Affairs of the Nation

Micheal Martin Senan Molony

Affairs of the Nation

IAN BAILEY: J’ACCUSE!

THE MOST startling aspect of the efforts of crime correspondent Senan Molony to posthumously convict Ian Bailey of the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier in his book, Sophie: The... Read more »
Budget Jack Chambers Nicki Minaj B’Tselem Phil Hogan UCD IRTA DIGI Katy Brown Rory Godson Pallonji Mistry Shark Hanlon Frances Ruane Taste of Dublin Listowel Writers’ Week Paddy Curran Harvey Norman Anton Savage Paul Hourican Enda O’Coineen PfP Red C Poll IFTA Ben Gilroy Luke Comer Sue Spence Fingleton Aubrey McCarthy Matt Cooper Parker Green Danny McConnell Gayle Killilea Maura Derivan Ed Honohan INS Arts Council EDAF Emuse Rosslare Golf Club Mairead Casey Colm O’Rourke Stephen Connolly Peter Aiken John Malone Tom Barry Anthony Halpin Ian Kehoe Kevin Bakhurst Geraldine O’Leary Dennis Horgan RUSI Gareth McAllister Ryevale House Joe Macken RUC Omagh Patrick Connolly Paddy Cosgrave The Ditch Newstalk Fake Tan Fred Logue Ian Paisley Sean O’Riordan Margaret Sweeney Jay Bourke Ellie Kisyombe Francesca McDonagh Ted Cunningham National Space Centre An Irish Goodbye Oscar Robert Quirke Ciara Kelly Executive Women Gathering Doug Taylor Florian Haufe Robbie Henshaw Bill Shipsey Breaking the Silence L’Ecrivain Ronan McNally National Lottery Michael Roche Energy Action Balls.ie Newspapers VAT Abbey Theatre Patricia Madden Irish Banking Culture Board Randox Aoife Gallagher Book Dalai Lama Trinity Trevor White RTÉ Chairperson Shane Houlihan Noel Smyth IKC Bob Geldof Landlord Ireland Neutrality Ukraine

Affairs of the Nation

BROWN-NOSING MICK SMURFIT

GOLDHAWK WAS not surprised to see business hack Tom Lyons of The Currency legging it over to sunny Monaco for a love-in with Mick Smurfit last month. The excuse was... Read more »
John Nagle

Affairs of the Nation

JOHN NAGLE BOUNCES BACK

CONGRATULATIONS TO former bankrupt John ‘Payzone’ Nagle, who hasn’t let the dreaded taxman cramp his style too much. Nagle was one of the poster boys of the boom times until... Read more »

Affairs of the Nation

Robert Armstrong

Affairs of the Nation

IRISH ‘DIPLOMACY’

A RECENT Irish Times article about the Spycatcher court case in Australia, which so embarrassed British cabinet secretary Robert Armstrong in 1986, was the pretext of a generous letter to... Read more »
Martyn Turner’s cartoon

Affairs of the Nation

MARTYN TURNER’S YELLOW STAR

WHAT WERE Irish Times cartoonist Martyn Turner and editor Ruadhán Mac Cormaic thinking with the recent publication of a cartoon depicting an armed Israeli soldier with what looks like a... Read more »
Budget Jack Chambers Nicki Minaj B’Tselem Phil Hogan UCD IRTA DIGI Katy Brown Rory Godson Pallonji Mistry Shark Hanlon Frances Ruane Taste of Dublin Listowel Writers’ Week Paddy Curran Harvey Norman Anton Savage Paul Hourican Enda O’Coineen PfP Red C Poll IFTA Ben Gilroy Luke Comer Sue Spence Fingleton Aubrey McCarthy Matt Cooper Parker Green Danny McConnell Gayle Killilea Maura Derivan Ed Honohan INS Arts Council EDAF Emuse Rosslare Golf Club Mairead Casey Colm O’Rourke Stephen Connolly Peter Aiken John Malone Tom Barry Anthony Halpin Ian Kehoe Kevin Bakhurst Geraldine O’Leary Dennis Horgan RUSI Gareth McAllister Ryevale House Joe Macken RUC Omagh Patrick Connolly Paddy Cosgrave The Ditch Newstalk Fake Tan Fred Logue Ian Paisley Sean O’Riordan Margaret Sweeney Jay Bourke Ellie Kisyombe Francesca McDonagh Ted Cunningham National Space Centre An Irish Goodbye Oscar Robert Quirke Ciara Kelly Executive Women Gathering Doug Taylor Florian Haufe Robbie Henshaw Bill Shipsey Breaking the Silence L’Ecrivain Ronan McNally National Lottery Michael Roche Energy Action Balls.ie Newspapers VAT Abbey Theatre Patricia Madden Irish Banking Culture Board Randox Aoife Gallagher Book Dalai Lama Trinity Trevor White RTÉ Chairperson Shane Houlihan Noel Smyth IKC Bob Geldof Landlord Ireland Neutrality Ukraine

Affairs of the Nation

MEDIA BUDGETARY ECHO CHAMBERS

Hats off to the Government handlers who secured fawning coverage of the budget long before Jack Chambers uttered a word last Tuesday. The media fanfare has been like no other.... Read more »
James Bridgeman

Affairs of the Nation

FEAR AND LOATHING AT GLENCREE

FANS OF Goldhawk will be familiar with the carry-on in Glencree Centre for Peace and Reconciliation in Enniskerry, Co Wicklow, where peace-building has been noticeably absent in recent times (see... Read more »
Pete Wedderburn XL Bully

Affairs of the Nation

BARKING MAD!

