Affairs of the Nation Archives

AFFAIRS OF THE NATION

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 »

CONFUSION AT CLONGOWES

October 31, 2019

CLONGOWES WOOD COLLEGE alumni have always and unashamedly prided themselves on providing “leaders in the areas of business, sport, politics and the arts”,... Read more »

€40BN ARMAMENTS STROKE

October 16, 2019

A SPEECH last year by then TD Mick Wallace and a short paragraph in the Sunday Times, of all places, are the only... Read more »

RACHEL MORAN’S REACTIONS

October 16, 2019

FORMER PROSTITUTE Gayle Dalton would have expected a reaction from high-profile, media-friendly anti-sex-work campaigner Rachel Moran after challenging the latter’s account of her... Read more »

LIAM LYNCH’S LOSSES

October 16, 2019

THE NEWS that Enda O’Coineen is about to purchase Irish Tatler magazine from Irish Central Media (ISM) suggests that Liam Lynch and Niall... Read more »

RTÉ VS OIREACHTAS

October 16, 2019

A MOST interesting and possibly expensive conflict between RTÉ’s Prime Time Investigates programme and members of an Oireachtas committee will play out in... Read more »

VLAD’S PLANS

October 16, 2019

THOSE who believe Leo Varadkar is not even considering an early election should revisit his recent taunts about the Fianna Fáil frontbench. Vlad... Read more »

FG GONE TO DOGS

October 16, 2019

How embarrassing that the first greyhound to be traced under the Irish Greyhound Board’s (IGB) new ‘care line’ is still registered to an... Read more »

IFTA’S MYSTERY PLOT

October 16, 2019

EARLIER THIS year (see The Phoenix, 8/2/19) Goldhawk noted a potential lacuna in the diaries of the nation’s celebs with the non-appearance on... Read more »

ENDA KENNY’S CADDY

October 3, 2019

CONGRATS TO Mark Kennelly, former chief of staff to Enda Kenny during his reign as taoiseach, who has landed the plum post of... Read more »

SAUDIS BACK IRELAND AT UN

October 3, 2019

FOREIGN MINISTER Simon ‘Covetous’ Coveney and Iveagh House mandarins will have been pleased at receiving Saudi Arabia’s support last week for the government’s... Read more »

ZAPPER FOR UN?

October 3, 2019

KATHERINE ZAPPONE’S appointment as the government’s “special envoy” in the urgent quest for a UN security council seat is a strange one, even... Read more »

SENATOR WILSON VS LADY KILBRACKEN

October 3, 2019

A FEUD between Fianna Fáil senator Diarmuid Wilson and Lady Kilbracken is now the subject of an inquiry by party leader Micheál Martin,... Read more »

O’LEARY’S ‘HELL’

October 3, 2019

AS BREXIT neurosis sweeps the country, the citizenry can always turn to the sagacious and comforting insights of Michael O’Leary. The Ryanair boss... Read more »

JUDGE KELLY VS JERRY BEADES

October 3, 2019

WILL JUDGE Peter Kelly ever be rid of that inexhaustible lay litigant, Jerry Beades, whose legal actions to block Kelly’s appointment as High... Read more »

MORE LEFT SPLITS

October 3, 2019

POLITICAL splits on the Left are mirrored by the disintegration of the Take Back the City (TBTC) campaign a year after its headline... Read more »

FRESH CLIMATE

October 3, 2019

It seems that not everyone was thrilled with last month’s college campus walkout as part of the global ‘climate strike’. Although UCD gave... Read more »

NIGERIAN ARMS AND BILLIONS

October 3, 2019

Process & Industrial Developments (P&ID), founded by the late Mick Quinn, recently won an €8.6bn award against the Nigerian government, with the support... Read more »

THE NEW ORDER AT INM

September 19, 2019

BELGIAN PUBLISHERS Mediahuis may find that bending the querulous natives to their will at Independent News & Media (INM) is a little more... Read more »

MYSTERY AT THE BERNARD SHAW

September 19, 2019

A WEEK of social media breast-beating about the decline of Dublin’s nightlife has obscured the reasons for the impending closure of the Bernard... Read more »

XAVIER MCAULIFFE’S SPEED VANS

September 19, 2019

IT IS hard to believe that a consortium that works for An Garda Síochána providing the roadside speed detection service – GoSafe –... Read more »

LEO VARADKAR’S NECK

September 19, 2019

YOU’VE GOT to hand it to Leo Varadkar for pure neck. Earlier this month, Boris Johnson let fly with some colourful descriptions of... Read more »

NOEL GREALISH’S PAL

September 19, 2019

THOSE REMARKS by Noel Grealish TD about “good Christian Syrians” as opposed to African “spongers” were from the heart. A devout Catholic, Noel... Read more »

DAVID MCWILLIAMS’S ‘RESEARCH’

September 19, 2019

Readers of the Irish Times website last Saturday may have enjoyed David McWilliams musing on the future of global cities. The celebrity economist... Read more »

COVENEY’S SOLO RUN

September 19, 2019

THE WILY Simon Coveney managed to come out of the Fine Gael think-in last week smelling of roses – at least as far... Read more »