Article Category: Affairs of the Nation

PEARSE DOHERTY’S TIMING

March 22, 2018

SINN FÉIN TD Pearse Doherty’s statement last week that he had moved in favour of abortion on request up to 12 weeks should... Read more »

EVA ORSMOND’S SWEET PROFITS

March 22, 2018

WITH THE Sugar Tax set to kick in on April 6, various experts have been making themselves heard on the issue. Few have... Read more »

RACHEL MORAN V ROISIN INGLE

March 8, 2018

AN INTERESTING Twitter spat surfaced last weekend when high profile anti sex trade campaigner Rachel Moran attacked the producers of The Irish Times... Read more »

JUDGE CON O’LEARY’S ‘OBJECTIVE BIAS’

March 8, 2018

EYEBROWS WERE raised in legal circles recently at the colourful tone of a High Court ruling that pulled no punches when criticising a... Read more »

MARTIN FRASER’S REVIEW

March 8, 2018

THAT opposition parties should criticise the selection of Martin Fraser to review the Strategic Review Unit (SCU) – over which Fraser himself presides... Read more »

IFTA’S HAPPY ENDING

March 8, 2018

GOOD NEWS for fans of the Irish Film and Television Awards (IFTAs). The team behind the annual orgy of backslapping have managed to... Read more »

WESTERN NAZI FRONT

March 8, 2018

THE outgoing UK head of counter terrorism, Mark Rowley, used his final speech last month to stress the high level threat from racist... Read more »

HOTTINGER’S WEALTHY FAMILIES

March 8, 2018

MONEY MAY make the world go around for the super rich but it also helps provide a nice earner for those charged with... Read more »

MACLENNAN’S FAVOURITE TEAM

March 8, 2018

CONGRATULATIONS to former Telegraph group chief executive Murdoch MacLennan who will be named chairman of Independent News & Media (INM) this week. In... Read more »

LEO VARADKAR’S ELECTION TIMELINE

February 22, 2018

MEDIA hints of Fine Gael’s plan to cut and run to the country this year are spot on and while lacking detail they... Read more »

The taxman and the film awards

February 22, 2018

THE MOSTLY low wattage audience at last week’s IFTAs awards bash at the Mansion House may have been surprised by host Deirdre O’Kane’s... Read more »

Niall McGarry’s turnover

February 22, 2018

FLASHY entrepreneur Niall McGarry was in his usual confident mood recently when he announced that the Irish end of Maximum Media operation was... Read more »

MURPHY’S LAW V LAW SOCIETY

February 22, 2018

THE mother of all legal battles between the Law Society and former solicitor Colm Murphy is due in the High Court in April... Read more »

REDMOND’S RECORDING

February 22, 2018

INTERESTING to see controversial Independent councillor Keith Redmond playing a central role in an investigation of waste operators by the Competition and Consumer... Read more »

Warmongers

February 22, 2018

“PESCO also has absolutely nothing to do with the creation of an EU army. Nothing in the treaties provides for the creation of... Read more »

SIMON COVENEY’S FAMILY VALUES

February 8, 2018

EVEN Simon Coveney’s angry critics in Fine Gael – and they are very angry – accept that his very public opposition to the... Read more »

KERRY BABIES ‘APOLOGIES’

February 8, 2018

THE garda apology to Joanne Hayes as well as that of Taoiseach Leo Varadkar deserves more quizzical scrutiny than it has received. Apart... Read more »

David McWilliams’s advice

February 8, 2018

CLEVER CLOGS David McWilliams might be feeling a little bewildered given the pounding taken by one of his heroes, fund manager Neil Woodford.... Read more »

MacDara Kelleher’s €850,000

February 8, 2018

CONGRATULATIONS to Goldhawk’s favourite film producer, MacDara Kelleher. He has just been greenlighted for a whopping U850,000 in funding from the Irish Film... Read more »

BRIAN McDONAGH’S DATA PROBLEM

February 8, 2018

SURPRISING to see a company called Granja Ltd listed for striking off by the Companies Office after failing to file its accounts. The... Read more »

HUMAN RIGHTS: NEW CRITERIA

February 8, 2018

THE refusal of Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHREC) member Betty Purcell to go quietly after her failure to be reappointed recently... Read more »

MARY HARNEY’S PRESCRIPTION

January 25, 2018

FORMER health minister Mary Harney will need to update her sprawling personal website following her appointment as chancellor of University of Limerick. But... Read more »

SINN FÉIN FACTIONS

January 25, 2018

WITH Mary Lou McDonald still to be formally endorsed by an ard fheis and Gerry Adams barely out the door, the factionalising inside... Read more »

DUBLIN: CAPITAL OF CYBERCRIME

January 25, 2018

RECENT REVELATIONS of computer hacking and surveillance at Independent News and Media (INM) are not the only strong hints that the dark arts... Read more »

‘EXPERTS’ TO GUIDE REFERENDUM VOTERS

January 25, 2018

IT CAME as a surprise to most people that the Citizens’ Assembly brought forward to this month its deliberations on The Manner in... Read more »

Kevin Keane’s ‘COURTESY’ Meeting

January 25, 2018

MORE on the boycott by UCD and Trinity students of direct provision centre operator Aramark. Fans of Goldhawk will recall that students on... Read more »

McALEESE DYNASTY ON THE CARDS?

January 25, 2018

THE two wings – polar opposites – of Fianna Fáil have both kept a beady eye on gay campaigner Justin McAleese, son of... Read more »

Paschal Taggart’s shares

January 25, 2018

STOCK MARKET observers will be aware of the rather dramatic fall in the share price of the airline booking software engine, Datalex, over... Read more »

DIRK VAN DER FLIER’S PRAYERS

January 25, 2018

WHILE LEINSTER rugby star Josh van der Flier has been drafted in to Joe Schmidt’s Irish squad for the upcoming Six Nations tournament,... Read more »

Mick O’Leary’s negotiators

January 25, 2018

MICHAEL O’LEARY’S brave new world in which ‘combinations’ are now recognised has led to Ryanair seeking to recruit industrial relations managers. Its recent... Read more »