Article Category: Affairs of the Nation

PAUL COLLINS’S LIBEL ACTION

July 29, 2021
BANDON-BASED businessman Paul Collins has fingers in many pies but his provision of accommodation for asylum seekers has often landed him in the media... Read more »

CHARITY BEGINS ON THE FARM

July 29, 2021
ONE OF the most intriguing questions awaiting the incoming director of Teagasc, the state agriculture research and training agency, is: what kind of organisation,... Read more »

REBELS IN WEST CORK

July 29, 2021
A BIZARRE stand-off in west Cork involving the Society of Saint Pius X Resistance. (SSPX Resistance), local campaigner Fiona O’Leary and gardaí is just... Read more »

TCD BYELECTION

July 29, 2021
THE SUNDAY TIMES has already plugged long-time former Goldman Sachs director Hugo McNeill in the early reckoning for the Seanad’s Trinity College Dublin seat... Read more »

MURDER, BENT COPS AND DUBLIN MEDIA

July 29, 2021
COMMENTING ON the latest report that found the London Met guilty of “institutional corruption” in its treatment of the 1987 murder of Daniel Morgan,... Read more »

MICHEÁL BEGINS HIS FIGHTBACK

July 15, 2021
IT’S A long time since the Irish Times gave such unqualified and partisan backing to a Fianna Fáil leader but it was through that... Read more »

PETER DUNN’S PAPAL GONG

July 15, 2021
IT’S NOT every day that a ‘Pro-Ecclesia et Pontifice’ award (PEP) is dished out here but one was accepted last week by Peter Dunn... Read more »

HAZEL HOVERS

July 15, 2021
MANY SEIZED on the elimination of Kate O’Connell by Fine Gael’s leadership and local members to explain the defeat of that party’s candidate, James... Read more »

REHMAN’S RESTRICTION

July 15, 2021
ONE OF the directors of a private English language college that shut tis doors in 2018 has just been restricted from acting as a... Read more »

SALLINS TRAIN TRIAL REVISITED

July 15, 2021
THE FAMILY of Osgur Breatnach, wrongly convicted of the 1976 Sallins train robbery, have launched a campaign for a public inquiry into the controversial... Read more »

THE GENTLE BLACK AND TAN

July 15, 2021
BLINKERED NATIONALISTS have long argued that the West Cork History Festival (aka the West Brit Hist Fest) run by Simon and Victoria Kingston, exists... Read more »

DAVID MCWILLIAMS AND ‘GROUND ZERO’

July 15, 2021
THE FORAYS of pop economist David McWilliams into commentary on agriculture are rare indeed, and from the evidence of his most recent efforts, that’s... Read more »

IAN BAILEY’S STAR WITNESS

July 1, 2021
THE RE-EMERGENCE in the Sophie Toscan du Plantier murder saga of Marie Farrell – once the garda’s star witness against so-called suspect Ian Bailey... Read more »

WOMEN’S COUNCIL’S CRITICS

July 1, 2021
THE NATIONAL Women’s Council of Ireland (NWCI) found itself in the spotlight last month in relation to the endless gender identity debate. Given how... Read more »

SHARON ALSTON’S MUSIC NOTES

July 1, 2021
GOLDHAWK WAS delighted to se that his favourite music festival organiser and vet, Sharon Alston, was one of the lucky recipients of arts minister... Read more »

DONALDSON THE ‘MODERATE’

July 1, 2021
DUP DARLING of RTÉ and the Irish Times, new party leader Jeffrey Donaldson has been presented as the civilised alternative to creationist Edwin Poots... Read more »

IRELAND’S PAST VERSUS FUTURE

July 1, 2021
ROLE REVERSAL between Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil on the national question has been a feature of politics in recent years but FG’s Leo... Read more »

INM DATA FRENZY

June 17, 2021
THE PRIVACY action being taken by former INM editor-in-chief Stephen Rae against Mediahuis Ireland, current owner of the newspaper group, reflects the hothouse atmosphere... Read more »