Affairs of the Nation Archives

AFFAIRS OF THE NATION

NO BAFTA FOR KINCORA FILM

May 15, 2025
The BBC has just secured a prestigious Bafta (British Academy Film and Television Arts) award for Clive Myrie’s Caribbean Adventure made by Alleycats of... Read more »

LYRA’S COMFORT ZONE

May 15, 2025

CAROLINE DOWNEY must be delighted with the latest outing for the singer-songwriter she manages, Lyra, who continues to benefit from a remarkably high... Read more »

TRUMP’S PLOT(S) SPOILER

May 15, 2025

WITH ARTS minister Patrick O’Donovan having just reappointed four directors of Screen Ireland (SI), including chairman Ray Harman, at least the state film... Read more »

DUBLIN PRIDE’S PREDICAMENT

May 15, 2025

SINN FÉIN has been carrying out a damage limitation exercise after comments by health spokesman David Cullinane saw Trans and Intersex Pride Dublin... Read more »

RTÉ’S LATEST HOT SEAT

May 15, 2025

WITH THE Oireachtas committees finally in place, certain state board vacancies can now be filled. One place they could start is RTÉ, which... Read more »

AFTER COMISKEY

May 15, 2025

SENIOR CLERICS such as Bishop Brendan Comiskey could hardly complain about being targeted for covering up child abuse by priests in their diocese... Read more »

DEMPSEY’S ACADEMIC DISCOURSE

May 15, 2025

Back in June 2010, UCD conferred one of its highest accolades, an honorary Doctor of Science, on Irish Farmers Journal (IFJ) editor Matt... Read more »

THE MANN WHO KEPT HIS BALLS INTACT

May 15, 2025

Notorious ex-SAS officer and soldier of fortune Simon Mann has died. In 2004 he led a failed plot to topple President Teodoro Obiang... Read more »

LEFT V RIGHT MARCHES

May 15, 2025

In the weeks that followed the recent large anti-immigration protest in Dublin, right-wing activists have tried to tap into that energy by calling... Read more »

‘IRISH TIMES’ LOSES SECTARIAN DEBATE

May 1, 2025
Last week the Irish Times lost a Press Council appeal against a Press Ombudsman’s decision. It is, for the paper, a disastrous outcome and... Read more »

BUCK HOUSE COVER-UP

May 1, 2025

PRINCE ANDREW became a severe embarrassment to Buckingham Palace after sordid details of his sexual exploitation of Virginia Giuffre (neé Roberts) emerged in... Read more »

BRENDAN McDONAGH’S RECORD

May 1, 2025

THERE WAS no explanation forthcoming from the housing department to Goldhawk’s query about any plan to advertise – or rather not advertise –... Read more »

TOM McFEELY’S RECEIVER

May 1, 2025

IN RECENT times, not an awful lot has been heard here about former IRA hunger striker turned boom-time property developer turned bankrupt Tom... Read more »

NOEL KELLY’S PET PROJECT

May 1, 2025

WHATEVER HAPPENED to Petfix Club, the expensive website set up by some familiar faces to give “affordable trustworthy and high quality online veterinary... Read more »

BRENDAN MULLIN’S JUDGMENT

May 1, 2025

A JUDGMENT has just been registered against Dublin builders John G Burns Ltd (trading as Burns Construction) for €35,000. The plaintiff here is... Read more »

ROCKET SCIENCE

May 1, 2025

THE MEDIA’S alarmingly war-like recruitment officers for Irish military involvement in western armies often resort to sarcasm at what they describe as the... Read more »

NOT SINCE THE BLUESHIRTS…

May 1, 2025

As anti-immigration protesters gathered at the Garden of Remembrance on Saturday April 26, it was clear from early on that this was going... Read more »

GET BACK

May 1, 2025
GIVEN KNEECAP’S recent troubles with British police and media, along with Taoiseach Micheál Martin and Tory party leader Kemi Badenoch, it will be interesting... Read more »

RACING UNCERTAINTY

May 1, 2025

NOT SURPRISINGLY, there has been plenty of comment on the €300,000 winning bet placed with Ladbrokes by stable lad Dylan Phelan, for which... Read more »

VIRTUAL WAR BUT REAL MONEY

May 1, 2025

When VRAI Simulation recently launched its new office in Orlando, Florida, it hyped up the significance of the move with copious references to... Read more »

CENTRAL BANK GENOCIDE CHARGE?

April 17, 2025

THAT THE Central Bank of Ireland (CBI), of all European banks, might face criminal charges over its enabling of the multi-billion sale of... Read more »

BERTIE’S ÁRAS BID

April 17, 2025

BERTIE AHERN is fretting at vacillating Taoiseach and Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin’s failure to make up his mind about whether the party... Read more »

EOIN McGEE’S ‘MATERIAL UNCERTAINTY’

April 17, 2025

CELEBRITY FINANCE expert Eoin McGee has been signed up by Mediahuis as a personal finance columnist and will apparently be writing for the... Read more »

BLINDNESS CHARITY BLINDSIDED

April 17, 2025

IT IS strange to see so little media coverage of the appointment by Charities Regulator Madeleine Delaney of inspectors to two blindness charities,... Read more »

ICY DEFROSTED

April 17, 2025

A STEWARDS inquiry may be in order for outspoken online racing pundit Gearoid Norris (aka Icy), who has just found himself ‘unplugged’ from... Read more »

BROPHY’S TIMES

April 17, 2025

THE IRISH TIMES has found it difficult to keep up with the chequered but successful CV of Karl Brophy, CEO of Red Flag... Read more »

NEW FACES ON CHI BOARD

April 17, 2025

THE TIMING wasn’t great for the two new directors who have just been appointed to the board of Children’s Health Ireland (CHI). They... Read more »

LUCINDA CREIGHTON’S PROFITS

April 17, 2025

IT WAS reported in March that a couple of Irish Blueshirt adversaries have been generating significant revenue in their consultancy (ie lobbying) businesses... Read more »

THE MOST RELIABLE FRED HOLROYD

April 17, 2025

It is becoming clear that the Operation Denton inquiry into the crimes of the UVF’s Glenanne gang will establish a modicum of collusion... Read more »

BRITISH/IRISH FAR RIGHT

April 17, 2025

THE DEEPENING relationship between loyalists, British fascists and right-wing activists from the south was very much in evidence at a recent anti-immigration protest... Read more »

TOO MANY TDs FOR MARTIN’S LIKING

April 3, 2025

THERE IS a particular irony in the resentment felt by many Fianna Fáil backbench TDs at the new Dáil speaking-time arithmetic, which has... Read more »

BOD’S BASELAYERS

April 3, 2025

THERE WERE plenty of column inches devoted to the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CPPC) pinging Irish international rugby legend Brian O’Driscoll last... Read more »

JOHN MAGNIER’S NEXT RACE?

April 3, 2025

STRANGE BEHAVIOUR at last week’s annual general meeting of the beleaguered Irish Racehorse Trainers Association (IRTA), where there were more questions than answers.... Read more »

TOM LYONS’S SUBPOENA

April 3, 2025

WITH THE Web Summit run in the Four Goldmines coming to an early end, there was no need for Tom Lyons, chief executive... Read more »

MICRO-MANAGING JAMES BROWNE

April 3, 2025

HOUSING MINISTER James Browne provided Sinn Féin’s housing know-all, Eoin Ó Broin, with enough ammo to shoot him down no less than five... Read more »

PÁLÁS PLOT TWIST

April 3, 2025

WHILE IT appeared that a final ‘cut’ had been called on Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe’s bijou Pálás cinema in Galway, the desire... Read more »