Affairs of the Nation

Michael Semple

Affairs of the Nation

FIGHTING THE TALIBAN

WHY IS the Irish media invariably in thrall to the British government and its various spooky think tanks when it comes to coverage of foreign affairs? RTE and the Irish... Read more »
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Affairs of the Nation

ON YER BIKE!

LIQUIDATOR WILLIAM Cuddy, with an address in Little Island, Cork, filed his final winding up documents for Aqua Blue Sport, but there was rather less on show than might have... Read more »
Budget Jack Chambers Nicki Minaj B’Tselem Phil Hogan UCD IRTA DIGI Katy Brown Rory Godson Pallonji Mistry Shark Hanlon Frances Ruane Taste of Dublin Listowel Writers’ Week Paddy Curran Harvey Norman Anton Savage Paul Hourican Enda O’Coineen PfP Red C Poll IFTA Ben Gilroy Luke Comer Sue Spence Fingleton Aubrey McCarthy Matt Cooper Parker Green Danny McConnell Gayle Killilea Maura Derivan Ed Honohan INS Arts Council EDAF Emuse Rosslare Golf Club Mairead Casey Colm O’Rourke Stephen Connolly Peter Aiken John Malone Tom Barry Anthony Halpin Ian Kehoe Kevin Bakhurst Geraldine O’Leary Dennis Horgan RUSI Gareth McAllister Ryevale House Joe Macken RUC Omagh Patrick Connolly Paddy Cosgrave The Ditch Newstalk Fake Tan Fred Logue Ian Paisley Sean O’Riordan Margaret Sweeney Jay Bourke Ellie Kisyombe Francesca McDonagh Ted Cunningham National Space Centre An Irish Goodbye Oscar Robert Quirke Ciara Kelly Executive Women Gathering Doug Taylor Florian Haufe Robbie Henshaw Bill Shipsey Breaking the Silence L’Ecrivain Ronan McNally National Lottery Michael Roche Energy Action Balls.ie Newspapers VAT Abbey Theatre Patricia Madden Irish Banking Culture Board Randox Aoife Gallagher Book Dalai Lama Trinity Trevor White RTÉ Chairperson Shane Houlihan Noel Smyth IKC Bob Geldof Landlord Ireland Neutrality Ukraine

Affairs of the Nation

LIAM SHEEDY’S MATCH TACTICS

IT CAN’T be long before the contenders for the top job in Irish sports administration are under starters orders. The attractive position of chief executive of Sport Ireland (SI) will... Read more »

Affairs of the Nation

Budget Jack Chambers Nicki Minaj B’Tselem Phil Hogan UCD IRTA DIGI Katy Brown Rory Godson Pallonji Mistry Shark Hanlon Frances Ruane Taste of Dublin Listowel Writers’ Week Paddy Curran Harvey Norman Anton Savage Paul Hourican Enda O’Coineen PfP Red C Poll IFTA Ben Gilroy Luke Comer Sue Spence Fingleton Aubrey McCarthy Matt Cooper Parker Green Danny McConnell Gayle Killilea Maura Derivan Ed Honohan INS Arts Council EDAF Emuse Rosslare Golf Club Mairead Casey Colm O’Rourke Stephen Connolly Peter Aiken John Malone Tom Barry Anthony Halpin Ian Kehoe Kevin Bakhurst Geraldine O’Leary Dennis Horgan RUSI Gareth McAllister Ryevale House Joe Macken RUC Omagh Patrick Connolly Paddy Cosgrave The Ditch Newstalk Fake Tan Fred Logue Ian Paisley Sean O’Riordan Margaret Sweeney Jay Bourke Ellie Kisyombe Francesca McDonagh Ted Cunningham National Space Centre An Irish Goodbye Oscar Robert Quirke Ciara Kelly Executive Women Gathering Doug Taylor Florian Haufe Robbie Henshaw Bill Shipsey Breaking the Silence L’Ecrivain Ronan McNally National Lottery Michael Roche Energy Action Balls.ie Newspapers VAT Abbey Theatre Patricia Madden Irish Banking Culture Board Randox Aoife Gallagher Book Dalai Lama Trinity Trevor White RTÉ Chairperson Shane Houlihan Noel Smyth IKC Bob Geldof Landlord Ireland Neutrality Ukraine

