Affairs of the Nation

Heather Humphreys

Affairs of the Nation

MEDIA SETS HEATHER BLAZING

THE PUNISHMENT meted out to presidential candidates and the relentless pursuit of any of their flaws and misdemeanours has become a media trope, but it hardly applies to the lyrical... Read more »
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Affairs of the Nation

MICHAEL D’S ALBUMS

WHILE PRESIDENT Michael D Higgins may be annoyed at the Irish Times for its hit job last month – when the paper highlighted the degree to which the number of... Read more »
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Affairs of the Nation

DUALTA MOORE’S LESSON

WHILE Dualta Moore’s exciting online learning platform, GoConqr, looked set to become a superstar business, judging by the hype surrounding its launch a decade ago, things haven’t quite worked out... Read more »

Affairs of the Nation

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Affairs of the Nation

MICHEÁL MARTIN’S REBELS

DISCONTENT IN Fianna Fáil’s parliamentary party about Micheál Martin’s failure to put forward a presidential candidate has seen an alarmingly high majority of TDs, senators and MEPs – including junior... Read more »
Peter Mandelson

Affairs of the Nation

PETER MANDELSON’S GOLDEN TOUCH

CANADIAN company Dalradian, which is behind a proposed gold mine near Omagh, Co Tyrone, has upped the ante on its planning application that was delayed by an abortive “public local... Read more »
Sally Rooney

Affairs of the Nation

SALLY ROONEY’S IRISH TARGET

WHILE ARTISTS here and elsewhere have sensed the changing temperature around the Gaza genocide and started to speak up – even Bono and Bob Geldof felt it was okay to... Read more »
John Byrne

Affairs of the Nation

JOHN BYRNE’S HOTEL GUESTS

THE LATEST list of food hygiene infringers produced by the Irish Food Safety Authority (IFSA) got a fair degree of attention last week due to the naming of one of... Read more »
Elaine Mullally

Affairs of the Nation

MAKING LAOIS GREAT AGAIN

ENORMOUS HYPE surrounded the recent Make Europe Great Again (Mega) conference in Warsaw. It was claimed that attendees came from over 40 countries and three continents, while reports in conservative... Read more »
Stella Rimington

Affairs of the Nation

MI5’S STELLA RIMINGTON

MI5 director-general (1992-96) Dame Stella Rimington, who passed away this month, worked in all three branches of MI5 – counter-espionage, counter-subversion and counter-terrorism – and possessed an intimate knowledge of... Read more »

Pillars of Society

John Lahart

Pillars of Society

PROFILE: JOHN LAHART

HARDLY THE most publicly contentious or outspoken of backbench TDs, Fianna Fáil’s John Lahart was chosen to chair the Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs,... Read more »

The Young Bloods

Garron Noone

The Young Bloods

YOUNG BLOOD: GARRON NOONE

Musician, comedian and social media content creator Garron Noone caused a stir recently when he announced his decision to cancel his nationwide tour and... Read more »

Fit to Print?

Alison O'Connor

Fit to Print?

IRISH MEDIA AND GAZA

A MOST civilised discourse may have been anticipated by Sindo readers recently who looked at the headline “Letter from Jerusalem” over an article written by Tsela Rubel, described by the... Read more »
Terry Prone

Fit to Print?

TERRY PRONE’S ‘MASS GRAVE’

THE IRISH edition of the Sunday Times recently focused on the discovery in the past few years of another “mass grave”, which is adjacent to the site where nearly 800... Read more »

Last Refuge

Jack Chambers

Last Refuge

IS FF LEADERSHIP BACKING JACK CHAMBERS?

IS MICHEÁL MARTIN really intent on retiring as Taoiseach and Fianna Fáil leader in September and then going for the presidency? That’s the forecast of Irish Mail on Sunday political... Read more »
Mary Lou McDonald

Last Refuge

MARY LOU POISED TO RUN FOR PARK

A STRONG indication of the decision that the Sinn Féin leadership will likely take in the presidential election came with the circulation of a strong editorial in Belfast Media, the... Read more »
Mick O'Riordan

Last Refuge

FIRST, SECOND AND THIRD ITEM 

THE GRAND old gentleman of the Irish left, the Communist Party of Ireland (CPI), has undergone much in its 100-plus years of existence, with attacks from within and without, and... 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

OFF THE BUSES

UNIONS SIPTU and the National Bus and Rail Union (NBRU) have for several years now exhorted successive transport ministers to create a dedicated transport police to halt the rising tide... Read more »

Northwind

Claire Hanna

Northwind

MINORITY RULES OK!

