Affairs of the Nation

Jackie Goodall

Affairs of the Nation

ISRAEL VERSUS SALLY ROONEY

SALLY ROONEY’S pro-Palestinian boycott gesture has been lambasted by predictable players – the Israeli embassy, former justice minister Alan Shatter and others – but, in an appropriate coincidence, her initiative... Read more »
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Affairs of the Nation

BUMPY RIDE FOR ROSE HYNES

IT WAS reported at the weekend that the chair of the Irish Aviation Authority (IAA) Rose Hynes criticised former transport minister Shane Ross for questioning the manner in which she... Read more »
Budget Jack Chambers Nicki Minaj B’Tselem Phil Hogan UCD IRTA DIGI Katy Brown Rory Godson Pallonji Mistry Shark Hanlon Frances Ruane Taste of Dublin Listowel Writers’ Week Paddy Curran Harvey Norman Anton Savage Paul Hourican Enda O’Coineen PfP Red C Poll IFTA Ben Gilroy Luke Comer Sue Spence Fingleton Aubrey McCarthy Matt Cooper Parker Green Danny McConnell Gayle Killilea Maura Derivan Ed Honohan INS Arts Council EDAF Emuse Rosslare Golf Club Mairead Casey Colm O’Rourke Stephen Connolly Peter Aiken John Malone Tom Barry Anthony Halpin Ian Kehoe Kevin Bakhurst Geraldine O’Leary Dennis Horgan RUSI Gareth McAllister Ryevale House Joe Macken RUC Omagh Patrick Connolly Paddy Cosgrave The Ditch Newstalk Fake Tan Fred Logue Ian Paisley Sean O’Riordan Margaret Sweeney Jay Bourke Ellie Kisyombe Francesca McDonagh Ted Cunningham National Space Centre An Irish Goodbye Oscar Robert Quirke Ciara Kelly Executive Women Gathering Doug Taylor Florian Haufe Robbie Henshaw Bill Shipsey Breaking the Silence L’Ecrivain Ronan McNally National Lottery Michael Roche Energy Action Balls.ie Newspapers VAT Abbey Theatre Patricia Madden Irish Banking Culture Board Randox Aoife Gallagher Book Dalai Lama Trinity Trevor White RTÉ Chairperson Shane Houlihan Noel Smyth IKC Bob Geldof Landlord Ireland Neutrality Ukraine

Affairs of the Nation

NOEL KELLY’S NEW LOOK

AFTER A turbulent year for ‘agent to the stars’ Noel Kelly’s business, there has been a restructuring of the NK Management group that sees a firm called Noel Kelly Management... Read more »

Affairs of the Nation

Budget Jack Chambers Nicki Minaj B’Tselem Phil Hogan UCD IRTA DIGI Katy Brown Rory Godson Pallonji Mistry Shark Hanlon Frances Ruane Taste of Dublin Listowel Writers’ Week Paddy Curran Harvey Norman Anton Savage Paul Hourican Enda O’Coineen PfP Red C Poll IFTA Ben Gilroy Luke Comer Sue Spence Fingleton Aubrey McCarthy Matt Cooper Parker Green Danny McConnell Gayle Killilea Maura Derivan Ed Honohan INS Arts Council EDAF Emuse Rosslare Golf Club Mairead Casey Colm O’Rourke Stephen Connolly Peter Aiken John Malone Tom Barry Anthony Halpin Ian Kehoe Kevin Bakhurst Geraldine O’Leary Dennis Horgan RUSI Gareth McAllister Ryevale House Joe Macken RUC Omagh Patrick Connolly Paddy Cosgrave The Ditch Newstalk Fake Tan Fred Logue Ian Paisley Sean O’Riordan Margaret Sweeney Jay Bourke Ellie Kisyombe Francesca McDonagh Ted Cunningham National Space Centre An Irish Goodbye Oscar Robert Quirke Ciara Kelly Executive Women Gathering Doug Taylor Florian Haufe Robbie Henshaw Bill Shipsey Breaking the Silence L’Ecrivain Ronan McNally National Lottery Michael Roche Energy Action Balls.ie Newspapers VAT Abbey Theatre Patricia Madden Irish Banking Culture Board Randox Aoife Gallagher Book Dalai Lama Trinity Trevor White RTÉ Chairperson Shane Houlihan Noel Smyth IKC Bob Geldof Landlord Ireland Neutrality Ukraine

Affairs of the Nation

MONICA LEECH’S COSTS

THE COURT of Appeal’s full ruling in the Monica Leech’s challenge to the quantum of legal fees due to her former solicitors has just been published. It looks like the... Read more »
Cobblestone pub

Affairs of the Nation

THE COBBLESTONE’S NEW TUNE

MUCH HAS been written about the fondness for the Irish traditional music pub the Cobblestone in Smithfield’s North King Street, now the subject of a big hotel planning application. “A... Read more »
Frances Haugen

