Affairs of the Nation

John McGuinness

Affairs of the Nation

TD DEFIES VULTURE FUND JAIL THREAT

FIANNA FÁIL TD John McGuinness has rutted up against some heavy hitters – ex garda commissioner Martin Callinan, his party leader Micheál Martin and the government – but none has... Read more »
Shane Ross

Affairs of the Nation

ROSS AMBUSHED BY JUDGE’S CALL

SHANE ROSS told RTÉ through gritted teeth last week that he had no problems with the sudden appointment of four new judges, as his Judicial Appointments Bill would soon be... Read more »
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Affairs of the Nation

JENNI TIMONY’S MENTORING

CONGRATULATIONS to Jenni Timony who is busy putting her experience to work for the benefit of Ireland’s next generation of entrepreneurs. She certainly knows what not to do. Jenni is... Read more »

Affairs of the Nation

Crystal Li

Affairs of the Nation

OLGA SHAJAKU V CRYSTAL LI

AFTER REPEATED visits to the courts, determined Russian lawyer Olga Shajaku has finally won out, with the Court of Appeal ruling that a lucrative translation contract awarded to Shajaku’s competitor,... Read more »
Ruairí Quinn

Affairs of the Nation

RUAIRÍ QUINN’S BUSY TIMETABLE

THE COUNTDOWN is in full swing for the imminent opening of Barry O’Callaghan’s hugely expensive Nord Anglia International School in Leopardstown in September. Accounts just filed for the UK holding... Read more »
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Affairs of the Nation

AIB V TONY O’REILLY

FANS OF Goldhawk will not have been too surprised by AIB’s move this week to get its hands on Tony O’Reilly’s stake in Dromoland Castle. It will be recalled (see... Read more »
Colum Kenny

Affairs of the Nation

PROF KENNY’S EVIDENCE REFUTED

ACADEMIC and writer Professor Colum Kenny has got himself into a spot of bother at the Charleton Tribunal inquiring into an alleged smear campaign against Sgt Maurice McCabe by senior... Read more »
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Affairs of the Nation

ANNE MARIE WATERS’S NEW PARTY

FAR RIGHT political activist Anne Marie Waters – she hails from Stoneybatter, Dublin – has formed a new ultra-right party entitled For Britain and is standing in the Lewisham East... Read more »
Julie O'Leary

Affairs of the Nation

JULIE O’LEARY

CORK NORTH Central’s Julie O’Leary is knocking loudly on the Dáil door as Fine Gael holds its long overdue convention to select candidates for the next general election. But it... Read more »

Pillars of Society

Lisa Chambers

Pillars of Society

LISA CHAMBERS

BEING tipped by The Irish Times as next leader of Fianna Fáil could be the kiss of death for any such aspirant but Lisa... Read more »

The Young Bloods

Julie O'Leary

Affairs of the Nation

JULIE O’LEARY

CORK NORTH Central’s Julie O’Leary is knocking loudly on the Dáil door as Fine Gael holds its long overdue convention to select candidates for... Read more »

Fit to Print?

Alison O’Reilly

Fit to Print?

MAIL IN THE BOX

THE tongue lashing delivered to group editor of the Irish Daily and Irish Sunday Mail titles, Sebastian Hamilton, by Supreme Court judge Peter Charleton, has not been done justice in... Read more »
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Fit to Print?

EVE HEWSON’S EXCUSES

IT SEEMS Bono’s daughter Eve Hewson has inherited her dad’s preternatural talent for annoying people. The Brooklyn-based Dubliner had a bit of an Instagram incident recently, managing to stoke the... Read more »
Michael Creed

Fit to Print?

BUSINESS IS BUSINESS

BUSINESS people’s bible the Sunday Business Post stuck it to the drinks industry recently in a devastating critique of the “well-funded lobbyists” that have delayed for many years the Public... Read more »

Last Refuge

Micheál Martin

Last Refuge

CIVIL WAR IN FIANNA FÁIL

MICHEÁL MARTIN’S threat to impose a whip on Fianna Fáil TDs over pending abortion legislation could lead to a real crisis for his two most implacable enemies in the parliamentary... Read more »
Bertie Ahern

Last Refuge

BERTIE AHERN –  THE LOST LEADER

BERTIE AHERN has become a totemic figure in dissident Fianna Fáil circles discontented with Micheál Martin’s leadership and Meath West TD Shane Cassells appears to be one of the former... Read more »
Janice Boylan Irish Military Mali Coolock Says No IFP Hermann Kelly Timmy Dooley Aontú Mal O’Hara Fintan O’Toole Josepha Madigan Eoghan Harris Ukraine War Micheál Martin Middle East Philip Ryan Seán Clancy Simon Coveney Hugo MacNeill Mountbatten Neasa Hourigan Green Party Martin NPT Ivana Bacik Independents Limerick Hospital Overcrowding Barry Cowen

