Affairs of the Nation

Mary Lou McDonald

Affairs of the Nation

SINN FÉIN DIVIDE ON MARY LOU

THE DIVISIONS within Sinn Féin over whether to run party leader, Mary McDonald, for the presidency are multiple and have created political paralysis within the party. Even worse, it has... Read more »
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Affairs of the Nation

ROBBO’S DOC

NO DOUBT the legions of Mary Robinson’s fans will have been glued to their tellies this week for the terrestrial broadcasting of Mrs Robinson, which enjoyed a (brief) run in... Read more »
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Affairs of the Nation

NEW ARTS COUNCIL CHIEF

AS PREDICTED (see The Phoenix 11/7/25) culture minister Patrick O’Donovan has gone outside the Arts Council to find an interim director to replace Maureen O’Sullivan. The new face turns out... Read more »

Affairs of the Nation

Bobby Storey

Affairs of the Nation

MI6 FOUL-UP PUTS AGENTS AT RISK

WHITEHALL MANDARINS and MI6 agents in Britain, Ireland and around the globe have been having sleepless nights after yet another flabbergasting data leak which has exposed details of MI6 agents,... Read more »
Deirdre Heenan

Affairs of the Nation

HEINOUS PLOT BY MARTIN

THERE ARE good reasons for believing reports that northern academic, Deirdre Heenan would appeal to Micheal Martin as a presidential candidate for Fianna Fail, but there are also caveats. For... Read more »
Terence O'Rourke

Affairs of the Nation

RTÉ’S BOARD VACANCIES

AT LONG last, culture and media minister Patrick O’Donovan has got around to advertising for expressions of interest in filling a ministerial vacancy on the board of RTÉ. Given the... Read more »
Maurice Regan

Affairs of the Nation

MAURICE REGAN’S OTHER ACTION

WHILE CONSTRUCTION magnate Maurice Regan is not a party to the high profile litigation between John Magnier et al and Richard Thompson Moore and the other owners of the sprawling... Read more »
Nigel Farage

Affairs of the Nation

BRITANNIA RULES THE RIGHT

A year on from the European and Local Government elections Ireland’s emerging right wing networks are still desperately trying to establish a united political party that can have an impact... Read more »
Robert Nairac

Affairs of the Nation

NAIRAC AGAIN …

All the portents are that Operation Denton’s report into the crimes of the UVF’s Glenanne gang, will paint a double coat of whitewash over the roles played by MI5, Capt.... Read more »

Pillars of Society

Jamie Bryson

Pillars of Society

PROFILE: JAMIE BRYSON

What manner of man is Jamie Bryson, the man who described placing an effigy of immigrants in a boat on a loyalist bonfire in... Read more »

The Young Bloods

Jennifer Bray

The Young Bloods

YOUNG BLOOD: JENNIFER BRAY

While Jennifer Bray only took up the position of political editor of the Irish edition of the Sunday Times in March, she is flat out promoting... Read more »

Fit to Print?

Mark Mellett

Fit to Print?

RTÉ’S NEUTRALITY

WESTERN CLICHÉS about Orwellian media bias in Russia and other ‘bad‘ countries could well describe RTÉ and Coimisiún na Meán’s (CnaM) response to a complaint about alleged “false … misleading”... Read more »
Diageo Dana An Garda Síochána IT Trust No Stone Unturned Irish Times Black Friday Vicky Conway

Fit to Print?

‘GOOGLE IT’

IRiSH TIMES group MD, Deirdre Veldon, welcomed aboard the paper’s newly appointed director, David Martin — former senior director at Google — saying “It’s a good time to introduce innovative... Read more »
Fintan O'Toole

Fit to Print?

SINGER NOT THE SONG

A MOST mannerly, intellectual exercise of the sort that can, some say, lead to blindness, has been arranged involving mutual participants, Fintan O’Toole and Sam McBride. The college debating device... Read more »

Last Refuge

Dan O'Brien

Last Refuge

IIEA SPLIT ON ISRAEL?

FEW PEOPLE would regard the Institute of International and European Affairs (IIEA) as a front for Hamas, but neither is it a cheer leader for Benjamin Netanyahu and the IDF... Read more »
Jim O'Callaghan

Last Refuge

DPP V DPP

MUCH CRITICISM was levelled at the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) by various media and others for failing to prosecute the late Ian Bailey for Sophie Toscan... 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

SHANE ROSS’S RECOMMENDATION

SHANE ROSS comes over as the essence of sweet reason these days as exemplified by his proposal in the Sindo last weekend that Micheál Martin, should put the chairman of... Read more »
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

Last Refuge

JAMES CONNOLLY IS ALIVE AND WELL!

