Affairs of the Nation

Ian Bailey

Affairs of the Nation

MARTIN V DPP OFFICIAL

MICHEÁL MARTIN made law and order one of his election issues and, in a calculated move shortly before the election was called, he made a most unusual initiative when sharply... 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

LINDA O’SHEA FARREN’S ‘TENACITY’

YOU HAVE to hand it to the ultra-ambitious Linda O’Shea Farren – she keeps bouncing back. A long-time member of the National University of Ireland (NUI) senate and serial election... 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

CONOR McGREGOR’S LOAN

WITH FORMER MMA superstar Conor McGregor and businessman Paddy McKillen Jr both generating headlines recently – albeit for very different reasons – it is interesting to find that the two... 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

FG SISTERS IN THE FIRING LINE

A SILENT pall hangs over a deflated and even defeated Fine Gael, which lost the ‘other’ war (apart from the one with Sinn Féin and the opposition), namely that with... Read more »
Lorraine Higgins

Affairs of the Nation

GOVT HANDLERS GO PRIVATE

The Standards in Public Office Commission (Sipo) has a pragmatic attitude to red tape when it comes to waiving the rules about certain government officials being subject to a one-year... Read more »
Patrick Collison

Affairs of the Nation

COLLISON’S COLLISION

MORE THAN 11 million people have now seen a tweet posted on X last month by Stripe co-founder Patrick Collison that included his photo of the Tel Aviv seafront under... Read more »
Marian Keyes

Affairs of the Nation

MARIAN KEYES’S AMERICAN DREAM

THE MYRIAD of fans of scribbler Marian Keyes had a collective meltdown online last week when RTÉ announced The Walsh Sisters, a six-part drama based on her series of novels... 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

FENNELLY’S FIGHT

THE BORING world of number crunchers sometimes throws up a good old yarn and one that has been running for nearly a decade concerns Chartered Accountants of Ireland (CAI) member... Read more »
Keith Woods

Affairs of the Nation

HIGH-END REACTIONARIES

PROMINENT NATIONAL PARTY (NP) member Keith Woods (pseudonym of Roscommon native Keith O’Brien) likes to position himself at the more cerebral end of the new right. His assessment, however, of... Read more »
Martin McGuinness

Affairs of the Nation

BBC SMEARS MARTIN McGUINNESS

THE BBC has launched Stakeknife, a podcast series that looks at the activities of the late Freddie Scappaticci, MI5’s mole in the Provisional IRA. The first episode focused on a... Read more »

Pillars of Society

Cian O’Callaghan

Pillars of Society

PROFILE: CIAN O’CALLAGHAN

BEHIND EVERY great leader, there’s a deputy leader and Social Democrats head Holly Cairns was temporarily replaced by her deputy, Cian O’Callaghan, for most... Read more »

The Young Bloods

Emma Doran

The Young Bloods

YOUNG BLOOD: EMMA DORAN

Celebs with a good personal back story will always find refuge in the welcoming arms of the Irish media and this year comedian Emma... Read more »

Fit to Print?

Ed Moloney

Fit to Print?

WHATEVER YOU SAY…

THE RECENTLY released Disney+ film, Say Nothing, has resurrected the usual controversy about Gerry Adams’s alleged involvement in the killing and disappearance of widowed mother of 10 Jean McConville. One... Read more »
Dana Erlich

Fit to Print?

DUBLIN’S KRISTALLNACHT

DUBLIN HAS become afflicted by “rising antisemitism”, according to a recent headline and article in the Irish Times. The article focused on a reported attack by three men on a... Read more »

Last Refuge

Helen McEntee

Last Refuge

McENTEE REVIVES LEADERSHIP DREAM

FIANNA FÁIL’s election strategy selected justice minister Helen McEntee as its prime target but the Fine Gael princess focussed on a game plan inside FG during the campaign in an... Read more »
Tim Lombard

Last Refuge

SCHULL-DUGGERY UNDERMINES FREE STATERS

FOR THE second election in a row, Fine Gael has emerged with no seat in Cork South-West (CSW), a notable change of fortune in a constituency that had continuous FG... 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

GREEN GLOBAL GLOOM

‘APRÈS-NOUS, le déluge’ summed up the atmosphere at the European Greens convention last weekend in the cavernous Dublin Convention Centre. The poorly attended event was a tragedy for its hosts,... Read more »
Jim O'Callaghan

Last Refuge

MARTIN TO KEEP O’CALLAGHAN CLOSE?

