Affairs of the Nation

Micheal Martin

Affairs of the Nation

MARTIN BOWS TO TRUMP ON GAZA

The timing of Micheál Martin and the Government’s adoption of the pro-Israeli definition of antisemitism drawn up by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) is extraordinary. It was discussed secretly,... Read more »
article-default

Affairs of the Nation

LEGAL EAGLE

James Paul Foley, formerly known as boring old Paul Foley, has come a cropper with the Law Society, which has initiated disciplinary proceedings against him in relation to his practice,... Read more »
Ben Scallan

Affairs of the Nation

BEN SCALLAN’S PLATFORM

Francis Duffy, the Archbishop of Tuam, may have been surprised to receive criticism on the archdiocese Facebook page after a notice was posted promoting a discussion to be held at... Read more »

Affairs of the Nation

Elon Musk

Affairs of the Nation

MUSK FARAGE SPLIT

THE SPLIT between Elon Musk and Nigel Farage is because the latter distanced himself from British far-right activist Tommy Robinson, who is currently in jail for violating an injunction. But... Read more »
article-default

Affairs of the Nation

MR ‘NICE GUY’, JUDGE MCNULTY

QUALIFIED BARRISTER Bartholomew Anthony O’Neill told Judge James G McNulty in September 2023 that he had never practised as a barrister but he got a taste of the judicial process... Read more »
Niamh Tallon

Affairs of the Nation

NIAMH TALLON’S SPORTING PROWESS

CONGRATULATIONS TO Niamh Tallon, the founder of something called Her Sport Media Ltd (HSM), which has just landed a €10,000 grant from Coimisiún na Meán (the media commission) to help... Read more »
article-default

Affairs of the Nation

FERGAL FOLEY FORMENTS REVOLT

THERE IS mutiny brewing in the Law Library, where venerable junior counsel Fergal Foley is set to lead the disgruntled criminal legal eagles into battle over the failure of the... Read more »
Paul Davis

Affairs of the Nation

CHINESE WHISKEY SOUR

THIS WEEK a Chinese national named Yan Ma has been in the High Court seeking a summary judgment against Nephin Whiskey Company Ltd (NWC). The action relates to €½m she... Read more »
Paul Cleland

Affairs of the Nation

THE NAME IS MITTY, WALTER MITTY

The Irish News last week published a front-page story about London gangster and convicted killer Paul Cleeland with the headline: “MI5 recruited me to murder five people during the Troubles”. Goldhawk is... Read more »
Keith Woods

Affairs of the Nation

IRISH RIGHT’S FAR-OFF FRIENDS

The failure of new Irish right-wing parties to gain an electoral breakthrough has resulted in many of their members seemingly more concerned with developments internationally than with issues at home.... Read more »
Mark Rutte

Affairs of the Nation

PRESIDENT HIGGINS UNDER ATTACK!

IT WAS hardly surprising that when President Michael D Higgins had the temerity, at the BT Young Scientist Exhibition, to speak out against militarisation and Nato secretary general Mark Rutte’s... Read more »

Pillars of Society

Michael Lowry

Pillars of Society

PROFILE: MICHAEL LOWRY

DESCRIPTIONS OF Michael Lowry as ‘kingmaker’ in government formation talks have been rejected by Micheál Martin and Simon Harris, who argue that the TD... Read more »

The Young Bloods

Pádraig Mac Brádaigh

The Young Bloods

YOUNG BLOOD: PÁDRAIG MAC BRÁDAIGH

IN THE spring of 2024, Pádraig Mac Brádaigh was elected as the first ever Irish-language officer of Trinity College Dublin Students’ Union (TCDSU). In... Read more »

Fit to Print?

Fionnan Sheahan

Fit to Print?

BIG PHIL’S LAMENT

THE MOST original – contrarian even – critique of Michael Lowry’s central role in the creation of the new government came in the Sunday Independent from Mediahuis Ireland editor Fionnán... 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?

TIMES SUBVERSIVES?

HAS THE Irish Times editor’s office been infiltrated by those Sinn Féin subversives? Last week the comparison was uncanny between the newspaper’s editorial outpourings on the new programme for government... Read more »
John Mooney

Fit to Print?

FOREIGN SPIES IN IRELAND

ANOTHER CORKER from Sunday Times security correspondent John Mooney recently told of the “United Front Work Department (UFWD), a shadowy Chinese agency” that has “cultivated connections across Ireland”. UFWD activities,... Read more »

Last Refuge

Conor Murphy

Last Refuge

SINN FÉIN’S NEW SENATOR

SINN FÉIN’S decision to transfer its northern economy minister to the Seanad has provoked much curious comment but little of the usual media conspiratorial analysis about two or three men... Read more »
Pippa Hackett

Last Refuge

FLIGHT OF THE WILD GREENS

THE LAST Green standing, party leader Roderic O’Gorman, recently slid his stiletto with surgical precision into both his party chair, ex-senator Pauline O’Reilly, and ex-junior agriculture minister Pippa Hackett (his... 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

