Affairs of the Nation

Leo Varadkar

Affairs of the Nation

LEO VARADKAR’S NON-DISCLOSURES

THE CONTROVERSY over the leak of Dr Gabriel Scally’s report into the cervical cancer affair temporarily obscured Taoiseach Leo Varadkar’s responsibility in the matter. Vlad has since tied himself in... Read more »
Enda O'Coineen

Affairs of the Nation

ENDA O’COINEEN’S ‘POST’ DEAL

SELF-DESCRIBED ‘unsinkable entrepreneur’ Enda O’Coineen has finally signed the deal to buy the Sunday Business Post from Conor Killeen. It turns out that a stipulation that any new owner sign... Read more »
Kieran Corrigan

Affairs of the Nation

KIERAN CORRIGAN’S STUDIO

EARLIER THIS month, Meath County Council waved through planning permission for a film studio development at Ashbourne business park. Hopefully, the involvement of Kieran Corrigan doesn’t prove as entertaining as... Read more »

Affairs of the Nation

Take Back the City

Affairs of the Nation

TAKING BACK THE CITY

Anyone looking for more information on the recent housing occupations in the media last weekend was treated to a Homeric catalogue of the various organisations that make up Take Back... Read more »
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Affairs of the Nation

NEIL JORDAN’S “SILLY” FILM

THERE HAVE been mixed reactions to new films from Irish heavyweight directors Lenny Abrahamson and Neil Jordan, both of whom have been visiting our national cultural institutions in recent times.... Read more »
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Affairs of the Nation

SHANE ROSS’S APPOINTMENTS

SHANE ROSS recently made some appointments to the board of Fáilte Ireland, with some interesting names popping up. Among the new board members are the likes of Google exec Alice... Read more »
Paddy Cosgrave

Affairs of the Nation

PADDY COSGRAVE: IPHONE ANARCHIST

If the hysterical media reaction to the Take Back the City protestors wasn’t evidence of their impact, then Web Summit barker Paddy Cosgrave’s pitiful attempt to piggyback on their publicity... Read more »
Karen Bradley

Affairs of the Nation

DUP/TORY ARM LOCK

On Monday, September 5, British northern secretary Karen Bradley had arranged to meet the Stormont parties to discuss ways to resurrect the executive and, in the absence of an executive,... Read more »
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Affairs of the Nation

FUN AT THE PHIL

TRINITY College’s student union received 20 complaints from students in relation to a debate to be held on campus this week by the University Philosophical Society. As reported in Trinity... Read more »

Pillars of Society

John Mulcahy

Pillars of Society

SPECIAL TRIBUTE – JOHN MULCAHY

A JOURNALIST FOR ALL SEASONS JOHN MULCAHY will be remembered as not alone the publisher and inspiration behind The Phoenix – as well as... Read more »

The Young Bloods

Carly Bailey

The Young Bloods

YOUNG BLOOD: CARLY BAILEY

With the Labour Party imploding at the last general election and opinion polls showing further decline, former Labour members Róisín Shortall and Catherine Murphy,... Read more »

Fit to Print?

Gemma O'Doherty

Fit to Print?

GEMMA O’DOHERTY’S SCOOPS

It’s ironic that Ireland’s most famous investigative journalist, Veronica Guerin, should be the torpedo that sank Gemma O’Doherty’s presidential campaign. In a bizarre comment – triggered at a meeting where... Read more »

Fit to Print?

WAITING ON DENIS NAUGHTEN

ACCOUNTS JUST filed by the joint venture between INM and Northern & Shell that publishes the Irish Daily Star confirm the downward trend in profits despite significant cost-cutting. The staff... Read more »
Dana

Fit to Print?

