Affairs of the Nation Archives

AFFAIRS OF THE NATION

MULLANE’S MEDAL

November 28, 2019

THERE WAS good news for mobile advertising tech businesswoman Triona Mullane this week when she landed the EY Entrepreneur of the Year award... Read more »

LIZ BRENNAN’S MOVIE MONEY

November 28, 2019

THE DEADLINE has now passed for submissions to the Workplace Relations Commission, which is carrying out an ‘audit’ of the film and TV... Read more »

DUBLIN TOWN’S TASK

November 28, 2019

THE ROW over the designation of part of Dublin 2 as the Grafton Quarter continues to reverberate and Dublin City Council remains under... Read more »

BLOXHAM PARTNERS ON THE HOOK?

November 28, 2019

AFTER ALMOST a decade of inactivity, a High Court action involving the Solicitors Mutual Defence Fund (SMDF) and the various partners in the... Read more »

COVENEY ‘SUPPORT’ FOR PALESTINE

November 28, 2019

AS EVENTS in the Middle East degenerate, Simon Coveney’s masterful Palestinian strategy has been laid bare. This follows Fine Gael’s revelation that its... Read more »

KBC’S SMART PR

November 28, 2019

THE WHIZZ media handler for KBC – the bank that told the Central Bank to “turn the page” on the tracker mortgage scandal... Read more »

COMMUNICATING WITH COMMUNICORP

November 28, 2019

NEXT MONTH’S meeting of the compliance committee of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) concerning bans imposed by Denis O’Brien’s Communicorp group on... Read more »

RACISM OR FILTHY LUCRE?

November 14, 2019

THE RECENT debate between Sinn Féin TD Martin Kenny and Ballinamore Community Group spokesman Gordon Hughes on RTÉ’s Claire Byrne Live was respectful... Read more »

SOLIDARITY WITH RTÉ

November 14, 2019

IVAN YATES and Matt Cooper thundered recently about the inept, spendthrift, tax-funded RTÉ on their Virgin One The Tonight Show as the private... Read more »

QUINN DIRECTOR TO STAND FOR FG?

November 14, 2019

FINE GAEL handlers are still mobbing mountains to persuade former Independent MEP Marian Harkin to stand at the general election in Sligo-Leitrim. They... Read more »

NOEL ROCK WALKS ALONE

November 14, 2019

The only thing red about Ballymun Blueshirt TD Noel Rock is his soccer jersey. The Fine Gael Tory boy and chair of the... Read more »

JOHN GORMLEY’S REVENUE HEADACHE

November 14, 2019

IT LOOKS like red tape rather than red carpets is increasingly on the minds of the nation’s hard-pressed movie moguls following the imposition... Read more »

RIGHT-WING RUSTICS

November 14, 2019

RIGHT-WING activists have been using An Óige hostels – unbeknownst to management of the state-owned hostel network – for bonding and political training... Read more »

DRINKAWARE’S STRATEGY

November 14, 2019

NEWS THAT a ban on alcohol advertising within 200 metres of a school or crèche from later this month will have been clocked... Read more »

WHO FEARS TO SPEAK OF BORDER POLL?

October 31, 2019

CONCERNED NOISES are emanating from the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI), the only entity in the southern establishment that has clocked the... Read more »

MARY ROBINSON’S SHRINE

October 31, 2019

THERE HAVE been some changes to the board of The Victoria House Foundation, the legal entity set up to progress the Mary Robinson... Read more »

LAW SOCIETY ROW: LIBEL THREATS

October 31, 2019

THE NORMALLY sedate AGM of the Mayo Solicitors’ Bar Association (the Mayo branch of the Law Society) was enlivened this year when a... Read more »

UCD REVOLT OVER NEWMAN BOYCOTT

October 31, 2019

UCD’S CRASS decision to boycott the canonisation of its founder, John Henry Newman, was reversed, the university said, because the government had reconsidered... Read more »

