Article Category: Pillars of Society

PROFILE: JIM O’CALLAGHAN

July 16, 2020
JIM O’CALLAGHAN appears to be modelling himself on Charlie Haughey in his Fianna Fáil leadership plan of action. His explanation for rejecting a junior... Read more »

PROFILE: GARY MCGANN

July 2, 2020
WHILE NOT as high profile as the election of a taoiseach last weekend, a vote in the corporate world next month looks set to... Read more »

PROFILE: ALAN ENGLISH

June 18, 2020
THE NEW editor of the Sunday Independent, Alan English, seems determined to make readers sit up and notice him. English presents readers with a weekly... Read more »

PROFILE: MICHAEL MCNAMARA

June 4, 2020
AN IMPRESSIVE political resurrection has been effected by the newly elected Independent TD for Clare, Michael McNamara. The former Labour TD has also landed... Read more »

PROFILE: BRIAN KAVANAGH

May 21, 2020
THE €2bn Irish horseracing industry needs a safe pair of hands on the reins to guide the sector over some heavy going as the... Read more »

PROFILE: CLAIRE BYRNE AND MIRIAM O’CALLAGHAN

May 7, 2020
WHEN SEAN O’Rourke recently told his morning radio audience that he was about to stand down from the highest seat of national broadcasting, he... Read more »

PROFILE: MICHEÁL MARTIN

April 23, 2020
MICHEÁL MARTIN may become a scientific and political phenomenon: the man who was saved by Covid-19. But the consequences for Fianna Fáil could be... Read more »

PROFILE: CATHERINE MARTIN

April 9, 2020
IT’S THE quiet ones you have to watch, as your mammy will have warned you. For four years, Catherine Martin sat dutifully in the... Read more »

PROFILE: KIERAN CORRIGAN

March 26, 2020
FILMMAKER AND number cruncher Kieran Corrigan’s latest adventure – a film studio in a scrubby field at the back of Ashbourne Business Park, right... Read more »

PROFILE: ROY BARRETT

March 12, 2020
THESE ARE interesting times for the FAI and Goodbody Stockbrokers, where the common factor is Roy Barrett. Without any previous involvement in Irish soccer,... Read more »

PROFILE: EOGHAN HARRIS

February 27, 2020
SUNDAY INDEPENDENT columnist Eoghan Harris, the ultimate Republican apostate, is given to bombastic claims about his political savvy, from his political predictions to his... Read more »

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. Two... 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 Green... 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 name... 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 person... 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 glare;... 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 burned... 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 and... 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 E1bn... 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 “macho”,... 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 Regina... 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 turned... 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 in... 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 Blueshirts,... 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 sense;... 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 political... 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 by... 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 the... 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 ranks... 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 of... 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 House... 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 Helen... Read more »