Affairs of the Nation

Ian Bailey

Affairs of the Nation

IAN BAILEY: DPP VS MEDIA

RALPH RIEGEL’S recently published book on the 1996 murder in west Cork of Sophie Toscan du Plantier, A Dream of Death, tries to balance the competing claims of the French... Read more »
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Affairs of the Nation

DECLAN HAYES’S BIOTECH ROLE

A BIOTECH outfit is floating on the American NASDAQ stock exchange, which could earn a fair few bob for the Irish taxpayer. One of the company’s execs turns out to... Read more »
Denis O'Brien

Affairs of the Nation

DINNY’S BOYCOTT

MONEYBAGS Denis O’Brien has emerged as the Irish face of the Facebook advertising boycott put in place over claims that the social media giant is soft on ‘hate speech’. He... Read more »

Affairs of the Nation

Barry Cowen

Affairs of the Nation

MEDIA COWERS BEFORE COWEN

WITH BARRY Cowen having been dumped out of Cabinet, it is interesting to look at the easy ride he got from most opposition parties, not to mention Fianna Fáil’s coalition... Read more »
Claire Byrne

Affairs of the Nation

RTÉ MUSICAL CHAIRS

CLAIRE BYRNE may not have been told she is to replace Sean O’Rourke as presenter of RTÉ Radio 1 morning show, Today with Whoever, but the word in Montrose is... Read more »
Garret Fitzgerald

Affairs of the Nation

ARMS TRIAL LIBELS AND APOLOGIES

EOGHAN HARRIS relies on two sources for his attempted rebuttal in the Sunday Independent of Michael Heney’s ground-breaking book, The Arms Crisis of 1970. Heney’s book demolishes the myth that... Read more »
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Affairs of the Nation

THAR HE BLOWS

MATTHEW KENNY has been appointed the Irish representative for the US Whistleblower Aid organisation that is expanding overseas. The Dublin legal eagle is playing his cards close to his chest,... Read more »
Conor Harrington

Affairs of the Nation

CONOR’S CAMPUS

THE APPLICATION by one Conor Harrington for 10-year planning permission for a new sprawling film and TV studio complex (sorry, “media campus”) on 50 acres of an IDA business park... Read more »
Bobby Storey

Affairs of the Nation

THAT IRA FUNERAL

BOTH SIDES in the row about whether or not Sinn Féin breached Covid-19 regulations at IRA leader Bobby Storey’s funeral have avoided the real issue – and it’s not social... Read more »
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Affairs of the Nation

MICHAEL HEGARTY’S ADVENTURE

The sphincter-tightening sight of Red Guard-style humiliation of Micheál Martin’s old pal, agriculture minister Barry Cowen, for a four-year-old drink-driving transgression will not be easily forgotten. Already a sort of... Read more »
Aiden Burns

Affairs of the Nation

AIDEN BURNS’S EXIT

IT HAS been heavy going for some of the horseracing bodies in the last couple of years, with scandals and expensive court cases monopolising the time (and money) of both... Read more »

Pillars of Society

Jim O'Callaghan

Pillars of Society

PROFILE: JIM O’CALLAGHAN

JIM O’CALLAGHAN appears to be modelling himself on Charlie Haughey in his Fianna Fáil leadership plan of action. His explanation for rejecting a junior... Read more »

The Young Bloods

Mary Seery Kearney

The Young Bloods

YOUNG BLOODS: MARY SEERY KEARNEY

DESPITE forming a “unique, historic” government, as the cliché goes, with Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael is already getting down to the task of readying... Read more »

Fit to Print?

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Fit to Print?

SETBACK FOR DANA

THE LIBEL juggernaut launched by former presidential candidate and ex-MEP Dana Rosemary Scallon, against various media, ground to a temporary halt in the High Court last week. Dana had been... Read more »
Eamon Ryan

Fit to Print?

VICTORIA ABDICATES

AMONG THOSE journalists stepping back from the media to facilitate the new government is Irish Examiner columnist Victoria White, wife of Green Party leader Eamon Ryan. Victoria is not taking up a... Read more »
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Fit to Print?

‘SUNDAY TIMES’ CULTURE

SUNDAY TIMES associate editor John Burns must suffer from medium-term memory loss accentuated by an irony deficit. His outpourings on sexism, discrimination and freedom of speech range from the eclectic... Read more »

Last Refuge

Catherine Martin

Last Refuge

REASONABLE RYAN VS SHREWISH MARTIN

THAT ‘FEMINIST’ statement by Green Party leadership contestant Catherine Martin about Eamon Ryan’s failure to promote more women to cabinet and to the junior ministers’ ranks was a tad disingenuous,... Read more »
Helen McEntee

Last Refuge

ANGRY BLUESHIRT FARMERS

CORRECT POLITICALLY as well as health wise, the ruddy-faced ranchers of the Fine Gael Agricultural Affairs Group (FGAAG) held a virtual meeting via Zoom last month. The meeting, involving the... Read more »
Paul McAuliffe

Last Refuge

MARY LOU’S FIANNA FÁIL FRIENDS

MICHEÁL MARTIN will have clocked the pro-Sinn Féin remarks of two Dublin TDs – Dublin North-West (DNW) new boy Paul McAuliffe and another newbie, John Lahart in Dublin South-West (DSW)... Read more »

Hush Hush

Freddie Scappaticci

Hush Hush

STAKEKNIFE BLUNTED

The so-called British army ‘Stakeknife’ at the heart of the IRA has now been confirmed as less an intelligence dagger than the product of a wishful media that didn’t bother... Read more »

Bog Cuttings

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Bog Cuttings

BOG CUTTINGS

Serious Fault Tralee District Court heard the case of a Listowel man who was charged with abusive behaviour toward a driving tester after losing his temper. Seanie Ryan, Apt 3,... Read more »

Fowl Emissions

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Fowl Emissions

WIND OF CHANGE?

