Affairs of the Nation

Ruadhán Mac Cormaic

Affairs of the Nation

‘IRISH TIMES’ LOSES SECTARIAN DEBATE

Last week the Irish Times lost a Press Council appeal against a Press Ombudsman’s decision. It is, for the paper, a disastrous outcome and vindicates The Phoenix’s criticism of the... Read more »
article-default

Affairs of the Nation

BRENDAN MULLIN’S JUDGMENT

A JUDGMENT has just been registered against Dublin builders John G Burns Ltd (trading as Burns Construction) for €35,000. The plaintiff here is one Brendan Mullin, with an address in... Read more »
article-default

Affairs of the Nation

BRENDAN McDONAGH’S RECORD

THERE WAS no explanation forthcoming from the housing department to Goldhawk’s query about any plan to advertise – or rather not advertise – the lucrative role of head of the... Read more »

Affairs of the Nation

article-default

Affairs of the Nation

ROCKET SCIENCE

THE MEDIA’S alarmingly war-like recruitment officers for Irish military involvement in western armies often resort to sarcasm at what they describe as the paranoid fantasies of Ireland’s pacifist and pro-neutrality... Read more »
Justin Barrett

Affairs of the Nation

NOT SINCE THE BLUESHIRTS…

As anti-immigration protesters gathered at the Garden of Remembrance on Saturday April 26, it was clear from early on that this was going to be the biggest march that Ireland’s... Read more »
John Lennon

Affairs of the Nation

GET BACK

GIVEN KNEECAP’S recent troubles with British police and media, along with Taoiseach Micheál Martin and Tory party leader Kemi Badenoch, it will be interesting to see how film maker Sam... Read more »
Noel Kelly

Affairs of the Nation

NOEL KELLY’S PET PROJECT

WHATEVER HAPPENED to Petfix Club, the expensive website set up by some familiar faces to give “affordable trustworthy and high quality online veterinary and wellness advice” to pet owners. The... Read more »
article-default

Affairs of the Nation

RACING UNCERTAINTY

NOT SURPRISINGLY, there has been plenty of comment on the €300,000 winning bet placed with Ladbrokes by stable lad Dylan Phelan, for which he has yet to be paid a... Read more »
Tom McFeely

Affairs of the Nation

TOM McFEELY’S RECEIVER

IN RECENT times, not an awful lot has been heard here about former IRA hunger striker turned boom-time property developer turned bankrupt Tom McFeely but that could be about to... Read more »
Virginia Giuffre

Affairs of the Nation

BUCK HOUSE COVER-UP

PRINCE ANDREW became a severe embarrassment to Buckingham Palace after sordid details of his sexual exploitation of Virginia Giuffre (neé Roberts) emerged in 2018. Giuffre has just taken her own... Read more »
Pat O'Connor

Affairs of the Nation

VIRTUAL WAR BUT REAL MONEY

When VRAI Simulation recently launched its new office in Orlando, Florida, it hyped up the significance of the move with copious references to its clients and partners in the western... Read more »

Pillars of Society

Liz Kearney

Pillars of Society

PROFILE: LIZ KEARNEY

THERE WAS a time when the incoming editor of the biggest-selling newspaper in the country would already be known to many in the public... Read more »

The Young Bloods

Eoin Hayes

The Young Bloods

YOUNG BLOOD: EOIN HAYES

ALAS, ALL political careers end in failure but minister Eoin Hayes has turned Enoch Powell’s old adage on its head and begins his political... Read more »

Fit to Print?

Black and Tans

Fit to Print?

DISAPPEARANCE OF THE DISAPPEARED STORY

WHATEVER HAPPENED to the crusade that began in January, when the Sunday Times launched its Forgotten Graves campaign to grant a proper burial to those killed and dumped in shallow... 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?

THE LATE LATE SHOW

AN APPARENTLY non-descript and rather short story, informing Irish Times readers that Denis O’Brien had received nearly €6m for his Moriarty Tribunal legal costs, appeared on the bottom of page... 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?

NO TO ‘IRISH TIMES’!

A DISAPPOINTED Irish Times was recently compelled to report that voters favoured retention of neutrality by over 2:1 but the good news for the paper’s Redmondites came with the same... Read more »

Last Refuge

Colm Burke

Last Refuge

BLUESHIRTS CORK CIVIL WAR

THERE IS a lot more than has been reported to that cross-party letter about the underfunding of the tenant-in-situ scheme, which was sent to the prematurely beleaguered housing minister, James... Read more »
Micheal McDowell

Last Refuge

McDOWELL SAYS NO TO PRESIDENCY

MICHAEL McDOWELL was pretty defiant when it was put to him in March that, with Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael each intent on going it alone in the presidential election,... Read more »
Paschal Donohoe

Last Refuge

DONOHOE FOR EUROGROUP JOB?

