Article Category: Affairs of the Nation

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »