Affairs of the Nation

David McRedmond

Affairs of the Nation

McREDMOND’S RTÉ CAMPAIGN BLOWS UP

DAVID McREDMOND came out with his hands up last Sunday issuing a statement saying he had “no further interest in a role at RTÉ” (actually, it was the other way... 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

MARGARET SWEENEY’S BATTLE

AS GOOD old corporate battles are rare enough here, there is mounting interest in the open challenge by a leading shareholder in the giant Ires Reit property rental company to... 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

FRANK REEVES’S BIDEN BOOST

GOLDHAWK DOFFS his cap to the PR skills of Frank Reeves, the Irish businessman behind hotel booking software operation Avvio, which he set up in Limerick 20 years ago with... 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

SEAN O’RIORDAN’S RATIONALE

SOME SORT of award should be organised to encourage Irish journalists competing with each other to be the most enthusiastic champions of Nato and/or an EU army with Ireland to... Read more »
Louise Richardson

Affairs of the Nation

DAME TO SAVE IRISH NEUTRALITY

ONE TRUSTS that Tánaiste Micheál Martin’s recent failure to give Louise Richardson her full, proper title of Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (DBE) was... Read more »
Mark Garrett Catherine Hegarty

Affairs of the Nation

LAW SOCIETY COCK-UP

THERE WILL have been some red faces in Blackhall Place this month when the solicitors’ body had to apologise for a warning notice it had posted on its own website,... Read more »
Colin Marry

Affairs of the Nation

COLIN MARRY’S SAUSAGES

GOLDHAWK WAS surprised to see that a company touted as being behind the farming of “pigs that could change the world” has just collapsed into liquidation. It appears that Louth... Read more »
Freddie Scappaticci

Affairs of the Nation

SCAPPATICCI TALES

In the early 1970s, the IRA adopted a cellular structure. The overlap between cells was kept to a bare minimum, thereby limiting the damage a British agent could inflict if... 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

IAN PAISLEY’S REAL RECORD

The BBC’s House of Paisley marathon trilogy ignored vital chunks of Ian Paisley’s stormy career, despite the fact it had exposed many of them in the past. In 2019, former... Read more »

Pillars of Society

Neasa Hourigan

Pillars of Society

PROFILE: NEASA HOURIGAN

THERE WAS a time when Green Party members would have been calling for smelling salts to revive themselves if its TDs and other personalities... Read more »

The Young Bloods

Keilidh Cashell

The Young Bloods

YOUNG BLOOD: KEILIDH CASHELL

MONAGHAN MAKE-UP artist Keilidh Cashell (27) has parlayed a talent for creating dramatic looks into a very profitable business, thanks to a little help... Read more »

Fit to Print?

Cathal Berry

Fit to Print?

OFFICER CLASS MEDIA FIGHT BACK

THE DAMNING report of the Independent Review Group (IRG) into sexual assault and other abuses in the Defence Forces was given a supportive response by PDForra – representing enlisted members... Read more »
Justine McCarthy

Fit to Print?

‘IT’ DENOUNCES SECTARIANISM

JUSTINE McCARTHY recently thundered against the “sectarian criteria” of the planned scoping inquiry into the abuse of children in “schools run by religious orders”, an inquiry stimulated by reports of... Read more »

Last Refuge

Bertie Ahern

Last Refuge

BERTIE’S OBSTACLE TO THE ÁRAS

ANYBODY WHO presumed that Bertie Ahern would shy away from a bid to run for the presidency in 2025 because of the adverse comments made about him in the Mahon... Read more »
Tony Murphy Darragh O'Brien Balbriggan Housing

Last Refuge

HOUSING FOR ALL… ELSEWHERE

FIANNA FÁIL insiders raised an eyebrow last week at an Irish Independent report that housing minister Darragh O’Brien continues to send constituents with housing queries to an Independent councillor rather... Read more »
Áine Lawlor Matt Carthy

Last Refuge

IS SHANNON NEUTRAL GROUND?

In two recent Morning Ireland interviews, Áine Lawlor has interrogated the details of Sinn Féin’s commitment to neutrality, a sensitive issue given the upcoming National Consultative Forum on Ireland’s International... Read more »
Eviction Ban Leo Varadkar

Last Refuge

NO COUNCIL HOUSES – NO COUNCIL DEBATE

DAYS BEFORE Sinn Féin’s Dáil motion on ending the eviction ban and a fortnight before the ban was due to expire, Tánaiste Micheál Martin rounded on local councils and accused... Read more »

Hush Hush

Bryan MacDonald Evan Gershkovich

Hush Hush

MOBILE MEDIA ETHICS

A common trope in the Irish media is the accusation of censorship by the Chinese Communist Party and the Russian government. According to Irish and most western media, since the... Read more »

Bog Cuttings

Bog-Cuttings-Defaul

Bog Cuttings

BOG CUTTINGS

‘KING OF BALLINCOLLIG’ A 28-year-old who jumped on the bonnet of a patrol car during an altercation with gardaí was described by Judge Olann Kelleher at Cork District Court as... Read more »