For the past six weeks, a socially distanced protest camp has blocked construction of a wind farm at Carrigdangan in Co Cork. It’s one of numerous wind farms across Ireland... Read more »
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Fowl Emissions

GREEN TARGETS

The new government’s pledge to end oil and gas exploration provoked fuming and snarling from industry executives. The Business Post carried a photo of septuagenarian oilman John Teeling looking suitably... Read more »

The Hot Air Brigade

Happy Pear Twins

The Hot Air Brigade

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

On a personal level, we felt some guilt we’d let the team down – but with entrepreneurship you have to embrace failure. And maybe it isn’t failure – but a... Read more »

High Society

Tullamaine Castle

High Society

BOB LANIGAN’S CASTLE

INTERESTING TO see Bob Lanigan’s impressive Tullamaine Castle Stud in Co Tipperary on the market (through Goffs Country), but with no price attached. Whoever buys it will need to shell... Read more »
Aimee Connolly

High Society

AIMEE’S SCULPTED PROFITS

COSMETICS QUEEN Aimee Connolly may regret the timing of her decision to open a bricks-and-mortar store in Dundrum last year rather than sticking to the online model. But, while Covid-19... Read more »
Siobhan Byrne Learat and Kasao Learat

High Society

SIOBHAN LEARAT’S HOLLIERS

THESE ARE challenging times for travel agents such as Siobhan Byrne Learat’s Adams & Butler bespoke holidays business. Happily, the coffers here are pretty much overflowing and the pesky Revenue... Read more »

Behind the Scenes

Désirée Fiinegan

Behind the Scenes

DÉSIRÉE FINNEGAN’S NEW FUND

LOOKING AT the lists of recent handouts from Annie Doona’s Screen Ireland (SI), it is unclear if need has been taken into consideration when divvying out millions of euros through... Read more »
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Behind the Scenes

THE PEOPLE’S THEATRE

WITH THEATRES particularly badly affected by Covid-19 and suggestions that people are in no hurry to return to the enclosed venues, Goldhawk wonders what has become of the hyped plan... Read more »

Sport of Kings

Seamie Heffernan

Sport of Kings

HEFFO’S ZEROES

WITH HOTSHOT Ryan Moore confined to British barracks due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Ballydoyle stalwart Seamie Heffernan was being talked of as a potential wildcard for champion jockey honours, given... Read more »
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Sport of Kings

FINE TIME AT THE IHRB

DENIS HOGAN’S appeal of a €3,000 fine incurred at the Curragh a few weeks ago over the running and riding of 50/1 shot Narynkol was dismissed. Apprentice jockey Alan Glynn,... Read more »

Reviews

David McCullagh

Reviews

TV REVIEW: PRIME TIME – RTÉ 1

DAVID MCCULLAGH’S upcoming move to the Six One News is likely to prompt a much-needed shake-up at Prime Time, which in recent times has settled for the role of current... Read more »

Moneybags

Dermot Smurfit

Moneybags

FLUTTER ENTERTAINMENT’S BET ON SMURFIT’S GAN

AFTER YEARS of struggling, 45-year-old Dermot S Smurfit has hit the jackpot with a $50m equity raise, floating on the American Nasdaq market in... Read more »

Moneybags

Kirill Golovanov

Moneybags

OVOCA BIO’S SHAREHOLDERS FEELING THE RUSSIAN COLD

SHAREHOLDERS IN Ovoca Bio must be increasingly bewildered at the approach being taken by the Russians who control the company, where Kirill Golovanov is... Read more »

The Hot Water Brigade

Jason Mallon

The Hot Water Brigade

JASON MALLON’S ROUGH RIDE

THE EXAMINERSHIP of the company that operates Ireland’s largest food import and export facility at Dublin port, Cold Move Ltd, has failed to ensure the survival of the group, headed... Read more »
Seamus Sutcliffe

The Hot Water Brigade

SEAMUS SUTCLIFFE’S MANY HATS

GOLDHAWK SPIED a judgment being registered earlier this month against Saggart-based accountant Seamus Sutcliffe by AIB for the sum of U137,000. This is not the first time that former soldier... Read more »
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The Hot Water Brigade

LATE LIQUIDATION FOR JANSSENS

THE LIQUIDATION of a property company controlled by Johny and Katy Janssens is finally going ahead, two years after a High Court order. It was as far back as July... Read more »
Brendan McQuaid

The Hot Water Brigade

BRENDAN MCQUAID’S FLIGHT PATH

GOLDHAWK was surprised to see the name of Brendan McQuaid pop up in legal proceedings issued by a landlord to evict a woman, Hilda Conway, from her tenancy at a... Read more »