Affairs of the Nation Archives

AFFAIRS OF THE NATION

LUPTON’S LOBBYING

June 27, 2019

ONE OF the first issues seized upon by the media after the Ana Kriégel case was restricting access by children to online material.... Read more »

HERMANN KELLY VS SINN FÉIN

June 27, 2019

His poor performance in May’s European elections is in the rearview mirror but, for bombastic Irexiteer Hermann Kelly, a hangover could be on... Read more »

SIMON COVENEY’S OPTICS

June 27, 2019

THE TÁNAISTE and foreign minister, Simon Coveney, hinted in the Dáil last November that he had an indirect input into the master plan... Read more »

MARY McALEESE’S GULF GIG

June 12, 2019

WHILE MARY Robinson took significant flak earlier this year for her intervention in a feudal Emirate royal family row, another former Irish president,... Read more »

CONROY’S CLAIM

June 12, 2019

NOT SURPRISINGLY, there has been increased media focus on all politicians’ compensation claims since the Maria Bailey affair. This should ensure there is... Read more »

DAVID MCWILLIAMS’S ADVICE

June 12, 2019

THE ANNUAL Dalkey Book Festival gets under way this weekend with its founder, the one and only David McWilliams, sharing the spotlight with... Read more »

TCD GRADUATE’S HOLOCAUST STORY

June 12, 2019

A bizarre story is emerging from Germany about an Irish-based historian and blogger who has found herself in a spot of bother over... Read more »

MALI: VARADKAR HUMOURS MACRON

June 12, 2019

CYNICAL DEFENDERS of Irish neutrality will likely argue that the announcement last weekend of the Army Ranger Wing’s deployment to Mali – described... Read more »

VLAD’S OPTIMISM

June 12, 2019

LEO VARADKAR told his parliamentary party last week that he wants, nay expects, that Fine Gael will have a complement of at least... Read more »

IAN BAILEY: ‘L’HEURE DE VÉRITÉ’?

May 29, 2019

THE WIDESPREAD, public atmosphere of blood lust in France against Ian Bailey, the alleged murderer of Sophie Toscan du Plantier, ratcheted up in... Read more »

SINN FÉIN MELTDOWN

May 29, 2019

MARY LOU MCDONALD had no forewarning of Sinn Féin’s electoral catastrophe in the opinion polls. Red C had SF consistently around the 13%-14%... Read more »

GAS MAN KELLY

May 29, 2019

As Blueshirt MEP Seán Kelly returns to Brussels for a third term, he might want to reconsider his zealous support for Shannon LNG,... Read more »

GREEN WAVE OR RIPPLE?

May 29, 2019

WILL THE green wave translate into more Green TDs? And if Eamon Ryan leads the party into another coalition with a right-wing party,... Read more »

MARIA BAILEY’S DILEMMA

May 29, 2019

DÚN LAOGHAIRE TD Maria Bailey and Fine Gael have pretty much talked themselves into inevitable suspension of the Dáil deputy, which will lead... Read more »

FEEHILY FIGHTS ON

May 29, 2019

YOU CAN see why An Garda Síochána and the justice department want rid of the Policing Authority – chaired by the formidable Josephine... Read more »

ÁINE MORIARTY’S DELAYED RELEASE

May 29, 2019

EARLIER THIS year (see The Phoenix, 8/2/19), Goldhawk raised the ghastly spectre of a hiatus in Áine Moriarty and Deirdre Hopkins’s annual red... Read more »

SEAMUS MALLON VS JOHN HUME

May 29, 2019

SEAMUS MALLON’S “parallel consent” proposal for a United Ireland – aka a new, super-unionist veto – is the political love child of his... Read more »

LABOUR TARGETS CLARE DALY

May 16, 2019

THAT Irish Times poll, which showed Labour EU Dublin candidate Alex White (8%) within spitting distance of Green candidate Ciarán Cuffe (9%) and... Read more »

