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AFFAIRS OF THE NATION

DRINKAWARE’S STRATEGY

November 14, 2019
NEWS THAT a ban on alcohol advertising within 200 metres of a school or crèche from later this month will have been clocked by... Read more »

WHO FEARS TO SPEAK OF BORDER POLL?

October 31, 2019
CONCERNED NOISES are emanating from the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI), the only entity in the southern establishment that has clocked the political... Read more »

MARY ROBINSON’S SHRINE

October 31, 2019
THERE HAVE been some changes to the board of The Victoria House Foundation, the legal entity set up to progress the Mary Robinson shrine... Read more »

LAW SOCIETY ROW: LIBEL THREATS

October 31, 2019
THE NORMALLY sedate AGM of the Mayo Solicitors’ Bar Association (the Mayo branch of the Law Society) was enlivened this year when a row... Read more »

UCD REVOLT OVER NEWMAN BOYCOTT

October 31, 2019
UCD’S CRASS decision to boycott the canonisation of its founder, John Henry Newman, was reversed, the university said, because the government had reconsidered its... Read more »

RED FLAG AGGRO

October 31, 2019
The recent release of Environmental Protection Agency data for 2018, revealing spiralling agri emissions, seemed like an odd day to unveil a new campaign... Read more »

LIMERICK STUDENTS GO LOGO LOCO

October 31, 2019
Branding fever is once again gripping the University of Limerick (UL), where students are up in arms about a controversial new logo. At the... Read more »

REVIEWING GALWAY’S €10M CINEMA HORROR

October 31, 2019
FANS OF Goldhawk are well acquainted with the historical horror-show behind Galway’s bijou Pálás cinema, originally promoted by Lelia Doolan’s Solas Galway Picture Palace... Read more »

CATCHING UP WITH PETER PAN

October 31, 2019
A RECEIVER has just been appointed to the Irish end of a multi-million euro Indian animation outfit that is behind international TV shows such... Read more »

PAUL KIMMAGE’S QUESTIONS

October 31, 2019
IT IS hard to understand why former Ireland rugby captain Jamie Heaslip and his ghost writer, the ubiquitous Matt Cooper, have been giving the... Read more »

CONFUSION AT CLONGOWES

October 31, 2019
CLONGOWES WOOD COLLEGE alumni have always and unashamedly prided themselves on providing “leaders in the areas of business, sport, politics and the arts”, and... Read more »

€40BN ARMAMENTS STROKE

October 16, 2019
A SPEECH last year by then TD Mick Wallace and a short paragraph in the Sunday Times, of all places, are the only references... Read more »

RACHEL MORAN’S REACTIONS

October 16, 2019
FORMER PROSTITUTE Gayle Dalton would have expected a reaction from high-profile, media-friendly anti-sex-work campaigner Rachel Moran after challenging the latter’s account of her past... Read more »

VLAD’S PLANS

October 16, 2019
THOSE who believe Leo Varadkar is not even considering an early election should revisit his recent taunts about the Fianna Fáil frontbench. Vlad compared... Read more »

LIAM LYNCH’S LOSSES

October 16, 2019
THE NEWS that Enda O’Coineen is about to purchase Irish Tatler magazine from Irish Central Media (ISM) suggests that Liam Lynch and Niall O’Dowd... Read more »

RTÉ VS OIREACHTAS

October 16, 2019
A MOST interesting and possibly expensive conflict between RTÉ’s Prime Time Investigates programme and members of an Oireachtas committee will play out in the... Read more »

FG GONE TO DOGS

October 16, 2019
How embarrassing that the first greyhound to be traced under the Irish Greyhound Board’s (IGB) new ‘care line’ is still registered to an Oireachtas... Read more »

IFTA’S MYSTERY PLOT

October 16, 2019
EARLIER THIS year (see The Phoenix, 8/2/19) Goldhawk noted a potential lacuna in the diaries of the nation’s celebs with the non-appearance on the... Read more »

ENDA KENNY’S CADDY

October 3, 2019
CONGRATS TO Mark Kennelly, former chief of staff to Enda Kenny during his reign as taoiseach, who has landed the plum post of Golf... Read more »

SAUDIS BACK IRELAND AT UN

October 3, 2019
FOREIGN MINISTER Simon ‘Covetous’ Coveney and Iveagh House mandarins will have been pleased at receiving Saudi Arabia’s support last week for the government’s aching... Read more »

ZAPPER FOR UN?

