Article Category: Affairs of the Nation

Drury’s redemption

August 24, 2016

AS The Phoenix reported (see edition, 30/6/2016) former consultant, businessman and PR smoothie Fintan Drury underwent an apparent Pauline conversion from businessman to... Read more »

WHO PUT PAT BACK IN HIS BOX?

August 24, 2016

IS there not something very questionable behind the extraordinary arrest, imprisonment and personal humiliation of the president of the European Olympic Council and... Read more »

IAN BAILEY’S DOUBLE JEOPARDY

August 10, 2016

IAN BAILEY’S request that the Director of Public Prosecution reconsider its decision not to prosecute him for the alleged murder of Sophie Toscan... Read more »

Sindo on Halawa

August 10, 2016

FOLLOWING Eoghan Harris’s recent attack on Ibrahim Halawa – jailed for three years and facing a possible death penalty in Egypt – Sindo... Read more »

Isolated?

August 10, 2016

DIARMUID MARTIN has been isolated from his 25 episcopal colleagues in alleging the existence of a gay culture in Maynooth. But he has... Read more »

LEO SHERLOCK’S LIBERAL AGENDA

August 10, 2016

WHAT AN interesting family the Sherlock clan from Louth are. Cora Sherlock is one of the most strident spokespersons for the pro-life movement,... Read more »

DUBLIN MAYOR IN HIGH COURT ROW

August 10, 2016

DUBLIN Lord Mayor Brendan Carr expressed unalloyed “joy” at his recent elevation as well as much gratitude to not only his own Labour... Read more »

BORELAND SHOT IN LOYALIST FEUD

August 10, 2016

John Boreland Raymond McCord LAST SUNDAY night a notorious UDA gangster John Boreland (47) was shot dead. It was a botched murder attempt... Read more »

Fraser rules OK

August 10, 2016

THE strangled diplomatic language coming out of the Taoiseach’s office about the sudden transfer back to the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) of... Read more »

€40,000 HIT AGAINST JAMES CAHILL

August 10, 2016

DEAR me, what a stern judgment was delivered recently by Mr Justice Michael Moriarty (he of the tribunal of the same name) in... Read more »

Indo hacks Shane Ross

August 10, 2016

AS Irish Independent readers can probably tell, Fine Gael ministers are very cross with their one time party colleague, Shane Ross. Last month,... Read more »

JOINING NATO BY STEALTH

July 28, 2016

THE NATO summit in Poland this month was regarded as a key event in the US and European powers strategy of military expansion... Read more »

BAR COUNCIL CHAIRMAN’S TAX BILL

July 28, 2016

THE NEW chairman of the Bar Council is Paul McGarry SC, a busy barrister who has made quite a name for himself. And... Read more »

MOYA DOHERTY’S COMMISSIONS

July 28, 2016

THERE WAS plenty of coverage of the latest annual report from RTÉ published last week but not so much attention to the report... Read more »

Apology

July 28, 2016

The Commissioner of an Garda Síochána, The Minister for Justice and Equality and the Attorney General and The Phoenix magazine Further to the... Read more »

NOEL C DUGGAN’S LEGAL ACTION

July 28, 2016

NOEL C DUGGAN is getting as well known in the Four Goldmines as the showjumping world. He has just escalated his legal stand-off... Read more »

MAX BARRETT VS THE BAR COUNCIL

July 28, 2016

LAST WEEK’S ruling in favour of former judge Barry White, who was seeking to be allowed to practise as a barrister in courts... Read more »

THE PERENNIAL ATTORNEY GENERAL

July 28, 2016

‘BAFFLEMENT’ is the overwhelming response to the failure of government to appoint Attorney General Máire Whelan, now into her second term as AG,... Read more »

VW in Mayo court

July 28, 2016

BALLYHAUNIS solicitor Evan O’Dwyer has giant multinational Volkswagen on the run in Castlebar District Court. The Mayo legal eagle has forced the car... Read more »

SINN FÉIN’S ‘TRANSITIONAL LEADERSHIP’

July 27, 2016

SINN FÉIN’S new 10-year plan, currently being put to members at meetings around the country, has yet to be fully decoded by the... Read more »

SIMON COVENEY IS THE REAL FAVOURITE

July 15, 2016

LAST week’s poll showing that Fine Gael members favour Leo Varadkar above Simon Coveney by 43% to 29% is misleading. FG’s leadership colleges... Read more »

JOHN BRADY’S DAY IN COURT

July 15, 2016

THE FULL ruling, just published, from Judge Max Barrett on a case taken by Sinn Féin TD John Brady and his wife, Gayle,... Read more »

Water Celebrates Leave Result

July 15, 2016

DUBLIN born but British based Brexit campaigner, Anne Marie Waters, exultant after the Leave vote, is making waves in British right-wing circles with... Read more »

Console Unawarded

July 15, 2016

THE unforgiving organisers of the People of the Year Awards were quick to demand that ex-Console boss, Paul Kelly, return his award in... Read more »

GALWAY’S €9M HORROR SHOW

July 15, 2016

FANS of Goldhawk will recall that Galway City Council manager, Brendan McGrath unveiled a deal to get Lelia Doolan’s expensive Solas ‘Picture Palace’... Read more »

TONY WALSH’S FERTILE FERTILITY CLINIC

July 15, 2016

A NOTICE was published on June 30 announcing the planned striking off of the Companies Register of three businesses – The Sims Institute... Read more »

ROBBIE AND MICK’S MYTHICAL BAR

July 15, 2016

GOLDHAWK is happy to report that the stand-off between solicitor-cum-property developer, Ivor Fitzpatrick, and the promoters of a proposed ‘mythical bar’ off South... Read more »

Zappone sinks Wallace bill

July 15, 2016

ALPHA male Shane Ross was likened to Boris Johnson and his Independent Alliance ministers have also been condemned for sticking to their opposition... Read more »

Red ink at King’s Inns

July 2, 2016

AMONG THE names that have popped up on the Lobbying Register is that of the Honorable Society of King’s Inns, which is shown... Read more »

THE ASSASSINATION OF A JOURNALIST

July 2, 2016

Sunday Independent editorial executive Willie Kealy opened his tribute to Veronica Guerin last Sunday with a polemic against those who felt that she... Read more »

DES CROFTON’S SHOOT OUT

July 2, 2016

THERE WAS an interesting report last month concerning the hefty €75,000 awarded to Des Crofton, national director of the National Association of Regional... Read more »

MORGAN O’SULLIVAN’S GERMAN DRAMA

July 2, 2016

THE DRAGGING of James Flynn and Morgan O’Sullivan of Octagon Films into the Four Goldmines by German producer W2 Filmproduktion creates the prospect... Read more »