Affairs of the Nation

BIG TECH, BIG PR

AS WHISTLEBLOWER Frances Haugen’s revelations provoked some US politicians into declaring war on Facebook, the tech giants must have taken comfort from the seemingly endless supply of former politicians and... Read more »
Jim Miley

Affairs of the Nation

GROUCHO MARX’S CLUB

THE HEADS of our new technological universities (TUs) are facing a dilemma worthy of Groucho Marx, who famously said he wouldn’t join any club that would have him as a... Read more »
Maura McNally

Affairs of the Nation

BAR COUNCIL BAR

IRELAND’S SOLICITORS have yet again had their inferior status confirmed for them by the superior legal eagles – ie barristers – of the Bar Council. It has reaffirmed a ban... Read more »
Fiona O'Leary

Affairs of the Nation

GARDA GUARD SSPX RESISTANCE

THE MOST striking aspect of recent revelations about the extremist SSPX Resistance group and its activities in Ireland is not the involvement of Matt Bruton – son of former taoiseach... Read more »

Pillars of Society

Noirin Hegarty

Pillars of Society

PROFILE: NÓIRÍN HEGARTY

THE APPOINTMENT of Nóirín Hegarty as Ireland editor of the Times and Sunday Times Ireland, is seen in media circles as something of a renaissance for the Dubliner given her professional... Read more »

The Young Bloods

László Molnárfi

The Young Bloods

YOUNG BLOOD: LÁSZLÓ MOLNÁRFI

STUDENT ACTIVIST László Molnárfi (20) has captured lightning in a bottle in recent weeks. The second-year Trinity College Dublin student and chair of the... Read more »

Fit to Print?

Jon Williams

Fit to Print?

RTÉ’S CHANGEABLE CLIMATE

RTÉ’S HEAD of news, Jon Williams, made some “important announcements” to staff recently as he completed a headlong retreat from the station’s previous position of ‘balance’ in its overage of... Read more »
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Fit to Print?

BARRY WALSH’S REVIEW

THE SOMEWHAT severe Sunday Times’ review of Conor Lenihan’s biography of late taoiseach and FF leader Albert Reynolds, entitled Albert Reynolds: Risktaker for Peace, was penned by one Barry Walsh. Walsh derided both the... Read more »
Michael D Higgins

Fit to Print?

BAD BOY HIGGINS

GOOD TO see that more mature voices felt moved last weekend to correct the populist posturing over the commemoration of partition and the creation of Northern Ireland a full month... Read more »

Last Refuge

Paschal Donohoe

Last Refuge

PASCHAL DONOHOE’S CAREER CURVE

FINANCE MINISTER Paschal Donohoe is presumed, much like Fine Gael leader Leo Varadkar, to be merely marking time before jumping ship to take a gleaming, corporate job in the European... Read more »
Michael McDowell

Last Refuge

McDOWELL EYES UP DÁIL — AGAIN

AN INTERESTING Irish Times column from Michael McDowell recently dwelled on the former PD leader, AG and justice minister’s obsessive dream of a return to public life of the Progressive... Read more »
Anthony Coughlan

Last Refuge

ANTHONY COUGHLAN’S LATEST BROADSIDE

THE EU’S most formidable Irish opponent for half a century is Tony Coughlan, associate professor emeritus at TCD and long-time political campaigner. Five years ago he launched a savage attack... Read more »
Cathal Crowe

Last Refuge

FF: PARTITION ROWS, SEAT BATTLES AND WHAT TO DO WITH MICHEÁL

THAT LIST of Fianna Fáil TDs noted in the Sunday Times as being opposed to the government sending ministers to mark the centenary of partition includes some who are more... Read more »

Northwind

David Frost

Northwind

NORTH ELECTION NEXT MONTH?

STORMONT IS in a state of limbo. The executive and the assembly go through the motions, but the critical political action takes place elsewhere: between the UK government and the... Read more »

Hush Hush

Simon Byrne

Hush Hush

SIMON BYRNE AND MI5’S ECONOMIC WAR

WHEN SIMON BYRNE was appointed head of the PSNI in July 2019 he showed what might be called a lack of empathy for the Peace Process culture in the north.... Read more »

Bog Cuttings

Bog-Cuttings-Defaul

Bog Cuttings

BOG CUTTINGS

ROLLER RAIL HIDDEN IN TROUSER LEG A man who aggressively swore at gardaí, after being confronted when observed walking out in front of traffic in a drunken state, was handed... Read more »

Fowl Emissions

Jennifer O'Connell

Fowl Emissions

MEDIA COPS OUT

WITH THE crunch COP 26 global climate conference in Glasgow kicking off at the end of the month, various media organisations have been burnishing their climate credentials ahead of time.... Read more »
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Fowl Emissions

