Affairs of the Nation

Maureen Kennelly

Affairs of the Nation

O’DONOVAN V KENNELLY

WHILE FORMER Arts Council director Maureen Kennelly is no longer in office as a result of culture minister Patrick O’Donovan’s tough stance on the €7m “business transformation project” debacle revealed... Read more »
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Affairs of the Nation

LISTOWEL FESTIVAL’S FRIEND

GOLDHAWK IS most impressed by the speed with which culture minister Patrick O’Donovan moves when the opportunity arises. As fans of Goldhawk are aware, the Limerick TD is a big... Read more »
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Affairs of the Nation

STEFAN KLINCEWICZ’S STARRING ROLE

Beat The Lotto has been generating acres of glowing coverage across the Irish media thanks to the film’s tale of derring do by the lotto syndicate that scooped the bank... Read more »

Affairs of the Nation

Michel Forst

Affairs of the Nation

JOHN KEEGAN DIGS DEEP

THE LEGAL activity continues apace in the intriguing case featuring environmental campaigner Kieran Cummins and minted quarry owner John Keegan – an action that has attracted the interest of Michel... Read more »
Micheal Martin

Affairs of the Nation

IRANIAN DISSIDENTS AND FIANNA FÁIL

THE VIRTUAL black-out, political and media, on the links between a sinister anti-Iranian-government movement with a paramilitary wing and TDs and senators, mainly from Fianna Fáil, is strange indeed. In... Read more »
Jim O'Callaghan

Affairs of the Nation

ANOTHER SCRAP AT THE GPO

HAS MICHEÁL MARTIN jumped the mauser, so to speak, with his statement in advance of the Government’s proposals, and also Sinn Féin’s, on the redevelopment of the historic GPO? Martin... Read more »
Blaise Metreweli

Affairs of the Nation

MI6 BOSS’S NAZI GRANDAD

Britain’s overseas intelligence service, MI6, has announced the appointment of its new chief, Blaise Metreweli. Aged 47, she is the first woman to lead the organisation in its 116-year history.... Read more »
Malachy Steenson

Affairs of the Nation

QANON COMES TO CORK

THE SIGHT of a massive tricolour banner at the head of the anti-immigration protest in Cork City last month was not a major surprise for observers. But the fact that... Read more »

Pillars of Society

Sean Kelly

Pillars of Society

PROFILE: SEÁN KELLY

IS NEWS about the €800,000-plus EU expenses and rent on her own property that Mairead McGuinness accrued as an MEP a game changer in... Read more »

The Young Bloods

Dean Keating

The Young Bloods

YOUNG BLOOD: DEAN KEATING

A group of college graduates headed by Trinity alum and former Ógra Aontú chair Dean Keating (now going by Céitinn) have founded Breaking Point,... Read more »

Fit to Print?

Veronica Guerin

Fit to Print?

VERONICA GUERIN AND THE ‘SINDO’

FORMER SUNDAY INDEPENDENT editor Anne Harris’s recent article in the Currency, about the murder 29 years ago of Sindo star journalist Veronica Guerin, lists various contributing factors surrounding her murder.... Read more »
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Fit to Print?

LEO’S LINE

THE AAWRISH edition of the Sunday Times is usually kept on a tight editorial leash by the chaps (and gals) in London at London Bridge Street and Whitehall. So how... Read more »
Gary Hoy

Fit to Print?

BBC AND KINCORA

FOLLOWING THE Gerry Adams disaster, another distinction earned by the BBC in its coverage of the Troubles came with last month’s settlement of the case taken against the UK state... Read more »

Last Refuge

Micheál Martin

Last Refuge

HIROSHIMA, NAGASAKI, IRISH ROULETTE

PERHAPS THE most unctuous words that Taoiseach Micheál Martin has ever uttered were delivered during his visit to Hiroshima last week, where he said: “I am going there in all... Read more »
Liz Kimmins

Last Refuge

UNAPPROVED BORDER ROAD

SINN FÉIN TDs in Donegal, Pearse Doherty and Pádraig Mac Lochlainn, issued a mournful statement following last month’s High Court ruling in Belfast that quashed the Stormont executive’s long-awaited cross-border... Read more »
Jim O'Callaghan

Last Refuge

PUSHING MICHEÁL MARTIN

WHICH MISCHIEVOUS Fianna Fáil minister, TD or spin doctor dreamed up the story about Micheál Martin being pressured to go for the presidency and then pitched it to the Irish... Read more »
Frances Black

Last Refuge

BACIK RETREATS FROM LEFT UNITY

THE LABOUR PARTY appears to have backed off its initial proposal for left unity, touted originally in the form of a united left presidential candidate following the failure to create... Read more »

Northwind

Gordon Lyons

Northwind

ONE COMMUNITY, ONE VOICE

OF DUP ministers in the Stormont executive, current education minister Paul Givan used to be northern nationalists’ bête noir. Many would say his abrupt Christmas cancellation of a Líofa grant... Read more »

