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AFFAIRS OF THE NATION

VLAD’S FALSE START

January 16, 2020
LEO VARADKAR met his election target date, but the manner of its announcement was belated and cack-handed. Fine Gael’s delicate political choreography came undone... Read more »

IAN BAILEY: THIRD TIME UNLUCKY?

January 16, 2020
MUCH LEGAL comment has focussed on the change in extradition law and how this may enable the despatch of Ian Bailey to the tender... Read more »

COVENEY’S €50M COUP

January 16, 2020
WITH THE general election having been called, Tánaiste Simon Coveney must be relieved he got to deliver the news of a big funding boost... Read more »

ANGUS’S ASSETS

January 16, 2020
THERE WAS a ﬂ urry of ﬁ lings around Christmas by players at the centre of a legal action by the Solicitors Mutual Defence... Read more »

‘SINDO’ INSIDERS ‘SWOTTED’ ASIDE

January 16, 2020
A MOOD of rejection and indeed resentment was palpable at Independent House last week as various ‘leading’ in-house contenders for the post of Sunday... Read more »

TENEO’S SPORTING INTERESTS

January 16, 2020
TENEO, THE global corporate communications outfit headed by Declan Kelly, brother of Labour TD Alan ‘AK47’ Kelly, has won a contract as PR and... Read more »

SINKING SOC DEMS

January 16, 2020
THE SOCIAL Democrats might be staring into the abyss at this election. The centre-left group, headed by TDs Catherine Murphy and Roísin Shortall, had... Read more »

STUDENTS NO-VOTE

January 16, 2020
THE CONTROVERSY over the voter register for next month’s election threatens to undo a lot of the Union of Students in Ireland (USI) work... Read more »

TRUMP CARD FOR EU ARMY

January 16, 2020
THOSE MODERATE Irish Europhiles who are so aghast at Donald Trump’s belligerent foreign policy have managed to use his latest excess against the Iranians... Read more »

GAME OVER

January 16, 2020
A COMPANY called Tag Media Ltd (TML) has shut it doors, but a new one has opened for its principal. The digital print design... Read more »

SHANE ROSS’S LIFEJACKETS

January 16, 2020
WHILE SHANE Ross has been busy generating headlines for himself, one area of responsibility for his Department of Transport, the Irish Coast Guard (ICG),... Read more »

DARA’S EUROPEAN PROGRESS

December 12, 2019
IF DARA MURPHY has long since jettisoned his domestic career boosters – ex-taoiseach Enda Kenny, as well as Cork moneybags and Fine Gael trustee... Read more »

BOYLAN’S BRUISED BY BYRNE

December 12, 2019
THE RAPTUROUS review of super-smooth gynaecologist Peter Boylan’s book, In the Shadow of the Eighth, by Indo columnist Martina Devlin, referred to his “courageous... Read more »

ABBEY’S BAD REVIEW

December 12, 2019
FANS OF Goldhawk will be familiar with the goings on at the Abbey Theatre, where a near revolution among a sizeable chunk of the... Read more »

NIALL MCGARRY’S TAX SCHEME

December 12, 2019
ONE OF the potential side effects of the controversy surrounding the Maximum Media online publishing business (from which founder Niall McGarry has stepped back)... Read more »

LABOUR GRADUATES

December 12, 2019
It has been a fruitful year for former Union of Students in Ireland (USI) presidents like Kevin Donoghue and Annie Hoey, who both secured... Read more »

GANNON’S GARDENS

December 12, 2019
AS PREDICTED, Anne-Marie McNally, political director of the Social Democrats, had a by-election to forget in Dublin Mid West. An abysmal turnout probably had... Read more »

RANDAL MACDONNELL’S OBITUARY

December 12, 2019
SO FAREWELL then to dodgy Randal MacDonnell, whose adventures were chronicled by Goldhawk dating back 35 years (see The Phoenix, 24/5/8). While fans of... Read more »

THE NEXT ‘SINDO’ EDITOR?