Last Refuge

MARY LOU MCDONALD’S STRATEGY

SINN FÉIN leader Mary Lou McDonald is causing the Fianna Fáil leadership – and that of Fine Gael – some anxiety with one FF frontbencher describing her long-term coalition negotiating... Read more »
Alan Kelly

Last Refuge

SAVING LABOUR FROM ALAN KELLY

IS former Labour leader Pat Rabbitte trying to stimulate a debate on impending regime change in the party with his provocative column in the Sunday Business Post recently? Rabbitte’s ostensible... Read more »

Hush Hush

Drew Harris

Hush Hush

MI5 LINK MAN FOR GARDA TOP JOB?

WHAT A curious appointment as new garda commissioner PSNI Deputy Chief Constable Drew Harris (OBE) would make. This is especially so given the concerns voiced by security sources about entrusting... Read more »
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Hush Hush

JACKIE LAVIN’S WARRIOR ACTIONS

SPARE A thought for Jackie Lavin and Bill Cullen whose long-running battle with the dreaded bankers has been taking its toll. The latest development is the calling of a creditors’... Read more »

Student Life

Paddy Prendergast

Student Life

PRENDERGAST’S RANKING WOES

ON THE SURFACE at least, Trinity College provost Paddy Prendergast has suffered a PR defeat. The release of the 2019 QS World University Rankings has seen Trinity drop to 104th... Read more »

Bog Cuttings

Bog Cuttings

Bog Cuttings

BOG CUTTINGS

Curtains for Dunnes STORES thief A 25-YEAR-OLD Navan man showed arrogance and impertinence by stealing goods to the value of €250 from Dunnes Stores in Navan, Judge Cormac Dunne told... Read more »

Fowl Emissions

Denis Naughten

Fowl Emissions

WHERE’S THE BEEF?

FOR YEARS, whiny environmental types have been warning repeatedly that the Irish state is treating its legally binding international obligations to cut our carbon emissions as a bit of a... Read more »
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Fowl Emissions

BORD BIA’S VEGETARIAN MENU

IRELAND HAS the lowest percentage of its agricultural land producing vegetables in the entire EU, at barely 1%. As a result, we are a net importer of much of the... Read more »

Bird's Eye View

Peter Robinson

Bird's Eye View

PETER ROBINSON’S BORDER POLL HERESY

QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY Belfast has made former DUP leader and First Minister Peter Robinson an honorary professor of peace studies despite an open letter of protest to the vice-chancellor from 37... Read more »

The Hot Air Brigade

Bláthnaid Ní Chofaigh

The Hot Air Brigade

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

I went into the world as I am and the world decided that this outspoken vivacious woman did not fit it. Bláthnaid Ní Chofaigh, RTÉ.ie, Submitted by reader I wasn’t... Read more »

High Society

High Society

Wissam Al Mana and Janet Jackson

High Society

MR JANET JACKSON’S IRISH INTERESTS

IT WAS reported earlier this month that marketing company iZest, set up by Jennifer Taaffe, had scooped a €1m investment from a Qatari moneybags... Read more »

High Society

Consuelo O’Connor

High Society

AUSTIN DARRAGH’S WILL

NOT SURPSISINGLY, there is plenty of interest in the legal proceedings relating to the will of Austin Darragh, with his two children from his... Read more »

High Society

Victoria Browne

High Society

ZONING IN ON CASTLETOWN HOUSE

WHILE THE National Gallery of Ireland topped the list of free visitor attractions in the Republic last year, No 2 was the impressive 18th century Castletown House in Co Kildare,... Read more »

Behind the Scenes

Nora Twomey

Behind the Scenes

IRISH MOVIES MISS THEIR TARGET

ON MAY 25 Oscar-nominated The Breadwinner (see Reviews) was released in Ireland and the UK. Produced by Cartoon Saloon in Kilkenny and directed by Nora Twomey, the film took €90,400... Read more »
Sarah Glennie

Behind the Scenes

SARAH GLENNIE’S SUCCESSOR?

