Article Category: Affairs of the Nation

Sorry, Paddy

December 1, 2016

THE carefully honed Irish edition of the Daily Mail avoids the sort of paddy bashing still purveyed by sections of the British media... Read more »

BATTLE CONTINUES FOR SoS VICTIMS

December 1, 2016

THE campaign to adequately compensate women who endured the “barbaric” practice of symphysiotomy have endured an onslaught by a most interesting alliance of... Read more »

STUART GILHOOLY’S HARD TACKLES

December 1, 2016

DUBLIN SOLICITOR Stuart Gilhooly must be a relieved man that the retrial of former footballer Ched Evans – jailed for rape in 2012... Read more »

PÁDRAIG Ó CÉIDIGH’S HOT SEAT

December 1, 2016

THE VERY busy Pádraig Ó Céidigh finds himself in the hot seat as the water charges issue returns to the fore. He has... Read more »

‘UNWITTING VICTIM’ JOHN SPENCER

December 1, 2016

LAST MONTH’S Court of Appeal victory by Nenagh legal eagle John Spencer over Anglo Irish Bank/IBRC in relation to a 2005 investment scheme... Read more »

PAT HICKEY HOME FOR CHRISTMAS

December 1, 2016

GOLDHAWK’S SPIES in Brazil tell him that the €400,000 bail bond for Pat Hickey has arrived in Rio and is awaiting processing. It... Read more »

Legal eagles’ cost

December 1, 2016

FRAUD SQUAD inquiries into allegations made by Kenmare solicitor Colm Murphy against Law Society members may or may not come to anything. But... Read more »

WATERING DOWN THE DRINKS BILL

November 3, 2016

THE lobbying blitz by the massively resourced alcohol and retail industry was conducted by some interesting, if predictable, players and many Oireachtas members... Read more »

RED INK AT THE ‘IT’

November 3, 2016

THE FINANCES of The Irish Times have come under a lot of scrutiny over the last week or so courtesy of the Sindo... Read more »

‘IT’ TURNS BLIND EYE TO CHILD ABUSE SCANDAL

November 3, 2016

MOST media covered the recent catalogue of child sex abuse offences by religious lay worker Patrick O’Brien who pleaded guilty to 51 sample... Read more »

DISSIDENTS SET TO DUMP ARMS?

November 3, 2016

THE LAUNCH of a new dissident Republican party, Saoradh, recently would indicate more militarism, not less, given the bellicose political statements emanating from... Read more »

ANOTHER PLOT TWIST FOR LELIA DOOLAN

November 3, 2016

TWO REVEALING documents have been released to Goldhawk under the Freedom of Information Act concerning the increasingly expensive (€9.3m and counting) Solas ‘Picture... Read more »

BRIAN McDONAGH VS APPLE INC

November 3, 2016

WICKLOW LANDOWNER Brian McDonagh has put the kibosh – at least temporarily – on Apple’s giant U850m proposed data centre in Athenry. Having... Read more »

FLOOD TRIBUNAL COSTS SET TO SOAR AGAIN

November 3, 2016

THE DUMPING of virtually all findings of the Flood / Mahon Tribunal against previously named parties (see The Phoenix, 25/3/16) does not mean... Read more »

TAKING ON SOLICITOR EAMES

November 3, 2016

SURELY ONE of the busiest legal eagles in town is Aidan Eames, the former Fianna Fáil-appointed senator and ex-member of FF’s national executive,... Read more »

THE REAL COST OF ROBBO’S SHRINE

October 20, 2016

A VERY, very expensive precedent has been set by the government in accepting Mary Robinson’s presidential archive to qualify as acceptable under Section... Read more »

LIZ GARRAHY’S PEACE PROCESS

October 20, 2016

COULD PEACE be about to break out between the Arts For Peace Foundation (AFP) and the OPW? Relations between the two bodies hit... Read more »

INM’S O’BRIEN NERVY ABOUT TAKEOVER BID

October 20, 2016

SIGNS are that Denis O’Brien is nervous about securing approval from the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission and communications minister Denis Naughten for... Read more »

GARDAÍ VISIT LAW SOCIETY

October 20, 2016

THE long-running battle between Kenmare solicitor Colm Murphy and the Law Society took a dramatic turn last week when detectives from the Garda... Read more »

NO ROOM AT THE INN

October 20, 2016

PEACE CAMPAIGNERS being blacked in the media as well as barred from hiring premises presumably because of their dangerous and subversive message of... Read more »

Denis O’Brien’s safe haven

October 20, 2016

LISTENERS to Denis O’Brien’s Newstalk were brought up to date on developments in Haiti last week during the breakfast news show fronted by... Read more »

SHANE ROSS’S ABORTION DEAL

October 20, 2016

A STRANGE and little noticed U-turn by Taoiseach Enda Kenny a fortnight ago saw him tell the Dáil he was appointing – immediately... Read more »

MARTIN’S WATERY STRATEGY

October 5, 2016

FIANNA FAIL’S gyrations on Irish Water may not make any sense in terms of the actual issue, but its latest, hard line position... Read more »

SPOTLIGHT’S GERRY ADAMS ‘SCOOP’

October 5, 2016

THE BBC Spotlight programme’s ‘scoop’ on Gerry Adams’ alleged order to kill MI5 informer, Denis Donaldson, marks a watershed of sorts for the... Read more »

MORE WOE FOR SINEAD O’CONNOR

October 5, 2016

TROUBLED singer Sinead O’Connor made the headlines last week after being named on the Revenue’s latest list of tax defaulters. The outspoken superstar... Read more »

DIAGEO’S WINNING CAMPAIGN

October 5, 2016

A DEVASTATING critique of the Diageo funded campaign, Stop-Out-Of-Control-Drinking (SOOCD), chaired by long time spin doctor, Fergus Finlay, has just been published. Written... Read more »

REVIEWING ROBBO’S FOUNDATION

October 5, 2016

WHILE MARY Robinson attracted plenty of media attention for her recent comments on eating (or rather not eating) meat, there was rather less... Read more »