Affairs of the Nation Archives - Page 8 of 42

AFFAIRS OF THE NATION

CONDEMNING EOGHAN HARRIS

June 17, 2021
EOGHAN HARRIS was condemned from a great height by Cork City councillors who voted unanimously this week to “condemn the use of anonymous twitter... Read more »

POLITICS AND LAW

June 17, 2021
JENNIFER CARROLL MACNEILL has had enough of the frenzy about political cronyism in the sphere of judicial appointments as she made clear in a... Read more »

SONAR’S ‘DIPLOMACY’

June 17, 2021
A CONTROVERSIAL event at Trinity College Dublin last month resulted in Palestinian ambassador Jilan Wahba Abdalmajid expressing her outrage at the failure to inform... Read more »

FLIGHTS OF FANCY

June 17, 2021
THE DRAMATIC collapse of Stobart Air in recent days has thrown Ireland’s regional airports into turmoil, with 12 routes immediately suspended. These included Dublin... Read more »

TANKS, NOT HOUSES

June 3, 2021
LAST CHRISTMAS Goldhawk wrote that a planned reform of the Defence Forces would result in two things: the end of Irish neutrality and serious... Read more »

MOYA DOHERTY’S LEGAL ADVICE

June 3, 2021
THE PLOT thickens at RTÉ, where four vacancies on the board remain unfilled for months and now the legal eagles have been called in.... Read more »

EVANS-FREKE’S ESCAPE

June 3, 2021
GOLDHAWK’S favourite millionaire Wall Street banker, Stephen Evans-Freke, has had plenty to celebrate in recent weeks. First a plan for some houses near his... Read more »

JIMMY MENTON’S MEDICAL RECORD

June 3, 2021
THE LATEST arrival on the board of exploration company Providence Resources is James ‘Jimmy’ Menton, the former number cruncher who has played a central... Read more »

AIRO’S HEAVY GOING

June 3, 2021
THE GOING at the Association of Irish Racehorse Owners (AIRO) continues to be heavy. Chairman Brian Polly and member James Gough are already suing... Read more »

POL CORRS SPLIT ON BELARUS

June 3, 2021
THE ETHICAL antennae of Irish political correspondents rarely twitch when members of their own peer group fall foul of the law as evidenced by... Read more »

ISRAEL: WHAT NEXT?

June 3, 2021
LITTLE OR no attention was paid by the media to a widely circulated video of the raising of the Irish flag to the sound... Read more »

JERUSALEM OR JERUSALEMA?

June 3, 2021
HORIZON 2020 is an EU scheme to stimulate economic growth as well as create jobs… “to ensure Europe produces world-class science, removes barriers to... Read more »

CATHERINE MARTIN’S FILM CREDIT

June 3, 2021
CONGRATULATIONS TO communications minister Catherine Martin, who successfully shoe-horned herself into the PR blitz around the quarterly dishing out of funds to film and... Read more »

PADRAIG HIGGINS’S TANGLE

June 3, 2021
A HAIR salon business part-owned by Cork number cruncher Padraig Higgins has just been wound up but, it turns out, he is also involved... Read more »

MEDIAHUIS: ROGER CASEMENT’S NEMESIS

May 20, 2021
LAST WEEK saw a corporate PR initiative designed to highlight the brand name of Mediahuis, new owners of the now defunct Independent News &... Read more »

BÓTHAR’S FUNDING ROADBLOCK

May 20, 2021
THE CHARITY Bóthar has been rarely out of the headlines since the story of the misappropriation of funds first surfaced in the High Court... Read more »

RTÉ’S EMPTY CHAIRS

May 20, 2021
STILL NO sign of white smoke from the media department, where minister Catherine Martin continues to sit on the names of the nominations from... Read more »

CUNNING COVENEY’S CONTORTIONS

May 20, 2021
FOREIGN MINISTER Simon Coveney always likes to come over as the Palestinians’ best friend in public but his latest pronouncements are especially duplicitous. In... Read more »

