Affairs of the Nation Archives

AFFAIRS OF THE NATION

DEALING WITH CYRIL BURKE

February 21, 2019

FINE GAEL’S executive council must grapple with a delicate issue in the next few weeks as controversial Mayo county councillor, Cyril Burke, requires... Read more »

STOP THAT WOMAN HANAFIN!

February 21, 2019

BARRY ANDREWS’S formidable, family political machine was a big factor in his Fianna Fáil convention victory for the Dublin Euro ticket last Sunday,... Read more »

RONAN KEATING’S CORPORATE PAL

February 21, 2019

WITH BOYZONE winding down their farewell tour, which concludes in Dubai (natch) in April, hopefully lead singer Ronan Keating will not be overly... Read more »

COVENEY HIDES BEHIND AG

February 7, 2019

THE MANNER of Simon Coveney’s dismissal of several legal opinions in support of Senator Frances Black’s Occupied Territories Bill (banning produce imported from... Read more »

ED HONOHAN PURGED

February 7, 2019

THAT meddlesome Master of the High Court, Ed Honohan, has been effectively purged after years of ‘interfering’ in matters that the judiciary, the... Read more »

SARAH LIPSETT’S ELECTION CAMPAIGN

February 7, 2019

WANNABE politician Sarah Lipsett got her local election campaign off to a flying start last month with a soft piece in the Sindo... Read more »

MADURO’S IRISH CRITICS

February 7, 2019
ONE GROUP that will be delighted by Ireland’s support for the Venezuelan opposition and Juan Guaidó in recent weeks is the Venezuelan Community in... Read more »

DINNY’S HAITIAN HEADACHE

February 7, 2019

DENIS O’BRIEN’S Caribbean woes continue, with fuel shortages in Haiti causing his mobile phone operation there severe problems and even landing his outspoken... Read more »

COLLISON BROTHERS’ BLUES

February 7, 2019

THE HIGH fives at John and Patrick Collison’s Stripe tech outfit following last week’s $22.5bn valuation were put on hold this week when... Read more »

PLOT TWIST AT THE IFTAS

February 7, 2019

THERE’S A bit of a lull among the film and TV luvvies given the disappearance from the spring calendar of the annual Irish... Read more »

PATRICK DORGAN’S HIGHS AND LOWS

February 7, 2019

THE Law Society’s announcement of the elevation of solicitor Patrick Dorgan to its presidency contained the usual rhetoric about his credentials and his... Read more »

AODHÁN Ó RÍORDÁIN’S CONSTITUENTS

February 7, 2019

‘PROPERTY OWNERS of Howth, unite! You have nothing to lose but your cliff views’ is Labour Party senator Aodhán Ó Ríordáin’s latest rallying... Read more »

SECRET CENTENARY PLANS PRISED OPEN

January 24, 2019

THE OIREACHTAS commemoration of the first Dáil passed off without controversy, but the government’s failure to disclose, until this month, any details whatsoever... Read more »

DINNY’S DWINDLING ASSETS

January 24, 2019

DENIS O’BRIEN must have been chuffed with the guesstimate of his wealth that appeared in last weekend’s Sunday Independent Rich List. The title,... Read more »

TABLOID TALKING POINTS ON ‘PRIME TIME’

January 24, 2019

TRANS RIGHTS and gender recognition are trendy, emotive and complex issues and it wasn’t going to be too long before Prime Time blundered... Read more »

THE ABBEY’S BAD TIMING

January 24, 2019

IN THIS issue (see p14), Goldhawk profiles the man at the centre of the Abbey Theatre’s latest offstage drama, director Graham McLaren, and... Read more »

VARADKAR’S YELLOW PERIL

January 24, 2019

WHAT A strange, strident initiative Taoiseach Leo Varadkar made on behalf of Ireland during his visit to North Africa’s Mali and Ethiopia recently.... Read more »

ROSS VS JUDGES: INJURY TIME

January 24, 2019

IS SHANE Ross’s Judicial Appointments Bill in its final stages of enactment or will there be extra time in the Seanad and Dáil?... Read more »

