Affairs of the Nation

Catherine Martin

Affairs of the Nation

GREEN PARTY HEAVE

PREVIOUS FORECASTS about the Green Party’s leadership contest were that Catherine Martin would win if party members rejected the government deal, while Eamon Ryan would survive if the deal was... Read more »
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Affairs of the Nation

TENI’S FUNDING

THANKS TO JK Rowling’s incendiary comments last week, the transgender debate got rather heated again, although here in Ireland the temperature remained relatively cool. John Boyne did dip a toe... Read more »
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Affairs of the Nation

DERMO TO THE RESCUE?

WITH THE hunt on for a new chief executive of the FAI, the first team players are coming in for some rough treatment from “ordinary football people”. Fans of Goldhawk... Read more »

Affairs of the Nation

Cillian de Gascun

Affairs of the Nation

NPHET’S ACADEMIC MATTER

IT’S HARD to keep everyone happy and in the snippy world of academia this is doubly true. Goldhawk is hearing grumblings about UCD’s influence at the National Public Health Emergency... Read more »
John O'Donoghue

Affairs of the Nation

JOHN O’DONOGHUE’S LIBEL CASE

A RE-RUN of the 2009 public debate about the excessive expenses claims of the then Ceann Comhairle and former minister, John O’Donoghue, is due for a re-run in the Circuit... Read more »
Drew Harris

Affairs of the Nation

DREW HARRIS’S ‘ABUSE OF POWER’

THE ANNOUNCEMENT last November of yet another investigation into state collusion with loyalist murder gangs – this time the notorious Glenanne gang – saw some northern nationalists react with scepticism.... Read more »
Michael D Higgins

Affairs of the Nation

ADMIRAL HIGGINS

Gregg Bemis Jnr, American owner of the wreck of the Lusitania, (torpedoed by a German submarine off Kinsale in 1915), recently died aged 91. In his time, he ‘salvaged’ and... Read more »
Micheal P O'Higgins

Affairs of the Nation

EUGENIE HOUSTON’S NEW FRONT

AS IF barrister Eugenie Houston has not cost the Bar Council enough in recent times, she has just landed the esteemed legal eagles with another headache courtesy of a missive... Read more »
Isabel dos Santos

Affairs of the Nation

RORY GODSON AND THE PRINCESS

EMBATTLED BILLIONAIRE Isabel dos Santos – eldest daughter of the Angolan president of nearly 40 years, José Eduardo dos Santos – has hired Irish PR handler Rory Godson to assist... Read more »
Simon Stokes

Affairs of the Nation

SIMON STOKES’S PHOTO

GOLDHAWK SPOTTED High Court defamation proceedings lodged against the Mail on Sunday earlier this month by one Simon Stokes (no, not that one). It turns out to be a case... Read more »

Pillars of Society

Alan English

Pillars of Society

PROFILE: ALAN ENGLISH

THE NEW editor of the Sunday Independent, Alan English, seems determined to make readers sit up and notice him. English presents readers with a weekly... Read more »

The Young Bloods

Alan Dillon

The Young Bloods

YOUNG BLOODS: ALAN DILLON

Enda Kenny could take some quiet satisfaction from the success of his local Castlebar protégé, Alan Dillon (37). Football hero Dillon held Kenny’s Castlebar... Read more »

Fit to Print?

Ivan Yates

Fit to Print?

IVAN’S HARD NECK

THE RETIREMENT of The Hard Shoulder presenter on Newstalk, Ivan Yates, was announced by the ex-Fine Gael minister in February following a settlement with AIB over his Wexford family home... Read more »
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Fit to Print?

BRENDAN O’CONNOR’S REINVENTION

THE REINVENTED, caring Brendan O’Connor is beginning to grate almost as much as when he prided himself on dishing it to every vulnerable group in society. But at least RTÉ... Read more »
Sinead O'Connor

Fit to Print?

‘SINDO’ SENSITIVITY

WEDNESDAY’S Irish Times opinion and analysis page has recently resembled an old Sunday Independent edition, with former Sindo personalities Anne Harris and Michael McDowell dominating the section. McDowell has had... Read more »

Last Refuge

Eamon Ryan

Last Refuge

GURRIER GREENS VS GENTLE GREENS

THE MEDIA mantra about the Greens has changed from one condemning the party for not simply capitulating to Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael to an attack on Catherine Martin. According... Read more »
Micheál Martin

Last Refuge

MARTIN SWEATS IT OUT

THE NEUROTIC behaviour of Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin as he closes in on the long-cherished, moist dream of becoming taoiseach – at the possible expense of his party’s destruction... Read more »
Frances Black

Last Refuge

UN SECURITY COUNCIL FODDER

FOREIGN MINISTER Simon Coveney’s repetitive explanation to the Irish public of the government’s refusal to enact the Occupied Territories Bill (OTB) – passed by majorities in the Dáil and Seanad... Read more »

Northwind

Boris Johnson

Northwind

NEW APPROACH, SAME RESULT

In the New Decade New Approach (NDNA) document of January, which got the parties in the north back into an executive, the British government promised to publish within 100 days... Read more »

