Article Category: Affairs of the Nation

Hanging Out Pat Carey

August 24, 2017

Pat Carey THE smearing of garda whistleblower Maurice McCabe has resulted in Judge Peter Charleton’s Commission of Investigation into the alleged behaviour of... Read more »

‘Vexatious’ Lay Litigants

August 24, 2017

The High Court THE legal establishment will be pleased with the crack down on lay or non-legal advisers who have become a feature... Read more »

Trina Vargo’s Hard Lesson

August 24, 2017

Trina Vargo TRINA VARGO, the bolshy founder and face of the US-Ireland Alliance (USIA), was throwing her weight around last week in light... Read more »

Leslie Buckley’s Big Day

August 24, 2017

Leslie Buckley THIS WEEK’S annual general meeting of Independent News & Media (INM) should be a sell-out affair but, unlike the McGregor-Mayweather bout,... Read more »

John Butler Yeats On The Block

August 24, 2017

John Butler Yeats WHAT AN inglorious fate for the self-portrait of John Butler Yeats, which he himself called his masterpiece, than to be... Read more »

Leo Varadkar’s Foreign Strategy

August 24, 2017

Leo Varadkar LEO VARADKAR’S intention to double Ireland’s international presence is only one part of the Taoiseach’s plan to involve Ireland in global... Read more »

They’re all against Myers… now

August 10, 2017

Kevin Myers THERE are multiple ironies in the reaction to Kevin Myers’s self immolation, not the least being that his offending article –... Read more »

Breon Corcoran’s next move?

August 10, 2017

Breon Corcoran THE NEWS that Breon Corcoran is exiting Paddy Power-Beftair has shocked the market and pushed the shares down. But in truth,... Read more »

LEO AND FINIAN LOVE-IN

August 10, 2017

Finian McGrath FINIAN McGRATH’S paean of praise this week for his new Taoiseach Leo Varadkar was not delivered without motive and the super... Read more »

ED WALSH BIFFS BIFFO

August 10, 2017

Ed Walsh ED WALSH, former University of Limerick (UL) president, indulged in a spot of score settling with the return of his honorary... Read more »

DOCTOR In THE HOUSE

August 10, 2017

Thornhill THINGS haven’t gone so well for US import Dr Gerald Stephens who late last month lost an appeal against a 2015 High... Read more »

LUCINDA’S LUCRATIVE GIG

August 10, 2017

Lucinda Creighton LUCINDA CREIGHTON hasn’t gone away you know. In her latest guise as an EU consultant, the former Fine Gael Minister of... Read more »

WICKLOW COUNCIL’S ‘DISASTER FOR ALL’

August 10, 2017

Eddie Sheehy LITIGIOUS and financial exhaustion seems likely to see Wicklow County Council hoist the white flag following a High Court finding in... Read more »

Neutrality Ban

August 10, 2017

PRESIDENT of the Institute of International and European Affairs (IIEA), Brendan Halligan, was recently given space in The Irish Times for yet another... Read more »

OPERATION SOPHISTRY AND NEUTRALITY

July 27, 2017

Paul Kehoe AS cynical political manoeuvres go, the government’s co-option of Ireland’s defence forces into Operation Sophia – touchingly named after a baby... Read more »

TRINA VARGO’S VENGANCE

July 27, 2017

Trina Vargo “MY EXPERIENCES with the Irish Film Board (IFB) are kind of like James Comey’s experiences with President Trump – I’ve learned... Read more »

Plutocrats’ Pow-Wow

July 27, 2017

Dermot Desmond MORE ON that strange plutocrats’ pow-wow at Dublin’s Shelbourne Hotel last month, when Rupert Murdoch was in town for the launch... Read more »

QUINN NOW HEADS EURO QUANGO

July 27, 2017

Ruairi Quinn CHAIRMAN of the Institute of International and European Affairs (IIEA), Brendan Halligan (81), has moved aside and has been bestowed with... Read more »

FF’s Friendly Faces

July 27, 2017

Lisa Chambers THERE have been silly season rumblings against FF’s communications director, Pat McParland. A particular grievance is the selection by McParland, guided... Read more »

KIERAN MULVEY’S FANCY FOOTWORK

July 27, 2017

Kieran Mulvey A RULING by the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) that the Irish governing body for tennis – Tennis Ireland (TI) – discriminated... Read more »

THE CASE AGAINST DPP CLAIRE LOFTUS

July 27, 2017

Claire Loftus SPARE A thought for the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Claire Loftus, who finds herself targeted publicly in a way her... Read more »

VARADKAR AND THE ATTORNEYS GENERAL

July 13, 2017

THE unhealthy politicisation of the office of attorney general has been a hallmark of Fine Gael in government since 2011. And Leo Varadkar... Read more »

TROUBLE BREWING

July 13, 2017

HOW EMBARRASSING that the auditors of the company behind a state-backed craft brewery have found that it had contravened assorted Companies Act regulations... Read more »

PATRICK O’SULLIVAN V RICHARD CONROY

July 13, 2017

NEXT MONTH well known exploration entrepreneur Richard Conroy, executive chairman of Conroy Gold and Natural Resources, will go head to head with a... Read more »

WEST BRIT HISTORY FEST

July 13, 2017

ASSEMBLING Roy Foster, Eoghan Harris, Kevin Myers, Ruth Dudley Edwards and various academic and media fellow travellers in the same room to discuss... Read more »

Kenny Libel Win

July 13, 2017

HOWLS of indignation from Newstalk rang around the media following a front page “exclusive” in the Irish Sun whose headline claimed, “Kenny Facing... Read more »

SCHOOL TRIP TO THE HIGH COURT

July 13, 2017

THE PHONEY war is over in Deansgrange south County Dublin, where the initial salvos over the proposed sale by the Christian Brothers of... Read more »

NO ASYLUM FOR KENNY GROUP

July 13, 2017

IT WAS reported in the Sunday Times last weekend that an accommodation centre for asylum seekers in Limerick was closed as a result... Read more »

FF JUDICIAL BLUNDER

June 29, 2017

A RAFT of ‘eminent’ figures made fools of themselves in the furore over the government’s Judicial Appointments Commission Bill in the past week,... Read more »

DINNY’S SWORN ENEMY NO. 1

June 29, 2017

THERE HAVE been changes on the share register of Red Flag Consulting – Karl Brophy’s consultancy outfit that is locked in an expensive... Read more »

CARROLL MacNEILL’S POLITICAL PEDIGREE

June 29, 2017

BARRISTER and author Jennifer Carroll MacNeill has been popping up a lot recently as a media commentator, with her latest outing in The... Read more »

ATTORNEY GENERAL’S BACKYARD

June 29, 2017

NEW Attorney General Seamus Woulfe has a rich legal and political background, having worked at the Beef Tribunal for then Labour TD Pat... Read more »

CORPORATE CASH BOOST FOR PRIDE COFFERS

June 29, 2017

GOLDHAWK was interested to see a reference in The Irish Times to a decision by Grant Thornton accountants to send over 100 members... Read more »

CHRISTOPHER SINGH’S FIRE HAZARD

June 29, 2017

IN THE wake of the Grenfell Tower disaster, fire safety issues have jumped to the top of the agenda and it was no... Read more »

Denis and Rupert

June 29, 2017

WHAT A strange gathering of characters ended up in the Shelbourne Hotel earlier this month paying homage to Rupert Murdoch who had been... Read more »