Affairs of the Nation Archives

AFFAIRS OF THE NATION

PAPAL VISIT: IRISH SCHISM

December 14, 2016

LIKE Julius Caesar’s tripartite division of Gaul, the Ireland that Pope Francis will encounter in August 2018, when he attends the world conference... Read more »

THE MAN WHO STOOD UP TO DENIS O’BRIEN

December 14, 2016

THE SOAP OPERA playing out at Independent News and Media (INM) between the group’s chief executive – former Tesco and Lidl suit, Robert... Read more »

PÁDRAIG Ó CÉIDIGH’S CONTRACTS

December 14, 2016

WITH THE Oireachtas committee on water charges kicking off its deliberations this week, it is set to be a very busy time for... Read more »

McKEE’S POLITICAL ODYSSEY

December 14, 2016

THE return of Kilkenny defector, Cllr Pat McKee, to a resurgent Fianna Fáil is not guaranteed given his promiscuous party couplings in the... Read more »

TCD’S ISRAELI CONNECTIONS

December 14, 2016

IN AN attempt to inject some balance into the Israel-Palestine debate, the fair-minded people at Trinity College’s chaplaincy are organising a “staff peace... Read more »

A RACING UNCERTAINTY

December 14, 2016

A CASE that would have thrown up some rather interesting details about the sort of compensation paid out to top racehorse trainers and... Read more »

A LA CARTE DÁIL PRIVILEGE

December 14, 2016

DENIS O’BRIEN must be horrified at the behaviour of his employees at the Irish and Sunday Independent in their pursuit of Gerry Adams... Read more »

DAVE BREEN’S SUNSHINE

December 14, 2016

INTERESTING TO see a company called Solar Secure Investments Ltd falling foul of the Revenue earlier this month when it was convicted for... Read more »

29/5/2016 Launch of Composing the Island. Pictured are, from left, Simon Taylor CEO of the National Concert Hall, Moya Doherty Chair of the RTE Board and John Horgan Chairman of Bord na Mona in front of the National Concert Hall at the launch of Composing the Island: A century of music in Ireland 1916-2016 taking place from September 7-25, with over 29 concerts being presented of orchestral, choral, instrumental, song and chamber music by Irish composers written between 1916 and 2016. www.nch.ie Photograph: Mark Stedman / Photocall Ireland

The Hot Air Brigade

December 14, 2016

“The rethinking of what employment might mean in a 21st Century economy dominated by artificial intelligence…” RTÉ chair Moya Doherty with a new... Read more »

SHANE ROSS AND THE JUDICIARY

December 1, 2016

ALTHOUGH Shane Ross may appear an unlikely champion of the new politics, his stand on the judicial council is fully justified in the... Read more »

OWEN SWAINE’S ABUSE OF PROCESS

December 1, 2016

GOLDHAWK’S OLD pal Galway legal eagle Owen Swaine got quite a kicking from Judge Seamus Noonan last month after the solicitor appealed a... Read more »

BATTLE CONTINUES FOR SoS VICTIMS

December 1, 2016

THE campaign to adequately compensate women who endured the “barbaric” practice of symphysiotomy have endured an onslaught by a most interesting alliance of... Read more »

STUART GILHOOLY’S HARD TACKLES

December 1, 2016

DUBLIN SOLICITOR Stuart Gilhooly must be a relieved man that the retrial of former footballer Ched Evans – jailed for rape in 2012... Read more »

PÁDRAIG Ó CÉIDIGH’S HOT SEAT

December 1, 2016

THE VERY busy Pádraig Ó Céidigh finds himself in the hot seat as the water charges issue returns to the fore. He has... Read more »

‘UNWITTING VICTIM’ JOHN SPENCER

December 1, 2016

LAST MONTH’S Court of Appeal victory by Nenagh legal eagle John Spencer over Anglo Irish Bank/IBRC in relation to a 2005 investment scheme... Read more »

Sorry, Paddy

December 1, 2016

THE carefully honed Irish edition of the Daily Mail avoids the sort of paddy bashing still purveyed by sections of the British media... Read more »

PAT HICKEY HOME FOR CHRISTMAS

December 1, 2016

GOLDHAWK’S SPIES in Brazil tell him that the €400,000 bail bond for Pat Hickey has arrived in Rio and is awaiting processing. It... Read more »

Legal eagles’ cost

December 1, 2016

FRAUD SQUAD inquiries into allegations made by Kenmare solicitor Colm Murphy against Law Society members may or may not come to anything. But... Read more »

WHO’LL BLINK FIRST AT INM?

