Affairs of the Nation

Vladimir Putin Aer Lingus Crash

Affairs of the Nation

MYSTERY IT CRASH AT AER LINGUS

THE COMPUTERISED IT system at Aer Lingus suffered a significant crash on Saturday September 10, from 9am to 5.30pm. The disruption caused the airline to cancel more than 50 flights... Read more »
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Affairs of the Nation

NEW CHAIR FOR RTÉ

NEXT WEEK is the closing date for applicants seeking to land the plum job of chairperson of RTÉ. There should be plenty of interest given the perks. The post was... 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

CLEVER TREVOR’S SPEAKERS

INTERESTING TO see who is speaking at the upcoming ‘Icon’ series at the Little Museum of Dublin, where director Trevor White has signed up historians Patrick Geoghegan (sometimes speech writer... Read more »

Affairs of the Nation

Richard Moore

Affairs of the Nation

LIZ TRUSS’S ‘ETHICAL’ SPYMASTER

British teasock Liz Truss appears determined to maintain his majesty’s ship of state on a collision course with the EU. If she hopes to grab any sort of a Brexit... Read more »
Ryanair AGM Michael O'Leary

Affairs of the Nation

RYANAIR’S BUSINESS CLASS

THERE WAS A bumpy landing for those financial hacks who booked their tickets for the Ryanair AGM in north County Dublin last week. The question is, what were they doing... Read more »
King Charles Ireland

Affairs of the Nation

KING CHARLES AND THE IRISH

THE MEDIA seemed to be competing with their British counterparts when it came to recording the devotion of the British royals’ would-be subjects in this part of the world over... Read more »
Queen Elizabeth

Affairs of the Nation

SHE LOVED US, SHE LOVED US NOT

YOU HAVE to hand it to the late Queen Elizabeth, whose act in coming over all friendly toward Ireland in recent years was consummate, due largely to her usual willingness... Read more »
Bill Shipsey Art for Amnesty

Affairs of the Nation

BILL SHIPSEY’S ART WORK

IT WAS surprising to see former barrister Bill Shipsey caught in the crosshairs last week, when Amnesty International (AI) commenced legal proceedings against him linked to the work he has... Read more »
Irish Equity Gerry O'Brien

Affairs of the Nation

GERRY O’BRIEN’S BUDGET PLOT

IN A flurry of recent social media publicity on Facebook and Instagram, Gerry O’Brien, the president of the Irish Equity actors and performers union, has upped the ante in his... Read more »

Pillars of Society

Frances Black

Pillars of Society

PROFILE: FRANCES BLACK

CIVIC GROUP Ireland’s Future may still be a little hazy and fraught with antagonism from most unionists and southern partitionists, but south it is... Read more »

The Young Bloods

Roz Purcell

The Young Bloods

YOUNG BLOOD: ROZ PURCELL

BEING PLACED in the top 10 at the Donald Trump-owned Miss Universe contest in 2010, the career of all-round media darling Roz Purcell has... Read more »

Fit to Print?

Paul Mulvaney ESB Georgian Dublin

Fit to Print?

‘IRISH TIMES’ RUNS FROM ESB

THE ESB got both barrels in a recent Sunday Independent article about the “Georgian pastiche façade” to its former HQ, which was derided as an “elaborate cloak for a shameful... 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?

JUSTINE MCCARTHY’S NEW GIG

McCarthy has fared rather better than some of her journalist colleagues at Murdoch’s Aawrish edition of the newspaper and has landed on her feet with a weekly column at the... Read more »
Deirdre Veldon New IT Editor

Fit to Print?

‘IT’ EDITORIAL FACTIONS

THE EDITORIAL view of some journalists at the Irish Times is that the newspaper is conventional (ie right-wing), overtly pro-business, partitionist and old fashioned, and the next editor should revert... Read more »

Last Refuge

Barry Cowen Fianna Fáil Poll Results

Last Refuge

HAS FF TURNED A CORNER?

FIANNA FÁIL ministers and TDs – and not just Micheál Martin loyalists – will be heartened to see the two most recent poll results, which show the party’s constant trailing... Read more »
Catherine Murphy

Last Refuge

CATHERINE MURPHY’S CRUSADE

YOU HAVE to hand it to Social Democrats co-leader Catherine Murphy for sheer chutzpah in the face of the embarrassing conclusions in Justice Brian Cregan’s report into the IBRC sale... Read more »
Micheal Martin Fianna Fáil Ard Fheis

Last Refuge

MARTIN’S SHARED FUTURE

FIANNA FÁIL’S ard fheis next weekend is just one of several meetings that could affect Micheál Martin’s future as party leader. A large rally is expected on the same weekend,... Read more »
Michael McDowell

Last Refuge

McDOWELL TO TAKE OUT RYAN IN DBS?

GREEN PARTY leader and climate minister Eamon Ryan has been roughed up by political hit man and ex-minister Michael McDowell, repeatedly in recent months. Senator McDowell’s invective is savage. “Piffle... Read more »

Northwind

King Charles

Northwind

SINN FÉIN COURTIERS RULE OK?

MARY LOU McDonald was surely correct when she told Virgin Media’s The Tonight Show that she was “absolutely not” worried about risking the confidence of Sinn Féin voters by expressing... Read more »

Hush Hush

John Brady Irish Troops Mali

Hush Hush

IRELAND COMPLICIT IN MALI COUP?

