Affairs of the Nation

Fintan O'Toole

Affairs of the Nation

UKRAINE: ‘EDITORIAL FARM’

THE RUSSIAN onslaught against Ukraine has revealed a surprising and disappointing dearth in the Irish media – with a few honourable exceptions – of anti-war journalists. Despite the cynical and... Read more »
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Affairs of the Nation

TONI & GUY’S HAIRCUT

BACK IN the 1990s, Alan Boyce was revered by so-called fashionistas as the guy who modernised hairdressing in dreary old Dublin. No doubt, he has made a few bob in... 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

TRINITY’S UNIVERSITY CHALLENGE

IT WILL be a tense couple of weeks for the deputy editor of Trinity College student paper, the University Times, who faces a challenge for the remunerated role of editor... Read more »

Affairs of the Nation

President Higgins

Affairs of the Nation

CIVIL WAR CIVILITY

ALREADY THERE has been a clear schism between the government and President Michael D Higgins over how to deal with centenary commemorations of that sensitive subject, the Civil War. A... Read more »
Barry Andrews

Affairs of the Nation

BARRY ANDREWS GETS TOUGH

WHAT A rabble-rousing politician MEP Barry Andrews has turned out to be, reverting to the more direct, radical tone of his grandfather Todd Andrews rather than his more patrician sounding... Read more »
Jim Allister

Affairs of the Nation

DUP DISARRAY

IT IS 40 days to the north’s assembly election on May 5 and the Sinn Féin posters are already up in North Belfast while the DUP only selected its candidates... Read more »
Cathal Divilly

Affairs of the Nation

HEIGH-HO…

AN IMPENDING winding-up hearing in the High Court may have somewhat spoiled the Paddy’s Day celebrations for Cathal Divilly (CEO) and his partner, Jim Flynn, principals in Great Place To... Read more »
Colly McLaughlin

Affairs of the Nation

THE FOG OF WAR

MANY ON the left are still trying to clarify their line on Ukraine but the Communist Party of Ireland (CPI) and Irish Republican Socialist Party (IRSP) have reached the clearest... Read more »
John Fitzgerald

Affairs of the Nation

BLOWIN’ IN THE WIND

THE ECONOMIC and supply chain shockwaves from the war in Ukraine have re-energised the ‘realists’ to use the crisis as cover to push existing agendas with renewed zeal. At Irish... Read more »

Pillars of Society

Marian Keyes

Pillars of Society

PROFILE: MARIAN KEYES

IT’S ALMOST impossible to avoid the media frenzy that continues to accompany the release of Marian Keyes’s Again, Rachel, with wall-to-wall fawning coverage here... Read more »

The Young Bloods

Duncan Smyth

The Young Bloods

YOUNG BLOOD: DUNCAN SMYTH

IN HISTORY it is often the person closest to the victim who inflicts the fatal wound, so it is perhaps not so surprising that... Read more »

Fit to Print?

Michael D Higgins

Fit to Print?

‘IRISH TIMES’ VALUES

THERE WAS a time when a broadside from President Michael D Higgins, direct or indirect, against government policy would stimulate controversy and sometimes even stern admonition, depending on the gravity... Read more »
Ivan Yates Nell McCafferty RTÉ Lord Laird Intro Matchmaking NewsBrands Martin McGuinness Dún Laoghaire Pat Leahy Cormac Lucey John Cooney Irish Journalism Awards Steve Aiken Anton Savage John Downing Lucinda Creighton Marina Sologub Eilis O'Hanlon Ian Kehoe Danny McConnell Sindo O'Connor Mediahuis Stephen Collins Book Justine McCarthy Rewriting the Troubles Lynn Ruane Sinn Féin

Fit to Print?

WHAT MATTERS AT RTE?

RTÉ NEWS unveiled its ‘Truth Matters’ campaign in September 2020 with its own section on the RTÉ News website, including articles, videos and podcasts. Central to the campaign is its... Read more »
Captain Patrick Bury

Fit to Print?

