Article Category: Beyond the Pale

JACK HITS THE ROAD

July 12, 2018
WICKLOW would normally be an easy bet for any Labour Party general election candidate, especially one who is chairman of the party and who... Read more »

HEALY-RAE’S CLIMATE CLOWNING

August 10, 2016
WHEN HISTORIANS come to document the climate meltdown, what will they make of the fact that the biggest climate story of 2016 was ignored... Read more »

THE RETURN OF TOM COUGHLAN

March 9, 2016
LITTLE has been heard in recent years from the colourful former owner of Cork City Football Club and former Progressive Democrat candidate, Tom Coughlan,... Read more »

WILLIAM MORAN’S FAMILY FORTUNES

February 25, 2016
GALWAY businessman William Moran and his wife, Sheila – of the famous seafood restaurant in Kilcolgan, Co Galway, known as Moran’s on The Weir... Read more »

BEN GILROY’S ELECTION CAMPAIGN

February 11, 2016
ONE of the fringe political parties involved in this month’s general election is Direct Democracy Ireland (DDI), which is running around 20 candidates, including... Read more »

CHARITY WORKER’S ‘BAD ODOUR’

January 28, 2016
SOCIAL MEDIA giant Facebook has become embroiled in an ugly row over alleged nasty odours at a dump in Wicklow and is now being... Read more »

GALWAY PRINCIPAL’S “DISCIPLINE PROBLEMS”

January 14, 2016
ALL is far from well at Galway Jesuit secondary school, Coláiste Iognáid – more commonly referred to as ‘the Jes’ – where school principal... Read more »

CLAIRE CULLINANE’S RECORD

December 4, 2015
THE FOUR-SEAT constituency of Cork East is shaping up to be a crowded field come the next general election, and one of the Independents... Read more »

BERNARD O’BYRNE’S BASKETBALL BUST-UP

November 20, 2015
BASKETBALL IRELAND, the governing body for basketball in Ireland, is currently involved in a bitter dispute with a number of coaches and officials in... Read more »

PASCHAL BERGIN’S POCKET MONEY

November 6, 2015
FANS of Goldhawk will already be familiar with the many battles of property developer Mervyn Walsh, originally from Wexford, who was behind a disastrous... Read more »