Affairs of the Nation Archives

AFFAIRS OF THE NATION

JIMMY MENTON’S MEDICAL RECORD

June 3, 2021

THE LATEST arrival on the board of exploration company Providence Resources is James ‘Jimmy’ Menton, the former number cruncher who has played a... Read more »

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AIRO’S HEAVY GOING

June 3, 2021

THE GOING at the Association of Irish Racehorse Owners (AIRO) continues to be heavy. Chairman Brian Polly and member James Gough are already... Read more »

POL CORRS SPLIT ON BELARUS

June 3, 2021

THE ETHICAL antennae of Irish political correspondents rarely twitch when members of their own peer group fall foul of the law as evidenced... Read more »

ISRAEL: WHAT NEXT?

June 3, 2021

LITTLE OR no attention was paid by the media to a widely circulated video of the raising of the Irish flag to the... Read more »

JERUSALEM OR JERUSALEMA?

June 3, 2021

HORIZON 2020 is an EU scheme to stimulate economic growth as well as create jobs… “to ensure Europe produces world-class science, removes barriers... Read more »

CATHERINE MARTIN’S FILM CREDIT

June 3, 2021

CONGRATULATIONS TO communications minister Catherine Martin, who successfully shoe-horned herself into the PR blitz around the quarterly dishing out of funds to film... Read more »

PADRAIG HIGGINS’S TANGLE

June 3, 2021

A HAIR salon business part-owned by Cork number cruncher Padraig Higgins has just been wound up but, it turns out, he is also... Read more »

MEDIAHUIS: ROGER CASEMENT’S NEMESIS

May 20, 2021
LAST WEEK saw a corporate PR initiative designed to highlight the brand name of Mediahuis, new owners of the now defunct Independent News &... Read more »

BÓTHAR’S FUNDING ROADBLOCK

May 20, 2021

THE CHARITY Bóthar has been rarely out of the headlines since the story of the misappropriation of funds first surfaced in the High... Read more »

RTÉ’S EMPTY CHAIRS

May 20, 2021

STILL NO sign of white smoke from the media department, where minister Catherine Martin continues to sit on the names of the nominations... Read more »

CUNNING COVENEY’S CONTORTIONS

May 20, 2021

FOREIGN MINISTER Simon Coveney always likes to come over as the Palestinians’ best friend in public but his latest pronouncements are especially duplicitous.... Read more »

ACTING UP

May 20, 2021

THINGS ARE heating up off screen over relations between the Irish Equity actors’ union and the lobby group for production companies, Screen Producers... Read more »

HARRIS HOIST

May 20, 2021

THE DEFENESTRATION of Eoghan Harris by Sunday Independent editor Alan English and publisher Peter Vandermeersch had little to do with sexism and everything... Read more »

PETER KELLY’S ROUGH RIDE

May 20, 2021

FILINGS IN the Companies Office throw some light on the scale of last year’s collapse of businesses controlled by Ballymore Eustace bloodstock breeder... Read more »

FILM BOARD’S NEW CAST

May 20, 2021

RATHER LATE in the day, the board of the state funding agency for film and television, Screen Ireland (SI), has finally been appointed... Read more »

MEDIAHUIS: ROGER CASEMENT’S NEMESIS

May 20, 2021

LAST WEEK saw a corporate PR initiative designed to highlight the brand name of Mediahuis, new owners of the now defunct Independent News... Read more »

BÓTHAR’S FUNDING ROADBLOCK

May 20, 2021

THE CHARITY Bóthar has been rarely out of the headlines since the story of the misappropriation of funds first surfaced in the High... Read more »

RTÉ’S EMPTY CHAIRS

May 20, 2021

STILL NO sign of white smoke from the media department, where minister Catherine Martin continues to sit on the names of the nominations... Read more »

CUNNING COVENEY’S CONTORTIONS

May 20, 2021

FOREIGN MINISTER Simon Coveney always likes to come over as the Palestinians’ best friend in public but his latest pronouncements are especially duplicitous.... Read more »

ACTING UP

May 20, 2021

THINGS ARE heating up off screen over relations between the Irish Equity actors’ union and the lobby group for production companies, Screen Producers... Read more »

HARRIS HOIST

May 20, 2021

THE DEFENESTRATION of Eoghan Harris by Sunday Independent editor Alan English and publisher Peter Vandermeersch had little to do with sexism and everything... Read more »

PETER KELLY’S ROUGH RIDE

May 20, 2021

FILINGS IN the Companies Office throw some light on the scale of last year’s collapse of businesses controlled by Ballymore Eustace bloodstock breeder... Read more »

FILM BOARD’S NEW CAST

May 20, 2021

RATHER LATE in the day, the board of the state funding agency for film and television, Screen Ireland (SI), has finally been appointed... Read more »

EVEN-STEVENS AS JEFFREY CATCHES UP

May 6, 2021

THE DUP leadership election is shaping up to be more of a contest than many expected. Edwin Poots, the north’s agriculture minister, widely... Read more »

ROSE HYNES’S TURBULENCE

May 6, 2021

THE IRISH Aviation Authority (IAA) has just published its annual report, which doesn’t make for easy reading. As a result of a 21%... Read more »

SHAUN MURPHY’S SNOOKERS

May 6, 2021

IRISH SPORTING heavyweights are rare enough these days and snooker supremo Shaun ‘the Magician’ Murphy has been claimed as an honorary Irishman. Earlier... Read more »

ROBERT WATT’S LOT

May 6, 2021

IF OPPOSITION politicians, the public and health service employees are aggrieved at the happy lot of mandarin extraordinaire Robert Watt, they can’t say... Read more »

RTÉ AND ITS ‘COLD’ CLIMATE FORECAST

May 6, 2021

THERE ARE, to say the least, some very mixed messages emanating from Montrose on climate change, a topic that has long been a... Read more »

ENDA O’COINEEN’S PARTNER

May 6, 2021

DOCUMENTS FILED in the Companies Office recently give an insight into the valuations attached to the Business Post, where flamboyant investor Enda O’Coineen... Read more »

EOGHAN VS ÉILIS IN ‘SINDO’ BORDER SPLIT

May 6, 2021

THE EFFORTS of Sunday Independent editor Alan English to soften the neo-unionist tone of the paper has caused convulsions within the camp. With... Read more »

GORDON ELLIOTT’S ALSO RANS

May 6, 2021

IT MAY have been just as well that Gordon Elliott wasn’t present in Punchestown last week when Willie Mullins was busy making hay.... Read more »

IRISH MEDDLE IN BRITISH POLITICS!

May 6, 2021

IN THE aftermath of the Scottish Independence and Brexit referendums there were calls by many British politicians for an investigation into Russian interference... Read more »

VLAD’S THINK TANK CRITIC

May 6, 2021

IT IS unusual to see the tánaiste responding to criticism by penning a letter to the Irish Times but that is exactly what... Read more »

MARY LOU’S NON-APOLOGY

April 22, 2021

THE WORLD’S press, including most of the Irish media, rushed to poor judgment about Mary Lou McDonald’s non-apology last Sunday for the IRA’s... Read more »

JAMES GOUGH’S LIBEL ACTION

April 22, 2021

BUSINESSMAN, BLUESHIRT and racehorse owner James Gough is building up quite a track record in the litigation stakes, with his most recent target... Read more »

RICHARD CORRIGAN’S DIVIDENDS

April 22, 2021

MOUTHY CELEBRITY chef Richard Corrigan has plenty to shout about as customers flock back to expensive restaurants in London. Accounts for 2019 signed... Read more »