Issue: May 19 - June 1, 2023

IN DEFENCE OF PADDY COSGRAVE

May 18, 2023

IT WAS hardly surprising to see the ‘nwl’ Twitter account wading into the controversy over Paddy Cosgrave’s €1m in funding for The Ditch... Read more »

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PROFILE: ANNE HARRIS

May 18, 2023

THE IRISH TIMES prides itself as leading debate on the big issues of the day and down the years has acted as the... Read more »

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YOUNG BLOOD: ANGELA SCANLON

May 18, 2023

IT MAY once have sacked her from a high-profile gig but RTÉ has certainly shown faith in the gobby Angela Scanlon by giving... Read more »

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CONTENDERS CIRCLE VARADKAR

May 18, 2023

THE FEAR of an unseemly power struggle being displayed in public is one reason for the paralysis in Fine Gael over increasingly poor... Read more »

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WATT’S PUBLIC SPENDING CONTROLS

May 18, 2023

While many politicians and commentators have been falling over themselves to characterise health department secretary general Robert Watt as “dismissive”, “cocky”, “combative” or  “arrogant”, civil... Read more »

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FAKE TAN AT NEWSTALK

May 18, 2023

MUCH HAS been written about the Irish Times’s chatbot debacle and there are plenty of red faces on Tara Street this week. It turns... Read more »

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RITA CROSBIE’S BATTLES

May 18, 2023

GOOD NEWS for Rita Crosbie (Harry’s missus), with Dublin City Council having given the thumbs up for two retail kiosks on Grand Canal... Read more »

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PADDY KEHOE’S ROUGH RIDE

May 18, 2023

HORSERACING PUNTERS have been enjoying the incendiary online spat between one Paddy Kehoe, the owner of racehorse Princess Zoe, and her former trainer,... Read more »

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ÁINE MORIARTY’S ACADEMY REBOOT

May 18, 2023

THE IRISH Film and Television Academy (Ifta) production directed by Áine Moriarty was back from the Zoom wilderness for an in-person event this... Read more »

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CREATIVE DIFFERENCES

May 18, 2023

GOLDHAWK WAS struck by the rather glossy-looking Beginnings, a book commissioned by the Art Council to mark 40 years of artists’ organisation Aosdána,... Read more »

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CORKERY LEADS DATALEX INTO TURBULENCE

May 18, 2023

THIS IS not the first time that the accounts for airline software outfit Datalex have left Moneybags scratching his head. This time, the... Read more »

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CLEAN SWEEP – RTÉ ONE

May 18, 2023

HAVING ENJOYED an unusual level of critical and audience appreciation for gangster series Kin, RTÉ is back on familiar territory with Clean Sweep.... Read more »

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VOL 41 NO 10

May 18, 2023

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LIGHT TOUCH GARDA RESPONSE

May 18, 2023

THE POLICY of light-touch policing that gardaí have used to deal with far-right protests and provocations in recent months was again evident last... Read more »

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FR MCMANUS’S PRESS RELEASE

May 18, 2023

The Belfast Telegraph has excommunicated the Irish National Caucus (INC). Fr Sean McManus, founder of the INC – which lobbies the US Congress... Read more »

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WILL THE NATO CAMPAIGN WORK?

May 18, 2023

IF THE Born-Again-Redmondites (BARs) in Government fail to deliver Irish neutrality up to the dogs of war in Nato and Brussels, it will... Read more »

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MI6 SEEN BUT NOT HURD

May 18, 2023

Sir Simon McDonald, the former boss of the British Foreign Office, has just released his memoirs, Leadership: Lessons from a Life in Diplomacy.... Read more »

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GOOD ENERGY NEWS?

May 18, 2023

It’s almost 20 years since Ireland’s first offshore windfarm came into operation. By today’s standards, the 2004 Arklow Bank windpark is a tiddler,... Read more »

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THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

May 18, 2023
If a good newspaper is a nation talking to itself, the Opinion section is where much of that talking happens. Irish Times editor Ruadhán... Read more »

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FRONTEX TOOLS UP FOR ACTION

May 18, 2023

Recently the 2023 budget of Frontex, the European border and coast guard agency, was released and lay bare the hundreds of millions of... Read more »

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STORMONT TO RETURN?

May 18, 2023

VOTERS IN the north elect 462 councillors to 11 councils this week. There are 807 hopefuls, the vast majority from the main orange... Read more »

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LEO SWINGING TO THE LEFT?

May 18, 2023

Fine Gael’s staunch defence of the publicly owned Irish rail system against the EU’s Railway Directive continues to raise eyebrows in many quarters.... Read more »

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SINN FÉIN ‘UNITY’ IN CORK EAST

May 18, 2023

THE CORK EAST constituency was the scene of one of the triggers that provoked a rash of stories about ‘bullying’ by sensitive Sinn... Read more »

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DEFENDER OF THE FAITH

May 18, 2023

THERE WAS much joyous comment in the media – Irish as well as British – at the “inclusive” character of the coronation of... Read more »

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LUCINDA’S MESSAGE TO MELONI

May 18, 2023

DOES A recent Business Post column by Lucinda Creighton on Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni indicate that EU conservatives are ready to accept... Read more »

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PALE, MALE AND ‘IT’

May 18, 2023

It took Irish Times editor Ruadhán Mac Cormaic some 48 hours to explain who, what, where and how the newspaper’s website ran an... Read more »

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ENVIRONMENTAL ‘EXPERTS’

May 18, 2023

Once the favourite punch-bag of environmentalists, the semi-state Bord na Móna (BnaM) has morphed from the bog-destroying climate villain to the squeaky new... Read more »

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MILK BILL

May 18, 2023

The free-spending National Dairy Council (NDC) – a private, farmer-owned marketing company – has not been seeing eye to eye with the Revenue... Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

May 18, 2023

NOT IN THE BIBLE A BALLYBOFEY man appearing before Letterkenny District Court, after failing to pay a parking fine, told Judge Éiteáin Cunningham... Read more »

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YVONNE DEENEY’S DES RES

May 18, 2023

IT WAS reported by the Sunday Times earlier this month that Natalia Sutherland – daughter of former Goldman Sachs chairman Peter ‘Suds’ Sutherland... Read more »

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SHARON KEEGAN’S FANS

May 18, 2023

THERE WAS yet more valuable publicity for Sharon Keegan of the Peachylean athleisure brand last weekend, with the Business Post reporting that she... Read more »

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MERCURY RISING

May 18, 2023

THE PROPERTY section of the Irish Times carried a suitably bloated article last week puffing up the proposed sale of an impressive Victorian... Read more »

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BLACKMORE’S TACTICS

May 18, 2023

STAR JOCKEY Rachael Blackmore is clearly the leading lady of Irish racing but she fluffed her lines at Kilbeggan last week. Blackmore was... Read more »

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EDDIE AHERN’S COMEBACK

May 18, 2023

EDDIE AHERN, the champion apprentice jockey in Ireland in 1997, who has been banned from riding for the last 10 years, is set... Read more »

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UNDER STARTER’S ORDERS

May 18, 2023

BEING A national hunt race starter can be an unenviable position, given that trying to get upwards of 25 adrenaline-fuelled horses and jockeys... Read more »

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JESSICA HANDICAPS THE HANDICAPPERS

May 18, 2023

IT WAS the handicappers rather than the starters who featured at an appeal hearing last week chaired by barrister Ian Whelan, which resulted... Read more »

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