IRISHMAN Rory Keane has risen to become head of the Brussels-based United Nations Liaison Office for Peace, which exists to improve UN co-operation with the EU, Nato and other multilateral... Read more »

Bog Cuttings

Bog-Cuttings-Defaul

Bog Cuttings

BOG CUTTINGS

‘DO FOR TOILET PAPER’ CORK DISTRICT Court heard the case of one Timothy Hadfield who, when handed charge sheets after being arrested for disruptive behaviour at Cork Airport, said: “That... Read more »

Fowl Emissions

Liz Truss

Fowl Emissions

LIZ TRUSS’S FOSSIL FUEL FRIENDS

LIZ TRUSS didn’t waste much time in coming good for the fossil fuel donors who helped fund her Tory leadership campaign. Two days after being installed as prime minister by... 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

NET ZERO BIG ZERO

OIL GIANT Shell’s much-advertised commitment to a pathway to “net zero” emissions actually “has nothing to do with our business plans”, according to an internal company memo from 2020, one... Read more »

The Hot Air Brigade

Amy Huberman

The Hot Air Brigade

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

We know her as an actor, writer, Instagram hoot, witty Tweeter, other half of rugby legend Brian O’Driscoll, mother of three, host of Mamia & Me, a podcast on the... Read more »

High Society

High Society

Ben Dunne

High Society

BEN DUNNE’S SHRINKING COLLECTION

CONGRATULATIONS TO the wily James Gormley et al at Gormley’s Fine Art on Dublin’s South Frederick Street, the boys scored quite the coup by... 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

ASH QUINN MOVES ON

INTERESTING TO see the Sunday Times reporting on a move by glamorous Ash Quinn, daughter of footballer-turned-businessman Niall, to become a senior exec at... Read more »

High Society

David Murray

High Society

DAVID MURRAY’S TWO HOUSES

THERE WAS a predictably glowing profile in the Irish Times last week of Ingleside, a large five-bedroom house on the corner of Brennanstown Road and Glenamuck Road in south County... Read more »

Behind the Scenes

NCAD Chair Simon Harris

Behind the Scenes

NCAD’S CHAIR

THIS WEEK sees the election of a new chair of the National College of Art and Design (NCAD), following the recent vacancy on the board left by the retirement of... Read more »
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Behind the Scenes

SONGWRITERS’ SWAN SONG

THE FINAL creditors’ meeting has been held by the liquidator of the Irish Association of Songwriters, Composers and Authors (IASCA), which was set up in 2011 “to foster a community... Read more »

Sport of Kings

Leopardstown Racing Tim Husbands

Sport of Kings

HUSBANDS’S HANDICAP

IRISH CHAMPIONS Weekend may have been a success from a racing point of view, with top-quality action over the two days at Leopardstown and the Curragh, but the event is... 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

EMPTY SADDLE AT AIR

ANOTHER SENIOR racing administrator has announced that he is to dismount. Paddy Walsh, chief executive of the Association of Irish Racecourses (AIR), has signalled his intention to call it a... Read more »
Michael O'Leary Horses

Sport of Kings

O’LEARY SHAKING UP OWNERS’ CONTEST

AS HE does every year, Michael O’Leary offloaded a good few of his lesser-performing horses at a Goffs UK sale recently. The Ryanair supremo netted around €400,000 when he bade... Read more »

Reviews

NO WORRIES IF NOT!

Reviews

NO WORRIES IF NOT! – RTÉ2

BATTLE-SCARRED survivors of RTÉ’s comedy output will have felt a cold shiver at the pitch for No Worries If Not!, which promised “quirky characters and off-the-wall sketches” featuring online “stars”.... Read more »
THE NIGHT INTERNS

Books|Reviews

THE NIGHT INTERNS – AUSTIN DUFFY

THE DUNDALK author’s debut novel, This Living and Immortal Thing (2016), featured an Irish cancer researcher in a New York medical centre. Austin Duffy (who also works as an oncologist)... Read more »

Moneybags

Moneybags

Albert Manifold

Moneybags

MANIFOLD’S GLOBAL CRH STRATEGY DERAILED

ALBERT MANIFOLD took the top job at CRH in January 2014, having joined the firm as a 36-year-old accountant back in 1998. Despite being... Read more »

Moneybags

Louis Coetzee Kibo Energy

Moneybags

KIBO ENERGY SHARE COLLAPSE LOOKS OVERDONE

GALWAY-BASED Kibo Energy was founded 14 years ago by Irish geologist Noel O’Keeffe. There have been a number of developments since then, with complete... Read more »

Brief Cases

Matt Farrell, Dorian

Brief Cases

DORIAN’S GREY DAY

A CREDITORS’ meeting will be held next week to oversee the winding up of a Donnybrook, D4 restaurant/wine bar business that shut its doors after just a few months of... Read more »
Barry O'Callaghan

Brief Cases

BARRY O’CALLAGHAN’S HOSPITALITY

IT’S BEEN a busy few months in Waterford for tech moneybags Barry O’Callaghan, where he’s been ringing the changes at his swanky Cliff House Hotel in Ardmore. Baz is planning... Read more »
Kieran Wallace L&M Keating

Brief Cases

KEATING’S CREDITORS

DOCUMENTS FILED by joint liquidators Kieran Wallace and Andrew O’Leary reveal that the hapless unsecured creditors were owed a whopping €18m when Clare construction/civil engineering operation L&M Keating Ltd was... Read more »
Aisling Quinn MoShoppa

Brief Cases

NIALL QUINN’S SHOPPING LIST

AS NOTED elsewhere (see p18), Ash Quinn, the daughter of former Irish international striker Niall Quinn, has moved on from her chief executive role at online retail operation MoShoppa. Whoever... Read more »