Article Category: Affairs of the Nation

PR OWN GOALS IN SOUTH DUBLIN

March 9, 2016

FOR A school to be involved in one public controversy is unfortunate, two starts to look like carelessness. The Harold School in Glasthule,... Read more »

HALAWA INTERNED IN CAIRO

March 9, 2016

IT is now clear that the Egyptian government has effectively interned Ibrahim Halawa, with the latest adjournment of his trial and nearly 500... Read more »

WHAT PRICE THE IRISH TIMES?

March 9, 2016

“DELIGHT” was expressed by The Irish Times’ editor and managing director, Kevin O’Sullivan and Liam Kavanagh respectively, in a recent message to staff... Read more »

NORA KHALDI’S BACKERS

March 9, 2016

HOT SHOT entrepreneur Nora Khaldi has been generating plenty of headlines recently, as a result of securing one of the ten places available... Read more »

JOHN GRAYKEN: THE IRISH VULTURE

March 9, 2016

THE LATEST Forbes list of billionaires included assorted ‘Irish’ moneybags who obtained citizenship here under the now defunct passport-for-sale scheme in the late... Read more »

MARKUS JOOSTE’S TAXING MATTERS

February 25, 2016

THE announcement that John Magnier’s Coolmore Stud has agreed a partnership with South African tycoon Markus Jooste is good news for the Coolmore... Read more »

THE McEVADDYS’ TOUGH MEDICINE

February 25, 2016

NO SIGN of the McEvaddy brothers, Ulick and Des, in last weekend’s Sindo Rich List. This may not come as a big surprise,... Read more »

GANG FEUD: THE POLISH CONNECTION

February 25, 2016

EASTERN Europe has more to do with the feuding gangs’ military fire power and proficiency than West Belfast, despite what certain media and... Read more »

€2M JUDGMENT AGAINST FF SENATOR

February 25, 2016

A JUDGMENT for almost E2m has just been registered against Fianna Fáil senator Diarmuid Wilson, courtesy of AIB. The judgment was in connection... Read more »

STEPHEN RAE FOR RTÉ DG

February 25, 2016

WHAT a perspicacious article appeared in the Sunday Independent recently informing readers that in the race for the RTÉ director general’s job, Rory... Read more »

ENDA KENNY AND THE WHINGERS

February 25, 2016

ENDA KENNY’S gaffe, in which he described people in Castlebar as “All Ireland champion” whingers, has proved a significant setback for Fine Gael.... Read more »

MAURICE BUCKLEY’S RETURN

February 25, 2016

INTERESTING to see Maurice ‘TMG’ Buckley pop up as a director and shareholder in a Kildare-registered company called Hytech Energy Europe Ltd that... Read more »

MICHAEL NOONAN BLOWS IT

February 25, 2016

ENDA KENNY’S special talent for scapegoating officials and handlers will have to be refined after the worst Fine Gael election campaign since the... Read more »

LABOUR’S LOSING LEADERS

February 11, 2016

LABOUR’S election strategy committee in 2015 was initially dominated by its four senior ministers, Joan Burton, Alan Kelly, Brendan Howlin and Alex White.... Read more »

Rathdown Shatter Vs White

February 11, 2016

LOOKS like Fine Gael candidate, solicitor Josepha Madigan (author of Negligent Behaviour, a novel containing “steamy sex sessions”), is heading for a Dáil... Read more »

MICHAEL RING’S WESTPORT HEADACHE

February 11, 2016

WITH COUNTLESS local battles being fought around the country as the election gains momentum, in Mayo the issue of Westport House has garnered... Read more »

FIANNA FÁIL ON A ROLL

February 11, 2016

HAVE Fine Gael strategists been seduced by their own propaganda? The notion that they are fighting for civilisation and seats against the Provo-Bolsheviks... Read more »

PEGIDA TO RUN IN ELECTION?

