Affairs of the Nation

Sue Gray

Affairs of the Nation

STARMER AND SUE GRAY’S ENEMIES

THE LIKELY advent of Labour leader Keir Starmer and his chief of staff, Sue Gray, at the helm of the British government is already causing ripples in Whitehall and Northern... Read more »
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Affairs of the Nation

ENDA O’COINEEN’S STRATEGY

EARLIER THIS MONTH, the Business Post published a cry to arms under a headline that warned: “The Irish media sector won’t hold out against social media”. The piece was written... 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

PAUL HOURICAN’S SURPRISE

AN ENGLISH firm, Igniyte Ltd, has just registered a judgment for a paltry €15,000 against a company owned by Goldhawk’s favourite landlord, Paul Hourican. It appears to have something to... 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

NATO: WHAT’S IN A NAME?

THE AVALANCHE of articles in mainstream media demanding that Ireland abandons neutrality has been accompanied by the Defence Forces becoming closer to both Nato and the EU’s burgeoning military forces.... Read more »
Stella Creasy Justice Humphreys

Affairs of the Nation

RWANDA WARNING IGNORED

THE DRAMATIC and forceful actions being taken by the current Government to address the refugee crisis, however unsympathetic they are to refugees, indicate a serious issue being tackled by a... Read more »
Paddy Merrigan

Affairs of the Nation

PADDY MERRIGAN’S WILD RIDE

FORMER JOCKEY Paddy Merrigan – who once claimed to have blown a million quid on drink, drugs and women – delivered an extended live monologue about Irish racing through his... 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

JAMES KELLY’S CRYPTO CHALLENGE

THE FIRST report from the liquidator of James Kelly’s collapsed crypto-trading operation, Gigabyte Investment Ltd (GIL), reveals that there is plenty of investigating to be done before this winding up... Read more »
Nuala Jackson

Affairs of the Nation

BANK OF IRELAND’S ‘EXCEPTION’

LATER THIS month, Judge Nuala Jackson will deliver a ruling in the High Court on a matter than could have significant implications for Bank of Ireland (BoI). At issue is... Read more »
Colin Wallace Henry Barron

Affairs of the Nation

‘NEITHER FANCIFUL NOR ABSURD’

FIFTY YEARS ago this month, four UVF car bombs blew apart 34 people in Dublin and Monaghan. The late Henry Barron, a retired judge of the Supreme Court, investigated the... Read more »
Paul Bew EAP

Affairs of the Nation

BRITS ON STICKY WICKET

BRITAIN’S UNILATERAL decision to stifle victims’ ability to seek truth and justice via its Legacy Act has been condemned not only by the Irish Government but also by the Council... Read more »

Pillars of Society

Alan Moloney

Pillars of Society

PROFILE: ALAN MOLONEY

BACK IN 2016, film and TV producer Alan Moloney of Parallel Films; James Morris, founder of Windmill Lane and former Screen Ireland chairman; and... Read more »

The Young Bloods

John McGahon

The Young Bloods

YOUNG BLOOD: JOHN MCGAHON

WITH A third of Fine Gael TDs announcing that they will not be seeking a return to the Dáil at the next general election,... Read more »

Fit to Print?

Catherine Martin GIMCF

Fit to Print?

‘INDEPENDENT’ MEDIA FUNDING

FOREIGN MINISTER and Tanáiste Micheál Martin continues to publicly and loudly mount a heroic defence against media minister Catherine Martin’s proposals for the state to fund RTÉ. The Tanáiste has... Read more »
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Fit to Print?

STEPHEN REA’S PERFORMANCE

AN INTERESTING, alternative treatment of the 1974 Dublin/Monaghan bombings – one that involves award-winning actor Stephen Rea – is Frank Connolly’s novel, A Conspiracy of Lies, which was recently released... Read more »
Willie O'Dea

Fit to Print?

O’DEA’S MEDIA MESSAGE TO MARTIN

MICHEÁL MARTIN’S media maestro, Paul Clarkson, and Martin’s political brain, Deirdre Gillane, will have been very interested in the take of former minister, Willie O’Dea, on the upcoming local and... Read more »

Last Refuge

Michael McDowell

Last Refuge

MICHAEL McDOWELL LURKS STILL

THERE HAS been relative silence from Michael McDowell and his right-wing fellow travellers since he led the alarmingly successful revolt against the liberal establishment and Government’s referendums on ‘family’ and... Read more »
Bertie Ahern

Last Refuge

BERTIE AHERN TRIES TO SAVE FF

FIANNA FÁIL leader Micheál Martin may not appreciate it but one feels sure that his predecessor as leader, Bertie Ahern, had the best interests of the party in mind, and... Read more »
Eugene Murphy

Last Refuge

SENATOR MURPHY V JUDGE SIMONS

AN INTERESTING spat between Fianna Fáil senator Eugene Murphy and Friends of the Irish Environment (FIE) has arisen following remarks by Murphy in the Seanad recently concerning Judge Garrett Simons.... Read more »
Niall Boylan New Right

Last Refuge

DUBLIN EU NEW RIGHT COMPETITORS

THE RASH of candidates on the new right in the Dublin EU constituency – seven candidates come under this category – constitutes a surplus that is likely to damage all... Read more »

Hush Hush

Ursula von der Leyen EDIS

Hush Hush

BRITISH ARMS FOR A UNITED IRELAND!

