Article Category: Affairs of the Nation

O’CALLAGHAN OUT OF PROCEDURE TALKS

June 17, 2016
THERE have been further knowing looks within Fianna Fáil at the absence from the Dáil Committee on Procedure (CP) of the party’s legal advisor... Read more »

FF LEGAL THREAT OVER MURDER CASE

June 17, 2016
FIANNA FÁIL has threatened to sue journalist Gemma O’Doherty over various allegations she has made against party leader Micheál Martin and others in the... Read more »

LISTOWEL WRITERS WEEK

June 17, 2016
Listowel Writers Week stood by its decision to invite Israeli-feminist writer Savyon Liebrecht to address its annual festival recently but, after some debate, it... Read more »

LORD ROSS’S PRIORITIES

June 17, 2016
THE absence of the voluble Shane Ross from the pages of the Sunday Independent, a platform he used to great effect in his ascent... Read more »

NEWSTALK CRISIS RESHUFFLE

June 17, 2016
THE exit of Ivan Yates, gradual retirement of George Hook and ongoing slide in Pat Kenny’s ratings has created a perfect storm at Newstalk... Read more »

THE IRISH TIMES GOES NATIVE

June 17, 2016
IRISH TIMES journalists would normally expect congratulations and awards for high-minded investigations into such matters as clerical child abuse, the Panama Papers and the... Read more »

MOTORMOUTH McGUINNESS

June 1, 2016
THE normally astute media manipulator, John McGuinness, may have miscalculated with his latest outburst, in which he makes serious allegations against ex-commissioner Martin Callinan.... Read more »

DEIRDRE FOLEY’S CHALLENGE

June 1, 2016
THE DECISION of Deirdre Foley and her D2 Private company to challenge the powers of the inspectors looking into the shutdown of Clerys (who... Read more »

WHO WILL GET THE STUDIO DOSH?

June 1, 2016
THE ‘ANNOUNCEMENT’ by former Windmill Lane boss James Morris and producer Alan Moloney of a plan to build a huge film studio complex on... Read more »

Local FG split

June 1, 2016
THAT diplomatic kerfuffle involving Canadian Ambassador Kevin Vickers at the ceremony to remember British soldiers in 1916 could have been more dramatic had the... Read more »

PÁDRAIGH Ó CÉIDIGH’S APPOINTMENTS

June 1, 2016
ONE OF the Fianna Fáil nominees to the Seanad is the very busy founder of Aer Arann, Pádraig Ó Céidigh. He is no stranger... Read more »

Royals not invited

June 1, 2016
KILDARE SOUTH general election candidate, Fine Gael’s Cllr Fiona McLoughlin Healy, got whacked in the Kildare County Council chamber and in the Irish Independent... Read more »

David Hall’s emergency

May 18, 2016
MORTGAGE CAMPAIGNER David Hall was one of the more high profile, non-elected participants in the recent negotiations to form a new government, being regularly... Read more »

DUBLIN COLLEGE LINKED TO PANAMA PAPERS

May 18, 2016
THE Panama Papers keep throwing up intriguing names. Goldhawk noticed that one David Kennedy Sr – with a registered address at Southcliff House, Les... Read more »

UNIONISTS DEMAND ‘NORMAL’ POLITICS

May 18, 2016
THERE’s more to Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) leader Mike Nesbitt moving into opposition in Stormont than meets the eye. Of course, the reasons given... Read more »

BERTIE’S FOREIGN DIPLOMACY

May 18, 2016
BERTIE AHERN has recently been talking up again his fabled Mr-Fix-It skills and how these talents have been utilised abroad – by grateful world... Read more »

BAILING OUT CORK FILM FESTVAL

May 18, 2016
WHILE IRELAND’S movie moguls were schlepping their wares around Cannes market stalls this week, a more mundane financial drama about another veteran film festival... Read more »

THE GENTLE BLACK AND TAN

May 18, 2016
THE TAOISEACH, Enda Kenny, and foreign minister, Charlie Flanagan, have shown admirable compassion in arranging for victims of the Easter Rising to be commemorated... Read more »

SHANE ROSS’S KEY DEMAND

May 18, 2016
THE first test of transport minister Shane Ross’s mettle is not the Luas strike, but the imminent appointment of several judicial appointments to be... Read more »

REVIEWING JUSTIN CARTHY AT LADBROKES

May 18, 2016
THE REVELATION last week that Ladbrokes is “reviewing” the role of Justin Carthy, who handles the betting giant’s high roller clients, has surprised observers... Read more »

PHOENIX APPEAL IN CONTEMPT CASE ALLOWED

May 18, 2016
IN a judgment delivered in the Court of Appeal on May 11, 2016, Ms Justice Irvine, Mr Justice Hogan and Mr Justice Sheehan unanimously... Read more »

FERDINAND TRUMPS DONALD

May 5, 2016
HAVING BEEN the subject of a failed move to have him banned from entering the UK, following his call for a ban on Muslims... Read more »

ALCOHOL BILL KICKED TO TOUCH

May 5, 2016
WILL Leo Varadkar – if he is still health minister by at the end of this week – make his long awaited Public Health... Read more »

Kieran Wallace’s Fees

May 5, 2016
GOLDHAWK has to hand it to accountancy firm KPMG, and in particular its star liquidators, Kieran Wallace and Eamonn Richardson. It seems that the... Read more »

Downey’s Legacy

May 5, 2016
THE Irish Independent engaged in an unseemly and competitive effort to claim the late Jim Downey as its very own and downplay his quintessential... Read more »

HEFFERNAN SHUNNED BY SOC DEMS

May 5, 2016
FORMER Labour senator and SD candidate in Limerick, James Heffernan, must be feeling a little unloved by his new comrades in the Social Democrats,... Read more »

STRIKING OFF TONY O’REILLY

May 5, 2016
THE LATEST chapter in the commercial demise of Tony O’Reilly unfolded last week when the Companies Registration Office listed a company called Columbia Investments... Read more »

INVESTIGATING ROTHSCHILDS BANK

May 5, 2016
GOLDHAWK spotted an interesting report on Bloomberg recently, which said that the Swiss unit of Edmond de Rothschild SA is the subject of a... Read more »

Robbos Accounts

May 5, 2016
MARY ROBINSON’S Victoria House Foundation (VHF) has just published its first accounts and all seems to be going swimmingly. However, there is still one... Read more »

FEARGAL QUINN’S €200 MILLION

May 5, 2016
AN ANNOUNCEMENT last month that Swiss bank Lombard Odier was awarded a mandate valued at €200m “for an established international family” went unnoticed by... Read more »

ALAN KELLY POISED FOR LEADERSHIP

May 5, 2016
IT could all have been so different. A raggle taggle government of Blueshirts and Independents is being installed but efforts to re-create a coalition... Read more »

WILL MICHAEL TWEE RESCUE THE PICTURE PALACE IN GALWAY?

May 5, 2016
FANS OF Goldhawk will not be surprised by the ongoing farce surrounding Galway’s multi-million euro bijou but unfinished ‘Picture Palace’ cinema. Details of a... Read more »

LAWYERS FOR BIG TOBACCO

April 21, 2016
A LITTLE noticed part of Fine Gael’s health programme for government as pitched to Independent TDs recently was to reduce the number of smokers... Read more »

PANAMA PAYDAY FOR JOE LEWIS

April 21, 2016
WHILE A couple of high profile Irish names have been appearing in the ‘Panama Papers’ revelations of offshore company activity, including the likes of... Read more »