Affairs of the Nation

Kevin Myers

Affairs of the Nation

They’re all against Myers… now

Kevin Myers THERE are multiple ironies in the reaction to Kevin Myers’s self immolation, not the least being that his offending article – like all copy for The Sunday Times... Read more »
Breon Corcoran

Affairs of the Nation

Breon Corcoran’s next move?

Breon Corcoran THE NEWS that Breon Corcoran is exiting Paddy Power-Beftair has shocked the market and pushed the shares down. But in truth, the company’s shares have been on the... Read more »
Ed Walsh

Affairs of the Nation

ED WALSH BIFFS BIFFO

Ed Walsh ED WALSH, former University of Limerick (UL) president, indulged in a spot of score settling with the return of his honorary doctorate to NUI in protest at the... Read more »

Affairs of the Nation

Thornhill

Affairs of the Nation

DOCTOR In THE HOUSE

Thornhill THINGS haven’t gone so well for US import Dr Gerald Stephens who late last month lost an appeal against a 2015 High Court order for specific performance of a... Read more »
Lucinda Creighton

Affairs of the Nation

LUCINDA’S LUCRATIVE GIG

Lucinda Creighton LUCINDA CREIGHTON hasn’t gone away you know. In her latest guise as an EU consultant, the former Fine Gael Minister of State for European Affairs has popped up... Read more »
Eddie Sheehy

Affairs of the Nation

WICKLOW COUNCIL’S ‘DISASTER FOR ALL’

Eddie Sheehy LITIGIOUS and financial exhaustion seems likely to see Wicklow County Council hoist the white flag following a High Court finding in favour of Cllr Tommy Cullen and ex-councillor... Read more »
Finian McGrath

Affairs of the Nation

LEO AND FINIAN LOVE-IN

Finian McGrath FINIAN McGRATH’S paean of praise this week for his new Taoiseach Leo Varadkar was not delivered without motive and the super junior minster is shrewder than many of... Read more »
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Affairs of the Nation

Neutrality Ban

PRESIDENT of the Institute of International and European Affairs (IIEA), Brendan Halligan, was recently given space in The Irish Times for yet another article idemanding that Ireland end its neutrality.... Read more »

Pillars of Society

Luke Comer Ban

Pillars of Society

Billionaire property tycoon Luke Comer and his horseracing handicap

Luke Comer THE PROPERTY boom is again making some people very rich, none more so than Luke Comer and his younger brother, Brian, who... Read more »

The Young Bloods

Ellen Coyne

The Young Bloods

Times hackette Ellen Coyne

Ellen Coyne FEMINIST journalist Ellen Coyne (26) has been steadily building her own brand for the last few years. A senior reporter at the... Read more »

Fit to Print?

Claire Byrne

Fit to Print?

RTÉ WAGE SLAVES

Claire Byrne DESPITE rampant speculation about Bryan “Dobbo” Dobson moving to Morning Ireland, RTÉ’S head of news and current affairs, the no-nonsense Jon Williams, is fixated on changing TV news.... Read more »
Susan Denham

Fit to Print?

WORST LIBEL LEGACY

Susan Denham THAT profit warning from INM issued in late July and which referred to extra costs arising from “legacy libel awards” referred to two particular cases that were settled... Read more »
Kevin Myers

Fit to Print?

Myers’ Fans

Kevin Myers THE only consolation for The Sunday Times on the weekend of its now ejected columnist Kevin Myers’s anti-Semitic implosion was that Irish sales of the newspaper went up... Read more »

Last Refuge

Martin Fraser

Last Refuge

VARADKAR’S WELL OILED PR MACHINE

Martin Fraser THE “strategic communications unit” to be created at the heart of government has an Orwellian ring to it and there is little doubt it will serve as part... Read more »
Stephen Donnelly

Last Refuge

FF BORDER ROW

Stephen Donnelly THE ROW between Leo Varadkar and the DUP over the border and Brexit is polite compared to the clash between Fianna Fáil’s Brexit spokesperson, Stephen Donnelly, and the... Read more »
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Last Refuge

