Affairs of the Nation

Rossa Fanning

Affairs of the Nation

AG v. FORMER CLIENT MICHAEL LOWRY

EVEN BY the cloistered circumstances of the Four Goldmines, the interaction between Attorney General Rossa Fanning and legal issues concerning Michael Lowry is unusual as highlighted by the case taken... Read more »
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Affairs of the Nation

‘MAD’ MERRIGAN’S RETURN

GOLDHAWK’S FAVOURITE horseracing tipster Paddy ‘Mad’ Merrigan delighted his many followers with a surprise social media post last week, announcing the return of his live ‘Mad Merrigan Coldbeer Sports’ stream.... Read more »
Verona Murphy

Affairs of the Nation

VERONA SELL OUT?

WAS IT the main government parties, Fianna Fail and Fine Gael that capitulated to the growing public anger at the Rural Independent Group (RIG) trying to have it every way... Read more »

Affairs of the Nation

Paul Gallagher

Affairs of the Nation

THE BIG APPLE

IT ONLY took four months but the department of finance finally agreed to detail the names of the barristers and solicitors as well as the payments they received for their... Read more »
Patrick O'Donovan

Affairs of the Nation

PATRICK O’DONOVAN’S ART ATTACK

FANS OF Goldhawk will be familiar with the drama that has been unfolding in the Arts Council in recent months, as the scale of the overspend on a new IT... Read more »
Pat Watt

Affairs of the Nation

XL BULLY CAMPAIGN CONTINUES

THE CAMPAIGN by assorted charities against the implementation of the ban on the dangerous XL Bully breed of dog here continues to gain momentum, most recently with a High Court... Read more »
Michael McKevitt

Affairs of the Nation

RIVAL OMAGH BOMBING CLAIMS

David Rupert, the FBI-MI5 spy who sat on the Army Council of the Real IRA, has said he is prepared to testify at Lord Turnbull’s Omagh bomb inquiry and will... Read more »
Pat O'Connor

Affairs of the Nation

TRULY LETHAL

THE CURRENT obsession with militarisation in Ireland and other EU states has more to do with stimulating armaments manufacturing in Europe than Ukraine. One company well placed to take advantage... Read more »
Sean Guerin

Affairs of the Nation

BAR COUNCIL TEA SHOCK

WHILE PLENTY of our learn’d friends in the Law Library are focused on recent activity over the the failure of the government to return the fees paid to barristers involved... Read more »

Pillars of Society

Jim O'Callaghan

Pillars of Society

PROFILE: JIM O’CALLAGHAN

AMONG THE winners and losers of the general election it’s clear that Fianna Fáil’s Micheál Martin bested Fine Gael’s Simon Harris. But within FF... Read more »

The Young Bloods

Kayleigh Trappe

The Young Bloods

YOUNG BLOOD: KAYLEIGH TRAPPE

FORMER PRIMARY school teacher Kayleigh Trappe is the latest example of RTÉ plucking someone with a modicum of talent and a healthy online following... Read more »

Fit to Print?

Micheal MacDonncha

Fit to Print?

UNSIGHTLY SCENES AT IRISH TIMES

JIM O’CALLAGHAN, now the justice minister, led the charge against the tents housing asylum seekers that sprouted up outside the International Protection Office (IPO) on Dublin’s Mount Street last year.... Read more »
Ivan Yates Nell McCafferty RTÉ Lord Laird Intro Matchmaking NewsBrands Martin McGuinness Dún Laoghaire Pat Leahy Cormac Lucey John Cooney Irish Journalism Awards Steve Aiken Anton Savage John Downing Lucinda Creighton Marina Sologub Eilis O'Hanlon Ian Kehoe Danny McConnell Sindo O'Connor Mediahuis Stephen Collins Book Justine McCarthy Rewriting the Troubles Lynn Ruane Sinn Féin

Fit to Print?

OFFIDE SUNDAY TIMES

THROUGH GRITTED teeth English rugby commentators conceded that their team was well beaten by the Aawrish last Saturday. Even MI5’s favourite newspaper, the Sunday Times’, in its main report was... Read more »
Greg Miller

Fit to Print?

IRISH TIMES WARRIORS

THE PILE-ON against neutrality and for a serious increase in military expenditure is a sacred mission for the western jihadists in the Irish Times, and political editor, Pat Leahy, warmed... Read more »

Last Refuge

James Browne

Last Refuge

HOUSING MINISTER’S ANGST

DESPITE HIS elevation to the most challenging department in government (that’s a polite euphemism for the job of housing minister, the most arduous and politically life threatening job in politics)... Read more »
Fintan O'Toole

Last Refuge

PRESIDENT O’TOOLE (POT)

THAT SECULAR Irish Times preacher, Fintan O’Toole, declined to rule himself out of the running for the presidency in the Sunday Independent last week indicates that the semi-retired writer is... Read more »
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya

Last Refuge

SVIATIANA’S CONFERENCE

Having spent many summers in Roscrea as part of the Chernobyl Children’s Project, Belorussian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, has been fêted by the Irish political establishment ever since the imprisonment... Read more »
Mattie McGrath

