Affairs of the Nation Archives

AFFAIRS OF THE NATION

SENATORS POISED TO TAKE TEHRAN

June 26, 2025

THE IRANIANS will be relieved that field marshal Gerard Craughwell will not now be implementing his threat to inflict immediate and terrible rhetoric... Read more »

TACKLING PADRAIC O’KANE

June 26, 2025

As the hype machine kicks in for the first ever ‘adult’ NFL game in Ireland – Minnesota Vikings v Pittsburgh Steelers at Croke... Read more »

JANE MAHONY’S BOMBARDMENT

June 26, 2025

A LETTER published in the Irish Times last week attacked Trinity College in a no-holds barred manner over its decision to sever ties... Read more »

WUFF JUSTICE

June 26, 2025

LAST MONTH Working Animals Guardians (WAG) secured an invitation to Leinster House to brief TDs and senators about the amendments required for Heather... Read more »

COUGHLAN’S CAUTION

June 26, 2025

That indefatigable political warrior, academic Anthony Coughlan, recently came up with what appears to be a strong argument against the abolition of the... Read more »

DUBLIN/MONAGHAN INQUIRY SLOWS

June 26, 2025

WITH THE Omagh bombing inquiry already slowing under the weight of its initial disclosure, the inquiry into the other most deadly attack of... Read more »

LIAM LYNCH’S IRISH GOODBYE

June 26, 2025

A CREDITORS’ meeting was held earlier this month for a company called Irish Studio Media Publishing Ltd (ISM), the outfit established here by... Read more »

DID MI5 MANIPULATE GROOMING GANGS?

June 26, 2025

SIR KEIR Starmer has reluctantly agreed to establish a statutory inquiry into the failure of the police and other state agencies in the... Read more »

HIT-AND-RUN DRIVER AN ‘INFORMER’

June 12, 2025

THE UNSTINTING state apology delivered in the Dáil recently by justice minister Jim O’Callaghan to the family of Shane O’Farrell – killed in... Read more »

NED O’SULLIVAN’S REVENGE

June 12, 2025

FANS OF Goldhawk are well aware of the disastrous IT project debacle in the Arts Council – including arts department secretary general Feargal... Read more »

SETBACK FOR SUZANNE O’CONNELL

June 12, 2025

GOLDHAWK SPIES a winding-up meeting has been called for a charity called Outreach Moldova, which raised funds for orphans in the eastern European... Read more »

SUSAN FITZPATRICK’S TURBULENCE

June 12, 2025

THE LIQUIDATION of a raft of firms next week turns out to be linked to one Ivor Fitzpatrick, the high-flying legal eagle, businessman... Read more »

DPP MAN VERSUS TAOISEACH AND HACK

June 12, 2025

IAN BAILEY would not have expected to play a posthumous role in last year’s general election but Taoiseach Micheál Martin’s public endorsement of... Read more »

NAEEM MANIAR’S MANY HATS

June 12, 2025

LIAM CUNNINGHAM was in the headlines this week for his spat with Conor McGregor after the latter mocked the actor’s role in supporting... Read more »

LIFTING THE LID ON MOUNTBATTEN

June 12, 2025

Richard Kerr and Stephen Waring, two former residents of Kincora Boys’ Home, were trafficked by Kincora warden Joseph Mains to members of a... Read more »

CYBER INSECURITY

June 12, 2025

IRELAND WAS one of 41 countries participating in last month’s Locked Shields 2025 in Tallinn, Estonia. The rationale given for Irish involvement in... Read more »

PASCHAL DONOHOE’S JOB SEARCH

June 12, 2025

IS FINANCE MINISTER Paschal Donohoe becoming the Yosser Hughes of the European plutocracy? ‘Gizza job’ appears to be his mantra as he mingles... Read more »

FFG AND ISRAELI ARMS

May 29, 2025

THE OUTRAGE of Tánaiste and Fine Gael leader Simon Harris as well as the loud shrieks from the party’s MEPs at the slaughter... Read more »

PADDY POWER’S TARGET

May 29, 2025

NEW YORK-listed Flutter Entertainment plc – owners of gambling giant Paddy Power – has launched High Court proceedings in Dublin against an Irish... Read more »

DANIEL O’DONNELL’S DUCATS

May 29, 2025

AS THE fans of Donegal crooner Daniel O’Donnell come to terms with the fact that he is to take an extended break from... Read more »

PETER SHANLEY’S LEGAL SQUAD

May 29, 2025

CONGRATULATIONS to senior counsel Peter Shanley, who was quick off the mark to take advantage of a key provision in the Legal Services... Read more »

MERRION SQUARE FIRING SQUAD

May 29, 2025

IT SHOULD be standing room only at the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) meeting this week as the Arts Council, National Gallery of Ireland... Read more »

LEO’S LINE

May 29, 2025

THE NEW political editor of the Irish and Sunday Independent, Mary Regan is a most accomplished journalist as her work at RTÉ, the... Read more »

SPOOKY SWISS CLUB DE BERNE

May 29, 2025

IRELAND MAY not be able to conduct immigration security screening – necessary for the implementation of the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum... Read more »

JIMMY FENNELLY’S FINALE

May 29, 2025

TENACIOUS ACCOUNTANT Jimmy Fennelly will feel he balanced the books somewhat at last week’s AGM of the Chartered Accountants of Ireland (CAI), with... Read more »

KINCORA SECRETS STILL TUMBLING OUT

May 29, 2025

Sir Anthony Hart’s derided 2017 report into the Kincora abuse scandal was meant to quash interest in the story but served only to... Read more »

RIGHT-WING ULTRAS

May 29, 2025

THAT SIX members of the National Party’s (NP) anti-Barrett faction travelled to Milan, Italy, for the recent Remigration Summit indicates how far the... Read more »

NO BAFTA FOR KINCORA FILM

May 15, 2025
The BBC has just secured a prestigious Bafta (British Academy Film and Television Arts) award for Clive Myrie’s Caribbean Adventure made by Alleycats of... Read more »

LYRA’S COMFORT ZONE

May 15, 2025

CAROLINE DOWNEY must be delighted with the latest outing for the singer-songwriter she manages, Lyra, who continues to benefit from a remarkably high... Read more »

TRUMP’S PLOT(S) SPOILER

May 15, 2025

WITH ARTS minister Patrick O’Donovan having just reappointed four directors of Screen Ireland (SI), including chairman Ray Harman, at least the state film... Read more »

DUBLIN PRIDE’S PREDICAMENT

May 15, 2025

SINN FÉIN has been carrying out a damage limitation exercise after comments by health spokesman David Cullinane saw Trans and Intersex Pride Dublin... Read more »

RTÉ’S LATEST HOT SEAT

May 15, 2025

WITH THE Oireachtas committees finally in place, certain state board vacancies can now be filled. One place they could start is RTÉ, which... Read more »

AFTER COMISKEY

May 15, 2025

SENIOR CLERICS such as Bishop Brendan Comiskey could hardly complain about being targeted for covering up child abuse by priests in their diocese... Read more »

DEMPSEY’S ACADEMIC DISCOURSE

May 15, 2025

Back in June 2010, UCD conferred one of its highest accolades, an honorary Doctor of Science, on Irish Farmers Journal (IFJ) editor Matt... Read more »

THE MANN WHO KEPT HIS BALLS INTACT

May 15, 2025

Notorious ex-SAS officer and soldier of fortune Simon Mann has died. In 2004 he led a failed plot to topple President Teodoro Obiang... Read more »

LEFT V RIGHT MARCHES

May 15, 2025

In the weeks that followed the recent large anti-immigration protest in Dublin, right-wing activists have tried to tap into that energy by calling... Read more »