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AFFAIRS OF THE NATION
Article Category: Affairs of the Nation
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 »
TENI’S FUNDING
June 18, 2020
THANKS TO JK Rowling’s incendiary comments last week, the transgender debate got rather heated again, although here in Ireland the temperature remained relatively cool.... Read more »
NPHET’S ACADEMIC MATTER
June 18, 2020
IT’S HARD to keep everyone happy and in the snippy world of academia this is doubly true. Goldhawk is hearing grumblings about UCD’s influence... Read more »
ADMIRAL HIGGINS
June 18, 2020
Gregg Bemis Jnr, American owner of the wreck of the Lusitania, (torpedoed by a German submarine off Kinsale in 1915), recently died aged 91.... Read more »
RORY GODSON AND THE PRINCESS
June 18, 2020
EMBATTLED BILLIONAIRE Isabel dos Santos – eldest daughter of the Angolan president of nearly 40 years, José Eduardo dos Santos – has hired Irish... Read more »
EUGENIE HOUSTON’S NEW FRONT
June 18, 2020
AS IF barrister Eugenie Houston has not cost the Bar Council enough in recent times, she has just landed the esteemed legal eagles with... Read more »
DERMO TO THE RESCUE?
June 17, 2020
WITH THE hunt on for a new chief executive of the FAI, the first team players are coming in for some rough treatment from... Read more »
FIANNA FÁIL FAILING
June 4, 2020
WHY IS the media closing its eyes and ears to the ongoing implosion of Fianna Fáil as its poll figures decline in inverse ratio... Read more »
BARRY ENGLISH VS ‘IRISH TIMES’
June 4, 2020
HIGH COURT defamation proceedings have been initiated by Barry English (one of Bertie Ahern’s ‘dig-out’ buddies) against the Irish Times. Curiously, the case involves... Read more »
MEL GIBSON’S MOVIE BLUES
June 4, 2020
IT IS nearly a year since the Mel Gibson film The Professor and the Madman got a (very) limited release in the US following... Read more »
SIMON COVENEY’S SILENCE
June 4, 2020
LAST MONTH, Nicolás Maduro’s security forces rounded up around 50 of those suspected of having participated in a botched attempt to capture the controversial... Read more »
TRANSGENDER BODY’S MISSING AUDIT
June 4, 2020
WITH THE government preparing to simplify the process for 16 and 17 year olds to change gender, there is nothing simple about funding at... Read more »
COVENEY’S SLEVEEN DIPLOMACY
June 4, 2020
ONE OF the most disingenuous speeches in the annals of diplomacy was delivered by our ambassador to the United Nations, Geraldine Byrne Nason, last... Read more »
OLD ‘FRIENDS’ ARE BEST
June 4, 2020
FIFTY-ONE YEARS is a long time to wait for possible reversal of a miscarriage of justice. But whether or not 75-year-old Lt Donal de... Read more »
MILEY’S €500 MILLION
June 4, 2020
JIM MILEY’S four-year stint as the Blueshirts’ general secretary (prior to outgoing gen sec Tom Curran) appears to count for little with the current... Read more »
PASCHAL DONOHOE’S VACANCY
June 4, 2020
WHILE THERE has been an agreed truce regarding the filling of seats on assorted state-linked boards while the ‘caretaker’ government remains in situ, some... Read more »
DR KEVIN CAHILL’S ACCUSER
June 4, 2020
A POTENTIALLY devastating scandal threatens one of the most distinguished Irish-American medics in generations, New York-based Dr Kevin Cahill. Cahill studied with Mother Teresa... Read more »
BLUESHIRT ELECTION PLOT
May 21, 2020
THAT Irish Times report about general election contingency preparations “by officials on the orders of minister for housing Eoghan Murphy” was revised in next... Read more »
BARNSTORMING THE HIGH COURT
May 21, 2020
RETIRING HIGH Court president Justice Kelly’s successor will likely come from that set which for years staffed the upper echelons of the Law Library,... Read more »
RORY MCILROY’S INVESTMENT
May 21, 2020
RORY MCILROY made headlines last week after saying in an interview that he wouldn’t play golf again with Donald Tump. He has also been... Read more »
MBS AND MCD
May 21, 2020
THERE WERE glum faces earlier this month, including Denis Desmond’s, when MCD pulled the plug on the 2020 Electric Picnic. However, Goldhawk wonders how... Read more »
TROUBLE BREWING FOR TRACING APP
May 21, 2020
THERE HAS been much talk by Paul Reid and the HSE about the proposed Covid-19 smartphone contact tracing app due out in the next... Read more »