Article Category: Affairs of the Nation

ODDS ON FOR IRTA

September 5, 2024

NINE MONTHS after a devastating court of appeal ruling in a defamation case, the odds on the Irish Racehorse Trainers Association (IRTA) –... Read more »

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PEACE-WASHING CAPTAIN NAIRAC

September 5, 2024

EVERY TIME the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims’ Remains (ICLVR) makes an initiative, behind the scenes ‘sources’ swing into action with... Read more »

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NUI CHANCELLOR ELECTION

September 5, 2024

THE PATRICIAN Seanad may be under threat from a vulgar populism in these menacing times but standards have been maintained in academia where... Read more »

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PÓGING THE THÓIN!

September 5, 2024

I strongly suspect that everyone’s favourite peacemaker – Bono – also played a part. He’s thick as thieves with Noely G and his... Read more »

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NATO CODS IRELAND

September 5, 2024

WHEN IRELAND concluded its individually tailored partnership programme (ITPP) governing continued co-operation with Nato under Partnership for Peace from 2024 to 2028 in... Read more »

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MI5 BOSS: ‘I KNOW NAWTHING’

September 5, 2024
Freddie Scappaticci was the UK’s most lethal mole in the IRA. His codename was Stakeknife. Last March the interim report of Operation Kenova concluded... Read more »

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MARY ROBINSON’S MAKE-OVER

August 22, 2024

WHO KNEW that Mary Robinson was so impressionable, as indicated in a recent all-holds barred Irish Independent interview with the former president as... Read more »

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AIDAN CORLESS’S UNFORTUNATE TENANT

August 22, 2024

AIDAN CORLESS is a busy man, juggling his roles as software company boss and charity chairman with overseeing a sprawling rental empire in... Read more »

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TARGETING JACK CHAMBERS

August 22, 2024

THE SUITS in the Drinks Industry Group of Ireland (Digi), a lobby group for the alcohol sector, must have been delighted with the... Read more »

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NEIL O’CONNELL’S WILD ROOTS

August 22, 2024

WHILE ELECTRIC Picnic folded up its tents last weekend after another sell-out shindig, there was rather less to celebrate in the grounds of... Read more »

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BILL’S BIG HIT

August 22, 2024

AN OLD friend of Goldhawk’s has just made quite a splash, courtesy of a whopping great judgment from those spoilsports in Nama. Like... Read more »

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NOT SO TIDY

August 22, 2024

THE NEXT AGM of Dún Laoghaire’s Eblana Club is likely to experience a stormy session regarding unsavoury reports emanating from the club about... Read more »

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WORKING-CLASS HERO

August 22, 2024

IRISH INDEPENDENT shock-jock columnist Ian O’Doherty is a fan of right-wing US libertarian politics. The born-again proletarian champion recently wrote how “the images... Read more »

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SUE GRAY’S CONTROL

August 22, 2024

PRIME MINISTER Kier Starmer’s chief of staff, Sue Gray, has for some time been accused by many in Britain as a powerful spook... Read more »

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MI5’S MISSING SCAPPATICCI FILES

August 22, 2024

NO ONE familiar with the manner in which the UK has conducted inquiries into allegations of British dirty tricks over the last half... Read more »

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VIRTUAL SOLDIERS

August 22, 2024

DOES THE Government and defence minister Micheál Martin believe they have solved the recruitment crisis in the Defence Forces with pretend soldiers? RTÉ... Read more »

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HUW EDWARDS AND MI5

August 8, 2024

HOW DID Huw Edwards, the former face of BBC News, maintain virtual immunity for so long given the evidence of his crimes involving... Read more »

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ANNE DAVY’S CHILD’S PLAY

August 8, 2024

THREE MONTHS after agreeing to settle High Court proceedings involving 41 children, creche operator Hyde & Seek Childcare is clearly well able to... Read more »

