January 24 - February 06, 2025 Archives

AFFAIRS OF THE NATION

MARTIN BOWS TO TRUMP ON GAZA

January 23, 2025

The timing of Micheál Martin and the Government’s adoption of the pro-Israeli definition of antisemitism drawn up by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance... Read more »

PROFILE: MICHAEL LOWRY

January 23, 2025

DESCRIPTIONS OF Michael Lowry as ‘kingmaker’ in government formation talks have been rejected by Micheál Martin and Simon Harris, who argue that the... Read more »

YOUNG BLOOD: PÁDRAIG MAC BRÁDAIGH

January 23, 2025

IN THE spring of 2024, Pádraig Mac Brádaigh was elected as the first ever Irish-language officer of Trinity College Dublin Students’ Union (TCDSU).... Read more »

PRESIDENT HIGGINS UNDER ATTACK!

January 23, 2025

IT WAS hardly surprising that when President Michael D Higgins had the temerity, at the BT Young Scientist Exhibition, to speak out against... Read more »

BEN SCALLAN’S PLATFORM

January 23, 2025

Francis Duffy, the Archbishop of Tuam, may have been surprised to receive criticism on the archdiocese Facebook page after a notice was posted... Read more »

MOLLY, MY IRISH MOLLY: ZAPPONE IS BACK

January 23, 2025

MEDIAHUIS GROUP political editor Philip Ryan restored some semblance of balance in the daily Indo to coverage of Katherine Zappone’s return to Ireland... Read more »

NIAMH TALLON’S SPORTING PROWESS

January 23, 2025

CONGRATULATIONS TO Niamh Tallon, the founder of something called Her Sport Media Ltd (HSM), which has just landed a €10,000 grant from Coimisiún... Read more »

FERGAL FOLEY FORMENTS REVOLT

January 23, 2025

THERE IS mutiny brewing in the Law Library, where venerable junior counsel Fergal Foley is set to lead the disgruntled criminal legal eagles... Read more »

VOL 43 NO 02

January 23, 2025

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MAURICE REGAN’S LATEST MOVE

January 23, 2025

GOLDHAWK WAS not overly surprised to see one Maurice Regan riding to the rescue of toe-tapper Michael Flatley this month. It is presumably... Read more »

LEGAL EAGLE

January 23, 2025

James Paul Foley, formerly known as boring old Paul Foley, has come a cropper with the Law Society, which has initiated disciplinary proceedings... Read more »

MUSK FARAGE SPLIT

January 23, 2025

THE SPLIT between Elon Musk and Nigel Farage is because the latter distanced himself from British far-right activist Tommy Robinson, who is currently... Read more »

MR ‘NICE GUY’, JUDGE MCNULTY

January 23, 2025

QUALIFIED BARRISTER Bartholomew Anthony O’Neill told Judge James G McNulty in September 2023 that he had never practised as a barrister but he... Read more »

CHINESE WHISKEY SOUR

January 23, 2025

THIS WEEK a Chinese national named Yan Ma has been in the High Court seeking a summary judgment against Nephin Whiskey Company Ltd... Read more »

THE NAME IS MITTY, WALTER MITTY

January 23, 2025

The Irish News last week published a front-page story about London gangster and convicted killer Paul Cleeland with the headline: “MI5 recruited me to murder... Read more »

IRISH RIGHT’S FAR-OFF FRIENDS

January 23, 2025

The failure of new Irish right-wing parties to gain an electoral breakthrough has resulted in many of their members seemingly more concerned with... Read more »

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

January 23, 2025

The one I’m most excited about – I’ve had a couple of emails that said, “I watched the tango and afterwards I told... Read more »

TRUMP RULES HERE TOO

January 23, 2025

IT HAS long been understood that the Fianna Fáil/Fine Gael element of the outgoing coalition Government had to be dragged kicking and screaming... Read more »

END TO BUSINESS AS USUAL

January 23, 2025

A recent landmark High Court judgment has given a huge boost to environmental protection. Justice Richard Humphreys lambasted An Bord Pleanála (ABP) for... Read more »

PRESIDENTIAL GERRYMANDER

January 23, 2025

On June 6 last year several hundred Poles voted at four venues in the north – Belfast, Ballymena, Omagh and Newry – for... Read more »

SINN FÉIN’S NEW SENATOR

January 23, 2025

SINN FÉIN’S decision to transfer its northern economy minister to the Seanad has provoked much curious comment but little of the usual media... Read more »

FLIGHT OF THE WILD GREENS

January 23, 2025

THE LAST Green standing, party leader Roderic O’Gorman, recently slid his stiletto with surgical precision into both his party chair, ex-senator Pauline O’Reilly,... Read more »

REINVENTING VARADKAR

January 23, 2025

IS LEO VARADKAR trying to reinvent himself as a retired western statesman turned champion of the oppressed in the manner of late US... Read more »

BIG PHIL’S LAMENT

January 23, 2025

THE MOST original – contrarian even – critique of Michael Lowry’s central role in the creation of the new government came in the... Read more »

TIMES SUBVERSIVES?

January 23, 2025

HAS THE Irish Times editor’s office been infiltrated by those Sinn Féin subversives? Last week the comparison was uncanny between the newspaper’s editorial... Read more »

FOREIGN SPIES IN IRELAND

January 23, 2025

ANOTHER CORKER from Sunday Times security correspondent John Mooney recently told of the “United Front Work Department (UFWD), a shadowy Chinese agency” that... Read more »

BOG CUTTINGS

January 23, 2025

GOING SOUTH WHILE GOING NORTH Drogheda District Court heard the case of Mark Dolan (39), who was arrested for public intoxication and engaging... Read more »

NIALL GUNNE’S BUS CORRIDOR

January 23, 2025

ONE OF the juicier-looking properties to arrive on the market is a large house on Rathgar’s leafy Highfield Road, which got a glowing... Read more »

ARCHIVES COUNCIL IN STORAGE

January 23, 2025

JUST OVER a year on from a leak, which started on the top floor of the National Archives premises on Bishop Street in... Read more »

GATHERING FEEDBACK

January 23, 2025

LAST MONTH Jessica Drum’s Screen Guilds of Ireland (SGI) – an association of technicians’ guilds in film and TV – announced it would... Read more »

HUSBANDS’ CUSTOMERS

January 23, 2025

LEOPARDSTOWN BOSS Tim Husbands and his team have decided it’s time to “improve customer experience” by making the 2025 Dublin Racing Festival (DRF)... Read more »

LONDONOFFICECALLIN FLIES HIGH

January 23, 2025

HIGH-FLYING racehorse Londonofficecallin – a 23-times-raced maiden when leaving Evanna McCutcheon’s yard – won his seventh race from a dozen starts at Punchestown’s... Read more »

HAYES BACK ON TRACK

January 23, 2025

FOLLOWING HIS 15-month suspension for failing to take proper care of a horse, Patrick Joseph Hayes has trained his first winner since being... Read more »

UNDERVALUED TULLOW OIL NEEDS NEW ENERGY

January 23, 2025

The International Chamber of Commerce announced on January 2 that Tullow Oil is not liable to pay the $320m branch profit remittance tax... Read more »

BOTSWANA DIAMONDS FAILING TO SPARKLE

January 23, 2025

There are three main areas for diamonds in the world – southern Africa, Canada and the Karelian Craton in Finland and Northern Russia... Read more »

VISUAL’S QUARE OLD LOSSES

January 23, 2025

HAVING JUST celebrated 15 years in operation, the well-funded Visual arts centre in Carlow – the largest visual arts space in the country... Read more »

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