Article Category: Pillars of Society

Tim Collins

March 23, 2017
WHEN in January 2016 Tim Collins became Newstalk’s fifth CEO in 11 years, he was presumably unaware that its owner, Denis O’Brien, was already... Read more »

Paul Reynolds

February 23, 2017
COMMISSIONER Nóirín O’Sullivan is the cop in the eye of the storm over Sgt Maurice McCabe but RTÉ crime correspondent Paul Reynolds is also... Read more »

Dara Murphy

February 9, 2017
THE perverse priorities of An Taoiseach Enda Kenny’s political appointments are personified by the undistinguished Dara Murphy, junior minister for European affairs. Murphy has... Read more »

BRENDAN OGLE

January 25, 2017
BRENDAN OGLE is a dangerous man. You can tell that from the media reaction to the Ogre’s leadership role in the Apollo House homeless... Read more »

Jim O’Callaghan

January 12, 2017
OVER the past five years, while his position as leader of Fianna Fáil was open to question on all sides, Micheál Martin very shrewdly... Read more »

Denis Naughten

December 14, 2016
Once regarded as a potential leader of Fine Gael, then expelled from the party five years ago, Denis Naughten has managed to claw his... Read more »

Brendan Howlin

December 1, 2016
LEADER of the smallest Labour Party in its century long existence, Brendan Howlin must now have a keen understanding of the phrase, Be careful... Read more »

Ruth Coppinger TD

November 3, 2016
RUTH COPPINGER’S clever manipulation of the abortion issue has helped to give the AAA/PBP a three-point boost to 9% in the latest Red C... Read more »

Frances Fitzgerald

October 20, 2016
NOT merely a safe pair of hands, as compared to the irascible Alan Shatter, but a potential successor to Enda Kenny was how Frances... Read more »

Jim Sheridan

October 5, 2016
FILM DIRECTOR Jim Sheridan has had a helluva ride since he struck lucky with his very first film, My Left Foot, in 1989. He’s... Read more »

Max Barrett

September 21, 2016
The news that justice minister Frances Fitzgerald intends appealing last month’s High Court ruling by Mr Justice Max Barrett, allowing retired judge Barry White... Read more »

Brendan O’Carroll

September 7, 2016
IN THE recent Radio Times survey to name the Best Sitcom of the 21st Century, smutty comedian Brendan O’Carroll’s Mrs Brown’s Boys came out... Read more »

SHANE ROSS

August 24, 2016
SHANE ROSS has spent much of his political life, spanning four decades, fighting with Fine Gael either as a party member, an Independent senator,... Read more »

Charlie Flanagan

July 15, 2016
A very bad fortnight for Enda Kenny saw minister for foreign affairs and trade, Charlie Flanagan, also ship collateral damage in the matter of... 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 new regime at Independent News & Media (INM), which ousted... Read more »

Alan Moloney

June 17, 2016
ALTHOUGH Alan Moloney of Parallel Films was executive producer, he managed, as usual, to stay pretty much below the radar when Brooklyn earned three... Read more »

Dr Peter Boylan

June 1, 2016
DR PETER Boylan, former Master of the National Maternity Hospital (NMH), recently ramped up the row between the NMH and St Vincent’s Hospital over... Read more »

Enda Kenny

May 18, 2016
IS Enda Kenny the luckiest politician in modern Irish politics, or is he Fine Gael’s answer to ‘the most brilliant, the most cunning, the... Read more »

Profile: Bob Geldof

May 5, 2016
WAS William Butler Yeats reincarnated and dumped back on Earth as Sir Bob Geldof? St Bob seems to think so. In his hyperbolic two-part... Read more »

Martin McDonagh

April 21, 2016
AN IRISH playwright (well London-Irish but that has never seemed to matter before) picked up one of the most prestigious awards in UK theatre... 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, President Michael D Higgins thanked historians and descendants of the... Read more »

Michael & Danny Healy-Rae

March 24, 2016
When the 32nd Dáil first met for the first time a fortnight ago, the real show in town that day appeared to be Healy-Rae brothers,... Read more »

Mary Lou McDonald

March 9, 2016
HAS Sinn Féin vice-president Mary Lou McDonald’s time arrived at last, or is she destined to be forever the bridesmaid? Gerry Adams’ public broadcasting... Read more »

Lenny Abrahamson

February 25, 2016
SOMETIME mid-afternoon on Sunday February 28, this year’s Academy Award nominees will amble along the expanse of red carpet to the entrance of the... Read more »

Brian Hayes MEP

February 11, 2016
HOW did Brian Hayes, Member of the European Parliament, end up as Fine Gael’s director of elections? And why did he opt for the... Read more »

Peter Kelly

January 28, 2016
THE recently appointed President of the High Court, Justice Peter Kelly (64), is the antithesis of the modern Irish judge. A devout Catholic, devoid... Read more »

Mary Robinson Now

January 14, 2016
FORMER president Mary Robinson has carved out quite a career for herself post the Áras as a globetrotter extraordinaire, most notably with high profile... Read more »

Frances Fitzgerald

December 16, 2015
THE meteoric rise of justice minister Frances Fitzgerald within Government and party has led to rumours that she is Enda Kenny’s anointed successor when... Read more »

Kevin Bakhurst

December 4, 2015
WHILE former BBC executive Kevin Bakhurst (50) affects to be ”thinking” about whether to apply for the vacant RTÉ director general’s job, the hacks... Read more »

Karl Brophy

November 20, 2015
IMPENDING danger or conflict is one meaning of the phrase ‘red flag’ and the head of Red Flag Consulting, Karl Brophy, is certainly no... Read more »

Brendan Howlin

November 5, 2015
The wonder of Michael Noonan’s political resurrection late in life has been much commented on, but what about the renaissance of his job sharing... Read more »