Affairs of the Nation Archives

AFFAIRS OF THE NATION

HUMAN RIGHTS NEW REGIME

February 27, 2020

THE PROTRACTED saga and disputes over appointments to the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHREC) appear to have concluded with last week’s... Read more »

TONY O’REILLY’S GOOD NEWS

February 27, 2020

GOOD NEWS for Tony O’Reilly for a change. It looks like the former press (and bean) baron is about to exit bankruptcy, almost... Read more »

RICHARD BARRETT’S GREEN LIGHTS

February 27, 2020

LAST WEEK, moneybags property developer Richard Barrett got another green light for his ‘Niche Living’ brand of shared accommodation developments, with An Bord... Read more »

PASCHAL DONOHOE’S NEXT APPOINTMENT

February 27, 2020

LAST WEEK was the closing date for applicants seeking a place on the board of the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland (SBCI), a... Read more »

PETER GOULANDRIS’S CBE

February 27, 2020

GOLDHAWK was delighted to see that the low-profile moneybags, Peter Goulandris (older brother of Chryss), had landed himself a CBE for “services to... Read more »

LILLIPUT’S INTERNSHIP

February 27, 2020

A RECENTLY announced unpaid internship with Arts Council-funded Lilliput Press has not been well received and may run foul of a new policy... Read more »

TORY DONOR AND SINN FÉIN UNITE

February 27, 2020

CONSERVATIVE PARTY donor to the tune of €5 million over the last three years, John Gore, who is also an award-winning Broadway producer,... Read more »

MICHEÁL MARTIN IN DEEP TROUBLE

February 13, 2020

THE GENERAL election drama is only beginning and the desolation of Fianna Fáil TDs is turning from shock and trauma to anger with... Read more »

KATHRYN BYRNE’S BAD PR

February 13, 2020

GOLDHAWK WAS surprised to see in Stubbs Gazette that a judgment was registered against high-profile public relations outfit Limelight Communications, where Fianna Fáiler... Read more »

JOE RYAN’S SKILLS

February 13, 2020

GOLDHAWK was interested to read the press release on the five-year plan published last month by the Irish Film and Television Academy (IFTA).... Read more »

NO SWEAT

February 13, 2020

THE RECENT judgment by High Court Judge Mark Heslin in favour of the Church of Scientology’s drug rehab centre in the Meath village... Read more »

W2’S ‘VIKINGS’ RAID

February 13, 2020

THE LATEST plot development in the blockbuster courtroom drama playing at the Four Goldmines between producers Morgan O’Sullivan and James Flynn, and plaintiff,... Read more »

IRFU: THE WEST’S AWAKE

February 13, 2020

THE IRISH rugby team has shown renewed fighting spirit in the Six Nations Rugby Championship competition so far, but there are allegations of... Read more »

PRESS COUNCIL VS ‘IRISH TIMES’

February 13, 2020

HAS THE Press Council become the editorial arbiter between the Irish Times and complainants who demand fairness and transparency in the ‘paper of... Read more »

JOHNNY COLLINS DISMOUNTS

February 13, 2020

HAVING HAD a very successful 2019, this year has not proved quite so memorable for Carrigtwohill, Co Cork, racehorse trainer John Collins, who... Read more »

AK47 HOVERS AGAIN

February 13, 2020

IT’S NOT just Micheál Martin and Leo Varadkar that face career-ending prospects in the coming weeks or months. Labour leader Brendan Howlin is... Read more »

MURPHY’S LAW RUNS IN RANELAGH

January 30, 2020

Even if Eoghan Murphy is relieved of his environment ministerial portfolio, he may not be free from planning issues. The local worthies in... Read more »

SF SPECTRE LOOMS

January 30, 2020

FIANNA FÁIL TDs believe that Micheál Martin will be forced to do the U-turn of the millennium and form a coalition government with... Read more »

ROBERT NAIRAC OUTED

January 30, 2020

BRITISH ARMY undercover operative Captain Robert Nairac’s central involvement in the 1975 Miami Showband Massacre has now been finally confirmed at Belfast High... Read more »

TACKLING TONY ENSOR

January 30, 2020

FORMER LAW Society president and international rugby star Tony Ensor exposed a soft shoulder to High Court president Peter Kelly earlier this month.... Read more »

JOSEPHA’S VACANCIES

January 30, 2020

ONE OF the games played by politics watchers around election time is clocking how many board appointments the various outgoing ministers manage to... Read more »

TARGETING THE SCIENTOLOGISTS

January 30, 2020

THE RULING earlier this month by High Court judge Mark Heslin greenlighting the Scientologists’ multi-million euro drug treatment centre in the Meath village... Read more »

FARMERS’ VENGEANCE ON CREED

January 30, 2020

A BIG scalp hiding in plain sight is that of Michael Creed but, if the agriculture minister loses his seat, which Fine Gael... Read more »

FOLLOW THE MONEY

January 30, 2020

Leo Varadkar’s two-and-a-half years as taoiseach saw him use the previously obscure ‘money message’ to block 55 pieces of legislation that had won... Read more »

ARTHUR NUGENT’S LICENCE

January 30, 2020

GOLDHAWK has reported elsewhere (see p5) on the bruising judgment issued by Judge Peter Kelly in the High Court in relation to an... Read more »

ARAMARK DROPS OUT

January 30, 2020

Activists in Trinity College Dublin are basking in the afterglow of a victory in their fight against the on-campus presence of US food... Read more »

VLAD’S FALSE START

January 16, 2020

LEO VARADKAR met his election target date, but the manner of its announcement was belated and cack-handed. Fine Gael’s delicate political choreography came... Read more »

IAN BAILEY: THIRD TIME UNLUCKY?

January 16, 2020

MUCH LEGAL comment has focussed on the change in extradition law and how this may enable the despatch of Ian Bailey to the... Read more »

COVENEY’S €50M COUP

January 16, 2020

WITH THE general election having been called, Tánaiste Simon Coveney must be relieved he got to deliver the news of a big funding... Read more »

ANGUS’S ASSETS

January 16, 2020

THERE WAS a ﬂ urry of ﬁ lings around Christmas by players at the centre of a legal action by the Solicitors Mutual... Read more »

‘SINDO’ INSIDERS ‘SWOTTED’ ASIDE

January 16, 2020

A MOOD of rejection and indeed resentment was palpable at Independent House last week as various ‘leading’ in-house contenders for the post of... Read more »

TENEO’S SPORTING INTERESTS

January 16, 2020

TENEO, THE global corporate communications outfit headed by Declan Kelly, brother of Labour TD Alan ‘AK47’ Kelly, has won a contract as PR... Read more »

SINKING SOC DEMS

January 16, 2020

THE SOCIAL Democrats might be staring into the abyss at this election. The centre-left group, headed by TDs Catherine Murphy and Roísin Shortall,... Read more »

STUDENTS NO-VOTE

January 16, 2020

THE CONTROVERSY over the voter register for next month’s election threatens to undo a lot of the Union of Students in Ireland (USI)... Read more »

TRUMP CARD FOR EU ARMY

January 16, 2020

THOSE MODERATE Irish Europhiles who are so aghast at Donald Trump’s belligerent foreign policy have managed to use his latest excess against the... Read more »

GAME OVER

January 16, 2020

A COMPANY called Tag Media Ltd (TML) has shut it doors, but a new one has opened for its principal. The digital print... Read more »