August 28 - September 10, 2020 Archives

AFFAIRS OF THE NATION

O’CALLAGHAN LURKS

August 27, 2020

PERSONALITIES IN the news and in crisis are EU Commissioner Phil Hogan and ex-attorney general Séamus Woulfe, but the real political crisis is... Read more »

BIG PHIL AND VLAD

August 27, 2020

THE BARELY noticed but distinct difference between statements about EU commissioner Phil Hogan’s fate from Taoiseach Micheál Martin and Tánaiste Leo Varadkar last... Read more »

PROFILE: MICHELLE O’NEILL

August 27, 2020

On January 23, 2017, Gerry Adams announced Michelle O’Neill’s appointment as Sinn Féin leader in the north to succeed Martin McGuinness who had... Read more »

NOEL KELLY’S GANG

August 27, 2020

WITH POOR Sean O’Rourke’s planned return to the airwaves scuppered by ‘Golfgate’, a prime Saturday lunchtime slot has just opened up on RTÉ... Read more »

YOUNG BLOODS: AISLING DOLAN

August 27, 2020

BUOYED BY consistent strong opinion poll standings, Fine Gael is intensifying its efforts to win extra seats in the next general election, especially... Read more »

HUMANISTS AT WAR

August 27, 2020

ALTHOUGH THE Humanist Association of Ireland (HAI) boasts an “informal, friendly and inclusive environment”, major changes are afoot in the relationship between the... Read more »

FINTAN GET’S IT WRONG!

August 27, 2020

MOST IRISH TIMES readers and certainly those who work in the IT editor’s office would dismiss the notion of Papal infallibility, but they... Read more »

THEO DORGAN’S ‘GREAT BOOK’

August 27, 2020

NO DOUBT University College Cork president Patrick O’Shea was delighted with the programme broadcast last week on RTÉ about the university’s acquisition of... Read more »

PATRICIA QUINN’S APPRAISAL

August 27, 2020

A CHARITY database fronted by Patricia Quinn is about to undergo an appraisal process that could end up with its funding being cut.... Read more »

JACKIE HAIGH’S HOUSES

August 27, 2020

INTERIOR DESIGNER and art collector Jackie Haigh and her hubby, Adrian, have just put their Anglesea Road pile on the market, with an... Read more »

VOL.38 NO.17

August 27, 2020

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LOBBYING AG SÉAMUS WOULFE

August 27, 2020

THE BELEAGUERED former attorney general, Séamus Woulfe, has been a long-time supporter of former climate action minister, Richard Bruton (as well as a... Read more »

COVID FILM PLOT THICKENS

August 27, 2020

HEARING ABOUT concerns in filmmaking circles regarding a small Covid-19 outbreak on a production, Goldhawk sent a series of queries to so-called ‘stakeholders’... Read more »

STICKS AND STONES

August 27, 2020

IT HASN’T been the most auspicious start to a parliamentary career for new Green Party senator Róisín Garvey. “Fuck her,” the former Clare... Read more »

EXODUS CHAPTER 11

August 27, 2020

IF Colm McCann’s book, Apeirogon, wins the Booker Prize or even makes it on to the short list next month, the murmurings of... Read more »

HACKETT UNDER FIRE

August 27, 2020

While two high-profile ministerial casualties at Agriculture have grabbed the headlines, the Greens junior minister for land use and biodiversity, Pippa Hackett, is... Read more »

ANOTHER BRIAN NELSON VICTIM

August 27, 2020

The abduction and torture of a registered blind, Belfast Catholic in the 1970s lends a new twist to the story of Britain’s top... Read more »

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

August 27, 2020

All of us must display solidarity as we try to stamp out this common plague. Phil Hogan, Twitter, submitted by reader “What would... Read more »

FLANN O’BRIEN LOGIC

August 27, 2020

Joy was unconfined in dairy circles with the recent exciting news that good old-fashioned cows’ milk was “better for the environment” than those... Read more »

A SHARED CONFUSION

August 27, 2020

IT WAS probably just as well that Boris Johnson made off as soon as he could from his meeting at Hillsborough Castle on... Read more »

SCHOOL MARM FOLEY IN HOT SEAT

August 27, 2020

FROM LOWLY councillor to the cabinet in one fell swoop, education minister Norma Foley has the political weight of the Kingdom and the... Read more »

ALAN KELLY’S GHQ STAFF

August 27, 2020

NEW LABOUR party leader Alan ‘AK47’ Kelly heads up a party of six TDs. The party has enjoyed a consistent poll rating of... Read more »

TAOISEACH’S NEW PERSPECTIVE

August 27, 2020

AN INDIGNANT Micheál Martin gave the then taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, quite a ticking off in June last year when quizzing him on the... Read more »

BOG CUTTINGS

August 27, 2020

Sin Bin Seamus Treanor (34) of 13 Burnside, Lower Main Street, Letterkenny, appeared at Letterkenny District Court charged with three counts of criminal... Read more »

SHINNERS V JOE DUFFY

August 27, 2020

TO INADVERTENTLY provoke a defamation action from one Sinn Féin TD could be regarded as misfortune, but to do so against another SF... Read more »

VALUING LOUIS LE BROCQUY

August 27, 2020

NEXT MONTH’S auction by Sotheby’s of 19 works owned by Mick Smurfit should shine some light on the current perceived worth of a... Read more »

STRANGE FLOWERS – DONAL RYAN (DOUBLEDAY)

August 27, 2020

SINCE The Spinning Heart was longlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize, Donal Ryan has been winning consistent praise for his slight but... Read more »

LISA MCGOWAN’S NEW VENTURE

August 27, 2020

THIS WEEK, the case featuring influencer Lisa McGowan of Lisa’s Lust List and Facebook Ireland was back in court, with McGowan seeking the... Read more »

MARK O’KEEFFE’S HOTLINE

August 27, 2020

THE IMPACT of the black economy on the hairdressing and make-up sector, post-Covid-19, is making itself felt as some stylists opt to quit... Read more »

CHEAP AIB SHARES DON’T REFLECT RECOVERY POTENTIAL

August 27, 2020

AIB BOSS Colin Hunt must be wondering why he is coming under fire in the media, with the Irish Times, for example, accusing... Read more »

CASHING OUT AT IPL PLASTICS

August 27, 2020

ARYZTA AND Origin were spin-offs from Philip Lynch’s IAWS, with the other remnants transformed by him into a conglomerate and brought together under... Read more »

DAVID KEOGHAN ROLLS THE DICE

August 27, 2020

WHEN THE Fozzy Stack-trained Aloha Star was demoted from second to third for causing interference to the favourite, The Lir Jet, in the... Read more »

GALLOPING ODDS AT TRAMORE

August 27, 2020

TRAINED BY Gordon Elliott, Enzani will be the subject of Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) interest when he runs next, after a peculiar... Read more »

SWEENEY BOYS IN THE SPOTLIGHT

August 27, 2020

THE YOUNG Sweeneys of Clifden will hardly have enjoyed the notoriety lent to them by coverage of the 80 or so members of... Read more »

LARRY MURRIN’S JAZZ BLUES

August 27, 2020

POOR OLD Larry Murrin – who owns the Sole Seafood and Grill restaurant on South William Street, D2 – has just got some... Read more »

DERMOT SMURFIT’S ROLLERCOASTER RIDE

August 27, 2020

AS ANY good gambler knows, what goes up must come down. Dermot Stopford Smurfit, the now not-so-young tyro who’s been up and coming... Read more »

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