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 – PAUL O’NEILL
PILLARS OF SOCIETY
Article Category: Pillars of Society
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: CLARE DALY TD
May 2, 2019
CLARE DALY’S EU election bid in Dublin – as well as her political and personal partner Mick Wallace TD’s outing in the South constituency... 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: MICHAEL MCDOWELL
March 7, 2019
PRESENTING AS St George fighting Denis ‘The Dragon’ O’Brien during the billionaire’s recent libel case against the Sunday Business Post, Michael McDowell stole the... 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 »
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 to... 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 Madigan... 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 act... 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 our... 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 an... Read more »
POSH BOY MURPHY’S NOBLESS OBLIGE
November 27, 2018
FOR ALL his Leo-style skinny neck ties and multifarious photo ops of him emerging à la the Man from Atlantis from muscle-rippling sea swims,... Read more »
PROFILE: PADDY COSGRAVE
November 1, 2018
Is Web Summit founder Paddy Cosgrave a tech-sector profiteer or a civic-minded altruist with his finger on the pulse of current political debate? The... Read more »
PROFILE: CHARLIE FLANAGAN
October 18, 2018
JUSTICE MINISTER Charlie Flanagan will not have been discommoded by the latest Charleton Tribunal report. The report damns ex-Commissioner Martin Callinan and his sidekick,... Read more »
PROFILE: LIADH NÍ RIADA MEP
October 4, 2018
THERE ARE those in Sinn Féin who believe that the party’s presidential bid via Liadh Ní Riada, daughter of iconic Irish composer Seán Ó... Read more »
SPECIAL TRIBUTE – JOHN MULCAHY
September 20, 2018
A JOURNALIST FOR ALL SEASONS JOHN MULCAHY will be remembered as not alone the publisher and inspiration behind The Phoenix – as well as... 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 production... Read more »
PROFILE: DIARMUID MARTIN
August 23, 2018
After 14 years as skipper of the battered barque of St Patrick in Dublin’s Catholic archdiocese, a no-longer-young Diarmuid Martin, 73, is grappling stoically... Read more »
PROFILE: MICHAEL O’LEARY
August 9, 2018
THIS WEEK, strike action has been scheduled at Ryanair bases in Ireland, Germany, Belgium, Sweden and The Netherlands. This represents the apex in the... Read more »
PROFILE: SHANE ROSS
July 26, 2018
WILL Fianna Fáil be provoked into a general election by Leo Varadkar? If not, will Fine Gael go to the country without a contrived... Read more »
PROFILE: COMMISSIONER DREW HARRIS
July 12, 2018
THE appointment of PSNI deputy chief constable Drew Harris, as the new garda commissioner drew mildly critical comment from Sinn Féin but it is... Read more »
EAMONN ROTHWELL
June 28, 2018
THE BOTCHED arrival of the giant WB Yeats car ferry represented a bloody nose for Eamonn “Rottweiler” Rothwell, the loaded chief executive of Irish... Read more »
LISA CHAMBERS
June 13, 2018
BEING tipped by The Irish Times as next leader of Fianna Fáil could be the kiss of death for any such aspirant but Lisa... Read more »
LEO VARADKAR: WHAT NEXT?
May 31, 2018
IS Leo Varadkar poised to emulate his Fine Gael leadership triumph by leading the party back into government and retaining his status as Taoiseach?... Read more »
DENIS NAUGHTEN
May 17, 2018
INDEPENDENT TD and Minister Denis Naughten, once seen as a Fine Gael leadership contender, was fortunate to survive the backlash that followed his private... Read more »
JOHN McGUIRK
May 3, 2018
John McGuirk has three weeks to convince an increasingly liberal Irish electorate to save the 8th Amendment. The professional political animal – whose chequered... Read more »
Catherine Heaney
April 19, 2018
LAST WEEK, the Culture Minister Josepha Madigan, flanked by Leo Varadkar and Paschal Donohoe, announced a huge U1.2bn infrastructure funding package for the arts.... Read more »