Byrne Dynasty

GOLDHAWK noted the resentment among Fianna Fáil frontbenchers at the perceived media favouritism enjoyed by Meath East TD Thomas Byrne via his frat boy friendship with communications director Pat McParland... Read more »
Gerry Adams

Last Refuge

GERRY ADAMS’S LONG GOODBYE

Gerry Adams THAT Mary Lou McDonald and not El Presidente Gerry Adams delivered Sinn Féin’s coalition message to Fianna Fáil last week can be read in two ways. One is... Read more »

Bog Cuttings

Bog Cuttings

Bog Cuttings

Bog Cuttings

‘How long is life?’ A BOYLE man charged with threatening or insulting behaviour was given the benefit of the Probation Act at Carrick-on-Shannon District Court. Kevin Beirne, Patrick Street, Boyle... Read more »

Fowl Emissions

Shane Ross

Fowl Emissions

ROSS TO ELECTRIFY TRANSPORT?

Shane Ross IS THERE any part of the environmental agenda that Ireland doesn’t have to be dragged kicking and screaming into, to achieve even the grudging bare minimum? Take electric... Read more »

Bird's Eye View

Bonfire

Bird's Eye View

BONFIRES TO BE BANNED

SINN FÉIN has moved to exploit a gaping hole that loyalists have left open in the north’s culture wars. For years 11th night bonfires have been growing bigger, some teetering... Read more »

Foreign Frolics

Nicolas Maduro

Foreign Frolics

VENEZUELA: THE US WANTS ITS COUNTRY BACK

Nicolas Maduro WHAT IS taking place in Venezuela is an attempt at counterrevolution. Washington wants “its” country back, which is why it is providing both overt and covert support to... Read more »

The Hot Air Brigade

Aine Lawlor

The Hot Air Brigade

The Hot Air Brigade

Aine Lawlor I think Morning Ireland has a soul – a heathen soul- but a noble soul and I think it’s his. Áine Lawlor on Cathal Mac Coille’s retirement, Irish... Read more »

High Society

High Society

Brittany Mason and Steven Patach

High Society

Brittany Mason in Trump’s footsteps

Brittany Mason and Steven Patach READERS OF last weekend’s Sindo were treated to an article featuring the glamorous new promoter of Miss Universe Ireland... Read more »

High Society

Michael Wall

High Society

MICHAEL WALL’S ABBEY CREDENTIALS

Michael Wall THE RECENT overdue appointments to the board of the Abbey Theatre include barrister-cum-architect Michael Wall, who has a number of strings to... Read more »

High Society

Lisselan House

High Society

David Blackburn’s property problem

Lisselan House THERE HAVE been few more startling property price drops than that associated with the magnificent Lissellan House and estate outside Clonakilty in Co Cork. Back in 2014, the... Read more »

Behind the Scenes

Rose McHugh

Behind the Scenes

Rose McHugh at the Crawford

Rose McHugh WHILE THERE is still no sign of an advert seeking a successor to Peter Murray as director of the Crawford Art Gallery in Cork, the new chair, Rose... Read more »
Harry Crosbie

Behind the Scenes

HARRY’S PLAY

Harry Crosbie THE PACE is picking up for Harry Crosbie’s proposed People’s Theatre in Dublin’s docklands. Presumably, the running of the operation will prove more orthodox than his other entertainment... Read more »
Mel Gibson

Behind the Scenes

Mel Gibson vs Macdara Kelleher

Mel Gibson ON JULY 31, some showbiz legal eagles in Los Angeles filed a lengthy series of claims on behalf of Hollywood star Mel Gibson and his production and distribution... Read more »

Sport of Kings

Joe Osborne

Sport of Kings

OSBORNE MAKES HIS MARK

Joe Osborne JOE OSBORNE has wasted little time in making his presence felt in his new role as chief executive of Sheikh Mohammed al Maktoum’s global racing and breeding empire,... Read more »
Ruby Walsh