Last Refuge

LONESOME COWBOY TD, MATTIE

FOR SOME years Mattie McGrath was the archetypal rural Independent having left Fianna Fáil in 2010, partly over the EU-IMF bail-out and in recent years was seen as leader of... Read more »

Hush Hush

Keith Woods

Hush Hush

AUSSIE NAZIS’ IRISH LINKS

It’s not every day that seventeen neo-Nazis are arrested. So when members of the National Socialist Network (NSN) were rounded up at a rally in Adelaide over the Australia Day... Read more »

Bog Cuttings

Bog-Cuttings-Defaul

Bog Cuttings

BOG CUTTINGS

CROSS BEHAVIOUR CORK DISTRICT Court heard the case of a woman charged with engaging in threatening and abusive behaviour toward gardaí, as well as assault causing harm, when she punched... Read more »

Fowl Emissions

George Lee

Fowl Emissions

STORMY WEATHER WE’RE HAVING

Storm Éowyn elicited an array of knee-jerk reactions, but Independent Ireland leader Michael Collins’s was in a league of its own. “We need, as a state, to look at felling... 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

KEVIN MCPARTLAN’S LEXICON

Lobbyist Kevin McPartlan showed up in this magazine’s Hot Air Brigade in 2017, arguing against a sugar tax. “There is no such thing as a bad food – only inappropriate... Read more »

The Hot Air Brigade

Siomha Ní Ruairc

The Hot Air Brigade

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

In Irish there is feminine and masculine and ‘Irish’ is feminine. I absolutely love that our language is basically a woman. It’s a real power play isn’t it? Síomha Ní... Read more »

High Society

High Society

Dermot Desmond

High Society

DERMOT DESMOND’S SMASH

THERE COULD be quite the racket in Old Belvedere Rugby Club next week if a controversial plan to demolish the squash courts and replace... 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

DUNDON’S QUICK STEP

HAVING LASTED longer than most predicted, clunky Kevin Dundon’s participation in RTÉ’s Dancing With The Stars further boosted the profile of the so-called ‘celebrity... Read more »

High Society

Doireann Garrihy

High Society

DOIREANN GARRIHY’S U-TURN

ANOTHER FAMILIAR name from Dances With The Stars is Doireann Garrihy, who fronts the show alongside Jennifer Zamparelli. While DG’s presence in the line-out for this latest season of the... Read more »

Behind the Scenes

Mary Blanchfield

Behind the Scenes

SLOWLY DOES IT IN KILKENNY

IT HAS taken quite a while for Design & Crafts Council Ireland (DCCI) in Kilkenny to get around to advertising for its new chief executive, but the relaxed process is... 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

VIRGIN MEDIA’S ‘VIDEO NASTY’

THE CRITICAL reaction to Virgin Media’s TV’s accomplished comedy/horror drama series set in the 1980s, Video Nasty, will have been toasted in Screen Ireland (SI) and Coimisiún na Meán, who... Read more »

Sport of Kings

Paul Nicholls

Sport of Kings

NICHOLLS NOBBLED AGAIN

THE RECORD €740,000 purchase from the Alan and Gemma Brown’s dispersal sale at Tattersalls – Caldwell Potter – was a beaten odds-on favourite for the second time in three starts... 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

WILLIE MULLINS’S CHASER SUPREME

AT THE Dublin Racing Festival, where the target of 18,500 pre-booked tickets for each of the two days was not reached, the crowds were treated to another Willie Mullins masterclass,... Read more »

Moneybags

Moneybags

Sean Coyle

Moneybags

ORIGIN DIRECTORS SEND RIGHT SIGNAL TO SCEPTICAL MARKET

THE STOCK market usually regards directors buying shares in their own company as a positive signal and there has been some noticeable activity on... Read more »

Moneybags

Michael Stanley

Moneybags

CAIRN HOMES SHARES TO CLIMB IN SHORT TERM

IT IS hardly surprising that Darragh O’Brien is no longer housing minister. Despite the huge spend on housing and temporary abolition of levies, the... Read more »

Briefcases

Shane Corry

Brief Cases

SHANE CORRY’S TAX BILL

INTERESTING TO report a chunky €427,000 tax judgment registered against one Shane Corry, with an address on Foxfield Road in Raheny, D5. It has certainly been a while since Corry... Read more »
Jamie Myerscough

Brief Cases

JAMIE’S MYERSCOUGH SHAKE-UP

IT HAS been hard to avoid former Take That member Robbie Williams in recent weeks, as the hype machine has cranked up the gears to promote his Better Man biopic... Read more »
Aine Moriarty

Brief Cases

ÁINE MORIARTY’S IFTA PLOT

ÁINE MORIARTY’S annual publicly-funded IFTA gong show for the nation’s film and TV industry luvvies takes place fittingly on Valentine’s Day. The big question on the night will be whether... Read more »
Colin Gaynor

Brief Cases

HIBERGENE’S MEDICAL REPORT

THE LIQUIDATOR of the controversial HiberGene Diagnostics Ltd (HDL) has filed returns in the Companies Registration Office revealing the scale of the debts owed to unsecured creditors. HDL, which was... 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

FANCY THAT!

Yet that is not how Elon’s Nazi salute was framed in much of the media. It was variously described as “a hand gesture” which “draws scrutiny”, and which “ignites online... Read more »