Article Category: Pillars of Society

PROFILE: STEPHEN DONNELLY

October 22, 2020

STEPHEN DONNELLY is a unifying force in Irish politics in that he manages to unite government and opposition politicians as well as many... Read more »

PROFILE: NORMA FOLEY

October 8, 2020

FAILING TO get on to the Fianna Fáil general election ticket in Kerry last year, Norma Foley could not have imagined she would... Read more »

PROFILE: FRANK CLARKE

September 10, 2020

THE CONSTITUTIONAL tenet ‘separation of powers’ has been bandied about in the gravest tones by politicians, lawyers, academics and media in the wake... Read more »

PROFILE: MICHELLE O’NEILL

August 27, 2020

On January 23, 2017, Gerry Adams announced Michelle O’Neill’s appointment as Sinn Féin leader in the north to succeed Martin McGuinness who had... Read more »

PROFILE: PAUL GALLAGHER

August 13, 2020

CHIEF LAW officer in the state – for the second time – is senior counsel Paul Gallagher, whose reverential sycophants in the Law... Read more »

PROFILE: JIM O’CALLAGHAN

July 16, 2020

JIM O’CALLAGHAN appears to be modelling himself on Charlie Haughey in his Fianna Fáil leadership plan of action. His explanation for rejecting a... Read more »

PROFILE: GARY MCGANN

July 2, 2020

WHILE NOT as high profile as the election of a taoiseach last weekend, a vote in the corporate world next month looks set... Read more »

PROFILE: ALAN ENGLISH

June 18, 2020

THE NEW editor of the Sunday Independent, Alan English, seems determined to make readers sit up and notice him. English presents readers with a... Read more »

PROFILE: MICHAEL MCNAMARA

June 4, 2020

AN IMPRESSIVE political resurrection has been effected by the newly elected Independent TD for Clare, Michael McNamara. The former Labour TD has also... Read more »

PROFILE: BRIAN KAVANAGH

May 21, 2020

THE €2bn Irish horseracing industry needs a safe pair of hands on the reins to guide the sector over some heavy going as... Read more »

PROFILE: CLAIRE BYRNE AND MIRIAM O’CALLAGHAN

May 7, 2020

WHEN SEAN O’Rourke recently told his morning radio audience that he was about to stand down from the highest seat of national broadcasting,... Read more »

PROFILE: MICHEÁL MARTIN

April 23, 2020

MICHEÁL MARTIN may become a scientific and political phenomenon: the man who was saved by Covid-19. But the consequences for Fianna Fáil could... Read more »

PROFILE: CATHERINE MARTIN

April 9, 2020

IT’S THE quiet ones you have to watch, as your mammy will have warned you. For four years, Catherine Martin sat dutifully in... Read more »

PROFILE: KIERAN CORRIGAN

March 26, 2020

FILMMAKER AND number cruncher Kieran Corrigan’s latest adventure – a film studio in a scrubby field at the back of Ashbourne Business Park,... Read more »

PROFILE: ROY BARRETT

March 12, 2020

THESE ARE interesting times for the FAI and Goodbody Stockbrokers, where the common factor is Roy Barrett. Without any previous involvement in Irish... Read more »

PROFILE: EOGHAN HARRIS

February 27, 2020

SUNDAY INDEPENDENT columnist Eoghan Harris, the ultimate Republican apostate, is given to bombastic claims about his political savvy, from his political predictions to... Read more »

PROFILE: MARY LOU MCDONALD

February 13, 2020

SINCE BECOMING Sinn Féin president two years ago, Mary Lou McDonald has endured opprobrium and adulation from party members in almost equal measure.... Read more »

PROFILE: EAMON RYAN

January 30, 2020

IS EAMON RYAN poised to become tánaiste in a coalition government that again involves the Green Party? And again with Fianna Fáil? The... Read more »

PROFILE: PASCHAL DONOHOE

January 16, 2020

For a finance minister and someone who holds not one but two powerful cabinet portfolios, Paschal ‘Dimples’ Donohoe is not exactly a household... Read more »

PROFILE: RICHARD BARRETT

December 12, 2019

ONE OF Fine Gael’s most trumpeted policies is the sprawling Rebuilding Ireland “action-driven plan to dramatically increase the delivery of homes nationwide”. The... Read more »

PROFILE: NOEL GREALISH

November 28, 2019

INDEPENDENT TD Noel Grealish was the first politician of substance to emit nakedly racist and even sectarian remarks before stealing away from public... Read more »

PROFILE – RICHIE OAKLEY

October 31, 2019

THE LATEST in a long line of Sunday Business Post editors is Richie Oakley, late of the now-defunct Times Ireland, which crashed and... Read more »

PROFILE: JOHN FITZGERALD

October 16, 2019

ONE OF Ireland’s pre-eminent economists, with a gargantuan academic and professional CV that includes membership of the Central Bank Commission and the Economic... Read more »

PROFILE: JOHN ARKINS

October 3, 2019

THE IRISH film and TV business is a glamorous one to outsiders and Leo Varadkar milked his Hollywood visit – ‘to double’ the... Read more »

PROFILE – PAUL O’NEILL

September 5, 2019

PHOENIX READERS will have been entertained by the anguished debate in which Irish Times journalists have become embroiled over alleged sexism at the... Read more »

PROFILE: HELEN DIXON

August 22, 2019

THE DATA protection commissioner’s withering rebuke of the roll out of the public services card (PSC) is a major embarrassment for ministers, notably... Read more »

PROFILE: FEARGAL PURCELL

August 8, 2019

Feargal Purcell was back in the news last month following an explosive Dáil row over the Climate Emergency Bill. The Fine Gael handler... Read more »

PROFILE: PAUL KEHOE

July 25, 2019

PAUL KEHOE, minister with special responsibility for defence and former Fine Gael chief whip, has become one of the latest government whipping boys... Read more »

PROFILE: MICHEÁL MARTIN

July 11, 2019

SUDDENLY, after three years of being widely mocked as Leo Varadkar’s pussycat and pilloried by his own members for refusing to fight the... Read more »

PROFILE: ENDA O’COINEEN

June 27, 2019

EYEBROWS WERE raised last weekend when Enda O’Coineen’s name was linked to a possible acquisition of the RTÉ Guide. But the deal makes... Read more »

PROFILE: MARY LOU MCDONALD

June 12, 2019

MEDIA COMMENT on the dangers facing Mary Lou McDonald’s leadership of Sinn Féin after the recent elections was predictable. However, and unusually, the... Read more »

PROFILE: DENIS DESMOND

May 29, 2019

WITH THE summer cycle of superstar rock gigs and music festivals set to kick off next month, MCD will be the biggest act... Read more »