KINGSTOWN FACTION FIGHTS
July 30, 2020
SUCH HAS been the tumult in Dún Laoghaire Fine Gael in recent months that chairman of the constituency executive, Edward Kennedy, has decided to... Read more »
KINGSTOWN FACTION FIGHTS
AFFAIRS OF THE NATION
Article Category: Affairs of the Nation
FUNDING THE ‘YOUNG OFFENDERS’
July 30, 2020
THE HYPE machine was functioning in overdrive in the run-up to series three of Peter Foott’s mildly entertaining Young Offenders, which kicked off on... Read more »
IAN BAILEY: DPP VS MEDIA
July 16, 2020
RALPH RIEGEL’S recently published book on the 1996 murder in west Cork of Sophie Toscan du Plantier, A Dream of Death, tries to balance... Read more »
DINNY’S BOYCOTT
July 16, 2020
MONEYBAGS Denis O’Brien has emerged as the Irish face of the Facebook advertising boycott put in place over claims that the social media giant... Read more »
AIDEN BURNS’S EXIT
July 16, 2020
IT HAS been heavy going for some of the horseracing bodies in the last couple of years, with scandals and expensive court cases monopolising... Read more »
THAT IRA FUNERAL
July 16, 2020
BOTH SIDES in the row about whether or not Sinn Féin breached Covid-19 regulations at IRA leader Bobby Storey’s funeral have avoided the real... Read more »
RTÉ MUSICAL CHAIRS
July 16, 2020
CLAIRE BYRNE may not have been told she is to replace Sean O’Rourke as presenter of RTÉ Radio 1 morning show, Today with Whoever,... Read more »
MEDIA COWERS BEFORE COWEN
July 16, 2020
WITH BARRY Cowen having been dumped out of Cabinet, it is interesting to look at the easy ride he got from most opposition parties,... Read more »
DECLAN HAYES’S BIOTECH ROLE
July 16, 2020
A BIOTECH outfit is floating on the American NASDAQ stock exchange, which could earn a fair few bob for the Irish taxpayer. One of... Read more »
ARMS TRIAL LIBELS AND APOLOGIES
July 16, 2020
EOGHAN HARRIS relies on two sources for his attempted rebuttal in the Sunday Independent of Michael Heney’s ground-breaking book, The Arms Crisis of 1970.... Read more »
THAR HE BLOWS
July 16, 2020
MATTHEW KENNY has been appointed the Irish representative for the US Whistleblower Aid organisation that is expanding overseas. The Dublin legal eagle is playing... Read more »
CONOR’S CAMPUS
July 16, 2020
THE APPLICATION by one Conor Harrington for 10-year planning permission for a new sprawling film and TV studio complex (sorry, “media campus”) on 50... Read more »
MICHAEL HEGARTY’S ADVENTURE
July 16, 2020
The sphincter-tightening sight of Red Guard-style humiliation of Micheál Martin’s old pal, agriculture minister Barry Cowen, for a four-year-old drink-driving transgression will not be... Read more »
THE SHAFTING OF DARA CALLEARY
July 2, 2020
MICHEÁL MARTIN’S ruthless dispatch of Dara Calleary, his deputy leader and policy director (not to mention a long-time aspirant leader), was not something that... Read more »
RTÉ’S SUNBURN
July 2, 2020
FANS of Irish property porn were left scratching their heads on April 6 when part two of the heavily promoted RTÉ series Burnt By... Read more »
JOHN GORMLEY’S SCREENPLAY
July 2, 2020
ONE OF the more urgent decisions to be made by newbie arts and media minister Catherine Martin is whether the government should underwrite any... Read more »
JED DOWLING’S HEADACHE
July 2, 2020
WHILE SOME party-poopers will have been happy enough that the overblown Dublin Pride Festival was relegated to virtual status last week, the company behind... Read more »
MARY IRVINE’S AGENDA
July 2, 2020
THERE WAS a sense of a new wind blowing through the personal injuries (PI) neighbourhood of the legal world when Mary Irvine got the... Read more »
