Article Category: Affairs of the Nation

WHAM BAM THANK YOU KERRY

February 21, 2019
WHAT an interesting story Kerry’s Eye sleuth Aidan O’Connor had recently about BAM, the... Read more »

TROUBLE AT INM SHOCK!

February 21, 2019
AS IF there were not enough industrial relations problems at the Irish Independent and... Read more »

CLAIRE LOFTUS’S CRITICS

February 21, 2019
SPARE A thought for poor Claire Loftus, the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), who... Read more »

THE OIRISH FAVOURITE

February 21, 2019
SUNDAY’S OSCARS look certain to feature The Favourite heavily and the green jersey has... Read more »

SIMON COVENEY’S PRIORITIES

February 21, 2019
WITH THE children’s hospital overrun grabbing headlines for the last month, the contractors, BAM,... Read more »

STOP THAT WOMAN HANAFIN!

February 21, 2019
BARRY ANDREWS’S formidable, family political machine was a big factor in his Fianna Fáil... Read more »

COVENEY HIDES BEHIND AG

February 7, 2019
THE MANNER of Simon Coveney’s dismissal of several legal opinions in support of Senator... Read more »

ED HONOHAN PURGED

February 7, 2019
THAT meddlesome Master of the High Court, Ed Honohan, has been effectively purged after... Read more »

MADURO’S IRISH CRITICS

February 7, 2019
ONE GROUP that will be delighted by Ireland’s support for the Venezuelan opposition and... Read more »

PLOT TWIST AT THE IFTAS

February 7, 2019
THERE’S A bit of a lull among the film and TV luvvies given the... Read more »

PATRICK DORGAN’S HIGHS AND LOWS

February 7, 2019
THE Law Society’s announcement of the elevation of solicitor Patrick Dorgan to its presidency... Read more »

SECRET CENTENARY PLANS PRISED OPEN

January 24, 2019
THE OIREACHTAS commemoration of the first Dáil passed off without controversy, but the government’s... Read more »

DINNY’S DWINDLING ASSETS

January 24, 2019
DENIS O’BRIEN must have been chuffed with the guesstimate of his wealth that appeared... Read more »

TABLOID TALKING POINTS ON ‘PRIME TIME’

January 24, 2019
TRANS RIGHTS and gender recognition are trendy, emotive and complex issues and it wasn’t... Read more »

VARADKAR’S YELLOW PERIL

January 24, 2019
WHAT A strange, strident initiative Taoiseach Leo Varadkar made on behalf of Ireland during... Read more »

THE ABBEY’S BAD TIMING

January 24, 2019
IN THIS issue (see p14), Goldhawk profiles the man at the centre of the... Read more »

ROSS VS JUDGES: INJURY TIME

January 24, 2019
IS SHANE Ross’s Judicial Appointments Bill in its final stages of enactment or will... Read more »

PAISLEY’S JUNKET

January 24, 2019
CO-OPERATION IRELAND, which funded Ian Paisley’s first-class junket (£6,327 in travel and accommodation) to... Read more »

LAW SOCIETY WARS

January 24, 2019
MAYO SOLICITOR Daniel Coleman has just emerged from a decade-long joust with the Law... Read more »

EILEEN BATTERSBY’S LITERARY LUVVIES

January 10, 2019
THE OUTPOURINGS from literati in the Irish Times and elsewhere following the death of... Read more »

DIARMUID MARTIN’S SUCCESSOR

January 10, 2019
The race to succeed Diarmuid Martin as Archbishop of Dublin has begun in earnest,... Read more »

NIALL MCGARRY’S BIG YEAR

January 10, 2019
GOLHAWK’S favourite self-promoting online publisher, Niall McGarry, has hit the ground running in 2019,... Read more »

‘IRISH TIMES’ ROMAN FEUD

January 10, 2019
THE IRISH TIMES’S refusal to adequately recompense Paddy Agnew, its Rome correspondent of 28... Read more »

HELEN LUCEY’S SEMI-KINGDOM

January 10, 2019
THE LAW Society Gazette’s report last month on sanctions imposed on Listowel solicitor Helen... Read more »

SOFTLY DOES IT WITH THE MAKTOUMS

January 9, 2019
GIVEN THE influence of the Dubai ruling Al Maktoum family here, the silence to... Read more »