Article Category: Affairs of the Nation

BAD APPLES

February 22, 2023
DAVID BURKE, the specialist author on British intelligence in Ireland, is shortly to release an old-fashioned pamphlet entitled An Orchard of Bad Apples (which... Read more »

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DOUG TAYLOR’S PRIZE MONEY

February 9, 2023
IT LOOKS like the champagne corks could be popping soon in Ridgewood House, home of colourful millionaire Doug Taylor. The Sunday Times reported at... Read more »

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MARY HARNEY’S MANY HATS

February 9, 2023
THE INCREASINGLY busy former health minister Mary Harney has popped up as a director of yet another Irish pharma business. She continues to find... Read more »

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RONAN McNALLY’S ROUGH RIDE

February 9, 2023
DISGRACED TRAINER Ronan McNally will be well aware of the name Barney Curley, the renowned gambler who hijacked the only phone line available from... Read more »

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OMAGH REVISITED

February 9, 2023
THERE IS a stark difference in how the British government is responding to court orders to carry out inquiries into the Omagh bombing and... Read more »

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MALACHY STEENSON’S EURO PLANS

February 9, 2023
WORKING-CLASS Dub hero Malachy Steenson has recently been at more public protests against migrants than the number of political parties he has joined or... Read more »

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IRISH NEUTRALITY OVER, SAYS ‘EXPERT’

February 9, 2023
THE ASSERTION by Lieutenant General Esa Polkkinen, director general of policy at Finland’s defence ministry, that neutrality is “over” for Ireland and that we... Read more »

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AND THE AWARD DOESN’T GO TO …

February 9, 2023
AMIDST THE hoo-ha about Oscar nominations for five Irish actors, there’s been no talk about whether any of them has been subject to the... Read more »

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FLORIAN HAUFE’S CRIME ACADEMY

February 9, 2023
ON VALENTINE’S Day, a creditors’ meeting is to be held to wind up an entity called the Financial Crime Academy Ltd. This was set... Read more »

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NORMAL PEOPLE

February 9, 2023
PEOPLE ROUTINELY accept risks associated with motoring that they would find intolerable in almost any other walk of life, according to new research. These... Read more »

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GARDA AND HARD RIGHT

January 26, 2023
GARDA COMMISSIONER Drew Harris OBE grabbed the headlines this month when he described some of those involved in the anti-refugee protests as having a... Read more »

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HANDICAPPING MICHAEL HALFORD

January 26, 2023
GOLDHAWK WAS surprised to spot that a company called Copper Beech Racing Ltd has just collapsed into liquidation. This is the business established by... Read more »

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AMNESTY FOR BILL SHIPSEY?

January 26, 2023
INTERESTING TO see that Art for Amnesty (AfA), fronted by ex-legal eagle Bill Shipsey, has advised the Companies Office of a name change to... Read more »

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ROBBIE HENSHAW’S VITAMINS

January 26, 2023
RUGBY INTERNATIONAL Robbie Henshaw, who is set to return from injury, featured heavily at the weekend in the run-up to the start of the... Read more »

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NO BONE FOR NOEL SMYTH

January 26, 2023
REGIME CHANGE came to the Irish Kennel Club (IKC) earlier this month and this could be bad news for Goldhawk’s old pal, Noel Smyth.... Read more »

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DONOHOE: HOLD THE BACK PAGE!