THE BOARD of IMMA, chaired by David Harvey, will be relieved to have finally advertised the post of gallery director. It has only taken a year. Not surprisingly, moolah is... Read more »
Penelope Kenny

Behind the Scenes

PENELOPE KENNY’S CONTACTS

AMONG THOSE IMMA board members keeping a close eye on the director recruitment process is Penelope Kenny, appointed in 2015 along with Dermod Dwyer and Mary Apied. Kenny is described... Read more »

Sport of Kings

Merchant Navy

Sport of Kings

MAGNIER’S MERCHANT BANKER

JOHN MAGNIER and his investors have never been shy to take a major punt on a horse and it will be interesting to see how their gamble on Australian sprinter... Read more »
Luke Comer

Sport of Kings

LUKE COMER GETTING CLOSER

THE QUEST by Luke Comer to train a winner continues, though it seems he is getting closer to his Holy Grail and it wouldn’t be a major surprise to see... Read more »
Brendan Duke Adrian Murray Mick Bailey

Sport of Kings

TWITTER CALM AT IHRB

FOLLOWING the Paul Townend incident at Punchestown, when the jockey threw away an almost certain victory aboard Al Boum Photo, the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) is under fire, but... Read more »
Saeed Bin Suroor

Sport of Kings

BIN SUROOR’S BAD BATCH

THIS YEAR’S Epsom Derby was a much needed triumph for Sheikh Mohammed al Maktoum’s global racing entity Godolphin. While morale within the camp will have been boosted by Masar’s victory,... Read more »

Reviews

Eamon Dunphy

Podcasts

THE STAND WITH EAMON DUNPHY

WHILE RADIO struggles to hold its place in today’s interconnected world, Ireland’s podcast space is increasingly crowded with pundits battling for listeners. In the past 18 months, Eamon Dunphy’s popular... Read more »
The Bread Winner

Movies

THE BREAD WINNER – DIRECTED BY NORA TWOMEY

ANIMATION production is the great, but relatively unsung success of the otherwise opaque film and television business In Ireland. With animation production it is possible to accurately count the numbers... Read more »
Skin Deep

Books

SKIN DEEP – LIZ NUGENT (PENGUIN IRELAND)

“I WONDERED when rigor mortis would set in, or if it already had.” So begins Liz Nugent’s new novel – which focuses on the obsessive behaviour of a particularly unpleasant... Read more »

Moneybags

Moneybags

Kirill Golovanov

Moneybags

UNDERVALUED OVOCA NEEDS TO IMPRESS SHAREHOLDERS

IRISH mining company Ovoca has had an unusual history since it was set up in 1985, moving from seeking zinc in Co Limerick to... Read more »

Moneybags

Brian Larkin

Moneybags

A LONG WAY TO GO FOR UNITED OIL AND GAS

A SIGNIFICANT number of executives have exited Tullow Oil in recent times. One company that has emerged as a result is United Oil and... Read more »

Brief Cases

Ruairi O’Ceallaigh

Brief Cases

TAXMAN WHACKS RUAIRI O’CEALLAIGH

MORE hard cheese for embattled legal eagle Ruairi O’Ceallaigh, who has just had a €123,000 judgment registered against him by the taxman. Meath-based O’Ceallaigh was jailed for half a decade... Read more »
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Brief Cases

MICHAEL MCMANUS’S JUDGEMENT

GOLDHAWK spotted a familiar name that popped up recently in Stubb’s Gazette. Roscommon businessman Michael McManus had a small judgment for €10,000 registered against him by a supplier, Fermanagh-based Quinn... Read more »
Niall Harbison

Brief Cases

NIALL HARBISON’S LONG GOODBYE

IT’S the end of an era at LD Lovin Dublin Ltd, where Niall “Harbo” Harbison has cashed in his 33% stake and resigned from the board. Fans of Goldhawk probably... Read more »
Brian and Kevin Herlihy

Brief Cases

BRIAN HERLIHY’S ‘PAIN AND SUFFERING’

A CORK City company at the centre of a high profile personal injuries claim has just filed its 2017 accounts and it’s a bit of a mixed bag. Herlihy Supermarket... Read more »
Danny Fitzpatrick

Brief Cases

DANNY FITZPATRICK’S FACEBOOK POSTS

SPARE a thought for outspoken Louth businessman Danny Fitzpatrick, whose scrap with Bank of Ireland has led to the closure of his restaurant. Danny and his wife Dymphna Fitzpatrick run... Read more »
Charles Dowd

Brief Cases

PLYNK, PLYNK, FAIL…

GOLDHAWK wasn’t too surprised to learn that Irish money-messaging ‘unicorn’ Plynk has run out of dosh and is calling in the liquidator. The outfit’s troubles have been well publicised and... Read more »
Diarmuid Hegarty

Brief Cases

DIARMUID HEGARTY’S BOOK SMARTS

CONGRATULATIONS are due to Griffith College president Diarmuid Hegarty, elected to the council of Dublin Chamber of Commerce earlier this year. Judging by the latest accounts filed by Bellerophon Ltd... Read more »