Affairs of the Nation Archives

AFFAIRS OF THE NATION

HEEEE’S OUTTA HERE!

April 18, 2019

RELATIONS between Ireland and the US may have been slightly dented by an incident last week at Dublin Airport, which saw a baseball... Read more »

IRISH IN THE WWE RING

April 18, 2019

WHAT IS it with the Irish and the rather lucrative ‘sport’ of wrestling – one of the biggest earners on TV? Even those... Read more »

SEE NO ARMY, SPEAK NO ARMY

April 4, 2019
ANGELA MERKEL’S visit to Dublin underlines the EU’s determination to protect its borders, but this is only part of Germany and France’s strategy of... Read more »

TCD BUGGING BACKLASH

April 4, 2019

A FORTNIGHT’S a long time in student politics. Just two weeks ago, The University Times (UT) —newspaper of Trinity College’s Student Union (SU)... Read more »

AIRBNB’S POLITICAL TARGETS

April 4, 2019

THE rejection by Dublin City Council last week of Friends First’s planning application for the change of use of its city centre property... Read more »

PETER CASEY’S RETREAT

April 4, 2019
PETER CASEY’S proposed reversion to the European elections rather than the Dáil has more to do with headlong retreat from Donegal than any gap... Read more »

INM-IRISH TIMES LINK-UP

April 4, 2019

IRISH TIMES media commentator, Laura Slattery, went through Independent News & Media’s (INM) business and editorial plan with a chainsaw this week, even... Read more »

COOPERATION IRELAND AND DUP

April 4, 2019

COOPERATION IRELAND receives by far the greatest stipend yearly from the Reconciliation Fund, which in turn is bankrolled by the Department of Foreign... Read more »

MORE DRAMA AT THE ABBEY

March 21, 2019
WHEN GOLDHAWK profiled the Abbey Theatre’s joint director, Graham McLaren, earlier this year (see The Phoenix, 25/1/19) the Abbey was under heavy fire. While... Read more »

DERMOT DESMOND’S BUMPY RIDE

March 21, 2019

THERE WAS plenty of excitement last week surrounding shares in Datalex, the airline technology company (sorry, “leading provider of digital commerce solutions to... Read more »

BAD SPORTS AT TRINNERS

March 21, 2019
A spectacular row is on the boil in Trinity College Dublin where the University Times (UT), newspaper of the Trinners Student Union, is being... Read more »

IAN BAILEY: TRIAL BY ERROR

March 21, 2019
A FRENCH FARCE will shortly (late May) follow the Irish farce that was the Garda campaign to charge Ian Bailey with the 1996 murder... Read more »

LIMERICK POSTER BOY

March 21, 2019

LIMERICK’S St Paddy’s Day celebrations cost the city council €30,000, leaving just €60,000 in the municipal allocation for such ventures, but ambitious local... Read more »

CRYSTAL LI’S TENDER DOCUMENTS

March 21, 2019

CONGRATULATIONS to Goldhawk’s favourite Russian lawyer, Olga Shajaku, who has sent a shot across the bows of Paschal Donohoe’s Department of Public Expenditure... Read more »

KELLEHER: PRO- LIFE VENGEANCE

March 21, 2019

MYSTIFICATION AT Fianna Fáil TD Billy Kelleher’s defeat at the Euro convention for the South constituency was soon clarified as most delegates and... Read more »

SINÉAD O’CONNOR’S EX

March 21, 2019

THE DREADED taxman has just registered a judgment against one Fachtna O’Ceallaigh, who happens to be the former long-term manager and former lover... Read more »

DENIS O’BRIEN MISCALCULATES

March 7, 2019

NOBODY HAS ever accused Denis O’Brien of not being able to count or play poker, but he certainly got it wrong in negotiations... Read more »

ISRAELI BACKLASH AT DCU

March 7, 2019
Students at another Irish university will vote on whether their union should sign up to the Boycott, Divestments and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israeli... Read more »

