Affairs of the Nation Archives

AFFAIRS OF THE NATION

RATHGAR PARISH INQUISITION: PART II

March 10, 2022
ALREADY PUZZLED Rathgar parishioners at the Church of Three Patrons will be scratching their heads at the contents of last week’s parish newsletter. Under... Read more »

IRELAND JOINS BIG BOYS IN WAR GAMES

February 24, 2022
IT IS both apt and ironic that the Defence Forces should emulate warmonger Winston Churchill’s dictum, ‘Never let a good crisis go to waste’.... Read more »

JOHN MOLLOY’S PHONE TROUBLE

February 24, 2022
HAVING HOOVERED up millions of euro to fund his safe smartphone app for children, John Molloy’s company is heading into liquidation. Molloy made a... Read more »

UKRAINE VETS’ DUBLIN HERO

February 24, 2022
DUBLIN-BORN but Ukrainian-based Paul Niland has been lionised by RTÉ, BBC, the Irish Times and Irish Independent both for his suicide prevention service to... Read more »

GREENWASH AWARDS’ WORTHY WINNERS

February 24, 2022
IN THE immortal words of Kermit the Frog, it’s not easy being green, but that doesn’t stop some people from at least pretending. Details... Read more »

THE SILENT NEUTRALITY

February 24, 2022
DESPITE THE intense media focus on the Ukraine crisis there has been little or no attention paid to the oft expressed will of the... Read more »

DÓMHNAL SLATTERY’S AWARD

February 24, 2022
GOLDHAWK WAS delighted to see that Shrewsbury Road resident and Avolon air leasing moneybags Dómhnal Slattery has landed the Irish Times Business Person of... Read more »

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CANADIAN CONVOY CASH

February 22, 2022
SINISTER ASPECTS of the Canadian protest movement against the anti-Covid 19 restrictions of Justin Trudeau’s government include the far-right politics of some of the... Read more »

NANCY HARRIS’S DRY RUN

February 22, 2022
LAST WEEK RTÉ went into overdrive when “revealing” a “first look” at a new TV comedy drama called The Dry, which is about a... Read more »

BORIS JOHNSON’S ‘BRAIN’

February 10, 2022
THAT BORIS Johnson’s government should include mandarin Sue Gray, a top level member of the ‘deep state’ (see The Phoenix, 28/1/22), may not surprise everybody.... Read more »

JOHN HOGAN’S BUSINESS ‘AWARDS’

February 10, 2022
IT HAS been a hectic start to 2022 for publisher John Hogan and his business partner, US-based Tommy Quinn, who found their publishing operation’s... Read more »

WHITHER SEAN O’ROURKE?

February 10, 2022
RTÉ BROADCASTER Sean O’Rourke was, presumably, one of those referred to by Judge Mary Fahy when she noted in her golfgate judgment that “a... Read more »

AGAIN, MARIAN

February 10, 2022
CONGRATULATIONS to super scribe Marian Keyes, who managed to generate a whirlwind of publicity just ahead of the publication of her latest novel. It... Read more »

WAITING ON CATHERINE MARTIN

February 10, 2022
WITH THE terms expired for a half-dozen members of the Arts Council (AC), minister Catherine Martin is taking her time about putting her stamp... Read more »

TENI’S REPEAT PERFORMANCE

February 10, 2022
IT’S A case of déjà vu at Transgender Equality Network Ireland (TENI). The lobbying group (chaired by Sara R Phillips) is once again late... Read more »

BACKPEDALING IN GALWAY

February 10, 2022
HOPES OF persuading some of the good citizens of Galway to leave their cars at home took a bit of a battering in recent... Read more »

EMBLEMATIC CONCERNS

February 10, 2022
GOLDHAWK NOTES that a complaint has recently been lodged with clerk of the Dáil Peter Finnegan by Donegal councillor Micheal Cholm Mac Giolla Easbuig... Read more »

BALLAD OF DISREGARDING JAIL

February 10, 2022
FORMER CHAIRPERSON of the Gay and Lesbian Equality Network (GLEN) Kieran Rose was one of those who welcomed the appointment of Sinéad Gibney as... Read more »