IT IS hard to say what Labour’s policy on neutrality and EU militarisation actually is given the confusion in the anti-war movement about the party’s stated position when compared to... Read more »

Northwind

Nuala O'Loan

Northwind

STARMER’S LEGACY

Sir Keir Starmer’s plans to deal with the north’s intractable disputes about security force killings in the north are under attack on several fronts. The British Labour party’s manifesto promised... Read more »

Hush Hush

Eamon Martin

Hush Hush

LIFE ON THE RIGHT

HOW COULD it be controversial for the Primate of All Ireland Archbishop Eamon Martin to participate in an anti-abortion march? Well the matter in question for the Archbishop arises from... Read more »

Bog Cuttings

Bog-Cuttings-Defaul

Bog Cuttings

BOG CUTTINGS

“BACK TO THE ZOO” A 40-year-old man was handed a two-month suspended sentence at a recent sitting of Portlaoise District Court for giving gardaí “awful abuse”, according to a garda... Read more »

Fowl Emissions

Michael O'Leary

Fowl Emissions

BEYOND PR

BACK IN 2000, energy giant BP announced that in future its initials would now stand for ‘Beyond Petroleum’, rather than the outdated ‘British Petroleum’. As part of this radical rebrand,... 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

MILK WAY

Fat-filled milk powder (FFMP) is the biggest Irish export you’ve never heard of. While it can’t be legally described in the EU as “milk”, enterprising Irish dairy PLCs have sold... Read more »

The Hot Air Brigade

Brendan O'Connor

The Hot Air Brigade

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

While the government is maybe the head and brain of the country, the presidency is more about the heart of the country and you are a man with a huge... Read more »

High Society

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

NEATLY PACKAGED

GOLDHAWK RECENTLY reported on the ownership of a Shrewsbury Road pile in the heart of D4, which was put on the market without any... Read more »

High Society

Under the Grill

High Society

KEVIN DUNDON’S RECIPE

CELEBRITY CHEF and Dancing With The Stars alumnus Kevin Dundon continues to expand his menu, most recently popping up with co-presenter Sunday Worst journo... Read more »

High Society

Eimear & Eddie Irwin

High Society

EDDIE IRWIN’S TRACK RECORD

HAVING MANAGED to keep a low profile for decades, it will have come as no surprise to John Magnier’s “fixer” (sorry Coolmore finance director) Eddie Irwin to find himself tagged... Read more »

Behind the Scenes

Éilís Ní Dhuibhne

Behind the Scenes

NÍ DHUIBHNE’S NEW PLOT

LOTS OF coverage for the new Laureate for Irish Fiction, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, whose appointment balances the male/female ratio as expected, with Anne Enright having been installed as the first... 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

NANCY HARRIS’S REVIEWS

IT HAS been a smooth run in recent times for playwright and TV screenplay writer Nancy Harris (daughter of Anne and Eoghan Harris), who is probably best known for the... Read more »

Sport of Kings

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

STILL PURRING ALONG

THE AMENDED result of Down Royal’s Laura Nicholas Handicap last month raised a few eyebrows and, not surprisingly, there was quite the kerfuffle online, which appears justified by a subsequent... 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

COLIN KEANE’S ROUGH RIDE

JUDDMONTE’S NEW retained rider Colin Keane was the latest rider to fall foul of the British Horseracing Authority’s whip review committee, resulting in a 14-day suspension. The ban means Keane... 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

DARRAGH O’LOUGHLIN’S ‘ACTIONS’

IRISH HORSE Racing Regulatory Board (IHRB) chief executive Darragh O’Loughlin has revealed in the 2024 IHRB annual report that “significant actions” have been taken to improve the financial governance procedures... Read more »

Moneybags

Moneybags

Jonathan Rockett

Moneybags

DATALEX SHAREHOLDERS CONTINUE TO LOSE ALTITUDE

THIS YEAR Datalex is 40 years old and still losing money, airborne only thanks to Dermot Desmond’s decision to back the venture all the... Read more »

Moneybags

Colin Hunt

Moneybags

SOARING AIB SHARES HEADING FOR A €½ BN WAKE-UP CALL

THE IRISH banking duopoly is back in business, returning combined pre-tax profits of €4.6bn as the competition has cleared off, principally KBC, Ulster Bank... Read more »

Brief Cases

Vernon Kay and Tess Daly

Brief Cases

EOIN KEENAN’S WELLNESS BOXES

LONDON-BASED Trinity College graduate Eoin Keenan must have been delighted with the extensive coverage generated earlier this month for Goodrays, the cannabidiol brand he co-founded. The news blitz was on... Read more »
Ryan Murphy

Brief Cases

RYAN MURPHY’S CHOPPY WATERS

JUST A month after the Murphy family featured prominently in RTÉ’s well regarded four-part documentary series on the lives of fishermen and women in Ireland, Tarrac na Farraige, a company... 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

STARWOOD’S VAULTS

A COMPANY called Starwood Imports Ltd has popped up in Stubbs Gazette as a result of a third judgment being registered against it by South Dublin County Council (SDCC) last... Read more »
Patrick Radden Keeffe

Brief Cases

DISNEY’S DEFENCE

A MEMO of entry of appearance has now been lodged in Four Goldmines by the defendants in the legal action initiated by former IRA member Marian McGlinchey on foot of... Read more »
Mo Chara

Brief Cases

BACKING CILLIAN MURPHY AND KNEECAP

MAYBE A slow news day, but there was plenty of coverage of the publication of the annual report for Ciarán Kissane’s Irish Film Classification Office (IFCO), with the hacks focusing... Read more »