DANA’S LEGAL CAMPAIGN

THE unrelenting campaign for vindication being pursued by Dana and her brother, John Brown, against INM titles and others came a step closer to climax on two different fronts recently.... Read more »

Last Refuge

Brendan Howlin

Last Refuge

HOWLIN’S MASTER PLAN

BRENDAN HOWLIN appears to have survived the leadership heave orchestrated by Alan Kelly and his chief aide, Declan Walsh. The scenario now unfolding sees Howlin stepping down after the next... Read more »
Colm Keaveney

Last Refuge

KEAVENEY COMEBACK?

FORMER Fianna Fáil TD and ex-Labour Party chairman Colm Keaveney received quite a splash in the Sunday Times last weekend, indicating that FF handlers are keen to have him on... Read more »
John McGuinness

Last Refuge

THE ‘REAL’ OPPOSITION

THE SCHIZOPHRENIA inside Fianna Fáil – is the party in government or opposition? – is being hammered home by Kilkenny TD John McGuinness, and there is a distinct unease in... Read more »
Simon Coveney

Last Refuge

COVENEY BACKSLIDES ON ISRAEL AGAIN

SUDDENLY the government and the EU has become scrupulously attached to the spirit and the letter of EU commercial policy and is using it as an excuse to oppose a... Read more »

Hush Hush

Christy Kinahan

Hush Hush

KINAHANS’ LAUNDRY

AMID TABLOID allegations of the Kinahan cartel sourcing personnel and supplies from Eastern Europe, particularly Estonia, the question has to be asked why would an Irish gang look so far... Read more »
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Hush Hush

DONAL RELIHAN’S REVERSAL

JUDGE Miriam O’Regan has reversed the dissolution of a property company following the initiation of a legal action. And although he has nothing to do with the current proceedings, it... Read more »

Bog Cuttings

Bog Cuttings

Bog Cuttings

BOG CUTTINGS

Spare the rod A man charged with public order offences at Letterkenny District Court in Co Donegal appeared in court complete with fishing bag and fishing rod. Gardaí claimed they... Read more »

Fowl Emissions

Ned O'Sullivan

Fowl Emissions

FOR THE BIRDS

Being a Kerry politician can’t be easy, competing for attention in an airspace dominated by the din of the Healy-Raes. But Fianna Fáil Senator Ned O’Sullivan does his best. In... Read more »

The Hot Air Brigade

Vougue Williams

The Hot Air Brigade

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

I just got some new bed sheets today and I didn’t have to pay for them. Vogue Williams on living a ‘sponsored’ life, Sunday Independent, Submitted by reader O’Leary has... Read more »

High Society

High Society

Clare Hughes

High Society

CLARE HUGHES’S CAREER

EARLIER THIS month, agriculture minister Michael Creed – “in consultation with” sports minister Shane Ross – appointed three new members to the board of... Read more »

High Society

Consuelo O’Connor

High Society

YASMIN HYDE’S SAUCE

RECENT MEDIA interest in Rachel Allen and her family has focused attention on the money-making clan. One of those is Yasmin Hyde, who has... Read more »

High Society

Richard Caring

High Society

‘POISON’ IVY

ALMOST TWO months after opening its doors, the 150-seat Ivy restaurant on Dublin’s Dawson St has been packing in the punters. It has also attracted some reviews, including one in... Read more »

Behind the Scenes

Patrick Sutton

Behind the Scenes

PATRICK SUTTON’S CORE PROBLEM

THERE WAS some good news for Smock Alley theatre in Temple Bar this year when the Arts Council upped its grant, but the overall amount is still a pittance and... Read more »
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Behind the Scenes

CATHERINE CONNOLLY’S QUESTIONS

The worrying news emerging from Galway 2020, where they have lost their creative director (Chris Baldwin – described in the Irish Times as “a citizen of Europe”) and chief executive... Read more »
Áine Moriarty

Behind the Scenes

SCRIPT REWRITE AT THE ITFAs

THE LUVVIES of the film and TV business are girding their loins for the hardest part of their job – aggressive self-promotion for the 2019 ‘awards season’. In Ireland, this... Read more »

Sport of Kings

Tamso Cox

Sport of Kings

NO LUCK FOR THE WAGGS

WHEN THE lowly rated Eight And Bob was declared to run at Navan recently, he was bound to attract interest as the five year old was having his first start... Read more »
Jamie Osborne

Sport of Kings

JAMIE OSBORNE’S DEADLINE

ENGLISH TRAINER Jamie Osborne’s annual pilgrimage to Laytown Races with his enthusiastic owners, The Melbourne 10, bore fruit again when the team bagged three of the six races during the... Read more »
Brendan Duke Adrian Murray Mick Bailey

Sport of Kings

FIXTURE LIST OFF COURSE?

