Affairs of the Nation Archives

AFFAIRS OF THE NATION

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 »

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

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 »

IRELAND’S SECRET MILITARY PLANS

April 22, 2021

AN ARTICLE in the Defence Forces Review 2020 has caused a spat between its authors, the Defence Forces and the Department of Defence over charges... Read more »

‘CHICKEN KING’ BOPARAN

April 22, 2021

A COMPANY called Ilderstone Ltd has just been liquidated. This turns out to be an entity linked to the Harry Ramsden’s outlets in... Read more »

DAVID KENNEDY’S CASE

April 22, 2021

THIS WEEK will see the eagerly awaited 2020 annual report from the controversial Datalex firm. The impact of developments in China will be... Read more »

THEY HAVEN’T GONE AWAY, YOU KNOW

April 22, 2021

THE GOOD Friday Agreement was signed almost a quarter of a century ago, with one of its key commitments that the north would... Read more »

DOWN ON THE FARMERS

April 22, 2021

WHATEVER ELSE you might say about RTÉ, it does take impartiality seriously. You would be generally hard pressed to say for sure how... Read more »

SHEIKH MAKTOUM’S GOOD GOING?

April 8, 2021

HORSE RACING Ireland (HRI) finds itself in the spotlight again as the sport faces new pressure to acknowledge the toxic issues surrounding Sheikh... Read more »

STEPHEN DONNELLY: ZERO TO HERO?

April 8, 2021

THE BIGGEST cabinet split between Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael ministers since the formation of government occurred last week over health minister Stephen... Read more »

KERRY GUINAN’S UNION

April 8, 2021

IT’S NOT every day that a new union comes along but the arrival of the Artists’ Union of Ireland (AUI) looks set to... Read more »

TV’S ROYAL FAMILY

April 8, 2021

IN CASE you missed it, the ‘RTS Irish Television Awards’ had its inaugural outing last week on Virgin Media One, where many of... Read more »

BREEGE O’DONOGHUE’S SUCCESSOR?

April 8, 2021

THERE IS still no sign of a new chair being appointed by Leo Varadkar at the Design and Crafts Council of Ireland (DCCI),... Read more »

‘IRISH MEDICAL TIMES’ PACIFIST

April 8, 2021

THE WINDS of austerity have swept through the Irish publishing industry, with even the medical media feeling the chill in recent years. Chief... Read more »

COVERT SECURITY PLANS

April 8, 2021

THE YEAR 2021 is supposed to see a strategic review of defence as scheduled in the 2016 White Paper, it being the midterm... Read more »

KEN’S LONG GOODBYE

March 25, 2021

THE LIFE and times of retiring Law Society director general Ken Murphy were shared, last Friday, with lucky past presidents of the society... Read more »

APOLLO’S QUARANTINE SHOT

March 25, 2021

WITH THE hospitality sector in tatters, the landing of the state’s quarantine accommodation contract represents a real fillip for the Tifco Hotels group.... Read more »

IAN BLACK’S PAC GRILLING

March 25, 2021

THERE WERE fun and games at the Dáil Public Accounts Committee (PAC) this month, when the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland (SBCI) faced... Read more »