ACTING UP

May 20, 2021
THINGS ARE heating up off screen over relations between the Irish Equity actors’ union and the lobby group for production companies, Screen Producers Ireland... Read more »

HARRIS HOIST

May 20, 2021
THE DEFENESTRATION of Eoghan Harris by Sunday Independent editor Alan English and publisher Peter Vandermeersch had little to do with sexism and everything to... Read more »

PETER KELLY’S ROUGH RIDE

May 20, 2021
FILINGS IN the Companies Office throw some light on the scale of last year’s collapse of businesses controlled by Ballymore Eustace bloodstock breeder Peter... Read more »

FILM BOARD’S NEW CAST

May 20, 2021
RATHER LATE in the day, the board of the state funding agency for film and television, Screen Ireland (SI), has finally been appointed by... Read more »

MEDIAHUIS: ROGER CASEMENT’S NEMESIS

May 20, 2021
LAST WEEK saw a corporate PR initiative designed to highlight the brand name of Mediahuis, new owners of the now defunct Independent News &... Read more »

BÓTHAR’S FUNDING ROADBLOCK

May 20, 2021
THE CHARITY Bóthar has been rarely out of the headlines since the story of the misappropriation of funds first surfaced in the High Court... Read more »

RTÉ’S EMPTY CHAIRS

May 20, 2021
STILL NO sign of white smoke from the media department, where minister Catherine Martin continues to sit on the names of the nominations from... Read more »

CUNNING COVENEY’S CONTORTIONS

May 20, 2021
FOREIGN MINISTER Simon Coveney always likes to come over as the Palestinians’ best friend in public but his latest pronouncements are especially duplicitous. In... Read more »

ACTING UP

May 20, 2021
THINGS ARE heating up off screen over relations between the Irish Equity actors’ union and the lobby group for production companies, Screen Producers Ireland... Read more »

HARRIS HOIST

May 20, 2021
THE DEFENESTRATION of Eoghan Harris by Sunday Independent editor Alan English and publisher Peter Vandermeersch had little to do with sexism and everything to... Read more »

PETER KELLY’S ROUGH RIDE

May 20, 2021
FILINGS IN the Companies Office throw some light on the scale of last year’s collapse of businesses controlled by Ballymore Eustace bloodstock breeder Peter... Read more »

FILM BOARD’S NEW CAST

May 20, 2021
RATHER LATE in the day, the board of the state funding agency for film and television, Screen Ireland (SI), has finally been appointed by... Read more »

EVEN-STEVENS AS JEFFREY CATCHES UP

May 6, 2021
THE DUP leadership election is shaping up to be more of a contest than many expected. Edwin Poots, the north’s agriculture minister, widely seen... Read more »

ROSE HYNES’S TURBULENCE

May 6, 2021
THE IRISH Aviation Authority (IAA) has just published its annual report, which doesn’t make for easy reading. As a result of a 21% drop... Read more »

SHAUN MURPHY’S SNOOKERS

May 6, 2021
IRISH SPORTING heavyweights are rare enough these days and snooker supremo Shaun ‘the Magician’ Murphy has been claimed as an honorary Irishman. Earlier this... Read more »

ROBERT WATT’S LOT

May 6, 2021
IF OPPOSITION politicians, the public and health service employees are aggrieved at the happy lot of mandarin extraordinaire Robert Watt, they can’t say they... Read more »

RTÉ AND ITS ‘COLD’ CLIMATE FORECAST

May 6, 2021
THERE ARE, to say the least, some very mixed messages emanating from Montrose on climate change, a topic that has long been a problem... Read more »

ENDA O’COINEEN’S PARTNER

May 6, 2021
DOCUMENTS FILED in the Companies Office recently give an insight into the valuations attached to the Business Post, where flamboyant investor Enda O’Coineen rules... Read more »