Article Category: Affairs of the Nation

MARY AIKEN’S PALS

June 30, 2022
WITHOUT DOUBT, the most interesting of the women conferred with the freedom of Dublin City last month is Mary Aiken (whose latest gig is... Read more »

MALIGN MISSION

June 30, 2022
THE IRISH Times reported last week that the government is reconsidering its military mission in Mali, due mainly to security issues; human rights violations... Read more »

NOEL SMYTH’S WUFF RIDE

June 30, 2022
THIS WEEK will see the next chapter in the ongoing saga of a potential sale by the Irish Kennel Club (IKC) of its valuable... Read more »

PAUL WARD’S €15M JUDGMENT

June 30, 2022
THE HIGH Court has just awarded a hefty €15m judgment against cinema magnate Paul Ward as a result of a legal action taken by... Read more »

COLIN HUNT’S PRESIDENCY

June 30, 2022
THERE WERE eyebrows raised last week when it emerged that AIB’s Colin Hunt is to receive the Ireland-US Council’s 2022 Global Business Leadership award... Read more »

WHY WAS DE RÓISTE FRAMED?

June 30, 2022
53 YEARS is a long time to wait for justice if you were forced to ‘retire’ and had your life ruined for no apparent... Read more »

FRANCES RUANE’S AUDITION

June 16, 2022
INTERESTING TO see that former ESRI director Frances Ruane resigned last month as a director of the registered company behind the Abbey Theatre. Her... Read more »

MARIA STEEN’S MAMMON

June 16, 2022
WITH A substantial pile on leafy Raglan Road on the market for an optimistic €5.2m (see p19), this could be a big year, property... Read more »

MARTIN RULES OK!

June 16, 2022
AT 69 YEARS Willie O’Dea appears to be the only so-called dissident in Fianna Fáil with the energy and ability to stand up to... Read more »

FINE GAEL LIBELS

June 16, 2022
WHAT A litigious lot Meath East Blueshirts are. Last Monday Meath County Council meeting heard Fine Gael’s Cllr Alan Tobin apologise to Independent councillor... Read more »

EU TRADE THREAT TO ISRAEL

June 16, 2022
THE ROW over the Northern Ireland protocol is regarded by European Union countries and the commission as a serious threat to the single market.... Read more »

TALE OF TWO HONEY TRAPS

June 16, 2022
ANTHONY ‘DUTCH’ Doherty died earlier this year at Dublin’s Beaumont hospital age 71. He was part of an IRA unit – perhaps up to... Read more »

DALTON PHILIPS’S TURBULENCE

June 2, 2022
ONE MAN who might not have been too shocked by the queuing debacle at Dublin airport last weekend was former chairman of Morrisons supermarket... Read more »

OWEN CULLEN’S CLIPPINGS

June 2, 2022
WHILE LEINSTER Rugby head coach Leo Cullen had little to celebrate last weekend in Marseille, his younger brother, Owen, has been able to deliver... Read more »

SALLINS TRAIN TRIAL LINED UP FOR THE UN?

June 2, 2022
NOT A peep has there been from the media about the potential investigation by the United Nations of convictions for the £200,000 Sallins train... Read more »

BIDEN AND MARTIN’S UKRAINIAN WELCOME

June 2, 2022
AN ALARMING Sunday Independent story about a “secret memo” to government in the form of a cross-government risk analysis recently warned of risks for... Read more »

THE GHOST OF ROBERT NAIRAC

June 2, 2022
LAST MONTH, the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims’ Remains renewed an appeal for information about the whereabouts of the body of Captain Robert... Read more »

DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY

June 2, 2022
MANY OF the top brass were bemused at Simon Coveney’s rap across the knuckles of chief of staff, Lt Gen Seán Clancy, for meeting... Read more »

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 »