November 2 - November 15, 2018 Archives

AFFAIRS OF THE NATION

MARY LOU’S ELECTION BLUES

November 1, 2018

POST-ELECTION depression among Sinn Féin members will quickly turn to anger if the leadership does not show contrition and self-criticism over the presidential... Read more »

CORK DAUPHIN BOWS TO SAUDI PRINCE

November 1, 2018

THE most remarkable aspect of Tánaiste and foreign minister Simon Coveney’s feeble reaction to the Saudi murder of Jamal Khashoggi was not that... Read more »

PROFILE: PADDY COSGRAVE

November 1, 2018
Is Web Summit founder Paddy Cosgrave a tech-sector profiteer or a civic-minded altruist with his finger on the pulse of current political debate? The... Read more »

‘POST’ BOSS LOSES DRESSING ROOM

November 1, 2018

NEW Sunday Business Post owner Enda O’Coineen addressed his business-savvy – but worried – journalists recently in an effort to soothe concerns following... Read more »

COLLISON BROTHERS’ BAD PRESS

November 1, 2018

JOHN AND Patrick Collison, the Limerick-born wunderkinds behind online payments company Stripe, are not used to negative press – particularly in Ireland. So... Read more »

CASEY’S CHORUS

November 1, 2018

PETER CASEY brought out the Tory beast in the Sunday Times and its Dublin-based champion, Frank Fitzgibbon, editor of the Aarish edition. Like... Read more »

MARY HARNEY’S INVESTMENT

November 1, 2018

GOOD TO see the busy former health minister Mary Harney putting her money where her mouth is. No doubt she has plenty of... Read more »

CRYSTAL LI’S LIFELINE

November 1, 2018

HAVING APPEARED to have succeeded in getting a big public translation contract cancelled and restarted, Ruski lawyer Olga Shajaku got some frustrating news... Read more »

LUCINDA’S NEO-CON FRIENDS

November 1, 2018

LUCINDA CREIGHTON, former minister for Europe and Fine Gael enfant terrible, has returned to the continent and the EU lobbying gravy train with... Read more »

BRENDAN HALLIGAN’S ONE CHINA POLICY

November 1, 2018

THERE WAS much scratching of heads in Leinster House last month when ceann comhairle Seán Ó Fearghail circulated a letter to members warning... Read more »

NATIONAL THEATRE’S US IMPORT

November 1, 2018

FANS OF Irish theatre got a treat this week when RTÉ broadcast a show devoted to life inside the Abbey Theatre, where the... Read more »

LIBEL STAND-OFF

November 1, 2018

BARRISTER-turned-seminarian-turned-layman and now litigant, Conor Gannon, has taken out High Court writs against three newspapers following reports published in connection with his time... Read more »

NOSTROVIA!

November 1, 2018

VODKA FANS be warned. Last month, one Francisco Xavier Fermin De Eizaguirre of La Maguna, Plum Bay Les Terre Basses, in the French... Read more »

LIMERICK STUDENTS TARGET ARAMARK

November 1, 2018

BOXING superstar Katie Taylor is currently making her Irish box-office debut in a new documentary, but a company for whom she did some... Read more »

DUBLIN 7 TO MOROCCO

November 1, 2018

HOLDER of the presidential wooden spoon Gavin Duffy lost his deposit and he also got hit for a €20 spot when canvassing in... Read more »

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

November 1, 2018

This is the natural conclusion of any intelligent theologian’s journey. Shuhada’ Davitt (formerly Sinéad O’Connor) on becoming a Muslim, as reported in the... Read more »

FIANNA FÁIL’S NORTHERN STAR

November 1, 2018

LAST Thursday night’s chaotic on-off ‘selection’ of Sorcha McAnespy as a Fianna Fáil candidate for next May’s council elections in the north did... Read more »

CASEY EYES UP DONEGAL DÁIL SEAT

November 1, 2018
DONEGAL’S triumphant and Trumpian Peter Casey told Donegal Daily four years ago that he wanted to stand for the Dáil in either Donegal or... Read more »

