Affairs of the Nation Archives

AFFAIRS OF THE NATION

JUST NOT CRICKET

July 11, 2019

IT’S JUST not cricket. As England’s lions bestride the sward at Lords in the Cricket World Cup, it must be recorded, with no... Read more »

EMMETT O’NEILL’S STRATEGY

July 11, 2019

REPORTS last week that former Topaz chief executive Emmett O’Neill is looking to sell his Lovin Media group won’t have surprised Phoenix readers.... Read more »

STRIKING OFF ALAN LLOYD

July 11, 2019

GOLDHAWK spotted a legal notice last month published by the Law Society of Ireland’s Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal proclaiming that Alan Lloyd had been... Read more »

‘POST’ BACKS RTÉ

July 11, 2019

COMING JUST days after The Phoenix broke the story about Sunday Business Post owner Enda O’Coineen’s bid to buy the RTÉ Guide (see... Read more »

THRIFTY PROTESTANTS

July 11, 2019

LAST MONTH, the Irish Times carried an article headlined ‘Protestants outlive Catholics, study shows’, based on a report from the CSO. The report... Read more »

WAR LIKE FRAU

July 11, 2019

AMID THE reams of media commentary about new EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, just the barest mention has been made of... Read more »

‘IRISH TIMES’ RUSSIAN SCARE

June 27, 2019

THE increasingly hysterical tone of the Anglo-American Russian scare campaign was evident in a story splashed across the front page of the Irish... Read more »

FG DINNER DONORS

June 27, 2019

A CERTAIN apprehension spread across the bluer membership of the Law Library this week as they perceived that their civil war enemies were... Read more »

SONYA LENNON’S FASHION SENSE

June 27, 2019

CLOTHING designer (sorry “fashion guru”) and all round do-gooder Sonya Lennon has been dividing her time between assorted projects, but now one has... Read more »

DUBLIN PRIDE’S PRICE

June 27, 2019

THIS WEEKEND sees the annual Dublin Pride march organised by Jed Dowling’s Dublin LGBTQ Pride company and it promises to be the most... Read more »

AT HOME WITH DAVID DAVIES

June 27, 2019

THE SQUIRE of Abbey Leix House, David Davies, must have been delighted with the fawning coverage of his decision to put his Co... Read more »

FOXY AVERIL POWER

June 27, 2019

THE MEDIA row between Solidarity’s Ruth Coppinger TD (her bill to ban mink farming goes before the Dáil next week) and fur farmer... Read more »

DONAL KINSELLA’S COSTS

June 27, 2019

DONAL KINSELLA, former Kenmare Resources deputy chairman, hasn’t been having too much luck in the courts recently. He is best known to the... Read more »

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 »