Article Category: Affairs of the Nation

DREW HARRIS: OMERTA

August 9, 2018

A MOTION from Donegal County Council urged the government last week to cancel the appointment of Drew Harris as garda commissioner because of... Read more »

RACHEL ALLEN’S SURPRISE DISH

August 9, 2018

WHILE CELEBRITY chef Rachel Allen is off to Italy next month to film with the BBC Good Food Channel, back in Cork ‘Rachel’s’... Read more »

PAUL BLANCHFIELD’S CLOSED VAULTS

August 9, 2018

THE APPOINTMENT of an examiner to Frontier Entertainment Ltd must come as a shock to the company’s founder – broadcaster-turned-investor Paul Blanchfield –... Read more »

KEITH SPENCER’S COURT DATE

August 9, 2018

HIGH-FLYING barrister Keith Spencer BL will have to wait until October to see what Judge Seamus Noonan has in store for him after... Read more »

GRANNY GRANT ROW

August 9, 2018

THE REACTION to Shane Ross’s granny grant budgetary demand was a classic re-run of the usual Fine Gael inspired media onslaught depicting the... Read more »

IAN BAILEY ‘STING’

August 9, 2018

PERHAPS the most serious allegation made by Ian Bailey, soon to be tried in France in his absence, on the charge of murdering... Read more »

BONO: IRELAND’S SECRET WEAPON

July 26, 2018

THE embarrassing gimmick of a Bono concert in New York to support Ireland’s bid for a United Nations Security Council seat must have... Read more »

DAVID HALL’S PRESIDENTIAL AMBITIONS

July 26, 2018

INTERESTING to see the name of David Hall thrown into the presidential election ring. The high profile mortgage activist appears to have already... Read more »

SEAN GALLAGHER’S COMEBACK

July 26, 2018

HAVING gone through the seven stages of grief at the presidency being snatched from him via RTÉ’S Tweetgate in 2011 – anger at... Read more »

MICHAEL SMURFIT’S BEDSIDE MEDIA

July 26, 2018

THE LAST fortnight has seen Michael Smurfit’s name bandied about in the High Court where he faced demands for him to be sub-poenaed... Read more »

FINE GAEL GUNNING FOR ELECTION

July 12, 2018

A TRIO of young but influential Fine Gael ministers has persuaded most of their party members in cabinet that an early general election... Read more »

SEAMUS HEANEY’S EXPENSIVE ARCHIVE

July 12, 2018

THERE HAS been plenty of gushing coverage of the Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again exhibition that marks the overdue opening of the Bank... Read more »

EOGHAN MURPHY STRIKES BACK

July 12, 2018

TD Kate O’Connell’s public assault on her Fine Gael constituency ‘colleague’ Eoghan Murphy – for his alleged impotence over the planned Metrolink’s desecration... Read more »

BENDING THE KNEE

July 12, 2018

THERE is something out of sync with the rush to fete the sixth in line to the British crown, the Duke (and Duchess)... Read more »

THE BUDGET: GUNS OR HOUSES?

July 12, 2018

MICHEÁL MARTIN and his party face an interesting dilemma in the run-up to the October budget as opposition TDs are mobilising against a... Read more »

DECLAN O’CALLAGHAN’S EXIT

July 12, 2018

IT MAY not come as too great a surprise to hear that controversial Ballaghaderreen legal eagle Declan O’Callaghan has decided to step down... Read more »

FINE GAEL’S WAR GAMES

June 28, 2018

CAREFULLY crafted PR spin on Tánaiste Simon Coveney’s attendance at the EU foreign affairs council this week referred to Ireland’s active role in... Read more »

FIVE GUYS, ONE CRITIC

June 28, 2018

GOLDHAWK certainly enjoyed Catherine Cleary’s demolition of the new Five Guys burger joint in her Irish Times review earlier this month. It turns... Read more »

MEL GIBSON V MACDARA KELLEHER

June 28, 2018

CONGRATULATIONS to filmmaker Macdara Kelleher who received good news from the Superior Court of California last week in relation to an expensive row... Read more »

SHERLOCK’S BOOZY CONSTITUENCY

June 28, 2018

SOME of Labour deputy Sean Sherlock’s parliamentary colleagues wondered if the Cork East TD had drink taken when he moved his unusual amendments... Read more »