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AFFAIRS OF THE NATION

HUGH LEWIS’S ALLEGATIONS

November 20, 2015
THERE WERE frantic scenes at Dún Laoghaire Rathdown (DLR) Council last month, when a heated debate on alterations to the Draft Development Plan featured... Read more »

COVENEY’S MILITARY SPENDING PLANS

November 20, 2015
DEFENCE minister Simon Coveney gave little away in answer to a parliament question about the protection of Irish sovereign airspace from foreign aircraft put... Read more »

BILLY WALSH’S KNOCKOUT

November 18, 2015
WHILE media coverage of the move to the US of boxing coach Billy Walsh has been unanimously critical of the handling of the affair... Read more »

Madigan’s Steamy Briefs

November 12, 2015
FINE GAEL councillor and general election candidate Josepha Madigan has a knack of generating publicity, good and bad. The recent halting site tragedy involving... Read more »

REBALANCING MICHAEL DWYER

November 6, 2015
ALTHOUGH the story has not been receiving much media attention of late, RTÉ opted to broadcast a new documentary on the subject of the... Read more »

DERMOT BANNON’S COURT DATE

November 6, 2015
DUBLIN architect Dermot Bannon has made a name for himself through the RTÉ programme, Room to Improve, in which the affable architect helps punters... Read more »

BAILING OUT LELIA DOOLAN

November 6, 2015
FOLLOWING a meeting of Galway City Council earlier this month, the expensive end credits are now rolling for Lelia Doolan’s ‘Rocky Horror Picture Show’... Read more »

SF AND FF IN GOVERNMENT?

November 6, 2015
THE notion that Sinn Féin would form a coalition government with Fianna Fail was raised this week in the book, Power Play: The Rise... Read more »

DERMOT DESMOND’S DATA DISCRETION

November 5, 2015
IS there no limit to the financial and legal resources that billionaires like Denis O’Brien and Dermot Desmond will expend to battle those sections... Read more »

ISRAELI ARMY START-UPS

November 5, 2015
THE new Dublin Startup Commissioner is get-up-and-go-girl, Niamh Bushnell, who has been getting a lot of airtime recently on RTÉ, Newstalk and so on.... Read more »

JOHN McCANN’S “ASTUTE” PURCHASE

November 5, 2015
THERE WAS plenty of focus last week on Tom O’Gorman’s audacious plan to ‘flip’ the sprawling Kilcooley estate in Co Tipperary for €8m, having... Read more »

DENIS O’BRIEN IN CRISIS?

November 5, 2015
HAS Denis O’Brien completely lost it? Launching a lightning legal assault against a relatively inconsequential PR and lobbying consultancy, following on from his efforts... Read more »