Article Category: Affairs of the Nation

EILEEN BATTERSBY’S LITERARY LUVVIES

January 10, 2019
THE OUTPOURINGS from literati in the Irish Times and elsewhere following the death of... Read more »

DIARMUID MARTIN’S SUCCESSOR

January 10, 2019
The race to succeed Diarmuid Martin as Archbishop of Dublin has begun in earnest,... Read more »

NIALL MCGARRY’S BIG YEAR

January 10, 2019
GOLHAWK’S favourite self-promoting online publisher, Niall McGarry, has hit the ground running in 2019,... Read more »

‘IRISH TIMES’ ROMAN FEUD

January 10, 2019
THE IRISH TIMES’S refusal to adequately recompense Paddy Agnew, its Rome correspondent of 28... Read more »

HELEN LUCEY’S SEMI-KINGDOM

January 10, 2019
THE LAW Society Gazette’s report last month on sanctions imposed on Listowel solicitor Helen... Read more »

SOFTLY DOES IT WITH THE MAKTOUMS

January 9, 2019
GIVEN THE influence of the Dubai ruling Al Maktoum family here, the silence to... Read more »

COVENEY’S CAREFUL CHOREOGRAPHY

December 13, 2018
ALAN SHATTER’S predictable outburst against Simon Coveney on the Israel-Palestine issue will actually be... Read more »

TROUBLE BREWING AT TROY STUDIOS?

December 13, 2018
IN FEBRUARY this year, culture minister Josepha Madigan was invited to a ‘do’ in... Read more »

COMMONWEALTH BLUES

December 13, 2018
AT THE height of the Brexit crisis, what are Fine Gael senators Neale Richmond... Read more »

FF MAN TO SAVE MADAM MENG?

December 13, 2018
FORMER Fianna Fáil spin doctor Dave Harmon will surely be called on to provide... Read more »

PITT’S HUNT FOR INM LEAKS

December 13, 2018
THE SHINE has come off former Independent News & Media (INM) chief executive Robert... Read more »

UNION FACTION FIGHTS

December 13, 2018
AN INTRIGUING political quarrel inside the country’s second-largest union, Fórsa, saw its youth wing,... Read more »

ZAPPER ZAPS HER CONSTITUENCY

November 29, 2018
THE DANCING on children’s minister, Katherine Zappone’s political coffin that Fine Gael and media... Read more »

DANA LIBEL SAGA: CHAPTER 1

November 29, 2018
DANA’S libel settlement with the Sunday World this week is just the beginning of... Read more »

DENIS O’BRIEN’S AWARD

November 29, 2018
CONGRATULATIONS TO Denis O’Brien, who has landed an honorary fellowship from the National College... Read more »

LUKE COMER’S HEAVY GOING

November 29, 2018
ALTHOUGH ONLY a handful of people in this country can claim to be richer... Read more »

LORRAINE HIGGINS FOR EUROPE?

November 29, 2018
FORMER LABOUR senator Lorraine Higgins has suddenly become a lady that lunches with Blueblouse... Read more »

WHO FEARS TO SPEAK?

November 29, 2018
EARLY LAST month, French President Emmanuel Macron demanded the creation of a “real European... Read more »

OOOPS! THE MONEY IS GONE

November 29, 2018
FANS OF Goldhawk will be familiar with the lengthy liquidation saga at Ralph Christians’s... Read more »

UCD PRESIDENT’S MAR-A-LAGO

November 29, 2018
AUSSIE GO-GETTER and UCD president Andrew Deeks has caused academic eyebrows to arch with... Read more »

MARY LOU’S ELECTION BLUES

November 1, 2018
POST-ELECTION depression among Sinn Féin members will quickly turn to anger if the leadership... Read more »

COLLISON BROTHERS’ BAD PRESS

November 1, 2018
JOHN AND Patrick Collison, the Limerick-born wunderkinds behind online payments company Stripe, are not... Read more »