Affairs of the Nation

Simon Coveney Hamas

Affairs of the Nation

IRELAND AND PALESTINE NOW

EXACTLY ONE year ago, European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said: “Russia’s attacks against [Ukrainian] civilian infrastructure, especially electricity, are war crimes. Cutting off men, women, children of water,... Read more »
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Affairs of the Nation

ABBEY THEATRE REVIEWS

WHILE ARTS and media minister Catherine Martin has come in for criticism over her hands-off style when it comes to the unfolding debacle at RTÉ, this strategy is straight out... Read more »
Alan Shatter Cyril's Lottery of Life

Affairs of the Nation

ALAN SHATTER’S ROMP

CONGRATULATIONS TO loudmouth former politician Alan Shatter, whose saucy novel has been attracting rather a lot of media attention here. Given that it is a Benny Hill-style legal tale featuring... Read more »

Affairs of the Nation

Helen McEntee Devenish Nutrition

Affairs of the Nation

McENTEES: MEATH PATRIOTS

THE McENTEE family has done the county proud in recent years and efforts by two or more of the boys to promote the county football team have been matched by... Read more »
Drew Harris Dáil Protest

Affairs of the Nation

BUDGET BLUES

FROM UNDER- to over-reaction, the gardaí lockdown around the Dáil and Government Buildings on budget day, to ward off protests, reminded Goldhawk of British royal visits during and after the... Read more »
Rachel Kenny An Bord Pleanála

Affairs of the Nation

RACHEL KENNY’S WRITS

A COUPLE of libel writs have just landed relating to recent coverage of events in An Bord Pleanála (ABP). It looks like the controversial planning appeals body will continue to... Read more »
Garrett Harte Drinkaware

Affairs of the Nation

DRINKAWARE’S HANGOVER

GOLDHAWK ALWAYS enjoys reading the annual report of the alcohol-industry-funded charity Drinkaware, and the one just published is as entertaining as always. It emerges in a year that has seen... Read more »
Charlie Flanagan

Affairs of the Nation

RIC PARTY POOPERS

CHARLIE FLANAGAN is hanging up his blue shirt at the next election with the great disappointment that his “postponed” Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) celebration may never happen. Back in the... Read more »
Robert Rundo Comhaltas na nGaedheal

Affairs of the Nation

‘WARRIOR CLASS OF OUR RACE’

MARK TWAIN’S assertion that “history never repeats itself but it does often rhyme” definitely holds water when you consider the composition of the various far-right movements to emerge in the... Read more »

Pillars of Society

Michael McGrath

Pillars of Society

PROFILE: MICHAEL MCGRATH

TO SUCCEED in political life, observed journalist and political commentator Malcolm Muggeridge, “it is necessary to conform either to the popular image of a... Read more »

The Young Bloods

Ella Mac Lennan

The Young Bloods

YOUNG BLOOD: ELLA MAC LENNAN

TRINITY’S BRANCH of the radical, left-wing, student activist group Students4Change (S4C) has chosen its new leader. Ella Mac Lennan was recently unanimously elected as... Read more »

Fit to Print?

Nóirín Hegarty Andrew Cody

Fit to Print?

OFFALY ‘MURDER’ AND JUDGE’S ORDERS

DISTRICT COURT judge Andrew Cody clearly possesses a sophisticated and flexible legal brain and he has not moved to haul the Sunday Times into court over what some have described... Read more »
Bono

Fit to Print?

‘ISRAEL’S BLOODY SUNDAY’

THE ISRAEL Defense Forces (IDF) may be good at carpet bombing Palestinians in civilian areas of Gaza but its public relations expertise leaves a lot to be desired and its... Read more »
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Fit to Print?

JOHN COONEY’S DEBATE

VETERAN AUTHOR and journalist John Cooney led the successful opposition to a students’ motion “regretting the fall of religion” at Trinity College Dublin Philosophical Society last week. But the most... Read more »

Last Refuge

Brendan Howlin Labour TD

Last Refuge

LABOUR’S RUFFLED FEATHERS

FEATHERS THEN LABOUR TD Colm Keaveney received a white feather in his internal Leinster House mailbox in 2012 with a message that said: “This traditional White Feather is presented to... Read more »
Leo Varadkar

Last Refuge

FF FEAR VLAD AMBUSH

ONE OF the few real advantages Leo Varadkar has over Micheál Martin is that he is currently the rotating Taoiseach in situ and, therefore, can decide on the date of... Read more »
Hamas A whole generation of Palestinians have grown up under siege

Last Refuge

HOW ‘AL-QUDS FLOOD’ ALTERED THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PALESTINE AND ISRAEL FOREVER

THE MASSACRE by Hamas of over 1,000 Israeli civilians a fortnight ago has been the justification for the current slaughter by Israel of at least 3,000 Palestinian civilians in Gaza... Read more »

Northwind

Jeffrey Donaldson

Northwind

DUP SPLIT: DONALDSON V DODDS

The DUP holding its annual conference last Saturday in Belfast’s Crowne Plaza hotel was tempting fate. It was in this venue in May 2021 that the DUP publicly fell apart.... Read more »

Hush Hush

Jiri Sedivy EDA

Hush Hush

ARMS AND THE CORKMAN

LATE last month Tánaiste and defence minister Micheál Martin rolled out the red carpet for a visit from the European Defence Agency (EDA), the heroes that orchestrate the manufacture of... Read more »

Bog Cuttings

Bog-Cuttings-Defaul

Bog Cuttings

BOG CUTTINGS

‘LOWLIFE SCUMBAGS’ Frank Brassil (41) of Main Street, Collon, appearing before Drogheda District Court, pleaded guilty to engaging in threatening, abusive or insulting behaviour relating to an incident on April... Read more »

Fowl Emissions

Myles Allen

Fowl Emissions

DAIRY STORIES

Of late, undisputed climate expert Prof Myles Allen of Oxford University has filled the gap left by departed ‘experts’ in greenhouse gas emissions. The Farming Independent last year quoted Allen,... Read more »
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Fowl Emissions

JOHN FAGAN’S FARM

Congratulations to Westmeath County Council for its recent courageous decision to reject planning permission to local farmer John Fagan. In 2019, Fagan applied for permission to build a massive 450-unit... Read more »

The Hot Air Brigade

Sinead Kissane

The Hot Air Brigade

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Au revoir too to the incredible magic the Irish fans brought here to France, to Zombie-singing, metro-hopping, Paris-crossing, missed meals, melted heads, hoarse throats, getting bitten by mosquitoes, avoiding the... Read more »

High Society

High Society

Alan Clancy

High Society

ALAN CLANCY’S GLASS HOUSE

IT HAS been an eventful 12 months for nightclub and bar owner Alan Clancy, who started off the year by marrying Jacqueline Given, the... Read more »

High Society

Simon Kilroy

High Society

SIMON KILROY’S EXOTIC FISH

ONE OF the most expensive properties to come on the market in recent times is Rarc-an-Ilan, sitting on 0.6 acres of prime Dalkey land... Read more »

Behind the Scenes

Cillian Murphy Michael McGrath

Behind the Scenes

McGRATH’S MOVIE PLOT

THE NEWS that the first budget script of finance minister Michael McGrath contained extra moolah for the country’s movie moguls was greeted with the usual chorus of appreciation. The leading... Read more »
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Behind the Scenes

NEW CAST FOR THEATRE FESTIVAL

WITH THE Dublin Theatre Festival (DTF) having wound down this week, there will be a couple of new faces added to the cast, although the process has proved less than... Read more »

Sport of Kings

Lucinda Russell Flemensface

Sport of Kings

ALAN AHERN’S TEST

A RECENT referrals case at the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB), involving a point-to-point winner that failed a post-race dope test, looks set to have significant ramifications for the sport.... Read more »
Samuel Drinkwater Karloss

Sport of Kings

KARLOSS’S WIN

A HORSE previously trained by Charles Byrnes popped up in England under the care of low-key trainer Samuel Drinkwater and managed to land a significant gamble, winning at Sedgefield last... Read more »

Moneybags

Moneybags

Maurice Pratt

Moneybags

UNIPHAR’S SHARE SLIDE DEMANDS NEW PRESCRIPTION

FOUR YEARS after floating in Dublin, Uniphar has grown significantly but suffered a significant setback when its attempted takeover of Navicorp was shot down... Read more »

Moneybags

Eamon O'Brien IMC Exploration

Moneybags

IMC EXPLORATION’S GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY

IMC EXPLORATION is a tiny little Irish company that, although quoted on the London AIM stock exchange, remains very much under the radar in... Read more »

Brief Cases

Brendan Mullin

Brief Cases

BRENDAN MULLIN’S TACKLE TECHNIQUE

WHILE ALL eyes have been on Paris for the rugger buggers, former Irish and Lions outside centre Brendan Mullin has been making his own tackles. It is unclear at this... Read more »
Myles Kirby Nicholas Wickham

Brief Cases

NICHOLAS WICKHAM’S GOLDEN SHOT

THE ANTICS of Nicholas Wickham, founder of Irish Gold & Silver Bullion Ltd (IGSB), have been well aired in the High Court, although the process of getting a few bob... Read more »
Miceal Sammon BTP Construction Ltd

Brief Cases

MICEÁL SAMMON’S SCARP SETBACK

THE LATEST company that has failed to emerge successfully from the erratic Scarp protection process is BTP Construction Ltd, which turns out to feature a couple of high-profile building names... Read more »
Ger Colleran New Fortress Energy

Brief Cases

ANOTHER FRACK UP IN KERRY

LAST MONTH was a bad one for US giants New Fortress Energy (NFE), with An Bord Pleanála putting the kibosh on its Irish subsidiary’s plan to construct a €650m liquified... Read more »