GROUP THINK in the media Greek chorus of the Irish financial establishment is that finance minister Paschal Donohoe only has to turn up in July to retain the splendid title... Read more »
Leo Varadkar

Last Refuge

VARADKAR V MARTIN

FOR TAOISEACH and Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin to be battling with former taoiseach and Fine Gael leader Leo Varadkar over a united Ireland – with Martin preaching FG’s traditional... Read more »

Northwind

Paul Givan

Northwind

NO POPERY IN LISBURN

Easter Monday is traditionally the date of the first big loyalist parade in the north. This year it was the Apprentice Boys of Derry (ABOD), which may not be familiar... Read more »

Hush Hush

Conor McGregor

Hush Hush

CONOR McGREGOR’S PALS

DESPITE THE rallying effect that Conor McGregor is having on the new-right scene and his close association with Donald Trump and Tucker Carlson, he is not admired by everyone on... Read more »

Bog Cuttings

Bog-Cuttings-Defaul

Bog Cuttings

BOG CUTTINGS

BAILING OUT Cork District Court heard the case of a man accused of carrying a knife, engaging in threatening and abusive behaviour, and refusing to give his name to gardaí.... Read more »

Fowl Emissions

Hannah Daly

Fowl Emissions

CLIMATE NEUTRALITY ‘WISHFUL THINKING’

When it comes to Ireland’s energy transition, “wishful thinking needs to be replaced by the realities of engineering, finance and project delivery”. So said the Irish Academy of Engineering (IAE)... 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

‘IT’ HOT AIR

While there is no future in fossil gas, the outlook is equally bleak for biomethane, a highly problematic gas that increasingly looks like a solution in search of a subsidy.... Read more »

The Hot Air Brigade

Colum McCann

The Hot Air Brigade

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

What was most extraordinary about him was how the words seemed to enter him. Viscerally. Quietly. It struck me that I had never seen words being accepted in the same... Read more »

High Society

High Society

Patrick Doran

High Society

PATRICK DORAN’S SUPPORT

IT IS slow ahead on Shrewsbury Road in D4, where aircraft leasing moneybags Aengus Kelly and his wife, Deirdre O’Malley, are looking to build... 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

D6 DENIZENS

IT WAS reported by the Sindo that “the well-heeled denizens of Palmerston Road in Dublin 6” would be raising a toast on foot of... Read more »

High Society

Pembrokestown House

High Society

OFFLOADING PEMBROKESTOWN HOUSE

WITH A price tag of just on €3m, following a “remarkable renovation”, including a “showstopping swimming pool”, the impressive early 19th-century Pembrokestown House outside Butlerstown, Co Waterford, has arrived on... Read more »

Behind the Scenes

Denis Desmond

Behind the Scenes

DENIS DESMOND’S MUSIC NOTES

THERE HAS been yet more fine-tuning of the corporate set up at LN-Gaiety Holdings, the utterly dominant concert and music venue joint venture between Denis and Caroline Desmond’s Gaiety Investments... Read more »

Sport of Kings

Rebecca Curtis

Sport of Kings

REBECCA’S FAIRYTALE

HAITI COULEURS, trained by Rebecca Curtis, showed his rivals a clean pair of heels when running away with Ireland’s richest national hunt race, the €½m Boylesports Irish Grand National, under... Read more »
Brendan Duke Adrian Murray Mick Bailey

Sport of Kings

WILLIE’S WIN

EVEN THOUGH Dan Skelton had led Willie Mullins going into the final day of the UK National Hunt Championship at Sandown, there was a sense of inevitability about the final... Read more »

Moneybags

Moneybags

Dalton Philips

Moneybags

DALTON PHILIPS’S AUDACIOUS TAKEOVER BID

GREENCORE’S AGREED £1.2bn takeover of the Icelandic-founded British Bakkavor convenience food company has a certain air of déjà vu. The company previously spent almost... Read more »

Moneybags

Gene Murtagh

Moneybags

KINGSPAN’S MYSTERIOUS SETBACKS

THE FINAL report on the Grenfell Tower disaster was published by Martin Moore-Bick last September. While Kingspan was only a bit player, it has continued... Read more »

Brief Cases

Ballinacurra House Des McGahan

Brief Cases

DES MCGAHAN’S DES RES

A YEAR on from Goldhawk’s last look at the impressive Ballinacurra House outside Kinsale – where one Michael Jackson previously enjoyed a sojourn – the property is finally set to... Read more »
Greg Alken

Brief Cases

ALKEN BROTHERS‘ WHINE LIST

THE HAPLESS wine-importing Alken brothers, Anthony and Greg, found one of their companies on the wrong end of a winding-up petition from the dreaded Revenue this week but it was... Read more »
John McKeown

Brief Cases

FASHION VICTIMS

LOUTH BROTHERS John and Michael McKeown have come to the end of the road with their trendy men’s fashion business after their big plans ended in the bargain bin. Two... Read more »
Ciara Donlon

Brief Cases

CIARA DONLON’S EXIT

THEYA LINGERIE, which produced post-surgery underwear from bamboo no less, has now been dissolved but the name lives on in the form of Theya Healthcare Ltd. The original company founder,... Read more »