Article Category: Affairs of the Nation

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

AFTER McGONAGLE AT NCAD

January 14, 2016

IT PROBABLY did not come as too much of a surprise to observers of the goings on in Dublin 8 that the National... Read more »

Saudi Allies?

January 14, 2016

THE RETICENCE of Minister for Foreign Affairs Charlie Flanagan to issue a statement condemning the execution of 47 people by the King Salman... Read more »

PETER MALBASHA’S ‘MISLEADING’ EVIDENCE

January 14, 2016

THERE WAS at least one red face in Nama last month following the outcome of a High Court case concerning the developer, Garrett... Read more »

JUDGE MALONE’S LIBEL WIN

January 14, 2016

ATTORNEY GENERAL Máire Whelan made the interesting suggestion recently that the defamation laws should be reformed to allow more latitude to court reporters.... Read more »

BERGERAC LIVES

January 14, 2016

HOW can an ex-garda get himself involved in legal proceedings against a newspaper in Sark, a small island in the Channel Islands (population... Read more »

MARTIN’S LEFT TURN

January 14, 2016

THIS weekend’s Fianna Fáil ard fheis will resonate to thunderous attacks on the ‘right wing, uncaring, Thatcherite’ etc Fine Gael, as Micheál Martin... Read more »

COALITION SECRETS AND LIES

December 17, 2015

THE four main political parties are lying through their teeth about their coalition options or non-options and the post-election scramble for power will... Read more »

JUDGE CORMAC DUNNE’S COSTS

December 17, 2015

JUDGE CORMAC Dunne has had his fair share of scrapes, but the good news is that at least he doesn’t have to pay... Read more »

MICK O’LEARY’S OIL BILL

December 17, 2015

HOW IRONIC it was to see Mick O’Leary popping up at the annual Dublin Chamber of Commerce Christmas lunch last week claiming that... Read more »

RUNNING RINGS AROUND DRINK BILL

December 17, 2015

ARE Fine Gael and sport minister Paschal Donohoe having a laugh with the minister’s recent statement that he was handing over responsibility for... Read more »

ANN REIHILL’S REDUCED IMAGE

December 17, 2015

ALMOST FORTY years after the magazine first appeared, these are interesting times at Image Publications. There has been a complex restructuring of the... Read more »