Article Category: Affairs of the Nation

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »