Affairs of the Nation Archives

AFFAIRS OF THE NATION

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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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

IRISH MEDIA’S METHODS

May 5, 2022

‘IRELAND FOR UKRAINE’ describes itself as “a united response from Irish media organisations to harness the generosity of the Irish public and ensure... Read more »

‘ANOTHER’ PRESIDENT HIGGINS?

May 5, 2022

FOREIGN MINISTER Simon Coveney and various New York-based Irish officials heaved sighs of relief last St Patrick’s Day but one (2021) when New... Read more »

PAT HAYES’S HORSEPLAY

May 5, 2022

WITH THE crowds back at Punchestown and Gordon Elliott passing the 2,000 winners mark, the general consensus was that the trainer is now... Read more »

FROM RATHGAR WITH LOVE

May 5, 2022

‘DR STRANGELOVE’ lives, it appears, with former Nato Supreme Allied Commander Europe General Philip Breedlove doing a more than passable imitation of the... Read more »

ZELENSKIY’S OFFSHORE LINKS

April 20, 2022

THERE HAS, unsurprisingly, been plenty of media coverage of the main players in the Ukrainian war, with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy the recipient of... Read more »

FACEBOOK FACES UP TO MIRIAM

April 20, 2022

CELEB SOLICITOR Paul Tweed was a natural as Murrium O’Callaghan’s brief in her case against Facebook for “malicious falsehood, defamation, various breaches of... Read more »

TREVOR’S TONIC

April 20, 2022

GOLDHAWK IS delighted to report that accounts just made available reveal that the Little Museum of Dublin has been sailing through the pandemic,... Read more »

JAY BOURKE’S PR

April 20, 2022

IT HAS been hard to avoid disqualified restaurateur and publican Jay Bourke, whose media campaign in recent weeks has seen him feature prominently... Read more »

MARTIN TRUCE WITH O’CALLAGHAN?

April 20, 2022

ONE OF the intriguing choices Micheál Martin will get to make when he retires as taoiseach in December is who to appoint as... Read more »

RTÉ’S LOST DECADE

April 20, 2022

“FUTURE GENERATIONS will judge us by how we deal with climate change”, presenter Fran McNulty solemnly intoned when opening RTÉ’s Prime Time climate... Read more »

MALI AND SIMON COVENEY’S ‘SHOCK’

April 20, 2022

HIDDEN AWAY at the bottom of page 4 in the Irish Times recently was a short article about how the Irish Defence Forces... Read more »

RACEHORSE OWNERS UNSADDLE CHAIRMAN

April 20, 2022

THIS WEEK sees the second annual general meeting in a few months of the Association of Irish Racehorse Owners (Airo), the representative organisation... Read more »

MARY IRVINE’S SUCCESSOR

April 20, 2022

THE TOP four favourites to succeed Ms Justice Mary Irvine as president of the High Court each have distinguished credentials in the areas... Read more »

MICHAEL HACKMAN’S NEW PLOT

April 20, 2022

THERE WEREN’T too much questions asked by nosey hacks when Pascal Donohoe was roped into the PR exercise heralding a €300m Greystones film... Read more »

ARMY UNREST GROWS

April 7, 2022

ONE CHARACTERISATION of conflicts such as sexual offences in the Defence Forces is that of the defence department’s alleged control freakery and micromanagement.... Read more »

EAMON DUNPHY SCORES AGAIN

April 7, 2022

A COMPANY called Festuca Ltd probably doesn’t ring too many bells for Goldhawk fans but it turns out to be one of the... Read more »

NEW ‘CENSOR’

April 7, 2022

CINEMA-GOERS will have spotted a new name on the certificate that pops up on the screen before the film’s opening credits, courtesy of... Read more »

MARK HENRY’S BOOK

April 7, 2022

MARK HENRY, author of In Fact: An Optimist’s Guide to Ireland at 100, has been getting rave reviews from the ‘right’ people’ (very... Read more »

US EMBASSY’S VIEW OF CJH & CO

April 7, 2022

WITH FOREIGN embassies and their information gathering under scrutiny (well, one of them), it is interesting to note that the mainstream media ignored... Read more »

AGRI-BIZ AND CLIMATE ‘SOLUTIONS’

April 7, 2022

A SMALL piece of Dáil history was made recently, with the first joint meeting of the oireachtas committees on agriculture and environment and... Read more »

SINDO SCOOPS S. TIMES HACK

April 7, 2022

AN INNOCUOUS, discreetly placed ad at the bottom of page 2 of the Irish edition of the Sunday Times in the smallest of... Read more »

WHAT LIES BENEATH FOR CALVERT’S BCP

April 7, 2022

YET ANOTHER less than auspicious cinema opening for an Irish film took place last month with Brendan Muldowney’s haunted-house drama, The Cellar, where... Read more »

COX IN THE BOX

April 7, 2022

He also said Ms Burke had criticised another partner, Kevin Lynch, when he stopped by to congratulate her for completing a deal. The... Read more »