April 6 - April 19, 2018 Archives - The Phoenix Magazine

AFFAIRS OF THE NATION

FEAR AND LOATHING AT INM

April 5, 2018

THE Irish Independent innocently wondered this week about how it was “unclear” why deputy editor of the Sunday Independent, Brendan O’Connor, should be... Read more »

Profile: Barry Andrews

April 5, 2018

IF Fianna Fáil has a royal family it is the extended Andrews clan and former minister Barry Andrews was once seen as its... Read more »

Young Blood: Killian Foley-Walsh

April 5, 2018

FINE GAEL’s cosmopolitan leaders must have spat out their morning lattes when they heard the news that pro-life conservative Killian Foley-Walsh (23) had... Read more »

The Chronicles of Jamie Heaslip

April 5, 2018

Former Irish Rugby captain Jamie Heaslip must have been delighted with the send-off he got at the Aviva last weekend at Leinster’s Champions... Read more »

Reds under the bed

April 5, 2018

FOREIGN minister Simon Coveney’s statement justifying the expulsion of a Russian diplomat does not bear scrutiny and indicates a subservience to British foreign... Read more »

INM’s sub-committee

April 5, 2018

AN AWFUL lot has been written about the extraordinary events that are alleged to have unfolded at Independent News and Media (INM) in... Read more »

Vol.36 No.07

April 5, 2018

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DCU students’ landlord blues

April 5, 2018

THE student union (SU) in DCU has caught the protest bug and is fighting back against rent increases at accommodation centres. Stark price... Read more »

BLAZERS GET DOUBLE-TEAMED

April 5, 2018

SOME WRINKLES to the IRFU’s annus mirabilis have begun to appear with the official arrival in Dublin of the players’ organisation, International Rugby... Read more »

MORE EVIDENCE OF COLLUSION

April 5, 2018

THE significance of a secret paper confirming collusion between British security and Loyalist murder squads, part of the government’s raft of state paper... Read more »

The Hot Air Brigade

April 5, 2018

I didn’t have access to my usual methods of stress relief either, I couldn’t make it to Inchydoney gym, I couldn’t get to... Read more »

MARTIN’S DECK CHAIRS

April 5, 2018

MICHEÁL MARTIN’S last throw of the dice in the gambling den of electoral politics now approaching end game has as much to do... Read more »

BACK TO THE FUTURE

April 5, 2018

SINN FÉIN have been shocked and dismayed by the proposals of the north’s Boundary Commission for new constituencies published in January. The party... Read more »

JUSTIN McALEESE FALTERS

April 5, 2018

THE prospects of Justin McAleese taking a seat for Fianna Fáil in the lush pastures of Dublin Rathdown have been talked up a... Read more »

O’BRIEN CRIES ETHICAL FOUL

April 5, 2018

DENIS O’BRIEN and his spin doctor James Morrissey are engaged in an artful stratagem against The Irish Times by implying that its correspondent... Read more »

RUSSIAN MEDIA GAS

April 5, 2018

THE Irish media got right onside with HMG in deciding that the Ruskies carried out a nerve gas attack on two Russians in... Read more »

MI5 Man tied up

April 5, 2018

SINDO columnist Ruth Dud Edwards recently penned a touching eulogy to her long-time pal, MI5 and special branch IRA informer, Sean O’Callaghan, following... Read more »

PLASTIC PADDIES

April 5, 2018

THE dutiful consumers of Ireland are being enlisted as (polite) eco-warriors for one day this month in the escalating global war against plastic.... Read more »

Justin McAleese’s mentor

April 5, 2018

BEING progressive on one issue is no guarantee of a broader political enlightenment. Mary McAleese’s son Justin, who came to prominence as a... Read more »

Bog Cuttings

April 5, 2018

Defendant’s rubbish claim A LETTERKENNY woman who took her neighbour’s camping gear claimed she thought it was rubbish. Maria Siataru appeared in court... Read more »

DYLAN McGRATH’S SHARE OF THE ACTION

April 5, 2018

ONE TIME “bad boy of haute cuisine”, former Masterchef presenter Dylan McGrath, is preparing to open his latest venture, this time in Ballsbridge... Read more »

ALMOST LOVE – LOUISE O’NEILL (RIVERRUN)

April 5, 2018

FOLLOWING THE success of her two Young Adult novels, Only Ever Yours and the hugely hyped Asking For It, Co Cork writer Louise... Read more »

BOOM? – GAIETY THEATRE

April 5, 2018

THE CELTIC Tiger should still give Irish playwrights plenty to write about. The depths of personal consumption and bad taste may be overly... Read more »

COUNTDOWN TO CALVARY – RTÉ One

April 5, 2018

ON EASTER Sunday, RTÉ broadcast an impressive documentary focusing on the final six days of the life of Jesus Christ. Fronted by actor... Read more »

‘Appalling waste’

April 5, 2018

LAST MONTH, Minister for Culture Josepha Madigan was in the Dáil outlining the manner in which the huge Project Ireland 2014 cultural spend... Read more »

HEATHER HUMPHREYS’S €7M PLOT SPOILER

April 5, 2018

ON THE last Dáil sitting day before Easter, March 29, the five members present cut lonely figures and, despite questions on the matter,... Read more »

KEN CONDON SEEKS WINX CHINKS

April 5, 2018

WITH ALL that ‘will she or won’t she’ speculation surrounding Australian superstar Winx’s potential Royal Ascot challenge now over and done, it’s good... Read more »

PAUL NOLAN’S COMEBACK

April 5, 2018

TWO FORMER leading lights of the Irish jumps scene – Bryan Cooper and Paul Nolan – have joined forces and are beginning to... Read more »

Handicapping tyro trainers

April 5, 2018

AT A time when the number of active Irish trainers is reducing, it is ironic that the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) has... Read more »

DÉJA VU FOR MULLINS AND ELLIOTT

April 5, 2018

THIS TIME last year Gordon Elliott and Willie Mullins were locked in a duel for the champion Irish jumps trainer’s title and this... Read more »

Smurfit Kappa board wrong to reject €9bn bid

April 5, 2018

HAVING HAD its €8.6bn bid for Smurfit Kappa rejected, International Paper’s Mark Sutton tried to engage with the Irish company’s chairman Liam O’Mahony... Read more »

Tullow board needs to bite the bullet on Heavey

April 5, 2018

AIDAN HEAVEY retired as Tullow Oil CEO last year on April 26 2017, after 31 years in situ. But, instead of leaving the... Read more »

Ryco Book seeks protection

April 5, 2018

BRAY-based Ryco Book Protection Services Ltd has had to go to the Circuit Court to seek protection from its creditors. Ryco, where Dublin... Read more »

Alan Hynes’s lucky break

April 5, 2018

CONGRATULATIONS to Goldhawk’s old pal, long-suffering former accountant Alan Hynes, who recorded a rare win in the Four Goldmines last month. The Wexford-based... Read more »

End of the line for Nicholas O’Connor

April 5, 2018

CHARTERED Accountants Ireland (CAI) has finally run out of patience with Goldhawk’s old pal Nicholas O’Connor. The troubled Wexford number cruncher has been... Read more »

Ben Gilroy’s ‘interference’

April 5, 2018

GOLDHAWK spotted a High Court judgment recently relating to an interesting case involving Monaghan businessman Seamus McQuaid and Direct Democracy founder Ben Gilroy.... Read more »

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