Affairs of the Nation Archives

AFFAIRS OF THE NATION

PRESS COUNCIL VS ‘IRISH TIMES’

February 13, 2020

HAS THE Press Council become the editorial arbiter between the Irish Times and complainants who demand fairness and transparency in the ‘paper of... Read more »

JOHNNY COLLINS DISMOUNTS

February 13, 2020

HAVING HAD a very successful 2019, this year has not proved quite so memorable for Carrigtwohill, Co Cork, racehorse trainer John Collins, who... Read more »

AK47 HOVERS AGAIN

February 13, 2020

IT’S NOT just Micheál Martin and Leo Varadkar that face career-ending prospects in the coming weeks or months. Labour leader Brendan Howlin is... Read more »

MURPHY’S LAW RUNS IN RANELAGH

January 30, 2020

Even if Eoghan Murphy is relieved of his environment ministerial portfolio, he may not be free from planning issues. The local worthies in... Read more »

SF SPECTRE LOOMS

January 30, 2020

FIANNA FÁIL TDs believe that Micheál Martin will be forced to do the U-turn of the millennium and form a coalition government with... Read more »

ROBERT NAIRAC OUTED

January 30, 2020

BRITISH ARMY undercover operative Captain Robert Nairac’s central involvement in the 1975 Miami Showband Massacre has now been finally confirmed at Belfast High... Read more »

TACKLING TONY ENSOR

January 30, 2020

FORMER LAW Society president and international rugby star Tony Ensor exposed a soft shoulder to High Court president Peter Kelly earlier this month.... Read more »

JOSEPHA’S VACANCIES

January 30, 2020

ONE OF the games played by politics watchers around election time is clocking how many board appointments the various outgoing ministers manage to... Read more »

TARGETING THE SCIENTOLOGISTS

January 30, 2020

THE RULING earlier this month by High Court judge Mark Heslin greenlighting the Scientologists’ multi-million euro drug treatment centre in the Meath village... Read more »

FARMERS’ VENGEANCE ON CREED

January 30, 2020

A BIG scalp hiding in plain sight is that of Michael Creed but, if the agriculture minister loses his seat, which Fine Gael... Read more »

FOLLOW THE MONEY

January 30, 2020

Leo Varadkar’s two-and-a-half years as taoiseach saw him use the previously obscure ‘money message’ to block 55 pieces of legislation that had won... Read more »

ARTHUR NUGENT’S LICENCE

January 30, 2020

GOLDHAWK has reported elsewhere (see p5) on the bruising judgment issued by Judge Peter Kelly in the High Court in relation to an... Read more »

ARAMARK DROPS OUT

January 30, 2020

Activists in Trinity College Dublin are basking in the afterglow of a victory in their fight against the on-campus presence of US food... Read more »

VLAD’S FALSE START

January 16, 2020

LEO VARADKAR met his election target date, but the manner of its announcement was belated and cack-handed. Fine Gael’s delicate political choreography came... Read more »

IAN BAILEY: THIRD TIME UNLUCKY?

January 16, 2020

MUCH LEGAL comment has focussed on the change in extradition law and how this may enable the despatch of Ian Bailey to the... Read more »

COVENEY’S €50M COUP

January 16, 2020

WITH THE general election having been called, Tánaiste Simon Coveney must be relieved he got to deliver the news of a big funding... Read more »

ANGUS’S ASSETS

January 16, 2020

THERE WAS a ﬂ urry of ﬁ lings around Christmas by players at the centre of a legal action by the Solicitors Mutual... Read more »

TENEO’S SPORTING INTERESTS

January 16, 2020

TENEO, THE global corporate communications outfit headed by Declan Kelly, brother of Labour TD Alan ‘AK47’ Kelly, has won a contract as PR... Read more »

SINKING SOC DEMS

January 16, 2020

THE SOCIAL Democrats might be staring into the abyss at this election. The centre-left group, headed by TDs Catherine Murphy and Roísin Shortall,... Read more »

‘SINDO’ INSIDERS ‘SWOTTED’ ASIDE

January 16, 2020

A MOOD of rejection and indeed resentment was palpable at Independent House last week as various ‘leading’ in-house contenders for the post of... Read more »

TRUMP CARD FOR EU ARMY

January 16, 2020

THOSE MODERATE Irish Europhiles who are so aghast at Donald Trump’s belligerent foreign policy have managed to use his latest excess against the... Read more »

GAME OVER

January 16, 2020

A COMPANY called Tag Media Ltd (TML) has shut it doors, but a new one has opened for its principal. The digital print... Read more »

STUDENTS NO-VOTE

January 16, 2020

THE CONTROVERSY over the voter register for next month’s election threatens to undo a lot of the Union of Students in Ireland (USI)... Read more »

SHANE ROSS’S LIFEJACKETS

January 16, 2020

WHILE SHANE Ross has been busy generating headlines for himself, one area of responsibility for his Department of Transport, the Irish Coast Guard... Read more »

DARA’S EUROPEAN PROGRESS

December 12, 2019

IF DARA MURPHY has long since jettisoned his domestic career boosters – ex-taoiseach Enda Kenny, as well as Cork moneybags and Fine Gael... Read more »

BOYLAN’S BRUISED BY BYRNE

December 12, 2019

THE RAPTUROUS review of super-smooth gynaecologist Peter Boylan’s book, In the Shadow of the Eighth, by Indo columnist Martina Devlin, referred to his... Read more »

ABBEY’S BAD REVIEW

December 12, 2019

FANS OF Goldhawk will be familiar with the goings on at the Abbey Theatre, where a near revolution among a sizeable chunk of... Read more »

NIALL MCGARRY’S TAX SCHEME

December 12, 2019

ONE OF the potential side effects of the controversy surrounding the Maximum Media online publishing business (from which founder Niall McGarry has stepped... Read more »

LABOUR GRADUATES

December 12, 2019

It has been a fruitful year for former Union of Students in Ireland (USI) presidents like Kevin Donoghue and Annie Hoey, who both... Read more »

RANDAL MACDONNELL’S OBITUARY

December 12, 2019

SO FAREWELL then to dodgy Randal MacDonnell, whose adventures were chronicled by Goldhawk dating back 35 years (see The Phoenix, 24/5/8). While fans... Read more »

GANNON’S GARDENS

December 12, 2019

AS PREDICTED, Anne-Marie McNally, political director of the Social Democrats, had a by-election to forget in Dublin Mid West. An abysmal turnout probably... Read more »

THE NEXT ‘SINDO’ EDITOR?

December 12, 2019

A DOZEN or more aspirant editors of the Sunday Independent, the biggest-selling newspaper in Ireland, are being interviewed over three days this week.... Read more »

LEGAL STORM BREWING

December 12, 2019

A CONCERTED campaign by the judiciary to silence querulous voices – be they the Master of the High Court Ed Honohan or lay... Read more »

LARKIN DEFENDS RTÉ’S TOP TEN

December 12, 2019

THE 1913 lockout is being re-enacted at Montrose, where Irish National Union of Journalists (NUJ) secretary Séamus Dooley has rallied to the clarion... Read more »

MAIL’S (FE)MALE ‘ETHOS’

November 28, 2019

EVOKE.IE, website of the Mail titles newspaper group (DMG Media Ireland), hosts a timely and most cautionary article this week about the perils... Read more »

JUDGE GEARTY’S VIEW

November 28, 2019

THE RECENT appointment of Mary Rose Gearty SC to the High Court bench means that two female barristers involved in the prosecution of... Read more »