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Kenny reaction to Flannery resignation
RTÉ’s Political Correspondent David Davin-Power reflects on Enda Kenny’s reaction to the resignation of Fine Gael strategist Frank Flannery. Local politics has a way of intruding no matter where you...
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Service remembers Mayo inventor buried in London
By RTÉ’s Political Correspondent David Davin-Power By any standards, Louis Brennan had a remarkable life. Born just after the Great Famine that carried away five of his siblings, his parents emigrated...
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PSNI’s highest ranking female officer leaves the stage
To lunch with retiring PSNI Deputy Chief Constable Judith Gillespie at the end of a week which saw policing side, back and centre stage. Much interest, naturally in whether she might be interested in...
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From Gallipoli to the GPO – remembering sacrifice on Anzac Day
There can be few more peaceful graveyards in Dublin than Grangegorman Military Cemetery on Blackhorse Avenue. Opened by the British in the 1840s, the remains of over 100 soldiers who died on Dublin’s...
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Enda Kenny to turn focus to Cabinet reshuffle
Enda Kenny’s Government is in deep trouble and next month’s reshuffle might be the last chance he has to get it back on track. Changes that are too modest – or worse still, botched – could see the...
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A bruising start for the banking inquiry
By RTÉ’s Political Correspondent David Davin-Power It has been a bruising couple of weeks for the embryo banking inquiry. First the Government put the ball in its own net with its shambolic handling...
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McNulty affair a crisis for Enda Kenny
By David Davin-Power, Political Correspondent It’s no exaggeration to say the John McNulty affair has presented Enda Kenny with his biggest political crisis since the coup against his leadership four...
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Poppy Day Reflections
A weekend trip to London prompted some reflections about Poppies and remembrance in general. Family connections had always disposed me towards wearing one, but until recent years the gesture was...
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'It's all left or right now'
A chance encounter on a Leinster House corridor last week should have alerted me; chatting to Michael Noonan about the water charge u-turn, the Finance Minister suggested that the steam was going out...
View ArticleFormer Herald editor Paul Drury dies at 58
Irish journalism lost one of the good guys this weekend. Paul Drury was, at the age of 58, one of the last of the old style editors who thrived on good writing, competition, and the noisy satisfaction...
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