Affairs of the Nation Archives

COLM O’GORMAN’S LEGACY

July 28, 2022

GOLDHAWK’S favourite charity executive, Colm O’Gorman, is now settling in as a senior director at the Global Refugee Sponsorship Initiative. Given that it... Read more »

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HELEN MCENTEE’S CRITIC

July 28, 2022

JUSTICE MINISTER Helen McEntee came under fire this month when shutting down visa exemption rules for refugees travelling to Ireland from other European... Read more »

GARRY O’SULLIVAN’S MAMMON

July 28, 2022

WHILE THE poor old print media has been under severe pressure in recent years as the digital giants like Google and Facebook hoover... Read more »

AGRI-CATASTROPHE

July 28, 2022

Hysteria has this week been dialled up to 11 as the agri-industrial sector went into full scale panic mode in a last gasp... Read more »

SECRET DIPLOMAT’S KIDNAP FILES

July 28, 2022

FOREIGN AND Commonwealth Office (FCO) files have just been released which shed some light on the IRA kidnapping of Germany’s Consul in Belfast,... Read more »

NETFLIX’S NEW DRAMA

July 14, 2022

IT CAN be hard to escape the name of Ian Bailey these days after the gardaí reopened the infamous Sophie Toscan du Plantier... Read more »

SPOOKS DO FOR BORIS

July 14, 2022

HOW FASCINATING it is to note that two and more of the senior British civil servants that downed British PM, Boris Johnson, have... Read more »

PETER FITZGERALD’S RANDOX TESTING BONANZA

July 14, 2022

LAST WEEK, the Advertising Standard Authority of Ireland (ASAI) issued its latest bulletin on complaints received over advertisements alleged to be misleading or... Read more »

NGI NEW BOARD

July 14, 2022

THE NATIONAL Gallery of Ireland (NGI) is looking for four new board members. Presumably, by the time they are in situ, we will... Read more »

MARTIN SHANAHAN’S SURPRISE EXIT

July 14, 2022

THERE WAS plenty of praise for outgoing IDA Ireland boss Martin Shanahan, who surprised everyone by calling it a day at the state... Read more »

SOPHIE’S COLD CASE REVIEW

July 14, 2022

WHAT IS the real motivation behind the cold case review and reopening of the investigation into the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier... Read more »

ISRAEL MONITORS THE IRISH

July 14, 2022

IN MARCH this year, Maurice Cohen, chair of the Jewish Representative Council of Ireland, had a pop at Irish parliamentarians – during a... Read more »

IIEA NEW MANDARIN: DAVID O’SULLIVAN

July 14, 2022

THE NEW director general of the Institute of International and European Affairs (IIEA), David O’Sullivan, has been quick to use the institute’s favourite... Read more »

MUTINOUS NOISES

July 14, 2022

THE MOST interesting thing about that internal, unpublished government Defence Forces report on the state of relations between the Defence Forces and the... Read more »

MARY AIKEN’S PALS

June 30, 2022

WITHOUT DOUBT, the most interesting of the women conferred with the freedom of Dublin City last month is Mary Aiken (whose latest gig... Read more »

MALIGN MISSION

June 30, 2022

THE IRISH Times reported last week that the government is reconsidering its military mission in Mali, due mainly to security issues; human rights... Read more »

NOEL SMYTH’S WUFF RIDE

June 30, 2022

THIS WEEK will see the next chapter in the ongoing saga of a potential sale by the Irish Kennel Club (IKC) of its... Read more »

PAUL WARD’S €15M JUDGMENT

June 30, 2022

THE HIGH Court has just awarded a hefty €15m judgment against cinema magnate Paul Ward as a result of a legal action taken... Read more »

COLIN HUNT’S PRESIDENCY

June 30, 2022

THERE WERE eyebrows raised last week when it emerged that AIB’s Colin Hunt is to receive the Ireland-US Council’s 2022 Global Business Leadership... Read more »

IN PRAISE OF GERALDINE BYRNE NASON

June 30, 2022

Quite a few diplomatic and political eyebrows were raised last week by the Business Post’s breathless account of how a civil servant, our... Read more »

WHY WAS DE RÓISTE FRAMED?

June 30, 2022

53 YEARS is a long time to wait for justice if you were forced to ‘retire’ and had your life ruined for no... Read more »

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 »

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 »

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