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ONLINE PUBLISHER and self-promoter extraordinaire, Niall McGarry was talking up his Maximum Media group last week, announcing new jobs in Galway and promising further expansion in the UK. The bottom line is looking rather less uplifting, however. Certainly, the outcome in the UK falls rather short of the picture McGarry paints of his rapidly growing… Read more »

VISITORS TO Dublin’s Grafton Street in the last couple of weeks may have been struck by the near permanent queue of punters outside the recently reopened Bewley’s Café. While there is clearly a significant appetite among Dubliners and tourists to check out the famous restaurant, some who have dined there have been left cold, literally…. Read more »

THE recent Dublin film premiere of Maurice Fitzpatrick’s In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America heard former President Mary McAleese laud the great man amid quotes from Bill Clinton about Hume being “Northern Ireland’s Martin Luther King”. The audience also heard John Hume jnr speak of his father’s “lifetime’s work” for peace. John… Read more »

RUMOURS of some splendidly injudicious carry-on in the Supreme Court building have been circulating in the Law Library for the past week after a court official apparently walked into the courtroom to discover a pair of legal eagles in a state of partial undress, in flagrante delicto. While illicit encounters among our learn’d friends are… Read more »

GEORGE HOOK’S long-awaited return to the airwaves, promised for December, has been pushed back to January and he will be heard on Newstalk’s weekend schedule next month. At least that’s the plan. Interestingly, the programme is to be pre-recorded which means his likely slot will be early Saturday morning, probably at 8am in place of… Read more »

HOW long does it take to figure out who has access to an RTÉ social media account? Nearly a month after RTÉ One sent a bizarre tweet to one under-fire comedian Al “Flamboyant and Outrageous” Porter’s accusers, Montrose is still keeping shtum about what actually happened. It’s been widely reported that on November 20 last,… Read more »

IT IS perhaps not too surprising that the Irish arm of Amnesty International should be digging in its heels on a request from the Standards in Public Office to return a cheque to financier George Soros who has funded various Irish organisations involved in pro-abortion legislation lobbying. The most up-to-date figures for Colm O’Gorman’s agency… Read more »

WHEN the dust settles on the election that nearly was it will be the confidence and supply deal that Leo Varadkar agreed with his Tánaiste Frances Fitzgerald as much as the one with Micheál Martin that deserves scrutiny. Before this week’s revelations from the justice department Fine Gael had rallied around Fitzgerald because she was… Read more »

ONE man with a keen interest in the entire Fitzgeraldgate saga is Colm Smyth, senior counsel for then garda commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan and whose intended line of questioning based on his instructions to Maurice McCabe at the O’Higgins Commission sparked the crisis in the first place. Apparently very certain of his ground Smyth told O’Higgins… Read more »

A TYPICALLY toxic student row in Trinity College Dublin has led to the ousting of the Trinity Publications chair by her own committee. Interestingly, former chairwoman Clare McCarthy is a close pal of deposed UCD Student Union president Katie Ascough and even canvassed for her during the pro-lifer’s anti-impeachment campaign last month. On the surface… Read more »