Affairs of the Nation

David Cameron

Affairs of the Nation

BRITISH SPECIAL FORCES IN GAZA?

THAT BRITISH Tory politicians should call for a halt to British arms supplies to Israel is most unusual, coming as it does from those who normally support Israel regardless of... 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

BEN GILROY’S PORTUGUESE POSTCODE

SURPRISING TO see that, according to filings in the Companies Office for Morrigan Private Settlement Trust Operations (MPST), the colourful Ben Gilroy has changed address from dreary Navan to sunny... Read more »
Glencree Centre Valerie Bistany

Affairs of the Nation

GLENCREE’S NEW FACES

THREE MONTHS on from the appointment by the Department of Foreign Affairs of consultants to carry out a review of corporate governance at The Glencree Centre for Reconciliation, a final... Read more »

Affairs of the Nation

John Fitzgerald

Affairs of the Nation

JOHN FITZGERALD’S DISMAL FORECAST

DESPITE ITS headline-grabbing effect, the report by John FitzGerald and Edgar Morgenroth, entitled Northern Ireland Subvention – Possible Unification Effects and predicting that a united Ireland would cost southern taxpayers... Read more »
Jennifer Carroll McNeill

Affairs of the Nation

JOYLESS JUNIOR JENN

IT’S A long way down from pre-breakfast delusions of becoming taoiseach to not even making it into Cabinet but that has been the career curve travelled by Jennifer Carroll MacNeill... Read more »
Ian O'Doherty

Affairs of the Nation

IAN O’DOHERTY’S BAD YEAR

LAST DECEMBER the Independent’s lovable columnist, Ian O’Doherty, wrote about what he described as “maybe the worst year of my life” but it doesn’t appear that things are getting much... Read more »
Arts Council Maureen Kennelly

Affairs of the Nation

CATHERINE MARTIN’S €7M HEADACHE

ARTS AND culture minister Catherine Martin came in for (yet more) criticism this week as a result of her ongoing failure to appoint a chair to the Arts Council, which... Read more »
Robert Nairac

Affairs of the Nation

ROBERT NAIRAC RE-VISITED

Robin ‘The Jackal’ Jackson, of the Portadown UVF, was the most notorious assassin of the Troubles. Virtually all commentators on those turbulent times believe he was a British agent, run... Read more »
Cathal Berry

Affairs of the Nation

GOING NUCLEAR IN IRISH SEA

In recent years much has been made by various academics, media and politicians about Ireland’s dependence on the Royal Air Force (RAF) for air defence. Independent TD and former Army... Read more »

Pillars of Society

John Moran

Pillars of Society

PROFILE: JOHN MORAN

THE BRIGHTEST as well as the most self-confident Limerick luminary since Richard Harris has to be the former secretary general of the Department of... Read more »

The Young Bloods

Catherine Arnold

The Young Bloods

YOUNG BLOOD: CATHERINE ARNOLD

Amidst rising political tensions within Trinity College Dublin Students’ Union (TCDSU), Catherine ‘Cat’ Arnold, the (former) education officer, has announced their shock resignation. A... Read more »

Fit to Print?

Sunday Times John Mooney

Fit to Print?

IRISH PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS

THE IRISH edition of the Sunday Times appears to have corrected its revisionist line on British foreign policy and has been brought to heel by the chaps in the London... Read more »
Noel Doran

Fit to Print?

CROSS (VERY CROSS) BORDER VIEWS

IRISH TIMES northern editor Freya McClements wrote extensively and flatteringly about the longest-serving newspaper editor in these islands, Noel Doran, who is retiring after 25 years as editor of the... Read more »

Last Refuge

Kate O’Connell James Geoghegan

Last Refuge

WHITHER KATE O’CONNELL?

THE RE-ENTRY of Kate O’Connell to national politics via a place on Fine Gael’s general election ticket in Dublin Bay South (DBS) is not a given, despite new Taoiseach Simon... Read more »
Justice Minister Helen McEntee

Last Refuge

HELEN OF NAVAN SURVIVES

MUCH MYSTERY and knowing punditry surrounded the survival of Helen McEntee as justice minister given all the indications that persuaded most people to believe she was a goner. However, it... 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

MAL O’HARA’S SEANAD SEAT

THE COALITION parties have continued the sharing (among themselves) policy of divvying up Seanad seats if and when they become available – a policy that also includes telling northern unionists... Read more »