Hush Hush

Malachy McAllister

Hush Hush

TRUMP OBLIGES LONDON

The 1988 state-sponsored assassination attempt on Belfast man Malachy McAllister and his family is key to understanding the British government’s pursuit of McAllister and why he was finally deported from... Read more »
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Hush Hush

DERMOT O’LEARY’S SOLUTION

THE OIREACHTAS Covid-19 Committee has been presented with an exciting submission from Dermot O’Leary’s National Bus and Rail Union (NBRU), namely the extension of bus and rail travel to a... Read more »

Bog Cuttings

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Bog Cuttings

BOG CUTTINGS

Rugby Tackled Roadworker A Tipperary man was arrested for rugby tackling a roadworker operating a stop/go sign outside Nenagh, Tipperary, following an altercation. James Sage of Glenacre, Ballina, Tipperary, had... Read more »

Fowl Emissions

Seamus Woulfe

Fowl Emissions

GAS ‘STORIES’

If the programme for government is green-lighted next week, it will spell the end not only for new oil and gas exploration licences, but will also make Ireland the first... Read more »
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Fowl Emissions

LOBBYING THE AG

Meanwhile, the Irish Offshore Operators’ Association is understandably less than pleased about the promise to end exploration. Its CEO Mandy Johnston – Bertie Ahern’s former press secretary – was this... Read more »

The Hot Air Brigade

Niall McGarry

The Hot Air Brigade

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

The business is too big to fail. It plays too important a role in the Irish media scene. Niall McGarry’s detached analysis of his Joe.ie website, Irish Independent Staycation is... Read more »

High Society

High Society

JP McMahon

High Society

JP’S MISSING YANKS

WITH RESTAURANTS preparing to reopen at the end of the month, the owner of one Michelin-starred establishment sees little point unless the two-metre guideline... Read more »

High Society

Noelle O'Connor

High Society

NOELLE O’CONNOR’S HIGH BAR

LAST WEEK, Noelle O’Connor told the Business Post, “When Covid-19 hit last March, it felt so familiar to me. Setting up TanOrganic 10 years... Read more »

High Society

Brian Kingham

High Society

BRIAN KINGHAM’S NEW PLAN

ACROSS THE Irish Sea, villagers in Aldbourne in Wiltshire are up in arms at a contentions planning application to build 35 houses on agricultural land. The plan was submitted in... Read more »

Behind the Scenes

James Morris

Behind the Scenes

BONO’S FILM STUDIO ROLE?

THE NEWS that James Morris and Alan Moloney’s proposed 48-acre film studio and ‘media park’ in west Dublin is to involve the son of moneybags Paddy McKillen Snr – LA... Read more »
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Behind the Scenes

RHA GALLERY’S ROADMAP

THE GOOD news is that the RHA Gallery re-opens in late July, although a max of 40 visitors an hour will be permitted, with online booking required. And October 13... Read more »

Reviews

Brendan O'Connor

Radio

BRENDAN O’CONNOR – RTÉ RADIO ONE

FOR MANY years, with programmes such as Don’t Feed The Gondolas and Brendan O’Connor’s Cutting Edge, Brendan O’Connor unconvincingly attempted to position himself as a maverick within RTÉ’s ranks. Unfortunately,... Read more »

Moneybags

Moneybags

John McGuckian

Moneybags

ICG SHAREHOLDERS FACING PERFECT STORM

IF EAMONN ROTHWELL thought that 2018 was his annus horribilis, then he ain’t seen nothing yet. Irish Continental Group (ICG) has been hit hard... Read more »

Moneybags

Kevin Lagan

Moneybags

BREEDON GROUP FIGURES REVEAL MASSIVE IRISH CEMENT MARGINS

ONE OF the bigger deals struck in this country is Kevin Lagan’s €500m cash sale of his Lagan cement, concrete and aggregates business in... Read more »

Brief Cases

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Brief Cases

GOFF LALOR’S DISTRIBUTION

THE OFFICIAL assignee Chris Lehane has published a list of bankrupts whose estates will be distributed on July 20. One of the more interesting accounts will surely be that of... Read more »
John Gilmartin

Brief Cases

JOHN GILMARTIN’S CHALLENGING TIMES

A FINANCIAL consultant who set up a number of companies to provide business advice has seen one of them come a cropper. The good news is that, according to documents... Read more »
Jonathan Cosgrave

Brief Cases

JONATHAN COSGRAVE’S PROPERTY PUNT

A LITTLE-known company called AHC Ltd has just been the subject of a notice from its auditors about the keeping of accounting records. No doubt, high-flying fund exec Jonathan Cosgrave... Read more »
Paul Blanchfield

Brief Cases

PAUL BLANCHFIELD’S CREDITORS’ MEETING

A CREDITORS’ meeting has been called for a company called Frontier Entertainment Ltd, which was behind the failed theatre tourism project in the Liberties, The Vaults Live. Plenty of people... Read more »