Article Category: Affairs of the Nation

ARMY SEX ASSAULTS COVER-UP

January 27, 2022
BROADCASTER KATIE Hannon’s RTÉ report on sexual assaults against women in the Defence Forces can’t be swept under the carpet, said retired army captain Deirdre... Read more »

JIHAD’ AGAINST FARMERS

January 27, 2022
TAOISEACH MICHEÁL Martin recently welcomed the setting up of the Climate Bar Association as a step towards improved legal expertise on environment and climate... Read more »

ISRAEL’S IRISH CAMPAIGN

January 27, 2022
FRESH FROM his assault on the Republic of Ireland, its body politic and media for being thoroughly antisemitic, Israeli polemicist David Collier (see The Phoenix,... Read more »

SARAH RYAN’S RIGHT-ON JOURNEY

January 27, 2022
IT IS perhaps not too surprising to see that one Sarah Ryan has now joined the board of the conservative ‘think tank’ founded by... Read more »

MICHEÁL MARTIN PREPARES TO FIGHT

January 13, 2022
THE CALM that that appears to have settled on Fianna Fáil is an illusion and both pro and anti Martin camps are preparing for... Read more »

PAUL TWEED AND PRINCE ANDREW

January 13, 2022
BELFAST SOLICITOR to the stars, Paul Tweed, comes over all coy when it comes to mentioning his work for the York family: that’s the... Read more »

LEGAL JAMBOREE FOR ‘IRISH TIMES’

January 13, 2022
READERS OF the Irish Times have been treated to a glut of stories about the spats and schisms in the Scouting Ireland movement and... Read more »

MARC GODART V RTÉ

January 13, 2022
A PROGRAMME by the Prime Time Investigates team at the end of 2020 examined the apparently lax implementation of regulations to prevent overcrowding in... Read more »

PADDY-JON WILLIAMS

January 13, 2022
INDICATIONS THAT RTÉ’s head of news and current affairs Jon Williams has relinquished long-suspected career ambitions to head back to Blighty for a real... Read more »

MILLIONAIRE HOTELIERS BACK TO COURT

January 13, 2022
A SPAT between some heavy-hitters that appeared to have been settled has been re-ignited, with the legal eagles called in once more. Property developer... Read more »

PRESIDENTIAL PURGE

January 13, 2022
IRISH TIMES news values asserted themselves days after Christmas with a front page story culled from declassified 1990 state papers headlined, “Áras in a... Read more »

EU SPECIAL POLICE

January 13, 2022
IT HAS come to Goldhawk’s attention that the garda’s Emergency Response Unit (ERU) is part of an interesting and little known European Union entity... Read more »

POST-BREXIT: FEDERAL EU

December 16, 2021
TUCKED AWAY almost out of sight at the end of the Irish Times report on the recent formation of the German government was the... Read more »

ENDA KENNY’S CHINESE TAKEAWAY

December 16, 2021
LAST WEEKEND, the Business Post reported trouble brewing in Belfield, where a Chinese-funded educational body has been accused of straying into the political field.... Read more »

ROSE HYNES’S SMOOTH FLIGHT

December 16, 2021
THE DEPARTMENT of Transport has just advertised the position of chair of the Irish Aviation Authority. The question interested parties will have is whether... Read more »

EDDIE HOBBS’S HERESY

December 16, 2021
TO THE already bulging shelves of Irish literature Eddie Hobbs has now added his first novel, The First Heresy, which he revealed on Twitter... Read more »

ADAMS HASN’T GONE AWAY YOU KNOW

December 16, 2021
AFTER RECORD breaking poll ratings the last thing Sinn Féin – or some of the more electorally sensitive members in the leadership – wanted... Read more »

EX-INM EDITOR SUES ‘SUNDAY TIMES’ HACK

December 16, 2021
A SIGNIFICANT issue of press freedom will shortly be determined in the High Court arising from a libel action taken by Stephen Rae, former... Read more »

FG/GREEN ‘UNITY’

December 16, 2021
THE CONTINUING decline in Fine Gael’s popularity is beginning to look less like a slump and more like a death spiral. Panic in the... Read more »

SIMON COVENEY’S CONUNDRUM

December 2, 2021
HOW LONG more will Minister Simon Coveney’s floundering and dangerous foreign policy agenda in the African continent go unreported in the Irish media? Ireland... Read more »

ROBERT QUIRKE’S VENTILATORS

December 2, 2021
MORE THAN 20 months after Covid-19 impacted this country, one of the players who made a killing by importing ventilators is now living in... Read more »

JOHN GOODWIN’S PENTHOUSE

December 2, 2021
IT WAS not quite the raffle result that John Goodwin expected when he put his expensive Grand Canal penthouse apartment up for grabs, courtesy... Read more »

ISRAELI PROPAGANDA BLITZ

December 2, 2021
FORMER UCD president Hugh Brady is moving from the president’s chair at the University of Bristol to become president of Imperial College London. But... Read more »

CHARLIE AND BRITISH INTELLIGENCE

December 2, 2021
GARY MURPHY’S book Haughey may disappoint some long-standing Phoenix readers as the author barely addresses the Squire’s bruising entanglements with Her Majesty’s spooks. Murphy... Read more »

IMMORAL IRISH

December 2, 2021
MANY READERS of The Phoenix will recognise the episodic campaigns for Ireland to formally join up with the incipient EU military machine being constructed... Read more »

SQUIRE HOCKEY’S BEN DUNNE DOSH

December 2, 2021
IN THE biography Haughey, Gary Murphy writes that RTÉ’s Prime Time reported on April 17, 1997, that Ben Dunne had given CJ Haughey more... Read more »