Article Category: Affairs of the Nation

JOHN FITZGERALD’S DISMAL FORECAST

April 18, 2024

DESPITE ITS headline-grabbing effect, the report by John FitzGerald and Edgar Morgenroth, entitled Northern Ireland Subvention – Possible Unification Effects and predicting that... Read more »

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ROBERT NAIRAC RE-VISITED

April 18, 2024
Robin ‘The Jackal’ Jackson, of the Portadown UVF, was the most notorious assassin of the Troubles. Virtually all commentators on those turbulent times believe... Read more »

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GOING NUCLEAR IN IRISH SEA

April 18, 2024

In recent years much has been made by various academics, media and politicians about Ireland’s dependence on the Royal Air Force (RAF) for... Read more »

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DON’T MESS WITH BIG PHIL

April 4, 2024

SIMON COVENEY’S flight from Cabinet – before he could be pushed – had as much to do with former EU commissioner Phil Hogan... Read more »

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DEREK RICHARDSON’S SCRUM

April 4, 2024

THE FORMER owner of bust English rugby union club Wasps – Derek Richardson – is keeping his lawyers busy. As has been reported,... Read more »

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RONAN COLLINS’S RUSSIAN CONNECTIONS

April 4, 2024

LAST MONTH a US-backed nursing home operator, which surfaced in 2016 with big plans to take a chunk of the market here, was... Read more »

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JUDGING LUKE COMER JNR

April 4, 2024

THE MINTED Comer family, who made hundreds of millions of euro from the building sector, has had its fair share of stumbles in... Read more »

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LEDDIN V O’DONOVAN

April 4, 2024

THE ANTICIPATION that Limerick’s first directly elected mayoral contest would be a bottomless borefest may turn out to be quite mistaken and Goldhawk... Read more »

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VIRGIN’S ‘VANISHING TRIANGLE’

April 4, 2024

THE OMENS weren’t good when The Vanishing Triangle, backed with moolah from the taxpayer, failed to appear in the autumn schedule for Virgin... Read more »

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BRITISH AGENTS AND DUBLIN BOMBS

April 4, 2024
May 17 next will mark the 50th anniversary of the Dublin and Monaghan bomb massacres. One of the key figures in the Dublin leg... Read more »

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INTERNMENT WITH TRIAL

April 4, 2024

The wall of silence by southern media on the recent acquittal of dissident republicans Colin Duffy and Harry Fitzsimons is in marked contrast... Read more »

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EU ‘WAR ECONOMY’

April 4, 2024

LAST OCTOBER The Phoenix quoted an impeccable authority on western political and military strategy – the Economist magazine – which warned that the... Read more »

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DON’T MENTION THE WAR

March 21, 2024
LAST WEEKEND’S article in the Irish Times by novelist Sally Rooney represented one of the relatively few public criticisms of the US’s policy on... Read more »

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RECOGNISING PALESTINE — AGAIN

March 21, 2024

WORDS MATTER. Taoiseach Leo Varadkar’s statements criticising Israel’s war on Gaza have helped to muster world opinion against Israeli genocide there. But words... Read more »

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IN THEIR ELEMENT

March 21, 2024

“WE NEED to actually invest in developing our own stories,” declared movie producer Ed Guiney, pointing out that there “just isn’t enough investment... Read more »

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TRINA VARGO’S FAILING FUND

March 21, 2024

US-IRELAND Alliance (USIA) president Trina Vargo’s statement last week on the “pausing” of the George J Mitchell Scholarship programme didn’t quite get across... Read more »

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NORTH HARMONY THREATENED

March 21, 2024

THE LOVE-IN between Sinn Féin’s Michelle O’Neill and Jeffrey Donaldson’s puppet deputy first minister, Emma Little-Pengelly, should not fool people into believing that... Read more »

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SUE SPENCE’S SHORTS

March 21, 2024

THERE WAS no celebrating at Cheltenham for the well-connected businesswoman Sue Spence, whose Tranquil Sea did not make it on to the turf... Read more »

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TRIPLE LOCK TO GO?

