Article Category: Affairs of the Nation

IN THEIR ELEMENT

May 19, 2022
THEY SAY timing is everything in showbusiness. News of Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe’s sale of a majority stake in their Element Pictures operation... Read more »

ALLPRO’S WAR DIVIDEND

May 19, 2022
RODERIC O’GORMAN’S Department of Integration has been dishing out contracts to companies for the provision of services relating to the housing of Ukrainian refugees.... Read more »

RTÉ DRAMA AWARD

May 19, 2022
RTÉ’S FRAN McNULTY must have felt he was McNulty, front man in an episode of The Wire, rather than McNulty of Prime Time given... Read more »

HIGGINS, DR CAHILL AND THE NYC FRACAS

May 19, 2022
THE DOCTOR at the centre of a controversial plan to sell off the most prestigious Irish-American building in the US has been ordered by... Read more »

UNREST IN MICHAEL COLLINS COUNTY

May 19, 2022
IN THIS the centenary of Michael Collins death in the Civil War, Cork Fine Gael members are not exactly brimming with pride or optimism... Read more »

McCOY’S FLEETING CLIMATE EPIPHANY

May 19, 2022
IT IS widely assumed that within this government, only the Greens have any real interest in the climate crisis. However, there is growing evidence... Read more »

NO SET-TO IN WATERFORD

May 19, 2022
TWO ACADEMICS have just made unexpected scholarly Odysseys from the country’s oldest university to the youngest. The first surprise was when former Trinity provost... Read more »

MI5, BBC, KINCORA … AND COVER-UPS

May 5, 2022
IN FEBRUARY 2016 Dame Janet Smith published a 700-page report into sexual abuses by Jimmy Savile at the BBC. “The culture of the BBC... Read more »

FRANCESCA’S RUTHLESS STREAK

May 5, 2022
AS GOLDHAWK noted recently (see The Phoenix 25/3/22), Francesca McDonagh’s €1m pa CEO role in Bank of Ireland (BoI) was “the ideal platform for... Read more »

‘IRISH TIMES’ ATTACKS NATO!

May 5, 2022
MOST PEOPLE probably think that because of recent clear-cut poll conclusions, the Russian inspired debate about neutrality is over and that the good guys... Read more »

RANDOX’S TESTING TIME

May 5, 2022
LAST WEEK, the Advertising Standards Authority of Ireland (ASAI) reported that it had received 1,450 complaints in 2021 in relation to more than 900... Read more »

‘ANOTHER’ PRESIDENT HIGGINS?

May 5, 2022
FOREIGN MINISTER Simon Coveney and various New York-based Irish officials heaved sighs of relief last St Patrick’s Day but one (2021) when New York... Read more »

PAT HAYES’S HORSEPLAY

May 5, 2022
WITH THE crowds back at Punchestown and Gordon Elliott passing the 2,000 winners mark, the general consensus was that the trainer is now fully... Read more »

FROM RATHGAR WITH LOVE

May 5, 2022
‘DR STRANGELOVE’ lives, it appears, with former Nato Supreme Allied Commander Europe General Philip Breedlove doing a more than passable imitation of the hawkish... Read more »

ZELENSKIY’S OFFSHORE LINKS

April 20, 2022
THERE HAS, unsurprisingly, been plenty of media coverage of the main players in the Ukrainian war, with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy the recipient of lavish... Read more »

FACEBOOK FACES UP TO MIRIAM

April 20, 2022
CELEB SOLICITOR Paul Tweed was a natural as Murrium O’Callaghan’s brief in her case against Facebook for “malicious falsehood, defamation, various breaches of constitutional... Read more »

MARTIN TRUCE WITH O’CALLAGHAN?

April 20, 2022
ONE OF the intriguing choices Micheál Martin will get to make when he retires as taoiseach in December is who to appoint as justice... Read more »

MALI AND SIMON COVENEY’S ‘SHOCK’

April 20, 2022
HIDDEN AWAY at the bottom of page 4 in the Irish Times recently was a short article about how the Irish Defence Forces had... Read more »

RACEHORSE OWNERS UNSADDLE CHAIRMAN

April 20, 2022
THIS WEEK sees the second annual general meeting in a few months of the Association of Irish Racehorse Owners (Airo), the representative organisation for... Read more »

MARY IRVINE’S SUCCESSOR

April 20, 2022
THE TOP four favourites to succeed Ms Justice Mary Irvine as president of the High Court each have distinguished credentials in the areas that... Read more »

MICHAEL HACKMAN’S NEW PLOT

April 20, 2022
THERE WEREN’T too much questions asked by nosey hacks when Pascal Donohoe was roped into the PR exercise heralding a €300m Greystones film studio... Read more »

ARMY UNREST GROWS

April 7, 2022
ONE CHARACTERISATION of conflicts such as sexual offences in the Defence Forces is that of the defence department’s alleged control freakery and micromanagement. But... Read more »

EAMON DUNPHY SCORES AGAIN

April 7, 2022
A COMPANY called Festuca Ltd probably doesn’t ring too many bells for Goldhawk fans but it turns out to be one of the firms... Read more »

MARK HENRY’S BOOK

April 7, 2022
MARK HENRY, author of In Fact: An Optimist’s Guide to Ireland at 100, has been getting rave reviews from the ‘right’ people’ (very ‘right’... Read more »

US EMBASSY’S VIEW OF CJH & CO

April 7, 2022
WITH FOREIGN embassies and their information gathering under scrutiny (well, one of them), it is interesting to note that the mainstream media ignored the... Read more »

AGRI-BIZ AND CLIMATE ‘SOLUTIONS’

April 7, 2022
A SMALL piece of Dáil history was made recently, with the first joint meeting of the oireachtas committees on agriculture and environment and climate.... Read more »