Affairs of the Nation Archives

AFFAIRS OF THE NATION

SHANE ROSS’S LIFEJACKETS

January 16, 2020

WHILE SHANE Ross has been busy generating headlines for himself, one area of responsibility for his Department of Transport, the Irish Coast Guard... Read more »

DARA’S EUROPEAN PROGRESS

December 12, 2019

IF DARA MURPHY has long since jettisoned his domestic career boosters – ex-taoiseach Enda Kenny, as well as Cork moneybags and Fine Gael... Read more »

BOYLAN’S BRUISED BY BYRNE

December 12, 2019

THE RAPTUROUS review of super-smooth gynaecologist Peter Boylan’s book, In the Shadow of the Eighth, by Indo columnist Martina Devlin, referred to his... Read more »

ABBEY’S BAD REVIEW

December 12, 2019

FANS OF Goldhawk will be familiar with the goings on at the Abbey Theatre, where a near revolution among a sizeable chunk of... Read more »

NIALL MCGARRY’S TAX SCHEME

December 12, 2019

ONE OF the potential side effects of the controversy surrounding the Maximum Media online publishing business (from which founder Niall McGarry has stepped... Read more »

LABOUR GRADUATES

December 12, 2019

It has been a fruitful year for former Union of Students in Ireland (USI) presidents like Kevin Donoghue and Annie Hoey, who both... Read more »

RANDAL MACDONNELL’S OBITUARY

December 12, 2019

SO FAREWELL then to dodgy Randal MacDonnell, whose adventures were chronicled by Goldhawk dating back 35 years (see The Phoenix, 24/5/8). While fans... Read more »

GANNON’S GARDENS

December 12, 2019

AS PREDICTED, Anne-Marie McNally, political director of the Social Democrats, had a by-election to forget in Dublin Mid West. An abysmal turnout probably... Read more »

THE NEXT ‘SINDO’ EDITOR?

December 12, 2019

A DOZEN or more aspirant editors of the Sunday Independent, the biggest-selling newspaper in Ireland, are being interviewed over three days this week.... Read more »

LEGAL STORM BREWING

December 12, 2019

A CONCERTED campaign by the judiciary to silence querulous voices – be they the Master of the High Court Ed Honohan or lay... Read more »

LARKIN DEFENDS RTÉ’S TOP TEN

December 12, 2019

THE 1913 lockout is being re-enacted at Montrose, where Irish National Union of Journalists (NUJ) secretary Séamus Dooley has rallied to the clarion... Read more »

MAIL’S (FE)MALE ‘ETHOS’

November 28, 2019

EVOKE.IE, website of the Mail titles newspaper group (DMG Media Ireland), hosts a timely and most cautionary article this week about the perils... Read more »

JUDGE GEARTY’S VIEW

November 28, 2019

THE RECENT appointment of Mary Rose Gearty SC to the High Court bench means that two female barristers involved in the prosecution of... Read more »

MULLANE’S MEDAL

November 28, 2019

THERE WAS good news for mobile advertising tech businesswoman Triona Mullane this week when she landed the EY Entrepreneur of the Year award... Read more »

LIZ BRENNAN’S MOVIE MONEY

November 28, 2019

THE DEADLINE has now passed for submissions to the Workplace Relations Commission, which is carrying out an ‘audit’ of the film and TV... Read more »

DUBLIN TOWN’S TASK

November 28, 2019

THE ROW over the designation of part of Dublin 2 as the Grafton Quarter continues to reverberate and Dublin City Council remains under... Read more »

BLOXHAM PARTNERS ON THE HOOK?