March 21, 2024
IT OCCURRED to Goldhawk on recently reading the Irish Times’s political editor, Pat ‘The Brigadier’ Leahy, that he had contracted gout on some mission... Read more »

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DENTON NO-SHOW TO FOLLOW KENOVA?

March 21, 2024
OPERATION KENOVA investigated a string of murders perpetrated by Freddie Scappaticci and his associates. It did not result in a single criminal prosecution. Scappaticci,... Read more »

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CORRECTION

March 21, 2024

In The Phoenix 8/3/24, it was reported that GC Aesthetics was being wound up. We have been informed that the operating company, GC... Read more »

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NATIONAL PARTY ‘MODERATES’

March 21, 2024

DIVISIONS IN the far-right National Party (NP) emerged publicly last July due to a dispute over the ownership of more than €400,000 worth... Read more »

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McDOWELL PLOTS NEW DÁIL FORCE

March 7, 2024

REGARDLESS OF the referendum results this week, the stand-out personality in an otherwise boring campaign was senator Michael McDowell, former justice minister and... Read more »

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CATHERINE MARTIN’S NEW CAST

March 7, 2024

WITH FORMER chief KPMG number-cruncher Terence O’Rourke preparing to take charge of the RTÉ board, one of the first big tasks will be... Read more »

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BILL McCABE’S BREAST IMPLANTS

March 7, 2024

IT HAS been a rough few months for veteran investor Bill McCabe, who had pumped big bucks into the listed Irish medtech business,... Read more »

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FINGLETON’S FANS

March 7, 2024

THE SINDO’S Liam Collins was waxing lyrical last month in an article headlined, “Fingers Fingleton rode to my rescue: 40 years later I’m... Read more »

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RTÉ NALLY FIASCO: EPISODE 37

March 7, 2024

TIRED JOKES about RTÉ repeats have been enlivened by the two-year sitcom based on the rise and exit of RTÉ’s former head of... Read more »

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NUI CHANCELLOR CONTEST

March 7, 2024

THE CONTEST to succeed that most magisterial of political and academic mandarins, Maurice Manning, as National University of Ireland (NUI) chancellor could well see... Read more »

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HELEN McENTEE’S MANOEUVRE

March 7, 2024

IT IS highly unlikely that the Sex Workers Alliance Ireland (SWAI) is banking on a positive outcome from the long-delayed review of the... Read more »

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GLOBAL WARMING: ‘NO BIG DEAL’

March 7, 2024

A relatively new farmers’ lobby group, styling itself Beef Plan Movement (BPM), is pushing for full official recognition this year as a stakeholder... Read more »

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IS THE SAS IN GAZA?

March 7, 2024
Last October there was a flurry of articles in the British media about the deployment of the SAS to Cyprus. The regiment was reported... Read more »

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TAX-FREE ‘TOY SHOW’ TREATS

February 22, 2024
WHILE MOST of the fall-out from last week’s media committee hearings into the antics at RTÉ concerned golden handshakes for former executives, one aspect... Read more »

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JOHN MCGUIRK’S STRATEGY

February 22, 2024

WHILE right-wing commentator and Gript editor John McGuirk has now been named as the defendant in the libel action filed by the man... Read more »

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GOVERNMENT’S GAZA VERBIAGE

February 22, 2024

As the Israeli slaughter in Gaza reaches genocidal proportions, the disconnect between the Irish Government’s rhetoric and the reality of its commercial actions... Read more »

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RICHARDSON: DAME OR IRISH COMMONER?

February 22, 2024

TAOISEACH Leo Varadkar and Tánaiste Micheál Martin would have been reassured to learn that the person chairing the neutrality session at the Munich... Read more »

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IAN KEHOE’S NO-SHOW

February 22, 2024

IT IS worth quoting The Currency website’s “over-arching philosophy”, which founders Ian Kehoe and Tom Lyons proclaim as “journalism that is fearless, focused... Read more »

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