January 26, 2023
THE EFFORTS by Paschal Donohoe, Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil to resist an exposé of his dodgy election returns was initially supplemented by a... Read more »

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CANCELLING KEVIN HIGGINS

January 26, 2023
THE COMPLIMENTARY obits to the late poet Kevin Higgins last weekend did not quite do justice to the bard’s talent and wit. Nor did... Read more »

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SUZANNE LAURIE’S INSTITUTE

January 26, 2023
WHILE THE health and wellness sector has been thriving in recent years, a Dublin-registered company, owned by Suzanne Laurie and Laurence Dann, that has... Read more »

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FOOD ‘VISIONARY’ McCONALOGUE

January 26, 2023
WITH PRESSURE growing on all sectors to find ways to meet their legally binding emissions reduction targets, recent research conducted by the Irish Farmers... Read more »

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DONOHOE’S SIPO COMPLAINT

January 12, 2023
EUROPEAN POSTER-BOY boy Paschal Donohoe, now public expenditure minister and recently re-elected as president of the Eurogroup, may have his glistening image tarnished if... Read more »

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HEAVING GOING FOR TRAINERS

January 12, 2023
A DEVASTATING ruling by the Court of Appeal has meant a very bad start to 2023 for the new regime at the Irish Racehorse... Read more »

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MARTIN’S DIPLOMACY

January 12, 2023
IT’S BEEN a rough year for Russian diplomats on Dublin’s Orwell Road since Russia invaded Ukraine, when the Russian embassy became a focus for... Read more »

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BRUSSELS BAGGAGE

January 12, 2023
THERE HAS, not surprisingly, been acres of space devoted to the scandal over cash-fuelled lobbying by the Qatari government of European Parliament members, with... Read more »

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STILL STANDING AND SHOUTING

January 12, 2023
NEARLY 40 years ago to the day – January 7, 1983 – The Phoenix rose from the ashes of a previous media venture and... Read more »

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BLUESHIRT PLAYBOOK

January 12, 2023
SOME AGEING Fine Gael members have been muttering about Irish Times anti-American liberals who blame the antics of Brazilian ex-president Jair Bolsonaro’s fascist fans... Read more »

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GARDAÍ’S GOOD TIMING

January 12, 2023
JUST BEFORE Christmas there was a high-profile conference, called ‘Breaking the Silence’, held in Dublin focusing on issues to do with the sex trade,... Read more »

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HARRY’S GAME OF CHESS

January 12, 2023
RICHARD KEMP, a former commander of British armed forces in Afghanistan and ex-chair of the Cobra Intelligence Group – co-ordinating MI5 and MI6 and... Read more »

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TURN AROUND FOR LEGAL EAGLE

January 12, 2023
LIMERICK SOLICITOR Gerard O’Neill will have been pleased at the fight back he successfully mounted against press statements issued by the Irish Small and... Read more »

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NEW REGIME IN ROSSLARE

January 12, 2023
DESPITE THE hectic social calendars of members of Rosslare Golf Club, they somehow found time to squeeze in an extraordinary general meeting on December... Read more »

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KISS AND TELL?

December 15, 2022
THE MEDIA handling of that video showing incoming Taoiseach Leo Varadkar kissing a man in a nightclub combined a mixture of fear, ethical simplicity... Read more »

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BIO-BOYCOTT

December 15, 2022
THOUGH YOU would struggle to find a mention of it anywhere across Ireland’s media, the most important international conference on nature and biodiversity this... Read more »

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A LOTTO MONEY

December 15, 2022
IRELAND’S NATIONAL Lottery has been in the spotlight recently as a result of the introduction of legislation relating to gambling and on foot of... Read more »

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ROCHE BELOW PAR

December 15, 2022
THE AGM of Rosslare Golf Club last week proved rather eventful, with former senior newspaper man Michael Roche finding himself ousted as chairman. Roche... Read more »

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MCNALLY’S NAGS

December 15, 2022
CONTROVERSIAL HORSE TRAINER Ronan McNally is planning heavy going for the stewards of the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) when his punishment is dished... Read more »

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RENA MAYCOCK’S MANY HATS

December 15, 2022
THE MULTI-TALENTED Rena Maycock was celebrating last week when she was informed that the state had become a major backer of her fledgling child-protection... Read more »

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NOT-SO-RICH FOOD

December 15, 2022
ALTHOUGH IT was announced nearly three years ago that high-profile Michelin-starred restaurant L’Ecrivain in D2 was to close down for good, it was only... Read more »

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