Article Category: Affairs of the Nation

KINCORA COVER-UP — AGAIN

October 6, 2022
THE KINCORA Boys’ Home scandal, as old as the northern Troubles, not only refuses to go away but now threatens to burst into the... Read more »

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AID FOR DALAI LAMA

October 6, 2022

the 87-year-old Dalai Lama must be wondering where Robo is when you need her, as a Trinity College Dublin (TCD) committee agonises about... Read more »

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GUNS’N’HOUSES

October 6, 2022

THE “MODEST” 5.6% increase in Irish defence spending – to €1.174bn – in Budget 2023 appeared not to cause any negative reaction from... Read more »

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AER LINGUS HACKED AGAIN?

October 6, 2022

WHEN AER LINGUS suffered a significant IT outage on September 10, Goldhawk pointed out that the account provided by the airline made little... Read more »

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FINE GAEL BORDER POLL

October 6, 2022

MORE EVIDENCE of Leo Varadkar’s cunning plot to outmanoeuvre Micheál Martin on the national question (see The Phoenix 9/9/22) came with his appearance... Read more »

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FF/FG CIVIL WARS

October 6, 2022

THE PERSISTENCE of Cork City Fine Gael councillors and others in their quest to honour Michael Collins with the erection of a statue... Read more »

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CAUGHT RED HANDED

October 6, 2022

CONTROVERSIAL LOYALIST Jolene Bunting was elected to Belfast City Council in 2014. Offensive comments about Muslims, jokes about the famine and allowing British... Read more »

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RYANAIR’S BUSINESS CLASS

September 22, 2022

THERE WAS A bumpy landing for those financial hacks who booked their tickets for the Ryanair AGM in north County Dublin last week.... Read more »

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MYSTERY IT CRASH AT AER LINGUS

September 22, 2022

THE COMPUTERISED IT system at Aer Lingus suffered a significant crash on Saturday September 10, from 9am to 5.30pm. The disruption caused the... Read more »

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NEW CHAIR FOR RTÉ

September 22, 2022

NEXT WEEK is the closing date for applicants seeking to land the plum job of chairperson of RTÉ. There should be plenty of... Read more »

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BILL SHIPSEY’S ART WORK

September 22, 2022

IT WAS surprising to see former barrister Bill Shipsey caught in the crosshairs last week, when Amnesty International (AI) commenced legal proceedings against... Read more »

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CLEVER TREVOR’S SPEAKERS

September 22, 2022

INTERESTING TO see who is speaking at the upcoming ‘Icon’ series at the Little Museum of Dublin, where director Trevor White has signed... Read more »

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LIZ TRUSS’S ‘ETHICAL’ SPYMASTER

September 22, 2022

British teasock Liz Truss appears determined to maintain his majesty’s ship of state on a collision course with the EU. If she hopes... Read more »

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KING CHARLES AND THE IRISH

September 22, 2022

THE MEDIA seemed to be competing with their British counterparts when it came to recording the devotion of the British royals’ would-be subjects... Read more »

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SHE LOVED US, SHE LOVED US NOT

September 22, 2022

YOU HAVE to hand it to the late Queen Elizabeth, whose act in coming over all friendly toward Ireland in recent years was... Read more »

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GERRY O’BRIEN’S BUDGET PLOT

September 22, 2022

IN A flurry of recent social media publicity on Facebook and Instagram, Gerry O’Brien, the president of the Irish Equity actors and performers... Read more »

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UKRAINIAN SILVER LINING

September 8, 2022

WITH AROUND 50,000 Ukrainian refugees now in Ireland, accommodating them has obviously caused some headaches. What is interesting, however, is that millions of... Read more »

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VARADKAR’S NORTHERN PLOT

September 8, 2022

WHILE Taoiseach Micheál Martin mulls over his chances of surviving as Fianna Fáil leader until the next election, his replacement as leader of... Read more »

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GELDOF’S ‘TENANT’

September 8, 2022

WHEN MOTORMOUTH, and landlord, Bob Geldof paid a flying visit to Ireland this summer to visit Skibbereen and recall famine atrocities, he presumably... Read more »

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ED GUINEY’S MOVIE MARATHONS

September 8, 2022

IT MAY have come as something of a surprise that the biggest movie hit of the season by far, Tom Cruise’s Top Gun:... Read more »

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KENNEL CLUB’S NEXT DOGFIGHT

September 8, 2022

FRIDAY NIGHT sees the latest monthly gathering of Irish Kennel Club (IKC) members, many of whom continue to fear a sale of the... Read more »

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MI6 FIGHT BORIS RETURN

September 8, 2022

BORIS JOHNSON ended his premiership with a campaign for his political rehabilitation and return via a ‘farewell tour’, showcasing his achievements to the... Read more »

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‘IRISH TIMES’ EDITORIAL CONTEST

September 8, 2022

THE RACE to become the new editor at the Irish Times will be more complex, political even, than normal with the ascendancy of... Read more »

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SIMON COVENEY’S TRAINING MISSION

September 8, 2022

GOLDHAWK BOWS to the military genius and alacrity displayed by defence personnel recently when the question of Irish involvement in an EU training... Read more »

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FACTS ON THE GROUND

September 8, 2022

AS PHOENIX readers will know, Ireland’s co-operation with Nato has deepened in recent years. The Defence Forces involvement in Nato’s operational capability concept... Read more »

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ZERO CRED

September 8, 2022

As the climate crisis deepens, it is heartening to see corporate Ireland respond to the emergency. Take the new group, The Alliance for... Read more »

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‘IRISH TIMES’ HOT SEAT

August 25, 2022
THE EXIT of Paul O’Neill, after little more than five years as the editor of the Irish Times, came as a surprise to outsiders,... Read more »

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MORE HEADACHES FOR DEE FORBES

August 25, 2022
RTÉ’S HEAD of news and current affairs, Jon Williams, threw a clever feint with his new year’s message to staff back in January by... Read more »

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LAW SOCIETY TRUCE

August 25, 2022

BOTH SIDES have temporarily backed down in the Law Society controversy that saw a motion to expel 2020-21 president James Cahill from the... Read more »

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PAT MCDONAGH’S BUN FIGHT

August 25, 2022

BURGER KING Pat ‘Supermac’s’ McDonagh found himself in a stand-off with a Limerick-based franchisee John Lyons over alleged rent arrears. It looks like... Read more »

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CLINTEL’S DECLARATION

August 25, 2022

WITH EVIDENCE of climate change impossible to avoid this summer a Dutch-based group Clintel, mainly funded by a real-estate millionaire, issued a statement... Read more »

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HEAVY GOING AT HRI

August 25, 2022

THE LONG overdue publication of the annual report of Brian Kavanagh’s Horse Racing Ireland (HRI) agency is due next month and there will... Read more »

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DERMOT McCARTHY’S REVIEW

August 25, 2022

WITH THE hapless Irish public facing a ‘perfect storm’ of power cuts, fuel rationing and soaring prices both this and next winter, the... Read more »

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ALTADA SETS THE RECORD STRAIGHT

August 25, 2022
IT HAS been a hectic August for Allan Beechinor and Niamh Parker, the principals in the Altada artificial intelligence (AI) outfit tipped to be... Read more »

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‘TANS’ WRITTEN OUT OF HISTORY

August 25, 2022

A DISAPPOINTED Charlie ‘BlackandTanAgain’ Flanagan and friends will not, as promised, be organising another effort to celebrate the contribution of the Royal Irish... Read more »

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KINCORA WHISTLE BLOWER DIES

August 25, 2022

CAPTAIN BRIAN GEMMELL, who ran loyalist agents for MI5 in the mid-1970s, has died. When Gemmell discovered that boys were being abused by... Read more »

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