Article Category: Affairs of the Nation

RTÉ NALLY FIASCO: EPISODE 37

March 7, 2024

TIRED JOKES about RTÉ repeats have been enlivened by the two-year sitcom based on the rise and exit of RTÉ’s former head of... Read more »

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NUI CHANCELLOR CONTEST

March 7, 2024

THE CONTEST to succeed that most magisterial of political and academic mandarins, Maurice Manning, as National University of Ireland (NUI) chancellor could well see... Read more »

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HELEN McENTEE’S MANOEUVRE

March 7, 2024

IT IS highly unlikely that the Sex Workers Alliance Ireland (SWAI) is banking on a positive outcome from the long-delayed review of the... Read more »

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GLOBAL WARMING: ‘NO BIG DEAL’

March 7, 2024

A relatively new farmers’ lobby group, styling itself Beef Plan Movement (BPM), is pushing for full official recognition this year as a stakeholder... Read more »

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IS THE SAS IN GAZA?

March 7, 2024
Last October there was a flurry of articles in the British media about the deployment of the SAS to Cyprus. The regiment was reported... Read more »

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TAX-FREE ‘TOY SHOW’ TREATS

February 22, 2024
WHILE MOST of the fall-out from last week’s media committee hearings into the antics at RTÉ concerned golden handshakes for former executives, one aspect... Read more »

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JOHN MCGUIRK’S STRATEGY

February 22, 2024

WHILE right-wing commentator and Gript editor John McGuirk has now been named as the defendant in the libel action filed by the man... Read more »

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GOVERNMENT’S GAZA VERBIAGE

February 22, 2024

As the Israeli slaughter in Gaza reaches genocidal proportions, the disconnect between the Irish Government’s rhetoric and the reality of its commercial actions... Read more »

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RICHARDSON: DAME OR IRISH COMMONER?

February 22, 2024

TAOISEACH Leo Varadkar and Tánaiste Micheál Martin would have been reassured to learn that the person chairing the neutrality session at the Munich... Read more »

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IAN KEHOE’S NO-SHOW

February 22, 2024

IT IS worth quoting The Currency website’s “over-arching philosophy”, which founders Ian Kehoe and Tom Lyons proclaim as “journalism that is fearless, focused... Read more »

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CONCERNS OVER GLENCREE CENTRE

February 22, 2024

THERE IS not much sign of reconciliation between the worthies at the Glencree Centre for Peace and Reconciliation in Co Wicklow and their... Read more »

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JUDGING JOHN OF GOD

February 22, 2024

DISABILITIES MINISTER Anne Rabbitte expressed her “incredible disappointment” at the stand-off between Saint John of God (SJOG) and the HSE, which was caused... Read more »

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BRITISH ‘DIPLOMACY’ AT WORK

February 22, 2024

BARRIE GANE CMG OBE, of MI6, born on September 19, 1935, died of a stroke on December 10 last. His official resumé alleges... Read more »

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MI6 HONEY TRAPS

February 22, 2024

In 2016, an anonymous MI6 officer swore under oath to Judge Anthony Hart that MI6 had never engaged in sexual blackmail. This delicate... Read more »

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MARY LOU’S BACK YARD MESS

February 8, 2024

DESPITE THE ascent of Sinn Féin’s northern leader, Michelle O’Neill, to the Stormont summit, Mary Lou McDonald and SF have endured various tribulations down... Read more »

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ALL CHANGE AT GLENCREE CENTRE

February 8, 2024

JUST WHAT is going on on the board of the publicly funded Glencree Centre for Peace and Reconciliation, where there have been some... Read more »

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AUBREY’S ELECTION WAR CHEST

February 8, 2024

WITH MUCH of the political speculation focused, unsurprisingly, on the possible timing of a general election, one contest that looks set to go... Read more »

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PAUL HOURICAN’S NEW HAT

February 8, 2024
GOLDHAWK’S FAVOURITE landlord, Paul Hourican, is back in action again, with a new company but some of the same old problems. Fans of The... Read more »

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IRELAND-US MILITARY ALLIANCE

February 8, 2024
NOT FOR decades has a Middle East crisis come so close to provoking war on a global scale of East versus West, with Ireland... Read more »

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MATT COOPER V RTÉ

February 8, 2024

THE UBIQUITOUS Matt Cooper was taking pops at RTÉ once again last weekend in the Business Post, a pastime neither he nor his... Read more »

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GROW UP, SENATORS!