November 28, 2019

AFTER ALMOST a decade of inactivity, a High Court action involving the Solicitors Mutual Defence Fund (SMDF) and the various partners in the... Read more »

COVENEY ‘SUPPORT’ FOR PALESTINE

November 28, 2019

AS EVENTS in the Middle East degenerate, Simon Coveney’s masterful Palestinian strategy has been laid bare. This follows Fine Gael’s revelation that its... Read more »

KBC’S SMART PR

November 28, 2019

THE WHIZZ media handler for KBC – the bank that told the Central Bank to “turn the page” on the tracker mortgage scandal... Read more »

COMMUNICATING WITH COMMUNICORP

November 28, 2019

NEXT MONTH’S meeting of the compliance committee of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) concerning bans imposed by Denis O’Brien’s Communicorp group on... Read more »

RACISM OR FILTHY LUCRE?

November 14, 2019

THE RECENT debate between Sinn Féin TD Martin Kenny and Ballinamore Community Group spokesman Gordon Hughes on RTÉ’s Claire Byrne Live was respectful... Read more »

QUINN DIRECTOR TO STAND FOR FG?

November 14, 2019

FINE GAEL handlers are still mobbing mountains to persuade former Independent MEP Marian Harkin to stand at the general election in Sligo-Leitrim. They... Read more »

NOEL ROCK WALKS ALONE

November 14, 2019

The only thing red about Ballymun Blueshirt TD Noel Rock is his soccer jersey. The Fine Gael Tory boy and chair of the... Read more »

JOHN GORMLEY’S REVENUE HEADACHE

November 14, 2019

IT LOOKS like red tape rather than red carpets is increasingly on the minds of the nation’s hard-pressed movie moguls following the imposition... Read more »

RIGHT-WING RUSTICS

November 14, 2019

RIGHT-WING activists have been using An Óige hostels – unbeknownst to management of the state-owned hostel network – for bonding and political training... Read more »

SOLIDARITY WITH RTÉ

November 14, 2019

IVAN YATES and Matt Cooper thundered recently about the inept, spendthrift, tax-funded RTÉ on their Virgin One The Tonight Show as the private... Read more »

DRINKAWARE’S STRATEGY

November 14, 2019

NEWS THAT a ban on alcohol advertising within 200 metres of a school or crèche from later this month will have been clocked... Read more »

WHO FEARS TO SPEAK OF BORDER POLL?

October 31, 2019

CONCERNED NOISES are emanating from the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI), the only entity in the southern establishment that has clocked the... Read more »

MARY ROBINSON’S SHRINE

October 31, 2019

THERE HAVE been some changes to the board of The Victoria House Foundation, the legal entity set up to progress the Mary Robinson... Read more »

LAW SOCIETY ROW: LIBEL THREATS

October 31, 2019

THE NORMALLY sedate AGM of the Mayo Solicitors’ Bar Association (the Mayo branch of the Law Society) was enlivened this year when a... Read more »

UCD REVOLT OVER NEWMAN BOYCOTT

October 31, 2019

UCD’S CRASS decision to boycott the canonisation of its founder, John Henry Newman, was reversed, the university said, because the government had reconsidered... Read more »

RED FLAG AGGRO

October 31, 2019

The recent release of Environmental Protection Agency data for 2018, revealing spiralling agri emissions, seemed like an odd day to unveil a new... Read more »

LIMERICK STUDENTS GO LOGO LOCO

October 31, 2019

Branding fever is once again gripping the University of Limerick (UL), where students are up in arms about a controversial new logo. At... Read more »

REVIEWING GALWAY’S €10M CINEMA HORROR

October 31, 2019

FANS OF Goldhawk are well acquainted with the historical horror-show behind Galway’s bijou Pálás cinema, originally promoted by Lelia Doolan’s Solas Galway Picture... Read more »

CATCHING UP WITH PETER PAN

October 31, 2019

A RECEIVER has just been appointed to the Irish end of a multi-million euro Indian animation outfit that is behind international TV shows... Read more »

PAUL KIMMAGE’S QUESTIONS

October 31, 2019

IT IS hard to understand why former Ireland rugby captain Jamie Heaslip and his ghost writer, the ubiquitous Matt Cooper, have been giving... Read more »