Affairs of the Nation Archives - Page 4 of 22

AFFAIRS OF THE NATION

CHASING MICHAEL HEGARTY

December 13, 2018
FANS OF Goldhawk may have been a tad surprised to see East Cork Blueshirt county councillor Michael Hegarty pop up on a three-man panel... Read more »

ZAPPER ZAPS HER CONSTITUENCY

November 29, 2018
THE DANCING on children’s minister, Katherine Zappone’s political coffin that Fine Gael and media commentators have engaged in could be most premature judging by... Read more »

DANA LIBEL SAGA: CHAPTER 1

November 29, 2018
DANA’S libel settlement with the Sunday World this week is just the beginning of a long, litigious war for the singer and former presidential... Read more »

DENIS O’BRIEN’S AWARD

November 29, 2018
CONGRATULATIONS TO Denis O’Brien, who has landed an honorary fellowship from the National College of Ireland (NCI). It is the least the great educator... Read more »

LUKE COMER’S HEAVY GOING

November 29, 2018
ALTHOUGH ONLY a handful of people in this country can claim to be richer than developer Luke Comer, he finds himself being sued in... Read more »

LORRAINE HIGGINS FOR EUROPE?

November 29, 2018
FORMER LABOUR senator Lorraine Higgins has suddenly become a lady that lunches with Blueblouse women and has been tweeting in support of the same... Read more »

JACKIE LAVIN’S LITIGATION

November 29, 2018
INTERESTING to see Jackie Lavin once again suing Bill Cullen (this time with Ulster Bank). The happy couple have been down this road before.... Read more »

WHO FEARS TO SPEAK?

November 29, 2018
EARLY LAST month, French President Emmanuel Macron demanded the creation of a “real European army”, arguing in apocalyptic mode that “we have to protect... Read more »

OOOPS! THE MONEY IS GONE

November 29, 2018
FANS OF Goldhawk will be familiar with the lengthy liquidation saga at Ralph Christians’s Magma Films, where the end is finally in sight. However,... Read more »

UCD PRESIDENT’S MAR-A-LAGO

November 29, 2018
AUSSIE GO-GETTER and UCD president Andrew Deeks has caused academic eyebrows to arch with his grandiose projects, including the €48m creative design centre; a... Read more »

DR VARADKAR’S DILEMMA

November 15, 2018
TAOISEACH Leo Varadkar has been defended by his party colleagues as a doctor with experience of management practice in the health service after yet... Read more »

IVY’S PR BLITZ

November 15, 2018
SOME rather ingratiating advertisements appeared in the national dailies recently, thanking Irish customers of The Ivy restaurant, the ritzy eatery that opened in Dublin’s... Read more »

LOVIN MEDIA’S SAUDI LOVE IN

November 15, 2018
Irish businessman Emmet O’Neill must be shocked at some of the articles being published by Lovin Saudi, a franchise of his Lovin Media Group.... Read more »

LOST LEADER BRIAN HAYES

November 15, 2018
RICHARD BRUTON is the man that effectively blocked MEP Brian Hayes’s planned route back to the top in national politics. But judging by his... Read more »

ARAMARK RATTLED

November 15, 2018
Is food services giant Aramark starting to panic about the boycott of its cafes and restaurants by students at the University of Limerick (UL)?... Read more »

JOHN ARKINS’S HEADACHE

November 15, 2018
THE TIMING of Prime Time’s recent breathless exposé of the Irish film industry was less than perfect for the Irish Film Workers Association (IFWA),... Read more »

MARKING DERMO’S CARD

November 15, 2018
WHAT AN extravagant splash the Sunday Business Post published on the “Billionaire investor. Media mogul. IFSC visionary… patriot and a fearsome litigant”, Dermot Desmond,... Read more »

MARY LOU’S ELECTION BLUES

November 1, 2018
POST-ELECTION depression among Sinn Féin members will quickly turn to anger if the leadership does not show contrition and self-criticism over the presidential election... Read more »