BLUESHIRTS’ MILITARY BLUSTER
July 2, 2020
ONE OF the more bizarre responses to the American police killing of George Floyd recently was a statement from Fine Gael’s five MEPs. Deirdre... Read more »
THE MOUSE THAT ROARS
July 2, 2020
Leo Varadkar, foreign minister Simon Coveney and diplomats like our ambassador to the UN Geraldine Byrne Nason made much of our commitment to disarmament... Read more »
PATSY O’BRIEN’S PREDICAMENT
July 2, 2020
FACED WITH new national responsibilities, super junior minister Hildegarde Naughton will be anxious to see a local party issue resolved speedily given that it... Read more »
EOGHAN MURPHY’S REHABILITATION
July 2, 2020
EOGHAN MURPHY’S Gethsemane is at an end, but it looks like he will have to wait a little longer than three days before his... Read more »
MORGAN O’SULLIVAN’S HAPPY ENDING
July 2, 2020
THIS WEEK’S settlement of the long-running (ie expensive) legal spat between German movie producer Winni Hammacher and his fellow shareholders in Octagon Films –... Read more »
COUGHLAN’S PALS
July 2, 2020
BURSTING WITH pride, TCD Professor Emeritus Anthony Coughlan has circulated widely the news of his life honorary membership of the Campaign for an Independent... Read more »
GREEN PARTY HEAVE
June 18, 2020
PREVIOUS FORECASTS about the Green Party’s leadership contest were that Catherine Martin would win if party members rejected the government deal, while Eamon Ryan... Read more »
JOHN O’DONOGHUE’S LIBEL CASE
June 18, 2020
A RE-RUN of the 2009 public debate about the excessive expenses claims of the then Ceann Comhairle and former minister, John O’Donoghue, is due... Read more »
DREW HARRIS’S ‘ABUSE OF POWER’
June 18, 2020
THE ANNOUNCEMENT last November of yet another investigation into state collusion with loyalist murder gangs – this time the notorious Glenanne gang – saw... Read more »
SIMON STOKES’S PHOTO
June 18, 2020
GOLDHAWK SPOTTED High Court defamation proceedings lodged against the Mail on Sunday earlier this month by one Simon Stokes (no, not that one). It... Read more »
TENI’S FUNDING
June 18, 2020
THANKS TO JK Rowling’s incendiary comments last week, the transgender debate got rather heated again, although here in Ireland the temperature remained relatively cool.... Read more »
NPHET’S ACADEMIC MATTER
June 18, 2020
IT’S HARD to keep everyone happy and in the snippy world of academia this is doubly true. Goldhawk is hearing grumblings about UCD’s influence... Read more »
ADMIRAL HIGGINS
June 18, 2020
Gregg Bemis Jnr, American owner of the wreck of the Lusitania, (torpedoed by a German submarine off Kinsale in 1915), recently died aged 91.... Read more »
EUGENIE HOUSTON’S NEW FRONT
June 18, 2020
AS IF barrister Eugenie Houston has not cost the Bar Council enough in recent times, she has just landed the esteemed legal eagles with... Read more »
RORY GODSON AND THE PRINCESS
June 18, 2020
EMBATTLED BILLIONAIRE Isabel dos Santos – eldest daughter of the Angolan president of nearly 40 years, José Eduardo dos Santos – has hired Irish... Read more »
DERMO TO THE RESCUE?
June 17, 2020
WITH THE hunt on for a new chief executive of the FAI, the first team players are coming in for some rough treatment from... Read more »
FIANNA FÁIL FAILING
June 4, 2020
WHY IS the media closing its eyes and ears to the ongoing implosion of Fianna Fáil as its poll figures decline in inverse ratio... Read more »
BARRY ENGLISH VS ‘IRISH TIMES’
June 4, 2020
HIGH COURT defamation proceedings have been initiated by Barry English (one of Bertie Ahern’s ‘dig-out’ buddies) against the Irish Times. Curiously, the case involves... Read more »