Affairs of the Nation Archives

FRANCES RUANE’S AUDITION

June 16, 2022

INTERESTING TO see that former ESRI director Frances Ruane resigned last month as a director of the registered company behind the Abbey Theatre.... Read more »

MARIA STEEN’S MAMMON

June 16, 2022

WITH A substantial pile on leafy Raglan Road on the market for an optimistic €5.2m (see p19), this could be a big year,... Read more »

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CONOR CLARKSONS TAX BILL

June 16, 2022

FORMER RACEHORSE owner Conor Clarkson has suffered something of a setback just as he returns to the track. The dreaded taxman has registered... Read more »

MARTIN RULES OK!

June 16, 2022

AT 69 YEARS Willie O’Dea appears to be the only so-called dissident in Fianna Fáil with the energy and ability to stand up... Read more »

CONAL HENRY V DAA

June 16, 2022

THE OPENING address of the new chair of the Shannon Group, Conal Henry, made uncomfortable reading for the powers that be at Dublin... Read more »

FINE GAEL LIBELS

June 16, 2022

WHAT A litigious lot Meath East Blueshirts are. Last Monday Meath County Council meeting heard Fine Gael’s Cllr Alan Tobin apologise to Independent... Read more »

EU TRADE THREAT TO ISRAEL

June 16, 2022

THE ROW over the Northern Ireland protocol is regarded by European Union countries and the commission as a serious threat to the single... Read more »

TALE OF TWO HONEY TRAPS

June 16, 2022

ANTHONY ‘DUTCH’ Doherty died earlier this year at Dublin’s Beaumont hospital age 71. He was part of an IRA unit – perhaps up... Read more »

ELEMENT PICTURES’ UK MOOLAH

June 16, 2022

FOLLOWING THE sale to Fremantle by Conversations With Friends producers Element Pictures, Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe have just filed accounts for their... Read more »

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

June 16, 2022

barristers’ low pay Dear Editor On June 3, 2022, a petition signed by 88 senior counsel and 182 junior counsel was hand-delivered to... Read more »

DALTON PHILIPS’S TURBULENCE

June 2, 2022

ONE MAN who might not have been too shocked by the queuing debacle at Dublin airport last weekend was former chairman of Morrisons... Read more »

BONO’S FILM SCORE

June 2, 2022

SET IN the Four Goldmines and promising plenty of action scenes, the Clondalkin film studio spat between Tyrone McKillen (son of Paddy) and... Read more »

OWEN CULLEN’S CLIPPINGS

June 2, 2022

WHILE LEINSTER Rugby head coach Leo Cullen had little to celebrate last weekend in Marseille, his younger brother, Owen, has been able to... Read more »

BANKERS’ RETREAT

June 2, 2022

A COMPANY with the relatively unassuming name of We.Trade Innovation has called a creditors’ meeting. It turns out that an awful lot of... Read more »

BIDEN AND MARTIN’S UKRAINIAN WELCOME

June 2, 2022

AN ALARMING Sunday Independent story about a “secret memo” to government in the form of a cross-government risk analysis recently warned of risks... Read more »

SALLINS TRAIN TRIAL LINED UP FOR THE UN?

June 2, 2022

NOT A peep has there been from the media about the potential investigation by the United Nations of convictions for the £200,000 Sallins... Read more »

DR CAHILL’S CASE BOOK

June 2, 2022

THE CONTROVERSIAL doctor at the heart of the American Irish Historical Society (AIHS) row tried to have the case in which he is... Read more »

THE GHOST OF ROBERT NAIRAC

June 2, 2022

LAST MONTH, the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims’ Remains renewed an appeal for information about the whereabouts of the body of Captain... Read more »

DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY

June 2, 2022

MANY OF the top brass were bemused at Simon Coveney’s rap across the knuckles of chief of staff, Lt Gen Seán Clancy, for... Read more »

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

June 2, 2022

DÉISE’S PRIDE AND JOY Dear Editor I would like to take issue with your article regarding the movement of past Trinity leaders Veronica... Read more »

IN THEIR ELEMENT

May 19, 2022

THEY SAY timing is everything in showbusiness. News of Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe’s sale of a majority stake in their Element Pictures... Read more »

ALLPRO’S WAR DIVIDEND

May 19, 2022

RODERIC O’GORMAN’S Department of Integration has been dishing out contracts to companies for the provision of services relating to the housing of Ukrainian... Read more »

JP MCMANUS’S MIX-UP

May 19, 2022

GENEVA-BASED zillionaire JP McManus is no ordinary racehorse owner. He has long been lashing out bucketloads of moolah to buy top-pedigree steeplechasers and... Read more »

NOEL SMYTH’S DOGFIGHT

May 19, 2022

A MEETING takes place this week to decide whether solicitor turned property developer Noel Smyth can buy the National Show Centre near Dublin... Read more »

RTÉ DRAMA AWARD

May 19, 2022

RTÉ’S FRAN McNULTY must have felt he was McNulty, front man in an episode of The Wire, rather than McNulty of Prime Time... Read more »

HIGGINS, DR CAHILL AND THE NYC FRACAS

May 19, 2022

THE DOCTOR at the centre of a controversial plan to sell off the most prestigious Irish-American building in the US has been ordered... Read more »

JOE MCHUGH’S EXIT

May 19, 2022

THE RETIREMENT of former education minister, Donegal based Joe McHugh, is described as a blow to Fine Gael as the party, it is... Read more »

UNREST IN MICHAEL COLLINS COUNTY

May 19, 2022

IN THIS the centenary of Michael Collins death in the Civil War, Cork Fine Gael members are not exactly brimming with pride or... Read more »

McCOY’S FLEETING CLIMATE EPIPHANY

May 19, 2022

IT IS widely assumed that within this government, only the Greens have any real interest in the climate crisis. However, there is growing... Read more »

NO SET-TO IN WATERFORD

May 19, 2022

TWO ACADEMICS have just made unexpected scholarly Odysseys from the country’s oldest university to the youngest. The first surprise was when former Trinity... Read more »

MI5, BBC, KINCORA … AND COVER-UPS

May 5, 2022

IN FEBRUARY 2016 Dame Janet Smith published a 700-page report into sexual abuses by Jimmy Savile at the BBC. “The culture of the... Read more »

FRANCESCA’S RUTHLESS STREAK

May 5, 2022

AS GOLDHAWK noted recently (see The Phoenix 25/3/22), Francesca McDonagh’s €1m pa CEO role in Bank of Ireland (BoI) was “the ideal platform... Read more »

MAX BARRETT’S BOOK

May 5, 2022

GOLDHAWK WONDERS how much the Red Cross will make out of sales (at a mere £95 a pop) of a book by Judge... Read more »

IAN CURLEY’S MANSIONS

May 5, 2022

IT WILL not have gone unnoticed that St Ann’s, a posh pile overlooking Killiney bay, has just gone on the market for a... Read more »

‘IRISH TIMES’ ATTACKS NATO!

May 5, 2022

MOST PEOPLE probably think that because of recent clear-cut poll conclusions, the Russian inspired debate about neutrality is over and that the good... Read more »

RANDOX’S TESTING TIME

May 5, 2022

LAST WEEK, the Advertising Standards Authority of Ireland (ASAI) reported that it had received 1,450 complaints in 2021 in relation to more than... Read more »

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