Affairs of the Nation Archives - Page 2 of 37

AFFAIRS OF THE NATION

UNFLAPPABLE FLANAGAN

August 26, 2021
FORMER MINISTER, Charlie Flanagan, is performing with studied objectivity — as befits the chair of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence... Read more »

BARRY WHITE’S LEGAL BILL

August 12, 2021
IT HAS taken quite a while but the final chapter is being written in the saga of former High Court judge Barry White’s 2015... Read more »

CATHERINE MARTIN’S GENDER BALANCE

August 12, 2021
WITH IRELAND’S athletes returning form Tokyo, sports minister Catherine Martin finally got around to filling the vacancies on the board of Sport Ireland (SI),... Read more »

APOLOGIES … AND OUR MAN IN TEL AVIV

August 12, 2021
SIMON COVENEY’S purported concern for “freedom of expression”, manifest by Katherine Zappone’s appointment as UN special envoy in pursuit of this laudable goal, was... Read more »

IAN MADIGAN’S TACTICS

August 12, 2021
FORMER LEINSTER and Ireland outhalf Ian Madigan has had a mixed few years in professional rugby having exited France and being deemed surplus to... Read more »

DARRAGH AND VLAD’S HOUSING STAND-OFF

August 12, 2021
POSTPONEMENT OF the ‘Housing for All’ plan was surrounded with gobbledygook, civil service jargon as well as pious editorials about the need for clarity... Read more »

FRASER UNDERSTUDY SET FOR SUCCESSION?

August 12, 2021
SECRETARY GENERAL at the taoiseach’s department, Martin Fraser, is most unusual in that top civil servants outside the Department of Foreign Affairs do not... Read more »

‘COROPRATE HEROES’

August 12, 2021
FOR ASSORTED grey suits, there was no little interest in the announcement that the Institute of Management Consultants and Advisers ((IMCA) and the Corporate... Read more »

SUPER MISS MURPHY

August 12, 2021
HIP RESTAURATEUR John ‘777’ Farrell has adopted restricted status under the Companies Act, which means he cannot act as a director for five years.... Read more »

MICHEÁL MARTIN’S FF CRITICS

August 12, 2021
‘RETROSPECTIVE, BELATED, political cover’, these were just a few of the taunts thrown at the government for securing the comforting advice of attorney general... Read more »

ARNOLD’S FOOD PLAN CAUSES INDIGESTION

August 12, 2021
THE GROUP photo at government buildings for the unveiling of the grandly titled ‘Food Vision 2030 – a world leader in sustainable food systems’... Read more »

FOUL FEEDBACK TO KILDARE WIND FARM

August 12, 2021
HACKLES HAVE been raised in the townlands of Quinnsboro/Coolsicken in south Co Kildare where Norwegian giant energy company Statkraft was refused planning permission for... Read more »

MEDIA STILL HUNTS IAN BAILEY

July 29, 2021
WHEN FINTAN O’TOOLE gets it wrong he really gets it wrong, but his recent column on Ian Bailey, dressed up in liberal, feminist language,... Read more »

OUR LINE IN TEL AVIV

July 29, 2021
FOREIGN MINISTER Simon Coveney has ducked and dived when confronted with Israeli depredations against the Palestinians but he appears to have been struck dumb... Read more »

NEIL FRANCIS’S TACTICS

July 29, 2021
NEIL FRANCIS was never slow to dish it out, whether on the pitch or as a pundit, so there was a pretty long queue... Read more »

PAUL COLLINS’S LIBEL ACTION

July 29, 2021
BANDON-BASED businessman Paul Collins has fingers in many pies but his provision of accommodation for asylum seekers has often landed him in the media... Read more »

YVONNE DOLAN’S BLENDI BACKERS

July 29, 2021
AS FANS of Goldhawk are aware, Yvonne Dolan’s award-winning Blendi Snacks business ran out of flavour recently and the company was due to be... Read more »

TENI’S TIMING

July 29, 2021
AT LONG last Transgender Equality Network Ireland (TENI) has got around to filing its out-of-date 2019 accounts, which just might smooth the way for... Read more »

