Affairs of the Nation

Dalton Philips

Affairs of the Nation

DALTON PHILIPS’S TURBULENCE

ONE MAN who might not have been too shocked by the queuing debacle at Dublin airport last weekend was former chairman of Morrisons supermarket chain, Sir Ken Morrison. He previously... Read more »
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Affairs of the Nation

BANKERS’ RETREAT

A COMPANY with the relatively unassuming name of We.Trade Innovation has called a creditors’ meeting. It turns out that an awful lot of money has gone down the tubes here.... Read more »
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

BONO’S FILM SCORE

SET IN the Four Goldmines and promising plenty of action scenes, the Clondalkin film studio spat between Tyrone McKillen (son of Paddy) and the founders of Lens Media drags back... Read more »

Affairs of the Nation

Joe Biden Russian Orwell Road

Affairs of the Nation

BIDEN AND MARTIN’S UKRAINIAN WELCOME

AN ALARMING Sunday Independent story about a “secret memo” to government in the form of a cross-government risk analysis recently warned of risks for social cohesion from the sudden influx... Read more »
Osgur Breatnach

Affairs of the Nation

SALLINS TRAIN TRIAL LINED UP FOR THE UN?

NOT A peep has there been from the media about the potential investigation by the United Nations of convictions for the £200,000 Sallins train robbery, convictions which were eventually overturned... Read more »
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

DR CAHILL’S CASE BOOK

THE CONTROVERSIAL doctor at the heart of the American Irish Historical Society (AIHS) row tried to have the case in which he is accused of repeatedly violating a patient thrown... Read more »
Robert Nairac

Affairs of the Nation

THE GHOST OF ROBERT NAIRAC

LAST MONTH, the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims’ Remains renewed an appeal for information about the whereabouts of the body of Captain Robert Nairac GC. He disappeared 45 years... Read more »
Yuri Filatov

Affairs of the Nation

DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY

MANY OF the top brass were bemused at Simon Coveney’s rap across the knuckles of chief of staff, Lt Gen Seán Clancy, for meeting Russian ambassador Yuri Filatov in late... Read more »
Owen Cullen

Affairs of the Nation

OWEN CULLEN’S CLIPPINGS

WHILE LEINSTER Rugby head coach Leo Cullen had little to celebrate last weekend in Marseille, his younger brother, Owen, has been able to deliver a match-winning result in the family... Read more »
letters to editor

Affairs of the Nation

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

DÉISE’S PRIDE AND JOY Dear Editor I would like to take issue with your article regarding the movement of past Trinity leaders Veronica Campbell and Paddy Prendergast to governance positions... Read more »

Pillars of Society

Paul O’Neill Irish Times editor

Pillars of Society

PROFILE: PAUL O’NEILL

THE IRISH TIMES appears to have mutated from its decades-long liberalism into a right-of-centre strain, judging by its increasingly hawkish views against neutrality and... Read more »

The Young Bloods

Russell Alford and Patrick Hanlon

The Young Bloods

YOUNG BLOODS: THE GASTROGAYS

WHILE DOUBLE acts are not unusual in the vast culinary and food arenas – think The Happy Pear, Cully and Sully and Two Fat... Read more »

Fit to Print?

Rupert Murdoch

Fit to Print?

‘SUNDAY TIMES’ VS GOLDHAWK

POOR GOLDHAWK is reeling from a frenzied attack by the Aawrish edition of the Sunday Times whose associate editor, John Burns, is very cross at criticism The Phoenix levels at... Read more »
Jane Mahony

Fit to Print?

JANE MAHONY’S LETTER

A DETAILED and erudite letter to the Irish Times last week took issue with Catholic writer and columnist Breda O’Brien for saying in her weekly column that the Irish Sisters... Read more »

Last Refuge

Sharon Tolan

Last Refuge

FG’S FACTION FIGHTS IN MEATH EAST

JUSTICE MINISTER Helen McEntee certainly came to her ministerial post well equipped with the knowledge of legal and other altercations in her Meath East constituency. Most embarrassingly, some of them... Read more »
Mary Lou McDonald

Last Refuge

POLLS: LEO V MARTIN AS MARY LOU RISES

THE STATISTIC that jumped off the Red C/Business Post page at the weekend was that showing Sinn Féin at 36%, up two points from the last Red C poll a... Read more »
Michael Ring

Last Refuge

VLAD’S UNHAPPY CREW

MY, BUT what a coincidence – and one that will surely have been clocked by Leo Varadkar as well as leadership hopefuls, Simon Harris, Helen McEntee and Peter Burke –... Read more »
Micheál Martin

Last Refuge

MICHEÁL’S BORDER POLL COYNESS: RICHMOND ET AL POUNCE

MUCH CONFUSION surrounds the political parties’ positions on the mooted issue of a border poll and, Fine Gael in particular, is playing a very Machiavellian game in an effort to... Read more »

Hush Hush

Seán Clancy

Hush Hush

IRELAND’S NEUTRAL CIVIL WAR SKIES

THE MOST recent issue of An Cosantóir, official magazine of the Irish Defence Forces, is a special edition commemorating the centenary of the establishment of the Irish Air Corps. It... Read more »

Bog Cuttings

Bog-Cuttings-Defaul

Bog Cuttings

BOG CUTTINGS

BOG ROLL A 20-YEAR-OLD man, arrested in Co Cork last year for threatening gardaí and saying that he would use any summons as toilet paper, appeared before Cork District Court.... Read more »

