Affairs of the Nation Archives

AFFAIRS OF THE NATION

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

TARGETING BOYD BARRETT

April 18, 2019

A CAMPAIGN of sorts has been kicked off by film industry insiders, who appear to have had their fill of Richard Boyd Barrett... Read more »

PHILIP COMYN ‘ADMONISHED’

April 18, 2019

GOLDHAWK WAS surprised to see the name of Cork City coroner Philip Comyn featuring among the assorted legal eagles who had come a... Read more »

SDLP/FIANNA FÁIL: THE FIRST ITEM

April 18, 2019

HOW IS the ‘historic’ Fianna Fáil/SDLP alliance playing out in the European elections, especially in Dublin where FF candidate Barry Andrews would surely... Read more »

PHELIM O’NEILL’S MANY HATS

April 18, 2019

ONE OF the side-effects of that high profile eviction in Strokestown, Co Roscommon last December was the gardaí’s decision to seize the mobile... Read more »

HEEEE’S OUTTA HERE!

April 18, 2019

RELATIONS between Ireland and the US may have been slightly dented by an incident last week at Dublin Airport, which saw a baseball... Read more »

IRISH IN THE WWE RING

April 18, 2019

WHAT IS it with the Irish and the rather lucrative ‘sport’ of wrestling – one of the biggest earners on TV? Even those... Read more »

KERRY (IN)SANITY PLEA

April 18, 2019

ANOTHER HSE controversy is trundling down the tracks, courtesy of Kerry’s Eye, following the HSE’s grudging agreement to correct a false record stating... Read more »

SEE NO ARMY, SPEAK NO ARMY

April 4, 2019
ANGELA MERKEL’S visit to Dublin underlines the EU’s determination to protect its borders, but this is only part of Germany and France’s strategy of... Read more »

TCD BUGGING BACKLASH

April 4, 2019

A FORTNIGHT’S a long time in student politics. Just two weeks ago, The University Times (UT) —newspaper of Trinity College’s Student Union (SU)... Read more »

AIRBNB’S POLITICAL TARGETS

April 4, 2019

THE rejection by Dublin City Council last week of Friends First’s planning application for the change of use of its city centre property... Read more »

PETER CASEY’S RETREAT

April 4, 2019
PETER CASEY’S proposed reversion to the European elections rather than the Dáil has more to do with headlong retreat from Donegal than any gap... Read more »

INM-IRISH TIMES LINK-UP

April 4, 2019

IRISH TIMES media commentator, Laura Slattery, went through Independent News & Media’s (INM) business and editorial plan with a chainsaw this week, even... Read more »

COOPERATION IRELAND AND DUP

April 4, 2019

COOPERATION IRELAND receives by far the greatest stipend yearly from the Reconciliation Fund, which in turn is bankrolled by the Department of Foreign... Read more »

MORE DRAMA AT THE ABBEY

March 21, 2019
WHEN GOLDHAWK profiled the Abbey Theatre’s joint director, Graham McLaren, earlier this year (see The Phoenix, 25/1/19) the Abbey was under heavy fire. While... Read more »

DERMOT DESMOND’S BUMPY RIDE

March 21, 2019

THERE WAS plenty of excitement last week surrounding shares in Datalex, the airline technology company (sorry, “leading provider of digital commerce solutions to... Read more »