Affairs of the Nation

Nord Stream Leo Varadkar

Affairs of the Nation

RUSSIAN ROULETTE IN THE DÁIL

AN INTRIGUING EXCHANGE recently occurred in the Dáil between Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and People before Profit TD Paul Murphy, which appeared to demolish much of the pro-Nato propaganda the Government... 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

UNA MCGURK’S WRIT

OUTSPOKEN SENIOR counsel Una McGurk has been tweeting about the incoming hate speech legislation but she has also been keeping an eye on the existing laws regulating the media. It... Read more »
Catherine Martin Cézanne’s ‘La Vie des Champs’

Affairs of the Nation

CATHERINE MARTIN’S €1.85M GRANT

ARTS MINISTER Catherine Martin was delighted to bask in the positive publicity surrounding the purchase by the National Gallery of Ireland (NGI) of Paul Cézanne’s tidy little painting, ‘La Vie... 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

SPOOKY SPEAKERS

HOW APPROPRIATE that the first speaker to address Micheál Martin’s opening panel at the forum on security policy (see also p11) this month should be Renata Dwan, deputy director of... Read more »
Sheila Nunan Roderic O'Gorman

Affairs of the Nation

NUNAN’S TOUGH TASK

CHILDREN’S MINISTER Roderic O’Gorman’s choice of Sheila Nunan to lead negotiations with churches on contributions to the long-awaited, miserly Mother & Baby Institutions Payments Scheme is interesting. As usual, Irish... Read more »
Dave Macardle

Affairs of the Nation

BAUER’S RADIO INTERFERENCE

THIS WEEK the High Court will hear deliberations regarding the action initiated by DJ and radio presenter Dave Macardle against his new employers, Bauer Media Audio, owners of Newstalk and... 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

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GARETH MCALLISTER’S BACKERS

WITH IT getting harder to avoid tripping over the latest new whiskey distillery to pop up (see p17), it is not surprising to learn that punters are throwing money at... Read more »
Naeem Maniar Liam Cunningham

Affairs of the Nation

NAEEM MANIAR’S FROZEN FOOD

THE RATHER discreet change of ownership at the Iceland stores has resulted in raised temperatures in the frozen food chain, where the new owner, one Naeem Maniar, has adopted a... Read more »
Lord Mountbatten Kincora

Affairs of the Nation

KINCORA WON’T GO AWAY

THE DECADES-old snake pit that is the former Kincora Boys’ Home in Belfast, where children were abused in blackmail tactics against unionist politicians and loyalists by British spooks, is about... Read more »
Detection Orders Ylva Johansson

Affairs of the Nation

AI TO SCAN ALL EU PRIVATE MESSAGES?

AN INCREASINGLY burning issue concerns multinationals and states accessing the public’s personal data. In the last month alone, politicians in Ireland have voiced concern over the use of TikTok on... Read more »

Pillars of Society

Paddy Dunican

Pillars of Society

PROFILE: PADDY DUNICAN

THE NAME Paddy Dunican may not ring too many bells outside the horseracing world but events off the turf over the last year have... Read more »

The Young Bloods

Lousie Duffy

The Young Bloods

YOUNG BLOOD: LOUISE DUFFY

WHEN BROADCASTER Louise Duffy took over from Ronan Collins in the midday slot on RTÉ Radio 1, it came as a surprise to many... Read more »

Fit to Print?

Betty Purcell

Fit to Print?

VETTING ‘MALE’ REFUGEES AT INCH

FORMER COMMISSIONER of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission and ex-RTÉ producer Betty Purcell has made an interesting complaint to RTÉ about the broadcaster’s recent coverage of the protests... Read more »
Una Healy

Fit to Print?

UNA HEALY’S TRANSFORMATION

TV PRESENTER, singer and brand ambassador Una Healy appears to have multiple personalities and her energetic PR campaign has seen her rubbish reports of her ‘throuple’ relationship and state her... 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?

JOHN DOWNING & THE BELGIANS

ERUDITE INDEPENDENT writer John Downing normally gives his newspaper titles a slightly higher tone but what are we to make of Downing’s apparently whimsical column recently about “famous Belgians”? Beginning... Read more »

Last Refuge

NCAD Chair Simon Harris

Last Refuge

SIMON HARRIS’S LEADERSHIP TIMING

HAS ANYONE noticed that of the two junior ministers now increasingly mentioned as possible Fine Gael leadership rivals to senior minister Simon Harris, both of them – Jennifer Carroll MacNeill... Read more »
Catherine Murphy

Last Refuge

MURPHY’S SOC DEMS OWN GOALS

WAS THE blundering performance put in by Catherine Murphy in the Denis O’Brien/Siteserv saga one of the reasons for the change in the Social Democrats leadership and the elevation of... Read more »
Janice Boylan Irish Military Mali Coolock Says No IFP Hermann Kelly Timmy Dooley Aontú Mal O’Hara Fintan O’Toole Josepha Madigan Eoghan Harris Ukraine War Micheál Martin Middle East Philip Ryan Seán Clancy Simon Coveney Hugo MacNeill Mountbatten Neasa Hourigan Green Party Martin NPT Ivana Bacik Independents Limerick Hospital Overcrowding Barry Cowen

