Affairs of the Nation Archives

AFFAIRS OF THE NATION

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 »

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 »