Article Category: Pillars of Society

Profile: Fintan O’Toole

September 7, 2017
IRISH Times writer Fintan O’Toole is regarded as the media’s pre-eminent political intellectual and... Read more »

Josepha Madigan TD

August 24, 2017
Josepha Madigan JOSEPHA MADIGAN TD is one of Leo Varadkar’s vamps, politically speaking of... Read more »

Billionaire property tycoon Luke Comer and his horseracing handicap

August 10, 2017
Luke Comer THE PROPERTY boom is again making some people very rich, none more... Read more »

PROFILE: SUSAN DENHAM

July 27, 2017
Susan Denham AS SHE heads into bucolic retirement, Chief Justice Sue Denham will have... Read more »

Vincent Browne

July 13, 2017
IT IS not exactly characteristic of Vincent Browne to walk out of a €400,000... Read more »

Dee Forbes

June 29, 2017
THAT RTÉ should scoop €107.5m for its Montrose land bank and yet still be... Read more »

Ailbhe Smyth

June 15, 2017
THE archetypal feminist in today’s Ireland is a Labour or Fine Gael supporting, middle... Read more »

Leslie Buckley

June 2, 2017
THESE ARE testing times for the chairman of Independent News and Media (INM), Leslie... Read more »

Kate O’Connell

May 17, 2017
IS Kate O’Connell a transient backbench TD whose election in Dublin Bay South (DBS)... Read more »

Garry Hynes

May 3, 2017
WITH THE recent exit of Michael Colgan as artistic director of the Gate Theatre... Read more »

Paddy Prendergast

April 19, 2017
EXACTLY 100 years after John Pentland Mahaffy, the much-celebrated provost of Trinity College, distinguished... Read more »

Alan Kelly, TD

April 5, 2017
THERE is an official and an unofficial agenda at this month’s Labour Party conference.... Read more »

Tim Collins

March 23, 2017
WHEN in January 2016 Tim Collins became Newstalk’s fifth CEO in 11 years, he... Read more »

Regina Doherty

March 9, 2017
GOVERNMENT chief whip Regina Doherty is the most ambitious woman in the Dáil and... Read more »

Paul Reynolds

February 23, 2017
COMMISSIONER Nóirín O’Sullivan is the cop in the eye of the storm over Sgt... Read more »

Dara Murphy

February 9, 2017
THE perverse priorities of An Taoiseach Enda Kenny’s political appointments are personified by the... Read more »

BRENDAN OGLE

January 25, 2017
BRENDAN OGLE is a dangerous man. You can tell that from the media reaction... Read more »

Jim O’Callaghan

January 12, 2017
OVER the past five years, while his position as leader of Fianna Fáil was... Read more »

Denis Naughten

December 14, 2016
Once regarded as a potential leader of Fine Gael, then expelled from the party... Read more »

Brendan Howlin

December 1, 2016
LEADER of the smallest Labour Party in its century long existence, Brendan Howlin must... Read more »

Ruth Coppinger TD

November 3, 2016
RUTH COPPINGER’S clever manipulation of the abortion issue has helped to give the AAA/PBP... Read more »

Frances Fitzgerald

October 20, 2016
NOT merely a safe pair of hands, as compared to the irascible Alan Shatter,... Read more »

Jim Sheridan

October 5, 2016
FILM DIRECTOR Jim Sheridan has had a helluva ride since he struck lucky with... Read more »

Max Barrett

September 21, 2016
The news that justice minister Frances Fitzgerald intends appealing last month’s High Court ruling... Read more »

Brendan O’Carroll

September 7, 2016
IN THE recent Radio Times survey to name the Best Sitcom of the 21st... Read more »

SHANE ROSS

August 24, 2016
SHANE ROSS has spent much of his political life, spanning four decades, fighting with... Read more »

Morgan O’Sullivan

August 10, 2016
ONE OF the country’s most successful film and television companies, Octagon Films, is set... Read more »

Paul Williams

July 28, 2016
CAN Paul Williams save Newstalk from disaster as Denis O’Brien’s station faces life without... Read more »

Charlie Flanagan

July 15, 2016
A very bad fortnight for Enda Kenny saw minister for foreign affairs and trade,... Read more »

Brendan O’Connor

July 2, 2016
Brendan O’Connor should be an editorial has-been by now, a casualty of Denis O’Brien’s... Read more »

Alan Moloney

June 17, 2016
ALTHOUGH Alan Moloney of Parallel Films was executive producer, he managed, as usual, to... Read more »

Dr Peter Boylan

June 1, 2016
DR PETER Boylan, former Master of the National Maternity Hospital (NMH), recently ramped up... Read more »

Enda Kenny

May 18, 2016
IS Enda Kenny the luckiest politician in modern Irish politics, or is he Fine... Read more »

Profile: Bob Geldof

May 5, 2016
WAS William Butler Yeats reincarnated and dumped back on Earth as Sir Bob Geldof?... Read more »

Martin McDonagh

April 21, 2016
AN IRISH playwright (well London-Irish but that has never seemed to matter before) picked... Read more »

Joe Duffy

April 7, 2016
ADDRESSING a gathering of rebels’ relatives in the incongruous top-hat-‘n’-tails surrounds of Dublin’s RDS,... Read more »