Affairs of the Nation

Stephen Rae

Affairs of the Nation

EX-INM EDITOR SUES ‘SUNDAY TIMES’ HACK

A SIGNIFICANT issue of press freedom will shortly be determined in the High Court arising from a libel action taken by Stephen Rae, former editor-in-chief of Independent News & Media... Read more »
Simon Coveney

Affairs of the Nation

POST-BREXIT: FEDERAL EU

TUCKED AWAY almost out of sight at the end of the Irish Times report on the recent formation of the German government was the casual observation that “Berlin’s traffic light... 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

IRISH TIMES PANDEMIC PROFITS

WHILE THE Irish Times only picked up the one gong in the UCD Smurfit Business School journo awards this week, the performance of the company’s execs maybe deserved a couple... 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

HARNEY’S MOOLAH

THE BUSY former health minister Mary Harney has been putting her money where her mouth is. And it looks like her various corporate interests are paying off. The latest good... Read more »
Gerry Adams

Affairs of the Nation

ADAMS HASN’T GONE AWAY YOU KNOW

AFTER RECORD breaking poll ratings the last thing Sinn Féin – or some of the more electorally sensitive members in the leadership – wanted was a row over a grinning... Read more »
Brianna ‘Thorn’ Skehan

Affairs of the Nation

THE GARDAÍ’S VIRTUAL HERO

THEY’RE A fun-loving lot at the Garda Review, publication of the Garda Representative Association (GRA), and the current edition has a full-on front page photo of Brianna ‘Thorn’ Skehan, a... Read more »
Enda Kenny

Affairs of the Nation

ENDA KENNY’S CHINESE TAKEAWAY

LAST WEEKEND, the Business Post reported trouble brewing in Belfield, where a Chinese-funded educational body has been accused of straying into the political field. Goldhawk was not surprised to see... Read more »
Rose Hynes

Affairs of the Nation

ROSE HYNES’S SMOOTH FLIGHT

THE DEPARTMENT of Transport has just advertised the position of chair of the Irish Aviation Authority. The question interested parties will have is whether there is any point in applying... Read more »
Eddie Hobbs

Affairs of the Nation

EDDIE HOBBS’S HERESY

TO THE already bulging shelves of Irish literature Eddie Hobbs has now added his first novel, The First Heresy, which he revealed on Twitter last week will be on the... Read more »
Tim Cullinan

Affairs of the Nation

FG/GREEN ‘UNITY’

THE CONTINUING decline in Fine Gael’s popularity is beginning to look less like a slump and more like a death spiral. Panic in the ranks of Blueshirts has been evidenced... Read more »

Pillars of Society

David Collier

Pillars of Society

PROFILE: DAVID COLLIER

A FLURRY of political and polemical activity around Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians and Ireland’s role in this ongoing subjugation began recently. It has... Read more »

The Young Bloods

Joanne McNally

The Young Bloods

YOUNG BLOOD: JOANNE MCNALLY

WITH SOLD-OUT shows here and in the UK, a book deal and a top-rated podcast under her belt, the time may have finally come... Read more »

Fit to Print?

Dana

Fit to Print?

BROWN SUES LONDON MET AND CPS

DANA ROSEMARY Scallon and her brother John Brown are near the final stages of their multiple actions against various media, securing apologies and large sums of money in damages. These... Read more »
Charlie McConalogue

Fit to Print?

THE MICA FALLOUT …AND THE CASSIDYS

A TORTUOUS Irish Times editorial thrashed about recently in search of answers – and suitable targets – to the mica scandal, pointing to how housing minister Darragh O’Brien had acceded... Read more »

Last Refuge

Paschal Donohoe

Last Refuge

BLUESHIRTS PRESS PANIC BUTTON

THE BYELECTION in Dublin Bay South last July should have warned Leo Varadkar and Paschal Donohoe about the way things were going; not just that the party was in decline... Read more »
Joseph Stalin

