Affairs of the Nation Archives

AFFAIRS OF THE NATION

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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 »

SALLINS TRAIN TRIAL LINED UP FOR THE UN?

June 2, 2022

NOT A peep has there been from the media about the potential investigation by the United Nations of convictions for the £200,000 Sallins... Read more »

DR CAHILL’S CASE BOOK

June 2, 2022

THE CONTROVERSIAL doctor at the heart of the American Irish Historical Society (AIHS) row tried to have the case in which he is... Read more »

THE GHOST OF ROBERT NAIRAC

June 2, 2022

LAST MONTH, the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims’ Remains renewed an appeal for information about the whereabouts of the body of Captain... Read more »

DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY

June 2, 2022

MANY OF the top brass were bemused at Simon Coveney’s rap across the knuckles of chief of staff, Lt Gen Seán Clancy, for... Read more »

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

June 2, 2022

DÉISE’S PRIDE AND JOY Dear Editor I would like to take issue with your article regarding the movement of past Trinity leaders Veronica... Read more »

IN THEIR ELEMENT

May 19, 2022

THEY SAY timing is everything in showbusiness. News of Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe’s sale of a majority stake in their Element Pictures... Read more »

ALLPRO’S WAR DIVIDEND

May 19, 2022

RODERIC O’GORMAN’S Department of Integration has been dishing out contracts to companies for the provision of services relating to the housing of Ukrainian... Read more »

JP MCMANUS’S MIX-UP

May 19, 2022

GENEVA-BASED zillionaire JP McManus is no ordinary racehorse owner. He has long been lashing out bucketloads of moolah to buy top-pedigree steeplechasers and... Read more »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »