Affairs of the Nation

Paul O’Neill Irish Times editor

Affairs of the Nation

‘IRISH TIMES’ HOT SEAT

THE EXIT of Paul O’Neill, after little more than five years as the editor of the Irish Times, came as a surprise to outsiders, although the rumour machine has been... Read more »
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Affairs of the Nation

PAT MCDONAGH’S BUN FIGHT

BURGER KING Pat ‘Supermac’s’ McDonagh found himself in a stand-off with a Limerick-based franchisee John Lyons over alleged rent arrears. It looks like the bolshy McDonagh has met his match.... 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

CLINTEL’S DECLARATION

WITH EVIDENCE of climate change impossible to avoid this summer a Dutch-based group Clintel, mainly funded by a real-estate millionaire, issued a statement that there is “no climate emergency”. Carbon... Read more »

Affairs of the Nation

Dee Forbes RTÉ Current Affairs

Affairs of the Nation

MORE HEADACHES FOR DEE FORBES

RTÉ’S HEAD of news and current affairs, Jon Williams, threw a clever feint with his new year’s message to staff back in January by telling them he was poised to... 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

HEAVY GOING AT HRI

THE LONG overdue publication of the annual report of Brian Kavanagh’s Horse Racing Ireland (HRI) agency is due next month and there will be plenty of interest in its contents.... Read more »
Dermot McCarthy Ireland Energy Independence

Affairs of the Nation

DERMOT McCARTHY’S REVIEW

WITH THE hapless Irish public facing a ‘perfect storm’ of power cuts, fuel rationing and soaring prices both this and next winter, the Government has asked former chief civil servant... Read more »
James Cahill Law Society

Affairs of the Nation

LAW SOCIETY TRUCE

BOTH SIDES have temporarily backed down in the Law Society controversy that saw a motion to expel 2020-21 president James Cahill from the society’s co-ordination committee, finance committee and all... Read more »
Allan Beechinor ALTADA

Affairs of the Nation

ALTADA SETS THE RECORD STRAIGHT

IT HAS been a hectic August for Allan Beechinor and Niamh Parker, the principals in the Altada artificial intelligence (AI) outfit tipped to be the next ‘unicorn’ but now the... Read more »
Charlie Flanagan RIC Commemorations

Affairs of the Nation

‘TANS’ WRITTEN OUT OF HISTORY

A DISAPPOINTED Charlie ‘BlackandTanAgain’ Flanagan and friends will not, as promised, be organising another effort to celebrate the contribution of the Royal Irish Constabulary to Irish independence and town planning... Read more »
John McKeague Kincora Home Abuse

Affairs of the Nation

KINCORA WHISTLE BLOWER DIES

CAPTAIN BRIAN GEMMELL, who ran loyalist agents for MI5 in the mid-1970s, has died. When Gemmell discovered that boys were being abused by a staff member at Kincora Boys’ Home... Read more »
Charlie Haughey An Enemy of The Crown

Affairs of the Nation

AN ENEMY OF THE CROWN

NEW INFORMATION about a decade-long MI6 smear campaign against Charles Haughey and even an operation to sully St John Hume is about to be published in a book called An... Read more »

Pillars of Society

Norma Foley

Pillars of Society

PROFILE: NORMA FOLEY

THE ANNUAL back-to-school drama festival is kicking off with an all-star female cast in Dublin’s Marlborough Street, home of that venerable institution that has... Read more »

The Young Bloods

Muireann O’Connell Virgin

The Young Bloods

YOUNG BLOOD: MUIREANN O’CONNELL

HAVING BEEN dropped from her radio show on Today FM in 2019, the gobby Muireann O’Connell is powering ahead with her TV career with... Read more »

Fit to Print?

Peter Vandermeersch Mediahuis Awards

Fit to Print?

MAKING THE MEDIA GRADE

AFTER THREATENING last February to walk out of Newsbrands Ireland post haste – because its titles were “treated unfairly” in Newsbrands journalism awards – Mediahuis, the largest newspaper group in... Read more »
Diageo Dana An Garda Síochána IT Trust No Stone Unturned Irish Times Black Friday Vicky Conway

Fit to Print?

VICKY CONWAY’S CONCERNS

THE MEDIA tributes to academic and policing expert Vicky Conway reflected the genuine esteem in which she was held by her peers. But many of the tributes by journalists and... Read more »
Sinn Féin Media Bias

Fit to Print?