December 12, 2019
A DOZEN or more aspirant editors of the Sunday Independent, the biggest-selling newspaper in Ireland, are being interviewed over three days this week. The... Read more »

LEGAL STORM BREWING

December 12, 2019
A CONCERTED campaign by the judiciary to silence querulous voices – be they the Master of the High Court Ed Honohan or lay litigants... Read more »

LARKIN DEFENDS RTÉ’S TOP TEN

December 12, 2019
THE 1913 lockout is being re-enacted at Montrose, where Irish National Union of Journalists (NUJ) secretary Séamus Dooley has rallied to the clarion call... Read more »

MAIL’S (FE)MALE ‘ETHOS’

November 28, 2019
EVOKE.IE, website of the Mail titles newspaper group (DMG Media Ireland), hosts a timely and most cautionary article this week about the perils of... Read more »

JUDGE GEARTY’S VIEW

November 28, 2019
THE RECENT appointment of Mary Rose Gearty SC to the High Court bench means that two female barristers involved in the prosecution of Anglo-Irish... Read more »

MULLANE’S MEDAL

November 28, 2019
THERE WAS good news for mobile advertising tech businesswoman Triona Mullane this week when she landed the EY Entrepreneur of the Year award in... Read more »

LIZ BRENNAN’S MOVIE MONEY

November 28, 2019
THE DEADLINE has now passed for submissions to the Workplace Relations Commission, which is carrying out an ‘audit’ of the film and TV sector,... Read more »

DUBLIN TOWN’S TASK

November 28, 2019
THE ROW over the designation of part of Dublin 2 as the Grafton Quarter continues to reverberate and Dublin City Council remains under pressure... Read more »

BLOXHAM PARTNERS ON THE HOOK?

November 28, 2019
AFTER ALMOST a decade of inactivity, a High Court action involving the Solicitors Mutual Defence Fund (SMDF) and the various partners in the failed... Read more »

COVENEY ‘SUPPORT’ FOR PALESTINE

November 28, 2019
AS EVENTS in the Middle East degenerate, Simon Coveney’s masterful Palestinian strategy has been laid bare. This follows Fine Gael’s revelation that its commitment... Read more »

KBC’S SMART PR

November 28, 2019
THE WHIZZ media handler for KBC – the bank that told the Central Bank to “turn the page” on the tracker mortgage scandal –... Read more »

COMMUNICATING WITH COMMUNICORP

November 28, 2019
NEXT MONTH’S meeting of the compliance committee of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) concerning bans imposed by Denis O’Brien’s Communicorp group on certain... Read more »

RACISM OR FILTHY LUCRE?

November 14, 2019
THE RECENT debate between Sinn Féin TD Martin Kenny and Ballinamore Community Group spokesman Gordon Hughes on RTÉ’s Claire Byrne Live was respectful and... Read more »

JOHN GORMLEY’S REVENUE HEADACHE

November 14, 2019
IT LOOKS like red tape rather than red carpets is increasingly on the minds of the nation’s hard-pressed movie moguls following the imposition by... Read more »

RIGHT-WING RUSTICS

November 14, 2019
RIGHT-WING activists have been using An Óige hostels – unbeknownst to management of the state-owned hostel network – for bonding and political training retreats.... Read more »

SOLIDARITY WITH RTÉ

November 14, 2019
IVAN YATES and Matt Cooper thundered recently about the inept, spendthrift, tax-funded RTÉ on their Virgin One The Tonight Show as the private TV... Read more »

QUINN DIRECTOR TO STAND FOR FG?

November 14, 2019
FINE GAEL handlers are still mobbing mountains to persuade former Independent MEP Marian Harkin to stand at the general election in Sligo-Leitrim. They do... Read more »

NOEL ROCK WALKS ALONE

November 14, 2019
The only thing red about Ballymun Blueshirt TD Noel Rock is his soccer jersey. The Fine Gael Tory boy and chair of the Oireachtas... Read more »