Affairs of the Nation Archives

AFFAIRS OF THE NATION

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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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 »

TIM BRENNAN VS RTÉ

October 4, 2018

THE FALL-OUT from a finding by the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) that Co Kilkenny vet Tim Brennan is not guilty of passing on... Read more »

WEE DANIEL’S BIG BUCKS

October 4, 2018

WEE DANIEL O’Donnell has been keeping busy, serenading the Pope and popping up in TV adverts. It is not surprising that the Donegal... Read more »

THE HUMBLING OF PAUL STENSON

October 4, 2018

VOGUE Williams is back on Irish screens with a new season of her documentary series and one episode in particular caught Goldhawk’s eye.... Read more »

LEO VARADKAR’S NON-DISCLOSURES

September 20, 2018

THE CONTROVERSY over the leak of Dr Gabriel Scally’s report into the cervical cancer affair temporarily obscured Taoiseach Leo Varadkar’s responsibility in the... Read more »

ENDA O’COINEEN’S ‘POST’ DEAL

September 20, 2018

SELF-DESCRIBED ‘unsinkable entrepreneur’ Enda O’Coineen has finally signed the deal to buy the Sunday Business Post from Conor Killeen. It turns out that... Read more »

TAKING BACK THE CITY

September 20, 2018

Anyone looking for more information on the recent housing occupations in the media last weekend was treated to a Homeric catalogue of the... Read more »

PADDY COSGRAVE: IPHONE ANARCHIST

September 20, 2018

If the hysterical media reaction to the Take Back the City protestors wasn’t evidence of their impact, then Web Summit barker Paddy Cosgrave’s... Read more »

KIERAN CORRIGAN’S STUDIO

September 20, 2018

EARLIER THIS month, Meath County Council waved through planning permission for a film studio development at Ashbourne business park. Hopefully, the involvement of... Read more »

DUP/TORY ARM LOCK

September 20, 2018

On Monday, September 5, British northern secretary Karen Bradley had arranged to meet the Stormont parties to discuss ways to resurrect the executive... Read more »

FUN AT THE PHIL

September 20, 2018

TRINITY College’s student union received 20 complaints from students in relation to a debate to be held on campus this week by the... Read more »

NEIL JORDAN’S “SILLY” FILM

September 20, 2018

THERE HAVE been mixed reactions to new films from Irish heavyweight directors Lenny Abrahamson and Neil Jordan, both of whom have been visiting... Read more »

SHANE ROSS’S APPOINTMENTS

September 20, 2018

SHANE ROSS recently made some appointments to the board of Fáilte Ireland, with some interesting names popping up. Among the new board members... Read more »

NEW COMMISSIONER: BACKLASH GROWS

September 6, 2018

THE LIST of former senior security and intelligence experts that have criticised the appointment of the former PSNI deputy chief constable, Drew Harris,... Read more »

MICHAEL MCDOWELL VS JIM O’CALLAGHAN

September 6, 2018

YET ANOTHER glossy brochure in Dublin Bay South (DBS) from former justice minister, Senator Michael McDowell, this time on the Metro, “a scandalous... Read more »

PATIENT FOCUS FLOPS

September 6, 2018

INTERESTING to see that a liquidator has been appointed to the patient advocacy body Patient Focus (PF), which had been a high-profile lobby... Read more »

TRINA VARGO’S FALLING FUND

September 6, 2018

TRINA VARGO, the bolshy founder and face of the US Ireland Alliance (USIA), has just submitted the annual report of her George Mitchell... Read more »