Affairs of the Nation

Micheál Martin Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement

Affairs of the Nation

MARTIN’S POLITICAL CELIBACY

WHAT A waspish reaction Tánaiste and Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin gave to the report from the Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement last week. 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

ROBERT QUIRKE’S BATTLES

ENSCONCED AS he is these days in sunny Malta, Westmeath businessman Robert Quirke continues to make waves back home. A judgement has just been registered against one of his companies,... Read more »

Affairs of the Nation

Frank Clarke

Affairs of the Nation

DUBAI’S LEGAL STANDARDS REVISITED

OUTRAGED HOWLS at the medieval treatment of Boyle woman Tori Towey in Dubai did not encompass any indignant statements from judicial quarters. This is a little disappointing given the atrocious... Read more »
Dermot Farrell

Affairs of the Nation

ARCHBISHOP FARRELL FOR THE HIGH COURT

IT IS heartening to know that the Irish Catholic Church’s approach to misbehaviour among its ranks has changed from the time when protecting the institution of the church – at... Read more »
Frances Ruane Crowe Report

Affairs of the Nation

THE ABBEY’S DARK TIMES

WITH HAPLESS chairwoman Frances Ruane stepping down from her starring role at the Abbey Theatre this weekend after seven years, the focus now turns to her successor. The position may... 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

ROBBO’S STARRING ROLE

LAST WEEK’S Galway Film Fleadh featured the international premiere of Mrs Robinson, Aoife Kelleher’s Screen Ireland-backed story of the one and only Mary Robinson, who is now 80. Not surprisingly,... Read more »
Heather Humphreys

Affairs of the Nation

BARKING AT HEATHER HUMPHREYS

IT WAS inevitable that when Heather Humphreys moved to introduce a ban on American Bully dogs, there would be a reaction from the dog charities, rescue bodies and other animal... Read more »
Fred Holroyd

Affairs of the Nation

FRED HOLROYD’S ORWELLIAN TRAUMA

OPERATION DENTON has recently interviewed Fred Holroyd as part of its investigation into the 1974 Dublin-Monaghan (D-M) bombings, perpetrated by the notorious Glenanne gang. Holroyd served as a Military Intelligence... Read more »
Johnny Mercer

Affairs of the Nation

MERCIFUL TORY MERCER

KEIR STARMER’S pledge to repeal the controversial Legacy Act, opposed by all political parties in the north, must come as a blow to former Tory Minister of State for Veterans’... Read more »

Pillars of Society

Neil Jordan

Pillars of Society

PROFILE: NEIL JORDAN

The presented persona of Neil Jordan seems rather at odds with how his frequent collaborator and sometime on-screen alter ego, Stephen Rea, characterised him... Read more »

The Young Bloods

Nikki Bradley

The Young Bloods

YOUNG BLOOD: NIKKI BRADLEY

Nikki Bradley, a 38-year-old senator and disability campaigner, is a canny choice for the general election by Fine Gael leader Simon Harris. She has... Read more »

Fit to Print?

Niall Meehan Bethany Home

Fit to Print?

‘MY CHURCH, RIGHT OR WRONG’

Last December, The Irish Times published a statement from the Church of Ireland in a report by Arthur Beesley saying that it “neither owned nor operated” mother and baby institutions. Griffith College media... Read more »
Patrick Mayhew Sam McBride

Fit to Print?

IT’S NOT CRICKET

ONE OF the most enduring lines peddled by post peace process British securocrats, and enthusiastically relayed by the UK and Dublin media’s security ‘experts’, is that British intelligence forced the... Read more »

Last Refuge

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill

Last Refuge

CARROLL MACNEILL SOUNDS OFF

AN INTERESTING double act was that recently performed by the new junior minister for EU affairs and defence, Jennifer Carroll MacNeill, and Sunday Independent editor Alan English. Minister ‘Thatcher’ MacNeill... Read more »
Jim O'Callaghan

Last Refuge

JIM O’CALLAGHAN’S NEXT GIG

WHAT SOOTHING words emanated from Micheál Martin’s managers to media pol corrs about the party leader’s motivation in making TD Jim O’Callaghan chair of the Oireachtas justice committee — something... 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

RIGHT ON!

THAT MOST reasonable figurehead in the new right, Hermann Kelly, leader of the Irish Freedom Party (IFP), made a most mature, statesmanlike appeal for unity following the fractured electoral performance... Read more »

Northwind

Jim Allister Unionism

Northwind

UNION’S LOST LEADER

Who is the leader of Unionism? Up until Good Friday when he was arrested and charged with historical sex offences the answer was Jeffrey Donaldson. Donaldson, unquestionably the dominant figure... Read more »

Hush Hush

Ciaran Mullooly

Hush Hush

CIARAN MULLOOLY’S ‘INDEPENDENCE’

THE ANNOUNCEMENT by the European Democratic Party (EDP) that it had received and accepted an application for membership from newly elected Irish MEP Ciaran Mullooly — elected as a member... Read more »

Bog Cuttings

Bog-Cuttings-Defaul

Bog Cuttings

BOG CUTTINGS

ROWDY PARTNER KILLARNEY DISTRICT Court heard the case of a 29-year-old man from Texas, who was arrested for driving while intoxicated and several public order offences. In the early hours... Read more »

Fowl Emissions

Roisin Garvey Ennis Data Centre

Fowl Emissions

MARTIN: SUCK IT UP

AI is coming for us and there’s nothing we can do to stop it. That was the message delivered by Micheál Martin in Ennis this month as he talked tough... 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

ON YER BIKE!