December 1, 2016
FEW TEARS will be shed among senior editorial heads at Independent News & Media (INM) if chief executive Robert Pitt is a victim of... Read more »

FINE GAEL CABINET PUTSCH

November 16, 2016

IS Fine Gael about to pull off a cabinet coup by recruiting two of the three Independent non-FG members in cabinet? After months... Read more »

KEVIN THORNTON’S ROUGH RIDE

November 16, 2016

SPARE A thought for Swiss-based Irish showjumper Kevin Thornton who has become the target of a lot of nasty online comment following the... Read more »

SEE NO ARMY, SPEAK NO ARMY

November 16, 2016

EVERY now and then, some EU leader makes a statement that lets slip the dogs of warlike EU intentions and makes a mockery... Read more »

HALAWA ABANDONED BY GOVERNMENT

November 16, 2016

RESPONSES from both Taoiseach Enda Kenny and foreign minister Charlie Flanagan to Ibrahim Halawa’s effective internment in Egypt – held now for over... Read more »

MICHAEL FENLON’S GUN TROUBLE

November 16, 2016

THE HIGH Court ruled last month that Michael Fenlon, chairman of the National Association of Region Game Councils (NARGC) – the body that... Read more »

IRISH TV’S MIXED SIGNALS

November 16, 2016

THERE HAS been plenty of coverage of the appointment of an examiner to the ‘private’ Teilifís Mhaigh Eo Teo (TME) – the company... Read more »

WATERING DOWN THE DRINKS BILL

November 3, 2016

THE lobbying blitz by the massively resourced alcohol and retail industry was conducted by some interesting, if predictable, players and many Oireachtas members... Read more »

RED INK AT THE ‘IT’

November 3, 2016

THE FINANCES of The Irish Times have come under a lot of scrutiny over the last week or so courtesy of the Sindo... Read more »

DISSIDENTS SET TO DUMP ARMS?

November 3, 2016

THE LAUNCH of a new dissident Republican party, Saoradh, recently would indicate more militarism, not less, given the bellicose political statements emanating from... Read more »

ANOTHER PLOT TWIST FOR LELIA DOOLAN

November 3, 2016

TWO REVEALING documents have been released to Goldhawk under the Freedom of Information Act concerning the increasingly expensive (€9.3m and counting) Solas ‘Picture... Read more »

BRIAN McDONAGH VS APPLE INC

November 3, 2016

WICKLOW LANDOWNER Brian McDonagh has put the kibosh – at least temporarily – on Apple’s giant U850m proposed data centre in Athenry. Having... Read more »

FLOOD TRIBUNAL COSTS SET TO SOAR AGAIN

November 3, 2016

THE DUMPING of virtually all findings of the Flood / Mahon Tribunal against previously named parties (see The Phoenix, 25/3/16) does not mean... Read more »

21/07/2014 Aidan Eames of Eames Solicitors, reading a statement from Angela Kearns to the media outside the Four Courts yesterday(Mon) after a High Court hearing.Pic: Collins Courts

TAKING ON SOLICITOR EAMES

November 3, 2016

SURELY ONE of the busiest legal eagles in town is Aidan Eames, the former Fianna Fáil-appointed senator and ex-member of FF’s national executive,... Read more »

‘IT’ TURNS BLIND EYE TO CHILD ABUSE SCANDAL

November 3, 2016

MOST media covered the recent catalogue of child sex abuse offences by religious lay worker Patrick O’Brien who pleaded guilty to 51 sample... Read more »

MICHEÁL MARTIN’S EYE ON RUSSIA

November 3, 2016

WHAT a pugnacious western warrior and protagonist of Russia’s Vladimir Putin Micheál Martin is turning out to be as he pillories the pesky... Read more »

Bog Cuttings

November 3, 2016

Protein bar thief looked fit and healthy A 25-YEAR-OLD Waterford man appeared at Carrick-on-Suir District Court charged with stealing €124 worth of protein... Read more »

THE REAL COST OF ROBBO’S SHRINE

October 20, 2016

A VERY, very expensive precedent has been set by the government in accepting Mary Robinson’s presidential archive to qualify as acceptable under Section... Read more »