Janice Boylan Irish Military Mali Coolock Says No IFP Hermann Kelly Timmy Dooley Aontú Mal O’Hara Fintan O’Toole Josepha Madigan Eoghan Harris Ukraine War Micheál Martin Middle East Philip Ryan Seán Clancy Simon Coveney Hugo MacNeill Mountbatten Neasa Hourigan Green Party Martin NPT Ivana Bacik Independents Limerick Hospital Overcrowding Barry Cowen

TARGETING NATO

November 1, 2018

PRESIDENT Michael D Higgins and Seán Gallagher were the only two presidential candidates that responded to a letter from the Peace and Neutrality... Read more »

‘TIGER’ O’DONOGHUE’S POLITICAL COMEBACK

November 1, 2018

WHAT on earth is former justice minister, arts minister and Ceann Comhairle John O’Donoghue doing in his bid to become a humble county... Read more »

HACKS AWARDS BEAR GARDEN

November 1, 2018

THE mega-egos of mainstream journalism will gather in the Mansion house this month for an event of far greater significance than the first... Read more »

LEO’S CLIMATE ADVISOR

November 1, 2018

Recent statements by Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and many of his Cabinet colleagues regarding climate change have been so completely out of touch with... Read more »

MICHAEL D STANDS ALONE

November 1, 2018

The recent presidential campaign was remarkable for many reasons, not least of which was the extraordinary extent to which five of the six... Read more »

BOG CUTTINGS

November 1, 2018

“Yes, I love Cork.” “Under Duress” was the signature provided by a 70-year-old man who previously insisted that he had no name, Cork... Read more »

MATT CARTHY

November 1, 2018

LIADH NÍ RIADA’S presidential implosion has placed a big question mark over Sinn Féin’s general election and coalition project. When Mary Lou Mcdonald... Read more »

RACHEL’S ‘LESS FORMAL’ EXPERIENCE

November 1, 2018

FANS OF Goldhawk will not be surprised to hear that there have been big changes at Rachel’s, the Cork-based restaurant fronted by the... Read more »

DAVID RAETHORNE’S WHISKEY STOCKS

November 1, 2018

THE OPERATION behind the ambitious Hazelwood House revamp being undertaken in Sligo by low-profile serial investor David Raethorne filed some figures last month... Read more »

ABIGAIL O’BRIEN’S ELECTION

November 1, 2018

THE ELECTION of Denis O’Brien’s sister, Abigail O’Brien, as president of the Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA) represents quite a coup for the artist,... Read more »

MILKMAN – ANNA BURNS (FABER & FABER)

November 1, 2018

THIS YEAR’S Man Booker winner (the first from Northern Ireland), Anna Burns, has published two previous novels and is well regarded in literary... Read more »

RICHARD III – ABBEY THEATRE

November 1, 2018

GARRY HYNES must have realised that producing another Shakespearean history play demanded another angle. While Richard may be one of Western literature’s greatest... Read more »

FINDING JOY – RTÉ 1

November 1, 2018

AMY HUBERMAN turns her hand to ‘comedy’ in this six-part series set in an air-brushed version of modern-day Dublin. Inevitably, with Mrs Dricco... Read more »

Susan Bergin Marlowe Mullingar Film Studio RTÉ Self-Employment

BOOK AWARDS BEANO

November 1, 2018

THERE WAS an exuberant gushing plug for the annual Irish Book Awards in the Sindo last weekend when the shortlist for the 2018... Read more »

SIÚN NÍ RAGHALLAIGH’S GOOD NEWS

November 1, 2018

FANS OF Goldhawk will not have been surprised by the inclusion in Pascal Donohoe’s Finance Bill of 10 pages of refinements to the... Read more »

GER LYONS HITS OUT

November 1, 2018

THE DRY autumn is taking its toll on jumps tracks at the moment as they cannot risk watering the ground at this time... Read more »

O’BRIEN’S REDUNDANT REFERRAL

November 1, 2018

JOSEPH O’BRIEN found himself at the centre of one of the most pointless enquiries in the recent history of the Irish Horseracing Regulatory... Read more »

DOWN A ROYAL MESS

November 1, 2018

WHAT TO make of the Down Royal fiasco? The clash of business and sport looks set to leave some casualties, but confusion reigns.... Read more »