Affairs of the Nation Archives

AFFAIRS OF THE NATION

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HARVEY BOULTER’S ANNUS HORRIBILIS

September 23, 2021

THIS IS turning into quite the annus horribilis for moneybags and venture capitalist Harvey Boulter, who is being sued in the UK over... Read more »

NO IRISH WANTED HERE

September 23, 2021

GOVERNMENT CHIEF WHIP Jack Chambers should take time off from riding shotgun for the government in the Dáil (and Fianna Fáil leader Micheál... Read more »

BIG TECH’S MULTIMILLION SPEND

September 23, 2021

GOLDHAWK DREW attention recently to the new direction of former Labour TD Michael McCarthy, whose new job is chief lobbyist for Cloud Infrastructure... Read more »

REVIEWING SALLY ROONEY

September 9, 2021

THE LONG wait for the new novel from Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You, exposed readers to something of a marketing blitz,... Read more »

SIMON KELLY’S STAFFING PROBLEM

September 9, 2021

ONE OF the more high-profile falls from grace during the property crash was that of Paddy ‘Shrewsbury Road’ Kelly and his son Simon’s... Read more »

PRICKLY ROSES

September 9, 2021

WITH THE 62nd Rose of Tralee hooley cancelled, it will be 2022 before the successor to Limerick’s Sinéad Flanagan is crowned. Given the... Read more »

WILL SINN FÉIN PACIFY SHANNON?

September 9, 2021

SHANNON AIRPORT has played an important role in the United States logistical network that has facilitated its Afghan war and other conflicts the... Read more »

ARMY RANGERS’ DISCONTENT

September 9, 2021

RUMBLINGS IN the ranks of the Army Rangers Wing have not reached mutinous levels but the government would want to avoid any more... Read more »

BRIAN POLLY’S HEAVY GOING

September 9, 2021

THE ASSOCIATION of Irish Racehorse Owners (AIRO) held its AGM last month (a remote affair) and, not surprisingly perhaps, it has led to... Read more »

KIERAN CORRIGAN’S TAX PLOT

September 9, 2021

FILM FINANCIER, number cruncher, film studio promoter, and film school owner, Kieran Corrigan, will be looking forward to getting students back into his... Read more »

GAVIN AND GRETA

September 9, 2021

IS THERE a word in the English language more grievously misused than ‘sustainable’? The unseemly scramble by major polluters, from oil companies to... Read more »

PAKISTAN SAYS SEMPLE IS MI6

September 9, 2021

US/BRITISH divisions over strategy in Afghanistan did not begin with President Biden’s precipitous exit from that country and British ‘diplomat’ Michael Semple’s expulsion... Read more »

FIGHTING THE TALIBAN

August 26, 2021

WHY IS the Irish media invariably in thrall to the British government and its various spooky think tanks when it comes to coverage... Read more »

LIAM SHEEDY’S MATCH TACTICS

August 26, 2021

IT CAN’T be long before the contenders for the top job in Irish sports administration are under starters orders. The attractive position of... Read more »

STUDENTS TARGET THE ‘IRISH TIMES’

August 26, 2021

THE HEAT is getting turned up under the Irish Times over coverage of the transgender issue, which has already led to Trinity News... Read more »

CATHERINE MARTIN’S MISSTEPS

August 26, 2021

THE LAST week has been rough for arts minister Catherine Martin, as she has been portrayed as weak in promising the earth to... Read more »

ON YER BIKE!

August 26, 2021

LIQUIDATOR WILLIAM Cuddy, with an address in Little Island, Cork, filed his final winding up documents for Aqua Blue Sport, but there was... Read more »

EU QUANGO RIDES ON

August 26, 2021

PERHAPS THE most successful hybrid quango in modern Ireland has been the Institute of International and European Affairs (IIEA), founded 30 years ago... Read more »

NUGENT GOES GLOBAL

August 26, 2021

THE FOUNDER and chairperson of Atheist Ireland (AI), Michael Nugent, has become involved in yet another schism in the latest of several internal... Read more »

UNFLAPPABLE FLANAGAN

August 26, 2021

FORMER MINISTER, Charlie Flanagan, is performing with studied objectivity — as befits the chair of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and... Read more »

EOIN Ó BROIN V LABOUR

August 26, 2021

THE ASSUMPTION for decades has been that Fianna Fail and Fine Gael were responsible for the impotent building controls that have resulted in... Read more »

BARRY WHITE’S LEGAL BILL

August 12, 2021

IT HAS taken quite a while but the final chapter is being written in the saga of former High Court judge Barry White’s... Read more »

CATHERINE MARTIN’S GENDER BALANCE

August 12, 2021

WITH IRELAND’S athletes returning form Tokyo, sports minister Catherine Martin finally got around to filling the vacancies on the board of Sport Ireland... Read more »

APOLOGIES … AND OUR MAN IN TEL AVIV

August 12, 2021

SIMON COVENEY’S purported concern for “freedom of expression”, manifest by Katherine Zappone’s appointment as UN special envoy in pursuit of this laudable goal,... Read more »

IAN MADIGAN’S TACTICS

August 12, 2021

FORMER LEINSTER and Ireland outhalf Ian Madigan has had a mixed few years in professional rugby having exited France and being deemed surplus... Read more »

DARRAGH AND VLAD’S HOUSING STAND-OFF

August 12, 2021

POSTPONEMENT OF the ‘Housing for All’ plan was surrounded with gobbledygook, civil service jargon as well as pious editorials about the need for... Read more »

FRASER UNDERSTUDY SET FOR SUCCESSION?

August 12, 2021

SECRETARY GENERAL at the taoiseach’s department, Martin Fraser, is most unusual in that top civil servants outside the Department of Foreign Affairs do... Read more »

‘COROPRATE HEROES’

August 12, 2021

FOR ASSORTED grey suits, there was no little interest in the announcement that the Institute of Management Consultants and Advisers ((IMCA) and the... Read more »

SUPER MISS MURPHY

August 12, 2021

HIP RESTAURATEUR John ‘777’ Farrell has adopted restricted status under the Companies Act, which means he cannot act as a director for five... Read more »

MICHEÁL MARTIN’S FF CRITICS

August 12, 2021

‘RETROSPECTIVE, BELATED, political cover’, these were just a few of the taunts thrown at the government for securing the comforting advice of attorney... Read more »

ARNOLD’S FOOD PLAN CAUSES INDIGESTION

August 12, 2021

THE GROUP photo at government buildings for the unveiling of the grandly titled ‘Food Vision 2030 – a world leader in sustainable food... Read more »

FOUL FEEDBACK TO KILDARE WIND FARM

August 12, 2021

HACKLES HAVE been raised in the townlands of Quinnsboro/Coolsicken in south Co Kildare where Norwegian giant energy company Statkraft was refused planning permission... Read more »

MEDIA STILL HUNTS IAN BAILEY

July 29, 2021
WHEN FINTAN O’TOOLE gets it wrong he really gets it wrong, but his recent column on Ian Bailey, dressed up in liberal, feminist language,... Read more »

OUR LINE IN TEL AVIV

July 29, 2021

FOREIGN MINISTER Simon Coveney has ducked and dived when confronted with Israeli depredations against the Palestinians but he appears to have been struck... Read more »

NEIL FRANCIS’S TACTICS

July 29, 2021

NEIL FRANCIS was never slow to dish it out, whether on the pitch or as a pundit, so there was a pretty long... Read more »

PAUL COLLINS’S LIBEL ACTION

July 29, 2021

BANDON-BASED businessman Paul Collins has fingers in many pies but his provision of accommodation for asylum seekers has often landed him in the... Read more »