FRENCH GO FOR BAILEY — AGAIN
AFFAIRS OF THE NATION
Article Category: Affairs of the Nation
KINAHANS VS DISSIDENTS
September 24, 2020
Failure to burn the getaway car after the murder of dissident republican Michael Barr eventually led to the apprehension and jailing of two key... Read more »
BLUESHIRTS BROKE
September 24, 2020
A HARDENED electorate will hardly weep, but Fine Gael is facing a financial crisis, partly because of Covid-19 but also because of post-election factors... Read more »
MICHAEL CREED’S LEGACY
September 24, 2020
IRELAND’S NEW 10-year Agrifood 2030 strategy is in breach of national and EU law and “will expose the department and the state to multiple... Read more »
NEW BROOM AT ‘SINDO’
September 24, 2020
What’s in a name? That’s a question that Alan ‘New Broom’ English has likely been pondering since taking over at the Sunday Independent. With... Read more »
FEXCO’S COVID ADVICE
September 24, 2020
FEXCO chief executive Denis McCarthy, son of Fexco founder Brian McCarthy, recently revealed a hitherto unknown medical bent as well as a Donald Trump-like... Read more »
TRUSTING CYBER CRIMINALS
September 24, 2020
SURPRISINGLY LITTLE attention was paid to the cyber ransomware attacks early this year against at least two Irish universities – NUI Galway and Maynooth... Read more »
PIRATED DELANEY BOOK
September 24, 2020
THE BOOK, Champagne Football – which reads more like a can of stale lager being poured over ex-FAI boss John Delaney – by prolific... Read more »
FLANAGAN’S NEW ROLE
September 10, 2020
FORMER JUSTICE minister and RIC champion Charlie Flanagan has been appointed to the board of Co-operation Ireland, where he should fit in nicely with... Read more »
GOLFGATE ‘CULTURE AND PROTOCOLS’
September 10, 2020
SO FAR, a minister (Dara Calleary) and an EU commissioner (Phil Hogan) have lost their jobs and a Supreme Court judge (ex-attorney general Séamus... Read more »
HOGAN’S CLUMSY ASSASSINATION
September 10, 2020
NOBODY EXCEPT the new EU commissioner for finance, Máiréad McGuinness, got what they wanted out of the downing of big Phil Hogan, although it... Read more »
BRIAN POLLY’S ROUGH RIDE
September 10, 2020
WHILE HORSERACING has been back in action for a number of weeks, the real excitement is taking place off the track, where internecine feuding... Read more »
JUDICIAL TRANSPARENCY
September 10, 2020
WITH TRANSPARENCY supposedly the preferred way of doing business these days, it is refreshing that some things don’t change that much. Justice minister Helen... Read more »
FALSE FLAGS?
September 10, 2020
HEALTH MINISTER Stephen Donnelly has a lot riding on the testing programme for Covid-19. With reported cases rising recently, there is more focus on... Read more »
NIALL MCGARRY’S LEGACY
September 10, 2020
WITH ICONIC Media currently bedding in the restructuring of the Maximum Media online outfit following its purchase by investment fund Greencastle Capital, across the... Read more »
SEÁN MAC STÍOFÁIN – IRA DOUBLE AGENT
September 10, 2020
THE FIRST chief of staff of the Provisional IRA, Seán Mac Stíofáin, was a double agent, according to a soon-to-be published book, Deception &... Read more »
BILL HOLOHAN’S SENIOR TITLE
September 10, 2020
CONGRATULATIONS to Cork legal eagle Bill Holohan, one of those lucky solicitors who managed to get themselves appointed senior counsel under new legislation. Goldhawk... Read more »
O’CALLAGHAN LURKS
August 27, 2020
PERSONALITIES IN the news and in crisis are EU Commissioner Phil Hogan and ex-attorney general Séamus Woulfe, but the real political crisis is the... Read more »
BIG PHIL AND VLAD
August 27, 2020
THE BARELY noticed but distinct difference between statements about EU commissioner Phil Hogan’s fate from Taoiseach Micheál Martin and Tánaiste Leo Varadkar last weekend... Read more »
NOEL KELLY’S GANG
August 27, 2020
WITH POOR Sean O’Rourke’s planned return to the airwaves scuppered by ‘Golfgate’, a prime Saturday lunchtime slot has just opened up on RTÉ radio.... Read more »
HUMANISTS AT WAR
August 27, 2020
ALTHOUGH THE Humanist Association of Ireland (HAI) boasts an “informal, friendly and inclusive environment”, major changes are afoot in the relationship between the organisation... Read more »
THEO DORGAN’S ‘GREAT BOOK’
August 27, 2020
NO DOUBT University College Cork president Patrick O’Shea was delighted with the programme broadcast last week on RTÉ about the university’s acquisition of The... Read more »
PATRICIA QUINN’S APPRAISAL
August 27, 2020
A CHARITY database fronted by Patricia Quinn is about to undergo an appraisal process that could end up with its funding being cut. Based... Read more »
LOBBYING AG SÉAMUS WOULFE
August 27, 2020
THE BELEAGUERED former attorney general, Séamus Woulfe, has been a long-time supporter of former climate action minister, Richard Bruton (as well as a long-standing... Read more »
COVID FILM PLOT THICKENS
August 27, 2020
HEARING ABOUT concerns in filmmaking circles regarding a small Covid-19 outbreak on a production, Goldhawk sent a series of queries to so-called ‘stakeholders’ in... Read more »
STICKS AND STONES
August 27, 2020
IT HASN’T been the most auspicious start to a parliamentary career for new Green Party senator Róisín Garvey. “Fuck her,” the former Clare county... Read more »
EXODUS CHAPTER 11
August 27, 2020
IF Colm McCann’s book, Apeirogon, wins the Booker Prize or even makes it on to the short list next month, the murmurings of debate... Read more »
THE GREENS AND MILITARISM
August 13, 2020
THE DEFENCE section in the programme for government is littered with references to Ireland’s military neutrality — five mentions in just over half a... Read more »
FRANCESCA’S ‘LIVELINE’ LASHING
August 13, 2020
PRESUMABLY, THE chief executive of Bank of Ireland, Francesca McDonagh, knew she was in trouble when Joe Duffy dismissed her “blasé” comments about the... Read more »
LYONS’S SHARE OF ASYLUM LOLLY
August 13, 2020
WHILE MUCH of the focus relating to the midlands lockdown has been on the meat plants, clusters in direct provision centres have also featured,... Read more »
DINNY’S REALIGNMENT
August 13, 2020
HIGH COURT judge Brian Cregan got knocked back by Leo Varadkar earlier this year when asking for an extension to the deadline for delivering... Read more »
DAMN POLLS AND…
August 13, 2020
THE LATEST political poll – by Behaviour & Attitudes for the Sunday Times – was headlined, “Varadkar and Fine Gael soar in polls”. It... Read more »
HUME/MALLON AXIS
August 13, 2020
MUCH HAS been made of the two ‘big beasts’ of the SDLP, John Hume and Seamus Mallon, both now dead, whose perseverance helped to... Read more »
ARKINS VS ELEMENT
August 13, 2020
NEARLY A year ago – following a joint request by ICTU, SIPTU and the lobby group Screen Producers Ireland – an audit of the... Read more »
HUMPHREYS CALLS IN THE TAXMAN
August 13, 2020
A RIVETING judgment emerged out of the High Court last month when Judge Richard Humphreys ruled that a food company, CGI Food Services, must... Read more »
HUME’S PR PROCESS
August 13, 2020
JOHN HUME Jnr, a public relations and lobbying consultant, is hardly in the same line of business as his late father, to whom he... Read more »