Affairs of the Nation

Katherine Zappone

Affairs of the Nation

ZAPPER ZAPS HER CONSTITUENCY

THE DANCING on children’s minister, Katherine Zappone’s political coffin that Fine Gael and media commentators have engaged in could be most premature judging by the astounding efforts — and resources... Read more »
Denis O'Brien

Affairs of the Nation

DENIS O’BRIEN’S AWARD

CONGRATULATIONS TO Denis O’Brien, who has landed an honorary fellowship from the National College of Ireland (NCI). It is the least the great educator deserves given his strong ties, financially... Read more »
Dana

Affairs of the Nation

DANA LIBEL SAGA: CHAPTER 1

DANA’S libel settlement with the Sunday World this week is just the beginning of a long, litigious war for the singer and former presidential candidate who, along with her brother,... Read more »

Affairs of the Nation

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Affairs of the Nation

JACKIE LAVIN’S LITIGATION

INTERESTING to see Jackie Lavin once again suing Bill Cullen (this time with Ulster Bank). The happy couple have been down this road before. The latest proceedings come just a... Read more »
Aleida Guevara

Affairs of the Nation

WHO FEARS TO SPEAK?

EARLY LAST month, French President Emmanuel Macron demanded the creation of a “real European army”, arguing in apocalyptic mode that “we have to protect ourselves with respect to China, Russia... Read more »
Ralph Christians

Affairs of the Nation

OOOPS! THE MONEY IS GONE

FANS OF Goldhawk will be familiar with the lengthy liquidation saga at Ralph Christians’s Magma Films, where the end is finally in sight. However, despite the huge worldwide success of... Read more »
Lorraine Higgins

Affairs of the Nation

LORRAINE HIGGINS FOR EUROPE?

FORMER LABOUR senator Lorraine Higgins has suddenly become a lady that lunches with Blueblouse women and has been tweeting in support of the same Fine Gael ladies on various topics.... Read more »
Andrew Deeks

Affairs of the Nation

UCD PRESIDENT’S MAR-A-LAGO

AUSSIE GO-GETTER and UCD president Andrew Deeks has caused academic eyebrows to arch with his grandiose projects, including the €48m creative design centre; a circa €200m new sub campus; and... Read more »
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Affairs of the Nation

LUKE COMER’S HEAVY GOING

ALTHOUGH ONLY a handful of people in this country can claim to be richer than developer Luke Comer, he finds himself being sued in the High Court by a couple... Read more »

Pillars of Society

Mary Lou McDonald

Pillars of Society

PROFILE: MARY LOU MCDONALD

WITH Mary Lou McDonald installed as Sinn Féin president, party members expect a serious electoral breakthrough in the post-Gerry Adams era. But after an... Read more »

Fit to Print?

Leslie Buckley

Fit to Print?

INM AWARDS ANGST

BEING BEATEN into second place by The Irish Times – again – in the NewsBrands journalism awards, the Sunday and Irish Independent editorial heads put a brave face on it... Read more »
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Fit to Print?

THE IT VS SHANE ROSS

THE OLD Lady of Tara Street will need smelling salts if or when Shane Ross’s execrable Judicial Appointments Bill is passed into legislation. The Irish Times’s deference to the judiciary... Read more »
Fiona Looney

Fit to Print?

SLASH AND BURN AT ‘IRISH DAILY MAIL’

A PURGE of staff journalists, a cull of columnists and cuts for some of the more highly paid personality columnists is under way at the Irish Daily Mail as the... Read more »

Last Refuge

Brian Hayes

Last Refuge

BRIAN HAYES’S FLAK OVER BANK JOB

THE PHOENIX readers will recall that, when MEP Brian Hayes departs the EU Parliament next summer, his new job will be chief executive of the Banking & Payments Federation Ireland... Read more »
Justin McAleese

Last Refuge

MCALEESE BOWS OUT

FIANNA FÁIL HQ’s strenuous efforts to foist Justin McAleese on Dublin Rathdown have blown up in their faces – and local party members are not exactly mourning the exit of... Read more »
Marie Sherlock

Last Refuge

FEMALE, PALE BUT NOT STALE

A SURPRISINGLY tense selection battle recently took place for the honour of representing the Labour Party in the local elections for Cabra-Finglas – part of the Dáil constituency of Dublin... Read more »
Noel Rock

Last Refuge

FINE GAEL’S HARD TARGETS

THOSE WHO wonder why Leo Varadkar is afraid to pull the trigger and go for a general election, despite Fine Gael’s continuing poll lead over Fianna Fáil, should look at... Read more »

Hush Hush

Jeffrey Donaldson

Hush Hush

BORIS, JEFFREY AND BAHRAIN

THE SHAM elections held over the last week in Bahrain coincided with a report from the Irish section of human rights group Front Line Defenders (FLD). The group reported instances... Read more »

Bog Cuttings

Bog Cuttings

Bog Cuttings

BOG CUTTINGS

Judge is a true Citizen A man who had come to Derry with his girlfriend to celebrate his birthday was asked to leave a city centre hotel due to the... Read more »

Fowl Emissions

Richard Bruton

Fowl Emissions

BRUTON REVOLUTION?

