Affairs of the Nation Archives

AFFAIRS OF THE NATION

MARTIN TRUCE WITH O’CALLAGHAN?

April 20, 2022

ONE OF the intriguing choices Micheál Martin will get to make when he retires as taoiseach in December is who to appoint as... Read more »

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RTÉ’S LOST DECADE

April 20, 2022

“FUTURE GENERATIONS will judge us by how we deal with climate change”, presenter Fran McNulty solemnly intoned when opening RTÉ’s Prime Time climate... Read more »

MALI AND SIMON COVENEY’S ‘SHOCK’

April 20, 2022

HIDDEN AWAY at the bottom of page 4 in the Irish Times recently was a short article about how the Irish Defence Forces... Read more »

RACEHORSE OWNERS UNSADDLE CHAIRMAN

April 20, 2022

THIS WEEK sees the second annual general meeting in a few months of the Association of Irish Racehorse Owners (Airo), the representative organisation... Read more »

MARY IRVINE’S SUCCESSOR

April 20, 2022

THE TOP four favourites to succeed Ms Justice Mary Irvine as president of the High Court each have distinguished credentials in the areas... Read more »

MICHAEL HACKMAN’S NEW PLOT

April 20, 2022

THERE WEREN’T too much questions asked by nosey hacks when Pascal Donohoe was roped into the PR exercise heralding a €300m Greystones film... Read more »

ARMY UNREST GROWS

April 7, 2022

ONE CHARACTERISATION of conflicts such as sexual offences in the Defence Forces is that of the defence department’s alleged control freakery and micromanagement.... Read more »

EAMON DUNPHY SCORES AGAIN

April 7, 2022

A COMPANY called Festuca Ltd probably doesn’t ring too many bells for Goldhawk fans but it turns out to be one of the... Read more »

NEW ‘CENSOR’

April 7, 2022

CINEMA-GOERS will have spotted a new name on the certificate that pops up on the screen before the film’s opening credits, courtesy of... Read more »

MARK HENRY’S BOOK

April 7, 2022

MARK HENRY, author of In Fact: An Optimist’s Guide to Ireland at 100, has been getting rave reviews from the ‘right’ people’ (very... Read more »

US EMBASSY’S VIEW OF CJH & CO

April 7, 2022

WITH FOREIGN embassies and their information gathering under scrutiny (well, one of them), it is interesting to note that the mainstream media ignored... Read more »

AGRI-BIZ AND CLIMATE ‘SOLUTIONS’

April 7, 2022

A SMALL piece of Dáil history was made recently, with the first joint meeting of the oireachtas committees on agriculture and environment and... Read more »

SINDO SCOOPS S. TIMES HACK

April 7, 2022

AN INNOCUOUS, discreetly placed ad at the bottom of page 2 of the Irish edition of the Sunday Times in the smallest of... Read more »

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... 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... Read more »

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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... Read more »

KEEPING UP WITH GREG SPARKS

April 7, 2022

THE IRISH TIMES was quick out of the blocks last month to report on the “dismay” expressed by the two female contenders who... 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 –... 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 »

TRINITY’S UNIVERSITY CHALLENGE

March 24, 2022

IT WILL be a tense couple of weeks for the deputy editor of Trinity College student paper, the University Times, who faces a... Read more »

TONI & GUY’S HAIRCUT

March 24, 2022

BACK IN the 1990s, Alan Boyce was revered by so-called fashionistas as the guy who modernised hairdressing in dreary old Dublin. No doubt,... 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... 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... 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,... 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... 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... 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... 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... Read more »

ARAMARK’S ‘AMBASSADORS’

March 10, 2022

WHILE THE National Gallery of Ireland (NGI) has come in for an awful lot of flak for contracting US company Aramark (owners of... Read more »

ASHFORD STUDIO PLOT TWIST

March 10, 2022

WITH A new series of Vikings: Valhalla getting ready to start rolling at Ashford Studios (albeit a little late in the day) it... Read more »

WAITING ON CATHERINE MARTIN

March 10, 2022

MORE THAN a year after former chairman Pauric Travers exited the board of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI), there still remains a... 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... Read more »

BERNARD MCCAULEY’S MOOLAH

March 10, 2022

A CLEANING company called Grosvenor Cleaning Services (GCS) has just been ordered by the Workplace Relations Commission to pay a former employee €21,000... 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... 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... 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.... Read more »