CHARITY BEGINS ON THE FARM

July 29, 2021
ONE OF the most intriguing questions awaiting the incoming director of Teagasc, the state agriculture research and training agency, is: what kind of organisation,... Read more »

REBELS IN WEST CORK

July 29, 2021
A BIZARRE stand-off in west Cork involving the Society of Saint Pius X Resistance. (SSPX Resistance), local campaigner Fiona O’Leary and gardaí is just... Read more »

TCD BYELECTION

July 29, 2021
THE SUNDAY TIMES has already plugged long-time former Goldman Sachs director Hugo McNeill in the early reckoning for the Seanad’s Trinity College Dublin seat... Read more »

MURDER, BENT COPS AND DUBLIN MEDIA

July 29, 2021
COMMENTING ON the latest report that found the London Met guilty of “institutional corruption” in its treatment of the 1987 murder of Daniel Morgan,... Read more »

MICHEÁL BEGINS HIS FIGHTBACK

July 15, 2021
IT’S A long time since the Irish Times gave such unqualified and partisan backing to a Fianna Fáil leader but it was through that... Read more »

PETER DUNN’S PAPAL GONG

July 15, 2021
IT’S NOT every day that a ‘Pro-Ecclesia et Pontifice’ award (PEP) is dished out here but one was accepted last week by Peter Dunn... Read more »

CATHY DAVEY’S LOVELY CHARITY

July 15, 2021
CONGRATULATIONS TO songwriter Cathy Davey, whose animal charity is doing better then observers may have expected. Last year, the Irish Times ran a piece... Read more »

GAISFORD ST LAWRENCE’S MANSION

July 15, 2021
A LETTER from one Julian Gaisford St Lawrence popped up in the Irish Times last week. The address was given as Coolcarrigan in Co... Read more »

CATHERINE MARTIN’S TEAM TACTICS

July 15, 2021
FANS OF Goldhawk will be aware that Green party minister Catherine Martin has a tendency to leave boards under her remit full of vacancies... Read more »

HAZEL HOVERS

July 15, 2021
MANY SEIZED on the elimination of Kate O’Connell by Fine Gael’s leadership and local members to explain the defeat of that party’s candidate, James... Read more »

REHMAN’S RESTRICTION

July 15, 2021
ONE OF the directors of a private English language college that shut tis doors in 2018 has just been restricted from acting as a... Read more »

VIDEO REWIND

July 15, 2021
T WAS surely only ever a matter of time before Hilco, which specialises in picking up ‘distressed’ investments, pulled the plug on its Xtra-Vision... Read more »

SALLINS TRAIN TRIAL REVISITED

July 15, 2021
THE FAMILY of Osgur Breatnach, wrongly convicted of the 1976 Sallins train robbery, have launched a campaign for a public inquiry into the controversial... Read more »

THE GENTLE BLACK AND TAN

July 15, 2021
BLINKERED NATIONALISTS have long argued that the West Cork History Festival (aka the West Brit Hist Fest) run by Simon and Victoria Kingston, exists... Read more »

DAVID MCWILLIAMS AND ‘GROUND ZERO’

July 15, 2021
THE FORAYS of pop economist David McWilliams into commentary on agriculture are rare indeed, and from the evidence of his most recent efforts, that’s... Read more »

IAN BAILEY’S STAR WITNESS

July 1, 2021
THE RE-EMERGENCE in the Sophie Toscan du Plantier murder saga of Marie Farrell – once the garda’s star witness against so-called suspect Ian Bailey... Read more »

WOMEN’S COUNCIL’S CRITICS

July 1, 2021
THE NATIONAL Women’s Council of Ireland (NWCI) found itself in the spotlight last month in relation to the endless gender identity debate. Given how... Read more »

RÓISÍN INGLE’S TWEETS

July 1, 2021
LAST MONTH’s ruling against the Carlow Nationalist by the press ombudsman over the paper’s wrong story on the ‘body-shaming’ of girls at Presentation College... Read more »