Affairs of the Nation Archives

AFFAIRS OF THE NATION

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MONTROSE AND CHATHAM HOUSE

April 7, 2022

RTÉ HAS for years relied on ‘experts’ from the Royal Institute of International Affairs at Chatham House (CH) to provide Irish listeners with... Read more »

Budget Jack Chambers Nicki Minaj B’Tselem Phil Hogan UCD IRTA DIGI Katy Brown Rory Godson Pallonji Mistry Shark Hanlon Frances Ruane Taste of Dublin Listowel Writers’ Week Paddy Curran Harvey Norman Anton Savage Paul Hourican Enda O’Coineen PfP Red C Poll IFTA Ben Gilroy Luke Comer Sue Spence Fingleton Aubrey McCarthy Matt Cooper Parker Green Danny McConnell Gayle Killilea Maura Derivan Ed Honohan INS Arts Council EDAF Emuse Rosslare Golf Club Mairead Casey Colm O’Rourke Stephen Connolly Peter Aiken John Malone Tom Barry Anthony Halpin Ian Kehoe Kevin Bakhurst Geraldine O’Leary Dennis Horgan RUSI Gareth McAllister Ryevale House Joe Macken RUC Omagh Patrick Connolly Paddy Cosgrave The Ditch Newstalk Fake Tan Fred Logue Ian Paisley Sean O’Riordan Margaret Sweeney Jay Bourke Ellie Kisyombe Francesca McDonagh Ted Cunningham National Space Centre An Irish Goodbye Oscar Robert Quirke Ciara Kelly Executive Women Gathering Doug Taylor Florian Haufe Robbie Henshaw Bill Shipsey Breaking the Silence L’Ecrivain Ronan McNally National Lottery Michael Roche Energy Action Balls.ie Newspapers VAT Abbey Theatre Patricia Madden Irish Banking Culture Board Randox Aoife Gallagher Book Dalai Lama Trinity Trevor White RTÉ Chairperson Shane Houlihan Noel Smyth IKC Bob Geldof Landlord Ireland Neutrality Ukraine

KEEPING UP WITH GREG SPARKS

April 7, 2022

THE IRISH TIMES was quick out of the blocks last month to report on the “dismay” expressed by the two female contenders who... Read more »

UKRAINE: ‘EDITORIAL FARM’

March 24, 2022

THE RUSSIAN onslaught against Ukraine has revealed a surprising and disappointing dearth in the Irish media – with a few honourable exceptions –... Read more »

BARRY ANDREWS GETS TOUGH

March 24, 2022
WHAT A rabble-rousing politician MEP Barry Andrews has turned out to be, reverting to the more direct, radical tone of his grandfather Todd Andrews... Read more »

TRINITY’S UNIVERSITY CHALLENGE

March 24, 2022

IT WILL be a tense couple of weeks for the deputy editor of Trinity College student paper, the University Times, who faces a... Read more »

TONI & GUY’S HAIRCUT

March 24, 2022

BACK IN the 1990s, Alan Boyce was revered by so-called fashionistas as the guy who modernised hairdressing in dreary old Dublin. No doubt,... Read more »

CIVIL WAR CIVILITY

March 24, 2022

ALREADY THERE has been a clear schism between the government and President Michael D Higgins over how to deal with centenary commemorations of... Read more »

DUP DISARRAY

March 24, 2022

IT IS 40 days to the north’s assembly election on May 5 and the Sinn Féin posters are already up in North Belfast... Read more »

HEIGH-HO…

March 24, 2022

AN IMPENDING winding-up hearing in the High Court may have somewhat spoiled the Paddy’s Day celebrations for Cathal Divilly (CEO) and his partner,... Read more »

BLOWIN’ IN THE WIND

March 24, 2022

THE ECONOMIC and supply chain shockwaves from the war in Ukraine have re-energised the ‘realists’ to use the crisis as cover to push... Read more »