RED FLAG AGGRO

October 31, 2019

The recent release of Environmental Protection Agency data for 2018, revealing spiralling agri emissions, seemed like an odd day to unveil a new... Read more »

LIMERICK STUDENTS GO LOGO LOCO

October 31, 2019

Branding fever is once again gripping the University of Limerick (UL), where students are up in arms about a controversial new logo. At... Read more »

REVIEWING GALWAY’S €10M CINEMA HORROR

October 31, 2019

FANS OF Goldhawk are well acquainted with the historical horror-show behind Galway’s bijou Pálás cinema, originally promoted by Lelia Doolan’s Solas Galway Picture... Read more »

CATCHING UP WITH PETER PAN

October 31, 2019

A RECEIVER has just been appointed to the Irish end of a multi-million euro Indian animation outfit that is behind international TV shows... Read more »

PAUL KIMMAGE’S QUESTIONS

October 31, 2019

IT IS hard to understand why former Ireland rugby captain Jamie Heaslip and his ghost writer, the ubiquitous Matt Cooper, have been giving... Read more »

CONFUSION AT CLONGOWES

October 31, 2019

CLONGOWES WOOD COLLEGE alumni have always and unashamedly prided themselves on providing “leaders in the areas of business, sport, politics and the arts”,... Read more »

€40BN ARMAMENTS STROKE

October 16, 2019

A SPEECH last year by then TD Mick Wallace and a short paragraph in the Sunday Times, of all places, are the only... Read more »

RACHEL MORAN’S REACTIONS

October 16, 2019

FORMER PROSTITUTE Gayle Dalton would have expected a reaction from high-profile, media-friendly anti-sex-work campaigner Rachel Moran after challenging the latter’s account of her... Read more »

VLAD’S PLANS

October 16, 2019

THOSE who believe Leo Varadkar is not even considering an early election should revisit his recent taunts about the Fianna Fáil frontbench. Vlad... Read more »

LIAM LYNCH’S LOSSES

October 16, 2019

THE NEWS that Enda O’Coineen is about to purchase Irish Tatler magazine from Irish Central Media (ISM) suggests that Liam Lynch and Niall... Read more »

RTÉ VS OIREACHTAS

October 16, 2019

A MOST interesting and possibly expensive conflict between RTÉ’s Prime Time Investigates programme and members of an Oireachtas committee will play out in... Read more »

FG GONE TO DOGS

October 16, 2019

How embarrassing that the first greyhound to be traced under the Irish Greyhound Board’s (IGB) new ‘care line’ is still registered to an... Read more »

IFTA’S MYSTERY PLOT

October 16, 2019

EARLIER THIS year (see The Phoenix, 8/2/19) Goldhawk noted a potential lacuna in the diaries of the nation’s celebs with the non-appearance on... Read more »

ENDA KENNY’S CADDY

October 3, 2019

CONGRATS TO Mark Kennelly, former chief of staff to Enda Kenny during his reign as taoiseach, who has landed the plum post of... Read more »

SAUDIS BACK IRELAND AT UN

October 3, 2019

FOREIGN MINISTER Simon ‘Covetous’ Coveney and Iveagh House mandarins will have been pleased at receiving Saudi Arabia’s support last week for the government’s... Read more »

ZAPPER FOR UN?

October 3, 2019

KATHERINE ZAPPONE’S appointment as the government’s “special envoy” in the urgent quest for a UN security council seat is a strange one, even... Read more »

SENATOR WILSON VS LADY KILBRACKEN

October 3, 2019

A FEUD between Fianna Fáil senator Diarmuid Wilson and Lady Kilbracken is now the subject of an inquiry by party leader Micheál Martin,... Read more »

O’LEARY’S ‘HELL’

October 3, 2019

AS BREXIT neurosis sweeps the country, the citizenry can always turn to the sagacious and comforting insights of Michael O’Leary. The Ryanair boss... Read more »