Affairs of the Nation Archives

AFFAIRS OF THE NATION

BILLY KELLEHER’S ATTEMPTED PUTSCH

September 4, 2025
THE SIGHS of relief from Fianna Fáil’s Mount Street HQ could be heard all the way to Cork this week, where Billy Kelleher’s rebel... Read more »

COURAGEOUS CIARA KELLY

September 4, 2025

NEWSTALK PRESENTER Ciara Kelly last week promised Independent readers that her column that day defending U2’s disingenuous statement on Gaza would be “OUTRAGEOUS”... Read more »

RYAN’S NEW POST

September 4, 2025
FORMER ENVIRONMENT minister Eamon Ryan’s new grace-and-favour gig as EU “housing tsar” kicks off in earnest this month in apparently straight-faced celebration of the... Read more »

ALAN ‘AK47’ KELLY MISFIRES

September 4, 2025

THE SPECTACLE of Alan Kelly being brought to heel by Labour leader Ivana Bacik, not to mention the brazen, public defiance by him... Read more »

GAVIN’S MEDIA FANS

September 4, 2025

THE DIFFERENCE between the Indo and Irish Times’s coverage of Fianna Fáil’s Jim Gavin v Billy Kelleher presidential contest was startling in its... Read more »

SINN FÉIN TO SUPPORT CONNOLLY?

September 4, 2025
AFTER MUCH agonising and ideological debate about downgrading the central demand for a united Ireland, Sinn Féin’s ard chomhairle (AC) is likely to endorse... Read more »

REDRESS FOR CATHOLICS ONLY

September 4, 2025

AN INTERESTING article in the Belfast News Letter in June by a Church of Ireland cleric, Canon Ian Ellis, has been brought to... Read more »

GENERALISSIMO SEÁN CLANCY

September 4, 2025

MOMENTUM BEHIND the militarisation of the EU has not abated. While there has been some comment in Ireland’s media about removal of the... Read more »

BURYING MI5 TRUTH

September 4, 2025

Kincora’s Lost Boys: The Truth MI5 Buried (KLB), written by an anonymous author, went on sale via Amazon a few months ago. It... Read more »

MEDIA SETS HEATHER BLAZING

August 21, 2025
THE PUNISHMENT meted out to presidential candidates and the relentless pursuit of any of their flaws and misdemeanours has become a media trope, but... Read more »

SALLY ROONEY’S IRISH TARGET

August 21, 2025
WHILE ARTISTS here and elsewhere have sensed the changing temperature around the Gaza genocide and started to speak up – even Bono and Bob... Read more »

MICHAEL D’S ALBUMS

August 21, 2025

WHILE PRESIDENT Michael D Higgins may be annoyed at the Irish Times for its hit job last month – when the paper highlighted... Read more »

JOHN BYRNE’S HOTEL GUESTS

August 21, 2025

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

DUALTA MOORE’S LESSON

August 21, 2025

WHILE Dualta Moore’s exciting online learning platform, GoConqr, looked set to become a superstar business, judging by the hype surrounding its launch a... Read more »

MICHEÁL MARTIN’S REBELS

August 21, 2025

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... Read more »

PETER MANDELSON’S GOLDEN TOUCH

August 21, 2025

CANADIAN company Dalradian, which is behind a proposed gold mine near Omagh, Co Tyrone, has upped the ante on its planning application that... Read more »

MAKING LAOIS GREAT AGAIN

August 21, 2025

ENORMOUS HYPE surrounded the recent Make Europe Great Again (Mega) conference in Warsaw. It was claimed that attendees came from over 40 countries... Read more »

MI5’S STELLA RIMINGTON

August 21, 2025

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... Read more »

RUSSIAN ‘CAPTURE’ STORY – PHOENIX STATEMENT

August 7, 2025

THE CURRENT edition of The Phoenix carries a story alleging that Russian soldiers captured two British Army officers and an intelligence operative in... Read more »

DERMOT DESMOND’S BUMPY RIDE

August 7, 2025

DERMOT DESMOND was shooting his mustachioed mouth off this week on the subject of the MetroLink and why it will be a total... Read more »

CLEVER TREVOR’S GENIUS

August 7, 2025

NO DOUBT Little Museum of Dublin (LMD) founder and curator Trevor White is delighted with the amount of media coverage being devoted to... Read more »

PLAYGROUND FALL

August 7, 2025

THE DREADED taxman has just registered a judgment for €70,000 against a company called Playground Music Ltd (PML), which was behind Andrson, an... Read more »

CENSORING THE RUSSIANS

August 7, 2025

WITH MOMENTUM building for Russia-Ukraine peace negotiations, it will be interesting to see how developments are reported here. A recent essay published on... Read more »

SPY GAMES

August 7, 2025

THE RECENTLY reported revamp of the Irish Military Intelligence Service (IMIS) is part of an overall military effort to close the gap with... Read more »

IAN HYLAND’S BAD CALL?

August 7, 2025

GOLDHAWK’S FAVOURITE publisher-turned-event-organiser, Business & Finance boss Ian Hyland, has been spreading his wings of late, most recently with the acquisition of the... Read more »

FEAR OF RACISM OR MI5 COVER-UP?

August 7, 2025

The British media is claiming that the South Yorkshire Police (SYP) and other forces in England and Wales failed to halt the crimes... Read more »

MYERS AND McGUIRK ON TUAM

August 7, 2025

AS WORK commenced at the former mother-and-baby home in Tuam, some of Ireland’s right-wing commentators have distinguished themselves. Kevin Myers and John McGuirk... Read more »

SINN FÉIN DIVIDE ON MARY LOU

July 24, 2025
THE DIVISIONS within Sinn Féin over whether to run party leader, Mary McDonald, for the presidency are multiple and have created political paralysis within... Read more »

MAURICE REGAN’S OTHER ACTION

July 24, 2025

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

ROBBO’S DOC

July 24, 2025

NO DOUBT the legions of Mary Robinson’s fans will have been glued to their tellies this week for the terrestrial broadcasting of Mrs... Read more »

NEW ARTS COUNCIL CHIEF

July 24, 2025

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... Read more »

MI6 FOUL-UP PUTS AGENTS AT RISK

July 24, 2025

WHITEHALL MANDARINS and MI6 agents in Britain, Ireland and around the globe have been having sleepless nights after yet another flabbergasting data leak... Read more »

HEINOUS PLOT BY MARTIN

July 24, 2025
THERE ARE good reasons for believing reports that northern academic, Deirdre Heenan would appeal to Micheal Martin as a presidential candidate for Fianna Fail,... Read more »

RTÉ’S BOARD VACANCIES

July 24, 2025

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

BRITANNIA RULES THE RIGHT

July 24, 2025

A year on from the European and Local Government elections Ireland’s emerging right wing networks are still desperately trying to establish a united... Read more »

NAIRAC AGAIN …

July 24, 2025

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... Read more »