Affairs of the Nation

Morgan McSweeney

Affairs of the Nation

WHOSE SPY WAS EPSTEIN?

READERS OF The Phoenix are likely aware of the unsettling parallels between the Jeffrey Epstein scandal and historical instances of child sexual exploitation, such as the Kincora Boys’ Home scandal... Read more »
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Affairs of the Nation

SO LONG SCOOP

THE BOYS behind the popular Scoop gelato operation in Dublin, have called it a day. Redmond Kennedy and Patrick Molony, who also set up a high-profile mobile crêpes business in... Read more »
Nadia Adan

Affairs of the Nation

NADIA’S ‘FUN VIDEOS’

CONGRATULATIONS TO Nadia Adan, who popped up in the Enterprise Ireland (EI)-sponsored ‘Making It Work’ section of the Business Post last weekend, although her many fans might have been disappointed... Read more »

Affairs of the Nation

Anton Savage

Affairs of the Nation

SAVAGE’S BLIND TRUST

NEW Newstalk Breakfast presenter Anton Savage must believe, perhaps correctly, that media watchdogs at Coimisiún na Meán and other media will continue to ignore his clear conflict of interest in... Read more »
Marc Rowan

Affairs of the Nation

REPLAY FOR GAA V GAZA

GAA HEADS will be hoping that the new armada being organised to lift the siege on Gaza will not help to ignite further protests from its members about its multi-million-euro... Read more »
Trevor White

Affairs of the Nation

TREVOR WHITE’S FOOD POVERTY

FAIR PLAY to Trevor White on his latest outing in the pages of the Irish Times, headlined: “The Michelin razzmatazz makes me queasy”. Not many people who trouser a six-figure... Read more »
Fiach Mac Conghail

Affairs of the Nation

FIACH MAC CONGHAIL’S STRATEGY

GOLDHAWK WOULD like to congratulate the ever adaptable Fiach Mac Conghail, who has moved another step closer to saving his bacon as chief executive of the Digital Hub Development Agency... Read more »
Frank Kitson

Affairs of the Nation

THE GENTLE SAS

IN A most civilised interview with the Irish Times recently, three veteran members of the Special Air Service (SAS) presented a sanitised view of their regiment, claiming it had never... Read more »
Hermann Kelly

Affairs of the Nation

BANNON’S IRISH PLAN

Former White House strategist Steve Bannon has been keen in recent years to platform a number of Irish right-wing activists on his War Room podcast, including councillor Malachy Steenson and... Read more »

Pillars of Society

Fionnán Sheahan

Pillars of Society

PROFILE: FIONNÁN SHEAHAN

DURING HIS disastrous handling of Fianna Fáil’s presidential campaign and candidate, party leader Micheál Martin appeared to be on the run, not just from... Read more »

The Young Bloods

Grace McNally

The Young Bloods

YOUNG BLOOD: GRACE MCNALLY

THE NEW president of Trinity College Dublin Students’ Union (TCDSU) is Westport native and general nursing student Grace McNally. Her ascension to the position... Read more »

Fit to Print?

Joe Mulholland

Fit to Print?

JOE MULHOLLAND AND CENSORSHIP

FAWNING COMMENTARY on the death of former RTÉ current affairs and news head Joe Mulholland ignored his real notability. It illustrated how RTÉ policed coverage of the conflict in the... Read more »
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Fit to Print?

CHINESE WHISPERS

HOW INSCRUTABLE the Sunday Times’s Irish edition and its Whitehall masters can sometimes be. Not so long ago the ST’s Aawrish edition published the latest of numerous alarming articles in... Read more »
Mary McAleese

Fit to Print?

‘EAGLE-EYED’ IRISH TIMES

IN KEEPING with the compelling mystique and tradition surrounding the Irish Times, not to mention its journalists’ self-regarding sense of the Old Crone of Tara Street, editor Ruadhán Mac Cormaic... Read more »

Last Refuge

Micheál Martin

Last Refuge

MARTIN GOADS JIM O’CALLAGHAN

THE POLLS that followed the upheaval in Fianna Fáil over the botched Jim Gavin presidential campaign may indicate a lull in the party’s in-fighting but the comments from interested parties... Read more »
Janice Boylan

Last Refuge

MARY LOU’S BY-ELECTION ISSUE

SINN FÉIN’S coup in landing Gillian Sherratt – the mother of nine-year old Harvey Morrison, who died after waiting years for a scoliosis operation – as its Dublin Central by-election... Read more »
Holly Cairns

Last Refuge

SOC DEMS SNUB LABOUR

PERPETUAL PLEAS from politicians and pundits – with not the faintest appreciation of, or good will towards, social democratic policies – for the Social Democrats to combine with another party... Read more »
Hazel Chu

Last Refuge

HAZEL CHU REFUSES TO GO AWAY

FORMER DUBLIN lord mayor and Green Party chair Hazel Chu may have allowed herself a moment of schadenfreude on her election as party deputy chair last month. Chu defeated Louth... Read more »

Northwind

Peter Mandelson

Northwind

MANDELSON’S IRISH STINT

The DUP was delighted with Peter Mandelson’s appointment as UK ambassador to Washington last February. Deputy first minister Emma Little-Pengelly was photographed with him when she visited for St Patrick’s... Read more »

Hush Hush

Gary Gannon

Hush Hush

EU/US JOINT SURVEILLANCE?

