DERMOT DESMOND’S BUMPY RIDE
July 30, 2020
LAST YEAR’S crash-landing of Datalex – a company that supplies ticket-booking software to airlines around the world – was one of the more controversial... Read more »
DERMOT DESMOND’S BUMPY RIDE
AFFAIRS OF THE NATION
Article Category: Affairs of the Nation
YATES, KENNY, COOPER RADIO WARS
July 30, 2020
NEWSTALK’S PROMOTIONAL blitz for its morning programme, The Pat Kenny Show, reached almost hysterical, OTT proportions recently, as it ramps up for what it... Read more »
WOMEN BREACH LEGAL CITADEL
July 30, 2020
WHAT A restrained, non-triumphal article the Irish Times published about a victory for feminists – and indeed all women (if not exactly average, run-of-the-mill... Read more »
DE RENZY’S RETURN
July 30, 2020
GOLDHAWK spotted one of his old friends is in the middle of a High Court spat with a Cayman Island company. The intriguing case... Read more »
WILLIAM CAMPBELL’S PODCAST
July 30, 2020
A LITTLE-known podcaster attracted the attention of the super litigious Dermot Desmond recently, although the outcome may not have been exactly what the moneybags... Read more »
NIGERIAN BILLIONS
July 30, 2020
THE QUINN family – Adam and his late father, Michael – have enjoyed extremes of treatment at the hands of the Nigerian government. Currently... Read more »
REPLYING TO EOGHAN HARRIS
July 30, 2020
BRIGHT, NEW, innovative etc Sunday Independent editor Alan English made much of the frightfully courageous decision to interview Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald.... Read more »
KINGSTOWN FACTION FIGHTS
July 30, 2020
SUCH HAS been the tumult in Dún Laoghaire Fine Gael in recent months that chairman of the constituency executive, Edward Kennedy, has decided to... Read more »
MRS BROWN’S BUCKS
July 30, 2020
WHILE FUNNYMAN Brendan O’Carroll and his missus, Jennifer Gibney, are presumably being very careful when enduring their lockdown in sunny Florida – something of... Read more »
FUNDING THE ‘YOUNG OFFENDERS’
July 30, 2020
THE HYPE machine was functioning in overdrive in the run-up to series three of Peter Foott’s mildly entertaining Young Offenders, which kicked off on... Read more »
IAN BAILEY: DPP VS MEDIA
July 16, 2020
RALPH RIEGEL’S recently published book on the 1996 murder in west Cork of Sophie Toscan du Plantier, A Dream of Death, tries to balance... Read more »
DINNY’S BOYCOTT
July 16, 2020
MONEYBAGS Denis O’Brien has emerged as the Irish face of the Facebook advertising boycott put in place over claims that the social media giant... Read more »
AIDEN BURNS’S EXIT
July 16, 2020
IT HAS been heavy going for some of the horseracing bodies in the last couple of years, with scandals and expensive court cases monopolising... Read more »
THAT IRA FUNERAL
July 16, 2020
BOTH SIDES in the row about whether or not Sinn Féin breached Covid-19 regulations at IRA leader Bobby Storey’s funeral have avoided the real... Read more »
RTÉ MUSICAL CHAIRS
July 16, 2020
CLAIRE BYRNE may not have been told she is to replace Sean O’Rourke as presenter of RTÉ Radio 1 morning show, Today with Whoever,... Read more »
DECLAN HAYES’S BIOTECH ROLE
July 16, 2020
A BIOTECH outfit is floating on the American NASDAQ stock exchange, which could earn a fair few bob for the Irish taxpayer. One of... Read more »
MEDIA COWERS BEFORE COWEN
July 16, 2020
WITH BARRY Cowen having been dumped out of Cabinet, it is interesting to look at the easy ride he got from most opposition parties,... Read more »
ARMS TRIAL LIBELS AND APOLOGIES
July 16, 2020
EOGHAN HARRIS relies on two sources for his attempted rebuttal in the Sunday Independent of Michael Heney’s ground-breaking book, The Arms Crisis of 1970.... Read more »
