Article Category: Affairs of the Nation

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

TD DEFIES VULTURE FUND JAIL THREAT

June 13, 2018

FIANNA FÁIL TD John McGuinness has rutted up against some heavy hitters – ex garda commissioner Martin Callinan, his party leader Micheál Martin... Read more »

RUAIRÍ QUINN’S BUSY TIMETABLE

June 13, 2018

THE COUNTDOWN is in full swing for the imminent opening of Barry O’Callaghan’s hugely expensive Nord Anglia International School in Leopardstown in September.... Read more »

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 »

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 »

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 »