Affairs of the Nation

Orla O'Connor

Affairs of the Nation

THE POWER OF (SOME) WOMEN

THE hugely successful repeal campaign has been lauded in politically correct and slightly patronising terms as a spontaneous outpouring of local communities, ordinary women, young idealists and so on. There... Read more »
Simon Harris

Affairs of the Nation

PREGNANT WITH POSSIBILITY

WHILE THE focus in the aftermath of the referendum has naturally been on the planned introduction of abortion services, less attention has been paid to Simon Harris’s parallel proposal to... Read more »
Judge Peter Kelly

Affairs of the Nation

LEGAL FEUD

THE legal feud between High Court president Judge Peter Kelly and the barrack room lawyer from hell, Jerry Beades, continues with the latter seeking leave to appeal a ruling to... Read more »

Affairs of the Nation

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ED GUINEY’S SOLAS SEQUEL

THE REPORT of the Charities Regulator into Lelia Doolan’s Solas Galway Picture Palace brings down the curtain, for now, on the costly saga. Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe play starring... Read more »
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Affairs of the Nation

OLGA’S BAD NEWS

BAD NEWS for Ruski lawyer Olga Shajaku, who has been making some serious moolah here from her translation service. She has just had a major setback courtesy of Judge Max... Read more »
Simon Coveney

Affairs of the Nation

IRISH HYPOCRISY ON GAZA

THE rhetorical statements from An Taoiseach and the Foreign Minister – Leo Varadkar and Simon Coveney respectively – on the murderous Israeli behaviour in Gaza were more than a little... Read more »
letters to editor

Affairs of the Nation

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Dear Editor, I protest the vile anti-Semitic slur of the cover picture of your latest edition, evidently designed to stir up Jew-hatred. Thousands of Palestinians intent on murder tried to... Read more »

Pillars of Society

Leo Varadkar

Pillars of Society

LEO VARADKAR: WHAT NEXT?

IS Leo Varadkar poised to emulate his Fine Gael leadership triumph by leading the party back into government and retaining his status as Taoiseach?... Read more »

The Young Bloods

Peter Tanham

The Young Bloods

PETER TANHAM

DOUBLE-JOBBING Together for Yes technocrat Peter Tanham (33) is basking in the afterglow of last weekend’s decisive referendum victory. By taking on two high-profile... Read more »

Fit to Print?

Stephen Rae

Fit to Print?

STEPHEN RAE’S UNTIMELY INM EXIT

INM group editor-in-chief Stephen Rae is aghast at the unfavourable impression created, not by the manner of his exit from the newspaper group, but the timing. Given that Rae was... Read more »
Paddy Agnew

Fit to Print?

WHEN IN ROME …

IRISH TIMES management recently told its staff that efforts to throw Paddy Agnew, its Rome correspondent of over 30 years, overboard were carried out “equitably” but “were rejected”. Details of... Read more »
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Fit to Print?

DAILY MAIL FORGETS TO CAMPAIGN

GIVEN THAT the Irish Daily Mail proclaims itself “Ireland’s campaigning newspaper”, readers may have been surprised at the lack of coverage of the abortion referendum in the run-up to polling... Read more »

Last Refuge

Janice Boylan Irish Military Mali Coolock Says No IFP Hermann Kelly Timmy Dooley Aontú Mal O’Hara Fintan O’Toole Josepha Madigan Eoghan Harris Ukraine War Micheál Martin Middle East Philip Ryan Seán Clancy Simon Coveney Hugo MacNeill Mountbatten Neasa Hourigan Green Party Martin NPT Ivana Bacik Independents Limerick Hospital Overcrowding Barry Cowen

Last Refuge

MARTIN’S ABORTIVE REFERENDUM

WAS the Fianna Fáil abortion referendum campaign really as disastrous for the party as most pundits have characterised it? Or was it another example of that most populist of parties... Read more »
Carol Nolan

Last Refuge

RAINING ON MARY LOU’S PARADE

SINN FÉIN’S Mary Lou McDonald had a very good referendum campaign but she has a real problem with her two dissenting anti-abortion TDs, Peadar Tóibín and Carol Nolan. If SF... Read more »
Janice Boylan Irish Military Mali Coolock Says No IFP Hermann Kelly Timmy Dooley Aontú Mal O’Hara Fintan O’Toole Josepha Madigan Eoghan Harris Ukraine War Micheál Martin Middle East Philip Ryan Seán Clancy Simon Coveney Hugo MacNeill Mountbatten Neasa Hourigan Green Party Martin NPT Ivana Bacik Independents Limerick Hospital Overcrowding Barry Cowen

Last Refuge

SOFTLY SOFTLY WITH LEO

HAS the media and opposition shrunk from nailing Leo Varadkar over the cervical cancer scandal for fear of destroying unity in the repeal the 8th referendum? Or is Sinn Féin... Read more »
Janice Boylan Irish Military Mali Coolock Says No IFP Hermann Kelly Timmy Dooley Aontú Mal O’Hara Fintan O’Toole Josepha Madigan Eoghan Harris Ukraine War Micheál Martin Middle East Philip Ryan Seán Clancy Simon Coveney Hugo MacNeill Mountbatten Neasa Hourigan Green Party Martin NPT Ivana Bacik Independents Limerick Hospital Overcrowding Barry Cowen

