Article Category: Affairs of the Nation

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 »

DUBLIN: CAPITAL OF CYBERCRIME

January 25, 2018

RECENT REVELATIONS of computer hacking and surveillance at Independent News and Media (INM) are not the only strong hints that the dark arts... Read more »

SINN FÉIN FACTIONS

January 25, 2018

WITH Mary Lou McDonald still to be formally endorsed by an ard fheis and Gerry Adams barely out the door, the factionalising inside... Read more »

‘EXPERTS’ TO GUIDE REFERENDUM VOTERS

January 25, 2018

IT CAME as a surprise to most people that the Citizens’ Assembly brought forward to this month its deliberations on The Manner in... Read more »

Kevin Keane’s ‘COURTESY’ Meeting

January 25, 2018

MORE on the boycott by UCD and Trinity students of direct provision centre operator Aramark. Fans of Goldhawk will recall that students on... Read more »

McALEESE DYNASTY ON THE CARDS?

January 25, 2018

THE two wings – polar opposites – of Fianna Fáil have both kept a beady eye on gay campaigner Justin McAleese, son of... Read more »

Paschal Taggart’s shares

January 25, 2018

STOCK MARKET observers will be aware of the rather dramatic fall in the share price of the airline booking software engine, Datalex, over... Read more »

DIRK VAN DER FLIER’S PRAYERS

January 25, 2018

WHILE LEINSTER rugby star Josh van der Flier has been drafted in to Joe Schmidt’s Irish squad for the upcoming Six Nations tournament,... Read more »

Mick O’Leary’s negotiators

January 25, 2018

MICHAEL O’LEARY’S brave new world in which ‘combinations’ are now recognised has led to Ryanair seeking to recruit industrial relations managers. Its recent... Read more »

BUGGERS AT INM

January 11, 2018

WHAT is it about the repetitive hacking and surveillance in and around Independent News & Media (INM)? INM chairman Leslie Buckley has told... Read more »

Olga Shajaku’s interesting friend

January 11, 2018

IT WAS interesting to see Bertie Ahern and other familiar faces pop up on a trade mission to Moscow and St Petersburg in... Read more »

Dermot Desmond’s new house

January 11, 2018

JUST HOW many houses can Dermot Desmond buy in Dublin 4? Dermo originally lived on leafy Ailesbury Road and today no 89 is... Read more »

Steven Schwarzman’s scholarships

January 11, 2018

ONE person who will be delighted with the US Republicans’ new tax plan is CEO of private equity giant Blackstone Steve Schwarzman, who... Read more »

MI5/UVF HAUGHEY MURDER PLOT

January 11, 2018

Why would a notorious loyalist killer gang like the UVF write to then Taoiseach Charlie Haughey in 1987 informing him of an MI5... Read more »

BEADES VEXES HIGH COURT PRESIDENT

January 11, 2018

FOUR COURTS rules introduced last year to curtail lay litigants have not prevented barrack room lawyer extraordinaire, Jerry Beades, from continuing to challenge... Read more »

REWRITING THE TROUBLES

January 11, 2018

THE revisionist Ultras of last year’s West Cork History Festival (smart-ass Republicans have dubbed it the West Brit Festival) have received predictable praise... Read more »