Fowl Emissions

Zoe Kavanagh

Fowl Emissions

THE LAND OF MILK , MOOLAH AND FITBITS

FOR THE dairy industry, Ireland in recent years has been a land of milk and money. The sector has expanded at breakneck speed since EU milk quotas were lifted in... Read more »
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Fowl Emissions

PHONEY CLIMATE WAR

ONE OF the more ludicrous aspects of the climate emergency is that the Irish public has been conditioned to think that it can be addressed with tiny, painless actions. The... Read more »

The Hot Air Brigade

Ryan Tubridy

The Hot Air Brigade

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

We became a show, I hope, of presence for people. We were kind of like a beacon in the fog, if you like, because now no one knew what time... Read more »

High Society

Kirsten Rausing

High Society

KIRSTEN RAUSING’S STUDS

THE SUNDAY TIMES’S UK edition still publishes its annual ‘Rich List’, while the Irish version called it a day a couple of years ago. This gives local readers a little... Read more »
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High Society

CHANELLE MCCOY’S NEW ARRIVALS

PRESUMABLY, CHANELLE – sorry Lady – McCoy will be paying close attention to a High Court challenge initiated by a Co Waterford retailer of cannabidiol derivatives (CBD) against the DPP... Read more »
Bella Bielenberg

High Society

CHRISTOPHER BIELENBERG’S MANY HOMES

WITH SUMMER approaching, Goldhawk perused the predictable extended plug for the sprawling Sandbrook House in Co Carlow, the sometimes abode of Christopher Bielenberg and Arabella Wauchope Huddart (aka Bella), who... Read more »

Behind the Scenes

Brian Merriman

Behind the Scenes

BRIAN MERRIMAN’S BAD REVIEW

THE REJECTION by the Arts Council appeals panel of a funding application from Brian Merriman’s International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival (IDGTF) probably came as a surprise to observers, given the... Read more »
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Behind the Scenes

CATHERINE MARTIN’S LA STORY

PRESUMABLY Leo Varadkar et al were envious of Catherine Martin’s recent LA junket, the purpose of which would have been to reassure the moguls that Irish taxpayers are happy to... Read more »

Sport of Kings

Kieran Cotter

Sport of Kings

COTTER’S SETBACK

KIERAN COTTER’S progress as an upwardly mobile trainer has been halted for a while after he was the recipient of one of the biggest fines ever handed out by the... Read more »
Joseph O'Brien's Horses

Sport of Kings

ADDING UP AT MYRACEHORSE

THE MICRO-SHARE ownership vehicle Myracehorse.com got off to a great start when its part-owned Authentic won the Kentucky Derby in 2020 and the syndicate has now unveiled its first horse... Read more »
Brendan Duke Adrian Murray Mick Bailey

Sport of Kings

CANTILLONS IN CLOVER

DERMOT CANTILLON and his wife, former IHRB senior steward Meta Osborne hit the jackpot recently when selling one of their broodmares to the late Prince Khalid Abdullah’s Juddmonte Farms for... Read more »
Gordon Elliot

Sport of Kings

GORDON ELLIOTT’S SURPRISE

THERE WAS an interesting Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board referral from Punchestown in April involving trainer Gordon Elliott.  The agency noted the late withdrawal of the Elliott-trained Eskylane shortly before the... Read more »

Reviews

Joe Alwyn and Alison Oliver

Reviews

CONVERSATIONS WITH FRIENDS – BBC 3/RTÉ 1

DIRECTOR LENNY Abrahamson was perhaps asking for trouble with his second Sally Rooney adaptation in two years, following on from the deliriously OTT reviewed Normal People which, particularly in Ireland, was... Read more »
Poguemahone

Books

POGUEMAHONE – PATRICK McCABE

FOLLOWING HIS early success with The Butcher Boy in 1992, Patrick McCabe’s distinctive tongue-in-cheek fiction has often been hit and miss. The alternating scenes of familial trauma and false jollity... Read more »

Moneybags

Peter Jackson

Moneybags

ODDS NARROW ON FLUTTER SHARES JUMP

THE OPENING up of the online gaming market in the United States of America – worth a gross £100bn, based on the UK market... Read more »

Moneybags

Moneybags

AMINEX SHARES COULD BE BOOSTED BY OVERDUE NOVEMBER DRILL

IT IS 10 years since former Aminex boss Brian Hall originally hit pay dirt in the Ruvuma licence in Tanzania, when he took on... Read more »

The Hot Water Brigade

Darryl Kavanagh

The Hot Water Brigade

DARRYL KAVANAGH’S TROLL

IT MUST have come as quite a surprise to the entrepreneurial Darryl Kavanagh to come across a couple of new web pages featuring his name that have dug up his... Read more »
Donal Gallagher

The Hot Water Brigade

DONAL GALLAGHER’S IRISH HEADACHE

WHILE HE has been flying high in London in recent years, construction moneybags Donal Gallagher has been experiencing rather serious turbulence on this side of the Irish Sea. Liquidator John... Read more »
Brian McDonagh

The Hot Water Brigade

MCDONAGH’S COSTS

IT HAS been a tough few years for the indefatigable Brian McDonagh, the man who copped a lot of the blame for stopping that big Apple data centre in Athenry,... Read more »
Judge Isobel Kennedy

The Hot Water Brigade

ARNAUD GAULTIER’S VINTAGE PERFORMANCE

KILDARE-BASED wine importer Arnaud Gaultier recently suffered yet another setback in his continuing saga against the dreaded taxman. Fans of Goldhawk will remember Gaultier, who in 2006 had the misfortune... Read more »