Article Category: Affairs of the Nation

WHAT HAPPENED THE AIR CORPS?

March 23, 2017
WHEN he finally got around to visiting Blacksod last Monday – a full week after the loss of outsourced helicopter 116 and its four... Read more »

JOHN BRENNAN ESCAPES ‘CATASTROPHIC COLLAPSE’

March 23, 2017
NEXT MONTH, Judge Tom O’Donnell delivers his sentence in the high profile case relating to the collapse of a lift at the Killarney Plaza... Read more »

IAN BAILEY’S FRENCH FARCE

March 23, 2017
THE STATE’S timing of its presentation of the French extradition warrant to bring Ian Bailey to Paris on the charge of murdering Sophie Toscan... Read more »

Gender Bias

March 23, 2017
THE WAKING The Feminists lobby has generated plenty of fallout over the last year (with Garry Hynes of Druid Theatre the latest to come... Read more »

Privacy Funding

March 23, 2017
WITH THE 21-day High Court case involving Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) Helen Dixon, Facebook Ireland and Austrian privacy activist Max Schrems now concluded, Judge... Read more »

GIVE ME YOUR TIRED, YOUR POOR …

March 23, 2017
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin (Far Left) THE vicarious grand standing of Irish liberals still engaged in competitive outrage at US president Donald Trump – under... Read more »

ALAN SHATTER’S REVENGE

March 23, 2017
FORMER JUSTICE minister Alan Shatter turned up at Trinity College Dublin last week to launch a provocative book by two feminist academics – Feminism,... Read more »

EGYPTIAN CONTEMPT FOR IRELAND

March 23, 2017
A THUNDERING statement from Ceann Comhairle Seán Ó Fearghail in January threatened that millions of euro worth of business with Egypt would be blocked... Read more »

Consenting Turbines

March 23, 2017
A RULING from An Bord Pleanála has just granted something called “substitute consent” for a planning development that had previously been deemed by the... Read more »

LEO VARADKAR IN RETREAT

March 9, 2017
IT’S EARLY days yet but the latest poll showing Fine Gael voters favouring Simon Coveney over Leo Varadkar have unnerved the latter’s supporters and... Read more »

MARIE COLLINS PUTS IT UP TO ‘IL PAPA’

March 9, 2017
HOW careless of Pope Francis to lose abuse victim Marie Collins a year after Briton Peter Saunders jumped ship from the Pontifical Commission for... Read more »

HOW WEALTHY IS DINNY?

March 9, 2017
THERE WAS the usual array of surprise valuations in the latest Sunday Times Rich List, with the likes of Martin Naughton, John Magnier and... Read more »

CLOCK TICKING AT NATIONAL GALLERY

March 9, 2017
WHAT ON earth is going on at the National Gallery of Ireland (NGI)? The contract of the director of the institution, Sean Rainbird, expires... Read more »

DUP Gaelgoir

March 9, 2017
ONE DUP member who survived the party’s slaughter last week was Jim Wells who got help from Dublin Irish language academic Professor Ciarán Ó... Read more »

MICHAEL CAREY TAKES THE BISCUIT

March 9, 2017
WHAT GOES around, comes around. A Drogheda biscuit company called East Coast Bakehouse, which has been heavily promoting its products, is the brainchild of... Read more »

Letters to the Editor

March 9, 2017
‘MALICIOUS’ SOURCES Dear Editor, You write (See The Phoenix, 24/2/17) that I, among others, suggested that RTÉ’s Paul Reynolds should reveal his garda sources... Read more »

MAHON TRIBUNAL RIP?

March 9, 2017
With the settlement of Joe Murphy’s High Court case against the MahonTribunal last week, the taxpayer may now never learn the truth about what... Read more »

INVESTIGATING GALWAY’S ‘PALACE’

March 9, 2017
THE STATEMENT issued by the Charities Regulator last week that it has opened a statutory investigation into the €9.5m and counting Solas-Galway Picture Palace... Read more »

BRUTON LURKS WITH INTENT

February 23, 2017
THE studied but pregnant silence of Richard Bruton in the fevered Fine Gael leadership war could yet presage a surprise bid from the man... Read more »

LISA GAUGHRAN’S SETTLEMENT

February 23, 2017
HAVING weathered a high profile legal action from top magazine publisher Norah Casey of Harmonia (the company behind the likes of Irish Tatler, Woman’s... Read more »

EUGENE McDERMOTT’S €7M REPRIEVE

February 23, 2017
THERE WAS a surprising ruling in the High Court earlier this month when Judge Max Barrett threw out a €7m judgment against former high... Read more »

MARTIN BENDS TO O’CALLAGHAN

February 23, 2017
THAT spat between Fianna Fáil’s Jim O’Callaghan and justice minister Frances Fitzgerald about whether or not O’Callaghan had alerted Fitzgerald to the Tusla file... Read more »

MARY COUGHLAN JOINS SENECA GROUP

February 23, 2017
INTERESTING TO see that Ann Carrigy has just stepped down as a director of the new nursing home group, Seneca Healthcare. The fledgling company... Read more »

MAHON: FINAL ACT?

February 23, 2017
WITH Joe Murphy’s court case against the Mahon Tribunal finally listed for hearing next week, the paying public may learn at last what went on backstage... Read more »

TERENCE’S TITLES

February 23, 2017
Terence O’Rourke (Left) A REPORT in The Irish Times last week focused on a hefty fine levied by the Central Bank against an advisory... Read more »

REFERENDUM BLUES FOR PRIDE FESTIVAL

February 23, 2017
WHILE MEMBERS of the gay community often find themselves moving ahead of trends, it turns out that the directors of Dublin Lesbian Gay Bisexual... Read more »

Trinners Shinners

February 23, 2017
INTERESTING to see that the student unions of Trinity College, UCD and NUI Galway will hold referendums on whether the unions should support a... Read more »

Letters to the Editor

February 23, 2017
WHITE WASH? Dear Editor It is perfectly understandable that Ronan Fanning would give a wide berth to a diplomatic report attributing offensive and sensational expressions... Read more »

TAKING BREXIT SERIOUSLY

February 9, 2017
IF, as we are constantly reminded, the consequences of Brexit will create the greatest challenge to the Irish body politic since the foundation of... Read more »

O’BRIEN’S KERINS PRECEDENT

February 9, 2017
IS IT fear of serial litigant Denis O’Brien that has produced the media understatement about Angela Kerins’s adverse judgment, namely that it might have... Read more »

BUSY LIZZY’S ROUGH RIDE

February 9, 2017
THERE WAS surely plenty of uncomfortable shuffling in the saddle by players in the horseracing industry after TD Clare Daly let fly at the... Read more »

CHRISTIAN CARTER’S CHARITY WORK

February 9, 2017
IT HAS been a bad start to 2017 for Christian Carter (brother of Marissa “Cocoa Brown” Carter, see p18), who ended up in the... Read more »

VIRGIN SAVIOUR FOR ‘IRISH TIMES’?

February 9, 2017
THERE is little disagreement about the extent of The Irish Times’ financial crisis with Denis O’Brien taking pleasure in pointing to it last year... Read more »

Cashing in on AIB float

February 9, 2017
RECENT reports that AIB is planning the sale of hundreds of properties to vulture funds such as Cerberus suggests the move to privatise AIB... Read more »

IAN HYLAND’S STATE SUPPORT

February 9, 2017
IAN HYLAND must have been delighted with the puff piece in The Irish Times last week singing the praises of his latest wheeze, the... Read more »