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AFFAIRS OF THE NATION
Article Category: Affairs of the Nation
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 Sinn... 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 Court,... 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. The... 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 make... 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 of... 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 members... 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 majority... 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 appeal... 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 services... 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 undone... 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 tender... 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 boost... 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 Defence... 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 Sunday... 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 and... 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, had... 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 Iranians... 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 design... 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) work... 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 (ICG),... 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 trustee... 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 “courageous... 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 the... 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 back)... 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 secured... 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 of... 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 had... 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. The... 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 litigants... 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 call... 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 of... 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 Anglo-Irish... Read more »
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 in... 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 sector,... 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 pressure... Read more »