Article Category: Affairs of the Nation

JOHN MCGUIRK ON THE RADIO

August 23, 2018
It didn’t take long for the media to find an excuse to get Declan... Read more »

DREW HARRIS: OMERTA

August 9, 2018
A MOTION from Donegal County Council urged the government last week to cancel the... Read more »

RACHEL ALLEN’S SURPRISE DISH

August 9, 2018
WHILE CELEBRITY chef Rachel Allen is off to Italy next month to film with... Read more »

PAUL BLANCHFIELD’S CLOSED VAULTS

August 9, 2018
THE APPOINTMENT of an examiner to Frontier Entertainment Ltd must come as a shock... Read more »

KEITH SPENCER’S COURT DATE

August 9, 2018
HIGH-FLYING barrister Keith Spencer BL will have to wait until October to see what... Read more »

GRANNY GRANT ROW

August 9, 2018
THE REACTION to Shane Ross’s granny grant budgetary demand was a classic re-run of... Read more »

IAN BAILEY ‘STING’

August 9, 2018
PERHAPS the most serious allegation made by Ian Bailey, soon to be tried in... Read more »

BONO: IRELAND’S SECRET WEAPON

July 26, 2018
THE embarrassing gimmick of a Bono concert in New York to support Ireland’s bid... Read more »

DAVID HALL’S PRESIDENTIAL AMBITIONS

July 26, 2018
INTERESTING to see the name of David Hall thrown into the presidential election ring.... Read more »

SEAN GALLAGHER’S COMEBACK

July 26, 2018
HAVING gone through the seven stages of grief at the presidency being snatched from... Read more »

JOHN ARKINS’S ADVERSARIES

July 26, 2018
A NEWS report of a contretemps involving John Arkins of the Irish Film Workers... Read more »

MICHAEL SMURFIT’S BEDSIDE MEDIA

July 26, 2018
THE LAST fortnight has seen Michael Smurfit’s name bandied about in the High Court... Read more »

FINE GAEL GUNNING FOR ELECTION

July 12, 2018
A TRIO of young but influential Fine Gael ministers has persuaded most of their... Read more »

SEAMUS HEANEY’S EXPENSIVE ARCHIVE

July 12, 2018
THERE HAS been plenty of gushing coverage of the Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again... Read more »

EOGHAN MURPHY STRIKES BACK

July 12, 2018
TD Kate O’Connell’s public assault on her Fine Gael constituency ‘colleague’ Eoghan Murphy –... Read more »

BENDING THE KNEE

July 12, 2018
THERE is something out of sync with the rush to fete the sixth in... Read more »

THE BUDGET: GUNS OR HOUSES?

July 12, 2018
MICHEÁL MARTIN and his party face an interesting dilemma in the run-up to the... Read more »

DECLAN O’CALLAGHAN’S EXIT

July 12, 2018
IT MAY not come as too great a surprise to hear that controversial Ballaghaderreen... Read more »

FINE GAEL’S WAR GAMES

June 28, 2018
CAREFULLY crafted PR spin on Tánaiste Simon Coveney’s attendance at the EU foreign affairs... Read more »

FIVE GUYS, ONE CRITIC

June 28, 2018
GOLDHAWK certainly enjoyed Catherine Cleary’s demolition of the new Five Guys burger joint in... Read more »

MEL GIBSON V MACDARA KELLEHER

June 28, 2018
CONGRATULATIONS to filmmaker Macdara Kelleher who received good news from the Superior Court of... Read more »

SHERLOCK’S BOOZY CONSTITUENCY

June 28, 2018
SOME of Labour deputy Sean Sherlock’s parliamentary colleagues wondered if the Cork East TD... Read more »