Sport of Kings

CHOOSY RUBY

Ruby Walsh JOCKEY EXTRAORDINAIRE Ruby Walsh has become highly selective when choosing his mounts these days and it may be a hint that the multiple champion is beginning to think... Read more »
Brian Kavanagh

Sport of Kings

Legal Jockeying

Brian Kavanagh INTERESTING to see proceedings being lodged in the High Court by one Andrew Thornton against Fairyhouse racecourse and its owner, Brian Kavanagh’s Horse Racing Ireland (HRI). It is... Read more »
Roger Brookhouse

Sport of Kings

JUSTICE FOR BROOKHOUSE

Roger Brookhouse WHEN UK-based owner Roger Brookhouse lodged an appeal with the Turf Club over its decision to void the race in Killarney last month won by his Stars Over... Read more »

Reviews

Solar Bones

Books

SOLAR BONES – MIKE McCORMACK (CANONGATE)

LONGLISTED LAST month for the 2017 Man Booker Prize (along with Sebastian Barry’s Days Without End), Mike McCormack’s experimental novel tells the story of Marcus Conway, a civil engineer in... Read more »
Siobhan Cullen

Reviews

CRESTFALL – PEACOCK THEATRE

Siobhan Cullen YOU CAN’T accuse the Abbey’s new directors of being cautious. It takes nerve to stage the most vulgar, violent and crudely poetic play from the contemporary Irish canon... Read more »
Ken Early

Podcasts

KEN EARLY POLITICAL PODCAST – SECOND CAPTAINS WORLD SERVICE

Ken Early WHEN THE Second Captains sports team left The Irish Times stable of podcasts to strike out with their own Second Captains World Service platform of podcasts, the need... Read more »

Moneybags

Moneybags

Donal Murphy

Moneybags

DCC’s rocket-fuelled share rating

Donal Murphy WITH DCC’s Tommy Breen standing down – despite being only 58 – the new chief executive is Donal Murphy, who has spent... Read more »

Moneybags

Mike Donoghue

Moneybags

Ormonde Mining’s low valuation

Mike Donoghue ORMONDE MINING chairman Mike Donoghue has very sensibly delayed the development of his tungsten mine in Salamanca, Western Spain. The initial plan... Read more »

Briefcases

Eoin Bara

Briefcases

Contract woes for Eoin Bara

Eoin Bara SPARE a thought for gin distiller and serial entrepreneur Eoin Bara (his full surname is Baratizadeh) whose tech consultancy has just collapsed into liquidation. Bara has been the... Read more »
Ferdi Roberts

Briefcases

Ferdi Roberts’s Gamercon fiasco

Ferdi Roberts THERE was bad news for promoter Ferdi Roberts recently when his company Gamercon Ltd collapsed into liquidation in late July. Gamercon is the company behind the event of... Read more »

Briefcases

Patrick Crowley’s litany of woe

Giovanni Di Stefano CONGRATULATIONS to solicitors Cathal O’Donovan and Patrick Crowley, formerly of O’Donovan Solicitors in Dublin, who had a decent day in the High Court recently. AIB had tried... Read more »
Eddie Hobbs

Briefcases

Farewell to Brendan Investments

Eddie Hobbs IT’S the end of an era as Brendan Investments Pan European Property (BIPEP) was finally put into liquidation last month. The company – where Vincent Regan and Hugh... Read more »
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Briefcases

Declan Doyle’s director’s loans

AN INTRIGUING little company called Comlee Ltd is facing a winding up petition courtesy of the taxman. Comlee is a small business consultancy outfit based in St Margaret’s in north... Read more »
Charlie Hopkins

Briefcases

Charlie Hopkins’s headache

Charlie Hopkins AN INTERESTING front page apology was published by the Roscommon Herald last month, the week after an article on a company that had run a social services centre... Read more »
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Briefcases

Give me the Pip

AN INTRIGUING company called Galvanic Ltd has just applied to the High Court to appoint an examiner. The outfit makes a device called The Pip, which measures stress levels by... Read more »