Affairs of the Nation Archives

AFFAIRS OF THE NATION

CASHIERED CHAMBERS MARK 11

February 25, 2021

MINISTER CHAMBERS is still the subject of military disputation after the Minister for Defence (and foreign affairs), Simon Coveney, broke him down from... Read more »

CLARIFICATION

February 25, 2021

An article in the issue of January 29, 2021, referred to the establishment by Noel and Jacinta McMahon of an online dating agency... Read more »

EAMON RYAN’S PRIORITIES

February 25, 2021

THE DECISION of Dublin City Council to reject an application by the ESB to change the much-loved Georgian Museum on Lower Fitzwilliam Street... Read more »

MARY AIKEN’S PAYDAY

February 25, 2021

GOLDHAWK WAS delighted to see that celebrity cyberpsychologist Mary Aiken has made a fair few bob out of her involvement with a US... Read more »

MARTIN’S MEA CULPA

February 11, 2021

THE MOST extraordinary dual admission by Taoiseach Micheál Martin last Sunday appears to have been completely overlooked by the political correspondents and even... Read more »

FRAZIER V ALI

February 11, 2021

SECRETARY GENERAL of the Taoiseach’s department, heavy-hitting Martin Fraser, may be the Joe Frazier of government mandarins but chief medical officer Tony Holohan... Read more »

ULICK McEVADDY’S RED FLAG

February 11, 2021

INTERESTING To see one Ulick McEvaddy pop up as a director of China International Aviation Leasing Services Ltd (CIALS), the company at the... Read more »

NICK ASHMORE’S SUCCESSOR

February 11, 2021

THE SEARCH is on to find a new chief executive at the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland (SBCI), the little known agency that... Read more »

CARI’S JUDGMENT

February 11, 2021

GOLDHAWK WAS surprised to see Fingal County Council registering a judgment for a paltry €6,100 against Cari’s Closet Ltd, which has been the... Read more »

TENI’S PRESCRIPTION

February 11, 2021

THE IRISH College of General Practitioners (ICGP) found itself under the spotlight last week after having to withdraw its online guide for doctors... Read more »

BREXIT INTEL

February 11, 2021

THE SURPRISE last-minute switch in the appointment of a new national intelligence adviser in the UK has bigger implications than the fact that... Read more »

FARMERS’ FUMING

February 11, 2021

WHILE most lobbyists at least pay lip service to caring about climate action, the Irish Farmers Association has no such compunctions. At its... Read more »

IRELAND TO ALLY WITH ISRAELI ARMY?

January 28, 2021

THERE HAS been no coverage by Irish media of a dramatic EU decision that could see EU states – including Ireland – involved... Read more »

HAUGHEY TELLS MARTIN TO GO

January 28, 2021

THE NORMALLY inoffensive Fianna Fáil TD, Seán Haughey, let loose with both barrels against his leader, Micheál Martin, last weekend, remarking sweetly that... Read more »

AILISH KELLY’S ‘ZOOM BOOM’

January 28, 2021

PRESUMABLY cosmetic surgery queen Ailish Kelly and her daughter, Niamh Murdock, were delighted with a plug – in the Business Post of all... Read more »

PATRICK DORAN’S BIG BUCKS

January 28, 2021

INTERESTING TO see an Irish-backed operation raising big bucks in the US. One of the principals here turns out to be Patrick Doran,... Read more »

ALI RYAN’S FIGURES

January 28, 2021

ALI RYAN, Goldhawk’s favourite celeb spotter, and the chief executive of Goss Media, has been generating her fair share of headlines recently. Less... Read more »

FOX FAMILY LAWYERS UP

January 28, 2021

THINGS ARE starting to get rather complicated in relation to the tragic death of detective superintendent Colm Fox almost three years ago. Three... Read more »

KERRY BABIES: COLDEST CASE

January 28, 2021

THE RECENT settlement between Joanne Hayes’ family and government (€2.5m) coupled with an apology and declaration that the Kerry Babies Tribunal reached incorrect... Read more »

CATHERINE MARTIN’S EMPTY CHAIR

January 28, 2021

MEDIA, TOURISM and culture minister Catherine Martin was effusive in her praise of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) earlier this month when... Read more »

JUSTINE MCCARTHY’S MISCHIEF

January 28, 2021

WHAT A curious and perhaps mischievous column Sunday Times journalist Justine McCarthy penned after Donald Trump supporters laid siege to Washington DC’s Capitol... Read more »

FF: O’BRIEN ENTERS THE STAGE

January 14, 2021

A FLURRY of statements, off-record briefings and spin from Fianna Fáil personalities in the Christmas/new year period has triggered renewed pressure on Micheál... Read more »

BIBI’S ‘INSPIRED’ PANDEMIC PITCH

January 14, 2021

IT WOULD be difficult to find a more original gesture towards nursing home residents, assailed as they are by the pandemic, than that... Read more »

WHITMORE’S WEDGE

January 14, 2021

LOVE ISLAND presenter Laura Whitmore will be looking forward to making a few bob in 2021 with a new book on the way.... Read more »

LITTLE MUSEUM’S BIG GRANT

January 14, 2021

WITH COMMENTATORS warning of economic misery coming down the tracks as a result of the huge pandemic spend, a lot of expensive projects... Read more »

LAW SOC TOP JOB

January 14, 2021

WITH THE Law Society looking for a new director general to replace the retiring Ken Murphy, it is inevitable that the chat will... Read more »

DE RENZY’S POWER OF ATTORNEY

January 14, 2021

ON PAGE 14 of this issue, we profile the colourful Graeme de Renzy, whose adventures have been closely followed by Goldhawk down the... Read more »

CULCHIES RULE OK!

January 14, 2021

POPE FRANCIS’S promotion of a provincial, conservative member of the current nondescript bench of bishops to succeed Diarmuid Martin as Archbishop of Dublin... Read more »

FIGHTING ANTI-COVID LAWS

January 14, 2021

FORMER RENUA member, barrister Tracey O’Mahony, has been organising a crowd-funding campaign to finance challenges to anti-Covid restrictions and laws. An initial target... Read more »

IRELAND’S UN CON TRICK

January 14, 2021

GRANDIOSE STATEMENTS from foreign minister, Simon Coveney on Palestine, and Ireland’s permanent representative to the United Nations, Geraldine Byrne Nason indicate not merely... Read more »

LIZ HEADON’S ROLL-OUT

January 14, 2021

THE APPOINTMENT of Liz Headon to head up the communications aspect of the vaccine roll-out should come as little surprise given her credentials.... Read more »

STANLEY AND ‘LEO D TORY’

December 16, 2020

WHY DID Fine Gael’s ever alert social media watchers not react with outrage in early June 2017 when Brian Stanley tweeted about “Leo... Read more »

FRANK CLARKE’S SUCCESSOR

December 16, 2020

CHIEF JUSTICE Frank Clarke’s magnificent and munificent gesture in declining to accept his €5,200 pay increase has not impressed all his colleagues and... Read more »

CLEVER TREVOR’S PAY PACKET

December 16, 2020

LIKE MOST cultural venues, The Little Museum of Dublin has been hit by the pandemic, which resulted in the St Stephen’s Green operation... Read more »

SUSAN KIRBY’S EXHIBITION

December 16, 2020

THE NEW boss of the Screen Producers Ireland lobby group is former St Patrick’s Festival CEO Susan Kirby. There has, however, been no... Read more »

ROZ FLANAGAN’S RESCUE PACKAGE

December 16, 2020

A COMPANY that was just placed in examinership to protect it from creditors turns out to be half-owned by Roz Flanagan of Dublin... Read more »