Article Category: Affairs of the Nation

DENIS O’BRIEN’S TOPAZ LOSS

April 7, 2016

GOLDHAWK was always suspicious of the reports that Denis O’Brien had sold his Topaz petrol retailer to the Canadian giants Couche-Tard for E450m.... Read more »

BRENDAN HOWLIN’S DIVINE RIGHT

April 7, 2016

IF Alan Kelly is addicted to power, then Brendan Howlin is a megalomaniac who believes he can assume leadership of the Labour Party... Read more »

IVAN YATES TO LEAVE NEWSTALK

April 7, 2016

IVAN Yates has decided to leave Newstalk and this time he means it. The broadcaster is now in negotiation with station bosses about... Read more »

MICHAEL TWEE’S SHARPER TONE

April 7, 2016

NO wonder the director of the Iona Institute, David Quinn, denounced President Michael D Higgins’ 1916 commemorative speeches in the Irish Independent last... Read more »

REFERENDUM ON EU-US TRADE DEAL?

March 24, 2016

THE Transatlantic Trade & Investment Partnership (TTIP), the trade and investment-protection deal between the EU and the US, threatens to undermine national sovereignties,... Read more »

KIERAN ROSE’S CAMPAIGN

March 24, 2016

CONGRATULATIONS to wily NUI Seanad candidate and impressive self-promoter Kieran Rose. The Dublin City Council senior planner has managed to attract oodles of... Read more »

LABOUR’S SENATE GENDER DEFICIT

March 24, 2016

LABOUR’S horrendous general election, coupled with its equally abysmal local election results, mean that its Seanad voting franchise – councillors and newly elected... Read more »

MARY ROBINSON’S NEW DIRECTORS

March 24, 2016

AS PLANS proceed for Mary Robinson’s multi-million euro shrine in Ballina, she had beefed up the board of her new foundation with some... Read more »

DENIS O’BRIEN IN THE GOLDMINES

March 24, 2016

WHAT now for the media mogul Denis O’Brien and Red Flag, the PR firm that Denis has chased through the courts for alleged... Read more »

FLOOD/MAHON TRIBUNAL WIPE-OUT

March 24, 2016

THE fiasco that is the Mahon Tribunal has now climaxed with virtually all findings of culpability against previously named parties being dumped. Estimates... Read more »

“CURIOUS AND UNSETTLING” IN CORK

March 24, 2016

A RETIRED chartered engineer, William Bailey, has just won an important and interesting legal battle in the Court of Appeal concerning an unauthorised... Read more »

FICKLE FG SENATORS

March 9, 2016

POLITICAL reform is a moveable feast and the decision of several Fine Gael TDs who lost their seats at the election to now... Read more »

Tim Caffrey’s Departure

March 9, 2016

FAREWELL then to former Longford County Council (LCC) boss, Tim Caffrey, who retired earlier this month. Last October, Caffrey was found by ethics... Read more »

TONY GREGORY’S LEGACY

March 9, 2016

WAS it for this that Tony Gregory created a movement of the wretched of the inner city? So that Maureen O’Sullivan could become... 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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »