Article Category: Affairs of the Nation

WHAT LIES BENEATH FOR CALVERT’S BCP

April 7, 2022
YET ANOTHER less than auspicious cinema opening for an Irish film took place last month with Brendan Muldowney’s haunted-house drama, The Cellar, where the... Read more »

COX IN THE BOX

April 7, 2022
He also said Ms Burke had criticised another partner, Kevin Lynch, when he stopped by to congratulate her for completing a deal. The witness... Read more »

MONTROSE AND CHATHAM HOUSE

April 7, 2022
RTÉ HAS for years relied on ‘experts’ from the Royal Institute of International Affairs at Chatham House (CH) to provide Irish listeners with their... Read more »

UKRAINE: ‘EDITORIAL FARM’

March 24, 2022
THE RUSSIAN onslaught against Ukraine has revealed a surprising and disappointing dearth in the Irish media – with a few honourable exceptions – of... Read more »

BARRY ANDREWS GETS TOUGH

March 24, 2022
WHAT A rabble-rousing politician MEP Barry Andrews has turned out to be, reverting to the more direct, radical tone of his grandfather Todd Andrews... Read more »

CIVIL WAR CIVILITY

March 24, 2022
ALREADY THERE has been a clear schism between the government and President Michael D Higgins over how to deal with centenary commemorations of that... Read more »

DUP DISARRAY

March 24, 2022
IT IS 40 days to the north’s assembly election on May 5 and the Sinn Féin posters are already up in North Belfast while... Read more »

HEIGH-HO…

March 24, 2022
AN IMPENDING winding-up hearing in the High Court may have somewhat spoiled the Paddy’s Day celebrations for Cathal Divilly (CEO) and his partner, Jim... Read more »

BLOWIN’ IN THE WIND

March 24, 2022
THE ECONOMIC and supply chain shockwaves from the war in Ukraine have re-energised the ‘realists’ to use the crisis as cover to push existing... Read more »

THE FOG OF WAR

March 24, 2022
MANY ON the left are still trying to clarify their line on Ukraine but the Communist Party of Ireland (CPI) and Irish Republican Socialist... Read more »

MARTIN’S NUCLEAR HAND-WRINGING

March 10, 2022
AN TAOISEACH Micheál Martin, emitted obligatory outrage at Vladimir Putin’s recent move to put Russia’s nuclear deterrent forces on high alert – “extremely reckless... Read more »

PAUL KIMMAGE’S ROUGH RIDE

March 10, 2022
PAUL KIMMAGE’S second four-page ‘special’ on Irish horseracing’s dirty secrets might have been expected to include some real juice but the 7,000 words proved... Read more »

McCONALOGUE AND THE KULAKS

March 10, 2022
CHARLIE McCONALOGUE’S pitch for farmers to produce more grain sounds, ironically, like a Russian five-year plan from the Soviet era. But for the government... Read more »

CALDWELL’S HORSE SENSE

March 10, 2022
OUTSPOKEN RACEHORSE trainer Jim Bolger has been stirring things up in the sport of kings by claiming a ‘Lance Armstrong’ figure is set to... Read more »

IT’S THE PIPELINE, STUPID

March 10, 2022
GOLDHAWK IS indebted to US journalist Mike Whitney and other players in the United States for explaining what has really happened in Ukraine and... Read more »

RATHGAR PARISH INQUISITION: PART II

March 10, 2022
ALREADY PUZZLED Rathgar parishioners at the Church of Three Patrons will be scratching their heads at the contents of last week’s parish newsletter. Under... Read more »

IRELAND JOINS BIG BOYS IN WAR GAMES

February 24, 2022
IT IS both apt and ironic that the Defence Forces should emulate warmonger Winston Churchill’s dictum, ‘Never let a good crisis go to waste’.... Read more »

JOHN MOLLOY’S PHONE TROUBLE

February 24, 2022
HAVING HOOVERED up millions of euro to fund his safe smartphone app for children, John Molloy’s company is heading into liquidation. Molloy made a... Read more »

UKRAINE VETS’ DUBLIN HERO

February 24, 2022
DUBLIN-BORN but Ukrainian-based Paul Niland has been lionised by RTÉ, BBC, the Irish Times and Irish Independent both for his suicide prevention service to... Read more »

GREENWASH AWARDS’ WORTHY WINNERS

February 24, 2022
IN THE immortal words of Kermit the Frog, it’s not easy being green, but that doesn’t stop some people from at least pretending. Details... Read more »

THE SILENT NEUTRALITY

February 24, 2022
DESPITE THE intense media focus on the Ukraine crisis there has been little or no attention paid to the oft expressed will of the... Read more »

DÓMHNAL SLATTERY’S AWARD

February 24, 2022
GOLDHAWK WAS delighted to see that Shrewsbury Road resident and Avolon air leasing moneybags Dómhnal Slattery has landed the Irish Times Business Person of... Read more »

BORIS JOHNSON’S ‘BRAIN’

February 10, 2022
THAT BORIS Johnson’s government should include mandarin Sue Gray, a top level member of the ‘deep state’ (see The Phoenix, 28/1/22), may not surprise everybody.... Read more »

JOHN HOGAN’S BUSINESS ‘AWARDS’

February 10, 2022
IT HAS been a hectic start to 2022 for publisher John Hogan and his business partner, US-based Tommy Quinn, who found their publishing operation’s... Read more »

WHITHER SEAN O’ROURKE?

February 10, 2022
RTÉ BROADCASTER Sean O’Rourke was, presumably, one of those referred to by Judge Mary Fahy when she noted in her golfgate judgment that “a... Read more »