Last Refuge

SIMON COVENEY’S CONSTITUENCY

IS SIMON COVENEY trying to emulate British Tory prime minister Harold McMillan’s electoral slogan, “You’ve never had it so good”, in an effort to galvanise Fine Gael as the party... Read more »
Forum on International Security CitizenGo Micheal Martin

Last Refuge

PACIFISTS SILENCED AT MARTIN’S FORUMS

INDICATIONS OF the militarist tenor of Tánaiste and foreign affairs minister Micheál Martin’s Forum on International Security were noted in The Phoenix (see edition 24/4/23). Martin announced that the forum... Read more »

Hush Hush

RVC Denis Kapustin

Hush Hush

INTERNATIONAL BRIGADE SWAPS SIDES

RTÉ HAS certainly avoided any friction with the Government line on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and its coverage of events over the last year has been exemplary for a media... Read more »

Bog Cuttings

Bog-Cuttings-Defaul

Bog Cuttings

BOG CUTTINGS

TROLLEYED CRISIS A man who became abusive towards gardaí and nurses at Tullamore hospital appeared before Tullamore District Court. Sergeant James O’Sullivan told the court that officers spotted Patrick Hayes... Read more »

Fowl Emissions

iCrag Leo Varadkar

Fowl Emissions

ICE IN LEO VARADKAR’S VEINS

IN 2019 Leo Varadkar pointed out that climate change had its “benefits” as well as its “downsides”. You know, warmer Irish winters and the like. He was, rightly, pilloried. But... Read more »

High Society

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

CASHING IN ON CHATHAM ST

GOLDHAWK WAS interested to spy that a company called Dtat Ltd has just been wound up by its owners, who have scooped a fair... Read more »

High Society

Jenny Keane

High Society

JENNY KEANE’S SEXUAL REVOLUTION

SPARE A thought for the assorted boring, traditional sexual health therapists operating in Ireland, who must be a little jealous of the remarkable success... Read more »

High Society

Richard de la Poer Beresford

High Society

EARL OF TYRONE’S TIPPLE

IT WAS reported last weekend in the Business Post that one Henry de la Poer Beresford, who happens to be the 9th Marquess of Waterford and owner of the impressive... Read more »

Behind the Scenes

CAI Catherine Breathnach

Behind the Scenes

FAT LADY SINGS

SO FAREWELL then Classical Arts Ireland (CAI), where the curtain has officially come down. CAI, a not-for-profit enterprise established back in 2011, promoted opera, ballet and classical music here, as... 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

DAVE MCWILLIAMS’S KYIV COMPANY

BONO, MARIELLA Frostrup and co will be popping up at the Dalkey Books Festival this weekend, with David McWilliams front and centre as usual. While many of the big-name gigs... Read more »

Sport of Kings

Ger Lyons

Sport of Kings

SLOW START FOR LYONS

THE IRISH flat season is in full swing and one of the main talking points has been the absence of Ger Lyons-trained horses from the winners’ enclosure. Lyons has established... 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

WHELAN’S WHIP WOES

KILDARE JOCKEY Ronan Whelan has enjoyed a fine start to the flat season but his momentum has been stalled after racking up a 13-day suspension for breaching the whip rules... Read more »

Moneybags

Moneybags

Cathal Friel

Moneybags

HVIVO LOOKING HEALTHIER THANKS TO PANDEMIC

WHILE THE effects of the pandemic on businesses are starting to ease, some companies made great leaps forward over the last couple of years.... Read more »

Moneybags

Colin Hunt

Moneybags

AIB SHAREHOLDERS SET FOR PROFIT BONANZA

AIB SUPREMO Colin Hunt has had a challenging time since his appointment as CEO in March 2019, trying to keep pace with Bank of... Read more »

Briefcases

Aidan Garcia Diaz Cormac Lohan

Briefcases

CORMAC LOHAN’S COSTS

GOLDHAWK’S OLD friend, Athlone legal eagle Cormac Lohan, has suffered yet another setback, this time over a legal costs adjudication relating to the previous winding up of his company by... Read more »
Seaweed Company Stefan Kraan

Briefcases

SEAWEED COMPANY SINKS

GOLDHAWK WAS surprised to see that a liquidator (Flavien Kelly) has just been appointed to The Seaweed Company Blue Turtle Ltd, the Irish subsidiary of a giant Dutch firm operating... 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

CHRIS WHOLEY’S SETBACKS

INTERESTING TO see long-established engineering business KC Civil Engineering Ltd (KCCE) on the wrong end of a judgment for €66,000 from suppliers Stakelums Hardware Ltd, although this is not the... Read more »
Ian Lucey

Briefcases

IAN LUCEY’S GUARANTEES

HAVING COME pretty close to the edge on a couple of occasions, serial tech investor Ian Lucey’s investment vehicle, Lucey Technology Ltd (LTL), where he is the only listed director,... Read more »