AFTER MUCH pondering, Brian Kavanagh’s Horse Racing Ireland (HRI) has released the fixture list for 2019 and it is one that has stimulated plenty of debate in racing circles. Much... Read more »
Tom Queally

Sport of Kings

TOM QUEALLY UNSADDLED

SPARE A thought for jockey Tom Queally, who lost the ride on The Tin Man a few days before the James Fanshawe-trained gelding won the Group 1 Haydock Sprint Cup.... Read more »

Moneybags

Moneybags

John Mulcahy

Moneybags

WAKE-UP CALL FOR GLENVEAGH PROPERTIES

IT WAS remarkable that Cairn Homes was able to pull off an audacious fundraising IPO in 2015, together with a whopping €200m founders’ bonus... Read more »

Moneybags

Patrick Anderson

Moneybags

DALRADIAN DELIVERS CROCK OF GOLD

UP TO the middle of the last century, Irish schoolchildren would have understood that Ireland had no natural resources outside of farming, other than... Read more »

Brief Cases

Jay Bourke

Brief Cases

JAY BOURKE’S TAXING YEAR

THE hits keep coming for Goldhawk’s old pal, one-time restaurant impresario Jay Bourke. Not even a year since the taxman slapped him with a judgment for €325,000, the Revenue has... Read more »
Second Captains

Brief Cases

SECOND CAPTAINS’ PAY PACKET

IT’S BEEN nearly 18 months since the Second Captains podcast crew decided to down tools at The Irish Times and light out for the trail. Accounts filed by their company,... Read more »
PSA Board

Brief Cases

PSA’S EVICTION CONFUSION

A CURIOUS Goldhawk received an odd response from the Private Security Authority (PSA) recently. The PSA – where the chairman is former Dialogic Corporation vice president Noel Lappin (and Dublin... Read more »
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Brief Cases

CHRISTOPHER WALSH’S TAX TROUBLE

DUBLIN solicitor Christopher Brendan Walsh was slapped with a pair of paltry judgments by the Revenue for just over €6,000 earlier this month. This could put the Castleknock legal eagle... Read more »
Empire Bar

Brief Cases

SUN SETS ON EMPIRE

INTERESTING to see the scrap over the sudden closure of the Empire Bar in Swords after the operating company, Lencoolcrew Ltd, collapsed into liquidation. Even more interesting is that Goldhawk’s... Read more »
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Brief Cases

MORE HOULIHAN CUSHNAHAN WOE

INTERESTING to see the names of two medical consultants pop up on the Revenue’s latest list of tax defaulters. Fans of Goldhawk will not be surprised to learn that the... Read more »
Rebecca Carter

Brief Cases

REBECCA CARTER’S FAMILY TIES

IT’S not every Leaving Cert student that can drag the State Examination Commission to the High Court, but Wexford native Rebecca Carter, who has done just that, has some high-profile... Read more »
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Brief Cases

TBD GROUP GOES TO THE WALL

THREE companies in Galway-based Nama developer Bernard Duffy’s property group are set to call in the liquidator. TBD Group Holdings, Pershore Investments Ltd and TBD Building Contractors Ltd have been... Read more »
Kevin Ginty

Brief Cases

KEVIN GINTY’S SUGAR CRASH

ONE name that caught Goldhawk’s eye on the latest list of tax defaulters was Kevin Ginty. The Wicklow-based businessman has had his share of troubles in the past and is... Read more »