TARGETING JOHN ARKINS

May 16, 2019

IT IS more than a year since Screen Ireland chief executive James Hickey told a Joint Oireachtas Committee that a forum on industrial... Read more »

SEX’N’DRUGS’N’ROCK’N’ROLL

May 16, 2019

ONE FEELS sure that Chris Goodey will be able to sort out that contretemps with the National Association of General Practitioners (NAGP) –... Read more »

JONATHAN GRAHAM’S BOXING BOUTS

May 16, 2019

WHILE HE has been busy on the campaign trail in the Palmerstown-Fonthill ward in South County Dublin, Fianna Fáil councillor Jonathan Graham may... Read more »

SOC DEM ASYLUM

May 16, 2019

SOCIAL DEMOCRAT candidates have been campaigning energetically in the elections but, behind the scenes, the row over local election candidate Ellie Kisyombe still... Read more »

FEUDS IN SICILY AND DROGHEDA

May 16, 2019

THE Drogheda Leader freesheet splashed a sensational scoop across its front page recently, telling the population, already terrified by a local gang feud,... Read more »

WALSH-MCGUINNESS SHOOT OUT

May 2, 2019
THE BLUEBLOUSE EU candidate in the Midlands-North-West (MNW), Maria Walsh, proved she is no wilting Tralee Rose with a retaliatory broadside against her running... Read more »

DER KAISER’S INDO DEAL

May 2, 2019

ALTHOUGH IT was Goldhawk who first revealed that Denis O’Brien wanted to sell up at Independent News & Media (see The Phoenix 8/2/19),... Read more »

PETER CASEY AND HERMANN KELLY

May 2, 2019

HAVE THOSE soul brothers on the right of Irish politics, EU candidates Peter Casey (Midlands North-West – MNW) and Hermann Kelly (Dublin) had... Read more »

SAORADH CHIEF’S DÁIL AMBITIONS

May 2, 2019

BRIAN KENNA, chairman of Saoradh, which reflects the New IRA’s political outlook, was once a model of the Sinn Féin parliamentary road and... Read more »

MADURO’S IRISH CRITICS

May 2, 2019

Exactly who were the Venezuelans so “enraged” by Clare Daly’s comments on the troubled country, according to a recent Sunday Times article? One... Read more »

KELLEHER’S STRONG FOUNDATION

May 2, 2019

THE GIANT Apple TV streaming service launching later this year has commissioned the first 10-episode adaptation of sci-fi writer Isaac Asimov’s ‘Foundation’ series... Read more »

BRENDAN HOWLIN’S ATTACK

May 2, 2019

DOES Labour leader Brendan Howlin believe he is still minister in charge of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (DPER)? Howlin’s attack... Read more »

PHELIM & MAGDALENA O’NEILL

May 2, 2019

In an article headlined ‘Phelim O’Neill’s many hats’, it was stated that the company called My Valuation Ltd, incorporated in 2012, ceased to... Read more »

BY-ELECTION BLITZ?

May 2, 2019

IT NOW looks as though there could be four and possibly five Dáil by-elections within six months of the EU elections. TDs Clare... Read more »

FIGHT AT THE MUSEUM

May 2, 2019

STILL NO word on the National Museum of Ireland’s internal review of its ‘Spanish Flu’ debacle last year. No doubt Catherine Heaney and... Read more »

JIM BAILEY

May 2, 2019

IN The Phoenix edition of April 19, 2019, it was stated that documentation ordering Jim Bailey to be detained in St Finan’s Mental... Read more »

HSE PAUL REID’S RADICAL PAST

April 18, 2019

WHAT AN interesting journey the new €300,000-salaried HSE director general, Paul Reid, has travelled since the days of his firebrand activism in politics... Read more »

MARTIN SUPPORTS EU ARMY

April 18, 2019

A STRAINED silence emanated from Fianna Fáil following the revelation that Fine Gael successfully blocked its EU grouping, the European Peoples Party (EPP),... Read more »