Affairs of the Nation

Micheál Martin

Affairs of the Nation

MARTIN’S BACK CHANNEL RHETORIC

A FORTUITOUSLY timed declaration of recognition for Palestinian statehood – shortly before the EU and local elections – was explained last week by foreign minister Micheál Martin’s favourite newspaper, the... 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

GO HARVEY, GO!

THERE MUST have been high fives in the commercial department at Mediahuis last week when free-spending Harvey Norman managed to take a lofty second place out of the 150 companies... Read more »
John Nagle

Affairs of the Nation

JOHN NAGLE CARPETED

THE ONE-TIME bankrupt John ‘Payzone’ Nagle has just run into yet another spot of bother, this time courtesy of the dreaded taxman. Nagle was one of the poster boys of... Read more »

Affairs of the Nation

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

ANTON SAVAGE’S CLIENTS

NEWSTALK WEEKEND presenter Anton Savage pitched into the 2FM crisis of its departing stars – Jennifer Zamparelli, Doireann Garrihy and the 2 Johnnies – with enthusiasm, and then some, last... Read more »
Sean Clancy

Affairs of the Nation

CLANCY STANDS NEUTRALITY ON HEAD

THE TOP BRASS may not be able to put a ship to sea and may soon have to bring back press gangs to replace voluntary recruitment to the armed forces... Read more »
Shane Ross

Affairs of the Nation

SHANE ROSS’S RECORD

MANY YEARS after he had honed it to a fine art, Sindo columnist Shane Ross was back puffing up his former boss, Tony O’Reilly, in his weekly column last weekend,... Read more »
Bruce Arnold

Affairs of the Nation

BRUCE ARNOLD’S OBITUARY

THE TIMES of London published a lovingly crafted obituary of Bruce Arnold this week under the headline: “Writer who needled the Irish establishment”. But did it accidentally unmask the man... Read more »
Thomas Pringle NWSC

Affairs of the Nation

SIMON PAYS

THE LIQUIDATOR is now in place at the homelessness charity, North West Simon Community (NWSC), which ran out of moolah less than two years after a meeting with the housing... Read more »
Iain Livingstone Operation Denton

Affairs of the Nation

OPERATION DENTON RE-VISITED

OPERATION DENTON is examining the decades-long homicidal rampage of the UVF’s infamous Glenanne Gang. Its members operated in the mid-Ulster area during the three decades of the Troubles and were... Read more »
Malachy Steenson

Affairs of the Nation

STEENSON MELTDOWN

PROMINENT ANTI-IMMIGRATION activist Malachy Steenson is standing as an Independent candidate in Dublin’s North Inner City local electoral area and the Dublin EU Parliament election. The cut and thrust of... Read more »

Pillars of Society

Ciaran Mullooly

Pillars of Society

PROFILE: CIARAN MULLOOLY

FORMER RTÉ midlands correspondent Ciaran Mullooly could become the first member of the European Parliament to emerge from a party of the new Irish... Read more »

The Young Bloods

Lisa Chambers

The Young Bloods

YOUNG BLOOD: LISA CHAMBERS

Can 37-year-old Fianna Fáil senator Lisa Chambers finally justify party leader Micheál Martin’s faith in his preferred west of Ireland politician or will she... Read more »

Fit to Print?

Tony O'Reilly

Fit to Print?

GOLDEN BOY’S TARNISHED IMAGE

IT IS natural that the grown-up children of Tony O’Reilly would praise their father’s qualities in funeral eulogies, as would any bereaved family members and friends. But the selection of... Read more »

Last Refuge

Lisa Chambers Niall Blaney

Last Refuge

FF TRIO DEVOUR EACH OTHER

FIANNA FÁIL’S car-crash EU campaign in the Midlands North-West constituency is beginning to attract large crowds to candidates’ press conferences and photo shoots in the hope that there will be... Read more »
Clare Daly Bríd Smith

Last Refuge

LEFT SOLIDARITY WITH CLARE DALY

PEOPLE BEFORE Profit TD Bríd Smith has become a lightning rod for those on the left – Clare Daly supporters in particular – who will be looking for a scapegoat... Read more »
Pippa Hackett

Last Refuge

WHAT’S IN A NAME?

The decision by the Electoral Commission to make Laois and Offaly two three-seat constituencies at the next general election is a significant problem for Green Party senator and junior minister... Read more »
John Stephens Bertie Ahern

Last Refuge

BERTIE ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL

VOTERS IN the Cabra-Glasnevin local election area will have been surprised (pleasantly, one hopes) to see Bertie Ahern canvassing for aspiring councillor John Stephens, who is running on a two-candidate... Read more »

Northwind

Rishi Sunak

Northwind

A SINKING SHIP

Downing Street’s press officers made a mess of what will be the last visit of Rishi Sunak to Belfast on his frenetic, gaffe-ridden tour of the UK the day after... Read more »

Hush Hush

Niall Boylan

Hush Hush

TOP OF THE NEW RIGHT

POLLS INDICATE that, if a breakthrough for new right-wing candidates is to come about, Independent Ireland (II) candidates are the ones most likely to be successful in the European Parliament... Read more »

Bog Cuttings

Bog-Cuttings-Defaul

Bog Cuttings

BOG CUTTINGS

ROAD RAGE Drogheda District Court heard the case of a man who was charged with engaging in abusive and threatening behaviour towards gardaí. David Hickey (49), of Bridge Park, Nobber,... Read more »

The Hot Air Brigade

Mary Kenny

The Hot Air Brigade

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Providence bestowed many gifts on Tony O’Reilly: stunning good looks, outstanding sporting talent, business acumen, charm, intelligence and wit (with a flair for mimicry that would put Oliver Callan in... Read more »

High Society

High Society

Dunran Demesne Martin Kelly

High Society

MARTIN KELLY’S €8M MANSION

LOADED TYPES looking for a secluded but glamorous property within striking distance of Dublin will have noted the recent advertising for a cool €8m... 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

COOLMORE CREW’S CASH

ASSORTED IRISH racehorse owners featured prominently on the recent UK Sunday Times ‘Rich List’ and those with Coolmore connections were to the forefront. Some... Read more »

High Society

Lisa Jordan Zip Yard

High Society

KEEPING IT ZIPPED AT ‘VIP’

THE USUAL suspects (sorry, “the country’s best dressed fashionistas”) were out in force at the Irish InterContinental Hotel in D4 last month for the VIP Style Awards, with the judges... Read more »

Behind the Scenes

Maura McGrath Linda Coogan Byrne

Behind the Scenes

ARTS COUNCIL ARRIVALS

AT LONG last, the membership of the Arts Council, which has a budget this year of €134m, is back to its full complement for the first time in over a... 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

ELAINE GERAGHTY’S CONCERNS

GOLDHAWK WAS not surprised to see the latest lobbying campaign kicking off for Irish movie and TV producers. Hardly had the ink dried on the EU Commission’s thumbs-up for Michael... Read more »

Sport of Kings

Kia Joorabchian

Sport of Kings

KIA’S CHANGING ROSTER

OWNED IN partnership by Amo Racing and Giselle De Aguiar, Bucanero Fuerto galloped to success in the Naas Group 3 Goffs Lacken Stakes for dairy farmer and part-time trainer Adrian... 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

MICHAEL H BURKE’S BLOODSTOCK

MICHAEL JAMES Burke, son of Chanelle Pharma founder Michael Hilary Burke and brother-in-law of Tony (Sir Anthony) McCoy, has been accused, in an English court case, of involvement in an... Read more »

Moneybags

Moneybags

Ken Murphy

Moneybags

TIME FOR KEN MURPHY TO TAKE TESCO OUT OF EASTERN EUROPE

DUBLIN-BASED Cork native Ken Murphy has one of the biggest retailing jobs in Britain, heading up the £62bn Tesco behemoth. Founded by Jack Cohen... Read more »

Moneybags

Cathal Friel

Moneybags

CATHAL FRIEL’S EGT LOOKS TASTY FOR RISK TAKERS

AT A time when there are fewer and fewer flotations on this side of the Atlantic, Cathal Friel, the CEO and founder of small... Read more »

Brief Cases

Micheál Martin

Brief Cases

MICHEÁL MARTIN’S PODCAST

WITH THE elections to be held next week, money starts to become more of a factor, as advertising spend is ratcheted up, especially on online marketing campaigns – an area... Read more »
Andy Noonan

Brief Cases

ANDY NOONAN’S BARBECUE

Big Grill food festival, run by barbecue boy Andy Noonan, kicks off in August in Herbert Park, Ballsbridge, with tickets costing €30 a head (or €65 if you want to... Read more »
Doireann Garrihy

Brief Cases

HITTING THE RIGHT NOTES AT 2FM

RTÉ 2FM alumnus Doireann Garrihy has spent the past few months calmly putting in place the arrangements for her future business endeavours. It began in June 2023, when she and... Read more »
Vanessa Greenwood

Brief Cases

THE GREENWOODS’ FAILED RECIPE

THE LIQUIDATOR of Cooks Academy Ltd (CAL) has just filed his penultimate report into the winding up of the eponymous cookery school established by Vanessa and Tim Greenwood. It is... Read more »