Affairs of the Nation Archives

AFFAIRS OF THE NATION

ZELENSKIY’S OFFSHORE LINKS

April 20, 2022
THERE HAS, unsurprisingly, been plenty of media coverage of the main players in the Ukrainian war, with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy the recipient of lavish... Read more »

FACEBOOK FACES UP TO MIRIAM

April 20, 2022
CELEB SOLICITOR Paul Tweed was a natural as Murrium O’Callaghan’s brief in her case against Facebook for “malicious falsehood, defamation, various breaches of constitutional... Read more »

Robbie Henshaw Bill Shipsey Breaking the Silence L’Ecrivain Ronan McNally National Lottery Michael Roche Energy Action Balls.ie Newspapers VAT Abbey Theatre Patricia Madden Irish Banking Culture Board Randox Aoife Gallagher Book Dalai Lama Trinity Trevor White RTÉ Chairperson Shane Houlihan Noel Smyth IKC Bob Geldof Landlord Ireland Neutrality Ukraine

TREVOR’S TONIC

April 20, 2022
GOLDHAWK IS delighted to report that accounts just made available reveal that the Little Museum of Dublin has been sailing through the pandemic, and... Read more »

JAY BOURKE’S PR

April 20, 2022
IT HAS been hard to avoid disqualified restaurateur and publican Jay Bourke, whose media campaign in recent weeks has seen him feature prominently in... Read more »

MARTIN TRUCE WITH O’CALLAGHAN?

April 20, 2022
ONE OF the intriguing choices Micheál Martin will get to make when he retires as taoiseach in December is who to appoint as justice... Read more »

RTÉ’S LOST DECADE

April 20, 2022
“FUTURE GENERATIONS will judge us by how we deal with climate change”, presenter Fran McNulty solemnly intoned when opening RTÉ’s Prime Time climate special... Read more »

MALI AND SIMON COVENEY’S ‘SHOCK’

April 20, 2022
HIDDEN AWAY at the bottom of page 4 in the Irish Times recently was a short article about how the Irish Defence Forces had... Read more »

RACEHORSE OWNERS UNSADDLE CHAIRMAN

April 20, 2022
THIS WEEK sees the second annual general meeting in a few months of the Association of Irish Racehorse Owners (Airo), the representative organisation for... Read more »

MARY IRVINE’S SUCCESSOR

April 20, 2022
THE TOP four favourites to succeed Ms Justice Mary Irvine as president of the High Court each have distinguished credentials in the areas that... Read more »

MICHAEL HACKMAN’S NEW PLOT

April 20, 2022
THERE WEREN’T too much questions asked by nosey hacks when Pascal Donohoe was roped into the PR exercise heralding a €300m Greystones film studio... Read more »

ARMY UNREST GROWS

April 7, 2022
ONE CHARACTERISATION of conflicts such as sexual offences in the Defence Forces is that of the defence department’s alleged control freakery and micromanagement. But... Read more »

EAMON DUNPHY SCORES AGAIN

April 7, 2022
A COMPANY called Festuca Ltd probably doesn’t ring too many bells for Goldhawk fans but it turns out to be one of the firms... Read more »

NEW ‘CENSOR’

April 7, 2022
CINEMA-GOERS will have spotted a new name on the certificate that pops up on the screen before the film’s opening credits, courtesy of the... Read more »

MARK HENRY’S BOOK

April 7, 2022
MARK HENRY, author of In Fact: An Optimist’s Guide to Ireland at 100, has been getting rave reviews from the ‘right’ people’ (very ‘right’... Read more »

US EMBASSY’S VIEW OF CJH & CO

April 7, 2022
WITH FOREIGN embassies and their information gathering under scrutiny (well, one of them), it is interesting to note that the mainstream media ignored the... Read more »

AGRI-BIZ AND CLIMATE ‘SOLUTIONS’

April 7, 2022
A SMALL piece of Dáil history was made recently, with the first joint meeting of the oireachtas committees on agriculture and environment and climate.... Read more »

SINDO SCOOPS S. TIMES HACK

April 7, 2022
AN INNOCUOUS, discreetly placed ad at the bottom of page 2 of the Irish edition of the Sunday Times in the smallest of fonts... Read more »

WHAT LIES BENEATH FOR CALVERT’S BCP

April 7, 2022
YET ANOTHER less than auspicious cinema opening for an Irish film took place last month with Brendan Muldowney’s haunted-house drama, The Cellar, where the... Read more »

COX IN THE BOX

April 7, 2022
He also said Ms Burke had criticised another partner, Kevin Lynch, when he stopped by to congratulate her for completing a deal. The witness... Read more »

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MONTROSE AND CHATHAM HOUSE

April 7, 2022
RTÉ HAS for years relied on ‘experts’ from the Royal Institute of International Affairs at Chatham House (CH) to provide Irish listeners with their... Read more »

KEEPING UP WITH GREG SPARKS

April 7, 2022
THE IRISH TIMES was quick out of the blocks last month to report on the “dismay” expressed by the two female contenders who lost... Read more »

UKRAINE: ‘EDITORIAL FARM’

March 24, 2022
THE RUSSIAN onslaught against Ukraine has revealed a surprising and disappointing dearth in the Irish media – with a few honourable exceptions – of... Read more »

BARRY ANDREWS GETS TOUGH

March 24, 2022
WHAT A rabble-rousing politician MEP Barry Andrews has turned out to be, reverting to the more direct, radical tone of his grandfather Todd Andrews... Read more »

TRINITY’S UNIVERSITY CHALLENGE

March 24, 2022
IT WILL be a tense couple of weeks for the deputy editor of Trinity College student paper, the University Times, who faces a challenge... Read more »

TONI & GUY’S HAIRCUT

March 24, 2022
BACK IN the 1990s, Alan Boyce was revered by so-called fashionistas as the guy who modernised hairdressing in dreary old Dublin. No doubt, he... Read more »

CIVIL WAR CIVILITY

March 24, 2022
ALREADY THERE has been a clear schism between the government and President Michael D Higgins over how to deal with centenary commemorations of that... Read more »

DUP DISARRAY

March 24, 2022
IT IS 40 days to the north’s assembly election on May 5 and the Sinn Féin posters are already up in North Belfast while... Read more »

HEIGH-HO…

March 24, 2022
AN IMPENDING winding-up hearing in the High Court may have somewhat spoiled the Paddy’s Day celebrations for Cathal Divilly (CEO) and his partner, Jim... Read more »

BLOWIN’ IN THE WIND

March 24, 2022
THE ECONOMIC and supply chain shockwaves from the war in Ukraine have re-energised the ‘realists’ to use the crisis as cover to push existing... Read more »

THE FOG OF WAR

March 24, 2022
MANY ON the left are still trying to clarify their line on Ukraine but the Communist Party of Ireland (CPI) and Irish Republican Socialist... Read more »

MARTIN’S NUCLEAR HAND-WRINGING

March 10, 2022
AN TAOISEACH Micheál Martin, emitted obligatory outrage at Vladimir Putin’s recent move to put Russia’s nuclear deterrent forces on high alert – “extremely reckless... Read more »

PAUL KIMMAGE’S ROUGH RIDE

March 10, 2022
PAUL KIMMAGE’S second four-page ‘special’ on Irish horseracing’s dirty secrets might have been expected to include some real juice but the 7,000 words proved... Read more »

ARAMARK’S ‘AMBASSADORS’

March 10, 2022
WHILE THE National Gallery of Ireland (NGI) has come in for an awful lot of flak for contracting US company Aramark (owners of Avoca)... Read more »

ASHFORD STUDIO PLOT TWIST

March 10, 2022
WITH A new series of Vikings: Valhalla getting ready to start rolling at Ashford Studios (albeit a little late in the day) it looks... Read more »

WAITING ON CATHERINE MARTIN

March 10, 2022
MORE THAN a year after former chairman Pauric Travers exited the board of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI), there still remains a vacancy,... Read more »

McCONALOGUE AND THE KULAKS

March 10, 2022
CHARLIE McCONALOGUE’S pitch for farmers to produce more grain sounds, ironically, like a Russian five-year plan from the Soviet era. But for the government... Read more »