Article Category: Affairs of the Nation

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

MOTORMOUTH McGUINNESS

June 1, 2016

THE normally astute media manipulator, John McGuinness, may have miscalculated with his latest outburst, in which he makes serious allegations against ex-commissioner Martin... Read more »

DEIRDRE FOLEY’S CHALLENGE

June 1, 2016

THE DECISION of Deirdre Foley and her D2 Private company to challenge the powers of the inspectors looking into the shutdown of Clerys... Read more »

WHO WILL GET THE STUDIO DOSH?

June 1, 2016

THE ‘ANNOUNCEMENT’ by former Windmill Lane boss James Morris and producer Alan Moloney of a plan to build a huge film studio complex... Read more »

Local FG split

June 1, 2016

THAT diplomatic kerfuffle involving Canadian Ambassador Kevin Vickers at the ceremony to remember British soldiers in 1916 could have been more dramatic had... Read more »

PÁDRAIGH Ó CÉIDIGH’S APPOINTMENTS

June 1, 2016

ONE OF the Fianna Fáil nominees to the Seanad is the very busy founder of Aer Arann, Pádraig Ó Céidigh. He is no... Read more »

Royals not invited

June 1, 2016

KILDARE SOUTH general election candidate, Fine Gael’s Cllr Fiona McLoughlin Healy, got whacked in the Kildare County Council chamber and in the Irish... Read more »

David Hall’s emergency

May 18, 2016

MORTGAGE CAMPAIGNER David Hall was one of the more high profile, non-elected participants in the recent negotiations to form a new government, being... Read more »

DUBLIN COLLEGE LINKED TO PANAMA PAPERS

May 18, 2016

THE Panama Papers keep throwing up intriguing names. Goldhawk noticed that one David Kennedy Sr – with a registered address at Southcliff House,... Read more »

UNIONISTS DEMAND ‘NORMAL’ POLITICS

May 18, 2016

THERE’s more to Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) leader Mike Nesbitt moving into opposition in Stormont than meets the eye. Of course, the reasons... Read more »

BERTIE’S FOREIGN DIPLOMACY

May 18, 2016

BERTIE AHERN has recently been talking up again his fabled Mr-Fix-It skills and how these talents have been utilised abroad – by grateful... Read more »

BAILING OUT CORK FILM FESTVAL

May 18, 2016

WHILE IRELAND’S movie moguls were schlepping their wares around Cannes market stalls this week, a more mundane financial drama about another veteran film... Read more »

THE GENTLE BLACK AND TAN

May 18, 2016

THE TAOISEACH, Enda Kenny, and foreign minister, Charlie Flanagan, have shown admirable compassion in arranging for victims of the Easter Rising to be... Read more »

SHANE ROSS’S KEY DEMAND

May 18, 2016

THE first test of transport minister Shane Ross’s mettle is not the Luas strike, but the imminent appointment of several judicial appointments to... Read more »

REVIEWING JUSTIN CARTHY AT LADBROKES

May 18, 2016

THE REVELATION last week that Ladbrokes is “reviewing” the role of Justin Carthy, who handles the betting giant’s high roller clients, has surprised... Read more »

PHOENIX APPEAL IN CONTEMPT CASE ALLOWED

May 18, 2016

IN a judgment delivered in the Court of Appeal on May 11, 2016, Ms Justice Irvine, Mr Justice Hogan and Mr Justice Sheehan... Read more »