Article Category: Affairs of the Nation

Consenting Turbines

March 23, 2017

A RULING from An Bord Pleanála has just granted something called “substitute consent” for a planning development that had previously been deemed by... Read more »

WHAT HAPPENED THE AIR CORPS?

March 23, 2017

WHEN he finally got around to visiting Blacksod last Monday – a full week after the loss of outsourced helicopter 116 and its... Read more »

LEO VARADKAR IN RETREAT

March 9, 2017

IT’S EARLY days yet but the latest poll showing Fine Gael voters favouring Simon Coveney over Leo Varadkar have unnerved the latter’s supporters... Read more »

MARIE COLLINS PUTS IT UP TO ‘IL PAPA’

March 9, 2017

HOW careless of Pope Francis to lose abuse victim Marie Collins a year after Briton Peter Saunders jumped ship from the Pontifical Commission... Read more »

HOW WEALTHY IS DINNY?

March 9, 2017

THERE WAS the usual array of surprise valuations in the latest Sunday Times Rich List, with the likes of Martin Naughton, John Magnier... Read more »

CLOCK TICKING AT NATIONAL GALLERY

March 9, 2017

WHAT ON earth is going on at the National Gallery of Ireland (NGI)? The contract of the director of the institution, Sean Rainbird,... Read more »

DUP Gaelgoir

March 9, 2017

ONE DUP member who survived the party’s slaughter last week was Jim Wells who got help from Dublin Irish language academic Professor Ciarán... Read more »

MICHAEL CAREY TAKES THE BISCUIT

March 9, 2017

WHAT GOES around, comes around. A Drogheda biscuit company called East Coast Bakehouse, which has been heavily promoting its products, is the brainchild... Read more »

Letters to the Editor

March 9, 2017

‘MALICIOUS’ SOURCES Dear Editor, You write (See The Phoenix, 24/2/17) that I, among others, suggested that RTÉ’s Paul Reynolds should reveal his garda... Read more »

MAHON TRIBUNAL RIP?

March 9, 2017

With the settlement of Joe Murphy’s High Court case against the MahonTribunal last week, the taxpayer may now never learn the truth about... Read more »

INVESTIGATING GALWAY’S ‘PALACE’

March 9, 2017

THE STATEMENT issued by the Charities Regulator last week that it has opened a statutory investigation into the €9.5m and counting Solas-Galway Picture... Read more »

MAHON: FINAL ACT?

February 23, 2017

WITH Joe Murphy’s court case against the Mahon Tribunal finally listed for hearing next week, the paying public may learn at last what went on... Read more »

TERENCE’S TITLES

February 23, 2017

Terence O’Rourke (Left) A REPORT in The Irish Times last week focused on a hefty fine levied by the Central Bank against an... Read more »

BRUTON LURKS WITH INTENT

February 23, 2017

THE studied but pregnant silence of Richard Bruton in the fevered Fine Gael leadership war could yet presage a surprise bid from the... Read more »

LISA GAUGHRAN’S SETTLEMENT

February 23, 2017

HAVING weathered a high profile legal action from top magazine publisher Norah Casey of Harmonia (the company behind the likes of Irish Tatler,... Read more »

EUGENE McDERMOTT’S €7M REPRIEVE

February 23, 2017

THERE WAS a surprising ruling in the High Court earlier this month when Judge Max Barrett threw out a €7m judgment against former... Read more »

MARTIN BENDS TO O’CALLAGHAN

February 23, 2017

THAT spat between Fianna Fáil’s Jim O’Callaghan and justice minister Frances Fitzgerald about whether or not O’Callaghan had alerted Fitzgerald to the Tusla... Read more »

MARY COUGHLAN JOINS SENECA GROUP

February 23, 2017

INTERESTING TO see that Ann Carrigy has just stepped down as a director of the new nursing home group, Seneca Healthcare. The fledgling... Read more »

REFERENDUM BLUES FOR PRIDE FESTIVAL

February 23, 2017

WHILE MEMBERS of the gay community often find themselves moving ahead of trends, it turns out that the directors of Dublin Lesbian Gay... Read more »

Trinners Shinners

February 23, 2017

INTERESTING to see that the student unions of Trinity College, UCD and NUI Galway will hold referendums on whether the unions should support... Read more »

Letters to the Editor

February 23, 2017

WHITE WASH? Dear Editor It is perfectly understandable that Ronan Fanning would give a wide berth to a diplomatic report attributing offensive and sensational... Read more »

TAKING BREXIT SERIOUSLY

February 9, 2017

IF, as we are constantly reminded, the consequences of Brexit will create the greatest challenge to the Irish body politic since the foundation... Read more »

O’BRIEN’S KERINS PRECEDENT

February 9, 2017

IS IT fear of serial litigant Denis O’Brien that has produced the media understatement about Angela Kerins’s adverse judgment, namely that it might... Read more »

BUSY LIZZY’S ROUGH RIDE

February 9, 2017

THERE WAS surely plenty of uncomfortable shuffling in the saddle by players in the horseracing industry after TD Clare Daly let fly at... Read more »

CHRISTIAN CARTER’S CHARITY WORK

February 9, 2017

IT HAS been a bad start to 2017 for Christian Carter (brother of Marissa “Cocoa Brown” Carter, see p18), who ended up in... Read more »

IAN HYLAND’S STATE SUPPORT

February 9, 2017

IAN HYLAND must have been delighted with the puff piece in The Irish Times last week singing the praises of his latest wheeze,... Read more »

GOING FOR GOLD AT THE OCI

February 9, 2017

THE ELECTION of Pat Hickey’s successor as president of the Olympic Council of Ireland (OCI) takes pace at the end of this week... Read more »

Honohan v Ryan

February 9, 2017

MASTER of the High Court Ed Honohan irked Me’ Luds yet again in the New Year with a front page splash in The... Read more »

VIRGIN SAVIOUR FOR ‘IRISH TIMES’?

February 9, 2017

THERE is little disagreement about the extent of The Irish Times’ financial crisis with Denis O’Brien taking pleasure in pointing to it last... Read more »

Cashing in on AIB float

February 9, 2017

RECENT reports that AIB is planning the sale of hundreds of properties to vulture funds such as Cerberus suggests the move to privatise... Read more »

BEWARE THE IDES OF MARCH

January 26, 2017

ONE of the most skilful tactics Enda Kenny has deployed in retaining his leadership is that of presenting continuous staging posts – the... Read more »

FROM TV3 TO LAGOS

January 25, 2017

THE mystery surrounding Andrew Hanlon’s sudden departure from his job as TV3 director of news, a post he occupied since the station was... Read more »

RONAN CAVANAGH’S GOALS

January 25, 2017

IT WAS interesting to see An Post in the headlines the same week as the deadline for the filing of returns by lobbyists.... Read more »

Sean Lyons’s Doomsday Challenge

January 25, 2017

A COMPANY with the interesting name of Doomsday Challenge has just been restored to the register by the High Court, presumably in connection... Read more »

LAURA MAGAHY’S HEALTHY CONTRACTS

January 25, 2017

Mary Mitchell O’Connor and Laura Maghahy GOLDHAWK’S old friend, Laura Magahy, found herself back under the spotlight last week after a number of... Read more »