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BACHELOR FESTIVAL BLUES

August 8, 2024

A COUPLE of high-profile names found themselves with a free Friday night in the run-up to the August bank holiday weekend, having originally... Read more »

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PUTIN’S IRISH GUN SLINGERS

August 8, 2024

THE TABLOID-reading British public is losing sleep over an alleged disinformation operation being directed by Vladimir Putin to subvert the United Kingdom. Britain... Read more »

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MIKE ORMONDE’S RESCUES

August 8, 2024

ALMOST TWO YEARS on from the approval of a rescue plan, the company behind Mike Ormonde’s media content and production outfit, Packed.House (formerly... Read more »

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KATY BROWN’S HANDICAP

August 8, 2024

FANS OF The Phoenix will be familiar with outspoken racehorse trainer Katy Brown, who started last month with a second win in two... Read more »

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IRELAND SAID ‘NO’ TO PINOCHET

August 8, 2024

THE CHILEAN Supreme Court demanded Irish government co-operation in establishing the alleged guilt of the two Shannon sisters, Dubliners Frances and Christine, in... Read more »

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TOM’S TROUBLES

August 8, 2024

GOLDHAWK’S OLD friend, Tom Ryan, has just had a judgment registered in Stubbs Gazette against him in London for no less than €3m by... Read more »

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LEYDEN AT LARGE

August 8, 2024

AFTER MANY years of ducking and diving and not a little in-fighting in Roscommon politics, as well as 43 years in the Dáil... Read more »

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BRITISH AND IRISH FAR RIGHT

August 8, 2024

THAT A section of the anti-immigrant movement in the south was prepared to line up alongside Ulster loyalists and British fascists in racist... Read more »

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MARTIN’S POLITICAL CELIBACY

July 25, 2024

WHAT A waspish reaction Tánaiste and Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin gave to the report from the Joint Committee on the Implementation of... Read more »

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TIGER WOODS AND JP

July 25, 2024

WITH ANTICIPATION already building in Limerick ahead of the 2027 Ryder Cup, set to take place at Adare Manor, one Tiger Woods managed... Read more »

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ARCHBISHOP FARRELL FOR THE HIGH COURT

July 25, 2024

IT IS heartening to know that the Irish Catholic Church’s approach to misbehaviour among its ranks has changed from the time when protecting... Read more »

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THE ABBEY’S DARK TIMES

July 25, 2024

WITH HAPLESS chairwoman Frances Ruane stepping down from her starring role at the Abbey Theatre this weekend after seven years, the focus now... Read more »

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ROBERT QUIRKE’S BATTLES

July 25, 2024

ENSCONCED AS he is these days in sunny Malta, Westmeath businessman Robert Quirke continues to make waves back home. A judgement has just... Read more »

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DUBAI’S LEGAL STANDARDS REVISITED

July 25, 2024

OUTRAGED HOWLS at the medieval treatment of Boyle woman Tori Towey in Dubai did not encompass any indignant statements from judicial quarters. This... Read more »

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ROBBO’S STARRING ROLE

July 25, 2024

LAST WEEK’S Galway Film Fleadh featured the international premiere of Mrs Robinson, Aoife Kelleher’s Screen Ireland-backed story of the one and only Mary... Read more »

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BARKING AT HEATHER HUMPHREYS

July 25, 2024

IT WAS inevitable that when Heather Humphreys moved to introduce a ban on American Bully dogs, there would be a reaction from the... Read more »

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FRED HOLROYD’S ORWELLIAN TRAUMA

July 25, 2024

OPERATION DENTON has recently interviewed Fred Holroyd as part of its investigation into the 1974 Dublin-Monaghan (D-M) bombings, perpetrated by the notorious Glenanne... Read more »

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MERCIFUL TORY MERCER

July 25, 2024

KEIR STARMER’S pledge to repeal the controversial Legacy Act, opposed by all political parties in the north, must come as a blow to... Read more »

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