Article Category: Affairs of the Nation

PAT CAREY’S MEDIA TRIAL

October 18, 2018
THE smearing of garda whistleblower Sgt McCabe has been well and truly demolished with... Read more »

HUGHES BOYS’ GAMBLE

October 18, 2018
WHILE THE Hughes family has been having some problems with its €50m Westport House... Read more »

GRAHAM HOLLAND’S DOGGED STRATEGY

October 18, 2018
A HIGH Court judgment by Judge Tara Burns, dismissing a challenge by greyhound trainer... Read more »

IRISH TIMES STYLE

October 18, 2018
THE Irish Times marked the centenary of its most esteemed editor ever, Douglas Gageby,... Read more »

BEHIND THE ÁRAS

October 4, 2018
A HIDDEN hand or hands have been at play in what is shaping up... Read more »

UN SEAT: COVENEY CHECKMATES CANADA

October 4, 2018
TÁNAISTE and foreign minister Simon Coveney’s stirring speech to the United Nations General Assembly... Read more »

BEN GILROY’S ‘ABHORRENT’ BEHAVIOUR

October 4, 2018
IT WAS reported this week that Goldhawk’s old pal, Direct Democracy founder Ben Gilroy,... Read more »

TIM BRENNAN VS RTÉ

October 4, 2018
THE FALL-OUT from a finding by the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) that Co Kilkenny... Read more »

THE HUMBLING OF PAUL STENSON

October 4, 2018
VOGUE Williams is back on Irish screens with a new season of her documentary... Read more »

LEO VARADKAR’S NON-DISCLOSURES

September 20, 2018
THE CONTROVERSY over the leak of Dr Gabriel Scally’s report into the cervical cancer... Read more »

ENDA O’COINEEN’S ‘POST’ DEAL

September 20, 2018
SELF-DESCRIBED ‘unsinkable entrepreneur’ Enda O’Coineen has finally signed the deal to buy the Sunday... Read more »

TAKING BACK THE CITY

September 20, 2018
Anyone looking for more information on the recent housing occupations in the media last... Read more »

PADDY COSGRAVE: IPHONE ANARCHIST

September 20, 2018
If the hysterical media reaction to the Take Back the City protestors wasn’t evidence... Read more »

DUP/TORY ARM LOCK

September 20, 2018
On Monday, September 5, British northern secretary Karen Bradley had arranged to meet the... Read more »

NEW COMMISSIONER: BACKLASH GROWS

September 6, 2018
THE LIST of former senior security and intelligence experts that have criticised the appointment... Read more »

MICHAEL MCDOWELL VS JIM O’CALLAGHAN

September 6, 2018
YET ANOTHER glossy brochure in Dublin Bay South (DBS) from former justice minister, Senator... Read more »

PATIENT FOCUS FLOPS

September 6, 2018
INTERESTING to see that a liquidator has been appointed to the patient advocacy body... Read more »

TRINA VARGO’S FALLING FUND

September 6, 2018
TRINA VARGO, the bolshy founder and face of the US Ireland Alliance (USIA), has... Read more »

ABOLITIONIST HAUGHEY

September 6, 2018
A TWO-page spread in Trinity Today recently focused on London-based barrister and alumni Caroline... Read more »

DREW HARRIS LEGAL CHALLENGE

August 23, 2018
CIARÁN MacAirt, the Belfast-based litigant seeking a judicial review to block the appointment of... Read more »

GEMMA O’DOHERTY VS ‘IRISH TIMES’

August 23, 2018
GEMMA O’DOHERTY is easily the most entertaining of the declared presidential aspirants, although Irish... Read more »

DAVID KITT’S FIANNA FÁIL FAMILY

August 23, 2018
Spare a thought for musician David Kitt, son of former government chief whip Tom... Read more »

ME AND KOFI ANNAN

August 23, 2018
IT was only right and fitting that former Irish president Mary Robinson penned an... Read more »

LABOUR’S NEXT LEADER?

August 23, 2018
THE HEAVE currently underway against Labour leader Brendan Howlin and which has nothing at... Read more »

ISRAELI DIPLOMACY

August 23, 2018
A CHANGING of the guard has taken place at the Israeli Embassy-sponsored propaganda arm... Read more »

JOHN MCGUIRK ON THE RADIO

August 23, 2018
It didn’t take long for the media to find an excuse to get Declan... Read more »