Affairs of the Nation Archives

AFFAIRS OF THE NATION

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CONAL HENRY V DAA

June 16, 2022
THE OPENING address of the new chair of the Shannon Group, Conal Henry, made uncomfortable reading for the powers that be at Dublin airport.... Read more »

FINE GAEL LIBELS

June 16, 2022
WHAT A litigious lot Meath East Blueshirts are. Last Monday Meath County Council meeting heard Fine Gael’s Cllr Alan Tobin apologise to Independent councillor... Read more »

EU TRADE THREAT TO ISRAEL

June 16, 2022
THE ROW over the Northern Ireland protocol is regarded by European Union countries and the commission as a serious threat to the single market.... Read more »

TALE OF TWO HONEY TRAPS

June 16, 2022
ANTHONY ‘DUTCH’ Doherty died earlier this year at Dublin’s Beaumont hospital age 71. He was part of an IRA unit – perhaps up to... Read more »

ELEMENT PICTURES’ UK MOOLAH

June 16, 2022
FOLLOWING THE sale to Fremantle by Conversations With Friends producers Element Pictures, Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe have just filed accounts for their London... Read more »

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

June 16, 2022
barristers’ low pay Dear Editor On June 3, 2022, a petition signed by 88 senior counsel and 182 junior counsel was hand-delivered to the... Read more »

DALTON PHILIPS’S TURBULENCE

June 2, 2022
ONE MAN who might not have been too shocked by the queuing debacle at Dublin airport last weekend was former chairman of Morrisons supermarket... Read more »

BONO’S FILM SCORE

June 2, 2022
SET IN the Four Goldmines and promising plenty of action scenes, the Clondalkin film studio spat between Tyrone McKillen (son of Paddy) and the... Read more »

OWEN CULLEN’S CLIPPINGS

June 2, 2022
WHILE LEINSTER Rugby head coach Leo Cullen had little to celebrate last weekend in Marseille, his younger brother, Owen, has been able to deliver... Read more »

BANKERS’ RETREAT

June 2, 2022
A COMPANY with the relatively unassuming name of We.Trade Innovation has called a creditors’ meeting. It turns out that an awful lot of money... Read more »

SALLINS TRAIN TRIAL LINED UP FOR THE UN?

June 2, 2022
NOT A peep has there been from the media about the potential investigation by the United Nations of convictions for the £200,000 Sallins train... Read more »

BIDEN AND MARTIN’S UKRAINIAN WELCOME

June 2, 2022
AN ALARMING Sunday Independent story about a “secret memo” to government in the form of a cross-government risk analysis recently warned of risks for... Read more »

DR CAHILL’S CASE BOOK

June 2, 2022
THE CONTROVERSIAL doctor at the heart of the American Irish Historical Society (AIHS) row tried to have the case in which he is accused... Read more »

THE GHOST OF ROBERT NAIRAC

June 2, 2022
LAST MONTH, the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims’ Remains renewed an appeal for information about the whereabouts of the body of Captain Robert... Read more »

DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY

June 2, 2022
MANY OF the top brass were bemused at Simon Coveney’s rap across the knuckles of chief of staff, Lt Gen Seán Clancy, for meeting... Read more »

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

June 2, 2022
DÉISE’S PRIDE AND JOY Dear Editor I would like to take issue with your article regarding the movement of past Trinity leaders Veronica Campbell... Read more »

IN THEIR ELEMENT

May 19, 2022
THEY SAY timing is everything in showbusiness. News of Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe’s sale of a majority stake in their Element Pictures operation... Read more »

ALLPRO’S WAR DIVIDEND

May 19, 2022
RODERIC O’GORMAN’S Department of Integration has been dishing out contracts to companies for the provision of services relating to the housing of Ukrainian refugees.... Read more »

JP MCMANUS’S MIX-UP

May 19, 2022
GENEVA-BASED zillionaire JP McManus is no ordinary racehorse owner. He has long been lashing out bucketloads of moolah to buy top-pedigree steeplechasers and currently... Read more »

NOEL SMYTH’S DOGFIGHT

May 19, 2022
A MEETING takes place this week to decide whether solicitor turned property developer Noel Smyth can buy the National Show Centre near Dublin airport,... Read more »

RTÉ DRAMA AWARD

May 19, 2022
RTÉ’S FRAN McNULTY must have felt he was McNulty, front man in an episode of The Wire, rather than McNulty of Prime Time given... Read more »

HIGGINS, DR CAHILL AND THE NYC FRACAS

May 19, 2022
THE DOCTOR at the centre of a controversial plan to sell off the most prestigious Irish-American building in the US has been ordered by... Read more »

JOE MCHUGH’S EXIT

May 19, 2022
THE RETIREMENT of former education minister, Donegal based Joe McHugh, is described as a blow to Fine Gael as the party, it is said,... Read more »

UNREST IN MICHAEL COLLINS COUNTY

May 19, 2022
IN THIS the centenary of Michael Collins death in the Civil War, Cork Fine Gael members are not exactly brimming with pride or optimism... Read more »

McCOY’S FLEETING CLIMATE EPIPHANY

May 19, 2022
IT IS widely assumed that within this government, only the Greens have any real interest in the climate crisis. However, there is growing evidence... Read more »

NO SET-TO IN WATERFORD

May 19, 2022
TWO ACADEMICS have just made unexpected scholarly Odysseys from the country’s oldest university to the youngest. The first surprise was when former Trinity provost... Read more »

MI5, BBC, KINCORA … AND COVER-UPS

May 5, 2022
IN FEBRUARY 2016 Dame Janet Smith published a 700-page report into sexual abuses by Jimmy Savile at the BBC. “The culture of the BBC... Read more »

FRANCESCA’S RUTHLESS STREAK

May 5, 2022
AS GOLDHAWK noted recently (see The Phoenix 25/3/22), Francesca McDonagh’s €1m pa CEO role in Bank of Ireland (BoI) was “the ideal platform for... Read more »

MAX BARRETT’S BOOK

May 5, 2022
GOLDHAWK WONDERS how much the Red Cross will make out of sales (at a mere £95 a pop) of a book by Judge Max... Read more »

IAN CURLEY’S MANSIONS

May 5, 2022
IT WILL not have gone unnoticed that St Ann’s, a posh pile overlooking Killiney bay, has just gone on the market for a whopping... Read more »

‘IRISH TIMES’ ATTACKS NATO!

May 5, 2022
MOST PEOPLE probably think that because of recent clear-cut poll conclusions, the Russian inspired debate about neutrality is over and that the good guys... Read more »

RANDOX’S TESTING TIME

May 5, 2022
LAST WEEK, the Advertising Standards Authority of Ireland (ASAI) reported that it had received 1,450 complaints in 2021 in relation to more than 900... Read more »

IRISH MEDIA’S METHODS

May 5, 2022
‘IRELAND FOR UKRAINE’ describes itself as “a united response from Irish media organisations to harness the generosity of the Irish public and ensure it... Read more »

‘ANOTHER’ PRESIDENT HIGGINS?

May 5, 2022
FOREIGN MINISTER Simon Coveney and various New York-based Irish officials heaved sighs of relief last St Patrick’s Day but one (2021) when New York... Read more »

PAT HAYES’S HORSEPLAY

May 5, 2022
WITH THE crowds back at Punchestown and Gordon Elliott passing the 2,000 winners mark, the general consensus was that the trainer is now fully... Read more »

FROM RATHGAR WITH LOVE

May 5, 2022
‘DR STRANGELOVE’ lives, it appears, with former Nato Supreme Allied Commander Europe General Philip Breedlove doing a more than passable imitation of the hawkish... Read more »