WHEN EUROPEAN Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and Josep Borrell, the EU’s high representative for foreign affairs and security policy, recently introduced the first ever European Defence Industrial Strategy... Read more »

Bog Cuttings

Bog-Cuttings-Defaul

Bog Cuttings

BOG CUTTINGS

BAILED FOR 30 MINUTES A 43-year-old man was arrested for breaching the terms of his bail some 30 minutes after it had been granted. Peter Kelly, of Glendallon, Ballytivnan, Sligo,... Read more »

Fowl Emissions

TCDMichael O'Leary

Fowl Emissions

CARELESS TCD

FOR THE embattled dons of Trinity College Dublin (TCD), one PR disaster – being forced by its students to divest from Israeli companies on a UN investment blacklist – was... Read more »
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Fowl Emissions

TOM LYONS’S AIRPORT ANXIETY

Won’t anyone think of Dublin Airport? Journalist and The Currency CEO Tom Lyons this week bemoaned the “myopic unwillingness” of our lily-livered politicians to make the “brave but necessary call”... Read more »

The Hot Air Brigade

Michael Flatley

The Hot Air Brigade

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

I know there’s a lot of celebrity people that sign their names to certain whiskeys. This is absolutely not the case with what we’re doing. Michael Flatley on the launch... Read more »

High Society

High Society

Torry, Foxrock

High Society

KEEPING UP WITH THE CURRANS

THERE WAS plenty of glowing prose in the Irish Times earlier this month when the property section extolled on the myriad attractions of Torry,... Read more »

High Society

Meta Osborne Cathal Beale

High Society

META OSBORNE’S FAMILIAR GOING

IRISH NATIONAL Stud (INS) boss Cathal Beale has secured approval from agriculture minister Charlie McConalogue and public enterprise and reform minister Paschal Donohoe to... Read more »

Behind the Scenes

Patricia King RTÉ Report

Behind the Scenes

RTÉ’S PLOT TWIST

THE 162-page RTÉ report from the “expert advisory committee” on contractor fees, human resources etc is most interesting, not for its focus on Montrose’s current woes but for its potential... Read more »
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Behind the Scenes

NATIONAL LIBRARY’S NEW EDITIONS

A WEEK after Goldhawk asked why the filling of three vacancies at the National Library of Ireland (NLI) was still overdue, arts and culture minister Catherine Martin has finally acted.... Read more »

Sport of Kings

Breeders' Cup Aidan O’Brien City of Troy

Sport of Kings

COOLMORE BOYS’ BLUES

BALLYDOYLE’S WONDER horse, City of Troy, went off odds-on favourite for the Qipco 2000 Guineas at Newmarket but failed to justify his starting price. The thrice-raced unbeaten colt – owned... 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

AINE O’CONNOR’S WHIP HAND

BOOKMAKERS AND punters might have been excused for diving for cover as the wayward Familiar Dreams carted a whipless Aine O’Connor to victory in the Grade 3 Weatherbys Mares Bumper... Read more »

Moneybags

Moneybags

Colin Hunt

Moneybags

AIB’S ‘ODD-LOT OFFER’ LEAVES MUCH TO BE DESIRED

AIB IS more profitable than ever, recording a €2bn profit last year, but the decision to buy in the holdings of tiny shareholders only... Read more »

Moneybags

Paul Marchant Penneys/Primark

Moneybags

TIME FOR ABF TO SPIN OFF PENNEYS/PRIMARK

THERE ARE critics who suggest that Arthur Ryan’s Penneys/Primark legacy will not stand up in the online world. This is a dilemma for retailers... Read more »

Brief Cases

Matt Damon Raymond Kirk

Brief Cases

RAYMOND KIRK’S BLOCKBUSTERS

CONGRATULATIONS ARE in order for Raymond Kirk, a Dublin 2-based first assistant director who has clearly been doing rather well for himself, courtesy of assorted Hollywood blockbusters. Kirk has worked... Read more »
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Brief Cases

RESTRICTING PAUL NYHAN (II)

AFTER A whopping 38 outings in the High Court, insolvency expert PJ Lynch has finally witnessed the restriction of Paul Nyhan, one of the directors of Rostella Properties Ltd (RPL).... Read more »
The Big Dish Rory Fitzpatrick

Brief Cases

RORY FITZPATRICK’S ‘SPACE DEBRIS’

EARLIER THIS week, Rory Fitzpatrick, chief executive of the National Space Centre (NCS) in Cork, popped up as a speaker in Istanbul at something called CubesatVision International Space Defence Workshop.... Read more »
David Stone

Brief Cases

DAVID STONE’S ROCKY PATCH

CONTROVERSIAL businessman David Stone found one of his myriad companies on the end of a winding-up petition from a disgruntled creditor last month. It is not the first time the... Read more »
Sean Mulryan

Brief Cases

PUNCHESTOWN HIGH FLYERS

THERE WERE a couple of familiar moneybags getting stuck into the action at the Punchestown horse racing festival earlier this month, with mixed results. The Ladbrokes Punchestown Gold Cup saw... Read more »