Affairs of the Nation Archives

AFFAIRS OF THE NATION

DIVIDENDS AT GRAFTON COLLEGE

December 13, 2018

WHILE THE sudden closure of Grafton College English language school attracted plenty of media attention, little has been said about the operation behind... Read more »

PHIL HOGAN V FRANCES FITZGERALD

December 13, 2018

SUCH IS the poll-induced hubris in Fine Gael, especially in Dublin, that party seniors are already divvying up and apportioning potential MEPs and... Read more »

UNION FACTION FIGHTS

December 13, 2018

AN INTRIGUING political quarrel inside the country’s second-largest union, Fórsa, saw its youth wing, Fórsa Youth Network, closed down recently by the union’s... Read more »

CHASING MICHAEL HEGARTY

December 13, 2018

FANS OF Goldhawk may have been a tad surprised to see East Cork Blueshirt county councillor Michael Hegarty pop up on a three-man... Read more »

ZAPPER ZAPS HER CONSTITUENCY

November 29, 2018

THE DANCING on children’s minister, Katherine Zappone’s political coffin that Fine Gael and media commentators have engaged in could be most premature judging... Read more »

DANA LIBEL SAGA: CHAPTER 1

November 29, 2018
DANA’S libel settlement with the Sunday World this week is just the beginning of a long, litigious war for the singer and former presidential... Read more »

DENIS O’BRIEN’S AWARD

November 29, 2018

CONGRATULATIONS TO Denis O’Brien, who has landed an honorary fellowship from the National College of Ireland (NCI). It is the least the great... Read more »

LUKE COMER’S HEAVY GOING

November 29, 2018

ALTHOUGH ONLY a handful of people in this country can claim to be richer than developer Luke Comer, he finds himself being sued... Read more »

LORRAINE HIGGINS FOR EUROPE?

November 29, 2018

FORMER LABOUR senator Lorraine Higgins has suddenly become a lady that lunches with Blueblouse women and has been tweeting in support of the... Read more »

JACKIE LAVIN’S LITIGATION

November 29, 2018

INTERESTING to see Jackie Lavin once again suing Bill Cullen (this time with Ulster Bank). The happy couple have been down this road... Read more »

WHO FEARS TO SPEAK?

November 29, 2018

EARLY LAST month, French President Emmanuel Macron demanded the creation of a “real European army”, arguing in apocalyptic mode that “we have to... Read more »

OOOPS! THE MONEY IS GONE

November 29, 2018

FANS OF Goldhawk will be familiar with the lengthy liquidation saga at Ralph Christians’s Magma Films, where the end is finally in sight.... Read more »

UCD PRESIDENT’S MAR-A-LAGO

November 29, 2018

AUSSIE GO-GETTER and UCD president Andrew Deeks has caused academic eyebrows to arch with his grandiose projects, including the €48m creative design centre;... Read more »

DR VARADKAR’S DILEMMA

November 15, 2018

TAOISEACH Leo Varadkar has been defended by his party colleagues as a doctor with experience of management practice in the health service after... Read more »

IVY’S PR BLITZ

November 15, 2018

SOME rather ingratiating advertisements appeared in the national dailies recently, thanking Irish customers of The Ivy restaurant, the ritzy eatery that opened in... Read more »

LOVIN MEDIA’S SAUDI LOVE IN

November 15, 2018

Irish businessman Emmet O’Neill must be shocked at some of the articles being published by Lovin Saudi, a franchise of his Lovin Media... Read more »

LOST LEADER BRIAN HAYES

November 15, 2018

RICHARD BRUTON is the man that effectively blocked MEP Brian Hayes’s planned route back to the top in national politics. But judging by... Read more »

ARAMARK RATTLED

November 15, 2018

Is food services giant Aramark starting to panic about the boycott of its cafes and restaurants by students at the University of Limerick... Read more »

JOHN ARKINS’S HEADACHE

November 15, 2018
THE TIMING of Prime Time’s recent breathless exposé of the Irish film industry was less than perfect for the Irish Film Workers Association (IFWA),... Read more »

MARKING DERMO’S CARD

November 15, 2018

WHAT AN extravagant splash the Sunday Business Post published on the “Billionaire investor. Media mogul. IFSC visionary… patriot and a fearsome litigant”, Dermot... Read more »

MARY LOU’S ELECTION BLUES

November 1, 2018

POST-ELECTION depression among Sinn Féin members will quickly turn to anger if the leadership does not show contrition and self-criticism over the presidential... Read more »

COLLISON BROTHERS’ BAD PRESS

November 1, 2018

JOHN AND Patrick Collison, the Limerick-born wunderkinds behind online payments company Stripe, are not used to negative press – particularly in Ireland. So... Read more »

CASEY’S CHORUS

November 1, 2018

PETER CASEY brought out the Tory beast in the Sunday Times and its Dublin-based champion, Frank Fitzgibbon, editor of the Aarish edition. Like... Read more »

MARY HARNEY’S INVESTMENT

November 1, 2018

GOOD TO see the busy former health minister Mary Harney putting her money where her mouth is. No doubt she has plenty of... Read more »

CRYSTAL LI’S LIFELINE

November 1, 2018

HAVING APPEARED to have succeeded in getting a big public translation contract cancelled and restarted, Ruski lawyer Olga Shajaku got some frustrating news... Read more »

BRENDAN HALLIGAN’S ONE CHINA POLICY

November 1, 2018

THERE WAS much scratching of heads in Leinster House last month when ceann comhairle Seán Ó Fearghail circulated a letter to members warning... Read more »

LIBEL STAND-OFF

November 1, 2018

BARRISTER-turned-seminarian-turned-layman and now litigant, Conor Gannon, has taken out High Court writs against three newspapers following reports published in connection with his time... Read more »

NOSTROVIA!

November 1, 2018

VODKA FANS be warned. Last month, one Francisco Xavier Fermin De Eizaguirre of La Maguna, Plum Bay Les Terre Basses, in the French... Read more »

DUBLIN 7 TO MOROCCO

November 1, 2018

HOLDER of the presidential wooden spoon Gavin Duffy lost his deposit and he also got hit for a €20 spot when canvassing in... Read more »

SAUDIS SILENCE IRISH GOVERNMENT

October 18, 2018
THERE HAS been a deafening silence from foreign minister Simon Coveney and the government at the apparent murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi by agents... Read more »

SINN FÉIN POPPYCOCK-UP

October 18, 2018

THERE is war at all levels of Sinn Féin over presidential candidate Liadh Ní Riada’s statement that she would wear the poppy if... Read more »

PAT CAREY’S MEDIA TRIAL

October 18, 2018

THE smearing of garda whistleblower Sgt McCabe has been well and truly demolished with Justice Charleton’s tribunal report being just the latest exoneration... Read more »

HUGHES BOYS’ GAMBLE

October 18, 2018

WHILE THE Hughes family has been having some problems with its €50m Westport House project, the good news is that Cathal and the... Read more »

GRAHAM HOLLAND’S DOGGED STRATEGY

October 18, 2018

A HIGH Court judgment by Judge Tara Burns, dismissing a challenge by greyhound trainer Graham Holland, refers to an audacious claim of bias... Read more »

NO LOVE FOR LABOUR

October 18, 2018

The Irish Congress of Trade Union’s Raise the Roof rally attracted a crowd of around 12,000, by and large uniting various campaigns and... Read more »

IRISH TIMES STYLE

October 18, 2018

THE Irish Times marked the centenary of its most esteemed editor ever, Douglas Gageby, with a tribute from Joe Breen – “a man... Read more »