Affairs of the Nation Archives

AFFAIRS OF THE NATION

THE MOST RELIABLE FRED HOLROYD

April 17, 2025

It is becoming clear that the Operation Denton inquiry into the crimes of the UVF’s Glenanne gang will establish a modicum of collusion... Read more »

BRITISH/IRISH FAR RIGHT

April 17, 2025

THE DEEPENING relationship between loyalists, British fascists and right-wing activists from the south was very much in evidence at a recent anti-immigration protest... Read more »

TOO MANY TDs FOR MARTIN’S LIKING

April 3, 2025

THERE IS a particular irony in the resentment felt by many Fianna Fáil backbench TDs at the new Dáil speaking-time arithmetic, which has... Read more »

BOD’S BASELAYERS

April 3, 2025

THERE WERE plenty of column inches devoted to the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CPPC) pinging Irish international rugby legend Brian O’Driscoll last... Read more »

JOHN MAGNIER’S NEXT RACE?

April 3, 2025

STRANGE BEHAVIOUR at last week’s annual general meeting of the beleaguered Irish Racehorse Trainers Association (IRTA), where there were more questions than answers.... Read more »

TOM LYONS’S SUBPOENA

April 3, 2025

WITH THE Web Summit run in the Four Goldmines coming to an early end, there was no need for Tom Lyons, chief executive... Read more »

MICRO-MANAGING JAMES BROWNE

April 3, 2025

HOUSING MINISTER James Browne provided Sinn Féin’s housing know-all, Eoin Ó Broin, with enough ammo to shoot him down no less than five... Read more »

PÁLÁS PLOT TWIST

April 3, 2025

WHILE IT appeared that a final ‘cut’ had been called on Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe’s bijou Pálás cinema in Galway, the desire... Read more »

AZURE’S AMAZONIAN BOSS

April 3, 2025

A RECENT Irish Times lecture about the shamefully inadequate state of Ireland’s security strategy referred to the “independent security think tank”, the Azure... Read more »

TACKLING NEIL FRANCIS

April 3, 2025

A RECEIVER has just been installed by one of the creditors of a company called KC Property Developments Ltd (KCP), where a 50%... Read more »

MURDERED HACK WAS DOUBLE AGENT

April 3, 2025

GOLDHAWK HAS for long been aware that the Sunday Times has excellent sources within British intelligence but never suspected that MI6’s top asset... Read more »

BANG FOR OUR BUCKS

April 3, 2025

Tánaiste Simon Harris recently speculated that Ireland’s military spending needed to expand rapidly and could soon reach €3bn annually. So it is worth... Read more »

COALITION LEADERS’ TENSIONS ALREADY

March 20, 2025

IT’S EARLY days but with Donald Trump creating a daily sense of geo-political crisis, Taoiseach Micheál Martin and Tánaiste Simon Harris are already... Read more »

RTÉ’S EMPTY CHAIRS

March 20, 2025

WITH WEB Summit co-founder Daire Hickey kicking off a possible nine-week battle in the Four Goldmines with former pal Paddy Cosgrave this week,... Read more »

ANNE O’LEARY’S META HEADACHES

March 20, 2025

IT HAS been a busy couple of weeks for the boss of Mark Zuckerberg’s sprawling Meta operation in Ireland (and also Ibec president),... Read more »

UNSUNG HERO DECLAN RYAN

March 20, 2025

RYANAIR MONEYBAGS Declan Ryan must be delighted with his latest investment – a publishing (or should that be vanity publishing) business called Irelandia... Read more »

MR AND MRS IRISH VIKING

March 20, 2025

BY QUITE some way, the most interesting of the Revenue settlements published last week related to Matthew Gilbert and his company, Matty Irish... Read more »

BREATHNACH’S BROADSIDE

March 20, 2025

THERE AREN’T many figures on the Galway arts scene as high profile as Páraic Breathnach. He co-founded both the Galway Arts Festival and... Read more »

PROPAGANDA PROBLEM

March 20, 2025

WITH RENEWAL of Israel’s genocidal attacks on Gaza this week – several hundred killed and counting – the media should get a grip... Read more »

HEATHER TO SET THE PARTY BLAZING?

March 20, 2025

THE LIST of potential candidates for the Fine Gael nomination for a presidential contest includes former tánaiste Frances Fitzgerald; former European commissioner Mairead... Read more »

GANGING UP ON GLENANNE

March 20, 2025

Marie Anderson, the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland, has postponed the release of her Operation Newham report on the UVF’s Glenanne gang. The... Read more »

SUBVERSIVE IRISH LANGUAGE

March 20, 2025

FOLLOWING GERMANY’S general election, the electoral surge for the far-right Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) received much Irish media coverage. The resurgence of the... Read more »

TRUMP V MARTIN

March 6, 2025

WHILE MANY columnists and ‘opinion formers’ have been generously dispensing advice to An Taoiseach, Micheál Martin, on how to evade a Zelenskyy-type thrashing... Read more »

DECLAN GANLEY’S RENEWED AMBITION

March 6, 2025

DESPITE RECENT setbacks for Hermann Kelly and his Irish Freedom Party (IFP), the success of the party’s weekly X Space has brought a... Read more »

MAKHLOUF’S ISRAEL WAR BONDS

March 6, 2025

FLYING UNDER the radar, thanks to a most responsible media, is the arresting issue of the Central Bank of Ireland’s (CBI) enabling the... Read more »

OH WHAT A LOVELY WAR!

March 6, 2025

GOLDHAWK CANNOT recall any political campaign more hysterical, ill-informed and downright dishonest than that which in recent years has sought to drag Ireland... Read more »

A DOG’S LIFE

March 6, 2025

THE TIMING of last week’s High Court win for the six animal charities that have opposed the ban on the dangerous XL bully... Read more »

LARA MARLOWE’S MESSAGE

March 6, 2025

LARA MARLOWE is the doyen of Irish foreign correspondents so her utterances on world matters of the moment must be taken seriously, yes?... Read more »

IRELAND’S MEGA CLIMATE DEBT

March 6, 2025

This week’s bombshell report from the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (IFAC) shows Ireland to be the worst-performing EU country per capita in terms... Read more »

JAMES BROWNE’S KILLARNEY HOUSE

March 6, 2025

THE NEWLY appointed housing and heritage minister, James Browne, has bigger fish to fry but there are begrudging noises coming from Killarney with... Read more »

MI5/6 AND THE DUB-MON BOMBS

March 6, 2025

DESPITE GOVERNMENT pledges to assist the Omagh Bombing Inquiry, two UK-based inquiries into the UVF’s Glenanne gang – Operation Denton and that of... Read more »

MAYHEM ON MERRION SQUARE

February 20, 2025

AT LONG last the media (and Government) have caught up with Goldhawk’s investigation into the near €7m splurge on a useless information and... Read more »

TRINITY COLLEGE LOWERS THE TONE

February 20, 2025

TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN (TCD) authorities will feel satisfied that it recently handled some ‘legacy’ racism in a deft manner. In 2022 students agitated... Read more »

SNUBBING CILLIAN MURPHY

February 20, 2025

THERE MAY have been some surprised cinephiles when the Bafta winners were announced last weekend. Where were the gongs for Small Things Like... Read more »

HUNTING THE MI5 MOLE

February 20, 2025

IT WILL soon fall to new Fianna Fáil justice minister Big Jim O’Callaghan to fully commence the Policing, Security and Community Safety Act,... Read more »

KEVIN MYERS LIVES

February 20, 2025

In recent years Goldhawk has been able to reveal the central role that Irish journalists have played in new media projects launched in... Read more »