is preparing for a career out of the saddle. The Kerryman has launched a new public relations venture called Ballyseedy Racing Company, where... Read more »

Sport of Kings

WALSH RIDING HIGH

WHEN RIDER Barry Geraghty got the nod to take over the coveted position of retained jockey to JP McManus following the retirement of Tony “Sir Anthony” McCoy, many people in... Read more »

Reviews

Books

ROCKADOON SHORE – RORY GLEESON (JOHN MURRAY)

AS A new wave of writers continues to energise Irish fiction, Rory Gleeson (son of Brendan) makes his literary debut with a novel about disenchanted youth. The writer’s celebrity pedigree... Read more »

Reviews

THE DEAD – PAVILION THEATRE

SINCE James Joyce’s work came out of copyright five years ago, Irish theatre producers have spun his work in all manner of ways, with erratic success. This quirky opera hits... Read more »

Moneybags

Moneybags

Moneybags

Aidan Heavey’s costly legacy at Tullow Oil

THIS APRIL, after Tullow Oil’s annual meeting, Aidan Heavey will officially step down after 30 years as chief executive and hand over to chief... Read more »

Moneybags

Michael O'Leary

Moneybags

Mick O’Leary’s over expansion at Ryanair

IT LOOKS like Mick O’Leary is up to his old tricks again with predictable turbulence for his shareholders. The business model that works so... Read more »

Briefcases

Harry Lorton

Briefcases

Harry Lorton’s timely exit

THE scheme of arrangement for Cork advertising company H&A Marketing was agreed last month and it makes bleak reading for its many creditors, including the Revenue. Happily, top banker Harry... Read more »

Briefcases

Michael Martin’s closure order

SPARE a thought for Dublin restaurant Pacino’s, which recently featured on the Food Safety Authority’s naughty list after being served a closure order in January. The Suffolk Street establishment, which... Read more »
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Briefcases

Bad Karma at Maharishi University

GOLDHAWK spotted an intriguing little company called Maharishi International University Ltd (MIU), which seems to have been the victim of some bad karma. The company filed accounts recently, reporting that... Read more »

Briefcases

John Condon’s bad record

DUBLIN solicitor John F Condon still can’t catch a break. The hapless legal eagle had a bad day in the Court of Appeal recently, finding himself on the receiving end... Read more »

Briefcases

Pure results for Kathryn Thomas

GOOD to see that accounts recently filed for Aquarius Productions Ltd, the company owned by RTÉ presenter Kathryn Thomas and her brother David Thomas, reported a profit of just over... Read more »