Article Category: Affairs of the Nation

Plutocrats’ Pow-Wow

July 27, 2017

Dermot Desmond MORE ON that strange plutocrats’ pow-wow at Dublin’s Shelbourne Hotel last month, when Rupert Murdoch was in town for the launch... Read more »

QUINN NOW HEADS EURO QUANGO

July 27, 2017

Ruairi Quinn CHAIRMAN of the Institute of International and European Affairs (IIEA), Brendan Halligan (81), has moved aside and has been bestowed with... Read more »

FF’s Friendly Faces

July 27, 2017

Lisa Chambers THERE have been silly season rumblings against FF’s communications director, Pat McParland. A particular grievance is the selection by McParland, guided... Read more »

KIERAN MULVEY’S FANCY FOOTWORK

July 27, 2017

Kieran Mulvey A RULING by the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) that the Irish governing body for tennis – Tennis Ireland (TI) – discriminated... Read more »

THE CASE AGAINST DPP CLAIRE LOFTUS

July 27, 2017

Claire Loftus SPARE A thought for the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Claire Loftus, who finds herself targeted publicly in a way her... Read more »

VARADKAR AND THE ATTORNEYS GENERAL

July 13, 2017

THE unhealthy politicisation of the office of attorney general has been a hallmark of Fine Gael in government since 2011. And Leo Varadkar... Read more »

TROUBLE BREWING

July 13, 2017

HOW EMBARRASSING that the auditors of the company behind a state-backed craft brewery have found that it had contravened assorted Companies Act regulations... Read more »

PATRICK O’SULLIVAN V RICHARD CONROY

July 13, 2017

NEXT MONTH well known exploration entrepreneur Richard Conroy, executive chairman of Conroy Gold and Natural Resources, will go head to head with a... Read more »

SCHOOL TRIP TO THE HIGH COURT

July 13, 2017

THE PHONEY war is over in Deansgrange south County Dublin, where the initial salvos over the proposed sale by the Christian Brothers of... Read more »

NO ASYLUM FOR KENNY GROUP

July 13, 2017

IT WAS reported in the Sunday Times last weekend that an accommodation centre for asylum seekers in Limerick was closed as a result... Read more »

WEST BRIT HISTORY FEST

July 13, 2017

ASSEMBLING Roy Foster, Eoghan Harris, Kevin Myers, Ruth Dudley Edwards and various academic and media fellow travellers in the same room to discuss... Read more »

Kenny Libel Win

July 13, 2017

HOWLS of indignation from Newstalk rang around the media following a front page “exclusive” in the Irish Sun whose headline claimed, “Kenny Facing... Read more »

FF JUDICIAL BLUNDER

June 29, 2017

A RAFT of ‘eminent’ figures made fools of themselves in the furore over the government’s Judicial Appointments Commission Bill in the past week,... Read more »

DINNY’S SWORN ENEMY NO. 1

June 29, 2017

THERE HAVE been changes on the share register of Red Flag Consulting – Karl Brophy’s consultancy outfit that is locked in an expensive... Read more »

CARROLL MacNEILL’S POLITICAL PEDIGREE

June 29, 2017

BARRISTER and author Jennifer Carroll MacNeill has been popping up a lot recently as a media commentator, with her latest outing in The... Read more »

ATTORNEY GENERAL’S BACKYARD

June 29, 2017

NEW Attorney General Seamus Woulfe has a rich legal and political background, having worked at the Beef Tribunal for then Labour TD Pat... Read more »

CORPORATE CASH BOOST FOR PRIDE COFFERS

June 29, 2017

GOLDHAWK was interested to see a reference in The Irish Times to a decision by Grant Thornton accountants to send over 100 members... Read more »

CHRISTOPHER SINGH’S FIRE HAZARD

June 29, 2017

IN THE wake of the Grenfell Tower disaster, fire safety issues have jumped to the top of the agenda and it was no... Read more »

Denis and Rupert

June 29, 2017

WHAT A strange gathering of characters ended up in the Shelbourne Hotel earlier this month paying homage to Rupert Murdoch who had been... Read more »

COVENEY HASN’T GONE AWAY

June 15, 2017

IS THERE a prime minister in the western world who has become head of their party after losing a leadership vote among its... Read more »

BANKING ON THE QATARI MOOLAH

June 15, 2017

THE TUMULT in the Middle East – where Qatar finds itself isolated economically and diplomatically by a strategy fronted by Saudi Arabia and... Read more »

BILL McCABE’S EXCLUSIVE CLUB

June 15, 2017

MONEYBAGS Bill McCabe’s experiment with the pampering of high-flyers saw him invest big bucks into the Oyster Circle club but now the company... Read more »

NEW IRISH BILDERBERGERS

June 15, 2017

THE shadowy Bilderberg Conference, at which the most wealthy and powerful transatlantic decision-makers gather to discuss mutual interests, convened in Chantilly, Virginia, for... Read more »

EDWARD BURKE’S CREDENTIALS

June 15, 2017

LAST WEEK, after the deadly London attack, Irish Times readers were treated to an opinion piece by Edward Burke on the Irish state’s... Read more »

Michael Semple ‘fights the right’

June 15, 2017

INTERESTING to see “our man in Kabul” Michael Semple pop up last weekend as a speaker at Labour Youth’s Tom Johnson Summer School.... Read more »

Letters to the Editor

June 15, 2017

Dear Goldhawk, Prime Time and Claire Byrne Live have never presented climate change as a 50:50 debate as you falsely claimed in your... Read more »

PADDY DUNNING WAXES LYRICAL

June 15, 2017

MR TEMPLE BAR, Paddy Dunning, has seen a number of his businesses struggle in recent years, so he must have been delighted with... Read more »

Scouts’ Honour Impugned

June 15, 2017

ALLEGATIONS of poor governance and control of finances have struck yet another voluntary organisation and the dogs of legal war have been let... Read more »

THE BUCK STOPS NOWHERE

June 2, 2017

IF Leo Varadkar is half as smart as his supporters make out, he will stamp his authority on the new administration by immediately... Read more »

DCC SUES PHILIP McGLADE

June 2, 2017

HIGH COURT proceedings have just been initiated by Temple Bar Cultural Trust (now controlled by Dublin City Council) against a couple of familiar... Read more »

JOHN MORIARTY’S SWIMMING LESSON

June 2, 2017

SPARE A thought for John Moriarty, Kieran Ruttledge and Liam Bohan, the principals in Dublin Waterworld Ltd (DWL) who, Goldhawk can reveal, have... Read more »

DECLAN KELLY GOES REPUBLICAN (US)

June 2, 2017

TENEO principal, Declan Kelly, would have been anything but embarrassed at allegations in recent years that he provided his multinational clients with access... Read more »

EDITORIAL INDEPENDENCE AT COI GAZETTE

June 2, 2017

CHURCH of Ireland Gazette editor, Canon Ian Ellis, has just retired and he leaves behind a legacy that puts The Irish Times to... Read more »

BILDERBERGER’S BOY IN IRELAND

June 2, 2017

THE shadowy Bilderberg Group, that elite assembly of bankers, industrialists, politicians and military bosses is currently holding its 2017 conference in Chantilly, Virginia... Read more »

SIMON COVENEY’S FORMER FRIENDS

June 2, 2017

RIGHT up to the last hours of the Fine Gael leadership contest Simon Coveney’s team persuaded themselves that ‘defeat-jaws-victory-snatch’ was on the cards.... Read more »

Who Is Declan Kearney?

June 2, 2017

THE Sunday Independent’s public act of contrition and apology to a “Mr Declan Kearney” last weekend admitted that their assertion about him in... Read more »