Affairs of the Nation Archives

AFFAIRS OF THE NATION

IAN BAILEY AND THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

October 22, 2020

ATTORNEY GENERAL, Paul Gallagher has crossed Ian Bailey several times since the garda tried to pin the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier... Read more »

DINNY’S AUSSIE DEAL

October 22, 2020

THE ONGOING High Court jousting concerning former Independent News and Media (INM) chairman Leslie Buckley has cast a spotlight on that strange deal... Read more »

FERGAL KEANE’S PPE CONTACTS

October 22, 2020

WITH NO sign of Covid-19 going away any time soon it, the state will be spending big on personal protection equipment (PPE) for... Read more »

McNAMARA’S NEW BAND WAGGON

October 22, 2020

IT MIGHT be temporary, but the public mood is in favour of stern government measures against Covid, although that does not seem to... Read more »

WEE CARE’S BIG BUCKS

October 22, 2020

NO DOUBT the suits at RTÉ paid particular interest to a Court of Appeal ruling rejecting the unusual request by a most profitable... Read more »

FLANAGAN’S CRYING GAME

October 22, 2020

NEWSTALK SHOWED great alacrity in interviewing former justice minister, Charlie ‘BlackandTanagain’ Flanagan about his attack on Unquiet Graves, the documentary about collusion (was... Read more »

GOODBYE GIRLCREW

October 22, 2020

SO FAREWELL then GirlCrew, whose female-focused networking app never gained the traction required to become a big player in the social media maelstrom.... Read more »

DENIS O’BRIEN’S APPLIANCES

October 8, 2020

A LIQUIDATOR has been appointed to a company called Demirca Ltd. Although not a familiar name, it turns out to be one of... Read more »

PRINCES OF LAW

October 8, 2020

GOLDHAWK IS grateful to a reader who looked up the Wikipedia entry for controversial Supreme Court judge Séamus Woulfe. The highlight is, without... Read more »

QUIS CUSTODIET IPSOS CUSTODES

October 8, 2020

SÉamus Woulfe got filleted by the Irish Times for his deluded self-pity over Golfgate, but the judges’ favourite newspaper still blamed “successive governments... Read more »

COVENEY YIELDS TO TRUMP ON ISRAEL

October 8, 2020

THE HIGHLY regarded Irish Times Middle East correspondent, Micheal Jansen, recently summarised the so-called breakthrough of the United Arab Emirate (UAE)-Bahrain-Israel deal as... Read more »

WILLIE WALSH’S ROUTE MAP

October 8, 2020

WITH FORMER Aer Lingus boss Willie Walsh having finally exited the giant International Airlines Group (IAG), where he had been chief executive for... Read more »

ED GUINEY’S PLOT TWIST

October 8, 2020

FANS OF Goldhawk are familiar with the costly development and change of ownership of the controversial Pálás cinema project in Galway, where the... Read more »

MATT COOPER’S MANY HATS

October 8, 2020

MATT COOPER is a very busy chap, which may explain why he apparently forgot to mention his roles in Today FM and Virgin... Read more »

CHARLIE FLANAGAN TO BE SUED?

October 8, 2020

IT’S RARE that a full-on riposte to Eoghan Harris’s attacks on those with the ‘wrong’ outlook is sanctioned by the Sunday Independent and... Read more »

BLUESHIRT ETHICS

October 8, 2020

THE CHAIRPERSON of Dún Laoghaire Fine Gael constituency organisation, Edward Kennedy, takes his responsibilities seriously. ‘Ted’ informed members in a recent missive, “I... Read more »

IAN MARSHALL’S SF SUPPORTERS

October 8, 2020

IS Micheál Martin about to make an embarrassing blunder by failing to present as unionist friendly, compared to those subversive, sectarian etc Sinn... Read more »

FRENCH GO FOR BAILEY — AGAIN

September 24, 2020

THE SUPREME Court will rule next month on the appeal by Ian Bailey against the High Court endorsement of the latest French extradition... Read more »

