Affairs of the Nation

Roderic O'Gorman

Affairs of the Nation

ALLPRO’S WAR DIVIDEND

RODERIC O’GORMAN’S Department of Integration has been dishing out contracts to companies for the provision of services relating to the housing of Ukrainian refugees. One of the lucky recipients is... 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

JP MCMANUS’S MIX-UP

GENEVA-BASED zillionaire JP McManus is no ordinary racehorse owner. He has long been lashing out bucketloads of moolah to buy top-pedigree steeplechasers and currently would appear to have somewhere north... 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

NOEL SMYTH’S DOGFIGHT

A MEETING takes place this week to decide whether solicitor turned property developer Noel Smyth can buy the National Show Centre near Dublin airport, owned by the Irish Kennel Club... Read more »

Affairs of the Nation

Fran McNulty

Affairs of the Nation

RTÉ DRAMA AWARD

RTÉ’S FRAN McNULTY must have felt he was McNulty, front man in an episode of The Wire, rather than McNulty of Prime Time given the raft of rumours swirling around... Read more »
Kevin Cahill

Affairs of the Nation

HIGGINS, DR CAHILL AND THE NYC FRACAS

THE DOCTOR at the centre of a controversial plan to sell off the most prestigious Irish-American building in the US has been ordered by a New York judge to attempt... Read more »
Ed Guiney

Affairs of the Nation

IN THEIR ELEMENT

THEY SAY timing is everything in showbusiness. News of Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe’s sale of a majority stake in their Element Pictures operation to UK giant Fremantle Media was... 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

JOE MCHUGH’S EXIT

THE RETIREMENT of former education minister, Donegal based Joe McHugh, is described as a blow to Fine Gael as the party, it is said, simply doesn’t have a candidate of... Read more »
Michael Collins

Affairs of the Nation

UNREST IN MICHAEL COLLINS COUNTY

IN THIS the centenary of Michael Collins death in the Civil War, Cork Fine Gael members are not exactly brimming with pride or optimism about the future. Munster is the... Read more »
Danny McCoy

Affairs of the Nation

McCOY’S FLEETING CLIMATE EPIPHANY

IT IS widely assumed that within this government, only the Greens have any real interest in the climate crisis. However, there is growing evidence that taoiseach Micheál Martin now also... Read more »
Paddy Prendergast

Affairs of the Nation

NO SET-TO IN WATERFORD

TWO ACADEMICS have just made unexpected scholarly Odysseys from the country’s oldest university to the youngest. The first surprise was when former Trinity provost Paddy Prendergast re-emerged into a very... Read more »

Pillars of Society

Seán Clancy

Pillars of Society

PROFILE: SEÁN CLANCY

THE NEW chief of staff of the Defence Forces, Seán Clancy, has had an exciting introduction to public life. First, he was castigated by... Read more »

The Young Bloods

Erin McGreehan

The Young Bloods

YOUNG BLOOD: ERIN MCGREEHAN

WHILE FIANNA Fáil’s poll ratings are not as rosy as many media have reported, its levels of support among young people – and young... Read more »

Fit to Print?

Michelle O'Neill

Fit to Print?

‘IRISH TIMES’ HAS BAD ELECTION

THE LATHER of excitement about the northern assembly elections whipped up by the Irish Times – stimulated by its craving for the hallowed middle ground or ‘Others’, to replace republicans... Read more »
Ivan Yates Nell McCafferty RTÉ Lord Laird Intro Matchmaking NewsBrands Martin McGuinness Dún Laoghaire Pat Leahy Cormac Lucey John Cooney Irish Journalism Awards Steve Aiken Anton Savage John Downing Lucinda Creighton Marina Sologub Eilis O'Hanlon Ian Kehoe Danny McConnell Sindo O'Connor Mediahuis Stephen Collins Book Justine McCarthy Rewriting the Troubles Lynn Ruane Sinn Féin

Fit to Print?

FT’S UNITED IRELAND LECTURE

WHAT AN interesting comment Financial Times contributing editor Philip Stephens made in his column last weekend about preparations (or not) for a united Ireland. Days before the northern assembly elections... Read more »
Maeve Carton

Fit to Print?