ROSS MAGUIRE’S GERMAN EFFICIENCY

March 7, 2019

AN ANONYMOUS-looking company called Generode Ltd has been listed for striking off by the Companies Office for failing to file accounts. This could... Read more »

GEMMA O’DOHERTY’S ROOSKEY ROWS

March 7, 2019

Until recently, Broadsheet.ie had been a staunch defender of former Indo journalist Gemma O’Doherty and even campaigned for her ahead of the 2018... Read more »

MCDOWELL’S GAMBLE

March 7, 2019

WHILE THE bolshy Michael McDowell was jousting with Denis O’Brien in the High Court, he was also keeping one eye on another issue... Read more »

THOSE ANTI-SOCIAL DEMOCRATS

March 7, 2019
In this issue, Goldhawk profiles the Social Democrat’s local election candidate for Dublin’s North Inner City, Ellie Kisyombe, who is at the centre of... Read more »

WHOSE AFRAID OF DENIS O’BRIEN?

March 7, 2019
THE MEDIA chill – or unbridled paranoia – that grips RTÉ management at the very suggestion of broadcasting critical coverage of Denis O’Brien was... Read more »

CRAIG ZEIRING’S BUTTOCK-TONING

March 7, 2019

SO FAREWELL then Dr Craig Ziering, hair transplant surgeon and ‘body sculptor’ to the celebrity set, whose Irish venture has quietly folded. Craig... Read more »

MATERNAL DEARBHAIL

March 7, 2019

IT IS difficult to say how Irish Independent editor Fionnán Sheahan, felt when he opened his Sunday Independent last weekend to read the... Read more »

CATHERINE ARNOLD’S SETBACK

March 6, 2019

THE COUPLE behind the super successful Nurse On Call (NOC) agency, Dan and Catherine Arnold, have had their latest plans for a new... Read more »

WHAM BAM THANK YOU KERRY

February 21, 2019
WHAT an interesting story Kerry’s Eye sleuth Aidan O’Connor had recently about BAM, the construction firm at the centre of the National Children’s Hospital... Read more »

TROUBLE AT INM SHOCK!

February 21, 2019

AS IF there were not enough industrial relations problems at the Irish Independent and other INM titles (slashed budgets, compulsory redundancies etc), a... Read more »

CLAIRE LOFTUS’S CRITICS

February 21, 2019

SPARE A thought for poor Claire Loftus, the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), who has had a bruising couple of weeks. Criticism of... Read more »

THE OIRISH FAVOURITE

February 21, 2019

SUNDAY’S OSCARS look certain to feature The Favourite heavily and the green jersey has been very much in evidence in recent weeks, especially... Read more »

SIMON COVENEY’S PRIORITIES

February 21, 2019
WITH THE children’s hospital overrun grabbing headlines for the last month, the contractors, BAM, are at the centre of a media storm. This is... Read more »

DEALING WITH CYRIL BURKE

February 21, 2019

FINE GAEL’S executive council must grapple with a delicate issue in the next few weeks as controversial Mayo county councillor, Cyril Burke, requires... Read more »

STOP THAT WOMAN HANAFIN!

February 21, 2019

BARRY ANDREWS’S formidable, family political machine was a big factor in his Fianna Fáil convention victory for the Dublin Euro ticket last Sunday,... Read more »

RONAN KEATING’S CORPORATE PAL

February 21, 2019

WITH BOYZONE winding down their farewell tour, which concludes in Dubai (natch) in April, hopefully lead singer Ronan Keating will not be overly... Read more »

COVENEY HIDES BEHIND AG

February 7, 2019

THE MANNER of Simon Coveney’s dismissal of several legal opinions in support of Senator Frances Black’s Occupied Territories Bill (banning produce imported from... Read more »

ED HONOHAN PURGED

February 7, 2019

THAT meddlesome Master of the High Court, Ed Honohan, has been effectively purged after years of ‘interfering’ in matters that the judiciary, the... Read more »