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AFFAIRS OF THE NATION

PAULA TIERNAN’S PAST

July 25, 2019
IRATE CIRCUIT Court judge Jacqueline Linnane claimed earlier this month that some solicitors should be more selective with the clients they take on. This... Read more »

DAVID COLEMAN’S JUDGMENT

July 25, 2019
GOLDHAWK’S old friend, legal eagle David Coleman, has suffered a setback at the hands of one of those dreadful vulture funds. The high-profile solicitor,... Read more »

VLAD CULLS NO-HOPE CANDIDATES

July 25, 2019
WITH NO obvious signs of mutiny after the de-selection of one or more general election candidates, Fine Gael’s director of organisation and director of... Read more »

ARJUM WAJID’S ERROR

July 25, 2019
PALESTINIAN SUPPORTERS were seriously embarrassed at the blunder by NUJ executive member Arjum Wajid, who had been the target of Irish NUJ executive member... Read more »

THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING!

July 25, 2019
THE ANTI-RUSSIAN campaign in the so-called ‘Irish’ edition of the Sunday Times is reaching Cold War proportions and reflects the obsessions of Whitehall rather... Read more »

PATRICIA RYAN’S PROMOTION

July 25, 2019
THE RECENT handover of the presidency of the Circuit Court from Judge Raymond Groarke to Judge Patricia Ryan was met with high spirits by... Read more »

BIG PHIL’S PAYBACK FROM LEO

July 11, 2019
THE ANGST-RIDDEN debate on the EU deal with South American trading block Mercosur is one thing, and it may be that the government can... Read more »

SARAH O’SHEA’S FOOTBALL SKILLS

July 11, 2019
IF ALL goes according to plan on July 20, then the subsequent annual general meeting of the FAI could see a brand new 12-person... Read more »

DERMOT DESMOND’S JET LAG

July 11, 2019
SURPRISING to see three companies associated with Dermot Desmond’s former investment in a Swiss private jet hire operation being listed for striking off the... Read more »

PAT QUIRKE’S RESIGNATION

July 11, 2019
THREE MONTHS on from Tipperary farmer Pat Quirke’s high-profile conviction for murder, the company he set up to run his business has just filed... Read more »

JUST NOT CRICKET

July 11, 2019
IT’S JUST not cricket. As England’s lions bestride the sward at Lords in the Cricket World Cup, it must be recorded, with no little... Read more »

EMMETT O’NEILL’S STRATEGY

July 11, 2019
REPORTS last week that former Topaz chief executive Emmett O’Neill is looking to sell his Lovin Media group won’t have surprised Phoenix readers. Denis... Read more »

THRIFTY PROTESTANTS

July 11, 2019
LAST MONTH, the Irish Times carried an article headlined ‘Protestants outlive Catholics, study shows’, based on a report from the CSO. The report showed... Read more »

STRIKING OFF ALAN LLOYD

July 11, 2019
GOLDHAWK spotted a legal notice last month published by the Law Society of Ireland’s Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal proclaiming that Alan Lloyd had been struck... Read more »

‘POST’ BACKS RTÉ

July 11, 2019
COMING JUST days after The Phoenix broke the story about Sunday Business Post owner Enda O’Coineen’s bid to buy the RTÉ Guide (see edition,... Read more »

WAR LIKE FRAU

July 11, 2019
AMID THE reams of media commentary about new EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, just the barest mention has been made of her... Read more »

‘IRISH TIMES’ RUSSIAN SCARE

June 27, 2019
THE increasingly hysterical tone of the Anglo-American Russian scare campaign was evident in a story splashed across the front page of the Irish Times... Read more »

FG DINNER DONORS

June 27, 2019
A CERTAIN apprehension spread across the bluer membership of the Law Library this week as they perceived that their civil war enemies were gathering... Read more »

SONYA LENNON’S FASHION SENSE

June 27, 2019
CLOTHING designer (sorry “fashion guru”) and all round do-gooder Sonya Lennon has been dividing her time between assorted projects, but now one has bitten... Read more »

DUBLIN PRIDE’S PRICE

June 27, 2019
THIS WEEKEND sees the annual Dublin Pride march organised by Jed Dowling’s Dublin LGBTQ Pride company and it promises to be the most corporate... Read more »

AT HOME WITH DAVID DAVIES

June 27, 2019
THE SQUIRE of Abbey Leix House, David Davies, must have been delighted with the fawning coverage of his decision to put his Co Laois... Read more »

FOXY AVERIL POWER

June 27, 2019
THE MEDIA row between Solidarity’s Ruth Coppinger TD (her bill to ban mink farming goes before the Dáil next week) and fur farmer Redmond... Read more »

DONAL KINSELLA’S COSTS

June 27, 2019
DONAL KINSELLA, former Kenmare Resources deputy chairman, hasn’t been having too much luck in the courts recently. He is best known to the public... Read more »

LUPTON’S LOBBYING

June 27, 2019
ONE OF the first issues seized upon by the media after the Ana Kriégel case was restricting access by children to online material. One... Read more »

HERMANN KELLY VS SINN FÉIN

June 27, 2019
His poor performance in May’s European elections is in the rearview mirror but, for bombastic Irexiteer Hermann Kelly, a hangover could be on the... Read more »

SIMON COVENEY’S OPTICS

June 27, 2019
THE TÁNAISTE and foreign minister, Simon Coveney, hinted in the Dáil last November that he had an indirect input into the master plan for... Read more »

MARY McALEESE’S GULF GIG

June 12, 2019
WHILE MARY Robinson took significant flak earlier this year for her intervention in a feudal Emirate royal family row, another former Irish president, Mary... Read more »

CONROY’S CLAIM

June 12, 2019
NOT SURPRISINGLY, there has been increased media focus on all politicians’ compensation claims since the Maria Bailey affair. This should ensure there is a... Read more »

DAVID MCWILLIAMS’S ADVICE

June 12, 2019
THE ANNUAL Dalkey Book Festival gets under way this weekend with its founder, the one and only David McWilliams, sharing the spotlight with the... Read more »

TCD GRADUATE’S HOLOCAUST STORY

June 12, 2019
A bizarre story is emerging from Germany about an Irish-based historian and blogger who has found herself in a spot of bother over her... Read more »

MALI: VARADKAR HUMOURS MACRON

June 12, 2019
CYNICAL DEFENDERS of Irish neutrality will likely argue that the announcement last weekend of the Army Ranger Wing’s deployment to Mali – described by... Read more »

VLAD’S OPTIMISM

June 12, 2019
LEO VARADKAR told his parliamentary party last week that he wants, nay expects, that Fine Gael will have a complement of at least 10,... Read more »

IAN BAILEY: ‘L’HEURE DE VÉRITÉ’?

May 29, 2019
THE WIDESPREAD, public atmosphere of blood lust in France against Ian Bailey, the alleged murderer of Sophie Toscan du Plantier, ratcheted up in the... Read more »

SINN FÉIN MELTDOWN

May 29, 2019
MARY LOU MCDONALD had no forewarning of Sinn Féin’s electoral catastrophe in the opinion polls. Red C had SF consistently around the 13%-14% mark,... Read more »

GAS MAN KELLY

May 29, 2019
As Blueshirt MEP Seán Kelly returns to Brussels for a third term, he might want to reconsider his zealous support for Shannon LNG, the... Read more »

GREEN WAVE OR RIPPLE?

May 29, 2019
WILL THE green wave translate into more Green TDs? And if Eamon Ryan leads the party into another coalition with a right-wing party, can... Read more »