REINVENTING VARADKAR

IS LEO VARADKAR trying to reinvent himself as a retired western statesman turned champion of the oppressed in the manner of late US president Jimmy Carter? Hard core Young Fine... Read more »
Simon Coveney

Last Refuge

MOLLY, MY IRISH MOLLY: ZAPPONE IS BACK

MEDIAHUIS GROUP political editor Philip Ryan restored some semblance of balance in the daily Indo to coverage of Katherine Zappone’s return to Ireland and her intended assumption of a Seanad... Read more »

Bog Cuttings

Bog-Cuttings-Defaul

Bog Cuttings

BOG CUTTINGS

GOING SOUTH WHILE GOING NORTH Drogheda District Court heard the case of Mark Dolan (39), who was arrested for public intoxication and engaging in threatening and abusive behaviour toward the... Read more »

Fowl Emissions

Simon Harris

Fowl Emissions

TRUMP RULES HERE TOO

IT HAS long been understood that the Fianna Fáil/Fine Gael element of the outgoing coalition Government had to be dragged kicking and screaming in the direction of an even vaguely... Read more »
Climate Disinformation Coillte Climate Action EU Livestock NDC Claude Etchelamendy Ed Brophy Richard Boyd-Barrett Kish Dale Crammond Frank Mitloehner Shell Greenwashing Meta Data Centres Ireland

Fowl Emissions

END TO BUSINESS AS USUAL

A recent landmark High Court judgment has given a huge boost to environmental protection. Justice Richard Humphreys lambasted An Bord Pleanála (ABP) for being more concerned about the visual impacts... Read more »

The Hot Air Brigade

Gearoid Farrelly

The Hot Air Brigade

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

The one I’m most excited about – I’ve had a couple of emails that said, “I watched the tango and afterwards I told my parents that I’m gay”. Dancing With... Read more »

High Society

High Society

Niall Gunne

High Society

NIALL GUNNE’S BUS CORRIDOR

ONE OF the juicier-looking properties to arrive on the market is a large house on Rathgar’s leafy Highfield Road, which got a glowing review... Read more »

High Society

Maurice Regan

High Society

MAURICE REGAN’S LATEST MOVE

GOLDHAWK WAS not overly surprised to see one Maurice Regan riding to the rescue of toe-tapper Michael Flatley this month. It is presumably no... Read more »

Behind the Scenes

Orlaith McBride

Behind the Scenes

ARCHIVES COUNCIL IN STORAGE

JUST OVER a year on from a leak, which started on the top floor of the National Archives premises on Bishop Street in D8, a number of changes have been... 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

GATHERING FEEDBACK

LAST MONTH Jessica Drum’s Screen Guilds of Ireland (SGI) – an association of technicians’ guilds in film and TV – announced it would be “gathering feedback” from personnel in all... Read more »

Sport of Kings

Tim Husbands

Sport of Kings

HUSBANDS’ CUSTOMERS

LEOPARDSTOWN BOSS Tim Husbands and his team have decided it’s time to “improve customer experience” by making the 2025 Dublin Racing Festival (DRF) a pre-booked, ticket-only event. Certainly, the track... 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

LONDONOFFICECALLIN FLIES HIGH

HIGH-FLYING racehorse Londonofficecallin – a 23-times-raced maiden when leaving Evanna McCutcheon’s yard – won his seventh race from a dozen starts at Punchestown’s opening meeting of 2025 for his new... 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

HAYES BACK ON TRACK

FOLLOWING HIS 15-month suspension for failing to take proper care of a horse, Patrick Joseph Hayes has trained his first winner since being re-issued with a training licence by the... Read more »

Moneybags

Moneybags

Rahul Dhir

Moneybags

UNDERVALUED TULLOW OIL NEEDS NEW ENERGY

The International Chamber of Commerce announced on January 2 that Tullow Oil is not liable to pay the $320m branch profit remittance tax (BPRT),... Read more »

Moneybags

John Teeling

Moneybags

BOTSWANA DIAMONDS FAILING TO SPARKLE

There are three main areas for diamonds in the world – southern Africa, Canada and the Karelian Craton in Finland and Northern Russia –... Read more »

Brief Cases

Padraig O'Neill

Brief Cases

VISUAL’S QUARE OLD LOSSES

HAVING JUST celebrated 15 years in operation, the well-funded Visual arts centre in Carlow – the largest visual arts space in the country – has started off 2025 with a... Read more »
Pat Doherty

Brief Cases

KOREAN POWER PLAY

A JUDGMENT for a whopping €3m has just been registered by a South Korean energy giant against an Irish-registered company called Instant Upright Ltd (IUL), which was actually incorporated by... Read more »
Dermot Desmond

Brief Cases

WINDMILL LANE’S FADE-OUT

ON FRIDAY there will be a creditors’ meeting held for Windmill Lane Pictures Ltd (WLP) – the audiovisual post-production business established under James Morris’s leadership – at which Nicholas O’Dwyer... Read more »
David Stone

Brief Cases

DAVID STONE’S POP FLOP

ANOTHER SETBACK for hapless businessman David Stone, whose efforts to rescue one of his many companies has just fallen flat. For many, it is not Stone’s eclectic mix of investments... Read more »