Brendan O’Connor July 2, 2016 Brendan O’Connor should be an editorial has-been by now, a casualty of Denis O’Brien’s new regime at Independent News & Media (INM), which... Read more »
Alan Moloney June 17, 2016 ALTHOUGH Alan Moloney of Parallel Films was executive producer, he managed, as usual, to stay pretty much below the radar when Brooklyn earned... Read more »
Dr Peter Boylan June 1, 2016 DR PETER Boylan, former Master of the National Maternity Hospital (NMH), recently ramped up the row between the NMH and St Vincent’s Hospital... Read more »
Enda Kenny May 18, 2016 IS Enda Kenny the luckiest politician in modern Irish politics, or is he Fine Gael’s answer to ‘the most brilliant, the most cunning,... Read more »
Profile: Bob Geldof May 5, 2016 WAS William Butler Yeats reincarnated and dumped back on Earth as Sir Bob Geldof? St Bob seems to think so. In his hyperbolic... Read more »
Martin McDonagh April 21, 2016 AN IRISH playwright (well London-Irish but that has never seemed to matter before) picked up one of the most prestigious awards in UK... Read more »
Joe Duffy April 7, 2016 ADDRESSING a gathering of rebels’ relatives in the incongruous top-hat-‘n’-tails surrounds of Dublin’s RDS, President Michael D Higgins thanked historians and descendants of... Read more »
Michael & Danny Healy-Rae March 24, 2016 When the 32nd Dáil first met for the first time a fortnight ago, the real show in town that day appeared to be Healy-Rae... Read more »
Mary Lou McDonald March 9, 2016 HAS Sinn Féin vice-president Mary Lou McDonald’s time arrived at last, or is she destined to be forever the bridesmaid? Gerry Adams’ public... Read more »
Lenny Abrahamson February 25, 2016 SOMETIME mid-afternoon on Sunday February 28, this year’s Academy Award nominees will amble along the expanse of red carpet to the entrance of... Read more »
Brian Hayes MEP February 11, 2016 HOW did Brian Hayes, Member of the European Parliament, end up as Fine Gael’s director of elections? And why did he opt for... Read more »
Peter Kelly January 28, 2016 THE recently appointed President of the High Court, Justice Peter Kelly (64), is the antithesis of the modern Irish judge. A devout Catholic,... Read more »
Mary Robinson Now January 14, 2016 FORMER president Mary Robinson has carved out quite a career for herself post the Áras as a globetrotter extraordinaire, most notably with high... Read more »
Frances Fitzgerald December 16, 2015 THE meteoric rise of justice minister Frances Fitzgerald within Government and party has led to rumours that she is Enda Kenny’s anointed successor... Read more »
Kevin Bakhurst December 4, 2015 WHILE former BBC executive Kevin Bakhurst (50) affects to be ”thinking” about whether to apply for the vacant RTÉ director general’s job, the... Read more »
Karl Brophy November 20, 2015 IMPENDING danger or conflict is one meaning of the phrase ‘red flag’ and the head of Red Flag Consulting, Karl Brophy, is certainly... Read more »
Brendan Howlin November 5, 2015 The wonder of Michael Noonan’s political resurrection late in life has been much commented on, but what about the renaissance of his job... Read more »