In the recent European election campaign, Fine Gael’s Regina Doherty was ridiculed over her Trumpian claim that the Green Party had turned Dublin “into a spaghetti junction of cycle lanes... Read more »

The Hot Air Brigade

Una Mullally

The Hot Air Brigade

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Walking around New York city, listening to the audiobook of Hannah Arendt’s The Origins Of Totalitarianism (fail to prepare, prepare to fail), I’m sometimes interrupted by messages from friends asking... Read more »

High Society

High Society

Denise Phillips

High Society

DENISE PHILLIPS’ CROWN PRINCE

CONGRATULATIONS TO “award-winning hair professional” and social media fan Denise Phillips (aka Denise McLean), who has been named as a finalist in the EY... 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

BILL DURKAN’S GUINEAS

THERE WAS a lot of moolah being splashed about earlier this month in Newmarket and centre stage was moneybags Bill Durkan of Durkan New... Read more »

High Society

Villa Barton

High Society

ROBBIE DOLAN’S EXTRAVAGANT VILLA

A FEW weeks after first going on the market with a hefty €4.5m price tag, the opulent 8,500 sq ft Villa Barton in the K Club complex, Co Kildare, got... Read more »

Behind the Scenes

Davina Saint Jennifer Caldwell

Behind the Scenes

INO’S HIGH NOTES

OPERA FANS are excited by the news that Irish National Opera (INO), which is chaired by former top legal eagle Jennifer Caldwell, is to stage its first ever Wagner work,... 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

RALPHIE RETURNS

GOLDHAWK WASN’T too surprised to see his favourite film producer, Ralph Christians, turn up in the trade press ahead of Miriam Allen’s Galway Film Fleadh. Despite his Magma operation having... Read more »

Sport of Kings

Robert Dore Danny Dunne

Sport of Kings

DANNY’S POOR FORM

BOLSHY DANNY Dunne made another journey to the offices of the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) in relation to his latest bout of bad behaviour. It looks like he may... 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

TONY MARTIN’S CELEBRATIONS

AS A result of his OTT celebrations following the win for Alphonse Le Grande at Newcastle last month, the nag’s suspended trainer Tony Martin also made a familiar trip to... Read more »

Moneybags

Moneybags

Jonathan Rockett

Moneybags

TURBULENCE TO CONTINUE FOR DATALEX SHAREHOLDERS

IN SOME rather honest observations, the recently arrived CEO at Datalex, Jonathan Rockett, confirmed in his first annual report review that the agreement signed... Read more »

Moneybags

Tim McCutcheon

Moneybags

WHAT NEXT FOR OVOCA BIO INVESTORS?

IN A surprise move after the failure of the clinical trials for Ovoca Bio’s Orenetide drug, the CEO, Kirill Golovanov, resigned last week. More... Read more »

Brief Cases

GZPS Conor McGregor and Gezim Idrizi

Brief Cases

SECURITY CONCERNS

FOLLOWING THE move by the dreaded taxman to wind up GZ Professional Security Ltd (GZPS), Aiden Murphy of Crowe is now in situ as liquidator. Surprisingly, controversial company founder Gezim... Read more »
Sharon Byrne

Brief Cases

SHARON BYRNE’S BIG BET

THE LATEST accounts for the Irish Bookmakers’ Association (IBA) – the gambling lobby entity chaired by Sharon Byrne – provide an update on the heavy going associated with the running... Read more »
Ako Amiri

Brief Cases

AKO AMIRI’S HAIR CUT

A LITTLE over a year on from the collapse of the Just For Men Ltd (JFM) barbers and male grooming chain in Cork, the liquidator has submitted his report, which... Read more »
ZMG Cyril Murphy Newbridge College Peter Wilson Sporting Emporium Chris Wholey O'Kane God’s Creatures Film Tax Relief Anne Rossi Desmond Live Nation ESCADIA LTD Al Porter Comeback Gordon Elliott Clayton Love Ivan Wilde hot-water-brigade Parnells GAA Lawsuit

Brief Cases

MUM’S THE WORD

ACCOUNTS WERE filed last week for Associated Newspapers (Ireland) Ltd, the company behind the Oirish Daily Mail and assorted publications it has snapped up here, such as Business Plus magazine.... Read more »
Steve Parkin Joe Foley

Brief Cases

JOE FOLEY V STEVE PARKIN

AS PREDICTED by Goldhawk (see The Phoenix 5/4/24), the legal eagles have galloped on the track in the row between Ballyhane stallion master Joe Foley, and his minted former client,... Read more »