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AFFAIRS OF THE NATION

THE OIRISH FAVOURITE

February 21, 2019
SUNDAY’S OSCARS look certain to feature The Favourite heavily and the green jersey has been very much in evidence in recent weeks, especially given... Read more »

SIMON COVENEY’S PRIORITIES

February 21, 2019
WITH THE children’s hospital overrun grabbing headlines for the last month, the contractors, BAM, are at the centre of a media storm. This is... Read more »

RONAN KEATING’S CORPORATE PAL

February 21, 2019
WITH BOYZONE winding down their farewell tour, which concludes in Dubai (natch) in April, hopefully lead singer Ronan Keating will not be overly distracted... Read more »

DEALING WITH CYRIL BURKE

February 21, 2019
FINE GAEL’S executive council must grapple with a delicate issue in the next few weeks as controversial Mayo county councillor, Cyril Burke, requires to... Read more »

STOP THAT WOMAN HANAFIN!

February 21, 2019
BARRY ANDREWS’S formidable, family political machine was a big factor in his Fianna Fáil convention victory for the Dublin Euro ticket last Sunday, but... Read more »

COVENEY HIDES BEHIND AG

February 7, 2019
THE MANNER of Simon Coveney’s dismissal of several legal opinions in support of Senator Frances Black’s Occupied Territories Bill (banning produce imported from Palestinian... Read more »

ED HONOHAN PURGED

February 7, 2019
THAT meddlesome Master of the High Court, Ed Honohan, has been effectively purged after years of ‘interfering’ in matters that the judiciary, the banks,... Read more »

SARAH LIPSETT’S ELECTION CAMPAIGN

February 7, 2019
WANNABE politician Sarah Lipsett got her local election campaign off to a flying start last month with a soft piece in the Sindo in... Read more »

MADURO’S IRISH CRITICS

February 7, 2019
ONE GROUP that will be delighted by Ireland’s support for the Venezuelan opposition and Juan Guaidó in recent weeks is the Venezuelan Community in... Read more »

DINNY’S HAITIAN HEADACHE

February 7, 2019
DENIS O’BRIEN’S Caribbean woes continue, with fuel shortages in Haiti causing his mobile phone operation there severe problems and even landing his outspoken chief... Read more »

COLLISON BROTHERS’ BLUES

February 7, 2019
THE HIGH fives at John and Patrick Collison’s Stripe tech outfit following last week’s $22.5bn valuation were put on hold this week when the... Read more »

PLOT TWIST AT THE IFTAS

February 7, 2019
THERE’S A bit of a lull among the film and TV luvvies given the disappearance from the spring calendar of the annual Irish Film... Read more »

PATRICK DORGAN’S HIGHS AND LOWS

February 7, 2019
THE Law Society’s announcement of the elevation of solicitor Patrick Dorgan to its presidency contained the usual rhetoric about his credentials and his priorities... Read more »

AODHÁN Ó RÍORDÁIN’S CONSTITUENTS

February 7, 2019
‘PROPERTY OWNERS of Howth, unite! You have nothing to lose but your cliff views’ is Labour Party senator Aodhán Ó Ríordáin’s latest rallying cry... Read more »

SECRET CENTENARY PLANS PRISED OPEN

January 24, 2019
THE OIREACHTAS commemoration of the first Dáil passed off without controversy, but the government’s failure to disclose, until this month, any details whatsoever about... Read more »

DINNY’S DWINDLING ASSETS

January 24, 2019
DENIS O’BRIEN must have been chuffed with the guesstimate of his wealth that appeared in last weekend’s Sunday Independent Rich List. The title, where... Read more »

TABLOID TALKING POINTS ON ‘PRIME TIME’

January 24, 2019
TRANS RIGHTS and gender recognition are trendy, emotive and complex issues and it wasn’t going to be too long before Prime Time blundered into... Read more »

THE ABBEY’S BAD TIMING

January 24, 2019
IN THIS issue (see p14), Goldhawk profiles the man at the centre of the Abbey Theatre’s latest offstage drama, director Graham McLaren, and investigates... Read more »