Last Refuge

LEFT SPLINTER GROUP SPLINTERS

THE MAINSTAY for decades of the non-republican left in Ireland – north and south – was the Communist Party of Ireland (CPI), but recent years have seen it fall prey... Read more »
Micheál Martin

Last Refuge

FF’S PR BLITZ PAYS OFF

THE BIGGEST surprise in recent polls is not Sinn Féin’s ongoing surge but the reversal of positions between Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil with the latter overtaking the former after... Read more »
Michael D Higgins

Last Refuge

‘IRISH TIMES’ Q&A POLL REBOUNDS

THE IRISH TIMES recently fought valiantly against President Higgins’s refusal to mark the anniversary of partition and also the results of its own poll showing public approval for the gesture... Read more »

Hush Hush

Gökhan Çelik

Hush Hush

FLIGHTS OF FANCY IN SHANNON?

BASED IN Shannon Free Zone business park in Co Clare, A-techSYN (Advanced Technologies with Synergy) provides not only unmanned flights with its drones but, in addition, is engaged in the manufacture... Read more »

Bog Cuttings

Bog-Cuttings-Defaul

Bog Cuttings

BOG CUTTINGS

‘Useless C**ts’ A teenager who told gardaí on Christmas Day that they were ‘useless cunts’ was convicted of public order offences at a sitting of Drogheda District Court. Judge Eirinn... Read more »

Fowl Emissions

Eamon Ryan

Fowl Emissions

GREAT GAS

“A SHORT-term fix for that technology gap we have that needs to be plugged right at this point in time,” was how Climate Change Advisory Council chairwoman Marie Donnelly defended... Read more »
Climate Disinformation Coillte Climate Action EU Livestock NDC Claude Etchelamendy Ed Brophy Richard Boyd-Barrett Kish Dale Crammond Frank Mitloehner Shell Greenwashing Meta Data Centres Ireland

Fowl Emissions

JOE DUFFY ‘MAROONED’

“WE ARE now global citizens, in it together,” broadcaster Joe Duffy told the Irish Times in a short interview about his Christmas plans. It sounded like a seasonal message of... Read more »

The Hot Air Brigade

Fintan O'Toole

The Hot Air Brigade

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Eating simple and ‘natural’ foods was a way of revolting against the hedonistic excesses of capitalist consumption. Vegetarian self-control was a rebuff to the grotsquerie of upper-class gluttony. Fintan O’Toole,... Read more »

High Society

High Society

Fionnuala and Anthony Brabazon

High Society

CASH CALL AT KILLRUDDERY

AS INCREASED restrictions limit the number of visitors to venues around the country, one of those that will be feeling the pinch is the... Read more »

High Society

Consuelo O’Connor

High Society

JEANNE BAARS’ €5M PILE

GOLDHAWK WAS interested to see that a Georgian pile on 340 acres in Co Offaly has gone on the market with a hefty €5m... Read more »

High Society

Simone Rocha

High Society

SIMONE ROCHA’S ‘COMEBACK’

IT IS probably fair to say that this year didn’t turn out quite as top fashion designer Simone Rocha would have forecast back in January. She will be glad to... Read more »

Behind the Scenes

Declan McGonagle

Behind the Scenes

DECLAN MCGONAGLE’S NEW SEAT

THERE IS a new face on the board of the Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery, where fresh blood has been in short supply in recent years. The latest so-called trustee is... Read more »
Tailored Films Screen Ireland Perspectives DCCI Crescine Tarka Russell Lara Hickey Reality Check Sarah McInerney Irish Movies Paul Murray Arts Council Dublin Theatre Festival TWU Macdara Kelleher Richard Boyd Barrett DADC Cillian Murphy Terry McMahon Media Commission Ireland Kerlin Gallery Creative Ireland Section 481 Christine O’Donovan RTÉ Storyland NMI Board Vacancies IASCA Ossie Kilkenny RTÉ Original Programmes

Behind the Scenes

GALWAY’S CREW HQ

THE FORMER Redemptorist monastery Cluain Mhuire is Galway Mayo Institute of Technology’s (GMIT) campus closest to the centre of Galway. It is due for something of a makeover. The substantial... Read more »