OLD LADY OF TARA STREET’S TRUSTEES

WHAT A perfect business pedigree newly appointed governor of the Irish Times Trust, Maeve Carton, possesses and how well she will fit in with the recently developed corporate and right-wing... Read more »

Last Refuge

Simon Harris

Last Refuge

VARADKAR FACES PARTY CRISIS

THE ROW over the maternity hospital has many fathers and chief among the suspects is a certain panic in the ranks of Fine Gael, especially in leader Leo Varadkar’s office.... Read more »
Willie O'Dea

Last Refuge

FF-FG COALITION STRAINS

THE OUTRAGED accusations from Fianna Fáil TDs and ministers against alleged dirty tricks by their Fine Gael counterparts over the National Maternity Hospital (NMH) and health minister Stephen Donnelly, have... Read more »
Martin Heydon

Last Refuge

BLUESHIRT KULAKS REGROUP

NOT SINCE Stalin massacred the Kulaks in the USSR did farmers receive such treatment as that meted out to the 11-year-old Fine Gael Agriculture Affairs Group (FGAAG) by the ruthless... Read more »
Stephen Donnelly

Last Refuge

WHITHER STEPHEN DONNELLY?

HEALTH MINISTER Stephen Donnelly has become a convenient target again in health controversies, this time at the national maternity hospital. The minister now has about two years left to rescue... Read more »

Hush Hush

Jock Palfreeman

Hush Hush

GENTLE EU POLICING

WITH THE housing crisis; the logistics of helping Ukrainian refugees; and the furore over the National Maternity Hospital, a lot of the business of Leinster House may not be getting... Read more »

Bog Cuttings

Bog-Cuttings-Defaul

Bog Cuttings

BOG CUTTINGS

FIGHT NIGHT DROGHEDA DISTRICT Court heard the case of one John Lynn (54) of Rathmullen Park, Drogheda, who was arrested for challenging gardaí to a fight in a pub. Staff... Read more »

Fowl Emissions

Eamon Ryan

Fowl Emissions

EAMON RYAN AND BIG TECH’S FREE PASS

THERE WAS a distinctly Churchillian, spirit-of-the-Blitz feel to the unveiling by environment minister Eamon Ryan last month of the Energy Security Emergency Group (ESEG), a committee to oversee Ireland’s response... Read more »
Luke Holland Climate Denial John Fagan Wolf Europe David Quinn Duncan Stewart Data Centre Carbon Emissions Conor Skehan Chris Hazzard

Fowl Emissions

DELOITTE’S COAL CLIENT

DELOITTE IRELAND CEO Harry Goddard shared some profound words of wisdom on the subject of corporate climate leadership at the launch of DCU’s Centre for Climate and Society, of which... Read more »

The Hot Air Brigade

Pippa O'Connor

The Hot Air Brigade

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

I think I was manifesting before I even realised what I was doing. Pippa O’Connor, VIP Magazine, submitted by reader Surprisingly for a couple noted for head-turning good looks, Paul,... Read more »

High Society

High Society

Tayanglet

High Society

RAYMOND STANLEY’S SPREAD

AN IMPRESSIVE Victorian pile in Cabinteely in south Co Dublin has come on the market with a price tag of €2.75m. Although owned by Raymond... Read more »

High Society

IHT CHL The Lion in Winter Racing Royalty Le Brocquy City of Troy Fitzwilliam Square AIRO Dermot Smurfit Ballinacarrig Park Club Cosgrave Fitzpatrick Keith Jameson National Gallery Collection Marissa Carter VG Tom Higgins Neil Jordan Laura Bonner Paul Ward Variety Jones Dtat Eathos Sharon Keegan Angela Scanlon Desmond Canouan Bellair Estate Bobby Flay John O’Conor Portrait of Omai Eibhlín Ní Chonghaile Wedding NGI Board Rachel Flynn JP McMahon Ash Quinn Pamela Laird Abdullah Al Naboodah Boundless Ocean

High Society

THE ASHMANS’ BOTTOM DRAWER

IAN AND VICKY Ashman, a couple of loaded English corporate solicitors who swapped legal briefs for the skimpy ones when they set up a... Read more »

High Society

Jamie Myerscough

High Society

MYERSCOUGH’S WORK-OUT

DOCUMENTS JUST filed in the Companies Office records a different ownership structure in Jamie Myerscough’s Vitruvian Fitness operation than had been registered. Previously, it had been mistakenly recorded that as... Read more »

Behind the Scenes

Benjamin King

Behind the Scenes

NETFLIX’S LOBBYING

IT IS something of a paradox that, under legislation intended to bolster local and European culture against globalised mass media, the Irish taxpayer shells out far more moolah every year... 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

