Affairs of the Nation Archives

AFFAIRS OF THE NATION

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 »

Suds’ Critics

January 11, 2018

IN THE midst of all the breast-beating and hair-pulling following the death of ‘Sir’ Peter Sutherland, one former Fine Gael tánaiste went against... Read more »

RTÉ Houses

January 11, 2018

DUBLIN CITY chief executive Owen Keegan hit out at the decision of RTÉ to offload a large part of its Montrose site to... Read more »

CRYING HALT TO EUROMANIACS

January 11, 2018

THERE’S no better man than former Labour minister Ruairí Quinn when it comes to squeezing serious amounts of taxpayers’ money from government departments... Read more »

Simon Coveney’s stance on Palestine

December 14, 2017

FOREIGN MINISTER Simon Coveney made a stirring statement on Donald Trump’s universally condemned decision to situate the US Embassy to Israel in Jerusalem.... Read more »

Leo Varadkar’s Twitter Spin

December 14, 2017

TAOISEACH Leo Varadkar took a bit of a thumping from a prominent LGBT advocacy group over what it called a “misleading tweet” on... Read more »

Students target Aramark

December 14, 2017

STUDENTS in Trinity and UCD are getting testy about the on campus presence of food services multinational Aramark over its links to the... Read more »

NIALL McGARRY’S RED INK

December 14, 2017

ONLINE PUBLISHER and self-promoter extraordinaire, Niall McGarry was talking up his Maximum Media group last week, announcing new jobs in Galway and promising... Read more »

BIG BILLS AT BEWLEY’S

December 14, 2017

VISITORS TO Dublin’s Grafton Street in the last couple of weeks may have been struck by the near permanent queue of punters outside... Read more »

ST JOHN HUME JNR

December 14, 2017

THE recent Dublin film premiere of Maurice Fitzpatrick’s In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America heard former President Mary McAleese laud... Read more »

Injudicious behaviour

December 14, 2017

RUMOURS of some splendidly injudicious carry-on in the Supreme Court building have been circulating in the Law Library for the past week after... Read more »

George Hook’s return

December 14, 2017

GEORGE HOOK’S long-awaited return to the airwaves, promised for December, has been pushed back to January and he will be heard on Newstalk’s... Read more »

RTÉ’s anti-social media

December 14, 2017

HOW long does it take to figure out who has access to an RTÉ social media account? Nearly a month after RTÉ One... Read more »

Colm O’Gorman v SIPO

December 14, 2017

IT IS perhaps not too surprising that the Irish arm of Amnesty International should be digging in its heels on a request from... Read more »

That Frances and Leo deal

November 30, 2017

WHEN the dust settles on the election that nearly was it will be the confidence and supply deal that Leo Varadkar agreed with... Read more »

McCABE: ‘RIGHT THE WAY THROUGH’

November 30, 2017

ONE man with a keen interest in the entire Fitzgeraldgate saga is Colm Smyth, senior counsel for then garda commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan and... Read more »

COMMITTEE TROUBLE IN TRINNERS

November 30, 2017

A TYPICALLY toxic student row in Trinity College Dublin has led to the ousting of the Trinity Publications chair by her own committee.... Read more »

Big Sam’s Irish team

November 30, 2017

A STRUGGLING company called Pulse Fusion F6 was tackled by the taxman last month, almost leaving some footballing suits with egg on their... Read more »

PATRICK LENAGHAN’S RIVER CASINO

November 30, 2017

SOME BAD news for Goldhawk’s old pal, hotelier Patrick Lenaghan, who’s been through the wars in the past decade. His name will be... Read more »

ORLAITH MCBRIDE’S FRIEND

November 16, 2017

SPARE a thought for Orlaith McBride who, as director of the Arts Council, has been asked to comment frequently on Michael Colgan and... Read more »

Aslan Audio

November 16, 2017

An audio recording of showbiz hack Ken Sweeney’s interview with Aslan’s Christy Dignam will form the centrepiece of a High Court libel action... Read more »

School Fees

November 16, 2017

A COMPANY called Nord Anglia Education (Ireland) Ltd has just been incorporated in Dublin ahead of the planned opening of Barry “Riverdeep” O’Callaghan’s... Read more »

NOELINE BLACKWELL’S WINDFALL

November 16, 2017

GOOD NEWS for chief executive Noeline Blackwell and her team at the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre (DRCC). With funding for charitable bodies generally... Read more »

Come back Catherine

November 16, 2017

MEATH WEST’S Catherine Yore has not been welcomed by everyone in the local party. Yore was voted hottest candidate in the 2011 general... Read more »

HALLIGAN’S NORTH KOREAN LINKS

November 16, 2017

DESPITE saturation media coverage and general bafflement at John Halligan’s proposed mission to North Korea little attention has been paid to the close... Read more »

PADDY COSGRAVE’S TALES FROM THE CRYPT

November 16, 2017

SERIAL attention-seeker Paddy Cosgrave has a knack for pushing his luck. So it comes as little surprise that Goldhawk’s old pal has had... Read more »

LEO’S LITTLE HELPERS

November 16, 2017

LEO VARADKAR and his handler, Brian Murphy, had to make some delicate decisions on how to utilise the deputy leader and defeated contestant... Read more »

THE ‘INSPIRATION’ OF AODHAIN Ó RÍORDÁIN

November 16, 2017

“INSPIRED by an impassioned speech made in the Seanad by Aodhán Ó Ríordáin…” So begins an online video describing the dramatic emergence of... Read more »

Farrell’s Food

November 14, 2017

WHAT A surprise to see one of achingly trendy Dublin restaurateur John Farrell’s eateries on the wrong end of a judgment for a... Read more »

HALAWA: THE FRENCH CONNECTION

November 2, 2017

FOLLOWING Ibrahim Halawa’s release from a Cairo prison last week the government’s Strategic Communications Unit (SCU) and Iveagh House diplomats carried out a... Read more »

STUDIO SEQUELS

November 2, 2017

AFTER BUYING the defunct Galway Airport at Carnmore in June 2014, Galway city and county councils sought views, commissioned reports and generally agonised... Read more »

Kerry’s Hack

November 2, 2017

GER COLLERAN has been editor and managing director of the Irish Daily Star and was at various times tipped to be editor of... Read more »

Brian Kingham goes to court

November 2, 2017

WHAT A surprise to see the name of Brian Kingham surface as one of two parties (along with Blessington Sailing Club) taking a... Read more »