Affairs of the Nation Archives

AFFAIRS OF THE NATION

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YVONNE DOLAN’S BLENDI BACKERS

July 29, 2021

AS FANS of Goldhawk are aware, Yvonne Dolan’s award-winning Blendi Snacks business ran out of flavour recently and the company was due to... Read more »

TENI’S TIMING

July 29, 2021

AT LONG last Transgender Equality Network Ireland (TENI) has got around to filing its out-of-date 2019 accounts, which just might smooth the way... Read more »

CHARITY BEGINS ON THE FARM

July 29, 2021

ONE OF the most intriguing questions awaiting the incoming director of Teagasc, the state agriculture research and training agency, is: what kind of... Read more »

REBELS IN WEST CORK

July 29, 2021

A BIZARRE stand-off in west Cork involving the Society of Saint Pius X Resistance. (SSPX Resistance), local campaigner Fiona O’Leary and gardaí is... Read more »

TCD BYELECTION

July 29, 2021

THE SUNDAY TIMES has already plugged long-time former Goldman Sachs director Hugo McNeill in the early reckoning for the Seanad’s Trinity College Dublin... Read more »

MURDER, BENT COPS AND DUBLIN MEDIA

July 29, 2021

COMMENTING ON the latest report that found the London Met guilty of “institutional corruption” in its treatment of the 1987 murder of Daniel... Read more »

MICHEÁL BEGINS HIS FIGHTBACK

July 15, 2021

IT’S A long time since the Irish Times gave such unqualified and partisan backing to a Fianna Fáil leader but it was through... Read more »

PETER DUNN’S PAPAL GONG

July 15, 2021

IT’S NOT every day that a ‘Pro-Ecclesia et Pontifice’ award (PEP) is dished out here but one was accepted last week by Peter... Read more »

CATHY DAVEY’S LOVELY CHARITY

July 15, 2021

CONGRATULATIONS TO songwriter Cathy Davey, whose animal charity is doing better then observers may have expected. Last year, the Irish Times ran a... Read more »

GAISFORD ST LAWRENCE’S MANSION

July 15, 2021

A LETTER from one Julian Gaisford St Lawrence popped up in the Irish Times last week. The address was given as Coolcarrigan in... Read more »

CATHERINE MARTIN’S TEAM TACTICS

July 15, 2021

FANS OF Goldhawk will be aware that Green party minister Catherine Martin has a tendency to leave boards under her remit full of... Read more »

HAZEL HOVERS

July 15, 2021

MANY SEIZED on the elimination of Kate O’Connell by Fine Gael’s leadership and local members to explain the defeat of that party’s candidate,... Read more »

REHMAN’S RESTRICTION

July 15, 2021

ONE OF the directors of a private English language college that shut tis doors in 2018 has just been restricted from acting as... Read more »

VIDEO REWIND

July 15, 2021

T WAS surely only ever a matter of time before Hilco, which specialises in picking up ‘distressed’ investments, pulled the plug on its... Read more »

SALLINS TRAIN TRIAL REVISITED

July 15, 2021

THE FAMILY of Osgur Breatnach, wrongly convicted of the 1976 Sallins train robbery, have launched a campaign for a public inquiry into the... Read more »

THE GENTLE BLACK AND TAN

July 15, 2021

BLINKERED NATIONALISTS have long argued that the West Cork History Festival (aka the West Brit Hist Fest) run by Simon and Victoria Kingston,... Read more »

DAVID MCWILLIAMS AND ‘GROUND ZERO’

July 15, 2021

THE FORAYS of pop economist David McWilliams into commentary on agriculture are rare indeed, and from the evidence of his most recent efforts,... Read more »

IAN BAILEY’S STAR WITNESS

July 1, 2021

THE RE-EMERGENCE in the Sophie Toscan du Plantier murder saga of Marie Farrell – once the garda’s star witness against so-called suspect Ian... Read more »

WOMEN’S COUNCIL’S CRITICS

July 1, 2021

THE NATIONAL Women’s Council of Ireland (NWCI) found itself in the spotlight last month in relation to the endless gender identity debate. Given... Read more »

RÓISÍN INGLE’S TWEETS

July 1, 2021

LAST MONTH’s ruling against the Carlow Nationalist by the press ombudsman over the paper’s wrong story on the ‘body-shaming’ of girls at Presentation... Read more »

LEAVING LISSADELL

July 1, 2021

LAST MONTH, it was reported that the impressively renovated Lissadell pile on leafy Shrewsbury Road in D4 has been sold for a whopping... Read more »

SHARON ALSTON’S MUSIC NOTES

July 1, 2021

GOLDHAWK WAS delighted to se that his favourite music festival organiser and vet, Sharon Alston, was one of the lucky recipients of arts... Read more »

DONALDSON THE ‘MODERATE’

July 1, 2021

DUP DARLING of RTÉ and the Irish Times, new party leader Jeffrey Donaldson has been presented as the civilised alternative to creationist Edwin... Read more »

IRELAND’S PAST VERSUS FUTURE

July 1, 2021

ROLE REVERSAL between Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil on the national question has been a feature of politics in recent years but FG’s... Read more »

MARY DALY’S LECTURE

July 1, 2021

PROFESSOR MARY E DALY, one of the members of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes, is already in hot water for... Read more »

INM DATA FRENZY

June 17, 2021

THE PRIVACY action being taken by former INM editor-in-chief Stephen Rae against Mediahuis Ireland, current owner of the newspaper group, reflects the hothouse... Read more »

SARAH KEANE’S BELLY FLOP

June 17, 2021

WHAT A bad week it was for Sarah Keane, president of the Irish Olympic Federation (IOF) and chief executive of Swim Ireland. After... Read more »

THE ABBEY’S DRAMATIC LICENCE

June 17, 2021

WITH THE director team of Graham McLaren and Neil Murray preparing to exit the Abbey next month, the incoming pair of Caitriona McLaughlin... Read more »

DARRAGH O’LOUGHLIN’S STRONG MEDICINE

June 17, 2021

THE BELATED opening-up of the pharmacy sector to the administering of Covid-19 vaccines represents some good news for the country’s chemists. It comes,... Read more »

CONDEMNING EOGHAN HARRIS

June 17, 2021

EOGHAN HARRIS was condemned from a great height by Cork City councillors who voted unanimously this week to “condemn the use of anonymous... Read more »

POLITICS AND LAW

June 17, 2021

JENNIFER CARROLL MACNEILL has had enough of the frenzy about political cronyism in the sphere of judicial appointments as she made clear in... Read more »

SONAR’S ‘DIPLOMACY’

June 17, 2021

A CONTROVERSIAL event at Trinity College Dublin last month resulted in Palestinian ambassador Jilan Wahba Abdalmajid expressing her outrage at the failure to... Read more »

FLIGHTS OF FANCY

June 17, 2021

THE DRAMATIC collapse of Stobart Air in recent days has thrown Ireland’s regional airports into turmoil, with 12 routes immediately suspended. These included... Read more »

TANKS, NOT HOUSES

June 3, 2021

LAST CHRISTMAS Goldhawk wrote that a planned reform of the Defence Forces would result in two things: the end of Irish neutrality and... Read more »

MOYA DOHERTY’S LEGAL ADVICE

June 3, 2021

THE PLOT thickens at RTÉ, where four vacancies on the board remain unfilled for months and now the legal eagles have been called... Read more »

EVANS-FREKE’S ESCAPE

June 3, 2021

GOLDHAWK’S favourite millionaire Wall Street banker, Stephen Evans-Freke, has had plenty to celebrate in recent weeks. First a plan for some houses near... Read more »