MEDIA EYES UP SF

IS THE media reverting to its previous attack-dog role against Sinn Féin after a truce of sorts since the general election and more than two years out from the next... Read more »

Last Refuge

Joseph O'Sullivan Human Rights Ireland

Last Refuge

BARRISTERS FIGHT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS

THE BAR of Ireland’s human rights committee has had a mixed press recently, with its front-of-house personalities offering different perspectives on human rights depending on who and what issues are... Read more »
Lorna Bogue Green Movement Ireland

Last Refuge

WHITHER THE GREENS?

RECENT POLL figures for the Green Party by the Business Post/Red C (4%), Irish Times (3%) and Sunday Independent (4%) will have many of its TDs and councillors worrying about... 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

BARRY COWEN’S CAMPAIGN

BARRY COWEN’S supporters in Fianna Fáil have been working overtime, pushing out a leadership election message via the sympathetic pages of the Irish Mail on Sunday. One of the paper’s... Read more »
Michael Leahy MANY PEOPLE would have been surprised to learn that the chair of the right-wing, anti-immigrant Irish Freedom Party

Last Refuge

IRISH FREEDOM PARTY CHAIR

MANY PEOPLE would have been surprised to learn that the chair of the right-wing, anti-immigrant Irish Freedom Party (IFP), Michael Leahy, was the An Bord Pleanála board member who dealt... Read more »

Bog Cuttings

Bog-Cuttings-Defaul

Bog Cuttings

BOG CUTTINGS

‘WORSE THAN RUSSIANS’ A 65-YEAR-OLD man who told gardaí that they were “worse than the Russians” appeared before Dundalk District Court charged with public intoxication and using threatening or abusive... Read more »

Fowl Emissions

Tom McNamara Data Centre Emissions Ireland

Fowl Emissions

BIG DATA, BIG EMISSIONS

“DATA CENTRES have a lot of roof space so installing solar panels on the top of their facilities could help make them energy self-sufficient.” This tip from industry insider Chris... Read more »
Climate Disinformation Coillte Climate Action EU Livestock NDC Claude Etchelamendy Ed Brophy Richard Boyd-Barrett Kish Dale Crammond Frank Mitloehner Shell Greenwashing Meta Data Centres Ireland

Fowl Emissions

METAVERSE’S MEGA DEMANDS

THE METAVERSE is Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s science-fiction fantasy, his vision for an always connected virtual world that will exist in parallel to our own. What’s not to love? Well,... Read more »

High Society

High Society

Lorraine Keane House

High Society

LORRAINE KEANE’S BATHROOMS

GOLDHAWK WAS surprised to see two pages devoted to Lorraine Keane’s Monkstown pile in the Sunday Times last weekend. Three years after the impressive... Read more »

High Society

IHT CHL The Lion in Winter Racing Royalty Le Brocquy City of Troy Fitzwilliam Square AIRO Dermot Smurfit Ballinacarrig Park Club Cosgrave Fitzpatrick Keith Jameson National Gallery Collection Marissa Carter VG Tom Higgins Neil Jordan Laura Bonner Paul Ward Variety Jones Dtat Eathos Sharon Keegan Angela Scanlon Desmond Canouan Bellair Estate Bobby Flay John O’Conor Portrait of Omai Eibhlín Ní Chonghaile Wedding NGI Board Rachel Flynn JP McMahon Ash Quinn Pamela Laird Abdullah Al Naboodah Boundless Ocean

High Society

JIM BOLGER’S SAUDI SALE

CONGRATULATIONS ARE yet again in order to wily racehorse trainer Jim Bolger, who has managed to offload one of his nags for what must... Read more »

High Society

Rosie Connolly

High Society

ROSIE CONNOLLY’S NEW FRIENDS

ALTHOUGH barely a year in existence, influencer Rosie Connolly’s new fashion brand has attracted some unlikely funders. Given that one of them is Tommy Kelly, the zillionaire behind the stupendously... Read more »

Behind the Scenes

Annie Fletcher IMMA Board

Behind the Scenes

IMMA’S PLURALITY PITCH

IT SHOULDN’T be too much longer before arts minister Catherine Martin finally gets around to filling the four vacancies on the IMMA board, three of which have existed for over... Read more »
Tailored Films Screen Ireland Perspectives DCCI Crescine Tarka Russell Lara Hickey Reality Check Sarah McInerney Irish Movies Paul Murray Arts Council Dublin Theatre Festival TWU Macdara Kelleher Richard Boyd Barrett DADC Cillian Murphy Terry McMahon Media Commission Ireland Kerlin Gallery Creative Ireland Section 481 Christine O’Donovan RTÉ Storyland NMI Board Vacancies IASCA Ossie Kilkenny RTÉ Original Programmes

Behind the Scenes

OSSIE KILKENNY’S CAMEO

You don’t hear too much from Ossie Kilkenny these days as he has taken quite a step back from the limelight since his time as U2’s number cruncher. His most... Read more »

Sport of Kings

Mohammed Al Maktoum Godolphin Ireland

Sport of Kings

SHEIKH MOHAMMED’S IRISH EXIT

THE DECISION by Sheikh Mohammed Al Maktoum’s Godolphin racing operation to cease having horses trained in Ireland from the end of this year represents a significant blow to the industry.... Read more »
Ado McGuinness Shamrock Thoroughbreds

Sport of Kings

O’GORMAN’S GOOD CALL

TRAINERS ARE often quick to criticise the handicapper when they feel their horses are unfairly penalised by the ratings. More often than not, however, the handicappers’ decisions tend to be... Read more »
Tim Husbands Irish Champion Stakes

Sport of Kings

GOING GOOD FOR HUSBANDS

A MONTH ago, the Irish Champion Stakes was in poor enough shape, without a sponsor and potentially lacking a marquee horse, either domestic or international, to aid course boss Tim... Read more »
Ronan McNally Suspension

Sport of Kings

MCNALLY’S FINE RESULT

WHEN TRAINER Ronan McNally and jockey Kevin Sexton got into trouble with the stewards at Limerick over the running and riding of Ithaka last month, it was no surprise that... Read more »

Reviews

Bad Sisters

Reviews

BAD SISTERS – APPLETV+

IN AN unflattering reflection on RTÉ’s drama output, an Irish comedy-thriller series has finally landed – and it’s an adaptation of a Belgian series financed by a US multinational. The... Read more »
Ardal OHanlon Book

Books|Reviews

BROUHAHA – ARDAL O’HANLON

ALMOST A quarter of a century after his debut novel, The Talk of the Town, Ardal O’Hanlon’s underwhelming ‘follow up’ is another darkly comic crime thriller with many of the... Read more »

Moneybags

Moneybags

Rita-Rose Gagné Hammerson Share Price

Moneybags

HAMMERSON SHARES PRICED AT 50% DISCOUNT TO ASSET VALUE

IT IS an impressive feat that the biggest retail property investor in this country, Dundrum Town Centre (DTC) owner Hammerson, has successfully navigated its... Read more »

Moneybags

Jeremy Skillington

Moneybags

POOLBEG PHARMA LOOKING FOR SHOT IN THE ARM

POOLBEG PHARMA was spun off from Open Orphan as it did not quite fit into that company’s developmental model as it is targeting the... Read more »

Briefcases

Fiona McHugh

Briefcases

FIONA MCHUGH’S CLOUDY OUTLOOK

HAVING ONLY recently found herself on the end of a tiny judgment from the Revenue for just €1,850 (presumably as a result of some oversight), former Sunday Times editor turned... Read more »
John Burns Irish Newspaper Archives Problems

Briefcases

JOHN BURNS’S PAPER TRAIL

GOLDHAWK’S EYE was caught by a curious media piece by John Burns of the Sunday Times last week, in which he wrote about how a reader had recently contacted him... Read more »
Dermot Desmond The Sporting Emporium Losses

Briefcases

DERMOT DESMOND’S LONG SHOT

DERMOT DESMOND must be happy that his casino business off Grafton Street, on St Anne’s Lane, is making a profit these days. But the latest accounts for The Sporting Emporium... Read more »
John Calvert Irish Film Tax Credit

Briefcases

MOVIEMAKERS’ PREDICTABLE PLOT

AN ASSESSMENT of the film and television luvvies’ favourite tax credit, Section 481, is currently under way at the Department of Finance, prior to the inevitable green light for yet... Read more »