Article Category: Affairs of the Nation

GOING FOR GOLD AT THE OCI

February 9, 2017

THE ELECTION of Pat Hickey’s successor as president of the Olympic Council of Ireland (OCI) takes pace at the end of this week... Read more »

Honohan v Ryan

February 9, 2017

MASTER of the High Court Ed Honohan irked Me’ Luds yet again in the New Year with a front page splash in The... Read more »

BEWARE THE IDES OF MARCH

January 26, 2017

ONE of the most skilful tactics Enda Kenny has deployed in retaining his leadership is that of presenting continuous staging posts – the... Read more »

Sean Lyons’s Doomsday Challenge

January 25, 2017

A COMPANY with the interesting name of Doomsday Challenge has just been restored to the register by the High Court, presumably in connection... Read more »

LAURA MAGAHY’S HEALTHY CONTRACTS

January 25, 2017

Mary Mitchell O’Connor and Laura Maghahy GOLDHAWK’S old friend, Laura Magahy, found herself back under the spotlight last week after a number of... Read more »

THE RACE TO SUCCEED PAT HICKEY

January 25, 2017

WHILE THERE has been much talk of a changing of the guard at the Olympic Council of Ireland (OCI), next month’s election of... Read more »

Peter Prendergast’s prescriptions

January 25, 2017

WITH THE Christmas festivities fading into the memory, eager members of the public have turned to diets, gyms and purification regimes and there... Read more »

FROM TV3 TO LAGOS

January 25, 2017

THE mystery surrounding Andrew Hanlon’s sudden departure from his job as TV3 director of news, a post he occupied since the station was... Read more »

RONAN CAVANAGH’S GOALS

January 25, 2017

IT WAS interesting to see An Post in the headlines the same week as the deadline for the filing of returns by lobbyists.... Read more »

DENIS O’BRIEN BIDS ADIEU TO Mac EOCHAIDH

January 12, 2017

WHATEVER about Shane Ross, one man who must be more than pleased to see Judge Colm Mac Eochaidh heading for Europe is Denis... Read more »

Charity cases

January 12, 2017

THERE WAS no surprise when Jim Luby was appointed liquidator of the Friends & Supporters of the Central Remedial Clinic Ltd before Christmas.... Read more »

PAUL SMITHWICK’S NEW FRIENDS

January 12, 2017

THE LANDING of an OBE gong by legal-eagle Paul Smithwick of that brewing ilk, probably didn’t come as too much of a surprise... Read more »

JUDGE GRIFFIN’S AUDIO TAPE

January 12, 2017

SPARE A thought for Judge Gerard Griffin of the Circuit Court who finds himself on the receiving end of serious allegations that surfaced... Read more »

BANKS BEWARE!

January 12, 2017

THE banks, government and courts could be thrown into chaos by a most interesting legal challenge to home repossessions – with a little... Read more »

ESCORT AGENCY’S GENEROSITY COMES UNSTUCK

January 12, 2017

CHRISTMAS proved an eventful period for the small Dublin charity, Inner City Helping Homeless (ICHH), which almost found itself screwed by a proposed... Read more »

Complaint turfed out

January 12, 2017

THE term authority in the title of an Irish organisation implies an entity set up under statute and overseen by the state, ie,... Read more »

‘WITCH-HUNT’ BY LEFTIST LAWYERS

January 12, 2017

A SERIES of court actions in Belfast and London against the Sun newspaper could cause convulsions in the British media should they be... Read more »

DEFENCE POLICY AND NEUTRALITY

December 14, 2016

NO rational explanation was offered as to why Shane Ross’s Independent Alliance caved in to Fine Gael over a free vote on a... Read more »

PAPAL VISIT: IRISH SCHISM

December 14, 2016

LIKE Julius Caesar’s tripartite division of Gaul, the Ireland that Pope Francis will encounter in August 2018, when he attends the world conference... Read more »

THE MAN WHO STOOD UP TO DENIS O’BRIEN

December 14, 2016

THE SOAP OPERA playing out at Independent News and Media (INM) between the group’s chief executive – former Tesco and Lidl suit, Robert... Read more »

DAVE BREEN’S SUNSHINE

December 14, 2016

INTERESTING TO see a company called Solar Secure Investments Ltd falling foul of the Revenue earlier this month when it was convicted for... Read more »

The Hot Air Brigade

December 14, 2016

“The rethinking of what employment might mean in a 21st Century economy dominated by artificial intelligence…” RTÉ chair Moya Doherty with a new... Read more »

PÁDRAIG Ó CÉIDIGH’S CONTRACTS

December 14, 2016

WITH THE Oireachtas committee on water charges kicking off its deliberations this week, it is set to be a very busy time for... Read more »

McKEE’S POLITICAL ODYSSEY

December 14, 2016

THE return of Kilkenny defector, Cllr Pat McKee, to a resurgent Fianna Fáil is not guaranteed given his promiscuous party couplings in the... Read more »

TCD’S ISRAELI CONNECTIONS

December 14, 2016

IN AN attempt to inject some balance into the Israel-Palestine debate, the fair-minded people at Trinity College’s chaplaincy are organising a “staff peace... Read more »

A RACING UNCERTAINTY

December 14, 2016

A CASE that would have thrown up some rather interesting details about the sort of compensation paid out to top racehorse trainers and... Read more »

A LA CARTE DÁIL PRIVILEGE

December 14, 2016

DENIS O’BRIEN must be horrified at the behaviour of his employees at the Irish and Sunday Independent in their pursuit of Gerry Adams... Read more »

SHANE ROSS AND THE JUDICIARY

December 1, 2016

ALTHOUGH Shane Ross may appear an unlikely champion of the new politics, his stand on the judicial council is fully justified in the... Read more »

OWEN SWAINE’S ABUSE OF PROCESS

December 1, 2016

GOLDHAWK’S OLD pal Galway legal eagle Owen Swaine got quite a kicking from Judge Seamus Noonan last month after the solicitor appealed a... Read more »

STUART GILHOOLY’S HARD TACKLES

December 1, 2016

DUBLIN SOLICITOR Stuart Gilhooly must be a relieved man that the retrial of former footballer Ched Evans – jailed for rape in 2012... Read more »

PÁDRAIG Ó CÉIDIGH’S HOT SEAT

December 1, 2016

THE VERY busy Pádraig Ó Céidigh finds himself in the hot seat as the water charges issue returns to the fore. He has... Read more »

‘UNWITTING VICTIM’ JOHN SPENCER

December 1, 2016

LAST MONTH’S Court of Appeal victory by Nenagh legal eagle John Spencer over Anglo Irish Bank/IBRC in relation to a 2005 investment scheme... Read more »

Sorry, Paddy

December 1, 2016

THE carefully honed Irish edition of the Daily Mail avoids the sort of paddy bashing still purveyed by sections of the British media... Read more »

BATTLE CONTINUES FOR SoS VICTIMS

December 1, 2016

THE campaign to adequately compensate women who endured the “barbaric” practice of symphysiotomy have endured an onslaught by a most interesting alliance of... Read more »

PAT HICKEY HOME FOR CHRISTMAS

December 1, 2016

GOLDHAWK’S SPIES in Brazil tell him that the €400,000 bail bond for Pat Hickey has arrived in Rio and is awaiting processing. It... Read more »

Legal eagles’ cost

December 1, 2016

FRAUD SQUAD inquiries into allegations made by Kenmare solicitor Colm Murphy against Law Society members may or may not come to anything. But... Read more »