SUE GRAY ‘RUNS UK’

January 27, 2022
BORIS JOHNSON clearly has good reason to fear top British mandarin Sue Gray, given her reputation as perhaps the most powerful person in Britain.... Read more »

MICHAEL O’KEEFFE’S NEW CASTING

January 27, 2022
HAVING PRESIDED at the top of the broadcasting regulatory and funding regime for decades, Michael O’Keeffe retired as chief executive of the Broadcasting Authority... Read more »

KATE O’CONNELL’S STRATEGY

January 27, 2022
KATE O’CONNELL’S kite-flying stunt in the Irish Mail on Sunday about running as an Independent in the Trinners byelection can’t be dismissed, but it... Read more »

JAMES MACGUILL’S ELECTION

January 27, 2022
CONGRATULATIONS TO legal eagle James MacGuill SC, who has just taken up the prestigious role of president of the Council of Bars and Law... Read more »

THE WORKERS ARE REVOLTING

January 27, 2022
THE LATEST lobbying returns reveal that the Convenience Stores and Newsagents Association (CSNA) lobby group has been busy trying to put some manners on... Read more »

ARMY SEX ASSAULTS COVER-UP

January 27, 2022
BROADCASTER KATIE Hannon’s RTÉ report on sexual assaults against women in the Defence Forces can’t be swept under the carpet, said retired army captain Deirdre... Read more »

THE RATHGAR INQUISITION

January 27, 2022
THE STRANGE case of the disappearing priest and other Church activists from the Church of Three Patrons in Dublin’s Rathgar in recent months has... Read more »

JIHAD’ AGAINST FARMERS

January 27, 2022
TAOISEACH MICHEÁL Martin recently welcomed the setting up of the Climate Bar Association as a step towards improved legal expertise on environment and climate... Read more »

ISRAEL’S IRISH CAMPAIGN

January 27, 2022
FRESH FROM his assault on the Republic of Ireland, its body politic and media for being thoroughly antisemitic, Israeli polemicist David Collier (see The Phoenix,... Read more »

SARAH RYAN’S RIGHT-ON JOURNEY

January 27, 2022
IT IS perhaps not too surprising to see that one Sarah Ryan has now joined the board of the conservative ‘think tank’ founded by... Read more »

MICHEÁL MARTIN PREPARES TO FIGHT

January 13, 2022
THE CALM that that appears to have settled on Fianna Fáil is an illusion and both pro and anti Martin camps are preparing for... Read more »

PAUL TWEED AND PRINCE ANDREW

January 13, 2022
BELFAST SOLICITOR to the stars, Paul Tweed, comes over all coy when it comes to mentioning his work for the York family: that’s the... Read more »

TARGETING OPERATION TRANSFORMATION

January 13, 2022
AMONG THOSE piling in on RTÉ’s Operation Transformation last weekend was Louise McSharry, who is well known in Montrose where she worked as a... Read more »

BARON MAGAN’S BAD NEWS

January 13, 2022
SO FAREWELL then to Castletown Estates Ltd, the English company controlled by George Magan, aka Baron Magan of Castletown. The hapless George had a... Read more »

LEGAL JAMBOREE FOR ‘IRISH TIMES’

January 13, 2022
READERS OF the Irish Times have been treated to a glut of stories about the spats and schisms in the Scouting Ireland movement and... Read more »

MARC GODART V RTÉ

January 13, 2022
A PROGRAMME by the Prime Time Investigates team at the end of 2020 examined the apparently lax implementation of regulations to prevent overcrowding in... Read more »

PADDY-JON WILLIAMS

January 13, 2022
INDICATIONS THAT RTÉ’s head of news and current affairs Jon Williams has relinquished long-suspected career ambitions to head back to Blighty for a real... Read more »

MILLIONAIRE HOTELIERS BACK TO COURT

January 13, 2022
A SPAT between some heavy-hitters that appeared to have been settled has been re-ignited, with the legal eagles called in once more. Property developer... Read more »