PROFILE: SUSAN DENHAM
July 27, 2017
Susan Denham AS SHE heads into bucolic retirement, Chief Justice Sue Denham will have ample time to enjoy the “horses and gardens” she once... Read more »
PROFILE: SUSAN DENHAM
PILLARS OF SOCIETY
Article Category: Pillars of Society
Vincent Browne
July 13, 2017
IT IS not exactly characteristic of Vincent Browne to walk out of a €400,000 pa contract which still has a year to run. So... Read more »
Dee Forbes
June 29, 2017
THAT RTÉ should scoop €107.5m for its Montrose land bank and yet still be in financial straits says it all about the apparently insuperable... Read more »
Ailbhe Smyth
June 15, 2017
THE archetypal feminist in today’s Ireland is a Labour or Fine Gael supporting, middle class professional with aggressive secularist leanings. This brand of feminist... Read more »
Leslie Buckley
June 2, 2017
THESE ARE testing times for the chairman of Independent News and Media (INM), Leslie Buckley, trusted lieutenant and boardroom representative of the group’s biggest... Read more »
Kate O’Connell
May 17, 2017
IS Kate O’Connell a transient backbench TD whose election in Dublin Bay South (DBS) owed more to various forces intent on burying the troublesome... Read more »
Garry Hynes
May 3, 2017
WITH THE recent exit of Michael Colgan as artistic director of the Gate Theatre after 33 years attracting oodles of media attention, it is... Read more »
Paddy Prendergast
April 19, 2017
EXACTLY 100 years after John Pentland Mahaffy, the much-celebrated provost of Trinity College, distinguished himself by suppressing the college’s Gaelic Society (over its plans... Read more »
Alan Kelly, TD
April 5, 2017
THERE is an official and an unofficial agenda at this month’s Labour Party conference. The first is an attempt to breathe life into the... Read more »
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 »
Regina Doherty
March 9, 2017
GOVERNMENT chief whip Regina Doherty is the most ambitious woman in the Dáil and sees herself as a future Fine Gael leader and Taoiseach.... 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 »
Morgan O’Sullivan
August 10, 2016
ONE OF the country’s most successful film and television companies, Octagon Films, is set to be wound up by its principals and majority shareholders,... Read more »
Paul Williams
July 28, 2016
CAN Paul Williams save Newstalk from disaster as Denis O’Brien’s station faces life without Ivan Yates, with George Hook heading towards the door and... 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 »