October 3, 2019
KATHERINE ZAPPONE’S appointment as the government’s “special envoy” in the urgent quest for a UN security council seat is a strange one, even allowing... Read more »

SENATOR WILSON VS LADY KILBRACKEN

October 3, 2019
A FEUD between Fianna Fáil senator Diarmuid Wilson and Lady Kilbracken is now the subject of an inquiry by party leader Micheál Martin, with... Read more »

O’LEARY’S ‘HELL’

October 3, 2019
AS BREXIT neurosis sweeps the country, the citizenry can always turn to the sagacious and comforting insights of Michael O’Leary. The Ryanair boss said... Read more »

JUDGE KELLY VS JERRY BEADES

October 3, 2019
WILL JUDGE Peter Kelly ever be rid of that inexhaustible lay litigant, Jerry Beades, whose legal actions to block Kelly’s appointment as High Court... Read more »

MORE LEFT SPLITS

October 3, 2019
POLITICAL splits on the Left are mirrored by the disintegration of the Take Back the City (TBTC) campaign a year after its headline grabbing... Read more »

FRESH CLIMATE

October 3, 2019
It seems that not everyone was thrilled with last month’s college campus walkout as part of the global ‘climate strike’. Although UCD gave its... Read more »

NIGERIAN ARMS AND BILLIONS

October 3, 2019
Process & Industrial Developments (P&ID), founded by the late Mick Quinn, recently won an €8.6bn award against the Nigerian government, with the support of... Read more »

THE NEW ORDER AT INM

September 19, 2019
BELGIAN PUBLISHERS Mediahuis may find that bending the querulous natives to their will at Independent News & Media (INM) is a little more difficult... Read more »

MYSTERY AT THE BERNARD SHAW

September 19, 2019
A WEEK of social media breast-beating about the decline of Dublin’s nightlife has obscured the reasons for the impending closure of the Bernard Shaw... Read more »

XAVIER MCAULIFFE’S SPEED VANS

September 19, 2019
IT IS hard to believe that a consortium that works for An Garda Síochána providing the roadside speed detection service – GoSafe – is... Read more »

LEO VARADKAR’S NECK

September 19, 2019
YOU’VE GOT to hand it to Leo Varadkar for pure neck. Earlier this month, Boris Johnson let fly with some colourful descriptions of opposition... Read more »

NOEL GREALISH’S PAL

September 19, 2019
THOSE REMARKS by Noel Grealish TD about “good Christian Syrians” as opposed to African “spongers” were from the heart. A devout Catholic, Noel once... Read more »

DAVID MCWILLIAMS’S ‘RESEARCH’

September 19, 2019
Readers of the Irish Times website last Saturday may have enjoyed David McWilliams musing on the future of global cities. The celebrity economist takes... Read more »

COVENEY’S SOLO RUN

September 19, 2019
THE WILY Simon Coveney managed to come out of the Fine Gael think-in last week smelling of roses – at least as far as... Read more »

PAT LENAGHAN’S CHAIRS

September 19, 2019
More bad news for the family of colourful businessman and would-be casino boss Pat Lenaghan, owners of the Bridge House Hotel in Tullamore, Co... Read more »

CORRECTION – MICHAEL BLOOMBERG

September 19, 2019
IN The Phoenix edition of August 23 last, it was incorrectly stated that former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg had funded the Irish pro-tobacco... Read more »