Like many aspects of the Good Friday Agreement (GFA), policing hasn’t worked out as intended. Admittedly, policing wasn’t part of the GFA text because it would have been a deal... Read more »

Hush Hush

Sean Clancy

Hush Hush

GENERAL CLANCY’S NEAR ABROAD

WHILE Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin sat down in Alaska and during subsequent meetings and calls with Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European and Nato leaders, the war ground on in Ukraine.... Read more »

Bog Cuttings

Bog-Cuttings-Defaul

Bog Cuttings

BOG CUTTINGS

LOOKING FOR A FIGHT Athy District Court heard the case of a man charged with public intoxication and engaging in threatening and abusive behaviour following an incident at his address... Read more »

Fowl Emissions

Marie Donnelly

Fowl Emissions

GAS AND MIRRORS

A whopping 40% of global warming to date is due to methane emissions. This gas is extremely potent, with a warming impact per molecule 84 times greater than carbon dioxide... Read more »
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Fowl Emissions

MANDY JOHNSTON’S JIBES

The Business Post had a front-page hatchet job by former government press secretary and oil exploration industry lobbyist Mandy Johnston on the ‘sandal-clad’ Greens. Hardly a cliché gets left behind,... Read more »

The Hot Air Brigade

George Lee

The Hot Air Brigade

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Imagine that. 6% of all our electricity from the sun! And we are only at the beginning of this solar revolution. It is mind-blowing really, if we are honest. RTÉ’s... Read more »

High Society

High Society

Dermot Desmond

High Society

DERMOT DESMOND’S INTERVENTIONS

NOT SURPRISINGLY, billionaire Swiss tax resident Dermot Desmond got plenty of blowback for his recent AI-based intervention in the MetroLink debate. There was rather... 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

SHEIKH FAHAD’S FINANCES

THE SPORT of kings is a rich man’s game, where even the high-profile runners and riders need to dig deep to keep the show... Read more »

High Society

Ciara Donlon

High Society

CIARA DONLON’S THIRD TIME LUCKY?

HAVING HAD a couple of pops at establishing an environmentally friendly underwear business called Theya, Dalkey-based Ciara Donlon is now entering the nappy market and will be hoping there is... Read more »

Behind the Scenes

John Banville

Behind the Scenes

BANISHING BANVILLE

POOR OLD Jawn Banville must be wondering what he did wrong when he found himself out in the cold earlier this month after the Sunday Times chose its “pick of... Read more »
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Behind the Scenes

DAN COLLEY’S GRANT

THE EDINBURGH Fringe is over for this year and a notable result was Dan Colley’s Lost Lear picking up one of the Scotsman Fringe First awards. The show (a “remix”... Read more »

Sport of Kings

Lady Iman

Sport of Kings

TALLY HO TO YORK

THE OWNERS of Lady Iman – the Tally Ho branch of the O’Callaghan family – have overruled trainer Ger Lyons by supplementing their speedy filly for York’s Coolmore Wootton Bassett... Read more »
Brendan Duke Adrian Murray Mick Bailey

Sport of Kings

DAWN RUN RETURN

THE FAMOUS red and black silks of Dawn Run returned to the winners’ enclosure on August 6 when they were donned by Gabriella Hill aboard the Henry de Bromhead-trained Trubshaw,... 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

LADY KAI’S COLLAPSE

THE IRISH leg of the Fegentri World Championship for amateur riders was run at Leopardstown earlier this month but the race lost much of its appeal for punters when the... Read more »

Moneybags

Moneybags

Rita Rose Gagné

Moneybags

GOOD RIDDANCE TO RITA-ROSE GAGNÉ

IT WAS only 10 weeks ago that Rita-Rose Gagné, CEO of giant retail property play Hammerson (owner of Dundrum Town Centre), announced her intention... Read more »

Moneybags

Eamonn Crowley

Moneybags

PTSB SHARES FLYING DANGEROUSLY HIGH

ALTHOUGH FORMER CEO Jeremy Masding spent a decade trying to turn PTSB into a viable bank, it was still in a dreadful state when... Read more »

Brief Cases

Jack Cantillon

Brief Cases

JACK CANTILLON’S HEAVY GOING

LAWYER-TURNED-bloodstock entrepreneur Jack Cantillon of Syndicates.Racing has had an eventful few weeks, with bad news for both the syndicate business – courtesy of the dreaded taxman – and his London-headquartered... Read more »
Paul Dooley

Brief Cases

PAUL DOOLEY’S CLOSING TIME

IT’S A case of last orders at the Urban 8 restaurant/bar in Kilmainham, D8, operated by well-known hospitality entrepreneur Paul Dooley, who had originally helped to found the business back... Read more »
Fahad Al Thani

Brief Cases

AL THANI’S THOROUGHBREDS

ELSEWHERE IN this issue (see p18) Goldhawk reports on the hefty losses incurred by the Al Thani family’s Qatar Racing Ltd (QRL) business headquartered in the UK. As noted, there... Read more »
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Brief Cases

CLASSIC HITS’ HEADACHE

THE COURTROOM spat between the big German radio outfit, Bauer Media Audio Ireland, and Kevin Branigan’s Classic Hits station is set to cost someone a fair few bob in legal... Read more »

Brief Cases

GLANBIA’S HEALTHY SHARE PRICE

FANS OF Moneybags got a quick reward this month following recent analysis of dairy and nutritionals outfit Glanbia’s struggling shares. In the article (see The Phoenix 16/5/25), it was noted:... Read more »