Affairs of the Nation Archives

AFFAIRS OF THE NATION

MARTIN V DPP OFFICIAL

December 12, 2024

MICHEÁL MARTIN made law and order one of his election issues and, in a calculated move shortly before the election was called, he... Read more »

COLLISON’S COLLISION

December 12, 2024

MORE THAN 11 million people have now seen a tweet posted on X last month by Stripe co-founder Patrick Collison that included 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

CONOR McGREGOR’S LOAN

December 12, 2024

WITH FORMER MMA superstar Conor McGregor and businessman Paddy McKillen Jr both generating headlines recently – albeit for very different reasons – it... Read more »

LINDA O’SHEA FARREN’S ‘TENACITY’

December 12, 2024

YOU HAVE to hand it to the ultra-ambitious Linda O’Shea Farren – she keeps bouncing back. A long-time member of the National University... Read more »

FG SISTERS IN THE FIRING LINE

December 12, 2024

A SILENT pall hangs over a deflated and even defeated Fine Gael, which lost the ‘other’ war (apart from the one with Sinn... Read more »

GOVT HANDLERS GO PRIVATE

December 12, 2024

The Standards in Public Office Commission (Sipo) has a pragmatic attitude to red tape when it comes to waiving the rules about certain... Read more »

FENNELLY’S FIGHT

December 12, 2024

THE BORING world of number crunchers sometimes throws up a good old yarn and one that has been running for nearly a decade... Read more »

HIGH-END REACTIONARIES

December 12, 2024

PROMINENT NATIONAL PARTY (NP) member Keith Woods (pseudonym of Roscommon native Keith O’Brien) likes to position himself at the more cerebral end of... Read more »

BBC SMEARS MARTIN McGUINNESS

December 12, 2024

THE BBC has launched Stakeknife, a podcast series that looks at the activities of the late Freddie Scappaticci, MI5’s mole in the Provisional... Read more »

MARIAN KEYES’S AMERICAN DREAM

December 12, 2024

THE MYRIAD of fans of scribbler Marian Keyes had a collective meltdown online last week when RTÉ announced The Walsh Sisters, a six-part... Read more »

FINE GAEL: WHAT NEXT?

November 28, 2024

THE TRENDS are impossible to dismiss – Fianna Fáil is in the ascendant over Fine Gael and even a battered Sinn Féin looks... Read more »

CONOR MCGREGOR’S NEW-RIGHT SUPPORT

November 28, 2024

Over the last year much was made of Conor McGregor’s posts on X about his plan to run for the presidency. With Elon... Read more »

HARRIS, KANTURK AND RTÉ STORY

November 28, 2024
SIMON HARRIS is correct to say that contact was made with RTÉ following the Kanturk incident but it is not true that this was... Read more »

TARGETING JOHN MAGNIER

November 28, 2024

GOLDHAWK WONDERS if John Magnier spat out his tea when perusing the Indo earlier this week. The Squire of Coolmore might have wondered... Read more »

EDITING SALLY HAYDEN

November 28, 2024

HIGHLY REGARDED journalist Sally Hayden was notably underwhelmed by the hapless editing process in the Irish Times, where many of her impressive news... Read more »

CHUPI SWEETMAN’S BOUNCE

November 28, 2024

GOLDHAWK was surprised to see that media-friendly jeweller Chupi Sweetman has been having a tough time, with the spoilsports in the dreary Irish... Read more »

BERTIE’S LUCKY BREAK

November 28, 2024

ONE WOULD expect Bertie Ahern to be pleased at the rosy prospects for Fianna Fáil as the general election reaches a climax, but... Read more »

MEP MULLOOLY’S MOOING

November 28, 2024

WHILE GOVERNMENT politicians and many others may regard as “sinister” Sinn Féin’s intention to order a “peer review” of RTÉ’s international coverage, support... Read more »

KEITH WALSH’S MONOPOLY

November 28, 2024

IT IS interesting to see that one-time RTÉ star Keith Walsh is one half of Moth News, a brand new video and social... Read more »

SEAN O’KEEFFE’S BOOKEND

November 28, 2024

THE LIMITED company that registered the business name for Sean O’Keeffe’s controversial Liberties Press publishing house is to be wound up next week.... Read more »

DUB-MON BOMBS: STRANGE DELAYS

November 28, 2024

There are three ongoing enquiries into the 1974 Dublin-Monaghan (D-M) massacre. First, there’s an allegedly ‘open’ Garda investigation, which began in 1974 but... Read more »

THE ‘REAL’ SPIES IN IRELAND

November 14, 2024

IT’S WHAT is behind that recent story in the Irish edition of the Sunday Times alleging that a current Oireachtas member is a... Read more »

SILENCE IN THE RANKS

November 14, 2024

US Vice president-elect JD Vance has argued that America could drop support for Nato if Europe tries to regulate Elon Musk’s platforms. Social... Read more »

THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN

November 14, 2024

FIANNA FÁIL junior minister James Brown finally guided the Gambling Regulation Bill 2024 around the track to the finishing line, despite intense opposition... Read more »

CANCELLED CATHOLIC

November 14, 2024

APPOINTED CEO of Christian Blind Mission (CBM) Ireland – a disability rights organisation working predominantly in Africa and Asia – Dualta Roughneen claimed... Read more »

NICK CAVE(MAN) PLAYS ISRAEL

November 14, 2024

IT WAS interesting but not surprising to hear adverts for Nick Cave’s concerts at Dublin’s 3Arena still being broadcast right up to the... Read more »

DENIS DESMOND’S GUITAR BREAK

November 14, 2024

GOLDHAWK was struck by the outpouring of gratitude for Denis Desmond and his Live Nation business partners for the proposed “donation” of Rory... Read more »

ANNUAL 2024: GOLDHAWK’S AWARDS FOR THE PASSING PARADE 2024

November 14, 2024

CLARE DALY THE AWARD for Persecuted Dissident of the Year (in the minority, non-Russian category) goes to former MEP Clare Daly, who lost... Read more »

HONEY TRAP: RUSSIAN OR BRITISH?

October 31, 2024

THE SUNDAY TIMES may have unintentionally opened a can of worms with recent articles claiming that the Russian secret service was running an... Read more »

LESLIE BUCKLEY’S HON DOC

October 31, 2024

JUST LIKE Goldhawk’s favourite former EU Commissioner, Big Phil Hogan, former Independent News and Media (INM) chairman Leslie Buckley had to wait rather... Read more »

HIGH-FLYING KITE

October 31, 2024

IT HAS BEEN an eventful month for Darren Smith’s Kite Entertainment TV production outfit. Last weekend, its new series for RTÉ of Ireland’s... Read more »

DOG FIGHT CONTINUES

October 31, 2024

FOR THE last week or so the Facebook page of animal welfare group Working Animal Guardian (WAG) has been choc-a-bloc with emotional rhetoric... Read more »

BIZ POST BLUNDER

October 31, 2024

READERS OF last weekend’s Business Post will have spotted a grovelling apology to one Ronan Minahan. But it looks like the issue has... Read more »

CHILD SAFETY POLITICAL DEBATE

October 31, 2024

GIVEN THE recent public debate about child safety and the allegations made against Sinn Féin and party leader Mary Lou McDonald by Government... Read more »

CHAWKE AND CHEESE

October 31, 2024

SOLICITOR MICHAEL FINUCANE has taken a High Court defamation action against thejournal.ie following its coverage of his clients’ appearance in court on charges... Read more »

LOUISE RICHARDSON’S DEFENCE

October 31, 2024

ON A trip back to the old sod recently, Louise Richardson – Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire – derided... Read more »