February 11, 2016

THE leader of the Aryan super race in Ireland, Pegida founder Peter O’Loughlin, has until High Noon today (Thursday) to declare his intended... Read more »

Donegal Councillors court date

February 11, 2016

THE CURRENT chairman of Donegal County Council, Fianna Fáil’s Ciaran Brogan, is due before Letterkenny District Court next month on a drink-driving related... Read more »

RADIO INTERFERENCE FOR SETANTA

February 11, 2016

THERE WAS plenty of back-slapping going on this month after the announcement of the deal that sees Frank Gleeson’s Mercantile group of bars... Read more »

COALITION DIRTY TRICKS

February 11, 2016

PAT RABBITTE (in)famously remarked that politicians say certain things during election campaigns, but Enda Kenny and Joan Burton’s cynical response to the gangland... Read more »

MICHEÁL MARTIN’S FF MACHINE

February 11, 2016

IT’S back to the future for the Fianna Fáil election campaign with most of the core group of handlers being long time party... Read more »

LOUIS WALSH’S APARTMENTS

January 28, 2016

FANS of Goldhawk will already be familiar with the adventures of Alan Hanly, whose family has an interest in the luxury hotel resort,... Read more »

DAVID BEGG BEGGARS BELIEF

January 28, 2016

THE multiple leaks from the banking inquiry last week came at rather a bad time for David Begg and his patron, Tánaiste Joan... Read more »

NEW FG MINISTERS

January 28, 2016

SPECULATION about the next Fine Gael cabinet was far more intense among ard fheis delegates last weekend than curiosity about which Independent TDs... Read more »

DON McMANUS V JOE DUFFY

January 28, 2016

SOME HEATED comments on RTÉ’s Liveline programme in September last have resulted in a suit for defamation being lodged by Dún Laoghaire businessman... Read more »

BIRMINGHAM BOMBS: 41 YEARS ON

January 28, 2016

THE tardiness of West Midlands Police in investigating the true identities of those responsible for the 1974 Birmingham bombs has been underlined by... Read more »

CONOR KILLEEN’S SPORTS STRATEGY

January 28, 2016

INTERESTING to see financier and investor Conor Killeen of Key Capital, who took control of the Sunday Business Post in 2014, now playing... Read more »

EDDIE SHEEHY’S LEGACY

January 28, 2016

WICKLOW COUNTY COUNCIL (WCC) is a much duller place in the absence of its former county manager, the combative Eddie Sheehy, whose relations... Read more »

FUNDING THE MARY ROBINSON CENTRE

January 28, 2016

MORE ON that Mary Robinson Centre (MRC), the multi-million euro project proposed for Robbo’s family home in Ballina. The question of exactly how... Read more »

APOLOGISING TO DENIS O’BRIEN

January 28, 2016

DENIS O’BRIEN is not known for his sense of humour, especially when it comes to the media, so comparing him to Adolf Hitler... Read more »

LUCY GAFFNEY TO HEAD RTÉ?

January 28, 2016

COULD it possibly be that the RTÉ board will hire Lucy Gaffney, right hand woman in Denis O’Brien’s media empire, as director general... Read more »

RTÉ CLIMATE DENIERS

January 28, 2016

IS RTÉ easy prey for the farming lobby? One might expect that the largely liberal programmers in the national broadcaster would be enthusiastic... Read more »

FLANAGAN FURIOUS OVER HALAWA

January 14, 2016

FOREIGN minister Charlie Flanagan was not best pleased to see Sinn Féin MEP Lynn Boylan rip apart his softy-softly strategy on Ibrahim Halawa... Read more »

THREE RING CIRCUS IN MAYO

January 14, 2016

FINE GAEL and Enda Kenny’s’ target of three seats in the Taoiseach’s revised four-seat Mayo constituency will be even harder to achieve than... Read more »

MAHON: ASKING THE RELEVANT QUESTIONS

January 14, 2016

DOES environment minister Alan Kelly know what the Mahon Tribunal’s been up to since he nodded through, last February, its disposal of crucial... Read more »