IF EARNEST speeches by politicians promising radical, courageous action on the climate crisis were the measure of real achievement, Ireland would by now be a world leader in this field.... Read more »
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Fowl Emissions

RTE’S CONFUSING CLIMATE

The Irish media’s performance on climate change came under an unflattering spotlight with the recent launch of a book by former Indo scribe David Robbins, now at DCU. He found... Read more »

Bird's Eye View

Boris Johnson

Bird's Eye View

FOSTER’S FINALE

LAST WEEKEND’S DUP conference turned out to be a damp squib. It coincided with the sealing of the Brexit deal in Brussels and the beginning of Theresa May’s frantic fortnight... Read more »

Foreign Frolics

Avigdor Lieberman

Foreign Frolics

ISRAEL FIGHTING ON TWO FRONTS

By Ramzy Baroud The November 12 botched Israeli military operation in the Gaza Strip delineates Tel Aviv’s recent unusual failure to utilise its army as a tool to achieve Palestinian... Read more »

The Hot Air Brigade

Joe Schmidt

The Hot Air Brigade

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Contenders… What does that tangibly mean? Joe Schmidt on Ireland’s World Cup chances It was not all a thing of classical beauty. Not poetry. Much of the time a shift... Read more »

High Society

High Society

Ann Marie Nohl

High Society

ANN MARIE NOHL’S NEW ROLE

AN ARCHITECTURAL business was quietly wound up a few weeks ago, which would not normally pique Goldhawk’s interest, but it turns out that one... Read more »

High Society

Consuelo O’Connor

High Society

WINDING UP THE TONY RYAN TRUST

HAVING HANDED out just over €2m to various entities last year (and more than €15m during its lifetime), the Tony Ryan Trust has now... Read more »

High Society

Giorgio Casari

High Society

CASARI’S COMEBACK

THE RETURN of Giorgio Casari to the Dublin restaurant scene has been much anticipated and a new venture in Ranelagh is on the cards. However, he is not actually a... Read more »

Behind the Scenes

Josepha Madigan

Behind the Scenes

JOSEPHA MADIGAN’S BIASED BURSARIES

NOT SURPRISINGLY, there was little (ie no) outcry after Josepha Madigan unveiled the government’s latest gender-based culture wheeze, which takes the form of the “Markievicz bursaries”. It is hard to... Read more »
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Behind the Scenes

THE ABBEY’S NEW NUMBER CRUNCHER

CULTURE MINISTER Josepha Madigan has been busy making appointments to the boards of some national cultural institutions. One of these is accountant Peter Lowry, who has popped up at the... Read more »
Selina Cartmell

Behind the Scenes

SELINA CARTMELL VS GRAHAM McLAREN

IT’S THE time of year when our two biggest institutions announce winter and spring programmes – ones that will leave audiences and, more importantly, the Arts Council scratching their heads.... Read more »

Sport of Kings

John Magnier has been thrust into the spotlight thanks to a legal dispute over the 750-acre Barne Estate in Tipperary, while Moya Doherty had a problem with her neighbour.

Sport of Kings

GOING GETS TOUGH AT GOFFS

THESE ARE testing times for a lot of people in the bloodstock industry and breeders were recently reminded that there is no demand at the moment for much of the... Read more »
Henry Beeby

Sport of Kings

HENRY BEEBY’S HEADACHE

IT IS not only breeders who took a hiding at the sales as the reduction in demand clearly hit the auction houses. Turnover at the six-day Goffs November Foal and... Read more »
Bryan Cooper

Sport of Kings

BRYAN COOPER’S LATEST CHANCE

BRYAN COOPER’S career as a jockey is sometimes compared to a rollercoaster ride and the Kerryman could find himself on the way back up again thanks to a new arrangement... Read more »
Cristina Patino

Sport of Kings

CRISTINA PATINO’S NINE NAGS

WHEN A flat yearling is sold at public auction, it qualifies for a programme of two-year-old maiden races the following year, restricted to horses sold at public auction up to... Read more »

Moneybags

Moneybags

Jason Hannon

Moneybags

MAINSTAY SHARE COLLAPSE COULD TEMPT INVESTORS

THE COLLAPSE in the share price of Mainstay Medical earlier this month has seen million wiped off the company’s market capitalisation. However, the market... Read more »

Moneybags

Gary McGann

Moneybags

GARY MCGANN FAILS TO DELIVER FOR ARYZTA

SINCE THE appointment of Gary McGann as chairman of Aryzta in December 2016, the share price has fallen from €40 to its current €1.20,... Read more »

Brief Cases

David Lynch and Donal Cronins

Brief Cases

DAVID LYNCH’S WINDFALL

THE DAVID Lynch-owned Capital Cover Group (CCG), which includes Brennan Insurances – one of the country’s oldest insurance operators – was bought by Donal Cronin’s Arachas Corporate Brokers late last... Read more »
John Byrne

Brief Cases

JOHN BYRNE JNR’S VAST PROFITS

ACCOUNTS JUST filed for a company called Santenay Ltd shine a clear light on the vast wealth of the principals in the property empire, which was built up over decades... Read more »
Brendan Halligan

Brief Cases

BRENDAN HALLIGAN’S D2 DESTINATION

GOLDHAWK has reported on the rise and rise of Brendan Halligan’s Ireland China Institute, but not all Sino-Gaelic endeavours are thriving. Earlier this month, the dreaded Revenue registered a judgment... Read more »
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Brief Cases

WILL DOWLING’S LANGUAGE PROBLEM

WITH LOTS of businesses seeking a slice of the growing English-language tuition sector, there have been a few casualties. One entity that has now sought the protection of the courts... Read more »
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Brief Cases

PADDY MCKILLEN’S PROFITS

WHILE THE media has increasingly focused on the ubiquitous Paddy McKillen jnr’s exhausting expansion of the Press Up group, behind the scenes his dad, moneybags Paddy McKillen snr, continues to... Read more »
Sonya Lennon

Brief Cases

SONYA LENNON’S MANY HATS

WITH MOVES being made to introduce gender-based professorships in universities and the news agenda increasingly featuring discussions about the level of female participation in assorted sectors, it is clear that... Read more »