WILL MICHEÁL MARTIN honour his accord and reconciliation with former leadership challenger Jim O’Callaghan or will he welch on a deal that Fianna Fáil members believe has been struck for... Read more »

Northwind

Naomi Long

Northwind

MARTIN’S NEW ALLY

Micheál Martin spoke to the Alliance party conference in Belfast on March 1 as Tánaiste and Minister of Foreign Affairs. It was part of his policy of distancing himself and... Read more »

Hush Hush

Hermann Kelly

Hush Hush

RIGHT-WING RECRIMINATION

THE FAILURE of Ireland’s new-right parties and Independents in the general election was always likely to lead to some level of introspection and reorganisation – as well as serious recrimination.... Read more »

Bog Cuttings

Bog-Cuttings-Defaul

Bog Cuttings

BOG CUTTINGS

HOLIDAY DISTURBANCE Listowel District Court heard the case of a 47-year-old man who was arrested for causing a disturbance at Ballybunion Golf Holiday Homes on September 4. Sergeant Stephen O’Brien... Read more »

Fowl Emissions

Jackie Cahill

Fowl Emissions

TREASONOUS AN TAISCE!

Shortly before the election, Independent TD Mattie McGrath introduced a bill in the Dáil aimed at stripping heritage charity An Taisce of its status as a “prescribed authority”. An Taisce... Read more »

The Hot Air Brigade

Lena Dunham

The Hot Air Brigade

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

It’s becoming even clearer that she’s not just the female voice of a generation, but the humane voice of a century. Lena Dunham waxes lyrical about Sally Rooney, Financial Times... Read more »

High Society

High Society

Enda McEvoy

High Society

ENDA McEVOY’S INDIGESTION

MICHELIN-STAR chef Enda McEvoy has moved to wind up the company that was behind his award-winning Loam restaurant in Galway, which closed a couple... Read more »

High Society

John Magnier

High Society

JOHN MAGNIER’S ROOSTING BATS

JOHN MAGNIER has been attracting a lot of attention lately and, especially in Co Tipperary, the aggressive acquisition of large tracts of land by... Read more »

Behind the Scenes

Seán O’Keeffe

Behind the Scenes

SEÁN O’KEEFFE’S PLOT SPOILER

INTERESTING TO see that the website for the small Irish publisher established by Seán O’Keeffe, Liberties Press, is still up and running, “seeking new work from new and established authors”... Read more »

Sport of Kings

Rich Ricci

Sport of Kings

RICH RICCI’S CENTURY

FORMER BARCLAYS moneybags Rich Ricci has had a rollercoaster few weeks on racecourses in different parts of the world and achieved a significant milestone on his travels. Following Vauban’s latest... 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

VLADISLAV AIMS HIGH

AGROLEXICA INTERNATIONAL Trading BV – the Dutch agricultural commodity trading entity with interests in Ukraine and owned by Ukrainian Vladislav Pasztirya (see The Phoenix 17/10/24) – was in the racing... Read more »

Moneybags

Moneybags

Edmond Scanlon

Moneybags

KERRY GROUP DEAL A BONANZA FOR CO-OP SHAREHOLDERS

AFTER A decade of bickering, Kerry Co-Op Creameries has eventually agreed to a €500m deal to buy the listed Kerry Group’s Irish dairy business.... Read more »

Moneybags

Eddie Byrne

Moneybags

NEW LOOK AT I-RES REIT, SAME OLD PROBLEMS

HAVING SURVIVED the attempted ousting of the board by Jeff Olin’s Vision Capital Corp (VCC) early this year, I-Res Reit nevertheless has a rather... Read more »

Brief Cases

Aubrey McCarthy

Brief Cases

AUBREY’S ELECTION CAMPAIGN

WITH NOMINATIONS closed for the upcoming university Seanad elections, the battle for the three seats in Trinity College will be more interesting than usual, given the absence from the ballot... Read more »
David Rock

Brief Cases

DAVID ROCK’S HEALTH EMERGENCY

TWO OF David ‘RocDoc’ Rock’s companies are to be wound up next week on foot of liabilities built up. This follows last year’s liquidation of RocDoc Health Check Ltd (RHC),... Read more »
Noel Frisby

Brief Cases

NOEL FRISBY’S FEISTY FOES

WATERFORD DEVELOPER Noel Frisby’s plans to build a three-block development of around 79 apartments at a site on the ring road around Waterford city has hit a bit of a... Read more »
Loretta Dignam

Brief Cases

LORETTA DIGNAM’S MENOPAUSE MONEY

LORETTA DIGNAM will have plenty to celebrate this Christmas, having just secured €¼m in funding for her Menopause Hub operation. There are some interesting names among the backers. The menopause... Read more »