Article Category: Affairs of the Nation

SOFTLY DOES IT WITH THE MAKTOUMS

January 9, 2019
GIVEN THE influence of the Dubai ruling Al Maktoum family here, the silence to date of the Irish government on the Sheikha Latifa scandal... Read more »

COVENEY’S CAREFUL CHOREOGRAPHY

December 13, 2018
ALAN SHATTER’S predictable outburst against Simon Coveney on the Israel-Palestine issue will actually be welcomed by the foreign minister. Far from behaving like a... Read more »

TROUBLE BREWING AT TROY STUDIOS?

December 13, 2018
IN FEBRUARY this year, culture minister Josepha Madigan was invited to a ‘do’ in the Merrion Hotel, Dublin, by Kim Harris, general counsel at... Read more »

COMMONWEALTH BLUES

December 13, 2018
AT THE height of the Brexit crisis, what are Fine Gael senators Neale Richmond and Frankie Feighan up to in their promotion of the... Read more »

FF MAN TO SAVE MADAM MENG?

December 13, 2018
FORMER Fianna Fáil spin doctor Dave Harmon will surely be called on to provide political and diplomatic assistance to Ms Meng Wanzhou, chief financial... Read more »

UNION FACTION FIGHTS

December 13, 2018
AN INTRIGUING political quarrel inside the country’s second-largest union, Fórsa, saw its youth wing, Fórsa Youth Network, closed down recently by the union’s bosses,... Read more »

ZAPPER ZAPS HER CONSTITUENCY

November 29, 2018
THE DANCING on children’s minister, Katherine Zappone’s political coffin that Fine Gael and media commentators have engaged in could be most premature judging by... Read more »

DENIS O’BRIEN’S AWARD

November 29, 2018
CONGRATULATIONS TO Denis O’Brien, who has landed an honorary fellowship from the National College of Ireland (NCI). It is the least the great educator... Read more »

LUKE COMER’S HEAVY GOING

November 29, 2018
ALTHOUGH ONLY a handful of people in this country can claim to be richer than developer Luke Comer, he finds himself being sued in... Read more »

LORRAINE HIGGINS FOR EUROPE?

November 29, 2018
FORMER LABOUR senator Lorraine Higgins has suddenly become a lady that lunches with Blueblouse women and has been tweeting in support of the same... Read more »

WHO FEARS TO SPEAK?

November 29, 2018
EARLY LAST month, French President Emmanuel Macron demanded the creation of a “real European army”, arguing in apocalyptic mode that “we have to protect... Read more »

OOOPS! THE MONEY IS GONE

November 29, 2018
FANS OF Goldhawk will be familiar with the lengthy liquidation saga at Ralph Christians’s Magma Films, where the end is finally in sight. However,... Read more »

UCD PRESIDENT’S MAR-A-LAGO

November 29, 2018
AUSSIE GO-GETTER and UCD president Andrew Deeks has caused academic eyebrows to arch with his grandiose projects, including the €48m creative design centre; a... Read more »

MARY LOU’S ELECTION BLUES

November 1, 2018
POST-ELECTION depression among Sinn Féin members will quickly turn to anger if the leadership does not show contrition and self-criticism over the presidential election... Read more »

COLLISON BROTHERS’ BAD PRESS

November 1, 2018
JOHN AND Patrick Collison, the Limerick-born wunderkinds behind online payments company Stripe, are not used to negative press – particularly in Ireland. So it... Read more »

CASEY’S CHORUS

November 1, 2018
PETER CASEY brought out the Tory beast in the Sunday Times and its Dublin-based champion, Frank Fitzgibbon, editor of the Aarish edition. Like some... Read more »

MARY HARNEY’S INVESTMENT

November 1, 2018
GOOD TO see the busy former health minister Mary Harney putting her money where her mouth is. No doubt she has plenty of the... Read more »

CRYSTAL LI’S LIFELINE

November 1, 2018
HAVING APPEARED to have succeeded in getting a big public translation contract cancelled and restarted, Ruski lawyer Olga Shajaku got some frustrating news last... Read more »

BRENDAN HALLIGAN’S ONE CHINA POLICY

November 1, 2018
THERE WAS much scratching of heads in Leinster House last month when ceann comhairle Seán Ó Fearghail circulated a letter to members warning them... Read more »

LIBEL STAND-OFF

November 1, 2018
BARRISTER-turned-seminarian-turned-layman and now litigant, Conor Gannon, has taken out High Court writs against three newspapers following reports published in connection with his time at... Read more »

DUBLIN 7 TO MOROCCO

November 1, 2018
HOLDER of the presidential wooden spoon Gavin Duffy lost his deposit and he also got hit for a €20 spot when canvassing in Henry... Read more »