Affairs of the Nation Archives

AFFAIRS OF THE NATION

BAR COUNCIL CHAIRMAN’S TAX BILL

July 28, 2016

THE NEW chairman of the Bar Council is Paul McGarry SC, a busy barrister who has made quite a name for himself. And... Read more »

MOYA DOHERTY’S COMMISSIONS

July 28, 2016

THERE WAS plenty of coverage of the latest annual report from RTÉ published last week but not so much attention to the report... Read more »

Apology

July 28, 2016

The Commissioner of an Garda Síochána, The Minister for Justice and Equality and the Attorney General and The Phoenix magazine Further to the... Read more »

NOEL C DUGGAN’S LEGAL ACTION

July 28, 2016

NOEL C DUGGAN is getting as well known in the Four Goldmines as the showjumping world. He has just escalated his legal stand-off... Read more »

MAX BARRETT VS THE BAR COUNCIL

July 28, 2016

LAST WEEK’S ruling in favour of former judge Barry White, who was seeking to be allowed to practise as a barrister in courts... Read more »

THE PERENNIAL ATTORNEY GENERAL

July 28, 2016

‘BAFFLEMENT’ is the overwhelming response to the failure of government to appoint Attorney General Máire Whelan, now into her second term as AG,... Read more »

VW in Mayo court

July 28, 2016

BALLYHAUNIS solicitor Evan O’Dwyer has giant multinational Volkswagen on the run in Castlebar District Court. The Mayo legal eagle has forced the car... Read more »

SINN FÉIN’S ‘TRANSITIONAL LEADERSHIP’

July 27, 2016

SINN FÉIN’S new 10-year plan, currently being put to members at meetings around the country, has yet to be fully decoded by the... Read more »

SIMON COVENEY IS THE REAL FAVOURITE

July 15, 2016

LAST week’s poll showing that Fine Gael members favour Leo Varadkar above Simon Coveney by 43% to 29% is misleading. FG’s leadership colleges... Read more »

JOHN BRADY’S DAY IN COURT

July 15, 2016

THE FULL ruling, just published, from Judge Max Barrett on a case taken by Sinn Féin TD John Brady and his wife, Gayle,... Read more »

Water Celebrates Leave Result

July 15, 2016

DUBLIN born but British based Brexit campaigner, Anne Marie Waters, exultant after the Leave vote, is making waves in British right-wing circles with... Read more »

Console Unawarded

July 15, 2016

THE unforgiving organisers of the People of the Year Awards were quick to demand that ex-Console boss, Paul Kelly, return his award in... Read more »

GALWAY’S €9M HORROR SHOW

July 15, 2016

FANS of Goldhawk will recall that Galway City Council manager, Brendan McGrath unveiled a deal to get Lelia Doolan’s expensive Solas ‘Picture Palace’... Read more »

TONY WALSH’S FERTILE FERTILITY CLINIC

July 15, 2016

A NOTICE was published on June 30 announcing the planned striking off of the Companies Register of three businesses – The Sims Institute... Read more »

ROBBIE AND MICK’S MYTHICAL BAR

July 15, 2016

GOLDHAWK is happy to report that the stand-off between solicitor-cum-property developer, Ivor Fitzpatrick, and the promoters of a proposed ‘mythical bar’ off South... Read more »

Zappone sinks Wallace bill

July 15, 2016

ALPHA male Shane Ross was likened to Boris Johnson and his Independent Alliance ministers have also been condemned for sticking to their opposition... Read more »

SINN FÉIN CHAOS OVER BREXIT

July 2, 2016

LAST Friday there was a notice sellotaped to the door of the post office in Bridge Street in the centre of Belfast. It... Read more »

WOLFE TONE IS ALIVE AND GAY

July 2, 2016

SMASHING a lot of stereotypical images is Sinn Féin’s young senator, Fintan Warfield (24), whose gay, arty profile will come as something of... Read more »

