Article Category: Pillars of Society

PROFILE – FG’S HELEN MCENTEE

February 21, 2019

THE PRESENTABLE and quietly assured woman seen accompanying Taoiseach Leo Varadkar at almost every meeting with EU power brokers is minister for Europe... Read more »

PROFILE: ARCHBISHOP EAMON MARTIN

February 7, 2019

EAMON Martin, the relatively unknown archbishop of Armagh and primate of all Ireland, is the coming man in a once-omnipotent Irish hierarchy struggling... Read more »

PROFILE: GRAHAM MCLAREN

January 24, 2019

EARLIER THIS month, a letter signed by no less than 312 theatre practitioners was sent to the Arts Council, Minister for Culture Josepha... Read more »

PROFILE: MICHEÁL MARTIN

January 10, 2019

AMID ALL the heady talk of a “phased integration” of the North’s SDLP with Fianna Fáil, the question being asked is will this... Read more »

PROFILE: EAMON RYAN

December 13, 2018

The world is waking up to climate change. The issue finally began coming up on doorsteps in 2018, according to TDs. Fears for... Read more »

PROFILE: MARY LOU MCDONALD

November 29, 2018

WITH Mary Lou McDonald installed as Sinn Féin president, party members expect a serious electoral breakthrough in the post-Gerry Adams era. But after... Read more »

PROFILE – RALPH ‘MAGMA’ CHRISTIANS

September 6, 2018

FILM AND TV producer Ralph Werner Gustav Christians has been keeping a pretty low profile at his base in Bremen since his Galway... Read more »

PROFILE: DIARMUID MARTIN

August 23, 2018

After 14 years as skipper of the battered barque of St Patrick in Dublin’s Catholic archdiocese, a no-longer-young Diarmuid Martin, 73, is grappling... Read more »

PROFILE: MICHAEL O’LEARY

August 9, 2018

THIS WEEK, strike action has been scheduled at Ryanair bases in Ireland, Germany, Belgium, Sweden and The Netherlands. This represents the apex in... Read more »

PROFILE: SHANE ROSS

July 26, 2018

WILL Fianna Fáil be provoked into a general election by Leo Varadkar? If not, will Fine Gael go to the country without a... Read more »

LISA CHAMBERS

June 13, 2018

BEING tipped by The Irish Times as next leader of Fianna Fáil could be the kiss of death for any such aspirant but... Read more »

LEO VARADKAR: WHAT NEXT?

May 31, 2018

IS Leo Varadkar poised to emulate his Fine Gael leadership triumph by leading the party back into government and retaining his status as... Read more »

DENIS NAUGHTEN

May 17, 2018

INDEPENDENT TD and Minister Denis Naughten, once seen as a Fine Gael leadership contender, was fortunate to survive the backlash that followed his... Read more »

JOHN McGUIRK

May 3, 2018

John McGuirk has three weeks to convince an increasingly liberal Irish electorate to save the 8th Amendment. The professional political animal – whose... Read more »

Catherine Heaney

April 19, 2018

LAST WEEK, the Culture Minister Josepha Madigan, flanked by Leo Varadkar and Paschal Donohoe, announced a huge U1.2bn infrastructure funding package for the... Read more »

Profile: Barry Andrews

April 5, 2018

IF Fianna Fáil has a royal family it is the extended Andrews clan and former minister Barry Andrews was once seen as its... Read more »

Profile: John ‘SCU’ Concannon

March 22, 2018

BECOMING the story rather than creating it is regarded as the kiss of death for any spin doctor, but John Concannon, head of... Read more »

Profile: President Michael D Higgins

March 8, 2018

IS Michael D Higgins a shoo-in for a second term as president? The dotty professor aura built up around him over the years... Read more »

Profile: Mary McAleese

February 22, 2018

THE VATICAN’S boycott of former President of Ireland and devout Catholic feminist Mary McAleese – The Outsider as her unofficial biographer Justine McCarthy... Read more »

Profile: Michael McGrath FF

February 8, 2018

UNEASY LIES the head that wears the crown and, as opinion polls continue to show Fianna Fáil lagging behind Fine Gael in the... Read more »

Profile: Mary Lou McDonald

January 25, 2018

CORONATIONS, as the British establishment knows well, require a carefully staged build-up to a climactic occasion and a strong message about a new... Read more »

Profile: MacDara Kelleher

December 14, 2017

THE IRISH movie business is characterised by huge levels of public lolly being poured into productions either via tax breaks or ‘loans’ from... Read more »

Profile: Dr Ciara Kelly

November 30, 2017

THAT Dr Ciara Kelly, one of Ireland’s most articulate feminist journalists, should replace George Hook in his prime time Newstalk slot is beyond... Read more »

Profile: Emily Logan

November 2, 2017

CHIEF Commissioner of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHREC) Emily Logan recently made the most forthright statement on abortion at the... Read more »

Profile: John ‘Glenveagh’ Mulcahy

October 19, 2017

IT IS hard to believe the audacity involved in the truly gobsmacking €550m IPO float of Glenveagh Properties last week, at the centre... Read more »

Profile: Matt Cooper

October 5, 2017

HAS Matt Cooper’s self esteem got the better of his professional judgment? Signing up to a TV3 duet – or duel? – with... Read more »

Profile: Neil Jordan

September 21, 2017

THE HUGE audiences attracted to Sky TV’s recent blockbuster series, Riviera, tuned in despite, not because of, its creator, Neil Jordan (with John... Read more »

Profile: Fintan O’Toole

September 7, 2017

IRISH Times writer Fintan O’Toole is regarded as the media’s pre-eminent political intellectual and literary critic. Globally he is certainly the best known... Read more »