Article Category: Affairs of the Nation

DERMOT DESMOND’S BAD BET

December 4, 2015

DERMOT DESMOND is digging in his heels in an attempt to stymie the proposed merger of betting giants Ladbrokes and GalaCoral. Behind his... Read more »

DAVID AGAR’S SEMI-D

December 4, 2015

  THINGS are looking bleak for poor David Agar, the auctioneer and property developer who hit the headlines following a prescient interview in... Read more »

FIANNA FÁIL’S ‘NO’ TO GOVERNMENT

December 4, 2015

THAT disavowal of coalition government by Fianna Fáil’s Billy Kelleher is as devious as it is amusing. FF talking about rebuilding the party... Read more »

MAHON TRIBUNAL’S TANGLED WEB

November 20, 2015

GOOD to see the media catching up with developments in the Mahon Tribunal (see The Phoenix 23/10/15 and passim), but it’s high time... Read more »

DAVID DAVIES’ GEORGIAN CREDENTIALS

November 20, 2015

GOLDHAWK understands that the next president of the Irish Georgian Society (IGS) is set to be the super wealthy David Davies, a Welsh... Read more »

BRENDA POWER FOR DPP AGAIN?

November 20, 2015

SUNDAY TIMES columnist Brenda Power distinguished herself last month with a searching analysis of Travellers in the aftermath of the Carrickmines fire tragedy... Read more »

HUGH LEWIS’S ALLEGATIONS

November 20, 2015

THERE WERE frantic scenes at Dún Laoghaire Rathdown (DLR) Council last month, when a heated debate on alterations to the Draft Development Plan... Read more »

COVENEY’S MILITARY SPENDING PLANS

November 20, 2015

DEFENCE minister Simon Coveney gave little away in answer to a parliament question about the protection of Irish sovereign airspace from foreign aircraft... Read more »

JUDICIOUS BUSINESS INTERESTS

November 20, 2015

ONE of the things that the eagerly awaited Judicial Council – which has been long-fingered by successive governments – may wish to consider... Read more »

Madigan’s Steamy Briefs

November 12, 2015

FINE GAEL councillor and general election candidate Josepha Madigan has a knack of generating publicity, good and bad. The recent halting site tragedy... Read more »

REBALANCING MICHAEL DWYER

November 6, 2015

ALTHOUGH the story has not been receiving much media attention of late, RTÉ opted to broadcast a new documentary on the subject of... Read more »

DERMOT BANNON’S COURT DATE

November 6, 2015

DUBLIN architect Dermot Bannon has made a name for himself through the RTÉ programme, Room to Improve, in which the affable architect helps... Read more »

BAILING OUT LELIA DOOLAN

November 6, 2015

FOLLOWING a meeting of Galway City Council earlier this month, the expensive end credits are now rolling for Lelia Doolan’s ‘Rocky Horror Picture... Read more »

SF AND FF IN GOVERNMENT?

November 6, 2015

THE notion that Sinn Féin would form a coalition government with Fianna Fail was raised this week in the book, Power Play: The... Read more »

DERMOT DESMOND’S DATA DISCRETION

November 5, 2015

IS there no limit to the financial and legal resources that billionaires like Denis O’Brien and Dermot Desmond will expend to battle those... Read more »

ISRAELI ARMY START-UPS

November 5, 2015

THE new Dublin Startup Commissioner is get-up-and-go-girl, Niamh Bushnell, who has been getting a lot of airtime recently on RTÉ, Newstalk and so... Read more »

JOHN McCANN’S “ASTUTE” PURCHASE

November 5, 2015

THERE WAS plenty of focus last week on Tom O’Gorman’s audacious plan to ‘flip’ the sprawling Kilcooley estate in Co Tipperary for €8m,... Read more »

DENIS O’BRIEN IN CRISIS?

November 5, 2015

HAS Denis O’Brien completely lost it? Launching a lightning legal assault against a relatively inconsequential PR and lobbying consultancy, following on from his... Read more »