Affairs of the Nation Archives

AFFAIRS OF THE NATION

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NANCY HARRIS’S DRY RUN

February 22, 2022

LAST WEEK RTÉ went into overdrive when “revealing” a “first look” at a new TV comedy drama called The Dry, which is about... Read more »

BORIS JOHNSON’S ‘BRAIN’

February 10, 2022

THAT BORIS Johnson’s government should include mandarin Sue Gray, a top level member of the ‘deep state’ (see The Phoenix, 28/1/22), may not surprise... Read more »

JOHN HOGAN’S BUSINESS ‘AWARDS’

February 10, 2022

IT HAS been a hectic start to 2022 for publisher John Hogan and his business partner, US-based Tommy Quinn, who found their publishing... Read more »

WHITHER SEAN O’ROURKE?

February 10, 2022

RTÉ BROADCASTER Sean O’Rourke was, presumably, one of those referred to by Judge Mary Fahy when she noted in her golfgate judgment that... Read more »

AGAIN, MARIAN

February 10, 2022

CONGRATULATIONS to super scribe Marian Keyes, who managed to generate a whirlwind of publicity just ahead of the publication of her latest novel.... Read more »

WAITING ON CATHERINE MARTIN

February 10, 2022

WITH THE terms expired for a half-dozen members of the Arts Council (AC), minister Catherine Martin is taking her time about putting her... Read more »

TENI’S REPEAT PERFORMANCE

February 10, 2022

IT’S A case of déjà vu at Transgender Equality Network Ireland (TENI). The lobbying group (chaired by Sara R Phillips) is once again... Read more »

BACKPEDALING IN GALWAY

February 10, 2022

HOPES OF persuading some of the good citizens of Galway to leave their cars at home took a bit of a battering in... Read more »

EMBLEMATIC CONCERNS

February 10, 2022

GOLDHAWK NOTES that a complaint has recently been lodged with clerk of the Dáil Peter Finnegan by Donegal councillor Micheal Cholm Mac Giolla... Read more »

BALLAD OF DISREGARDING JAIL

February 10, 2022

FORMER CHAIRPERSON of the Gay and Lesbian Equality Network (GLEN) Kieran Rose was one of those who welcomed the appointment of Sinéad Gibney... Read more »

SUE GRAY ‘RUNS UK’

January 27, 2022

BORIS JOHNSON clearly has good reason to fear top British mandarin Sue Gray, given her reputation as perhaps the most powerful person in... Read more »

MICHAEL O’KEEFFE’S NEW CASTING

January 27, 2022

HAVING PRESIDED at the top of the broadcasting regulatory and funding regime for decades, Michael O’Keeffe retired as chief executive of the Broadcasting... Read more »

KATE O’CONNELL’S STRATEGY

January 27, 2022

KATE O’CONNELL’S kite-flying stunt in the Irish Mail on Sunday about running as an Independent in the Trinners byelection can’t be dismissed, but... Read more »

JAMES MACGUILL’S ELECTION

January 27, 2022

CONGRATULATIONS TO legal eagle James MacGuill SC, who has just taken up the prestigious role of president of the Council of Bars and... Read more »

THE WORKERS ARE REVOLTING

January 27, 2022

THE LATEST lobbying returns reveal that the Convenience Stores and Newsagents Association (CSNA) lobby group has been busy trying to put some manners... Read more »

ARMY SEX ASSAULTS COVER-UP

January 27, 2022

BROADCASTER KATIE Hannon’s RTÉ report on sexual assaults against women in the Defence Forces can’t be swept under the carpet, said retired army captain... Read more »

THE RATHGAR INQUISITION

January 27, 2022

THE STRANGE case of the disappearing priest and other Church activists from the Church of Three Patrons in Dublin’s Rathgar in recent months... Read more »

JIHAD’ AGAINST FARMERS

January 27, 2022

TAOISEACH MICHEÁL Martin recently welcomed the setting up of the Climate Bar Association as a step towards improved legal expertise on environment and... Read more »

ISRAEL’S IRISH CAMPAIGN

January 27, 2022

FRESH FROM his assault on the Republic of Ireland, its body politic and media for being thoroughly antisemitic, Israeli polemicist David Collier (see The... Read more »

SARAH RYAN’S RIGHT-ON JOURNEY

January 27, 2022

IT IS perhaps not too surprising to see that one Sarah Ryan has now joined the board of the conservative ‘think tank’ founded... Read more »

MICHEÁL MARTIN PREPARES TO FIGHT

January 13, 2022

THE CALM that that appears to have settled on Fianna Fáil is an illusion and both pro and anti Martin camps are preparing... Read more »

PAUL TWEED AND PRINCE ANDREW

January 13, 2022

BELFAST SOLICITOR to the stars, Paul Tweed, comes over all coy when it comes to mentioning his work for the York family: that’s... Read more »

TARGETING OPERATION TRANSFORMATION

January 13, 2022

AMONG THOSE piling in on RTÉ’s Operation Transformation last weekend was Louise McSharry, who is well known in Montrose where she worked as... Read more »

BARON MAGAN’S BAD NEWS

January 13, 2022

SO FAREWELL then to Castletown Estates Ltd, the English company controlled by George Magan, aka Baron Magan of Castletown. The hapless George had... Read more »

LEGAL JAMBOREE FOR ‘IRISH TIMES’

January 13, 2022

READERS OF the Irish Times have been treated to a glut of stories about the spats and schisms in the Scouting Ireland movement... Read more »

MARC GODART V RTÉ

January 13, 2022

A PROGRAMME by the Prime Time Investigates team at the end of 2020 examined the apparently lax implementation of regulations to prevent overcrowding... Read more »

PADDY-JON WILLIAMS

January 13, 2022

INDICATIONS THAT RTÉ’s head of news and current affairs Jon Williams has relinquished long-suspected career ambitions to head back to Blighty for a... Read more »

MILLIONAIRE HOTELIERS BACK TO COURT

January 13, 2022

A SPAT between some heavy-hitters that appeared to have been settled has been re-ignited, with the legal eagles called in once more. Property... Read more »

PRESIDENTIAL PURGE

January 13, 2022

IRISH TIMES news values asserted themselves days after Christmas with a front page story culled from declassified 1990 state papers headlined, “Áras in... Read more »

EU SPECIAL POLICE

January 13, 2022

IT HAS come to Goldhawk’s attention that the garda’s Emergency Response Unit (ERU) is part of an interesting and little known European Union... Read more »

POST-BREXIT: FEDERAL EU

December 16, 2021

TUCKED AWAY almost out of sight at the end of the Irish Times report on the recent formation of the German government was... Read more »

HARNEY’S MOOLAH

December 16, 2021

THE BUSY former health minister Mary Harney has been putting her money where her mouth is. And it looks like her various corporate... Read more »

ENDA KENNY’S CHINESE TAKEAWAY

December 16, 2021

LAST WEEKEND, the Business Post reported trouble brewing in Belfield, where a Chinese-funded educational body has been accused of straying into the political... Read more »

ROSE HYNES’S SMOOTH FLIGHT

December 16, 2021

THE DEPARTMENT of Transport has just advertised the position of chair of the Irish Aviation Authority. The question interested parties will have is... Read more »

EDDIE HOBBS’S HERESY

December 16, 2021

TO THE already bulging shelves of Irish literature Eddie Hobbs has now added his first novel, The First Heresy, which he revealed on... Read more »

IRISH TIMES PANDEMIC PROFITS

December 16, 2021

WHILE THE Irish Times only picked up the one gong in the UCD Smurfit Business School journo awards this week, the performance of... Read more »