Article Category: Affairs of the Nation

Justin McAleese’s mentor

April 5, 2018

BEING progressive on one issue is no guarantee of a broader political enlightenment. Mary McAleese’s son Justin, who came to prominence as a... Read more »

Olga Shajaku v Crystal Li

April 5, 2018

WHILE THE expulsion of a Russian diplomat here created waves, another Russki known to fans of Goldhawk – legal eagle Olga Shajaku –... Read more »

AIB’s Irish Times fans

March 22, 2018

DISREGARDING the vulgar populism so prevalent these days, The Irish Times has registered its appreciation of the sterling achievements of AIB chiefs. The... Read more »

ANIMUS IN COURT

March 22, 2018

THE legal actions being taken against giant multinational Volkswagen by Ballyhaunis solicitor Evan O’Dwyer on behalf of a dozen or so clients in... Read more »

Irish Times defies Michael Twee

March 22, 2018

IS President Michael D Higgins losing his touch? Higgins failed recently to bring to heel his normally adoring courtiers at The Irish Times... Read more »

Vindicating Fred Holroyd

March 22, 2018

A SENIOR British Army surgeon has backed Fred Holroyd’s claim that he was falsely sectioned as mentally ill once he began to complain... Read more »

Tania Banotti’s pay rise

March 22, 2018

CONGRATULATIONS to Tania Banotti who has just landed the job of director of the Government’s Creative Ireland programme once helmed by John Concannon.... Read more »

JOSEPHA MADIGAN’S HANDLER

March 22, 2018

WITH Josepha Madigan settling in as Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, an experienced PR handler has popped up as one of... Read more »

PEARSE DOHERTY’S TIMING

March 22, 2018

SINN FÉIN TD Pearse Doherty’s statement last week that he had moved in favour of abortion on request up to 12 weeks should... Read more »

EVA ORSMOND’S SWEET PROFITS

March 22, 2018

WITH THE Sugar Tax set to kick in on April 6, various experts have been making themselves heard on the issue. Few have... Read more »

RACHEL MORAN V ROISIN INGLE

March 8, 2018

AN INTERESTING Twitter spat surfaced last weekend when high profile anti sex trade campaigner Rachel Moran attacked the producers of The Irish Times... Read more »

JUDGE CON O’LEARY’S ‘OBJECTIVE BIAS’

March 8, 2018

EYEBROWS WERE raised in legal circles recently at the colourful tone of a High Court ruling that pulled no punches when criticising a... Read more »

MARTIN FRASER’S REVIEW

March 8, 2018

THAT opposition parties should criticise the selection of Martin Fraser to review the Strategic Review Unit (SCU) – over which Fraser himself presides... Read more »

IFTA’S HAPPY ENDING

March 8, 2018

GOOD NEWS for fans of the Irish Film and Television Awards (IFTAs). The team behind the annual orgy of backslapping have managed to... Read more »

HOTTINGER’S WEALTHY FAMILIES

March 8, 2018

MONEY MAY make the world go around for the super rich but it also helps provide a nice earner for those charged with... Read more »

MACLENNAN’S FAVOURITE TEAM

March 8, 2018

CONGRATULATIONS to former Telegraph group chief executive Murdoch MacLennan who will be named chairman of Independent News & Media (INM) this week. In... Read more »

WESTERN NAZI FRONT

March 8, 2018

THE outgoing UK head of counter terrorism, Mark Rowley, used his final speech last month to stress the high level threat from racist... Read more »

LEO VARADKAR’S ELECTION TIMELINE

February 22, 2018

MEDIA hints of Fine Gael’s plan to cut and run to the country this year are spot on and while lacking detail they... Read more »

The taxman and the film awards

February 22, 2018

THE MOSTLY low wattage audience at last week’s IFTAs awards bash at the Mansion House may have been surprised by host Deirdre O’Kane’s... Read more »

Niall McGarry’s turnover

February 22, 2018

FLASHY entrepreneur Niall McGarry was in his usual confident mood recently when he announced that the Irish end of Maximum Media operation was... Read more »

MURPHY’S LAW V LAW SOCIETY

February 22, 2018

THE mother of all legal battles between the Law Society and former solicitor Colm Murphy is due in the High Court in April... Read more »

REDMOND’S RECORDING

February 22, 2018

INTERESTING to see controversial Independent councillor Keith Redmond playing a central role in an investigation of waste operators by the Competition and Consumer... Read more »

Warmongers

February 22, 2018

“PESCO also has absolutely nothing to do with the creation of an EU army. Nothing in the treaties provides for the creation of... Read more »

SIMON COVENEY’S FAMILY VALUES

February 8, 2018

EVEN Simon Coveney’s angry critics in Fine Gael – and they are very angry – accept that his very public opposition to the... Read more »

KERRY BABIES ‘APOLOGIES’

February 8, 2018

THE garda apology to Joanne Hayes as well as that of Taoiseach Leo Varadkar deserves more quizzical scrutiny than it has received. Apart... Read more »

David McWilliams’s advice

February 8, 2018

CLEVER CLOGS David McWilliams might be feeling a little bewildered given the pounding taken by one of his heroes, fund manager Neil Woodford.... Read more »

MacDara Kelleher’s €850,000

February 8, 2018

CONGRATULATIONS to Goldhawk’s favourite film producer, MacDara Kelleher. He has just been greenlighted for a whopping U850,000 in funding from the Irish Film... Read more »

BRIAN McDONAGH’S DATA PROBLEM

February 8, 2018

SURPRISING to see a company called Granja Ltd listed for striking off by the Companies Office after failing to file its accounts. The... Read more »

HUMAN RIGHTS: NEW CRITERIA

February 8, 2018

THE refusal of Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHREC) member Betty Purcell to go quietly after her failure to be reappointed recently... Read more »

MARY HARNEY’S PRESCRIPTION

January 25, 2018

FORMER health minister Mary Harney will need to update her sprawling personal website following her appointment as chancellor of University of Limerick. But... Read more »