COLLISON BROTHERS’ BAD PRESS

November 1, 2018
JOHN AND Patrick Collison, the Limerick-born wunderkinds behind online payments company Stripe, are not used to negative press – particularly in Ireland. So it... Read more »

CASEY’S CHORUS

November 1, 2018
PETER CASEY brought out the Tory beast in the Sunday Times and its Dublin-based champion, Frank Fitzgibbon, editor of the Aarish edition. Like some... Read more »

MARY HARNEY’S INVESTMENT

November 1, 2018
GOOD TO see the busy former health minister Mary Harney putting her money where her mouth is. No doubt she has plenty of the... Read more »

CRYSTAL LI’S LIFELINE

November 1, 2018
HAVING APPEARED to have succeeded in getting a big public translation contract cancelled and restarted, Ruski lawyer Olga Shajaku got some frustrating news last... Read more »

BRENDAN HALLIGAN’S ONE CHINA POLICY

November 1, 2018
THERE WAS much scratching of heads in Leinster House last month when ceann comhairle Seán Ó Fearghail circulated a letter to members warning them... Read more »

LIBEL STAND-OFF

November 1, 2018
BARRISTER-turned-seminarian-turned-layman and now litigant, Conor Gannon, has taken out High Court writs against three newspapers following reports published in connection with his time at... Read more »

NOSTROVIA!

November 1, 2018
VODKA FANS be warned. Last month, one Francisco Xavier Fermin De Eizaguirre of La Maguna, Plum Bay Les Terre Basses, in the French territory... Read more »

DUBLIN 7 TO MOROCCO

November 1, 2018
HOLDER of the presidential wooden spoon Gavin Duffy lost his deposit and he also got hit for a €20 spot when canvassing in Henry... Read more »

SAUDIS SILENCE IRISH GOVERNMENT

October 18, 2018
THERE HAS been a deafening silence from foreign minister Simon Coveney and the government at the apparent murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi by agents... Read more »

SINN FÉIN POPPYCOCK-UP

October 18, 2018
THERE is war at all levels of Sinn Féin over presidential candidate Liadh Ní Riada’s statement that she would wear the poppy if elected... Read more »

PAT CAREY’S MEDIA TRIAL

October 18, 2018
THE smearing of garda whistleblower Sgt McCabe has been well and truly demolished with Justice Charleton’s tribunal report being just the latest exoneration against... Read more »

GRAHAM HOLLAND’S DOGGED STRATEGY

October 18, 2018
A HIGH Court judgment by Judge Tara Burns, dismissing a challenge by greyhound trainer Graham Holland, refers to an audacious claim of bias made... Read more »

HUGHES BOYS’ GAMBLE

October 18, 2018
WHILE THE Hughes family has been having some problems with its €50m Westport House project, the good news is that Cathal and the rest... Read more »

NO LOVE FOR LABOUR

October 18, 2018
The Irish Congress of Trade Union’s Raise the Roof rally attracted a crowd of around 12,000, by and large uniting various campaigns and groups... Read more »

IRISH TIMES STYLE

October 18, 2018
THE Irish Times marked the centenary of its most esteemed editor ever, Douglas Gageby, with a tribute from Joe Breen – “a man above... Read more »

BEHIND THE ÁRAS

October 4, 2018
A HIDDEN hand or hands have been at play in what is shaping up to be the dirtiest presidential campaign ever. Labour Party campaigners... Read more »

UN SEAT: COVENEY CHECKMATES CANADA

October 4, 2018
TÁNAISTE and foreign minister Simon Coveney’s stirring speech to the United Nations General Assembly last weekend championed the Palestinians in a manner that belies... Read more »

BEN GILROY’S ‘ABHORRENT’ BEHAVIOUR

October 4, 2018
IT WAS reported this week that Goldhawk’s old pal, Direct Democracy founder Ben Gilroy, is the subject of a High Court order from Judge... Read more »