Article Category: Affairs of the Nation

STEENSON MELTDOWN

May 30, 2024

PROMINENT ANTI-IMMIGRATION activist Malachy Steenson is standing as an Independent candidate in Dublin’s North Inner City local electoral area and the Dublin EU... Read more »

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JOHN NAGLE CARPETED

May 30, 2024

THE ONE-TIME bankrupt John ‘Payzone’ Nagle has just run into yet another spot of bother, this time courtesy of the dreaded taxman. Nagle... Read more »

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BRUCE ARNOLD’S OBITUARY

May 30, 2024

THE TIMES of London published a lovingly crafted obituary of Bruce Arnold this week under the headline: “Writer who needled the Irish establishment”.... Read more »

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MARTIN’S BACK CHANNEL RHETORIC

May 30, 2024

A FORTUITOUSLY timed declaration of recognition for Palestinian statehood – shortly before the EU and local elections – was explained last week by... Read more »

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CLANCY STANDS NEUTRALITY ON HEAD

May 30, 2024

THE TOP BRASS may not be able to put a ship to sea and may soon have to bring back press gangs to... Read more »

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SIMON PAYS

May 30, 2024

THE LIQUIDATOR is now in place at the homelessness charity, North West Simon Community (NWSC), which ran out of moolah less than two... Read more »

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OPERATION DENTON RE-VISITED

May 30, 2024

OPERATION DENTON is examining the decades-long homicidal rampage of the UVF’s infamous Glenanne Gang. Its members operated in the mid-Ulster area during the... Read more »

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GO HARVEY, GO!

May 30, 2024

THERE MUST have been high fives in the commercial department at Mediahuis last week when free-spending Harvey Norman managed to take a lofty... Read more »

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ANTON SAVAGE’S CLIENTS

May 30, 2024

NEWSTALK WEEKEND presenter Anton Savage pitched into the 2FM crisis of its departing stars – Jennifer Zamparelli, Doireann Garrihy and the 2 Johnnies... Read more »

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STARMER AND SUE GRAY’S ENEMIES

May 16, 2024

THE LIKELY advent of Labour leader Keir Starmer and his chief of staff, Sue Gray, at the helm of the British government is... Read more »

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RWANDA WARNING IGNORED

May 16, 2024

THE DRAMATIC and forceful actions being taken by the current Government to address the refugee crisis, however unsympathetic they are to refugees, indicate... Read more »

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BANK OF IRELAND’S ‘EXCEPTION’

May 16, 2024

LATER THIS month, Judge Nuala Jackson will deliver a ruling in the High Court on a matter than could have significant implications for... Read more »

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JAMES KELLY’S CRYPTO CHALLENGE

May 16, 2024

THE FIRST report from the liquidator of James Kelly’s collapsed crypto-trading operation, Gigabyte Investment Ltd (GIL), reveals that there is plenty of investigating... Read more »

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PAUL HOURICAN’S SURPRISE

May 16, 2024

AN ENGLISH firm, Igniyte Ltd, has just registered a judgment for a paltry €15,000 against a company owned by Goldhawk’s favourite landlord, Paul... Read more »

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ENDA O’COINEEN’S STRATEGY

May 16, 2024

EARLIER THIS MONTH, the Business Post published a cry to arms under a headline that warned: “The Irish media sector won’t hold out... Read more »

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NATO: WHAT’S IN A NAME?

May 16, 2024

THE AVALANCHE of articles in mainstream media demanding that Ireland abandons neutrality has been accompanied by the Defence Forces becoming closer to both... Read more »

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PADDY MERRIGAN’S WILD RIDE

May 16, 2024

FORMER JOCKEY Paddy Merrigan – who once claimed to have blown a million quid on drink, drugs and women – delivered an extended... Read more »

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‘NEITHER FANCIFUL NOR ABSURD’

May 16, 2024

FIFTY YEARS ago this month, four UVF car bombs blew apart 34 people in Dublin and Monaghan. The late Henry Barron, a retired... Read more »

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BRITS ON STICKY WICKET

May 16, 2024
BRITAIN’S UNILATERAL decision to stifle victims’ ability to seek truth and justice via its Legacy Act has been condemned not only by the Irish... Read more »

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COALITION IGNORED RWANDA WARNING

May 2, 2024

It’s not as if they didn’t know. On December 7 last year, prominent Labour MP Stella Creasy, chair of the Labour Movement for... Read more »

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VINNIE DOYLE’S BUM NOTE

May 2, 2024

THIS WEEK, rock band Cry Before Dawn will be playing a gig at Whelan’s. While a good time is guaranteed for fans, it... Read more »

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FALLON BOYS BACKTRACK

May 2, 2024

GOLDHAWK WAS as surprised as Mediahuis staff were to see that the Belgian media giant had been sniffing around online news platform The... Read more »

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BRÍD KEARNS’S WINDFALL

May 2, 2024
A COMPANY with the unlikely name of Rockvig Unlimited has just been quietly wound up. Goldhawk was most impressed to find that the assets... Read more »

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HELEN MCENTEE’S LAND MINES

May 2, 2024

WHAT A startling suggestion the Indo’s Ireland editor, Fionnán Sheahan, made this week about the Department of Justice, which he accused of not... Read more »

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ROME RULE

May 2, 2024

THE CATHOLIC Church’s much-publicised downsizing of dioceses in the west of Ireland was announced in a torrent of press releases from its Maynooth... Read more »

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FALLING FIANNA FÁIL

May 2, 2024

WHILE MEDIA comment has mostly focused on the electoral apocalypse awaiting Fine Gael and the list of its TDs taking flight, an inordinate... Read more »

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OVERDUE AT THE LIBRARY

May 2, 2024

WITH ARTS minister Catherine Martin under pressure to make some appointments to the Arts Council, there are other vacancies that also require her... Read more »

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DECOMMISSIONING QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY

May 2, 2024
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 business has been booming at Thales UK’s weapons plants in the north. Thales designs and manufactures missiles... Read more »

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BRIGADIER MACLELLAN IN DARK

May 2, 2024
WITH THE Crown’s decision last month not to prosecute the paratroopers who perjured themselves at the Saville inquiry, a number of doors slammed shut... Read more »

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LISA MULCAHY’S IFTA

May 2, 2024

IN TERMS of viewers, the most successful ‘Irish’ film in recent times has to be the Lindsay Lohan vehicle An Irish Wish. No... Read more »

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BRITISH SPECIAL FORCES IN GAZA?

April 18, 2024
THAT BRITISH Tory politicians should call for a halt to British arms supplies to Israel is most unusual, coming as it does from those... Read more »

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IAN O’DOHERTY’S BAD YEAR

April 18, 2024
LAST DECEMBER the Independent’s lovable columnist, Ian O’Doherty, wrote about what he described as “maybe the worst year of my life” but it doesn’t... Read more »

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CATHERINE MARTIN’S €7M HEADACHE

April 18, 2024
ARTS AND culture minister Catherine Martin came in for (yet more) criticism this week as a result of her ongoing failure to appoint a... Read more »

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JOYLESS JUNIOR JENN

April 18, 2024

IT’S A long way down from pre-breakfast delusions of becoming taoiseach to not even making it into Cabinet but that has been the... Read more »

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BEN GILROY’S PORTUGUESE POSTCODE

April 18, 2024

SURPRISING TO see that, according to filings in the Companies Office for Morrigan Private Settlement Trust Operations (MPST), the colourful Ben Gilroy has... Read more »

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GLENCREE’S NEW FACES

April 18, 2024

THREE MONTHS on from the appointment by the Department of Foreign Affairs of consultants to carry out a review of corporate governance at... Read more »

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