Affairs of the Nation

Micheál Martin Daniel Hokanson

Affairs of the Nation

IRELAND-US MILITARY ALLIANCE

NOT FOR decades has a Middle East crisis come so close to provoking war on a global scale of East versus West, with Ireland by now virtually dragooned into being... 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

MATT COOPER V RTÉ

THE UBIQUITOUS Matt Cooper was taking pops at RTÉ once again last weekend in the Business Post, a pastime neither he nor his editor feels should be qualified by any... 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

AUBREY’S ELECTION WAR CHEST

WITH MUCH of the political speculation focused, unsurprisingly, on the possible timing of a general election, one contest that looks set to go ahead is the by-election to determine David... Read more »

Affairs of the Nation

Mary Lou McDonald

Affairs of the Nation

MARY LOU’S BACK YARD MESS

DESPITE THE ascent of Sinn Féin’s northern leader, Michelle O’Neill, to the Stormont summit, Mary Lou McDonald and SF have endured various tribulations down south in recent months. The latest setback... Read more »
Mark Foley

Affairs of the Nation

GROW UP, SENATORS!

MARK FOLEY, the smooth-talking CEO of Eirgrid, got quite a rude response last week from senators Alice Mary Higgins (Independent) and Lynn Boylan (Sinn Féin) at an Oireachtas climate action... 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

THE ‘IT’ ON JOHN BRUTON

In an obit of nearly 2,500 words, the Irish Times devoted just over 200 words to the stewardship of the late John Bruton of the peace process – damning him... Read more »
Ciaran Toland Glencree Centre

Affairs of the Nation

ALL CHANGE AT GLENCREE CENTRE

JUST WHAT is going on on the board of the publicly funded Glencree Centre for Peace and Reconciliation, where there have been some odd comings and goings? Despite being a... 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

PARKER GREEN TRIMMED

A COMPANY with the name of GEI Crystal Ltd has just been wound up by its owners, although it is unlikely that many would recognise the name, given that for... Read more »
Judge Michael Quinn Paul Hourican

Affairs of the Nation

PAUL HOURICAN’S NEW HAT

GOLDHAWK’S FAVOURITE landlord, Paul Hourican, is back in action again, with a new company but some of the same old problems. Fans of The Phoenix will be familiar with Hourican’s... Read more »

Pillars of Society

Ian Bailey

Pillars of Society

PROFILE: IAN BAILEY

THE DEATH of Ian Bailey, ‘chief suspect’ for the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier in 1996, drew the sort of crowd that sometimes... Read more »

The Young Bloods

Annie Hoey

The Young Bloods

YOUNG BLOOD: ANNIE HOEY

FRESH FROM being squeezed out of a Labour Party nomination to stand in the forthcoming European election, can vibrant senator Annie Hoey build on... Read more »

Fit to Print?

Peter Casey Immigration

Fit to Print?

POLLS DISTORT REFUGEE ‘CRISIS’

ARE THE ‘quality’ broadsheet Sunday newspapers reflecting the crisis and anger about immigration or are they stimulating it with sensationalist coverage? Scrutiny of recent polls would indicate that sometimes the... 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?

BASHFUL BRENDAN O’CONNOR

RTÉ PRESENTER and Sindo front-page commentator Brendan O’Connor has turned out to be the shy, retiring type, despite giving the impression of being full of in-your-face braggadocio. And how ironic... Read more »
Mark Paul IDF

Fit to Print?

MARK’S ISRAELI VICTIMS

THE REVIVAL of an Israeli PR blunder – unusual for the well-resourced PR machine of Israel and the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) – was reported in the Irish Times last... Read more »

Last Refuge

Regina Doherty

Last Refuge

REGINA V JOSEPHA V BARRY

THE THREE-CORNERED battle between Fine Gael ex-minister and now senator Regina Doherty, junior education minister Josepha Madigan and senator Barry Ward for the Dublin nomination at the EU election will... Read more »
David McManus

Last Refuge

YOUNG BLUESHIRTS CHAMPION McMANUS

HEALTHY RIVALRY is how Fine Gael councillor David McManus would likely describe a leaflet due to be distributed in his local election area of Rathfarnham-Templeogue this weekend. The leaflet has... Read more »
Leo Varadkar General Election

Last Refuge

EARLY ELECTION?