RTÉ’S UKRAINIAN EXPERTS

DR PATRICK BURY is regularly interviewed by RTÉ on the Russian invasion of Ukraine and is introduced as a lecturer at Bath university and a Nato analyst. But there is... Read more »

Last Refuge

John Carroll

Last Refuge

VARADKAR: FOLLOW ME UP TO MALLOW

PREPARATIONS FOR the replacement of the Fine Gael Agriculture Affairs Group (FGAAG) (see The Phoenix, 25/2/22) have not been running smoothly. This is despite the best efforts of Leo Varadkar,... Read more »
Ivana Bacik

Last Refuge

LABOUR AND SOC DEMS TO UNITE?

UNITY OF the left – or the Labour/Social Democrats part of the left – is highly prized by the former of these two parties but strongly resisted by the latter.... 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

BEST-LAID PLANS OF FF AND FG

A FRETFUL Irish Times article last weekend reported (and appeared to agree) that government backbenchers believe the next election will be lost if it is about housing or health. It... Read more »

Hush Hush

John Brady

Hush Hush

SINN FEIN SPOOKED BY RUSSIA?

CENTRAL TO the war in Ukraine are the separatist ‘People’s Republics’ of Donetsk and Luhansk, which were established by Russian backed armed groups in 2014. When Charlie Flanagan invited the... Read more »

Bog Cuttings

Bog-Cuttings-Defaul

Bog Cuttings

BOG CUTTINGS

GARDA A ‘RAT BASTARD’ A GARDA was verbally abused as “a rat bastard” and other insulting terms when he went to deal with a disturbance in Knocknaheeny. At Cork District... Read more »

Fowl Emissions

Charlie Flanagan RIC Commemorations

Fowl Emissions

‘SHOCK DOCTRINE’

THIS YEAR’S Census form includes a box in which you can send a message to people 100 years in the future. The question of how habitable Ireland or the world... Read more »
Luke Holland Climate Denial John Fagan Wolf Europe David Quinn Duncan Stewart Data Centre Carbon Emissions Conor Skehan Chris Hazzard

Fowl Emissions

MARK FOLEY’S ENERGY TIPS

“PLEASE TAKE energy conservation seriously,” tweeted EirGrid CEO Mark Foley this week as he described the energy reductions he achieves by dropping his speed to 100km/hr when driving his electric... Read more »

The Hot Air Brigade

Andrew Deeks

The Hot Air Brigade

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

“My personal plea to the Russian government is to immediately cease military operations in Ukraine.” UCD president Andrew Deeks’s email bulletin to staff, but is Putin listening? (submitted by reader)... Read more »

High Society

High Society

Denis O'Brien

High Society

DINNY’S HOTEL BILL

BILLIONAIRE Denis O’Brien’s campaign to help several Caribbean countries to seek slavery reparations from former colonial powers was highlighted in the Sunday Times earlier... Read more »

High Society

High Society

ANNAMARIE FEGAN’S SMOOTH SAILING

CONGRATULATIONS ARE in order for Crosshaven sailor Annamarie Fegan, who has been voted in as the first female vice-admiral in three centuries of the... Read more »

High Society

John O'Conor

High Society

JOHN O’CONOR’S RED MENACE

IT IS perhaps not surprising in the current climate that organisations should be scrambling to display their anti-Putin credentials but the decision by the Dublin International Piano Competition (DIPC) to... Read more »

Behind the Scenes

Desiree Finnegan

Behind the Scenes

DÉSIRÉE’S TOP-UPS

SCREEN IRELAND (SI) funding offers in the last quarter of 2021 are curiously low rent compared with previous awards. Presumably, the state agency, headed up by Désirée Finnegan, had ‘front-loaded’ more... Read more »
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Behind the Scenes