Last Refuge

RÓISÍN SHORTALL

IN the last edition of The Phoenix we referred to Róisín Shortall possibly having disagreements with her brother, pro-life activist Brendan Shortall, over the repeal the 8th referendum. We have... Read more »
Danny Healy Rae

Last Refuge

HEALY-RAE DYNASTY IN TROUBLE

DANNY HEALY-RAE may have hammed up his professional Kerryman act too much and his seat is in danger from Fianna Fáil. Danny’s Dáil outburst against his constituency rival, Junior Transport,... Read more »

Hush Hush

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Hush Hush

YFG TREND SETTERS

IF Fianna Fáil TDs and members come across as Good Ol’ Boys following their referendum antics then what does the next generation of Blueshirts look like? Goldhawk fans will recall... Read more »
Willie McCrea

Hush Hush

DUP’S DIVINE RIGHT

ONE has to admire British Prime Minister Theresa May’s chutzpah in elevating former DUP MP, the Rev William McCrea, to the House of Lords to bolster Brexit in that chamber.... Read more »

Fowl Play

Dan Mcfarland

Fowl Play

SHANE LOGAN’S POOR TACTICS

FOR BIG rugby clubs facing into a World Cup season, this is an important time but Ulster Rugby, where chief executive Shane Logan remains in situ after a rough period,... Read more »
Jamie Heaslip

Fowl Play

HEASLIP AND VAN DER FLIER

INTERESTING to see a firm called Abbey International Finance (AIF) pumping over €2m into the operation behind the flavoured water brand Coco Fuzion100. This represents a teaming up of the... Read more »

Bog Cuttings

Bog Cuttings

Bog Cuttings

BOG CUTTINGS

Judge won’t fence him in A KILLNICK man who repeatedly called to a hardware shop to steal fence posts and fence making equipment will avoid jail if he can pay... Read more »

Fowl Emissions

Phil Hogan

Fowl Emissions

PHIL THE FARMER

HAS PHIL “The Fixer” Hogan discarded the green jersey of the Irish farming sector for the tie-dyed T-shirt of environmentalism? As Enda Kenny’s environment minister (2011-14) Big Phil treated the... Read more »
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Fowl Emissions

DENIS NAUGHTEN’S PLASTIC PROBLEM

PUBLIC ANGER over excessive plastic is matched only by Denis Naughten’s determination to hobble any measures that industry interests find distasteful. The Green Party’s Waste Reduction Bill has been before... Read more »

Bird's Eye View

Seamus Mallon

Bird's Eye View

SDLP’S ABORTION DILEMMA

THE SDLP is in a fix after last week’s overwhelming result in the abortion referendum. The party has been split on abortion in recent years so in an effort to... Read more »

The Hot Air Brigade

Declan Ganley

The Hot Air Brigade

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Not one euro of mine is going towards killing babies. Give the bill to Yessers. I am a conscientious objector. Tweet by Declan Ganley, gracious in defeat I am now... Read more »

High Society

High Society

High Society

MARTIN NAUGHTON’S CHEQUEBOOK

TRINITY COLLEGE Dublin is once again the beneficiary of a handout from philanthropist Martin Naughton, who has been pumping money into assorted causes for... Read more »

High Society

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CATHAL RYAN’S NEW DEED OF COVENANT

WITH EXTRAVAGANT new plans being drawn up for Westport House by Cathal Hughes et al, Goldhawk wondered whatever happened to the €2m grant. Previously... Read more »

High Society

Rioghnach and John Hourican

High Society

JOHN HOURICAN’S CONTROVERSIAL OLIGARCH

THE LATEST revelations in the US about Robert Mueller’s investigation into links between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin focus on Russia’s fourth wealthiest man, Viktor Vekselberg. He has links with... Read more »

Behind the Scenes

Mary McIntyre

Behind the Scenes

A SMALL WORLD AT IMMA

THE THIRD year of purchases by the Hennessy Art Fund for IMMA Collection has added four more pieces by mid-level artists to the artworks at Kilmainham. One lucky contender whose... Read more »
Annie Doona

Behind the Scenes

ANNIE DOONA’S ANNUAL REPORT

THE LATEST annual report of the Irish Film Board (IFB) appeared without fanfare on its website last month. Since Annie Doona was confirmed in her role as chair, there has... Read more »
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Behind the Scenes

CLADDAGH RECORDS’ NEW TUNE

FOLLOWING THE passing of Garech de Brún in March, it will be interesting to see what happens to Claddagh Records. Set up by de Brún in the 1960s, Claddagh Records... Read more »