GARY KAVANAGH’S PALS

January 24, 2019

THERE HAS been quite a surge in activity in recent weeks at right-wing “think tank” the Edmund Burke Institute (EBI), where Gary Kavanagh... Read more »

PAISLEY’S JUNKET

January 24, 2019

CO-OPERATION IRELAND, which funded Ian Paisley’s first-class junket (£6,327 in travel and accommodation) to New York last year, is headed by a former... Read more »

LAW SOCIETY WARS

January 24, 2019

MAYO SOLICITOR Daniel Coleman has just emerged from a decade-long joust with the Law Society. He was successful in an appeal to the... Read more »

PADDY PRENDERGAST’S PROJECT

January 24, 2019

NOT FOR the first time, Trinity College Dublin students are expressing their dissatisfaction with Provost Paddy Prendergast and his administration (see The Phoenix,... Read more »

EILEEN BATTERSBY’S LITERARY LUVVIES

January 10, 2019

THE OUTPOURINGS from literati in the Irish Times and elsewhere following the death of literary correspondent Eileen Battersby disguised the tensions that existed... Read more »

MARY ROBINSON’S CREDENTIALS

January 10, 2019

MOST OBSERVERS have been baffled by Mary Robinson’s blunder in giving cover to the feudal Emirates ruling family and noticed the irony of... Read more »

DIARMUID MARTIN’S SUCCESSOR

January 10, 2019

The race to succeed Diarmuid Martin as Archbishop of Dublin has begun in earnest, even though the most successful head in recent times... Read more »

NIALL MCGARRY’S BIG YEAR

January 10, 2019

GOLHAWK’S favourite self-promoting online publisher, Niall McGarry, has hit the ground running in 2019, promising a very big year for his Maximum Media... Read more »

‘IRISH TIMES’ ROMAN FEUD

January 10, 2019

THE IRISH TIMES’S refusal to adequately recompense Paddy Agnew, its Rome correspondent of 28 years, has now involved six hearings at the Tribunale... Read more »

THOSE IRISH YELLOW VESTS

January 10, 2019

Who exactly are the Irish Yellow Vests? The movement in France is a leaderless broad church but, although subject to some right-wing infiltration,... Read more »

HELEN LUCEY’S SEMI-KINGDOM

January 10, 2019

THE LAW Society Gazette’s report last month on sanctions imposed on Listowel solicitor Helen Lucey raises an interesting question about Lucey’s role of... Read more »

ODRAN REID’S POLITICS

January 10, 2019

The changes continue apace at Brendan Halligan’s Ireland China Institute, the “independent think tank dedicated to the study of Irish Chinese affairs”. The... Read more »

SOFTLY DOES IT WITH THE MAKTOUMS

January 9, 2019

GIVEN THE influence of the Dubai ruling Al Maktoum family here, the silence to date of the Irish government on the Sheikha Latifa... Read more »

COVENEY’S CAREFUL CHOREOGRAPHY

December 13, 2018

ALAN SHATTER’S predictable outburst against Simon Coveney on the Israel-Palestine issue will actually be welcomed by the foreign minister. Far from behaving like... Read more »

TROUBLE BREWING AT TROY STUDIOS?

December 13, 2018

IN FEBRUARY this year, culture minister Josepha Madigan was invited to a ‘do’ in the Merrion Hotel, Dublin, by Kim Harris, general counsel... Read more »

COMMONWEALTH BLUES

December 13, 2018

AT THE height of the Brexit crisis, what are Fine Gael senators Neale Richmond and Frankie Feighan up to in their promotion of... Read more »

FF MAN TO SAVE MADAM MENG?

December 13, 2018

FORMER Fianna Fáil spin doctor Dave Harmon will surely be called on to provide political and diplomatic assistance to Ms Meng Wanzhou, chief... Read more »

PITT’S HUNT FOR INM LEAKS

December 13, 2018
THE SHINE has come off former Independent News & Media (INM) chief executive Robert Pitt – the man who blew the whistle on INM’s... Read more »