Article Category: Affairs of the Nation

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

FINE GAEL: THE DRINKS PARTY

May 17, 2017

THE recent appointment of former TD and FG health spokesperson Dr Liam Twomey as chief medical officer of the laughably entitled Drinkaware, is... Read more »

No Gong for Grogan

May 17, 2017

CONGRATULATIONS to the likes of former Chief Justice Ronan Keane (Lifetime Achievement Award) and Ronan Daly Jermyn (Law Firm of the Year) who... Read more »

LESLIE BUCKLEY’S ‘PERVERSE’ CASE

May 17, 2017

THE CHAIRMAN of Independent News and Media has been in the news recently over assorted controversies in the Denis O’Brien controlled media company... Read more »

HORSING ABOUT WITH JIM FERRY

May 17, 2017

DONEGAL waste operator Jim Ferry was treated to a full page in The Irish Times last weekend after his latest conviction for illegal... Read more »

PAPAL NUNCIO’S CÉAD MÍLE FÁILTE

May 17, 2017

IRELAND’S new papal nuncio, the well travelled and multi-linguist Archbishop Jude Thaddeus Okolo, has been papal envoy to the Dominican Republic and apostolic... Read more »

‘Rat-like’ Cunning

May 17, 2017

NO SURPRISE to see Harry Crosbie getting an easy ride in his fanzine, the Sindo, earlier this month. Previously, when the gloves came... Read more »

LAY LITIGANT WALSH STILL AT LARGE

May 17, 2017

LAY litigant David Walsh is still enjoying his freedom despite having been sent to jail for criminal contempt, twice, for insisting on his... Read more »

WHO FEARS TO SPEAK

May 17, 2017

WHERE is the Oireachtas Decade of Centenaries Committee? It automatically dissolved with the advent of the new Dáil and government over a year... Read more »

GLEN’S OTHER ISSUES

May 17, 2017

THE goings-on in Glen (Gay and Lesbian Equality Network) hardly deserved the Sunday Business Post’s front-page headline, “Future of gay rights charity in... Read more »

DECCO’S NEW MAN

May 17, 2017

JIM MCGRATH, special adviser to Labour Party rottweiler Alan Kelly, has moved on to pastures new. McGrath’s new employer turns out to be... Read more »

MEDICAL ‘ETHOS’ AT ST VINCENT’S

May 3, 2017

WHAT an effective bedside screen has been erected around the deal for a new National Maternity Hospital (NMH) at St Vincent’s Hospital Group... Read more »

IAN BAILEY’S FATEFUL MONTH

May 3, 2017

IAN BAILEY has more than one crucial appointment with the Irish and French legal authorities this month with imminent decisions in court and... Read more »

Daly Bread

May 3, 2017

SURPRISING to see the real identity of the writer of the rip-roaring Grange Abbey family saga is low profile property developer David Daly,... Read more »

Sean Lyons’s ‘Hostel’

May 3, 2017

LAST MONTH, the Circuit Civil Court reported that two children who had been staying in a Dublin hostel called the Georgian Court on... Read more »

DRAMA AT THE ABBEY

May 3, 2017

GOLDHAWK wonders if arts minister Heather Humphreys will get around to announcing the new chair of the Abbey Theatre now she is back... Read more »

RTÉ THROWS THE BOOK AT GALLAGHER

May 3, 2017

FOLLOWING Goldhawk’s coverage of the bruising demand for discovery faced by Declan Ganley in his defamation case against RTÉ (see The Phoenix 21/4/17),... Read more »

NOBODY LIKES BILLO

May 3, 2017

YOU HAVE to hand it to Jackie Lavin. When it comes to generating publicity for herself, she is hard to top. And it... Read more »

CHARLETON TRIBUNAL: PROTECTING CONFIDENTIAL SOURCES

May 3, 2017

SUPREME Court justice Peter Charleton may find his timeline of nine months to investigate an alleged smear campaign by senior gardaí against whistleblower... Read more »