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MARY AIKEN’S PALS

June 30, 2022

WITHOUT DOUBT, the most interesting of the women conferred with the freedom of Dublin City last month is Mary Aiken (whose latest gig... Read more »

MALIGN MISSION

June 30, 2022

THE IRISH Times reported last week that the government is reconsidering its military mission in Mali, due mainly to security issues; human rights... Read more »

PROFILE: HELEN MCENTEE

June 30, 2022

WAS THERE ever a politician that is so much a product and beneficiary of their own family as minister for justice, Helen McEntee;... Read more »

YOUNG BLOOD: DANNY O’REILLY

June 30, 2022

As he gears himself up for co-hosting RTÉ One’s new Friday night music show, The Main Stage, hirsute rocker Danny O’Reilly must be... Read more »

NOEL SMYTH’S WUFF RIDE

June 30, 2022

THIS WEEK will see the next chapter in the ongoing saga of a potential sale by the Irish Kennel Club (IKC) of its... Read more »

CIAN’S FOUR STARS

June 30, 2022

Showjumping royalty Cian O’Connor has pulled out all the stops with his upgraded ‘state of the art’ equestrian centre in Co Meath. It... Read more »

JOHN COLLISON’S OFFSHORE ENTITY

June 30, 2022

A NEW company has been established following the acquisition from David Davies of Abbeyleix House last year by Stripe billionaire John Collison. He... Read more »

PAUL WARD’S €15M JUDGMENT

June 30, 2022

THE HIGH Court has just awarded a hefty €15m judgment against cinema magnate Paul Ward as a result of a legal action taken... Read more »

RUTH & PEN – EMILIE PINE

June 30, 2022

THIS DEBUT novel expands on many of the same well-worn themes aired in Emilie Pine’s Notes to Self (2018), a short collection of... Read more »

AIDEEN’S SUNNY ASPECT

June 30, 2022

LEESON PARK is one of the more exclusive roads around Dublin 6, featuring handsome and spacious three-storey Victorian piles, a couple of which... Read more »

VOL 40 NO 13

June 30, 2022

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COLIN HUNT’S PRESIDENCY

June 30, 2022

THERE WERE eyebrows raised last week when it emerged that AIB’s Colin Hunt is to receive the Ireland-US Council’s 2022 Global Business Leadership... Read more »

IN PRAISE OF GERALDINE BYRNE NASON

June 30, 2022

Quite a few diplomatic and political eyebrows were raised last week by the Business Post’s breathless account of how a civil servant, our... Read more »

LAW SOCIETY SPLIT

June 30, 2022

WHAT A fascinating Law Society council meeting its members can expect when it eventually meets to discuss a startling motion demanding that the... Read more »

MALCOLM BYRNE IN LABOUR COURT FEUD

June 30, 2022

IT LOOKS like the board of Wexford primary school, Gaelscoil Moshíológ, which got trounced at the Labour Court recently for unfairly dismissing its... Read more »

SIEGE MENTALITY!

June 30, 2022

MANY IRISH politicians and commentators have been exercised by Boris Johnson’s cynical domestic ploy in transferring asylum seekers to Rwanda. Sinn Féin’s Michelle... Read more »

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

June 30, 2022

Bono also chooses Ice Cream Sundae by Inhaler, a band fronted by his son Elijah, as one of the tracks he would take... Read more »

DUP HOKEY COKEY

June 30, 2022

The Brexit ultras in the Conservative party’s European Research Group (ERG), about seventy strong, now hold Boris Johnson hostage. The confidence vote the... Read more »

DON’T MENTION THE WAR!

June 30, 2022

THE MYSTERY surrounding Green Party policy on defence, security and — once that most cherished Green principle of all — neutrality, had, until... Read more »

FRIENDLY, PEACEFUL NATO

June 30, 2022

MANY PEOPLE will have heard of the splendidly titled ‘Nato Partnership for Peace’, which Ireland joined more than 20 years ago amid earnest... Read more »

DARRAGH O’BRIEN V. CLIFFORD LEE

June 30, 2022

THE FIRST signs of just how horrid supporters of current housing minister, Darragh O’Brien, were behaving towards Darragh’s ‘colleague’ and Fianna Fáil running... Read more »

FIRST CASUALTY

June 30, 2022

THE CORDIAL and professional relationship enjoyed by poet Kevin Higgins and Irish Times books editor Martin Doyle is probably down to their shared,... Read more »

BILLY BINGHAM’S GESTURES

June 30, 2022

RECENT OBITUARIES to Northern Ireland soccer manager and player, Billy Bingham, in the Irish Times and Sunday Independent were positive, cheery even, as... Read more »

MI5’S CHINATOWN

June 30, 2022

IT HAPPENED 10 years ago but MI5, which takes an uncommonly keen interest in Irish affairs judging by the spooky stories in the Sunday... Read more »

POLITICS OF FOOD

June 30, 2022

Political tensions are nearing boiling point as FF and FG close ranks in supporting special pleading from the agri-industrial lobby in its demand... Read more »

THE IRISH NATURE

June 30, 2022

A new European study on ‘nature connectedness’ found that those with high levels of affinity to nature enjoy better mental health and tend... Read more »

BOG CUTTINGS

June 30, 2022

Buy & Sell Gardaí Gerard Gormley (35) of Carrowgavneen, Coolaney, Sligo appeared before Sligo District Court charged with using threatening and abusive behaviour... Read more »

JOHN GIVEN’S GAFF

June 30, 2022

FORMER GOODBODY and Philip Lee heavy hitter John Given has added another string to his bow, with KPMG hiring him to head its... Read more »

LOVE BITES – RTÉ PLAYER

June 30, 2022

A TEXTBOOK example of how RTÉ these days commissions shows, the origins of Love Bites go back to lockdown, when struggling comedian Shane Daniel... Read more »

WAITING AT IMMA

June 30, 2022

BRIAN MACCRAITH was highly critical of the delay by the minister for media etc, etc, Catherine Martin, in publishing the Future of Media... Read more »

BRIAN MERRIMAN’S GOOD NEWS

June 30, 2022

CONTRATULATIONS ARE in order for Brian Merriman and his crew at the International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival (IDGTF), who clearly have been receiving... Read more »

O’CALLAGHAN’S MIXED WEEK

June 30, 2022

CURRAGH TRAINER Michael O’Callaghan certainly endured the highs and lows of Royal Ascot week and despite the majority of his horses running below... Read more »

FAMILY FORTUNES

June 30, 2022

COULD THIS be the year when Aidan O’Brien loses his grip on the Irish trainers’ championship? For the past 15 years, O’Brien has... Read more »

KAVANAGH’S CURRAGH COVER PRICE

June 30, 2022

BRIAN KAVANAGH’S decision to charge €50 for a ticket into the Curragh on Derby Day last weekend was predictably not well received in... Read more »

JOHN HALLEY’S DOG

June 30, 2022

COOLMORE VET John Halley’s embarrassing doping case involving the family dog – understandably raised plenty of eyebrows. While cynics may find the excuse... Read more »

STRUGGLING BALMORAL LAND DIRECTORS ARE STILL SMILING

June 30, 2022

COMPLETING THE full integration of Total Produce into Dole Fruit to form the new enlarged group, Dole plc, in July 2021 was surely... Read more »

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