Article Category: Affairs of the Nation

BRIAN KAVANAGH’S NEXT RIDE?

March 11, 2021

INVESTORS IN the revamped Curragh racecourse (who include the likes of John Magnier, JP McManus and one Sheikh Mohammed al Maktoum), will be... Read more »

JOHN CORRIGAN’S ‘PRIVATE MATTER’

March 11, 2021

WHILE HEADS have rolled at Davy this week, chairman John Corrigan remains in place, which suggests he is doing a hell of a... Read more »

COVENEY SILENT ON KHASHOGGI MURDER

March 11, 2021

WITH US President Joe Biden under pressure for not sanctioning Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for his role in the murder of... Read more »

IRISH DPP SCOTS KINGMAKER

March 11, 2021

THE BYZANTINE feud between former Scottish first minister Alex Salmond and his successor Nicola Sturgeon involves complex legal and parliamentary detail, which is... Read more »

TRACY PIGGOTT’S OUTRAGE

March 11, 2021

THE RACING community is still drawing breath after circulation of that photograph of Gordon Elliott sitting on a dead horse, with the trainer... Read more »

MARY ROBINSON’S PR DISASTER

February 25, 2021

MARY ROBINSON has faced a barrage of criticism since the BBC’s report on the plight of Sheikha Latifa, the hapless daughter of United... Read more »

‘I. TIMES’ SILENT ON BETHANY BABY HOME

February 25, 2021

FOLLOWING JUDGE Yvonne Murphy’s report last month into mother and baby homes, The Phoenix published an investigation, ‘Bethany Baby Home and the Irish... 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 »

‘SPINELESS TEAM EU’

February 25, 2021

CHEERY COMMENT from Irish Times Europe correspondent Naomi O’Leary recently – “Millions more doses secured for Ireland” – came a day after the... Read more »

FARMING FACTS

February 25, 2021

IT’S TOUGH work trying to put a positive PR spin on the environmental train wreck otherwise known as the Irish beef and dairy... Read more »

EUGENE REGAN’S FRIENDS

February 25, 2021

WELL-CONNECTED former senator Eugene Regan has been reappointed to the Court of Justice to the EU for another six-year term following the intervention... Read more »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »