Article Category: Affairs of the Nation

Losing out at Lisselan

February 8, 2018
THE WOMAN behind Clonakilty Black Pudding, Colette Twomey, looks to have got herself a... Read more »

BRIAN McDONAGH’S DATA PROBLEM

February 8, 2018
SURPRISING to see a company called Granja Ltd listed for striking off by the... Read more »

HUMAN RIGHTS: NEW CRITERIA

February 8, 2018
THE refusal of Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHREC) member Betty Purcell to... Read more »

MARY HARNEY’S PRESCRIPTION

January 25, 2018
FORMER health minister Mary Harney will need to update her sprawling personal website following... Read more »

DUBLIN: CAPITAL OF CYBERCRIME

January 25, 2018
RECENT REVELATIONS of computer hacking and surveillance at Independent News and Media (INM) are... Read more »

SINN FÉIN FACTIONS

January 25, 2018
WITH Mary Lou McDonald still to be formally endorsed by an ard fheis and... Read more »

‘EXPERTS’ TO GUIDE REFERENDUM VOTERS

January 25, 2018
IT CAME as a surprise to most people that the Citizens’ Assembly brought forward... Read more »

Kevin Keane’s ‘COURTESY’ Meeting

January 25, 2018
MORE on the boycott by UCD and Trinity students of direct provision centre operator... Read more »

McALEESE DYNASTY ON THE CARDS?

January 25, 2018
THE two wings – polar opposites – of Fianna Fáil have both kept a... Read more »

Paschal Taggart’s shares

January 25, 2018
STOCK MARKET observers will be aware of the rather dramatic fall in the share... Read more »

DIRK VAN DER FLIER’S PRAYERS

January 25, 2018
WHILE LEINSTER rugby star Josh van der Flier has been drafted in to Joe... Read more »

Mick O’Leary’s negotiators

January 25, 2018
MICHAEL O’LEARY’S brave new world in which ‘combinations’ are now recognised has led to... Read more »

BUGGERS AT INM

January 11, 2018
WHAT is it about the repetitive hacking and surveillance in and around Independent News... Read more »

Olga Shajaku’s interesting friend

January 11, 2018
IT WAS interesting to see Bertie Ahern and other familiar faces pop up on... Read more »

Dermot Desmond’s new house

January 11, 2018
JUST HOW many houses can Dermot Desmond buy in Dublin 4? Dermo originally lived... Read more »

Steven Schwarzman’s scholarships

January 11, 2018
ONE person who will be delighted with the US Republicans’ new tax plan is... Read more »

MI5/UVF HAUGHEY MURDER PLOT

January 11, 2018
Why would a notorious loyalist killer gang like the UVF write to then Taoiseach... Read more »

BEADES VEXES HIGH COURT PRESIDENT

January 11, 2018
FOUR COURTS rules introduced last year to curtail lay litigants have not prevented barrack... Read more »

REWRITING THE TROUBLES

January 11, 2018
THE revisionist Ultras of last year’s West Cork History Festival (smart-ass Republicans have dubbed... Read more »

Suds’ Critics

January 11, 2018
IN THE midst of all the breast-beating and hair-pulling following the death of ‘Sir’... Read more »

RTÉ Houses

January 11, 2018
DUBLIN CITY chief executive Owen Keegan hit out at the decision of RTÉ to... Read more »

CRYING HALT TO EUROMANIACS

January 11, 2018
THERE’S no better man than former Labour minister Ruairí Quinn when it comes to... Read more »

Simon Coveney’s stance on Palestine

December 14, 2017
FOREIGN MINISTER Simon Coveney made a stirring statement on Donald Trump’s universally condemned decision... Read more »

Leo Varadkar’s Twitter Spin

December 14, 2017
TAOISEACH Leo Varadkar took a bit of a thumping from a prominent LGBT advocacy... Read more »

Students target Aramark

December 14, 2017
STUDENTS in Trinity and UCD are getting testy about the on campus presence of... Read more »

NIALL McGARRY’S RED INK

December 14, 2017
ONLINE PUBLISHER and self-promoter extraordinaire, Niall McGarry was talking up his Maximum Media group... Read more »

BIG BILLS AT BEWLEY’S

December 14, 2017
VISITORS TO Dublin’s Grafton Street in the last couple of weeks may have been... Read more »

ST JOHN HUME JNR

December 14, 2017
THE recent Dublin film premiere of Maurice Fitzpatrick’s In the Name of Peace: John... Read more »

Injudicious behaviour

December 14, 2017
RUMOURS of some splendidly injudicious carry-on in the Supreme Court building have been circulating... Read more »

Colm O’Gorman v SIPO

December 14, 2017
IT IS perhaps not too surprising that the Irish arm of Amnesty International should... Read more »

George Hook’s return

December 14, 2017
GEORGE HOOK’S long-awaited return to the airwaves, promised for December, has been pushed back... Read more »

RTÉ’s anti-social media

December 14, 2017
HOW long does it take to figure out who has access to an RTÉ... Read more »

That Frances and Leo deal

November 30, 2017
WHEN the dust settles on the election that nearly was it will be the... Read more »

McCABE: ‘RIGHT THE WAY THROUGH’

November 30, 2017
ONE man with a keen interest in the entire Fitzgeraldgate saga is Colm Smyth,... Read more »

COMMITTEE TROUBLE IN TRINNERS

November 30, 2017
A TYPICALLY toxic student row in Trinity College Dublin has led to the ousting... Read more »