Article Category: Pillars of Society

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 »