Article Category: Affairs of the Nation

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 »

BUGGERS AT INM

January 11, 2018

WHAT is it about the repetitive hacking and surveillance in and around Independent News & Media (INM)? INM chairman Leslie Buckley has told... Read more »

Olga Shajaku’s interesting friend

January 11, 2018

IT WAS interesting to see Bertie Ahern and other familiar faces pop up on a trade mission to Moscow and St Petersburg in... Read more »

Dermot Desmond’s new house

January 11, 2018

JUST HOW many houses can Dermot Desmond buy in Dublin 4? Dermo originally lived on leafy Ailesbury Road and today no 89 is... Read more »

Steven Schwarzman’s scholarships

January 11, 2018

ONE person who will be delighted with the US Republicans’ new tax plan is CEO of private equity giant Blackstone Steve Schwarzman, who... Read more »

MI5/UVF HAUGHEY MURDER PLOT

January 11, 2018

Why would a notorious loyalist killer gang like the UVF write to then Taoiseach Charlie Haughey in 1987 informing him of an MI5... Read more »

BEADES VEXES HIGH COURT PRESIDENT

January 11, 2018

FOUR COURTS rules introduced last year to curtail lay litigants have not prevented barrack room lawyer extraordinaire, Jerry Beades, from continuing to challenge... Read more »

REWRITING THE TROUBLES

January 11, 2018

THE revisionist Ultras of last year’s West Cork History Festival (smart-ass Republicans have dubbed it the West Brit Festival) have received predictable praise... Read more »

Suds’ Critics

January 11, 2018

IN THE midst of all the breast-beating and hair-pulling following the death of ‘Sir’ Peter Sutherland, one former Fine Gael tánaiste went against... Read more »

RTÉ Houses

January 11, 2018

DUBLIN CITY chief executive Owen Keegan hit out at the decision of RTÉ to offload a large part of its Montrose site to... Read more »

CRYING HALT TO EUROMANIACS

January 11, 2018

THERE’S no better man than former Labour minister Ruairí Quinn when it comes to squeezing serious amounts of taxpayers’ money from government departments... Read more »

Simon Coveney’s stance on Palestine

December 14, 2017

FOREIGN MINISTER Simon Coveney made a stirring statement on Donald Trump’s universally condemned decision to situate the US Embassy to Israel in Jerusalem.... Read more »

Leo Varadkar’s Twitter Spin

December 14, 2017

TAOISEACH Leo Varadkar took a bit of a thumping from a prominent LGBT advocacy group over what it called a “misleading tweet” on... Read more »

Students target Aramark

December 14, 2017

STUDENTS in Trinity and UCD are getting testy about the on campus presence of food services multinational Aramark over its links to the... Read more »

NIALL McGARRY’S RED INK

December 14, 2017

ONLINE PUBLISHER and self-promoter extraordinaire, Niall McGarry was talking up his Maximum Media group last week, announcing new jobs in Galway and promising... Read more »

BIG BILLS AT BEWLEY’S

December 14, 2017

VISITORS TO Dublin’s Grafton Street in the last couple of weeks may have been struck by the near permanent queue of punters outside... Read more »

ST JOHN HUME JNR

December 14, 2017

THE recent Dublin film premiere of Maurice Fitzpatrick’s In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America heard former President Mary McAleese laud... Read more »

Injudicious behaviour

December 14, 2017

RUMOURS of some splendidly injudicious carry-on in the Supreme Court building have been circulating in the Law Library for the past week after... Read more »

George Hook’s return

December 14, 2017

GEORGE HOOK’S long-awaited return to the airwaves, promised for December, has been pushed back to January and he will be heard on Newstalk’s... Read more »

RTÉ’s anti-social media

December 14, 2017

HOW long does it take to figure out who has access to an RTÉ social media account? Nearly a month after RTÉ One... Read more »

Colm O’Gorman v SIPO

December 14, 2017

IT IS perhaps not too surprising that the Irish arm of Amnesty International should be digging in its heels on a request from... Read more »

That Frances and Leo deal

November 30, 2017

WHEN the dust settles on the election that nearly was it will be the confidence and supply deal that Leo Varadkar agreed with... Read more »

McCABE: ‘RIGHT THE WAY THROUGH’

November 30, 2017

ONE man with a keen interest in the entire Fitzgeraldgate saga is Colm Smyth, senior counsel for then garda commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan and... Read more »

COMMITTEE TROUBLE IN TRINNERS

November 30, 2017

A TYPICALLY toxic student row in Trinity College Dublin has led to the ousting of the Trinity Publications chair by her own committee.... Read more »

Big Sam’s Irish team

November 30, 2017

A STRUGGLING company called Pulse Fusion F6 was tackled by the taxman last month, almost leaving some footballing suits with egg on their... Read more »

PATRICK LENAGHAN’S RIVER CASINO

November 30, 2017

SOME BAD news for Goldhawk’s old pal, hotelier Patrick Lenaghan, who’s been through the wars in the past decade. His name will be... Read more »