CLOSING DATE FOR NCAD CHAIR

THIS WEEK sees the closing date for a vacancy on the board of the National College of Art and Design (NCAD), with the successful candidate possibly in line to be... Read more »

Sport of Kings

Douglas Taylor

Sport of Kings

DOUG TAYLOR’S PURCHASE

DOUGLAS TAYLOR, who has been making waves in the racing and bloodstock world for some time, has another big project in the pipeline. The MCR Group boss – well known... Read more »
Ed Dunlop David Dunsdon Sarah Lynam Rebecca May Wayne Hassett Eoin O'Brien Michael Burke Aine O’Connor Ashroe Diamond Thomand O’Mara Peter Keatley Timmy Hyde Coolmore All About Sunday Colin Keane Ronan Whelan JP McManus Jessica Harrington Dundalk Racecourse Paul Hensey Irish National Hunt Horse-racing Doping Paddy Walsh Tom Kelly Suspension

Sport of Kings

SERPENTINE SNIPPED

JOHN MAGNIER’S Coolmore Stud has become the first breeder in modern history to geld an Epsom Derby winner, with the news that 2020 winner Serpentine has been ‘cut’ and sold... Read more »
Gordon Elliott

Sport of Kings

ELLIOTT’S ROUGH RIDE

IT WAS a more than satisfactory week for the Irish at Cheltenham, though the anticipated level of domination over the Brits did not materialise. Willie Mullins, however, did single-handedly train... Read more »
Jimmy Gough

Sport of Kings

JIMMY GOUGH’S WINNING RIDE

FANS OF The Phoenix will be familiar with the adventures of the bolshy Jimmy Gough, who has proved a thorn in the side of the powers that be in the... Read more »

Reviews

The 2 Johnnies

Radio

DRIVE IT WITH THE 2 JOHNNIES – 2FM

LAST WEEK found culchie comedy duo the 2 Johnnies returning to the 2FM airwaves after the brouhaha surrounding sexist material posted on their social media channels. The furore had included... Read more »
Foscad

Movies

FOSCADH – DIRECTED BY SEÁN BREATHNACH

THIS IS Seán Breathnach’s first film and is among the very best debut feature films to have been made in Ireland. Produced by Paddy Hayes of Tua Films, a veteran... Read more »

Moneybags

Moneybags

Richard Conroy

Moneybags

CONROY GOLD’S TURKISH DELIGHT

QUANTITATIVE EASING devalues cash and this, combined with negative interest rates and the crisis caused by the invasion of Ukraine, is the perfect scenario... Read more »

Moneybags

Francesca McDonagh

Moneybags

BOI SHARES UNDERRATED BUT TROUBLE BREWING

FRANCESCA MCDONAGH has been running Bank of Ireland (BoI) since October 2017, a position that is the ideal platform for her to position herself... Read more »

The Hot Water Brigade

John O’Connell

The Hot Water Brigade

JOHN O’CONNELL’S LICENCE APPLICATION

GOLDHAWK WAS interested to see the name of John O’Connell, the prime mover in the big West Cork Distillers operation, pop up in coverage of a row between independent whiskey... Read more »
Chanelle McCoy

The Hot Water Brigade

CHANELLE MCCOY’S GOOD GOING

CHANELLE MCCOY, a former Dragon’s Den dragon raised a fair few bob for her new cannabidiol (CBD) extract company, Chanelle McCoy Health (CMH), where her hubby, legendary jump jockey Tony... Read more »
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The Hot Water Brigade

THE ITALIAN JOB

A HEFTY €1.1m judgment has just been registered against an interesting Irish company called WLE World Licensing Enterprise Ltd with a registered address in Sandyford, D18, by Italian giant Cisalfa... Read more »
Declan Rice

The Hot Water Brigade

SCHOOL OF FOOD’S HARD LESSON

AT A creditors’ meeting last month, James Nolan was appointed liquidator of the company that had been behind a training school for chefs, backed with public funds and formed part... Read more »