FARMING SUPPLEMENTS

WHO WOULD have guessed the Irish Farmers Association would be lobbying for more carbon taxes on road transport and aviation? The lobby group took out an expensive half-page ad in... Read more »

The Hot Air Brigade

Larissa Nolan

The Hot Air Brigade

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Bob Geldof is one of the coolest people ever – a fearless force of nature who makes me proud to be Irish. Larissa Nolan, Irish Independent The return of The... Read more »

High Society

High Society

George and Wendy Magan

High Society

OFFLOADING CASTLETOWN COX

THE SAGA of George Magan – aka Baron Magan of Castletown – has opened its latest chapter with his appeal against a High Court... Read more »

High Society

Mariella Frostrup

High Society

ANDREA PIGNATARO’S IRISH EMPIRE

WELL-KNOWN UK journalist television presenter and critic Mariella Frostrup had a nice break for herself earlier this month when she travelled to the sunny... Read more »

Behind the Scenes

Sally Rooney

Behind the Scenes

LIR’S ROONEY BOUNCE

WHILE NOVELIST Sally Rooney has been generating headlines over her stance on Israel, her influence is also being felt in Trinity College Dublin, where applications to study at its Lir... Read more »
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Behind the Scenes

SUSAN BERGIN’S STRATEGY

WHEN SCREEN Ireland (SI)chair Susan Bergin and chief executive Desiree Finnegan launched the agency’s strategy, ‘Building for a Creative Future 2024’ earlier this month, it was clear that arts minister... Read more »

Sport of Kings

Johnny Farrelly

Sport of Kings

FARRELLY’S LIFETIME BAN

DUBLIN NATIVE Johnny Farrelly’s training career in the UK has come to a shuddering halt after the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) served him with a permanent exclusion from the sport.... Read more »
Joseph O'Brien

Sport of Kings

O’BRIEN’S RATING GAME

RACING FANS might imagine that Joseph O’Brien has a few more things to worry about than a 2lb differential in the rating of one of his lesser performing horses but... Read more »
Brendan Duke Adrian Murray Mick Bailey

Sport of Kings

BALLYDOYLE RUES THE RULES

FOR SOMEBODY with a reputation for diplomacy, trainer Aidan O’Brien surprisingly used a recent Racing Post interview to get a few things off his chest. O’Brien took aim at the... Read more »
Bernard Caldwell

Sport of Kings

CALDWELL’S CLARION CALL

THE HEAD of the Irish Stable Staff Association, Bernard Caldwell, doesn’t pop his head over the parapet too often, but tends to make plenty of noise when he does. It... Read more »

Reviews

The Magician

Books

THE MAGICIAN – COLM TÓIBÍN

THIS IS the second time Colm Tóibín has used fiction to imagine his way into the mind of a famous literary figure. His 2004 novel, The Master, portrayed Henry James... Read more »
Arracht Poster

Movies

ARRACHT – DIRECTED BY TOM SULLIVAN

PERHAPS THE most telling aspect, for purely anglophone audiences of Tom Sullivan’s debut film Arracht, is the translation of the title as béarla – ‘Monster’. It’s a meaning that can... Read more »

Moneybags

Moneybags

Michael Stanley

Moneybags

CAIRN SHARE PRICE LEAVES ROOM FOR UPSIDE

FROM A standing start in 2015, when Cairn Homes delivered a mere 11 houses, the output figure hit 1,080 in 2019. This was not... Read more »

Moneybags

Jonathan Laredo

Moneybags

YEW GROVE’S HIGH-RANKING TENANTS GUARANTEE DIVIDENDS

YEW GROVE REIT came late to the party, only floating off in June 2018 and raising a relatively modest €75m. Significantly, the company did... Read more »

Brief Cases

Oliver Callan

Brief Cases

OLIVER CALLAN’S BIG MOVE

PITY POOR Oliver Callan, the Monaghan funnyman, who told professional celeb-wrangler Niamh Horan how embarrassed he had been about his perilous financial position. As Horan recounted in the Sindo, “despite... Read more »
John O'Meara

Brief Cases

JOHN O’MEARA’S PRESCRIPTION

THIS IS turning into an annus horribilis for the hapless pharmacy group owner John O’Meara. He is currently the subject of a fitness to practise inquiry by Joanne Kissane’s Pharmaceutical... Read more »
Richard Colwell

Brief Cases

RICHARD COLWELL’S SMOOTH SAILING

ALTHOUGH HE only recently inked a multimillion-euro deal to offload his polling and market research company Red C, to Enda O’Coineen’s Business Post Group, founder and chief executive Richard Colwell... Read more »
Nerano House

Brief Cases

PAURIC CALDWELL’S GIBRALTAR CONNECTIONS

ONE OF the most expensive houses to come on the market is recent times is the splendid Nerano House in Dalkey, which carries a price tag of an impressive €7.25m.... Read more »