Sport of Kings

Douglas Taylor

Sport of Kings

DOUG TAYLOR’S NEW STALLION

DOUG TAYLOR has not been afraid to put his money where his mouth is when it comes to horseflesh and the MCR group boss is delving deeper into the stallion... Read more »
Bryony Frost

Sport of Kings

FROSTY TIMES OFF TRACK

THE HIGH-profile Bryony Frost/Robbie Dunne episode has opened a can of worms about a deep-set culture in the sport rather than a personal spat between two jockeys. The first week... Read more »
Tim Husband

Sport of Kings

LONELY FOR HUSBANDS

WHEN LEOPARDSTOWN manager Tim Husbands announced he planned to cap the attendance at the four-day Christmas festival to a healthy 10,000 a day, it must have sounded like very good... Read more »
Rachael Blackmore

Sport of Kings

HALF-TERM SCHOOL REPORT

WITH THE jumps season well past the halfway point at this stage, the respective tables for leading jockey and trainer prove noteworthy. Rachael Blackmore hasn’t been short of accolades over... Read more »

Reviews

HAUGHEY - GARY MURPHY

Books

HAUGHEY – GARY MURPHY

READING THE largely glowing reviews in the national press for Gary Murphy’s Haughey, one would be forgiven for failing to realise what an intense disappointment this publication is. “Brilliant”, howled... Read more »
APRIL IN SPAIN - JOHN BANVILLE

Books

APRIL IN SPAIN – JOHN BANVILLE

IN HIS latest crime novel, John Banville returns to his moody Dublin state pathologist (known only as Quirke), the hero of several earlier mysteries published under the name Benjamin Black. Having... Read more »

Moneybags

Moneybags

Patrick Coveney

Moneybags

AFTER PADDY COVENEY AT GREENCORE

THE ANNOUNCEMENT last month of Paddy Coveney’s exit from Greencore was inevitable. Fans of Moneybags will be familiar with the CEO’s shortcomings, which were... Read more »

Moneybags

Jonathan Laredo

Moneybags

WHY YEW GROVE DEAL SHOULD BE REJECTED

IT IS very difficult to make any sense of the behaviour of the three amigos at Yew Grove REIT – Jonathan Laredo, Charlie Peach... Read more »

Briefcases

Barney O’Hare

Briefcases

BARNEY O’HARE’S BOUNCE

IT LOOKS like a case of ‘full house’ for Co Louth-based bookie Barney O’Hare of Bar One Racing fame, with the bingo/entertainment venue into which he has sunk significant dosh... Read more »
Emma-Lucy O'Brien

Briefcases

QUARE COLD IN CARLOW

THE LATEST figures for Carlow’s cash-strapped VISUAL arts centre, give little reason for Christmas cheer and the cancellation of this week’s panto means there is nothing to distract the hapless... Read more »
Fiona McHugh

Briefcases

FIONA MCHUGH’S HICCUP

GOLDHAWK WAS surprised to see the taxman registering a judgment for a paltry €1,850 against former Sunday Times editor turned businesswoman Fiona McHugh. Presumably, this is the result of some... Read more »
ZMG Cyril Murphy Newbridge College Peter Wilson Sporting Emporium Chris Wholey O'Kane God’s Creatures Film Tax Relief Anne Rossi Desmond Live Nation ESCADIA LTD Al Porter Comeback Gordon Elliott Clayton Love Ivan Wilde hot-water-brigade Parnells GAA Lawsuit

Briefcases

HEAVY GOING FOR HARRINGTON

THE LIST of Revenue defaulters published on December 7 included the usual mix of companies who have fallen foul of the taxman. It is not often, however, that Goldhawk spots... Read more »
Shaun Murphy

Briefcases

SHAUN MURPHY’S IRISH GAME

SNOOKER ACE Shaun ‘the Magician’ Murphy has had a rocky enough year and will be looking forward to putting 2021 behind him. Meanwhile, there have been some changes at his... Read more »