Article Category: Affairs of the Nation

DINNY AND DERMO AND INM

April 19, 2018
THE MOST recent coverage of ODCE boss Ian Drennan’s affidavit on the alleged carry-on... Read more »

IRISH FOREIGN POLICY COLLAPSE

April 19, 2018
IN JUST three weeks the disintegration of Ireland’s once honorable non-aligned foreign policy has... Read more »

IRFU KEEPS ITS EYE ON THE BALL

April 19, 2018
THE TERMINATION of the contracts of shamed rugby players Paddy Jackson and Stuart Olding... Read more »

EMILY LOGAN KEEPS MUM ON EGYPT

April 19, 2018
HUMAN RIGHTS campaigning can be a tricky business as the head of the Irish... Read more »

HYLAND’S SUITE GUYS

April 19, 2018
THERE has been rather less hype about Dublin Tech Week – Ian Hyland and... Read more »

Heavey Exit

April 19, 2018
FANS OF Goldhawk will not have been too surprised by news this week that... Read more »

IAN BAILEY: CHAPTER 84

April 19, 2018
IAN BAILEY’S hearing in the Court of Appeal this week was the first of... Read more »

FEAR AND LOATHING AT INM

April 5, 2018
THE Irish Independent innocently wondered this week about how it was “unclear” why deputy... Read more »

Reds under the bed

April 5, 2018
FOREIGN minister Simon Coveney’s statement justifying the expulsion of a Russian diplomat does not... Read more »

INM’s sub-committee

April 5, 2018
AN AWFUL lot has been written about the extraordinary events that are alleged to... Read more »

Justin McAleese’s mentor

April 5, 2018
BEING progressive on one issue is no guarantee of a broader political enlightenment. Mary... Read more »

Olga Shajaku v Crystal Li

April 5, 2018
WHILE THE expulsion of a Russian diplomat here created waves, another Russki known to... Read more »

AIB’s Irish Times fans

March 22, 2018
DISREGARDING the vulgar populism so prevalent these days, The Irish Times has registered its... Read more »

ANIMUS IN COURT

March 22, 2018
THE legal actions being taken against giant multinational Volkswagen by Ballyhaunis solicitor Evan O’Dwyer... Read more »

Irish Times defies Michael Twee

March 22, 2018
IS President Michael D Higgins losing his touch? Higgins failed recently to bring to... Read more »

Vindicating Fred Holroyd

March 22, 2018
A SENIOR British Army surgeon has backed Fred Holroyd’s claim that he was falsely... Read more »

Tania Banotti’s pay rise

March 22, 2018
CONGRATULATIONS to Tania Banotti who has just landed the job of director of the... Read more »

JOSEPHA MADIGAN’S HANDLER

March 22, 2018
WITH Josepha Madigan settling in as Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, an... Read more »

PEARSE DOHERTY’S TIMING

March 22, 2018
SINN FÉIN TD Pearse Doherty’s statement last week that he had moved in favour... Read more »

EVA ORSMOND’S SWEET PROFITS

March 22, 2018
WITH THE Sugar Tax set to kick in on April 6, various experts have... Read more »

FINE GAEL: OPEN WAR ON NEUTRALITY

March 8, 2018
FINE GAEL’S four MEPs have been chosen to open up a new front against... Read more »

RACHEL MORAN V ROISIN INGLE

March 8, 2018
AN INTERESTING Twitter spat surfaced last weekend when high profile anti sex trade campaigner... Read more »

JUDGE CON O’LEARY’S ‘OBJECTIVE BIAS’

March 8, 2018
EYEBROWS WERE raised in legal circles recently at the colourful tone of a High... Read more »

MARTIN FRASER’S REVIEW

March 8, 2018
THAT opposition parties should criticise the selection of Martin Fraser to review the Strategic... Read more »

IFTA’S HAPPY ENDING

March 8, 2018
GOOD NEWS for fans of the Irish Film and Television Awards (IFTAs). The team... Read more »

HOTTINGER’S WEALTHY FAMILIES

March 8, 2018
MONEY MAY make the world go around for the super rich but it also... Read more »

MACLENNAN’S FAVOURITE TEAM

March 8, 2018
CONGRATULATIONS to former Telegraph group chief executive Murdoch MacLennan who will be named chairman... Read more »

WESTERN NAZI FRONT

March 8, 2018
THE outgoing UK head of counter terrorism, Mark Rowley, used his final speech last... Read more »

LEO VARADKAR’S ELECTION TIMELINE

February 22, 2018
MEDIA hints of Fine Gael’s plan to cut and run to the country this... Read more »

The taxman and the film awards

February 22, 2018
THE MOSTLY low wattage audience at last week’s IFTAs awards bash at the Mansion... Read more »

Niall McGarry’s turnover

February 22, 2018
FLASHY entrepreneur Niall McGarry was in his usual confident mood recently when he announced... Read more »

MURPHY’S LAW V LAW SOCIETY

February 22, 2018
THE mother of all legal battles between the Law Society and former solicitor Colm... Read more »

REDMOND’S RECORDING

February 22, 2018
INTERESTING to see controversial Independent councillor Keith Redmond playing a central role in an... Read more »

Warmongers

February 22, 2018
“PESCO also has absolutely nothing to do with the creation of an EU army.... Read more »

SIMON COVENEY’S FAMILY VALUES

February 8, 2018
EVEN Simon Coveney’s angry critics in Fine Gael – and they are very angry... Read more »