Article Category: Affairs of the Nation

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 »

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 »

MARTIN BENDS TO O’CALLAGHAN

February 23, 2017

THAT spat between Fianna Fáil’s Jim O’Callaghan and justice minister Frances Fitzgerald about whether or not O’Callaghan had alerted Fitzgerald to the Tusla... Read more »

MARY COUGHLAN JOINS SENECA GROUP

February 23, 2017

INTERESTING TO see that Ann Carrigy has just stepped down as a director of the new nursing home group, Seneca Healthcare. The fledgling... Read more »

MAHON: FINAL ACT?

February 23, 2017

WITH Joe Murphy’s court case against the Mahon Tribunal finally listed for hearing next week, the paying public may learn at last what went on... Read more »

TERENCE’S TITLES

February 23, 2017

Terence O’Rourke (Left) A REPORT in The Irish Times last week focused on a hefty fine levied by the Central Bank against an... 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 »

REFERENDUM BLUES FOR PRIDE FESTIVAL

February 23, 2017

WHILE MEMBERS of the gay community often find themselves moving ahead of trends, it turns out that the directors of Dublin Lesbian Gay... Read more »

Trinners Shinners

February 23, 2017

INTERESTING to see that the student unions of Trinity College, UCD and NUI Galway will hold referendums on whether the unions should support... Read more »

Letters to the Editor

February 23, 2017

WHITE WASH? Dear Editor It is perfectly understandable that Ronan Fanning would give a wide berth to a diplomatic report attributing offensive and sensational... Read more »

TAKING BREXIT SERIOUSLY

February 9, 2017

IF, as we are constantly reminded, the consequences of Brexit will create the greatest challenge to the Irish body politic since the foundation... Read more »

O’BRIEN’S KERINS PRECEDENT

February 9, 2017

IS IT fear of serial litigant Denis O’Brien that has produced the media understatement about Angela Kerins’s adverse judgment, namely that it might... Read more »

BUSY LIZZY’S ROUGH RIDE

February 9, 2017

THERE WAS surely plenty of uncomfortable shuffling in the saddle by players in the horseracing industry after TD Clare Daly let fly at... Read more »

CHRISTIAN CARTER’S CHARITY WORK

February 9, 2017

IT HAS been a bad start to 2017 for Christian Carter (brother of Marissa “Cocoa Brown” Carter, see p18), who ended up in... Read more »

IAN HYLAND’S STATE SUPPORT

February 9, 2017

IAN HYLAND must have been delighted with the puff piece in The Irish Times last week singing the praises of his latest wheeze,... Read more »

GOING FOR GOLD AT THE OCI

February 9, 2017

THE ELECTION of Pat Hickey’s successor as president of the Olympic Council of Ireland (OCI) takes pace at the end of this week... Read more »

Honohan v Ryan

February 9, 2017

MASTER of the High Court Ed Honohan irked Me’ Luds yet again in the New Year with a front page splash in The... Read more »

VIRGIN SAVIOUR FOR ‘IRISH TIMES’?

February 9, 2017

THERE is little disagreement about the extent of The Irish Times’ financial crisis with Denis O’Brien taking pleasure in pointing to it last... Read more »

Cashing in on AIB float

February 9, 2017

RECENT reports that AIB is planning the sale of hundreds of properties to vulture funds such as Cerberus suggests the move to privatise... Read more »

BEWARE THE IDES OF MARCH

January 26, 2017

ONE of the most skilful tactics Enda Kenny has deployed in retaining his leadership is that of presenting continuous staging posts – the... Read more »

LAURA MAGAHY’S HEALTHY CONTRACTS

January 25, 2017

Mary Mitchell O’Connor and Laura Maghahy GOLDHAWK’S old friend, Laura Magahy, found herself back under the spotlight last week after a number of... Read more »

THE RACE TO SUCCEED PAT HICKEY

January 25, 2017

WHILE THERE has been much talk of a changing of the guard at the Olympic Council of Ireland (OCI), next month’s election of... Read more »

Peter Prendergast’s prescriptions

January 25, 2017

WITH THE Christmas festivities fading into the memory, eager members of the public have turned to diets, gyms and purification regimes and there... Read more »

FROM TV3 TO LAGOS

January 25, 2017

THE mystery surrounding Andrew Hanlon’s sudden departure from his job as TV3 director of news, a post he occupied since the station was... Read more »

RONAN CAVANAGH’S GOALS

January 25, 2017

IT WAS interesting to see An Post in the headlines the same week as the deadline for the filing of returns by lobbyists.... Read more »

Sean Lyons’s Doomsday Challenge

January 25, 2017

A COMPANY with the interesting name of Doomsday Challenge has just been restored to the register by the High Court, presumably in connection... Read more »

DENIS O’BRIEN BIDS ADIEU TO Mac EOCHAIDH

January 12, 2017

WHATEVER about Shane Ross, one man who must be more than pleased to see Judge Colm Mac Eochaidh heading for Europe is Denis... Read more »

Charity cases

January 12, 2017

THERE WAS no surprise when Jim Luby was appointed liquidator of the Friends & Supporters of the Central Remedial Clinic Ltd before Christmas.... Read more »

PAUL SMITHWICK’S NEW FRIENDS

January 12, 2017

THE LANDING of an OBE gong by legal-eagle Paul Smithwick of that brewing ilk, probably didn’t come as too much of a surprise... Read more »

JUDGE GRIFFIN’S AUDIO TAPE

January 12, 2017

SPARE A thought for Judge Gerard Griffin of the Circuit Court who finds himself on the receiving end of serious allegations that surfaced... Read more »

BANKS BEWARE!

January 12, 2017

THE banks, government and courts could be thrown into chaos by a most interesting legal challenge to home repossessions – with a little... Read more »

ESCORT AGENCY’S GENEROSITY COMES UNSTUCK

January 12, 2017

CHRISTMAS proved an eventful period for the small Dublin charity, Inner City Helping Homeless (ICHH), which almost found itself screwed by a proposed... Read more »

Complaint turfed out

January 12, 2017

THE term authority in the title of an Irish organisation implies an entity set up under statute and overseen by the state, ie,... Read more »

‘WITCH-HUNT’ BY LEFTIST LAWYERS

January 12, 2017

A SERIES of court actions in Belfast and London against the Sun newspaper could cause convulsions in the British media should they be... Read more »

DEFENCE POLICY AND NEUTRALITY

December 14, 2016

NO rational explanation was offered as to why Shane Ross’s Independent Alliance caved in to Fine Gael over a free vote on a... Read more »