REPETITIVE SPECULATION about an early general election – before the local and EU elections in June – is being argued about among ministers from the three Government parties, according to... Read more »
Ray Bassett Policy Exchange

Last Refuge

IRISH FREELOADING ON ‘BRITISH ISLES’

A RECENT report by British think-tank Policy Exchange describes our foreign security policy as “persistent Irish security freeloading” just as “Russia once more poses a maritime threat to the Western... Read more »

Hush Hush

Taylor Swift Sam Melia

Hush Hush

IRISH FAR-RIGHT FEARS

THE PLIGHT of British far-right activist Sam Melia – who was convicted in January at Leeds Crown Court for inciting racial hatred and intentionally encouraging or assisting racially aggravated criminal... Read more »

Bog Cuttings

Bog-Cuttings-Defaul

Bog Cuttings

BOG CUTTINGS

HIGH KING OF IRELAND A man claiming to be the “king of Ireland” appeared before Thurles District Court wearing a crown and his driver’s licence on a lanyard around his... Read more »

The Hot Air Brigade

Christian Stokes

The Hot Air Brigade

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

I cannot emphasise enough the speed and turnaround they arranged in getting us up and home in their beautiful PC12. Christian Stokes expresses gratitude to Stellaer private jet business after... Read more »

High Society

High Society

Jay Goenka Superjet Leasing

High Society

NOT SO SUPERJET

GOLDHAWK SPIES a creditors’ meeting has been called for Superjet Leasing Private Ltd, a company where the director is Indian moneybags Jayvaradhan ‘Jay’ Goenka.... Read more »

High Society

JP McManus Shane Filan

High Society

CHARITY BEGINS OFFSHORE

BILLIONAIRE BUDDIES – and fellow Swiss tax residents – JP McManus and John Magnier have been making headlines for their charitable deeds. It emerged... Read more »

High Society

Ballynatray House Henry Gwyn-Jones

High Society

HENRY GWYN-JONES’S HOUSE

THERE HAS been plenty regurgitation of the Irish Examiner’s scoop that UK billionaire James Dyson is set to acquire the impressive Ballynatray House on 850 acres on the banks of... Read more »

Behind the Scenes

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

A WAIT AT THE MUSEUM

A MERE six months after the closing date on the advert seeking new board members for the National Museum of Ireland (NMI), arts minister Catherine Martin has announced the new... Read more »

Sport of Kings

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

KEATLEY’S BUSY AGENDA

FANS OF Goldhawk will recall that popular Curragh trainer Brendan Duke secured a temporary ex-parte injunction against the purchasers of Fenway House in Pollardstown, Co Kildare – Peter Keatley and... 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

JUSTICE DELAYED

RTÉ BOARD member and barrister Susan Ahern has plenty to keep here busy given events at Montrose. But she still finds time to chair assorted IHRB referrals committee hearings. A... Read more »

Moneybags

Moneybags

Margaret Sweeney

Moneybags

I-RES DIRECTORS DESERVE TO BE VOTED OUT

FANS OF Moneybags will not have been surprised by moves by 5% dissident shareholder in I-Res Reit, Vision Capital Corp (VCC), to requisition an... Read more »

Moneybags

Maurice Healy

Moneybags

MAURICE HEALY’S LATEST CRASH-LANDING

MAURICE HEALY floated off software company Glantus on the AIM market in London with an air of optimism in June 2021 at £1 a... Read more »

Brief Cases

Shane Kenny Poblano Ltd

Brief Cases

SHANE KENNY’S BURRITOS

THIS WEEK sees a creditors’ meeting being held for Poblano Ltd, which turns out to be the company behind Mexican burrito chain Tolteca, which had four restaurants around Dublin, all... Read more »
Michael O'Shea

Brief Cases

WINDING UP DELTA INDEX

WITH MICHAEL O’Shea busy making an impact thanks to his Pulse Market cloud-based platform, which loftily promises to help companies “do business for good”, he may have missed the recent... Read more »
Peter Donnelly

Brief Cases

PETER DONNELLY’S POOR DIAGNOSIS

IT WAS only a few years ago that the Dundalk Argus was highlighting the “life saving device for Africa” designed by Irish outfit Tapa Healthcare. Today, however, the company is... Read more »
Gemma and Andy Brown

Brief Cases

THE BROWNS PULL THE PLUG

THE SURPRISE dispersal of the entire string of racehorses owned by Andy and Gemma Brown, the star of which was Grade 1 Future Champions’ Novice Hurdle winner Caldwell Potter, took... Read more »