United States proposals requiring tourists to submit social media data as part of its Electronic System for Travel Authorisation applications has seen quite the brouhaha in the Irish media and... Read more »

Bog Cuttings

Bog-Cuttings-Defaul

Bog Cuttings

BOG CUTTINGS

‘OUT OF ORDER’ Listowel District Court heard the case of a 48-year-old man who pleaded guilty to charges of engaging in abusive behaviour and obstructing a garda. In the early... Read more »

Fowl Emissions

Michael Healy-Rae

Fowl Emissions

AGRI-LOBBY FRENZY

The farmers are revolting. Fresh from strong-arming the Government into securing a new derogation from the EU’s anti-pollution Nitrates Directive, followed by their success in having Ireland vote against the... Read more »
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Fowl Emissions

BIZ POST AIR MILES

Two cheers for the intrepid team at the Business Post. Its years of relentless campaigning for the removal of the cap at Dublin Airport finally seems to have paid off.... Read more »

The Hot Air Brigade

Ryan Tubridy

The Hot Air Brigade

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

I gave them to some friends of mine to read and they cried. They couldn’t believe how lovely people were. People had said in the cards, ‘Here’s a fiver, get... Read more »

High Society

High Society

Claudette Whyte

High Society

CHESTER BEATTY BACKLOG

NO LESS than eight months after the closing date for expressions of interest in serving on the Chester Beatty Library (CBL) board, culture minister... Read more »

High Society

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High Society

BARRY CONNELL’S BLUES

GOLDHAWK’S FAVOURITE south Co Dublin investment-guru-turned-racehorse-trainer, Barry Connell, didn’t quite have the Dublin Racing Festival he had anticipated when his Cheltenham hot shot, Marine... Read more »

High Society

Batu Erem

High Society

PIGNATARO’S PARADISE

THE name of the tiny Caribbean island of Canouan popped up in dispatches a couple of times last week, albeit for very different reasons. As fans of Goldhawk are aware,... Read more »

Behind the Scenes

Michael Hackman

Behind the Scenes

HACKMAN’S NEW PLOT

HARDLY HAD the ink dried on Goldhawk’s report of a default on a $1.1bn studio mortgage in sunny California for Ardmore and Troy Studios supremo Michael Hackman’s group (see The... Read more »
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Behind the Scenes

O’DONOVAN’S MATCH PROGRAMME

THE ENERGETIC Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport, Patrick O’Donovan, paid a timely visit to Paris last week and managed to fit in an awful lot. The department’s press release... Read more »

Sport of Kings

Philip Byrnes

Sport of Kings

CLEARING THE BYRNES BOYS

IT IS unclear if there are any real winners from last week’s ruling of the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board’s (IHRB) referrals committee on the long-running controversy over the unseating of... Read more »
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Sport of Kings

DONNELLYS’ FALLOW PERIOD

THE DISMAL season for owners Joe and Marie Donnelly continued last month when their Champion Hurdle favourite, Sir Gino, suffered serious injury in Cheltenham’s Grade 2 Unibet Hurdle. The Nico... Read more »

Moneybags

Moneybags

Roger White

Moneybags

C&C LOSES ITS FIZZ AGAIN

THE HAPLESS C&C shareholders have suffered more than their fair share of upsets and disappointments over recent decades. The latest is a shock profit... Read more »

Moneybags

Stephen Garvey

Moneybags

GLENVEAGH BUILDING NICELY WITH NUA ATTRACTION

IT IS an achievement for a company the size of Glenveagh Properties – boasting sales touching €1bn – to be the first Irish plc... Read more »

Brief Cases

Albert Manifold

Brief Cases

ALBERT MANIFOLD’S RETIREMENT

HAS ALBERT Manifold finally found peace in his comfortable ‘retirement’? The former CRH boss, who trousered tens of millions of euros in pay and shares annually, has been fighting a... Read more »
Ciaran Fitzgerald

Brief Cases

RESCUING CIARAN FITZGERALD

GOLDHAWK SPIES the entry into the so-called Scarp rescue process for small companies of the loss-making entity that was behind the famous Blue Haven Hotel in Kinsale. The main man... Read more »
Joanne Costello

Brief Cases

JOANNE COSTELLO’S SUMMIT

ACCORDING TO Stubbs Gazette, a tiny judgment has just been registered against something called The Irish International Fashion & Food Summit Ltd (IIFFS), which turns out to have been set... Read more »
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Brief Cases

DOONBEG DRAMA

DONALD TRUMP is busy tearing down the White House to build a new ballroom and his sons, Donald Jr and Eric, are busy doing the same in the family’s golf... Read more »
Nick Lawlor

Brief Cases

NICK LAWLOR’S NICE STRATEGY

DOCUMENTS JUST filed by a Dublin company called Employee Financial Wellness Ltd (EFW) show that just over €1m has been pumped into the business in the last few months by... Read more »