Article Category: Affairs of the Nation

IRISH ‘DIPLOMACY’

October 3, 2024

A RECENT Irish Times article about the Spycatcher court case in Australia, which so embarrassed British cabinet secretary Robert Armstrong in 1986, was... Read more »

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MEDIA BUDGETARY ECHO CHAMBERS

October 3, 2024

Hats off to the Government handlers who secured fawning coverage of the budget long before Jack Chambers uttered a word last Tuesday. The... Read more »

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BARKING MAD!

October 3, 2024

WITH THE ban on importing, selling and rehoming XL bully type dogs kicking in this week, the level of protest from the various... Read more »

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DUBLIN-MONAGHAN BOMB FILES MISSING

October 3, 2024

FORMER BRITISH ARMY officer Colin Wallace worked as a psychological operations officer at the army’s HQ in Lisburn in the 1970s. He rubbed... Read more »

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DECLAN POWER’S LEGITIMATE TARGETS

October 3, 2024

DESPITE Ireland’s new right recent poor performance at local and European elections, these movements remain a potent force on the streets and online.... Read more »

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APPLE TAX LAWYERS’ PRIVATE FEES

September 19, 2024

IT IS hard to think of a story whose publication could be more in the public interest than the multi-billion-euro Apple tax charade,... Read more »

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DREW HARRIS AND MI5

September 19, 2024

DREW HARRIS became Garda commissioner in 2018, having served as deputy chief constable of the PSNI, 2014-18. His RUC/PSNI duties once involved liaison... Read more »

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GRÁINNE SEOIGHE’S RIVALS

September 19, 2024

WHILE THE media fawn over broadcaster Gráinne Seoighe, who is the new Fianna Fáil Dáil candidate in Galway West, rumblings of discontent abound... Read more »

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SUE GRAY: IRELAND’S FRIEND

September 19, 2024

THE RENEWAL of “friendship” between Britain and Ireland, the Aawrish edition of the Sunday Times recently reported, has much to do with the... Read more »

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TICKET FOR TAT

September 19, 2024

TO DESCRIBE the Nicki Minaj ‘concert’ at Malahide Castle as a debacle would be something of an understatement. The Trinidadian-born rapper left fans... Read more »

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ISRAELI ABUSES IGNORED?

September 19, 2024

RECENT REPORTS of Palestinian detainees being brutalised by Israeli guards, in abuse ranging from beating to sexual torture, have recently been chronicled by... Read more »

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REGRESSIVE IRELAND

September 19, 2024

Things can only get better for Ivana Bacik. With New Labour back in power in London, the Irish Labour leader had to attend... Read more »

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NEW RIGHT VIEW ON CHILD ABUSE

September 19, 2024

THE INVECTIVE of new-right agitators in Ireland, both on the streets and online, is often centred on depicting opponents as “paedos”, “groomers”, “child... Read more »

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MEAT AND THE CITY

September 19, 2024

A year ago this month, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a light-hearted tweet featuring a photo of Kim Cattrall of Sex and... Read more »

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HARRIS’S GAZA MOVE

September 5, 2024
A FORTNIGHT ago, August 24, Taoiseach Simon Harris said there was no scope for Ireland to act unilaterally against Israel. A week later he... Read more »

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PHIL HOGAN’S LONG WAIT

September 5, 2024

IT TURNS out that Goldhawk’s favourite former EU commissioner, Phil Hogan, had to wait an awfully long time for an honorary doctorate from... Read more »

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THE ABBEY’S ‘SENSE OF RELIEF’

September 5, 2024
CONGRATULATIONS TO the board of the €8.5m per annum Abbey Theatre, which pulled off quite the media coup in light of some damning findings... Read more »

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HEAVY GOING FOR THE COMERS

September 5, 2024

BOTH LUKE Comer senior and junior, in the space of just six weeks, have had their racehorse training licences revoked by the Bowler... Read more »

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ODDS ON FOR IRTA

September 5, 2024

NINE MONTHS after a devastating court of appeal ruling in a defamation case, the odds on the Irish Racehorse Trainers Association (IRTA) –... Read more »

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PEACE-WASHING CAPTAIN NAIRAC

September 5, 2024

EVERY TIME the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims’ Remains (ICLVR) makes an initiative, behind the scenes ‘sources’ swing into action with... Read more »

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NUI CHANCELLOR ELECTION

September 5, 2024

THE PATRICIAN Seanad may be under threat from a vulgar populism in these menacing times but standards have been maintained in academia where... Read more »

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PÓGING THE THÓIN!

September 5, 2024

I strongly suspect that everyone’s favourite peacemaker – Bono – also played a part. He’s thick as thieves with Noely G and his... Read more »

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NATO CODS IRELAND

September 5, 2024

WHEN IRELAND concluded its individually tailored partnership programme (ITPP) governing continued co-operation with Nato under Partnership for Peace from 2024 to 2028 in... Read more »

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MI5 BOSS: ‘I KNOW NAWTHING’

September 5, 2024
Freddie Scappaticci was the UK’s most lethal mole in the IRA. His codename was Stakeknife. Last March the interim report of Operation Kenova concluded... Read more »

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MARY ROBINSON’S MAKE-OVER

August 22, 2024

WHO KNEW that Mary Robinson was so impressionable, as indicated in a recent all-holds barred Irish Independent interview with the former president as... Read more »

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AIDAN CORLESS’S UNFORTUNATE TENANT

August 22, 2024

AIDAN CORLESS is a busy man, juggling his roles as software company boss and charity chairman with overseeing a sprawling rental empire in... Read more »

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TARGETING JACK CHAMBERS

August 22, 2024

THE SUITS in the Drinks Industry Group of Ireland (Digi), a lobby group for the alcohol sector, must have been delighted with the... Read more »

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NEIL O’CONNELL’S WILD ROOTS

August 22, 2024

WHILE ELECTRIC Picnic folded up its tents last weekend after another sell-out shindig, there was rather less to celebrate in the grounds of... Read more »

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BILL’S BIG HIT

August 22, 2024

AN OLD friend of Goldhawk’s has just made quite a splash, courtesy of a whopping great judgment from those spoilsports in Nama. Like... Read more »

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NOT SO TIDY

August 22, 2024

THE NEXT AGM of Dún Laoghaire’s Eblana Club is likely to experience a stormy session regarding unsavoury reports emanating from the club about... Read more »

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WORKING-CLASS HERO

August 22, 2024

IRISH INDEPENDENT shock-jock columnist Ian O’Doherty is a fan of right-wing US libertarian politics. The born-again proletarian champion recently wrote how “the images... Read more »

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SUE GRAY’S CONTROL

August 22, 2024

PRIME MINISTER Kier Starmer’s chief of staff, Sue Gray, has for some time been accused by many in Britain as a powerful spook... Read more »

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MI5’S MISSING SCAPPATICCI FILES

August 22, 2024

NO ONE familiar with the manner in which the UK has conducted inquiries into allegations of British dirty tricks over the last half... Read more »

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VIRTUAL SOLDIERS

August 22, 2024

DOES THE Government and defence minister Micheál Martin believe they have solved the recruitment crisis in the Defence Forces with pretend soldiers? RTÉ... Read more »

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HUW EDWARDS AND MI5

August 8, 2024

HOW DID Huw Edwards, the former face of BBC News, maintain virtual immunity for so long given the evidence of his crimes involving... Read more »

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ANNE DAVY’S CHILD’S PLAY

August 8, 2024

THREE MONTHS after agreeing to settle High Court proceedings involving 41 children, creche operator Hyde & Seek Childcare is clearly well able to... Read more »

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