Affairs of the Nation Archives

AFFAIRS OF THE NATION

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 »

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

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 »

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 »

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 »