Affairs of the Nation Archives

AFFAIRS OF THE NATION

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 »

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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 »

ADAMS HASN’T GONE AWAY YOU KNOW

December 16, 2021

AFTER RECORD breaking poll ratings the last thing Sinn Féin – or some of the more electorally sensitive members in the leadership –... Read more »

THE GARDAÍ’S VIRTUAL HERO

December 16, 2021

THEY’RE A fun-loving lot at the Garda Review, publication of the Garda Representative Association (GRA), and the current edition has a full-on front... Read more »

EX-INM EDITOR SUES ‘SUNDAY TIMES’ HACK

December 16, 2021

A SIGNIFICANT issue of press freedom will shortly be determined in the High Court arising from a libel action taken by Stephen Rae,... Read more »

FG/GREEN ‘UNITY’

December 16, 2021

THE CONTINUING decline in Fine Gael’s popularity is beginning to look less like a slump and more like a death spiral. Panic in... Read more »

SIMON COVENEY’S CONUNDRUM

December 2, 2021

HOW LONG more will Minister Simon Coveney’s floundering and dangerous foreign policy agenda in the African continent go unreported in the Irish media?... Read more »

ROBERT QUIRKE’S VENTILATORS

December 2, 2021

MORE THAN 20 months after Covid-19 impacted this country, one of the players who made a killing by importing ventilators is now living... Read more »

JOHN GOODWIN’S PENTHOUSE

December 2, 2021

IT WAS not quite the raffle result that John Goodwin expected when he put his expensive Grand Canal penthouse apartment up for grabs,... Read more »

THE ‘IT’ IN TRINNERS

December 2, 2021

IRISH TIMES editor Paul O’Neill was presumably somewhat relieved that a referendum carried out at Trinity College Dublin fell short of having the... Read more »

ISRAELI PROPAGANDA BLITZ

December 2, 2021

FORMER UCD president Hugh Brady is moving from the president’s chair at the University of Bristol to become president of Imperial College London.... Read more »

CHARLIE AND BRITISH INTELLIGENCE

December 2, 2021

GARY MURPHY’S book Haughey may disappoint some long-standing Phoenix readers as the author barely addresses the Squire’s bruising entanglements with Her Majesty’s spooks.... Read more »

IMMORAL IRISH

December 2, 2021

MANY READERS of The Phoenix will recognise the episodic campaigns for Ireland to formally join up with the incipient EU military machine being... Read more »

SQUIRE HOCKEY’S BEN DUNNE DOSH

December 2, 2021

IN THE biography Haughey, Gary Murphy writes that RTÉ’s Prime Time reported on April 17, 1997, that Ben Dunne had given CJ Haughey... Read more »

CIARA KELLY’S RUDE HEALTH

December 1, 2021

ONE OF the names on star agent Noel Kelly’s roster of ‘talent’ is doctor-turned broadcaster Ciara Kelly, who has just filed some revealing... Read more »

MARY ROBINSON’S SACRED COWS

November 18, 2021

FORMER IRISH president Mary Robinson made headlines around the world for her emotionally charged interview at the Cop26 conference in Glasgow in which,... Read more »

DRINKAWARE’S BAR BILL

November 18, 2021

AFTER NUMEROUS and lengthy delays, the latest phase of the Public Health (Alcohol) Amendment Bill came into effect last week, notably introducing significant... Read more »

JOE MCHUGH’S STRATEGY

November 18, 2021

JOE MCHUGH’S threat to resign from Fine Gael – which party made him a minister twice – if the mica protesters don’t get... Read more »

SHANE ROSS’S BANKING ACCOUNT

November 18, 2021

LAST WEEKEND, Shane Ross took a pop at those he claimed had escaped the sort of abuse poor old Sean Fitzpatrick got as... Read more »

BERTIE AND THE ‘REAL’ PEACEMAKERS

November 18, 2021

WHAT A waspish speech Bertie Ahern made when launching former junior foreign minister Conor Lenihan’s biography, Albert Reynolds, Risk Taker for Peace, last... Read more »

UK LABOUR HUNTS DOWN POET HIGGINS

November 18, 2021

THE BRITISH Labour party, post Jeremy Corbyn, has been in the process of purging left-wing elements from its ranks and even though he... Read more »

BATTLE ROYAL: LORD LOUIS’S DIARIES

November 18, 2021

THE BRITISH government is engaged in a battle royal to conceal the historical papers of the queen’s uncle and former navy admiral, Lord... Read more »

ANNUAL 2021: GOLDHAWK’S AWARDS FOR THE PASSING PARADE 2021

November 18, 2021

Declan Kelly THE 2021 Crisis Management Award of the Year goes to Dancing Declan Kelly – the former head honcho of Teneo –... Read more »