Article Category: Affairs of the Nation

WHO FEARS TO SPEAK OF BORDER POLL?

October 31, 2019
CONCERNED NOISES are emanating from the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI), the only entity in the southern establishment that has clocked the political... Read more »

MARY ROBINSON’S SHRINE

October 31, 2019
THERE HAVE been some changes to the board of The Victoria House Foundation, the legal entity set up to progress the Mary Robinson shrine... Read more »

LAW SOCIETY ROW: LIBEL THREATS

October 31, 2019
THE NORMALLY sedate AGM of the Mayo Solicitors’ Bar Association (the Mayo branch of the Law Society) was enlivened this year when a row... Read more »

UCD REVOLT OVER NEWMAN BOYCOTT

October 31, 2019
UCD’S CRASS decision to boycott the canonisation of its founder, John Henry Newman, was reversed, the university said, because the government had reconsidered its... Read more »

LIMERICK STUDENTS GO LOGO LOCO

October 31, 2019
Branding fever is once again gripping the University of Limerick (UL), where students are up in arms about a controversial new logo. At the... Read more »

REVIEWING GALWAY’S €10M CINEMA HORROR

October 31, 2019
FANS OF Goldhawk are well acquainted with the historical horror-show behind Galway’s bijou Pálás cinema, originally promoted by Lelia Doolan’s Solas Galway Picture Palace... Read more »

RED FLAG AGGRO

October 31, 2019
The recent release of Environmental Protection Agency data for 2018, revealing spiralling agri emissions, seemed like an odd day to unveil a new campaign... Read more »

CATCHING UP WITH PETER PAN

October 31, 2019
A RECEIVER has just been appointed to the Irish end of a multi-million euro Indian animation outfit that is behind international TV shows such... Read more »

€40BN ARMAMENTS STROKE

October 16, 2019
A SPEECH last year by then TD Mick Wallace and a short paragraph in the Sunday Times, of all places, are the only references... Read more »

RACHEL MORAN’S REACTIONS

October 16, 2019
FORMER PROSTITUTE Gayle Dalton would have expected a reaction from high-profile, media-friendly anti-sex-work campaigner Rachel Moran after challenging the latter’s account of her past... Read more »

LIAM LYNCH’S LOSSES

October 16, 2019
THE NEWS that Enda O’Coineen is about to purchase Irish Tatler magazine from Irish Central Media (ISM) suggests that Liam Lynch and Niall O’Dowd... Read more »

RTÉ VS OIREACHTAS

October 16, 2019
A MOST interesting and possibly expensive conflict between RTÉ’s Prime Time Investigates programme and members of an Oireachtas committee will play out in the... Read more »

FG GONE TO DOGS

October 16, 2019
How embarrassing that the first greyhound to be traced under the Irish Greyhound Board’s (IGB) new ‘care line’ is still registered to an Oireachtas... Read more »

IFTA’S MYSTERY PLOT

October 16, 2019
EARLIER THIS year (see The Phoenix, 8/2/19) Goldhawk noted a potential lacuna in the diaries of the nation’s celebs with the non-appearance on the... Read more »

ENDA KENNY’S CADDY

October 3, 2019
CONGRATS TO Mark Kennelly, former chief of staff to Enda Kenny during his reign as taoiseach, who has landed the plum post of Golf... Read more »

SAUDIS BACK IRELAND AT UN

October 3, 2019
FOREIGN MINISTER Simon ‘Covetous’ Coveney and Iveagh House mandarins will have been pleased at receiving Saudi Arabia’s support last week for the government’s aching... Read more »

ZAPPER FOR UN?

October 3, 2019
KATHERINE ZAPPONE’S appointment as the government’s “special envoy” in the urgent quest for a UN security council seat is a strange one, even allowing... Read more »

SENATOR WILSON VS LADY KILBRACKEN

October 3, 2019
A FEUD between Fianna Fáil senator Diarmuid Wilson and Lady Kilbracken is now the subject of an inquiry by party leader Micheál Martin, with... Read more »

JUDGE KELLY VS JERRY BEADES

October 3, 2019
WILL JUDGE Peter Kelly ever be rid of that inexhaustible lay litigant, Jerry Beades, whose legal actions to block Kelly’s appointment as High Court... Read more »

NIGERIAN ARMS AND BILLIONS

October 3, 2019
Process & Industrial Developments (P&ID), founded by the late Mick Quinn, recently won an €8.6bn award against the Nigerian government, with the support of... Read more »