Affairs of the Nation

Paul O'Neill

Affairs of the Nation

MORE MEDIA TRANSPARENCY

THERE IS something piquant about the current fury among the once-pampered literati at the Irish Times, who have for long purveyed ethical attachment to transparency at all significant institutions. This... 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

ZOMBIE CHANTS

THE LATE Dolores O’Riordan is an unlikely icon for Irish rugby fans outside her native Limerick. But needs must in the face of Ooh Ah…, ‘The Fields of Athenry’ and... 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

McGRATH TAKES LEAD FROM TRUSS

MICHAEL McGRATH and Liz Truss are not obvious political bed-fellows but the finance minister appears determined to announce similarly discredited policies of cutting income taxes as those championed by the... Read more »

Affairs of the Nation

Brian O'Gallachoir

Affairs of the Nation

IRELAND CLIMATE LAGGARDS — OR NOT?

Later this month, a case taken by six Portuguese youths will be heard by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg. The case claims that 32 named states... Read more »
Niall Cussen

Affairs of the Nation

CUSSEN’S CUSSED CRITICS

ONE OF the big beasts in the permanent government, Niall Cussen – his last civil service gig was as chief planning officer in the Department of Housing and Planning when... Read more »
Michael McDowell

Affairs of the Nation

ADMIRAL McDOWELL CLAMBERS ABOARD

THE ESCALATION of a planning row over an Athlone marina, which began in 2012, has moved from Westmeath County Council to the District Court, Waterways Ireland (WI), the Oireachtas joint... Read more »
James Reynolds

Affairs of the Nation

FIGHTING TALK

THE PHENOMENON of members of the Travelling community recording ‘call out’ videos – where they challenge others due to perceived slights, previous confrontations or family feuds – which are then... Read more »
Malachy Steenson

Affairs of the Nation

FAR RIGHT DÁIL TANTRUM

The far-right activists who attended the recent Call to the Dáil protest outside Leinster House were an eclectic bunch. While there were National Party, Irish Freedom Party and Ireland First... Read more »
John McKeague

Affairs of the Nation

MI5’S SERIAL KILLER

THE PHOENIX reported last May that the BBC was refusing to broadcast The Lost Boys, which has become the documentary du jour, because it linked the disappearance of five boys... Read more »

Pillars of Society

Nóirín Hegarty Andrew Cody

Pillars of Society

PROFILE: NÓIRÍN HEGARTY

THE ANNOUNCEMENT that Nóirín Hegarty is stepping down as Ireland editor of the Times and Sunday Times Ireland after less than two years in... Read more »

The Young Bloods

Becky Kealy

The Young Bloods

YOUNG BLOOD: BECKY KEALY

SMALLER PARTIES can be easily crushed by the juggernauts of the major political players but, with the possibilities of government formation so finely balanced,... Read more »

Fit to Print?

Martin Kenny

Fit to Print?

GARDAÍ ACCUSED OF PRIVACY BREACH

AN INTRIGUING case that Sinn Féin TD Martin Kenny is taking against not only Mediahuis title the Irish Independent but also An Garda Síochána is one for breach of privacy,... Read more »
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Fit to Print?

“PARTITIONIST” ALISON

What an unusual angle Alison O’Connor deployed in defending beleaguered Garda Commissioner Drew Harris in her Sunday Times column last weekend headlined, “Garda commissioner Harris’s biggest crime? Being a Protestant”.... Read more »
Dana

Fit to Print?

DANA’S LENGTHY LEGAL SAGA

THE LENGTHY legal journey that Dana – the singer and former MEP and presidential candidate, aka Rosemary Scallon – has embarked on over defamatory media reports regarding her brother John... Read more »

Last Refuge

Mary Lou McDonald Sinn Féin Government

Last Refuge

SHINNERS AT THE GATE

THE FIRST line of defence from the Government and its Greek chorus in the media against the increasing likelihood of Sinn Féin coming to power is that the combined poll... Read more »
Gerard Howlin

Last Refuge

‘IRISH TIMES’ AND MICHEÁL MARTIN

THE IRISH TIMES appears to have offered itself as a surrogate platform for internal political and leadership debate in Fianna Fáil given the absence of same inside the once Republican... Read more »
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

TÁNAISTE’S LONG WAR

THE WESTERN-NATO pact driving the Ukraine war with Russia has long been seen as primarily an American initiative. But cracks are appearing in this western front, with signs of weariness... Read more »
Michael Taft

Last Refuge

POLEMIC ON CHILDCARE PROVIDERS’ ‘STRIKE’

LONG-TIME socialist, union activist and Siptu researcher Michael Taft can hardly be accused of being soft on the ‘right-of-centre’ FFG-led Government. So given the recent ‘strike’ of some childcare providers... Read more »