THAR HE BLOWS
July 16, 2020
MATTHEW KENNY has been appointed the Irish representative for the US Whistleblower Aid organisation that is expanding overseas. The Dublin legal eagle is playing... Read more »
CONOR’S CAMPUS
July 16, 2020
THE APPLICATION by one Conor Harrington for 10-year planning permission for a new sprawling film and TV studio complex (sorry, “media campus”) on 50... Read more »
MICHAEL HEGARTY’S ADVENTURE
July 16, 2020
The sphincter-tightening sight of Red Guard-style humiliation of Micheál Martin’s old pal, agriculture minister Barry Cowen, for a four-year-old drink-driving transgression will not be... Read more »
THE SHAFTING OF DARA CALLEARY
July 2, 2020
MICHEÁL MARTIN’S ruthless dispatch of Dara Calleary, his deputy leader and policy director (not to mention a long-time aspirant leader), was not something that... Read more »
RTÉ’S SUNBURN
July 2, 2020
FANS of Irish property porn were left scratching their heads on April 6 when part two of the heavily promoted RTÉ series Burnt By... Read more »
JOHN GORMLEY’S SCREENPLAY
July 2, 2020
ONE OF the more urgent decisions to be made by newbie arts and media minister Catherine Martin is whether the government should underwrite any... Read more »
JED DOWLING’S HEADACHE
July 2, 2020
WHILE SOME party-poopers will have been happy enough that the overblown Dublin Pride Festival was relegated to virtual status last week, the company behind... Read more »
MARY IRVINE’S AGENDA
July 2, 2020
THERE WAS a sense of a new wind blowing through the personal injuries (PI) neighbourhood of the legal world when Mary Irvine got the... Read more »
BLUESHIRTS’ MILITARY BLUSTER
July 2, 2020
ONE OF the more bizarre responses to the American police killing of George Floyd recently was a statement from Fine Gael’s five MEPs. Deirdre... Read more »
THE MOUSE THAT ROARS
July 2, 2020
Leo Varadkar, foreign minister Simon Coveney and diplomats like our ambassador to the UN Geraldine Byrne Nason made much of our commitment to disarmament... Read more »
PATSY O’BRIEN’S PREDICAMENT
July 2, 2020
FACED WITH new national responsibilities, super junior minister Hildegarde Naughton will be anxious to see a local party issue resolved speedily given that it... Read more »
EOGHAN MURPHY’S REHABILITATION
July 2, 2020
EOGHAN MURPHY’S Gethsemane is at an end, but it looks like he will have to wait a little longer than three days before his... Read more »
MORGAN O’SULLIVAN’S HAPPY ENDING
July 2, 2020
THIS WEEK’S settlement of the long-running (ie expensive) legal spat between German movie producer Winni Hammacher and his fellow shareholders in Octagon Films –... Read more »
COUGHLAN’S PALS
July 2, 2020
BURSTING WITH pride, TCD Professor Emeritus Anthony Coughlan has circulated widely the news of his life honorary membership of the Campaign for an Independent... Read more »
GREEN PARTY HEAVE
June 18, 2020
PREVIOUS FORECASTS about the Green Party’s leadership contest were that Catherine Martin would win if party members rejected the government deal, while Eamon Ryan... Read more »
JOHN O’DONOGHUE’S LIBEL CASE
June 18, 2020
A RE-RUN of the 2009 public debate about the excessive expenses claims of the then Ceann Comhairle and former minister, John O’Donoghue, is due... Read more »
DREW HARRIS’S ‘ABUSE OF POWER’
June 18, 2020
THE ANNOUNCEMENT last November of yet another investigation into state collusion with loyalist murder gangs – this time the notorious Glenanne gang – saw... Read more »
SIMON STOKES’S PHOTO
June 18, 2020
GOLDHAWK SPOTTED High Court defamation proceedings lodged against the Mail on Sunday earlier this month by one Simon Stokes (no, not that one). It... Read more »