Article Category: Affairs of the Nation

Relationship Breakdown

April 5, 2017

SO FAREWELL then to Relationships Ireland (RI), which has just filed the resolution to wind itself up and appoint the ubiquitous Kieran Wallace... Read more »

ALAN SHATTER’S REVENGE

March 23, 2017

FORMER JUSTICE minister Alan Shatter turned up at Trinity College Dublin last week to launch a provocative book by two feminist academics –... Read more »

EGYPTIAN CONTEMPT FOR IRELAND

March 23, 2017

A THUNDERING statement from Ceann Comhairle Seán Ó Fearghail in January threatened that millions of euro worth of business with Egypt would be... Read more »

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 »

JOHN BRENNAN ESCAPES ‘CATASTROPHIC COLLAPSE’

March 23, 2017

NEXT MONTH, Judge Tom O’Donnell delivers his sentence in the high profile case relating to the collapse of a lift at the Killarney... Read more »

IAN BAILEY’S FRENCH FARCE

March 23, 2017

THE STATE’S timing of its presentation of the French extradition warrant to bring Ian Bailey to Paris on the charge of murdering Sophie... Read more »

Gender Bias

March 23, 2017

THE WAKING The Feminists lobby has generated plenty of fallout over the last year (with Garry Hynes of Druid Theatre the latest to... Read more »

Privacy Funding

March 23, 2017

WITH THE 21-day High Court case involving Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) Helen Dixon, Facebook Ireland and Austrian privacy activist Max Schrems now concluded,... Read more »

GIVE ME YOUR TIRED, YOUR POOR …

March 23, 2017

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin (Far Left) THE vicarious grand standing of Irish liberals still engaged in competitive outrage at US president Donald Trump –... 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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »