Affairs of the Nation Archives

AFFAIRS OF THE NATION

MORE LEFT SPLITS

October 3, 2019

POLITICAL splits on the Left are mirrored by the disintegration of the Take Back the City (TBTC) campaign a year after its headline... Read more »

FRESH CLIMATE

October 3, 2019

It seems that not everyone was thrilled with last month’s college campus walkout as part of the global ‘climate strike’. Although UCD gave... Read more »

NIGERIAN ARMS AND BILLIONS

October 3, 2019

Process & Industrial Developments (P&ID), founded by the late Mick Quinn, recently won an €8.6bn award against the Nigerian government, with the support... Read more »

THE NEW ORDER AT INM

September 19, 2019

BELGIAN PUBLISHERS Mediahuis may find that bending the querulous natives to their will at Independent News & Media (INM) is a little more... Read more »

MYSTERY AT THE BERNARD SHAW

September 19, 2019

A WEEK of social media breast-beating about the decline of Dublin’s nightlife has obscured the reasons for the impending closure of the Bernard... Read more »

XAVIER MCAULIFFE’S SPEED VANS

September 19, 2019

IT IS hard to believe that a consortium that works for An Garda Síochána providing the roadside speed detection service – GoSafe –... Read more »

LEO VARADKAR’S NECK

September 19, 2019

YOU’VE GOT to hand it to Leo Varadkar for pure neck. Earlier this month, Boris Johnson let fly with some colourful descriptions of... Read more »

NOEL GREALISH’S PAL

September 19, 2019

THOSE REMARKS by Noel Grealish TD about “good Christian Syrians” as opposed to African “spongers” were from the heart. A devout Catholic, Noel... Read more »

DAVID MCWILLIAMS’S ‘RESEARCH’

September 19, 2019

Readers of the Irish Times website last Saturday may have enjoyed David McWilliams musing on the future of global cities. The celebrity economist... Read more »

COVENEY’S SOLO RUN

September 19, 2019

THE WILY Simon Coveney managed to come out of the Fine Gael think-in last week smelling of roses – at least as far... Read more »

PAT LENAGHAN’S CHAIRS

September 19, 2019

More bad news for the family of colourful businessman and would-be casino boss Pat Lenaghan, owners of the Bridge House Hotel in Tullamore,... Read more »

CORRECTION – MICHAEL BLOOMBERG

September 19, 2019

IN The Phoenix edition of August 23 last, it was incorrectly stated that former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg had funded the Irish... Read more »

LUCINDA’S EU APOSTASY

September 19, 2019

LUCINDA CREIGHTON’S take on Brexit and the backstop is strange indeed coming from a former minister for Europe who immersed herself in the... Read more »

MARIA BAILEY FOR THE CHOP

September 5, 2019

WHAT A confusing series of leaks there has been about Maria Bailey and the Fine Gael general election ticket in Dún Laoghaire in... Read more »

MARY MCALEESE’S LATEST GIG

September 5, 2019

WHAT IS it with Trinity College Dublin, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the preference for chancellors named Mary? Last month, the Irish... Read more »

REAPPOINTING ROSE

September 5, 2019

WHILE THE decision by Shane Ross to quietly extend the tenure of Shannon Airport chair Rose Hynes did not come as a shock,... Read more »

SF DEMOCRACY DEBATE

September 5, 2019

THE CHALLENGE to Sinn Féin’s vice-president, Michelle O’Neill, from Assembly heavyweight John O’Dowd could become a test of the party’s willingness to embrace... Read more »

JAMES GOUGH’S GRIPE

September 5, 2019

JAMES GOUGH continues to be a thorn in the side of the Association of Irish Racehorse Owners (AIRO). Having taken a successful legal... Read more »

ABC ANSWERS ELUSIVE

September 5, 2019

ONE QUESTION that arises from Independent News & Media’s (INM’s) decision to withdraw from the Audited Bureau of Circulations (ABC) is whether it... Read more »

JAW-JAW AND WAR-WAR

September 5, 2019

US VICE-PRESIDENT Mike Pence set the scene for two upcoming conferences on war when he praised the “security partnership” between Ireland and the... Read more »

EXPERTS GULLED BY FRAUDSTERS

September 5, 2019

AN Irish Independent report last June of an accident claim dismissed as “not credible” by a High Court judge greatly understated Judge Michael... Read more »

BEWARE CLAMPERS

September 5, 2019

DUBLIN CITY Council (DCC) has finally signed a new contract with parking enforcement (clamping) company Dublin Street Parking Services Ltd (DSPS). This should... Read more »

‘IRISH TIMES’ WOMEN: THERMIDOR!

August 22, 2019

INCENDIARY OUTRAGE has been the reaction of some Irish Times male hacks to the document supported by most of their female colleagues conveying... Read more »

ROSE OF TRALEE FESTIVAL’S RED INK

August 22, 2019

WITH THE 60th Rose of Tralee hooley kicking off this weekend, the build-up has been marred somewhat by the decision of the Irish... Read more »

IT’S THE ‘SUN’ WOT WON IT

August 22, 2019

RUPERT MURDOCH’S News Corp has probably done more for project Brexit than Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage and David Cameron put together. Now it... Read more »

SHANE ROSS’S RHINOCEROS

August 22, 2019

DESPITE BREXIT, Leo Varadkar’s and Micheál Martin’s unofficial negotiators continue to court the Greens, Labour and the Social Democrats with sweet talk of... Read more »

BRIAN MCDONAGH’S ‘FRONT’ COMPANY

August 22, 2019

GRANJA LTD, a company linked to Brian McDonagh – the man at the centre of efforts to stop a proposal by Apple (since... Read more »

EMILY AND BETTY AND ORLAGH

August 22, 2019

IT WILL be interesting to see if three members of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHREC) – the current chief commissioner... Read more »

FUNDING THE HARE KRISHNAS

August 22, 2019

THE FOOD Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) has been busy in recent weeks, most notably forcing the shut down of spring water production... Read more »

BURKIAN EXPANSION

August 22, 2019

THIS WEEK saw the official social media launch of gript.ie, a conservative online media platform that features some familiar faces. Not surprisingly, there... Read more »

IRA KIDNAP DISPUTE

August 22, 2019

FORMER RTÉ executive David Blake Knox (DBK) has provoked a reaction from more than one quarter with his recently published book, The Killing... Read more »

JIM FARRELL’S SECURITY SITUATION

August 22, 2019

GOLDHAWK WAS intrigued to see the name of his old friend and security expert, Jim Farrell, crop up in an ex-parte (one side... Read more »

PAT HICKEY’S MEDAL RUN

August 8, 2019

IT IS not surprising that the photo of former Olympic Federation of Ireland (OFI) boss Pat Hickey having a chinwag with his good... Read more »

MEDIAHUIS LEGAL DEBUT

August 8, 2019

THE WEEK in which Mediahuis received High Court approval of its INM takeover also saw a slew of legal problems and potentially huge... Read more »

BERNARD BROGAN’S GOALS

August 8, 2019

WITH MANY Dubs fans hoping that Bernard Brogan will be back in the squad for this weekend’s All Ireland semi-final clash with Mayo,... Read more »

MARY HARNEY’S TIMELY EXIT

August 8, 2019

GOLDHAWK was surprised to spy the appointment of an administrator to the UK-registered parent of Mary O’Brien’s VideoDoc operation. The good news is... Read more »