Hush Hush

Thomas O’Reilly Herman Kelly

Hush Hush

FAR RIGHT SPOILING FOR A FIGHT

DESPITE THE attention the far right in Ireland has received in recent years, it has had little or no success in elections. However, far-right politicians believe fervently that, in the... Read more »

Bog Cuttings

Bog-Cuttings-Defaul

Bog Cuttings

BOG CUTTINGS

WHAT A SPECTACLE Kevin Duffy (34) of Castlecourt, Ballaghaderreen, Roscommon, found himself before Tubercurry District Court charged with two public order offences following an altercation on January 19 last. Gardaí... Read more »

Fowl Emissions

Climate Change Ursula von der Leyen

Fowl Emissions

FARMERS’ PR CAMPAIGN

For decades scientists have warned of the extreme vulnerability of global food production systems to disruption as climate change accelerates. This is now coming to pass in real time, with... Read more »

High Society

High Society

Mark Gallagher

High Society

MARK GALLAGHER’S €10M MANSION

THE ADVERTISING by Sherry FitzGerald of a redbrick pile on leafy Ailesbury Road, with a cool €10m price tag, not surprisingly marks the property... Read more »

High Society

Tony McCoy

High Society

AINTREE ANTICS

WHILE ZILLIONAIRE Geneva tax resident JP McManus won his third Aintree Grand National last Saturday, with the Willie Mullins-trained I am Maximus, it was... Read more »

High Society

Susan O’Reilly Claremont Road

High Society

SUSAN O’REILLY’S ‘APPARITION’

A “STUNNING beachfront house hovering over the water in Howth” has attracted a lot of attention over the last week. The unusual structure was the subject of a protracted planning... Read more »

Behind the Scenes

Lyra

Behind the Scenes

LYRA V BEYONCÉ

IT HAS been hard to avoid Irish singer Laura McNamara (aka Lyra) in recent weeks as the hype machine cranks up around her eponymous debut album. Given that she 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

LARA HICKEY’S CLOSE-UP

THE FILM and TV business has long been one where ‘who you know’ features high on the lists of credits, even more so since the coinage of the ‘nepo baby’... Read more »

Sport of Kings

Tony Martin

Sport of Kings

TONY’S FAILED APPEAL

THE RECENT overturning by the IHRB appeals panel of the referral committee’s findings on trainer Tony Martin is not the first significant setback for the trainer. It will be recalled... Read more »
Brendan Duke Adrian Murray Mick Bailey

Sport of Kings

O’BRIEN’S OBSTACLES

While trainer Aidan O’Brien supplied three of the five runners in Leopardstown’s Group 3 PW McGrath Ballysax Stakes, it was Adrian Murray who provided the shock 50/1 winner, Dallas Star.... Read more »

Moneybags

Moneybags

Dalton Philips

Moneybags

PHILIPS DELIVERING BLAND TASTE AT GREENCORE

NO DOUBT there were high hopes in Greencore that the new CEO, Dalton Philips, would be able to revolutionise the company. It certainly hasn’t... Read more »

Briefcases

Enda Kenny

Briefcases

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Join the Harris juggernaut. Enda Kenny speech at Fine Gael’s ard fheis I’d read a lot about the ancient Celtic warriors going into battle. There were always rituals beforehand. I... Read more »
Oliver Tatten

Briefcases

OLIVER TATTAN’S NEW VENTURE

THE multi-hatted Oliver Tattan is getting back into the health insurance game, in tandem with Aviva, although the name of the new venture remains under wraps. Enniskerry-based moneybags Ollie has... Read more »
Laura Anderson

Briefcases

DENIS O’BRIEN’S ‘LOVE ISLAND’ PRESENTER

IN GLASGOW last week, Capital Scotland radio listeners had their first taste of a brand new breakfast show presenter after the station was forced into a change a little quicker... Read more »
VMTV Gráinne Seoige

Briefcases

GRÁ FOR GRÁ AR AN TRÁ

AT A time when RTÉ is facing severe budgetary constraints, it is interesting that the latest round of programme funding from the media commission contains only a single project for... Read more »
Suzanne Gilhooly

Briefcases

SUZANNE GILHOOLY’S JEWELS

GOLDHAWK NOTES that the taxman has registered a judgment for a less than blingy €2,400 against a company called C&S Jewellery Ltd, where the principals are husband and wife team... Read more »
Megard Ltd Michael Bane

Briefcases

PURCELL CONSTRUCTION’S €150,000 OFFER

ALMOST THREE years on from the liquidation of Megard Ltd, the company involved in the construction of the Hyde Square apartment block in Dublin 8, the residents are still engaged... Read more »