Affairs of the Nation Archives

AFFAIRS OF THE NATION

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 »

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

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 »

THE ABBEY’S €700,000 DRAMA

November 4, 2021
WITH THE arrival at the Abbey theatre during the summer of Catríona McLaughlin (artistic director) and Mark O’Brien (executive director), the stage was set... Read more »

O’BRIEN VS ZUCKERBERG

November 4, 2021

DENIS O’BRIEN has had a busy couple of weeks, selling off a chunk of his Digicel group to the Aussies and also finding... Read more »

STEFANIE PREISSNER’S PROFITS

November 4, 2021

IT IS increasingly hard to avoid Stefanie Preissner these days (for anybody who might want to), with two separate radio stations opting to... Read more »

MATT DEMPSEY GOES GREEN

November 4, 2021

TIME WAS when Matt Dempsey, former editor of the Irish Farmers Journal and a Kildare farmer himself was the champion of dairy and... Read more »

PHARMACISTS’ STRONG MEDICINE

November 4, 2021

WITH A Covid-19 vaccine booster campaign on the table following the recommendation from the National Immunisation Audit Committee earlier this week, Dermot Twomey... Read more »

‘DIPLOMAT’ DAVID GOODALL

November 4, 2021

NATIONAL UNIVERSITY of Ireland Press recently published The Making of the Anglo-Irish Agreement of 1985 by British diplomat David Goodall – chief driver... Read more »

CORRECTION

November 4, 2021

IN THE Phoenix edition, October 8, 2021, an article entitled ‘LEGAL SAGA NEAR AN END?’ referred to a 15-year-old legal battle between Bernard... Read more »

AINE FLANAGAN’S SAFE BET

November 4, 2021

THE MOST unusual transaction was belatedly reported in Aaron Rogan’s recently published book, Punters: How Paddy Power Bet Billions and Changed Gambling Forever.... Read more »

JILL MAHON’S SUSTAINABILITY

November 4, 2021

WITH CLIMATE change the topic du jour there was no little interest in the recent appointments to the Climate Change Advisory Council (CCAC),... Read more »

IRISH-RUSSIAN MILITARY CONFLICT?

November 4, 2021

THE DEPARTMENT of Foreign Affairs (DFA) website warns Irish citizens to avoid travel to the Central African Republic (CAR) due to its “extremely... Read more »

SINN FÉIN’S SECTION 31

November 4, 2021

A RACY account of the two most dramatic jail breaks in the history of the state – the 1973 helicopter escape from Mountjoy... Read more »

ISRAEL VERSUS SALLY ROONEY

October 21, 2021

SALLY ROONEY’S pro-Palestinian boycott gesture has been lambasted by predictable players – the Israeli embassy, former justice minister Alan Shatter and others –... Read more »

THE COBBLESTONE’S NEW TUNE

October 21, 2021

MUCH HAS been written about the fondness for the Irish traditional music pub the Cobblestone in Smithfield’s North King Street, now the subject... Read more »

BIG TECH, BIG PR

October 21, 2021

AS WHISTLEBLOWER Frances Haugen’s revelations provoked some US politicians into declaring war on Facebook, the tech giants must have taken comfort from the... Read more »

BUMPY RIDE FOR ROSE HYNES

October 21, 2021

IT WAS reported at the weekend that the chair of the Irish Aviation Authority (IAA) Rose Hynes criticised former transport minister Shane Ross... Read more »