February 8, 2024

MARK FOLEY, the smooth-talking CEO of Eirgrid, got quite a rude response last week from senators Alice Mary Higgins (Independent) and Lynn Boylan... Read more »

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THE ‘IT’ ON JOHN BRUTON

February 8, 2024

In an obit of nearly 2,500 words, the Irish Times devoted just over 200 words to the stewardship of the late John Bruton... Read more »

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PARKER GREEN TRIMMED

February 8, 2024

A COMPANY with the name of GEI Crystal Ltd has just been wound up by its owners, although it is unlikely that many... Read more »

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SAM BUNGEY ON IAN BAILEY AND THE MEDIA

January 30, 2024
Sam Bungey (along with Jennifer Forde) created the 2018 13-episode ‘West Cork’ podcast on the Sophie Toscan du Plantier murder, which is Audible’s most... Read more »

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PURSUED BEYOND THE GRAVE

January 25, 2024
IN ONE respect it is salutary to behold the gardaí and their media Greek chorus join forces to posthumously convict Ian Bailey of Sophie... Read more »

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OLIVER CALLAN’S POOR MOUTH

January 25, 2024

TO HARDLY anyone’s surprise, the safe pair of hands that is Oliver Callan landed the gig as Ryan Tubridy’s successor on RTÉ Radio... Read more »

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MAURA DERIVAN’S BIG YEAR

January 25, 2024

EARLIER THIS month, Carrick-on-Suir accountant Bobby Fitzgerald’s 14-year-long defamation case against solicitor Maura Derivan, who until last November was president of the Law... Read more »

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KEVIN RAFTER’S DISAPPEARING ACT

January 25, 2024

THE DEADLINE has now passed for applicants looking to replace DCU’s Kevin Rafter as chair of the Arts Council following his premature exit... Read more »

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EDDIE AND BRENDAN

January 25, 2024

THE PUBLIC veneration of the late Eddie O’Connor – with tributes to his visionary, wealth-creating genius and so on – included an unwitting... Read more »

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REVISING NÍ GHRÁLAIGH’S IDEAS

January 25, 2024

THE IRISH TIMES’s authority on modern Irish history, Ronan McGreevy, seems confused about the political inspiration behind barrister Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh. The Irish... Read more »

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DANNY MCCONNELL’S RIGHT MOVE

January 25, 2024

BUSINESS POST editor Danny McConnell gave Palestinian supporters in the Dáil a good telling off last week for supporting the South African charge... Read more »

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KITSON’S DIRTY WAR

January 25, 2024
THE RECENT demise of General Sir Frank Kitson (see The Phoenix 12/1/24) was a blessing in disguise for the darker elements of the British... Read more »

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DISSIDENTS SPLIT THE DIFFERENCE

January 25, 2024

WHILE SINN Féin’s project has brought the republican movement close to state power north and south, the factions that split away from SF... Read more »

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IRISH ARMS TO ISRAEL

January 11, 2024
IT WAS hardly surprising that little or no fanfare accompanied Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment Simon Coveney’s release of the 2022 Annual Report... Read more »

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GOLDEN GLOBES GUFF

January 11, 2024

WHEN THE heat really came on last year, RTÉ emphasised its news and current affairs output as evidence of its commitment to public... Read more »

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FINTAN O’TOOLE ON ISRAEL

January 11, 2024
A RATHER Jesuitical argument from Irish Times resident ideologue Fintan O’Toole came in a polemic this week claiming: “It’s striking how brazen incitement against... Read more »

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