Affairs of the Nation

EOIN Ó BROIN V LABOUR

THE ASSUMPTION for decades has been that Fianna Fail and Fine Gael were responsible for the impotent building controls that have resulted in thousands living in dangerous homes with no... Read more »
Charlie Flanagan

Affairs of the Nation

UNFLAPPABLE FLANAGAN

FORMER MINISTER, Charlie Flanagan, is performing with studied objectivity — as befits the chair of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence — in the demand for answers... Read more »
Paul O’Neill

Affairs of the Nation

STUDENTS TARGET THE ‘IRISH TIMES’

THE HEAT is getting turned up under the Irish Times over coverage of the transgender issue, which has already led to Trinity News pulling the plug on its printing deal... Read more »
Catherine Martin

Affairs of the Nation

CATHERINE MARTIN’S MISSTEPS

THE LAST week has been rough for arts minister Catherine Martin, as she has been portrayed as weak in promising the earth to the live entertainment lobby but failing to... Read more »
Simon Coveney

Affairs of the Nation

EU QUANGO RIDES ON

PERHAPS THE most successful hybrid quango in modern Ireland has been the Institute of International and European Affairs (IIEA), founded 30 years ago by the late Brendan Halligan, its first... Read more »
Michael Nugent

Affairs of the Nation

NUGENT GOES GLOBAL

THE FOUNDER and chairperson of Atheist Ireland (AI), Michael Nugent, has become involved in yet another schism in the latest of several internal disputes in various political pressure groups in... Read more »

Pillars of Society

Michael McGrath

Pillars of Society

PROFILE: MICHAEL MCGRATH

SINCE 2016 minister for public expenditure and reform, Michael McGrath, has presented as one of the few credible challengers to Micheål Martin’s leadership of... Read more »

The Young Bloods

Anne-Marie Tomchak

The Young Bloods

YOUNG BLOOD: ANNE-MARIE TOMCHAK

LIMELIGHT-LOVING Anne-Marie Tomchak pops up in the media these days almost as often as her warbler-turned-TV-presenter cousin, Una Healy, but apart from their culchie... Read more »

Fit to Print?

John Burns

Fit to Print?

OUR FOREIGN POLICY

UNBURDENED BY the presence of a native editor in charge of the Aawrish edition of the Sunday Times — none has been appointed since Frank Fitzgibbon’s exit last October —... Read more »
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Fit to Print?

ASSESSING OWEN KEEGAN

INCLUSIVE, VARIED opinion is de rigueur (kind of) for respectable media but Dublin City Council ceo, Owen Keegan, provoked an embarrassing divide in the Sunday Independent last weekend. In his... Read more »
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Fit to Print?

CARTOONISTS CULLED

COVID CANCELLED the Rathdrum International Cartoon Festival this year and last (although organisers of the smaller Galway Cartoon Festival intend to go ahead in the first week of October). All... Read more »

Last Refuge

Micheál Martin

Last Refuge

MARTIN’S SHRINKING SUPPORT

HANDLERS OF An Taoiseach, Fianna Fail leader, Micheál Martin, are busy spreading the suggestion that contender, Jim O’Callaghan, has no bottle. Failure to act on Marc ‘Crazy Horse’ MacSharry’s demand... Read more »
Heather Humphreys

Last Refuge

HEATHER’S 1916 AMNESIA

IS HEATHER HUMPHREYS trying to start another civil war now that we have begun commemoration of events leading up to the same conflict? Speaking at last Sunday’s Béal na Blåth... Read more »
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Last Refuge

MARTIN’S DEFT TIMING

THE PREPARATION of Fianna Fåil’s post mortem on the February 2020 general election, its worst ever election result, is now said to be imminent — yet again. If it is... Read more »

Bog Cuttings

Bog-Cuttings-Defaul

Bog Cuttings

BOG CUTTINGS

‘Breaking Bad Meets Golden Girls’ A Dublin pensioner who did not expect her cannabis plants to ‘grow so big’ has been acquitted in Dublin Circuit Criminal Court of possessing over... Read more »

Fowl Emissions

Harold Kingston

Fowl Emissions

FAKE METHANE

The recent publication by the Intergovernmental Panel (IPCC) of its hard-hitting Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) has sent Irish lobbyists into a tailspin of panic, deflection and whataboutery. Leading the charge... Read more »