Sport of Kings

Sheikh Fahad Al Thani

Sport of Kings

SHEIKH FAHAD FLEXES HIS MUSCLES

GER LYONS has never been shy about airing his opinions but a failure to bite his tongue may have cost him dearly after Qatar Racing – one of his main... Read more »
Nick Hartery

Sport of Kings

HARTERY IN AND HARMAN OUT

THE IRISH and British racing industries are closely linked and as the latter says goodbye to a chairman, we welome a new one this side of the Irish Sea. Steve... Read more »
Brendan Duke Adrian Murray Mick Bailey

Sport of Kings

ELLIOTT’S SLOW START

GORDON ELLIOTT will surely be glad to see the back of May. The trainer has experienced something that must feel rather alien to him since he started training – a... Read more »
Tim Brennan

Sport of Kings

WILL WILLIE NEED A NEW VET?

THE FUTURE of Tim Brennan as a racehorse vet now lies in the hands of the British Horseracing Authority (BHA). This follows news that he must face a disciplinary panel... Read more »

Reviews

Tom Vaughn-Lawlor

Movies

CITIZEN LANE – DIRECTED BY THADDEUS O’SULLIVAN

WATCHING VETERAN director Thaddeus O’Sullivan’s Citizen Lane, some Irish cinema buffs may be assailed by nostalgia for the rougher, readier and financially straitened early years of Irish filmmaking. Based in... Read more »
West Cork

Podcasts

WEST CORK – SAM BUNGEY AND JENNIFER FORDE

SCHULL AND its environs seem an unlikely setting for the latest true crime sensation, but they were an unlikely setting for a murder that grabbed international headlines. West Cork –... Read more »
CONNECT - JULIAN GOUGH (PICADOR)

Books

CONNECT – JULIAN GOUGH (PICADOR)

TIPPERARY AUTHOR Julian Gough (now Berlin-based) has already produced three comic novels and a series of children’s stories. He also wrote the ‘ending’ to the hugely popular video game, Minecraft.... Read more »

Moneybags

Moneybags

Peter Jackson

Moneybags

PADDY POWER CHASES THE YANKEE DOLLAR

LAST MONTH’S US Supreme Court decision looks set to open up the market across the Atlantic to online gambling. This could prove a necessary... Read more »

Moneybags

Michael Cawley

Moneybags

CAN INVESTORS BE TEMPTED TO BOOK INTO HOSTELWORLD?

WHEN RAY NOLAN and Tom Kennedy sold off their online youth hostel booking business to US group Hellman & Friedman in 2009, it was... Read more »

The Hot Water Brigade

Daragh Heagney

The Hot Water Brigade

TROUBLE BREWING FOR DARAGH HEAGNEY

IT LOOKS like Daragh Heagney’s comeback has hit a snag. After burning his fingers badly in the crash, Goldhawk reported last year that Heagney was looking forward to a fresh... Read more »
Zabrina Collins

The Hot Water Brigade

WINDING UP THE SCIENTOLOGISTS

INTERESTING to see that Church of Scientology Mission of Dublin (CSMD) has moved to wind itself up. This is the company behind the controversial religion’s first Irish mission on Abbey... Read more »
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The Hot Water Brigade

PADDY STACK’S HARD LOCH

SPARE a thought for Royal County builder Paddy Stack who had an expensive day out in the Court of Appeal recently. The trouble began for Kildalkey, Co Meath-based Paddy and... Read more »
Ian Hyland

The Hot Water Brigade

IAN HYLAND’S ZOMBIE COMPANY

IT’S MORE of the same at Ian Hyland’s troubled Moranna Ltd, the company that once published Business & Finance magazine. Moranna – where former INM board member and long-time Denis... Read more »
Mary Helen Hensley

The Hot Water Brigade

MARY HELEN HENSLEY’S JUDGMENT

SPARE a thought for Westmeath-based chiropractor and “metaphysical healer” Mary Helen Hensley, who has just been slapped with a tax judgment for close to €90,000. Hensley, originally from the US,... Read more »
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The Hot Water Brigade

JOHN DOOLEY’S NAMA HANGOVER

SPARE a thought for John Dooley who has just had a judgment for close to €2.4m registered against him, courtesy of Nama. John is the son of Donall Dooley, the... Read more »
Ferdinand von Prondzynski

The Hot Water Brigade

FERDINAND VON PRONDZYNSKI’S INQUIRY

GOLDHAWK’s favourite German-Irish academic Ferdinand von Prondzynski has found himself at the centre of a conflict of interest investigation in Scotland. The former president of DCU – who left Ireland... Read more »
Michael Sandys

The Hot Water Brigade

TAXING MATTERS WITH REVENUE

A COMPANY controlled by Dublin accountant Michael Sandys has fallen foul of the Revenue. The number cruncher owns and operates a Taxassist Accountants franchise in Walkinstown, D12 through his company... Read more »
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The Hot Water Brigade

EVERYTHING’S GRAND

SOME good news for grannies… the Catholic Grandparents Association of Ireland has just been removed from the list of companies to be struck off the companies register. The charity –... Read more »