Affairs of the Nation Archives

AFFAIRS OF THE NATION

FERGAL FOLEY FORMENTS REVOLT

January 23, 2025

THERE IS mutiny brewing in the Law Library, where venerable junior counsel Fergal Foley is set to lead the disgruntled criminal legal eagles... Read more »

LEGAL EAGLE

January 23, 2025

James Paul Foley, formerly known as boring old Paul Foley, has come a cropper with the Law Society, which has initiated disciplinary proceedings... Read more »

MUSK FARAGE SPLIT

January 23, 2025

THE SPLIT between Elon Musk and Nigel Farage is because the latter distanced himself from British far-right activist Tommy Robinson, who is currently... Read more »

MR ‘NICE GUY’, JUDGE MCNULTY

January 23, 2025

QUALIFIED BARRISTER Bartholomew Anthony O’Neill told Judge James G McNulty in September 2023 that he had never practised as a barrister but he... Read more »

CHINESE WHISKEY SOUR

January 23, 2025

THIS WEEK a Chinese national named Yan Ma has been in the High Court seeking a summary judgment against Nephin Whiskey Company Ltd... Read more »

THE NAME IS MITTY, WALTER MITTY

January 23, 2025

The Irish News last week published a front-page story about London gangster and convicted killer Paul Cleeland with the headline: “MI5 recruited me to murder... Read more »

IRISH RIGHT’S FAR-OFF FRIENDS

January 23, 2025

The failure of new Irish right-wing parties to gain an electoral breakthrough has resulted in many of their members seemingly more concerned with... Read more »

BONO BENDS TO BIDEN

January 9, 2025

BONO’S FAWNING behaviour towards US presidents and other powerful western leaders while simultaneously crying peace and freedom have become too much even for... Read more »

WUFF JUSTICE

January 9, 2025

WITH HEATHER Humphreys’ regulations banning the breeding and resale of XL bully dogs coming into force next month, it is not surprising that... Read more »

NOT SO MAGNIFICENT €7M PROJECT

January 9, 2025

THERE IS no sign of the Arts Council’s 2023 annual report, which was supposed to have been laid before the Houses of the... Read more »

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DEIRDRE VELDON’S FUNERAL NOTICES

January 9, 2025

THERE HAS, not surprisingly, been a fair deal of whingeing about the impact of the takeover of RIP.ie by the Irish Times, on... Read more »

BERNARD MCNAMARA’S CREDITORS

January 9, 2025

BOOM-TIME BUILDER extraordinaire Bernard McNamara has slowly but surely been building back up his business despite the odd setback. Now a couple of... Read more »

NIGEL FARAGE’S IRISH ALLY

January 9, 2025

REFORM UK leader Nigel Farage may have lost the support of Elon Musk but his ally in the north appears to be rock... Read more »

ENTRAPMENT STORY A POLITICAL TRAP

January 9, 2025

Last October the Sunday Times published an article asserting that ‘Cobalt’, a serving member of the Oireachtas, was a Russian agent. Cobalt denies... Read more »

‘IRISH’ RACISM

January 9, 2025

ONE OF the most prolific publishers of antisemitic books in Europe is Omnia Veritas Limited (OV), which has been based in Ireland for... Read more »

MARTIN V DPP OFFICIAL

December 12, 2024

MICHEÁL MARTIN made law and order one of his election issues and, in a calculated move shortly before the election was called, he... Read more »

COLLISON’S COLLISION

December 12, 2024

MORE THAN 11 million people have now seen a tweet posted on X last month by Stripe co-founder Patrick Collison that included his... Read more »

CONOR McGREGOR’S LOAN

December 12, 2024

WITH FORMER MMA superstar Conor McGregor and businessman Paddy McKillen Jr both generating headlines recently – albeit for very different reasons – it... Read more »

LINDA O’SHEA FARREN’S ‘TENACITY’

December 12, 2024

YOU HAVE to hand it to the ultra-ambitious Linda O’Shea Farren – she keeps bouncing back. A long-time member of the National University... Read more »

FG SISTERS IN THE FIRING LINE

December 12, 2024

A SILENT pall hangs over a deflated and even defeated Fine Gael, which lost the ‘other’ war (apart from the one with Sinn... Read more »

GOVT HANDLERS GO PRIVATE

December 12, 2024

The Standards in Public Office Commission (Sipo) has a pragmatic attitude to red tape when it comes to waiving the rules about certain... Read more »

FENNELLY’S FIGHT

December 12, 2024

THE BORING world of number crunchers sometimes throws up a good old yarn and one that has been running for nearly a decade... Read more »

HIGH-END REACTIONARIES

December 12, 2024

PROMINENT NATIONAL PARTY (NP) member Keith Woods (pseudonym of Roscommon native Keith O’Brien) likes to position himself at the more cerebral end of... Read more »

BBC SMEARS MARTIN McGUINNESS

December 12, 2024

THE BBC has launched Stakeknife, a podcast series that looks at the activities of the late Freddie Scappaticci, MI5’s mole in the Provisional... Read more »

MARIAN KEYES’S AMERICAN DREAM

December 12, 2024

THE MYRIAD of fans of scribbler Marian Keyes had a collective meltdown online last week when RTÉ announced The Walsh Sisters, a six-part... Read more »

FINE GAEL: WHAT NEXT?

November 28, 2024

THE TRENDS are impossible to dismiss – Fianna Fáil is in the ascendant over Fine Gael and even a battered Sinn Féin looks... Read more »

CONOR MCGREGOR’S NEW-RIGHT SUPPORT

November 28, 2024

Over the last year much was made of Conor McGregor’s posts on X about his plan to run for the presidency. With Elon... Read more »

HARRIS, KANTURK AND RTÉ STORY

November 28, 2024
SIMON HARRIS is correct to say that contact was made with RTÉ following the Kanturk incident but it is not true that this was... Read more »

TARGETING JOHN MAGNIER

November 28, 2024

GOLDHAWK WONDERS if John Magnier spat out his tea when perusing the Indo earlier this week. The Squire of Coolmore might have wondered... Read more »

EDITING SALLY HAYDEN

November 28, 2024

HIGHLY REGARDED journalist Sally Hayden was notably underwhelmed by the hapless editing process in the Irish Times, where many of her impressive news... Read more »

CHUPI SWEETMAN’S BOUNCE

November 28, 2024

GOLDHAWK was surprised to see that media-friendly jeweller Chupi Sweetman has been having a tough time, with the spoilsports in the dreary Irish... Read more »

BERTIE’S LUCKY BREAK

November 28, 2024

ONE WOULD expect Bertie Ahern to be pleased at the rosy prospects for Fianna Fáil as the general election reaches a climax, but... Read more »

MEP MULLOOLY’S MOOING

November 28, 2024

WHILE GOVERNMENT politicians and many others may regard as “sinister” Sinn Féin’s intention to order a “peer review” of RTÉ’s international coverage, support... Read more »

KEITH WALSH’S MONOPOLY

November 28, 2024

IT IS interesting to see that one-time RTÉ star Keith Walsh is one half of Moth News, a brand new video and social... Read more »

SEAN O’KEEFFE’S BOOKEND

November 28, 2024

THE LIMITED company that registered the business name for Sean O’Keeffe’s controversial Liberties Press publishing house is to be wound up next week.... Read more »

DUB-MON BOMBS: STRANGE DELAYS

November 28, 2024

There are three ongoing enquiries into the 1974 Dublin-Monaghan (D-M) massacre. First, there’s an allegedly ‘open’ Garda investigation, which began in 1974 but... Read more »