ANDREW NOONAN’S NEW MENU

AMONG THE number of festivals lined up for a presumably pandemic-free 2022 is the music/food mishmash that is the Big Grill Festival, now an annual beano in Herbert Park, Ballsbridge,... Read more »

Sport of Kings

Ted Walsh

Sport of Kings

TED WALSH’S RTÉ RIDE

PUNTERS WILL be interested to see if Ted Walsh’s latest blunder on RTÉ’s racing coverage of Punchestown has any repercussions for his long-held punditry position. Despite issuing a public apology... Read more »
Ed Dunlop David Dunsdon Sarah Lynam Rebecca May Wayne Hassett Eoin O'Brien Michael Burke Aine O’Connor Ashroe Diamond Thomand O’Mara Peter Keatley Timmy Hyde Coolmore All About Sunday Colin Keane Ronan Whelan JP McManus Jessica Harrington Dundalk Racecourse Paul Hensey Irish National Hunt Horse-racing Doping Paddy Walsh Tom Kelly Suspension

Sport of Kings

TYNER’S TIMING

WHEN CORK trainer Robert Tyner recently announced his intention to begin winding down his business after a successful 30-year career, citing the constant graft and a lack of staff as... Read more »
Kevin Doyle

Sport of Kings

KEVIN DOYLE’S PUNT

FORMER IRISH international footballer Kevin Doyle caused something of a stir two-and-a-half years ago, when he paid €155,000 for a colt foal at Tattersalls Ireland. His hefty purchase related to... Read more »
Darragh O’Loughlin

Sport of Kings

O’LOUGHLIN’S IHRB PRESCRIPTION

USUALLY WHEN an outsider is appointed to a high-profile position in horseracing, there is a mention or two about how he or she has, at the very least, a passing... Read more »

Reviews

Pandemonium

Books

PANDEMONIUM – JACK HORGAN-JONES/HUGH O’CONNELL

THIS IS the second book on the Covid-19 pandemic in Ireland. It also has two experienced political hacks as authors and benefits from this set-up. The two boys’ 337-page tome... Read more »
Roar

Books

ROAR – CECELIA AHERN

THROUGHOUT HER career as a middling-to-awful fiction writer, Cecelia Ahern has generally given a wide berth to socio-political issues. But having noted the prevailing cultural winds, she has clearly looked... Read more »

Moneybags

Moneybags

Gary Morrison

Moneybags

HOSTELWORLD SHARES WELL PLACED FOR TRAVEL BONUS

HOSTEWORLD FOUND itself in a vulnerable place during the pandemic but is set to bounce back as people, especially younger ones, start travelling in... Read more »

Moneybags

Joe Purcell

Moneybags

MINCON DRILLING DEEP TO KEEP UP WITH DEMAND

MINCON HAS become a global rock drilling equipment supplier, having been set up by Paddy Purcell in 1977 and now run by his sons,... Read more »

Brief Cases

Rita Fagan

Brief Cases

WEIGHT WATCHERS CASH OUT

THE BUSINESS and methods of keeping the Irish public ship-shape (at least in terms of sheer bulk) has been an increasing topic of debate over the past 12 months, with... Read more »
Aiden Murphy

Brief Cases

PHILIP MAGUIRE’S POWER FAILURE

RADIO LISTENERS may have noted an ad campaign by the Roger O’Connor-chaired Sports Ireland Campus, which is spending a fair few bob promoting its Abbotstown complex. The campaign coincides with... 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

Brief Cases

MIKE MORRIS’S HOTEL HEADACHE

THE WESTERN PEOPLE reported last week that a “damaged” Mayo hotel is up for sale for €¼m. This is almost €3m less than was paid for it during the boom.... Read more »
Paddy Coveney

Brief Cases

PADDY COVENEY’S PERKS

SANDWICH MAKER Greencore finally announced a replacement last week for Patrick Coveney, with DAA boss Dalton Philips getting the nod. It’s taken Greencore three months to find a replacement for... Read more »
Olga Shajaku

Brief Cases

OLGA SHAJAKU’S ‘MISFORTUNE’

IMMIGRATION LAWYER and businesswoman Olga Shajaku, principal of MS Solicitors in Dublin 8, has been making a name for herself in promoting links between Ireland and Russia (at least until... Read more »