Fowl Emissions

Irish Aid Simon Coveney

Fowl Emissions

IRELAND DUMPS ON AFRICA

In his recent address to the Oireachtas, US President Joe Biden said that “Ireland remembers the painful hollows of the Great Hunger”. He praised the fact that the Irish aid... Read more »
Luke Holland Climate Denial John Fagan Wolf Europe David Quinn Duncan Stewart Data Centre Carbon Emissions Conor Skehan Chris Hazzard

Fowl Emissions

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Given the constant chorus from the livestock sector claiming it is being unfairly demonised on emissions while fossil fuel companies are not subject to the same scrutiny, a new international... Read more »

The Hot Air Brigade

Mary Robinson

The Hot Air Brigade

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

I told him that I’ve brought the famous light in the [Áras] window down to Ballina, so it will now be housed in the Mary Robinson Centre opposite where he... Read more »

High Society

High Society

JP McMahon

High Society

JP McMAHON’S NEW DINERS

WITH FINE dining under pressure as the rising cost of living kicks in and tourism numbers come under pressure due to a lack of... 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

ANGELA SCANLON’S MOOLAH

IT HAS been hard to avoid the hype around Angela Scanlon’s return to the screen with her Ask Me Anything talkshow on RTÉ. The... Read more »

High Society

Silvana Landa

High Society

SILVANA’S LUXURY HANDBAGS

WHILE MOST of the big bucks invested in this country is focused on the likes of tech, pharma and property, there has been a fair few bob sloshing around in... Read more »

Behind the Scenes

Avril Stanley

Behind the Scenes

STANLEY’S STRATEGY

THE QUEEN of the Body & Soul festival in Ballinlough Castle, Avril Stanley, announced recently that she has cut the shindig’s capacity by almost 70% to 5,000 “to come back... Read more »

Sport of Kings

Coolmore John Magnier

Sport of Kings

MAGNIER’S COSTLY FILLY

THE OLD adage of breeding the best to the best and hoping for the best is as good a guide as any to navigating the tricky waters of breeding racehorses... Read more »
Noel Meade

Sport of Kings

NOEL MEADE’S PARTNER

THE PAST 10 years have seen a number of predominantly Wexford-based point-to-point trainers revolutionise the point-to-point game from what was an amateur discipline – often seen as a bit of... Read more »
Gordon Elliott

Sport of Kings

ELLIOTT’S ID FARCE

GORDON ELLIOTT was summoned before an Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) referrals committee recently to explain how a significant mix-up in his yard led to two of the wrong horses... Read more »
Quevega Cheltenham Winners Willie Mullins

Sport of Kings

DEVELOPERS’ WINNING WAYS

PROPERTY DEVELOPERS Sean Deane and Ger O’Brien have experienced highs and low in their business careers but have rarely enjoyed anything but good times when it comes to their horses.... Read more »

Reviews

Devils Own

Books|Reviews

THE DEVIL’S OWN – MARIA McDONALD

THIS MUCH-HYPED historical suspense novel, The Devil’s Own, centres on three mysterious diaries dating back to the late 1800s but only discovered in 2020. After a lifetime in the Irish... Read more »

Moneybags

Moneybags

Vodafone Margherita Della Valle

Moneybags

VODAFONE SHARES WORTH DOUBLE CURRENT PRICE

VODAFONE HAS seen some significant changes at the top recently – and not just in Ireland, where CEO Anne O’Leary switched provider for Meta/Facebook... Read more »

Moneybags

Eamonn Rothwell

Moneybags

P&O STORM DELIVERS SMOOTH SAILING FOR ICG

THE LATEST figures from Irish Ferries’ owner Irish Continental Group (ICG) are pretty impressive and reflect the wise move to expand on the busy... Read more »

Brief Cases

Claddagh Chris de Putron

Brief Cases

CLADDAGH’S BIDEN BOOST

THE SINDO was rapturous in its reporting that Sleepy Joe Biden was gifted a vinyl copy of Almost Everything – a spoken-word album of the poetry of Patrick Kavanagh –... Read more »
DJI Michelle Hetherington

Brief Cases

MICHELLE HETHERINGTON’S CURATED COLLAPSE

A COMPANY called Curated Ltd has just collapsed into liquidation. This entity turns out to be linked to high-profile design company David James Interiors Ltd (DJI). The latter operates as... Read more »
Susan Kirby

Brief Cases

FILM PRODUCERS’ PROFITABLE PLOT

THE LOBBY organisation for film and television producers, Screen Producers Ireland (SPI), has just delivered a nice plot in its latest accounts, covering the year to December 2021. Presumably, most... Read more »
Avvio Frank Reeves

Brief Cases

AVVIO’S AI BONUS

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) is generating quite the buzz at the moment but an Irish hotel booking software company, Avvio, that has been working away with this technology for a number... Read more »