Article Category: Pillars of Society

PROFILE: MARY LOU MCDONALD

February 13, 2020

SINCE BECOMING Sinn Féin president two years ago, Mary Lou McDonald has endured opprobrium and adulation from party members in almost equal measure.... Read more »

PROFILE: EAMON RYAN

January 30, 2020

IS EAMON RYAN poised to become tánaiste in a coalition government that again involves the Green Party? And again with Fianna Fáil? The... Read more »

PROFILE: PASCHAL DONOHOE

January 16, 2020

For a finance minister and someone who holds not one but two powerful cabinet portfolios, Paschal ‘Dimples’ Donohoe is not exactly a household... Read more »

PROFILE: RICHARD BARRETT

December 12, 2019

ONE OF Fine Gael’s most trumpeted policies is the sprawling Rebuilding Ireland “action-driven plan to dramatically increase the delivery of homes nationwide”. The... Read more »

PROFILE: NOEL GREALISH

November 28, 2019

INDEPENDENT TD Noel Grealish was the first politician of substance to emit nakedly racist and even sectarian remarks before stealing away from public... Read more »

PROFILE – RICHIE OAKLEY

October 31, 2019

THE LATEST in a long line of Sunday Business Post editors is Richie Oakley, late of the now-defunct Times Ireland, which crashed and... Read more »

PROFILE: JOHN FITZGERALD

October 16, 2019

ONE OF Ireland’s pre-eminent economists, with a gargantuan academic and professional CV that includes membership of the Central Bank Commission and the Economic... Read more »

PROFILE: JOHN ARKINS

October 3, 2019

THE IRISH film and TV business is a glamorous one to outsiders and Leo Varadkar milked his Hollywood visit – ‘to double’ the... Read more »

PROFILE – PAUL O’NEILL

September 5, 2019

PHOENIX READERS will have been entertained by the anguished debate in which Irish Times journalists have become embroiled over alleged sexism at the... Read more »

PROFILE: HELEN DIXON

August 22, 2019

THE DATA protection commissioner’s withering rebuke of the roll out of the public services card (PSC) is a major embarrassment for ministers, notably... Read more »

PROFILE: FEARGAL PURCELL

August 8, 2019

Feargal Purcell was back in the news last month following an explosive Dáil row over the Climate Emergency Bill. The Fine Gael handler... Read more »

PROFILE: PAUL KEHOE

July 25, 2019

PAUL KEHOE, minister with special responsibility for defence and former Fine Gael chief whip, has become one of the latest government whipping boys... Read more »

PROFILE: MICHEÁL MARTIN

July 11, 2019

SUDDENLY, after three years of being widely mocked as Leo Varadkar’s pussycat and pilloried by his own members for refusing to fight the... Read more »

PROFILE: ENDA O’COINEEN

June 27, 2019

EYEBROWS WERE raised last weekend when Enda O’Coineen’s name was linked to a possible acquisition of the RTÉ Guide. But the deal makes... Read more »

PROFILE: MARY LOU MCDONALD

June 12, 2019

MEDIA COMMENT on the dangers facing Mary Lou McDonald’s leadership of Sinn Féin after the recent elections was predictable. However, and unusually, the... Read more »

PROFILE: DENIS DESMOND

May 29, 2019

WITH THE summer cycle of superstar rock gigs and music festivals set to kick off next month, MCD will be the biggest act... Read more »

PROFILE: CIARÁN CUFFE

May 16, 2019

WITH CLIMATE catastrophe nigh and finally impinging itself on the popular Irish consciousness, can the Green Party revive itself politically? In particular, can... Read more »

PROFILE: BARRY CONNELL

April 18, 2019

TEN YEARS ago, Dublin-based hedge fund manager and former stockbroker Barry Connell looked odds-on to become one of the leading players in the... Read more »

PROFILE: JAMES FLYNN

April 4, 2019

A GRIPPING legal drama returns to the schedules this month, when German lawyer-turned-movie maker Winfried ‘Winni’ Hammacher goes head to head with two... Read more »

PROFILE: SEÁN FLEMING

March 21, 2019

WHAT IS it about the chairmanship of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) that has provoked such a backlash from ministers, government TDs, Leinster... Read more »

PROFILE – FG’S HELEN MCENTEE

February 21, 2019

THE PRESENTABLE and quietly assured woman seen accompanying Taoiseach Leo Varadkar at almost every meeting with EU power brokers is minister for Europe... Read more »

PROFILE: ARCHBISHOP EAMON MARTIN

February 7, 2019

EAMON Martin, the relatively unknown archbishop of Armagh and primate of all Ireland, is the coming man in a once-omnipotent Irish hierarchy struggling... Read more »

PROFILE: GRAHAM MCLAREN

January 24, 2019

EARLIER THIS month, a letter signed by no less than 312 theatre practitioners was sent to the Arts Council, Minister for Culture Josepha... Read more »

PROFILE: MICHEÁL MARTIN

January 10, 2019

AMID ALL the heady talk of a “phased integration” of the North’s SDLP with Fianna Fáil, the question being asked is will this... Read more »

PROFILE: EAMON RYAN

December 13, 2018

The world is waking up to climate change. The issue finally began coming up on doorsteps in 2018, according to TDs. Fears for... Read more »

PROFILE: MARY LOU MCDONALD

November 29, 2018

WITH Mary Lou McDonald installed as Sinn Féin president, party members expect a serious electoral breakthrough in the post-Gerry Adams era. But after... Read more »

PROFILE – RALPH ‘MAGMA’ CHRISTIANS

September 6, 2018

FILM AND TV producer Ralph Werner Gustav Christians has been keeping a pretty low profile at his base in Bremen since his Galway... Read more »