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AFFAIRS OF THE NATION

MICHEÁL MARTIN’S DOUBLE-JOBBING AG

October 7, 2021
IT WAS good to finally hear from the taoiseach Micheál Martin on the generous leeway afforded to his attorney general Paul Gallagher in the... Read more »

‘IRISH TIMES’ HACKS’ COMRADELY REVIEWS

October 7, 2021
GOOD TO see the Irish Times literary corps dropping the modest posturing and indulging instead in honest-to-God literary praise of each other’s personal outpourings.... Read more »

PARTITION ROW: COVENEY GOES AWOL

October 7, 2021
THE ‘IRISH TIMES’ was chief among those who blamed both sides in the President Higgins partition row for not sorting it out long before... Read more »

WHAT IS OUR FOREIGN POLICY?

October 7, 2021
AS ‘PHOENIX’ readers will know, Iveagh House mandarins have for years been determined to move away from the traditional Irish policy of neutrality. At... Read more »

BANK OF POPPIES

October 7, 2021
INTERVIEWED BY the Sindo’s Samantha McCaughren recently, Bank of Ireland CEO Francesca McDonagh emphasised her Irish background with references to her Irish antecedents. It... Read more »

LEGAL SAGA NEAR AN END?

October 7, 2021
A 15-YEAR-OLD legal conflict between Louth couple Bernard and Viola Bingham and their former solicitor Barry Sheehan began in 2006 and recently reached the... Read more »

WE’RE FRACKED

October 7, 2021
WILL THE government, despite its Green component, capitulate in face of the relentless campaign by energy companies to import fracked gas? When John Mullins,... Read more »

NO SUCH THING AS A FREE JUDGESHIP

October 7, 2021
FEARS THAT public exposure of the guest list at a Fine Gael fundraising dinner for legal eagles would undermine rather than enhance their prospects... Read more »

WHAT A SPORT AS BOD PLUGS IN ON CLIMATE

October 7, 2021
AS THE climate emergency starts to get real, it is inspiring to see respected public figures like rugby legend Brian O’Driscoll step up to... Read more »

HEATHER WHO?

September 23, 2021
THERE IS a state of disarray in Fine Gael right now that has not been seen since the electoral thrashing of 2002 and it... Read more »

THE COST OF ‘KIN’

September 23, 2021
BACK IN February the RTÉ publicity machine went into one of its occasional paroxysms of activity when TV series Kin (see review p20) was... Read more »

CLIFFORD-LEE’S RETALIATION

September 23, 2021
OIRISH MAIL on Sunday hackette Niamh Walsh got a roasting last week for her snarky column lambasting the sartorial disasters on show at the... Read more »

DENIS O’BRIEN’S UK RADIOS

September 23, 2021
WHILE DENIS O’Brien is likely to have made a significant loss on the reported sale for “north of €100m” of Communicorp to Bauer Media... Read more »

TRENDING AT ALFIE’S

September 23, 2021
TWITTER LIT up last week with a thread about a former worker in Alfie’s restaurant on Dublin’s South William Street being paid his wages... Read more »

WHERE’S THE BEEF?

September 23, 2021
SPARE A thought for Teagasc director Gerry Boyle. Having for years battled to defend the indefensible expansion of the dairy industry in the teeth... Read more »

LEGAL LOWER ORDERS

September 23, 2021
THE FIRST five of the 17 High Court judges recently demanded by High Court president Justice Mary Irvine have been selected for nomination by... Read more »

HARVEY BOULTER’S ANNUS HORRIBILIS

September 23, 2021
THIS IS turning into quite the annus horribilis for moneybags and venture capitalist Harvey Boulter, who is being sued in the UK over claims... Read more »

NO IRISH WANTED HERE

September 23, 2021
GOVERNMENT CHIEF WHIP Jack Chambers should take time off from riding shotgun for the government in the Dáil (and Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin... Read more »

BIG TECH’S MULTIMILLION SPEND

September 23, 2021
GOLDHAWK DREW attention recently to the new direction of former Labour TD Michael McCarthy, whose new job is chief lobbyist for Cloud Infrastructure Ireland... Read more »

REVIEWING SALLY ROONEY

September 9, 2021
THE LONG wait for the new novel from Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You, exposed readers to something of a marketing blitz, although... Read more »

SIMON KELLY’S STAFFING PROBLEM

September 9, 2021
ONE OF the more high-profile falls from grace during the property crash was that of Paddy ‘Shrewsbury Road’ Kelly and his son Simon’s sprawling... Read more »

PRICKLY ROSES

September 9, 2021
WITH THE 62nd Rose of Tralee hooley cancelled, it will be 2022 before the successor to Limerick’s Sinéad Flanagan is crowned. Given the financial... Read more »

WILL SINN FÉIN PACIFY SHANNON?

September 9, 2021
SHANNON AIRPORT has played an important role in the United States logistical network that has facilitated its Afghan war and other conflicts the US... Read more »

ARMY RANGERS’ DISCONTENT

September 9, 2021
RUMBLINGS IN the ranks of the Army Rangers Wing have not reached mutinous levels but the government would want to avoid any more perceived... Read more »

BRIAN POLLY’S HEAVY GOING

September 9, 2021
THE ASSOCIATION of Irish Racehorse Owners (AIRO) held its AGM last month (a remote affair) and, not surprisingly perhaps, it has led to calls... Read more »

KIERAN CORRIGAN’S TAX PLOT

September 9, 2021
FILM FINANCIER, number cruncher, film studio promoter, and film school owner, Kieran Corrigan, will be looking forward to getting students back into his fledgling... Read more »

GAVIN AND GRETA

September 9, 2021
IS THERE a word in the English language more grievously misused than ‘sustainable’? The unseemly scramble by major polluters, from oil companies to mining... Read more »

PAKISTAN SAYS SEMPLE IS MI6

September 9, 2021
US/BRITISH divisions over strategy in Afghanistan did not begin with President Biden’s precipitous exit from that country and British ‘diplomat’ Michael Semple’s expulsion in... Read more »

FIGHTING THE TALIBAN

August 26, 2021
WHY IS the Irish media invariably in thrall to the British government and its various spooky think tanks when it comes to coverage of... Read more »

LIAM SHEEDY’S MATCH TACTICS

August 26, 2021
IT CAN’T be long before the contenders for the top job in Irish sports administration are under starters orders. The attractive position of chief... Read more »

STUDENTS TARGET THE ‘IRISH TIMES’

August 26, 2021
THE HEAT is getting turned up under the Irish Times over coverage of the transgender issue, which has already led to Trinity News pulling... Read more »

CATHERINE MARTIN’S MISSTEPS

August 26, 2021
THE LAST week has been rough for arts minister Catherine Martin, as she has been portrayed as weak in promising the earth to the... Read more »

ON YER BIKE!

August 26, 2021
LIQUIDATOR WILLIAM Cuddy, with an address in Little Island, Cork, filed his final winding up documents for Aqua Blue Sport, but there was rather... Read more »

NUGENT GOES GLOBAL

August 26, 2021
THE FOUNDER and chairperson of Atheist Ireland (AI), Michael Nugent, has become involved in yet another schism in the latest of several internal disputes... Read more »

EU QUANGO RIDES ON

August 26, 2021
PERHAPS THE most successful hybrid quango in modern Ireland has been the Institute of International and European Affairs (IIEA), founded 30 years ago by... Read more »

EOIN Ó BROIN V LABOUR

August 26, 2021
THE ASSUMPTION for decades has been that Fianna Fail and Fine Gael were responsible for the impotent building controls that have resulted in thousands... Read more »