THE FOG OF WAR

March 24, 2022

MANY ON the left are still trying to clarify their line on Ukraine but the Communist Party of Ireland (CPI) and Irish Republican... Read more »

MARTIN’S NUCLEAR HAND-WRINGING

March 10, 2022

AN TAOISEACH Micheál Martin, emitted obligatory outrage at Vladimir Putin’s recent move to put Russia’s nuclear deterrent forces on high alert – “extremely... Read more »

PAUL KIMMAGE’S ROUGH RIDE

March 10, 2022

PAUL KIMMAGE’S second four-page ‘special’ on Irish horseracing’s dirty secrets might have been expected to include some real juice but the 7,000 words... Read more »

ARAMARK’S ‘AMBASSADORS’

March 10, 2022

WHILE THE National Gallery of Ireland (NGI) has come in for an awful lot of flak for contracting US company Aramark (owners of... Read more »

ASHFORD STUDIO PLOT TWIST

March 10, 2022

WITH A new series of Vikings: Valhalla getting ready to start rolling at Ashford Studios (albeit a little late in the day) it... Read more »

WAITING ON CATHERINE MARTIN

March 10, 2022

MORE THAN a year after former chairman Pauric Travers exited the board of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI), there still remains a... Read more »

McCONALOGUE AND THE KULAKS

March 10, 2022

CHARLIE McCONALOGUE’S pitch for farmers to produce more grain sounds, ironically, like a Russian five-year plan from the Soviet era. But for the... Read more »

BERNARD MCCAULEY’S MOOLAH

March 10, 2022

A CLEANING company called Grosvenor Cleaning Services (GCS) has just been ordered by the Workplace Relations Commission to pay a former employee €21,000... Read more »

CALDWELL’S HORSE SENSE

March 10, 2022

OUTSPOKEN RACEHORSE trainer Jim Bolger has been stirring things up in the sport of kings by claiming a ‘Lance Armstrong’ figure is set... Read more »

IT’S THE PIPELINE, STUPID

March 10, 2022

GOLDHAWK IS indebted to US journalist Mike Whitney and other players in the United States for explaining what has really happened in Ukraine... Read more »

RATHGAR PARISH INQUISITION: PART II

March 10, 2022

ALREADY PUZZLED Rathgar parishioners at the Church of Three Patrons will be scratching their heads at the contents of last week’s parish newsletter.... Read more »

IRELAND JOINS BIG BOYS IN WAR GAMES

February 24, 2022

IT IS both apt and ironic that the Defence Forces should emulate warmonger Winston Churchill’s dictum, ‘Never let a good crisis go to... Read more »

JOHN MOLLOY’S PHONE TROUBLE

February 24, 2022

HAVING HOOVERED up millions of euro to fund his safe smartphone app for children, John Molloy’s company is heading into liquidation. Molloy made... Read more »

UKRAINE VETS’ DUBLIN HERO

February 24, 2022

DUBLIN-BORN but Ukrainian-based Paul Niland has been lionised by RTÉ, BBC, the Irish Times and Irish Independent both for his suicide prevention service... Read more »

GREENWASH AWARDS’ WORTHY WINNERS

February 24, 2022

IN THE immortal words of Kermit the Frog, it’s not easy being green, but that doesn’t stop some people from at least pretending.... Read more »

THE SILENT NEUTRALITY

February 24, 2022

DESPITE THE intense media focus on the Ukraine crisis there has been little or no attention paid to the oft expressed will of... Read more »

DÓMHNAL SLATTERY’S AWARD

February 24, 2022

GOLDHAWK WAS delighted to see that Shrewsbury Road resident and Avolon air leasing moneybags Dómhnal Slattery has landed the Irish Times Business Person... Read more »

CANADIAN CONVOY CASH

February 22, 2022

SINISTER ASPECTS of the Canadian protest movement against the anti-Covid 19 restrictions of Justin Trudeau’s government include the far-right politics of some of... Read more »

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 »