Hush Hush

Keith Woods

Hush Hush

IRISH RIGHT’S FOREIGN FRIENDS

THE DEBATE about whether the Alternative for Germany (AfD) should be banned has intensified. A visit by prominent National Party (NP) member Keith Woods (the pseudonym of Keith O’Brien from... Read more »

Bog Cuttings

Bog-Cuttings-Defaul

Bog Cuttings

BOG CUTTINGS

‘YOU HIT ME’ Longford District Court heard the case of a man who pleaded guilty to obstructing a garda, public intoxication and engaging in threatening and abusive behaviour. Kevin Higgins... Read more »

Fowl Emissions

Catherine Connolly

Fowl Emissions

ÁRAS CANDIDATES CLIMATE CHECK

Environmentalists may have breathed a small sigh of relief at Joe Duffy’s announcement last weekend that he would not be running for the presidency. Only a small sigh, mind you,... Read more »
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Fowl Emissions

SEAN SWEENEY’S MOTOR

Goldhawk was bemused to read that Sean Sweeney, the new head of Dublin’s long-awaited MetroLink, makes the two-minute journey from his home to his office by car. The New Zealander... Read more »

The Hot Air Brigade

BP Fallon

The Hot Air Brigade

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

I said, Geldof, this is gonna hurt but it’ll help, and scratched his back like a maniac. It gave him a sexual identity with the girls. BP Fallon, who else?... Read more »

High Society

High Society

6 Shrewsbury Road

High Society

CIRCLING 6 SHREWSBURY ROAD

THERE IS certain to be plenty of interest in a Shrewsbury Road property that has been put on the market by joint agents DNG... Read more »

High Society

Suzanne Nance

High Society

WEXFORD’S NEW STAR

THERE WILL be a new face at Wexford Festival Opera (WFO) next year following the appointment of Yank Suzanne Nance as the new executive... Read more »

High Society

Philippa Evans Bevan

High Society

BARONET BEVAN’S SECOND SHOT

THERE HAS been what looks like a dramatic drop in the asking price for the impressive Fortwilliam Estate on 220 acres outside Lismore, Co Waterford, which was initially put on... Read more »

Behind the Scenes

Feargal O'Coigligh

Behind the Scenes

O’DONOVAN’S ‘ACTING DIRECTOR’

THE LATEST Oireachtas outing featuring the antics at the Arts Council took place before Alan Kelly’s art and media committee earlier this month and proved suitably entertaining. Of most interest... Read more »

Sport of Kings

Brian Kavanagh

Sport of Kings

KAVANAGH’S POOL GAME

CURRAGH BOSS Brian Kavanagh was one of the few “delighted with the number of runners” in the recent Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby – “the largest number there has been... Read more »
Brendan Duke Adrian Murray Mick Bailey

Sport of Kings

WHIP (NOT) SMART

GROUP ONE winning jockey Gary Carroll was left in the doldrums after his Royal Ascot victory aboard the Joe Murphy-trained Cercene in the Coronation Stakes. The whip review committee found... Read more »
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Sport of Kings

FAST CARS AND HORSES

SOME HEAVY going on the tarmac for a couple of Irish jockeys recently. Four-time UK champion jockey Oisín Murphy was fined £70,000 and disqualified from driving for 20 months after... Read more »

Moneybags

Moneybags

Peter Jackson

Moneybags

FLUTTER’S BETS OUTSIDE AMERICA LOOK LIKE LONG-SHOTS

FLUTTER ENTERTAINMENT boss Peter Jackson continues to splash out around the globe rather than focus on the rapidly evolving US market, a strategy that... Read more »

Moneybags

Roger White

Moneybags

C&C MOVING FROM FLAT TO FIZZY

IN THE last five years the erratic C&C drinks business has boasted more CEOs than most companies experience in decades. The man in the... Read more »

Brief Cases

Geoff Waddell

Brief Cases

BEER FACTORY FLOORED

THE MOVE by the Revenue Commissioners to wind up Dublin Beer Factory Holdings Ltd (DBF) represents another setback for the backers here, including innovative Aussie bar owner and investor Geoff... Read more »
Alan Clancy

Brief Cases

ALAN CLANCY’S HOSPITALITY HEADACHES

WHAT ON Earth is going on with Alan ‘House’ Clancy’s sprawling bar and club empire? Having attracted the attention of the dreaded taxman (see The Phoenix 13/6/25), which petitioned the... Read more »
Gezim Idrizi (r)

Brief Cases

GEZIM IDRIZI’S FOOD FIGHT

THE REVENUE Commissioners are heading to the High Court later this month to wind up two food companies that turn out to be owned by a familiar name – at... Read more »
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Brief Cases

JOHNNY LEVINS’S FORM

RACEHORSE TRAINER Johnny Levins has called it a day here and is heading across the Irish Sea. His going away party may have been spoiled somewhat by the registering of... Read more »