Hush Hush

Matt Carthy Repmus

Hush Hush

IRELAND’S DISCREET NATO INVOLVEMENT

REPMUS IS an annual Nato exercise that takes place in Portugal’s Troia Bay. While there have been many congratulatory media reports about the Irish Naval Service’s recent involvement in the... Read more »

Bog Cuttings

Bog-Cuttings-Defaul

Bog Cuttings

BOG CUTTINGS

‘KING OF IRELAND’ A MAN who claimed to Judge Cormac Dunne that he was “the king of Ireland” appeared before Navan District Court having taken a number of cases against... Read more »

Fowl Emissions

Simon Coveney Data Centres

Fowl Emissions

DATA CENTRES SMOKE AND MIRRORS

Simon Coveney is the latest big hitter in the data centre PR crusade. He is the keynote speaker at DataCentres Ireland conference in the RDS next month and Goldhawk feels... Read more »

The Hot Air Brigade

Joe Brolly

The Hot Air Brigade

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Like Donald Trump, Mickey is entirely transactional. Joe Brolly on Mickey Joe Harte, Sunday Independent They’re basically the Jedi Knights of the army, really. Independent TD Cathal Berry on the... Read more »

High Society

Melfort Peter Gleeson

High Society

PETER GLEESON’S PILE

THE LATEST multimillion-euro pile to come on the market is Melfort on leafy Shrewsbury Road in D4. This turns out to be the humble abode of moneybags Peter Gleeson, who... Read more »
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High Society

FEMALE ARTISTS

THE NATIONAL Gallery of Ireland (NGI) has expanded its collection through the acquisition of Rachel Ruysch’s ‘Vase of Flowers with an Ear of Corn’ (1742) and it should not come... Read more »
Charlie Cullen

High Society

CHARLIE CULLEN’S SWISS CHRONOGRAPHS

NO DOUBT Charlie Cullen was delighted with the plug for the Swiss Watch Club in the Sunday Times last month. Unfortunately, the article was published immediately before a judgment was... Read more »

Behind the Scenes

Fergus Finlay

Behind the Scenes

MOOLAH IN MONAGHAN

THE NEWS that the Tyrone Guthrie Centre for artists, which is located in Annaghmakerrig, is to benefit to the tune of €1.5m for a brand-new studio courtesy of the arts... Read more »

Sport of Kings

Ronan McNally

Sport of Kings

RONAN McNALLY’S TIPS

WHILE HE may have begun serving an eight-year ban from training, Ronan McNally is obviously keen to maintain an involvement in the sport by setting up a tipping service. Having... Read more »
Joseph O'Brien Ray Grehan

Sport of Kings

RAY GREHAN’S RESULT

PROPERTY DEVELOPER Ray Grehan has had his fair share of tumbles off the track in his high-profile business career but one of his race horses must have caught him by... Read more »

Moneybags

Tony Smurfit

Moneybags

SMURFIT KAPPA SHAREHOLDERS FACE UNEASY FUTURE

FANS OF Moneybags will be aware that he has long highlighted the lack of a trans-Atlantic presence for Smurfit Kappa Group (SKG), a state... Read more »

Moneybags

Aminex

Moneybags

AMINEX FINALLY READY FOR THE BIG TIME?

THE REAPPOINTMENT last month of Bob Ambrose as a director of Aminex is a real signal that the potential game-changer well – Chikumbi-1 (CH-1),... Read more »

The Hot Water Brigade

Pat McDonagh

The Hot Water Brigade

SUPERPAT’S BIG SCREEN

THE EFFORTS of Pat ‘Supermac’s’ McDonagh to bring a bit of New York’s Times Square to Galway’s Eyre Square have fallen flat again. SuperPat has been trying for some time... Read more »
The Design House Bébhinn Flood

The Hot Water Brigade

BÉBHINN FLOOD’S FASHION FAUX PAS

THIS WEEK sees the creditors’ meeting for a company called The Design House (Bespoke) Ltd, which was incorporated a decade ago by fashion designer/entrepreneur Bébhinn Flood, who was previously shortlisted... Read more »
John Teeling

The Hot Water Brigade

JOHN TEELING’S NEW ADVISORS

JOHN TEELING has been delivering some premium quality profits from his whiskey endeavours for the last two decades but the performance of some of his other companies has been closer... Read more »
Niamh Parker

The Hot Water Brigade

NIAMH PARKER’S RETWEETS

AFTER MONTHS of relative silence, it was interesting to see one of Goldhawk’s favourite tech gurus, Allan Beechinor, pop up again – this time on the Revenue’s latest list of... Read more »