Article Category: Affairs of the Nation

DECLAN GANLEY’S BAD DAY IN COURT

April 19, 2017

THERE WERE some significant developments recently in the long-running defamation case taken by controversial Galway businessman Declan Ganley against RTÉ in relation to... Read more »

BID CAMPAIGN GETS NASTY

April 19, 2017

WITH A plebiscite due in June/July on the renewal or otherwise of the mandate of the Dublin City Centre Bid Company (BID) –... Read more »

Alas Poor Mrs Yorrick

April 19, 2017

COURT of Appeal Judge Alan Mahon recently reaffirmed a jail sentence for contempt against barrack room barrister David Walsh for his persistent attempts... Read more »

HALLIGAN’S QUANGO NETS €1M

April 19, 2017

THE LATEST accounts for the Institute of International and European Affairs (IIEA) show its income for 2015 rose by 22.3% to €881,593 and... Read more »

Keith Mahon’s Followers

April 19, 2017

CONGRATULATIONS to Keith Mahon of The Taste.ie who has been named most influential food and drink journo on Twitter by Murray Communications. But... Read more »

PRIVATISING BUS ÉIREANN

April 5, 2017

AFTER Maggie Thatcher defeated the British coal miners back in the 1980s she went on to privatise the British transport system, with disastrous... Read more »

Derek Richardson’s Pitch Battles

April 5, 2017

RUGBY FANS had plenty to cheer last weekend when Leinster advanced to the semi-finals of the European Champions Cup beating English premiership leaders... Read more »

GEORGE SOROS’S ‘OPEN SOCIETY’

April 5, 2017

THE NAME of zillionaire George Soros has been popping up in Ireland quite a lot in recent times, courtesy of his well endowed... Read more »

A TERRIBLE JUDICIARY IS BORN

April 5, 2017

DID Shane Ross foment insurrection inside a section of the legal establishment, namely the Law Society, which has just plunged a dagger in... Read more »

GO TO JAIL!

April 5, 2017

NOW resident on the Court of Appeal following the interminable and costly Flood/Mahon Tribunal, Judge Alan Mahon was at the centre of an... Read more »

UCC’S CONTROVERSIAL CONFERENCE

April 5, 2017

TO THE surprise of no one involved in organising the controversial Cork conference, International Law and the State of Israel: Legitimacy, Exceptionalism and... Read more »

PROVOST PRENDERGAST’S NOISY PERK

April 5, 2017

A REPORT in Trinity College’s student newspaper Trinity News has raised a few eyebrows about Provost Patrick Prendergast, whose perks of office include... Read more »

HALAWA’S FRIENDS AND FOES

April 5, 2017

AN altercation in the Dáil between Green TD Eamon Ryan and Richard Boyd Barrett, People Before Profit, has unlocked a power play that... Read more »

Relationship Breakdown

April 5, 2017

SO FAREWELL then to Relationships Ireland (RI), which has just filed the resolution to wind itself up and appoint the ubiquitous Kieran Wallace... Read more »

Consenting Turbines

March 23, 2017

A RULING from An Bord Pleanála has just granted something called “substitute consent” for a planning development that had previously been deemed by... Read more »

WHAT HAPPENED THE AIR CORPS?

March 23, 2017

WHEN he finally got around to visiting Blacksod last Monday – a full week after the loss of outsourced helicopter 116 and its... Read more »

JOHN BRENNAN ESCAPES ‘CATASTROPHIC COLLAPSE’

March 23, 2017

NEXT MONTH, Judge Tom O’Donnell delivers his sentence in the high profile case relating to the collapse of a lift at the Killarney... Read more »

IAN BAILEY’S FRENCH FARCE

March 23, 2017

THE STATE’S timing of its presentation of the French extradition warrant to bring Ian Bailey to Paris on the charge of murdering Sophie... Read more »

Gender Bias

March 23, 2017

THE WAKING The Feminists lobby has generated plenty of fallout over the last year (with Garry Hynes of Druid Theatre the latest to... Read more »

Privacy Funding

March 23, 2017

WITH THE 21-day High Court case involving Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) Helen Dixon, Facebook Ireland and Austrian privacy activist Max Schrems now concluded,... Read more »

GIVE ME YOUR TIRED, YOUR POOR …

March 23, 2017

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin (Far Left) THE vicarious grand standing of Irish liberals still engaged in competitive outrage at US president Donald Trump –... Read more »

ALAN SHATTER’S REVENGE

March 23, 2017

FORMER JUSTICE minister Alan Shatter turned up at Trinity College Dublin last week to launch a provocative book by two feminist academics –... Read more »

EGYPTIAN CONTEMPT FOR IRELAND

March 23, 2017

A THUNDERING statement from Ceann Comhairle Seán Ó Fearghail in January threatened that millions of euro worth of business with Egypt would be... Read more »

HOW WEALTHY IS DINNY?

March 9, 2017

THERE WAS the usual array of surprise valuations in the latest Sunday Times Rich List, with the likes of Martin Naughton, John Magnier... Read more »

CLOCK TICKING AT NATIONAL GALLERY

March 9, 2017

WHAT ON earth is going on at the National Gallery of Ireland (NGI)? The contract of the director of the institution, Sean Rainbird,... Read more »

LEO VARADKAR IN RETREAT

March 9, 2017

IT’S EARLY days yet but the latest poll showing Fine Gael voters favouring Simon Coveney over Leo Varadkar have unnerved the latter’s supporters... Read more »

MARIE COLLINS PUTS IT UP TO ‘IL PAPA’

March 9, 2017

HOW careless of Pope Francis to lose abuse victim Marie Collins a year after Briton Peter Saunders jumped ship from the Pontifical Commission... Read more »

DUP Gaelgoir

March 9, 2017

ONE DUP member who survived the party’s slaughter last week was Jim Wells who got help from Dublin Irish language academic Professor Ciarán... Read more »

MICHAEL CAREY TAKES THE BISCUIT

March 9, 2017

WHAT GOES around, comes around. A Drogheda biscuit company called East Coast Bakehouse, which has been heavily promoting its products, is the brainchild... Read more »

Letters to the Editor

March 9, 2017

‘MALICIOUS’ SOURCES Dear Editor, You write (See The Phoenix, 24/2/17) that I, among others, suggested that RTÉ’s Paul Reynolds should reveal his garda... Read more »

MAHON TRIBUNAL RIP?

March 9, 2017

With the settlement of Joe Murphy’s High Court case against the MahonTribunal last week, the taxpayer may now never learn the truth about... Read more »

INVESTIGATING GALWAY’S ‘PALACE’

March 9, 2017

THE STATEMENT issued by the Charities Regulator last week that it has opened a statutory investigation into the €9.5m and counting Solas-Galway Picture... Read more »

BRUTON LURKS WITH INTENT

February 23, 2017

THE studied but pregnant silence of Richard Bruton in the fevered Fine Gael leadership war could yet presage a surprise bid from the... Read more »

LISA GAUGHRAN’S SETTLEMENT

February 23, 2017

HAVING weathered a high profile legal action from top magazine publisher Norah Casey of Harmonia (the company behind the likes of Irish Tatler,... Read more »

EUGENE McDERMOTT’S €7M REPRIEVE

February 23, 2017

THERE WAS a surprising ruling in the High Court earlier this month when Judge Max Barrett threw out a €7m judgment against former... Read more »