Affairs of the Nation Archives

AFFAIRS OF THE NATION

Mary McAleese confirmed her position as the chief lay critic of misogyny and unaccountability in the Roman Church.

ANNUAL 2020- CLERICAL ERRORS: IRISH APOSTATES CAST OUT

November 19, 2020

On Saturday November 28, Pope Francis will preside in Rome at a ceremony conferring red hats on 13 new Cardinals, but none of... Read more »

WOULFE IN JUDGE’S CLOTHING

November 19, 2020

HAVING BEEN transformed from predator into the hunted one vis-à-vis Supreme Court ‘colleague’ Séamus Woulfe, Chief Justice Frank Clarke may now feel he... Read more »

BIDEN AND IRISH NEUTRALITY

November 19, 2020

AS VICTORY for Joe Biden’s US presidential campaign inched closer, the Irish Times’s EU warriors became more exercised about the consequences for what... Read more »

UNICORNS’ PROFITS

November 19, 2020

LAST YEAR the Dáil declared a biodiversity emergency and, in recent months, the EU’s Farm To Fork strategy set out ambitious targets to... Read more »

FARRELL’S FALL

November 19, 2020

GOLDHAWK’S OLD friend, security specialist Jim Farrell, has just been adjudged a bankrupt in relation to a row over his former company. Business... Read more »

LONDON CALLING

November 19, 2020

CONGRATS TO the chaps in News UK, London head Office of the Sunday Times – which dictates the tone and tenor of its... Read more »

WILD MOUNTAIN MEN

November 19, 2020

WITH ALL the fuss over the trailer for Wild Mountain Thyme, it is interesting to note that the taxpayer has put a fair... Read more »

ANNUAL 2020: GOLDHAWK’S AWARDS FOR THE PASSING PARADE 2020

November 19, 2020

Tony Holohan IT IS probably safe to say that Monty Python’s Always Look on the Bright Side of Life is not on repeat... Read more »

FRANK CLARKE’S APPOINTMENT

November 18, 2020

ANOTHER aspect of Séamus Woulfe’s term as attorney general that has recently been seized on is the secretive manner of his appointment to... Read more »

VARADKAR’S VBFS

November 5, 2020

HOW PIQUANT that Leo Varadkar should have made cronyism such a strong part of his political profile when he began his bid for... Read more »

GEMMA’S BRITISH COMRADES

November 5, 2020

GEMMA O’DOHERTY is positioned distinctly to the right on the political spectrum, but her rallies and those of other anti-immigrant ‘Irish patriots’, like... Read more »

MARGARET SWEENEY’S €1M PA

November 5, 2020

FORMER DUBLIN Airport Authority boss Margaret Sweeney landed herself a 42% pay hike at the listed property giant I-Res Reit, where her total... Read more »

DERMOT LACEY’S STRANGE APPOINTMENT

November 5, 2020

EYEBROWS WERE raised recently when education minister Norma Foley quietly made her three appointments to the governing authority of UCD. One of the... Read more »

SIMONE ROCHA’S PEARLS

November 5, 2020

FASHION DESIGNER Simone Rocha recently launched her Spring 2021 ready-to-wear collection ‘in the flesh’, eschewing the online Zoom-type events that are increasingly familiar.... Read more »

DOCTORS DIFFER

November 5, 2020

THE LIST of characters in Leo Varadkar’s ‘confidential’ leak story includes the tánaiste himself, web summit guru Paddy Cosgrave, GP union head Dr... Read more »

DR VARADKAR’S DILEMMA

November 5, 2020

TÁNAISTE DR Leo Varadkar’s medical interactions have seen him don scrubs and present as Joseph Lister in the first phase of Covid-19 last... Read more »

SDLP FRACKING DILEMMA

November 5, 2020

NORTHERN CONTROVERSIES only attract media attention if they concern Sinn Féin, which might help to explain why the SDLP’s Nichola Mallon, Northern Ireland’s... Read more »

DECLAN KELLY’S PREDICTIONS

November 5, 2020

NO DOUBT corporate strategist extraordinaire Declan Kelly was keeping a close eye on the US election results this week given his company’s strong... Read more »

OOPS! THEY’VE DONE IT AGAIN

November 5, 2020

AN IRISH animated film topped the UK box office charts last month, offering another potential big pay day for Siún Ní Raghallaigh and... Read more »

CRYING WOULFE

October 22, 2020

THE JUDICIARY’S ineffectual attempt to deal with their esteemed new Supreme Court member, Seamus Woulfe, following his double bogey on the 19th hole... Read more »

MCDOWELL’S SILENCE

October 22, 2020

THE INFORMATIVE and provocative columns in the Irish Times by Senator Michael McDowell indicate a man who has rarely shied away from confrontation... Read more »

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 »