Affairs of the Nation Archives

AFFAIRS OF THE NATION

OLGA SHAJAKU V CRYSTAL LI

June 13, 2018

AFTER REPEATED visits to the courts, determined Russian lawyer Olga Shajaku has finally won out, with the Court of Appeal ruling that a... Read more »

ANNE MARIE WATERS’S NEW PARTY

June 13, 2018

FAR RIGHT political activist Anne Marie Waters – she hails from Stoneybatter, Dublin – has formed a new ultra-right party entitled For Britain... Read more »

ROSS AMBUSHED BY JUDGE’S CALL

June 13, 2018

SHANE ROSS told RTÉ through gritted teeth last week that he had no problems with the sudden appointment of four new judges, as... Read more »

JENNI TIMONY’S MENTORING

June 13, 2018

CONGRATULATIONS to Jenni Timony who is busy putting her experience to work for the benefit of Ireland’s next generation of entrepreneurs. She certainly... Read more »

AIB V TONY O’REILLY

June 13, 2018

FANS OF Goldhawk will not have been too surprised by AIB’s move this week to get its hands on Tony O’Reilly’s stake in... Read more »

PROF KENNY’S EVIDENCE REFUTED

June 13, 2018

ACADEMIC and writer Professor Colum Kenny has got himself into a spot of bother at the Charleton Tribunal inquiring into an alleged smear... Read more »

THE POWER OF (SOME) WOMEN

May 31, 2018

THE hugely successful repeal campaign has been lauded in politically correct and slightly patronising terms as a spontaneous outpouring of local communities, ordinary... Read more »

PREGNANT WITH POSSIBILITY

May 31, 2018

WHILE THE focus in the aftermath of the referendum has naturally been on the planned introduction of abortion services, less attention has been... Read more »

LEGAL FEUD

May 31, 2018

THE legal feud between High Court president Judge Peter Kelly and the barrack room lawyer from hell, Jerry Beades, continues with the latter... Read more »

ED GUINEY’S SOLAS SEQUEL

May 31, 2018

THE REPORT of the Charities Regulator into Lelia Doolan’s Solas Galway Picture Palace brings down the curtain, for now, on the costly saga.... Read more »

OLGA’S BAD NEWS

May 31, 2018

BAD NEWS for Ruski lawyer Olga Shajaku, who has been making some serious moolah here from her translation service. She has just had... Read more »

IRISH HYPOCRISY ON GAZA

May 31, 2018
THE rhetorical statements from An Taoiseach and the Foreign Minister – Leo Varadkar and Simon Coveney respectively – on the murderous Israeli behaviour in... Read more »

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

May 31, 2018

Dear Editor, I protest the vile anti-Semitic slur of the cover picture of your latest edition, evidently designed to stir up Jew-hatred. Thousands... Read more »

DEFAMATION NATION

May 17, 2018

FANS OF Goldhawk will recall that the Dublin Solicitors’ Bar Association will head off to sample the delights of Venice for their annual... Read more »

JD BUCKLEY’S SUPPORTING ROLE

May 17, 2018

THIS WEEK’S AGM of Independent News and Media (INM) should prove lots of fun and the name of the company’s erstwhile chairman, Leslie... Read more »

ROSS NO-SHOW AGAINST McDOWELL

May 17, 2018

SHANE ROSS’S campaign to block Senator Michael McDowell as chair of the Oireachtas committee to implement Maurice Manning’s Seanad reform proposals – ostensibly... Read more »

KOP ON

May 17, 2018

IN an embarrassing attempt to get onside with Irish-based Liverpool fans ahead of the upcoming UEFA champions League final, the Sindo’s Eoghan Harris... Read more »

TURN AGAIN, MARTYN

May 17, 2018

IRISH TIMES cartoonist Martyn Turner usually manages to hit the sweet spot for south Dublin readers but his illustration this week of Israel... Read more »

‘NO’ VICTIMS

May 17, 2018

GOLDHAWK spotted a familiar face at a recent press conference for the No campaign. Last week, after Facebook announced it would be banning... Read more »

DERMOT DESMOND V THE PHOENIX

May 17, 2018

DATA Protection Commissioner Helen Dixon has rejected Dermot Desmond’s complaint that The Phoenix breached his privacy by publishing a photograph of him at... Read more »

ISRAEL DIPLOMACY

May 17, 2018

TÁNAISTE Simon Coveney’s dressing down of the Israeli ambassador for the latest massacre of Palestinians and his demand for a UN investigation is... Read more »

TÁNAISTE MARY LOU?

May 3, 2018

POST general election speculation has centred on whether Fianna Fáil can overtake Fine Gael (unlikely), but the real question is whether either party... Read more »

IN PURSUIT OF FILMBASE

May 3, 2018

WITH TOM Murray having now been appointed liquidator of the film resource organisation Filmbase, focus now turns to the inevitable fallout. Documents released... Read more »

VERY ‘HOT’ IRA DOCUMENTARY

May 3, 2018

THE ghost of Jean McConville, murdered by the IRA in 1972, surfaced again at the recent Hot Docs film festival in Toronto with... Read more »

CALMLY DOES IT FOR ED GUINEY

May 3, 2018

CONGRATULATIONS to Goldhawk’s favourite film producers, Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe, who have added another string to their bow by tapping a fund... Read more »

JUST BECAUSE YOU’RE PARANOID…

May 3, 2018

ONE standout irony amid the welter of allegations disgorged daily from the INM imbroglio is the surveillance paranoia that has seized executives at... Read more »

DINNY AND DERMO AND INM

April 19, 2018

THE MOST recent coverage of ODCE boss Ian Drennan’s affidavit on the alleged carry-on in Independent News and Media (INM) has seen mention... Read more »

IRISH FOREIGN POLICY COLLAPSE

April 19, 2018

IN JUST three weeks the disintegration of Ireland’s once honorable non-aligned foreign policy has been laid bare by the pace of events in... Read more »

IRFU KEEPS ITS EYE ON THE BALL

April 19, 2018

THE TERMINATION of the contracts of shamed rugby players Paddy Jackson and Stuart Olding was never in doubt from the time the trial... Read more »

EMILY LOGAN KEEPS MUM ON EGYPT

April 19, 2018

HUMAN RIGHTS campaigning can be a tricky business as the head of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHREC), Emily Logan, found... Read more »

HYLAND’S SUITE GUYS

April 19, 2018

THERE has been rather less hype about Dublin Tech Week – Ian Hyland and Paul Connolly’s attempt to replace Paddy Cosgrave’s web summit... Read more »

Heavey Exit

April 19, 2018

FANS OF Goldhawk will not have been too surprised by news this week that one Dorothy Thompson CBE has been appointed chair of... Read more »

IAN BAILEY: CHAPTER 84

April 19, 2018

IAN BAILEY’S hearing in the Court of Appeal this week was the first of several staging posts along the way as he continues... Read more »

FEAR AND LOATHING AT INM

April 5, 2018

THE Irish Independent innocently wondered this week about how it was “unclear” why deputy editor of the Sunday Independent, Brendan O’Connor, should be... Read more »

Reds under the bed

April 5, 2018

FOREIGN minister Simon Coveney’s statement justifying the expulsion of a Russian diplomat does not bear scrutiny and indicates a subservience to British foreign... Read more »

INM’s sub-committee

April 5, 2018

AN AWFUL lot has been written about the extraordinary events that are alleged to have unfolded at Independent News and Media (INM) in... Read more »