Affairs of the Nation Archives

AFFAIRS OF THE NATION

SINN FÉIN DIVIDE ON MARY LOU

July 24, 2025
THE DIVISIONS within Sinn Féin over whether to run party leader, Mary McDonald, for the presidency are multiple and have created political paralysis within... Read more »

MAURICE REGAN’S OTHER ACTION

July 24, 2025

WHILE CONSTRUCTION magnate Maurice Regan is not a party to the high profile litigation between John Magnier et al and Richard Thompson Moore... Read more »

ROBBO’S DOC

July 24, 2025

NO DOUBT the legions of Mary Robinson’s fans will have been glued to their tellies this week for the terrestrial broadcasting of Mrs... Read more »

NEW ARTS COUNCIL CHIEF

July 24, 2025

AS PREDICTED (see The Phoenix 11/7/25) culture minister Patrick O’Donovan has gone outside the Arts Council to find an interim director to replace... Read more »

MI6 FOUL-UP PUTS AGENTS AT RISK

July 24, 2025

WHITEHALL MANDARINS and MI6 agents in Britain, Ireland and around the globe have been having sleepless nights after yet another flabbergasting data leak... Read more »

HEINOUS PLOT BY MARTIN

July 24, 2025
THERE ARE good reasons for believing reports that northern academic, Deirdre Heenan would appeal to Micheal Martin as a presidential candidate for Fianna Fail,... Read more »

RTÉ’S BOARD VACANCIES

July 24, 2025

AT LONG last, culture and media minister Patrick O’Donovan has got around to advertising for expressions of interest in filling a ministerial vacancy... Read more »

BRITANNIA RULES THE RIGHT

July 24, 2025

A year on from the European and Local Government elections Ireland’s emerging right wing networks are still desperately trying to establish a united... Read more »

NAIRAC AGAIN …

July 24, 2025

All the portents are that Operation Denton’s report into the crimes of the UVF’s Glenanne gang, will paint a double coat of whitewash... Read more »

O’DONOVAN V KENNELLY

July 10, 2025

WHILE FORMER Arts Council director Maureen Kennelly is no longer in office as a result of culture minister Patrick O’Donovan’s tough stance on... Read more »

STEFAN KLINCEWICZ’S STARRING ROLE

July 10, 2025

Beat The Lotto has been generating acres of glowing coverage across the Irish media thanks to the film’s tale of derring do by... Read more »

QANON COMES TO CORK

July 10, 2025

THE SIGHT of a massive tricolour banner at the head of the anti-immigration protest in Cork City last month was not a major... Read more »

JOHN KEEGAN DIGS DEEP

July 10, 2025

THE LEGAL activity continues apace in the intriguing case featuring environmental campaigner Kieran Cummins and minted quarry owner John Keegan – an action... Read more »

LISTOWEL FESTIVAL’S FRIEND

July 10, 2025

GOLDHAWK IS most impressed by the speed with which culture minister Patrick O’Donovan moves when the opportunity arises. As fans of Goldhawk are... Read more »

IRANIAN DISSIDENTS AND FIANNA FÁIL

July 10, 2025

THE VIRTUAL black-out, political and media, on the links between a sinister anti-Iranian-government movement with a paramilitary wing and TDs and senators, mainly... Read more »

ANOTHER SCRAP AT THE GPO

July 10, 2025

HAS MICHEÁL MARTIN jumped the mauser, so to speak, with his statement in advance of the Government’s proposals, and also Sinn Féin’s, on... Read more »

MI6 BOSS’S NAZI GRANDAD

July 10, 2025

Britain’s overseas intelligence service, MI6, has announced the appointment of its new chief, Blaise Metreweli. Aged 47, she is the first woman to... Read more »

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 »