The Hot Air Brigade

Ryan Tubridy

The Hot Air Brigade

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

I always describe The Late Late Show to foreign guests as being the Tardis and I’m just the latest Doctor. Ryan Tubridy, RTÉ.ie, submitted by reader Dogs of honour: Alfie... Read more »

High Society

High Society

Aoife Walsh

High Society

AOIFE WALSH’S ‘COLLAB’

HAVING JUST become a mum, former Miss Ireland and well known influencer Aoife Walsh has plenty on her plate these days. Now she can... Read more »

High Society

Consuelo O’Connor

High Society

JULIE SHARP’S BT BOOST

INTERESTING TO see that high flying HR exec Julie Sharp has been appointed to the board of the Brown Thomas group just as a... Read more »

High Society

Bernie Gallagher

High Society

BERNIE GALLAGHER EXTENSIONS

AFTER LAST year’s pandemic-inspired annus horribilis for Bernie and John Gallagher, there was some good news from the Dublin City Council planners this month when the minted couple got the... Read more »

Behind the Scenes

Lorelei Harris

Behind the Scenes

EOIN MCVEY’S FULL BOARD

AT LONG last, arts and culture minister Catherine Martin has filled the numerous empty seats on the board of the National Library of Ireland (NLI). With four of the new... Read more »
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Behind the Scenes

SLOW AHEAD AT MUSEUM

WHILE CATHERINE Martin has finally filled the board at the National Library, there is less sign of activity at the National Museum of Ireland, where vacancies arose at the start... Read more »

Sport of Kings

Philip Rothwell

Sport of Kings

ROTHWELL’S HARD GOING

TRAINER PHILIP Rothwell has been on something of a crusade all summer to find the perfect ground conditions for his horses — but he fell at the appeals hurdle recently.... Read more »
Amer Abdulaziz

Sport of Kings

ABDULAZIZ AT EASE

THE ON-GOING involvement in Irish racing of alleged money launderer, Amer Abdulaziz of Phoenix Thoroughreds, came into focus again recently, due to the fact that Ireland is the only racing... Read more »
Michael O'Callaghan

Sport of Kings

O’CALLAGHAN’S RISKY PUNT

MANY TRAINERS (Jim Bolger is a notable exception) operate on a business model based on investment into horses in training from third parties delivering revenue through training fees and, ideally,... Read more »
Paul Murtagh

Sport of Kings

PAUL MURTAGH’S LAW

THE IRISH Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) introduced new starting procedures in July, following a meeting between the Irish Jockeys Association, the IHRB starters and the IHRB’s registrar, Paul Murtagh. There... Read more »

Moneybags

Moneybags

Tomas O'Midheach

Moneybags

FBD’S STRATEGY COULD BACKFIRE AS AXA TARGETS GROWTH

THE ROLE played by the insurance sector during the pandemic has been less than edifying, with businesses denied cover from their business interruption policies.... Read more »

Moneybags

David Sturt

Moneybags

PETRONEFT SHAREHOLDERS HOPING THE RIDE CONTINUES

PETRONEFT was heading off the cliff at the beginning of the year, with the shares down to 0.6p. There has been a dramatic improvement... Read more »

Briefcases

Diane Dodds

Briefcases

KAROL MCELHINNEY’S GOOD NEWS

AT LAST, there has been good news for Donegal moneybags Karol McElhinney, after Donegal County Council granted permission for a luxurious house near Ballybofey, over objections from An Taisce. This... Read more »
Colm Wu

Briefcases

COLM WU’S WOES

IT HAS been a bad month for the acquisitive Guoquing Wu (known here as Colm Wu) whose refinancing efforts for the debts of some of his myriad of companies appear... Read more »
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Briefcases

A TAXING MATTER

DOCUMENTS FILED by Myles Kirby, the liquidator of Hynes Jewellers (Wexford) Ltd, shed a little more light on the scale of liabilities in the company, which appear to have totalled... Read more »
Michael Hackman

Briefcases

MICHAEL HACKMAN’S MOVIE PLOT

THE CHANGES have been ringing following the announced sale by Ion Equity moneybags Joe Devine of his Ardmore and Troy Studios business to the multi-billion dollar US real estate and... Read more »