THE ASSASSINATION OF A JOURNALIST

July 2, 2016

Sunday Independent editorial executive Willie Kealy opened his tribute to Veronica Guerin last Sunday with a polemic against those who felt that she... Read more »

DES CROFTON’S SHOOT OUT

July 2, 2016

THERE WAS an interesting report last month concerning the hefty €75,000 awarded to Des Crofton, national director of the National Association of Regional... Read more »

MORGAN O’SULLIVAN’S GERMAN DRAMA

July 2, 2016

THE DRAGGING of James Flynn and Morgan O’Sullivan of Octagon Films into the Four Goldmines by German producer W2 Filmproduktion creates the prospect... Read more »

FINTAN DRURY REINVENTS HIMSELF

July 2, 2016

WHAT on earth has come over Fintan Drury, the PR guru and dynamic businessman with all the right connections? He has come over... Read more »

DERMOT DESMOND’S PANAMA PROBLEM

July 2, 2016

IT looks like Der Kaiser is getting ready to do go to war with The Irish Times over the paper’s report of his... Read more »

DAVID HALL’S LUCRATIVE LIFELINE

July 2, 2016

MORTGAGE CAMPAIGNER and self-promoter extraordinaire David Hall was back in the news last week when he was appointed by the board of Console,... Read more »

TEACHERS FAIL IN SOUTH DUBLIN SCHOOL

July 2, 2016

THE PARENTS at the Harold School in Glasthule, south County Dublin – formerly headed up by current Minister for Jobs and Enterprise, Mary... Read more »

Red ink at King’s Inns

July 2, 2016

AMONG THE names that have popped up on the Lobbying Register is that of the Honorable Society of King’s Inns, which is shown... Read more »

The Hot Air Brigade

July 2, 2016

While we may have no way of knowing how Claire’s renunciation of the political life might go down with party chiefs, we may... Read more »

PUSSY-FOOTING WITH PHONEY PHARAOH

June 17, 2016

FOR almost three years now an Irish boy has been incarcerated without trial by the Egyptian military regime and all diplomatic attempts to... Read more »

MacSHARRY JUNIOR SHAFTED BY MARTIN

June 17, 2016

MARC MacSHARRY’S sulk in refusing Micheál Martin’s offer of the chair of the finance committee – because he was not given a front... Read more »

O’CALLAGHAN OUT OF PROCEDURE TALKS

June 17, 2016

THERE have been further knowing looks within Fianna Fáil at the absence from the Dáil Committee on Procedure (CP) of the party’s legal... Read more »

Anne Doherty (left) Gemma O'Doherty (right)

FF LEGAL THREAT OVER MURDER CASE

June 17, 2016

FIANNA FÁIL has threatened to sue journalist Gemma O’Doherty over various allegations she has made against party leader Micheál Martin and others in... Read more »

LISTOWEL WRITERS WEEK

June 17, 2016

Listowel Writers Week stood by its decision to invite Israeli-feminist writer Savyon Liebrecht to address its annual festival recently but, after some debate,... Read more »

LORD ROSS’S PRIORITIES

June 17, 2016

THE absence of the voluble Shane Ross from the pages of the Sunday Independent, a platform he used to great effect in his... Read more »

LOUGHINISLAND MASSACRE: COLLUSION AGAIN

June 17, 2016

Last week’s report by the north’s Police Ombudsman Dr Michael Maguire on the Loughinisland killings of June 1994 is an important landmark not... Read more »

NEWSTALK CRISIS RESHUFFLE

June 17, 2016

THE exit of Ivan Yates, gradual retirement of George Hook and ongoing slide in Pat Kenny’s ratings has created a perfect storm at... Read more »

THE IRISH TIMES GOES NATIVE

June 17, 2016

IRISH TIMES journalists would normally expect congratulations and awards for high-minded investigations into such matters as clerical child abuse, the Panama Papers and... Read more »