Watching Inside the Manosphere, Louis Theroux’s decent new Netflix documentary about influencers with horrible attitudes to women and totally normal names like HS Tikky Tokky and Sneako, has me thinking about the golden age of male role models. I am talking, of course, about the 1980s and 1990s. These are the olden-days manosphere influencers who … Read more
Respected late lawyer’s fondness for extravagance saw him put together a syndicate to buy Aristotle Onassis’s yacht Ivor Fitzpatrick was an in-demand solicitor for those at the top of society. Photo: David Conachy The late Dublin solicitor and property developer Ivor Fitzpatrick left an estate valued at more than €45m. Mr Fitzpatrick, who died at … Read more
Taoiseach Micheál Martin presented US president Donald Trump with a custom golf tee and marker set at a cost of nearly €735 during his visit to Washington DC for St Patrick’s Day last year. The luxury item, which came in a personalised wooden box, was one of around 140 gifts worth a total of €5,709 … Read more
It has become voguish to portray 1980s Ireland as a God-fearing hellscape, and while the decade undoubtedly had its grimmer moments, the caricature doesn’t tell the entire story. Yes, there were moving statues, Garret FitzGerald and Charles Haughey playing pass the parcel with the office of taoiseach, and an ongoing economic implosion that reduced much … Read more
Gardaí send file on Moriarty Tribunal to Director of Public Prosecutions TheJournal.ie File sent to DPP after garda probe into Moriarty findings RTÉ News Garda file on Moriarty tribunal sent to DPP 14 years after final report on ‘payments to politicians’ The Irish Times Garda file on Moriarty ‘payment to politicians’ tribunal sent to DPP 14 years after … Read more