KINAHANS VS DISSIDENTS

September 24, 2020

Failure to burn the getaway car after the murder of dissident republican Michael Barr eventually led to the apprehension and jailing of two... Read more »

BLUESHIRTS BROKE

September 24, 2020

A HARDENED electorate will hardly weep, but Fine Gael is facing a financial crisis, partly because of Covid-19 but also because of post-election... Read more »

MICHAEL CREED’S LEGACY

September 24, 2020

IRELAND’S NEW 10-year Agrifood 2030 strategy is in breach of national and EU law and “will expose the department and the state to... Read more »

NEW BROOM AT ‘SINDO’

September 24, 2020

What’s in a name? That’s a question that Alan ‘New Broom’ English has likely been pondering since taking over at the Sunday Independent.... Read more »

FEXCO’S COVID ADVICE

September 24, 2020

FEXCO chief executive Denis McCarthy, son of Fexco founder Brian McCarthy, recently revealed a hitherto unknown medical bent as well as a Donald... Read more »

TRUSTING CYBER CRIMINALS

September 24, 2020

SURPRISINGLY LITTLE attention was paid to the cyber ransomware attacks early this year against at least two Irish universities – NUI Galway and... Read more »

PIRATED DELANEY BOOK

September 24, 2020

THE BOOK, Champagne Football – which reads more like a can of stale lager being poured over ex-FAI boss John Delaney – by... Read more »

FLANAGAN’S NEW ROLE

September 10, 2020

FORMER JUSTICE minister and RIC champion Charlie Flanagan has been appointed to the board of Co-operation Ireland, where he should fit in nicely... Read more »

GOLFGATE ‘CULTURE AND PROTOCOLS’

September 10, 2020

SO FAR, a minister (Dara Calleary) and an EU commissioner (Phil Hogan) have lost their jobs and a Supreme Court judge (ex-attorney general... Read more »

HOGAN’S CLUMSY ASSASSINATION

September 10, 2020

NOBODY EXCEPT the new EU commissioner for finance, Máiréad McGuinness, got what they wanted out of the downing of big Phil Hogan, although... Read more »

BRIAN POLLY’S ROUGH RIDE

September 10, 2020

WHILE HORSERACING has been back in action for a number of weeks, the real excitement is taking place off the track, where internecine... Read more »

JUDICIAL TRANSPARENCY

September 10, 2020

WITH TRANSPARENCY supposedly the preferred way of doing business these days, it is refreshing that some things don’t change that much. Justice minister... Read more »

FALSE FLAGS?

September 10, 2020

HEALTH MINISTER Stephen Donnelly has a lot riding on the testing programme for Covid-19. With reported cases rising recently, there is more focus... Read more »

NIALL MCGARRY’S LEGACY

September 10, 2020

WITH ICONIC Media currently bedding in the restructuring of the Maximum Media online outfit following its purchase by investment fund Greencastle Capital, across... Read more »

SEÁN MAC STÍOFÁIN – IRA DOUBLE AGENT

September 10, 2020

THE FIRST chief of staff of the Provisional IRA, Seán Mac Stíofáin, was a double agent, according to a soon-to-be published book, Deception... Read more »

BILL HOLOHAN’S SENIOR TITLE

September 10, 2020

CONGRATULATIONS to Cork legal eagle Bill Holohan, one of those lucky solicitors who managed to get themselves appointed senior counsel under new legislation.... Read more »

O’CALLAGHAN LURKS

August 27, 2020

PERSONALITIES IN the news and in crisis are EU Commissioner Phil Hogan and ex-attorney general Séamus Woulfe, but the real political crisis is... Read more »

BIG PHIL AND VLAD

August 27, 2020

THE BARELY noticed but distinct difference between statements about EU commissioner Phil Hogan’s fate from Taoiseach Micheál Martin and Tánaiste Leo Varadkar last... Read more »