VARADKAR’S YELLOW PERIL

January 24, 2019
WHAT A strange, strident initiative Taoiseach Leo Varadkar made on behalf of Ireland during his visit to North Africa’s Mali and Ethiopia recently. In... Read more »

ROSS VS JUDGES: INJURY TIME

January 24, 2019
IS SHANE Ross’s Judicial Appointments Bill in its final stages of enactment or will there be extra time in the Seanad and Dáil? Threats... Read more »

GARY KAVANAGH’S PALS

January 24, 2019
THERE HAS been quite a surge in activity in recent weeks at right-wing “think tank” the Edmund Burke Institute (EBI), where Gary Kavanagh has... Read more »

PAISLEY’S JUNKET

January 24, 2019
CO-OPERATION IRELAND, which funded Ian Paisley’s first-class junket (£6,327 in travel and accommodation) to New York last year, is headed by a former senior... Read more »

LAW SOCIETY WARS

January 24, 2019
MAYO SOLICITOR Daniel Coleman has just emerged from a decade-long joust with the Law Society. He was successful in an appeal to the Supreme... Read more »

PADDY PRENDERGAST’S PROJECT

January 24, 2019
NOT FOR the first time, Trinity College Dublin students are expressing their dissatisfaction with Provost Paddy Prendergast and his administration (see The Phoenix, 21/4/17,... Read more »

EILEEN BATTERSBY’S LITERARY LUVVIES

January 10, 2019
THE OUTPOURINGS from literati in the Irish Times and elsewhere following the death of literary correspondent Eileen Battersby disguised the tensions that existed at... Read more »

MARY ROBINSON’S CREDENTIALS

January 10, 2019
MOST OBSERVERS have been baffled by Mary Robinson’s blunder in giving cover to the feudal Emirates ruling family and noticed the irony of ‘feminist’... Read more »

DIARMUID MARTIN’S SUCCESSOR

January 10, 2019
The race to succeed Diarmuid Martin as Archbishop of Dublin has begun in earnest, even though the most successful head in recent times of... Read more »

NIALL MCGARRY’S BIG YEAR

January 10, 2019
GOLHAWK’S favourite self-promoting online publisher, Niall McGarry, has hit the ground running in 2019, promising a very big year for his Maximum Media group... Read more »

‘IRISH TIMES’ ROMAN FEUD

January 10, 2019
THE IRISH TIMES’S refusal to adequately recompense Paddy Agnew, its Rome correspondent of 28 years, has now involved six hearings at the Tribunale di... Read more »

THOSE IRISH YELLOW VESTS

January 10, 2019
Who exactly are the Irish Yellow Vests? The movement in France is a leaderless broad church but, although subject to some right-wing infiltration, it... Read more »

HELEN LUCEY’S SEMI-KINGDOM

January 10, 2019
THE LAW Society Gazette’s report last month on sanctions imposed on Listowel solicitor Helen Lucey raises an interesting question about Lucey’s role of coroner... Read more »

ODRAN REID’S POLITICS

January 10, 2019
The changes continue apace at Brendan Halligan’s Ireland China Institute, the “independent think tank dedicated to the study of Irish Chinese affairs”. The board... Read more »

SOFTLY DOES IT WITH THE MAKTOUMS

January 9, 2019
GIVEN THE influence of the Dubai ruling Al Maktoum family here, the silence to date of the Irish government on the Sheikha Latifa scandal... Read more »

COVENEY’S CAREFUL CHOREOGRAPHY

December 13, 2018
ALAN SHATTER’S predictable outburst against Simon Coveney on the Israel-Palestine issue will actually be welcomed by the foreign minister. Far from behaving like a... Read more »

TROUBLE BREWING AT TROY STUDIOS?

December 13, 2018
IN FEBRUARY this year, culture minister Josepha Madigan was invited to a ‘do’ in the Merrion Hotel, Dublin, by Kim Harris, general counsel at... Read more »

PITT’S HUNT FOR INM LEAKS

December 13, 2018
THE SHINE has come off former Independent News & Media (INM) chief executive Robert Pitt – the man who blew the whistle on INM’s... Read more »