WITH THE ban on importing, selling and rehoming XL bully type dogs kicking in this week, the level of protest from the various lobby groups reached a crescendo, with familiar... Read more »
Colin Wallace

Affairs of the Nation

DUBLIN-MONAGHAN BOMB FILES MISSING

FORMER BRITISH ARMY officer Colin Wallace worked as a psychological operations officer at the army’s HQ in Lisburn in the 1970s. He rubbed shoulders with MI5, MI6 and military intelligence... Read more »
Declan Power New Direction

Affairs of the Nation

DECLAN POWER’S LEGITIMATE TARGETS

DESPITE Ireland’s new right recent poor performance at local and European elections, these movements remain a potent force on the streets and online. Also, in contrast to the failures at... Read more »

Pillars of Society

Michael Mulcahy

Pillars of Society

PROFILE: MICHAEL MULCAHY

AS A man with fingers in an extraordinary number of pies, the debonair Michael Mulcahy seems to have developed a winning strategy when it... Read more »

The Young Bloods

Miranda Bauer

The Young Bloods

YOUNG BLOOD: MIRANDA BAUER

UCD STUDENTS’ UNION (UCDSU) president Miranda Bauer is facing an uphill battle as she begins her one-year term. The union is having an identity... Read more »

Last Refuge

Emma Blain Kate O'Connell

Last Refuge

KATE NEGOTIATES ELECTORAL RETURN

THE ASCENSION of Simon Harris to the Taoiseach’s job and leader of Fine Gael was supposed to mean that one of his most ardent supporters, former TD Kate O’Connell, would... Read more »
Micheal Martin New Ireland

Last Refuge

VARADKAR OUT TO EMBARRASS MARTIN

FORMER TAOISEACH Leo Varadkar’s call for all political parties to declare during the general election that a united Ireland is an “objective, not an aspiration”, and for them to back... Read more »
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Last Refuge

MARY LOU’S BACK YARD

IF MARY Lou McDonald’s presidential speech sounded a bit flat, it is because she had to search hard-to-find, dramatic attack points against the Government given the daily stream of ‘good... Read more »
Billy O'Shea Tommy Griffin

Last Refuge

ENRIGHT QUELLS KERRY REVOLT

GOLDHAWK WROTE last August how Fine Gael members in Kerry and in Dublin HQ were in disarray over how to replace former minister Brendan Griffin at the general election given... Read more »

Hush Hush

Hermann Kelly IFP

Hush Hush

MORE SPLITS ON THE RIGHT

THE IMPROVING performance of the Alternative for Germany and the Austrian Freedom Party in local elections illustrates the political potential for right-wing populist parties in Europe. But the right-wing organisations... Read more »

Bog Cuttings

Bog-Cuttings-Defaul

Bog Cuttings

BOG CUTTINGS

POST-MATCH INSULTS A Cork man, who insulted gardaí after drinking too much while watching a football match, appeared before Cork District Court charged with a public order offence. Sergeant Dave... Read more »

Fowl Emissions

Simon Harris Agri Lobby

Fowl Emissions

FARM MEDIA PR FANTASIES

Behind the media and marketing façade of Irish agriculture being all about traditional family farming that is uniquely clean, green and sustainable, there lies a dense web of vested interests... Read more »
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Fowl Emissions

PARKED!

Months of bitter opposition by city centre business interests, backed by Ibec and junior FG minister Emer Higgins, to extremely modest proposals to reduce private car numbers driving through the... Read more »

The Hot Air Brigade

Sean O'Rourke

The Hot Air Brigade

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

I would have been better off earnings and pension-wise if I had gone into the civil service. I’m doing OK but I think I would have a much bigger pension... Read more »

High Society

High Society

Derek Iceton

High Society

DEREK ICETON’S DISMOUNT

MINTED RACEHORSE owner/breeder Steve Parkin has effectively ended his interest in Ireland, following his break up with former adviser Joe Foley. A local player... Read more »

High Society

IHT CHL The Lion in Winter Racing Royalty Le Brocquy City of Troy Fitzwilliam Square AIRO Dermot Smurfit Ballinacarrig Park Club Cosgrave Fitzpatrick Keith Jameson National Gallery Collection Marissa Carter VG Tom Higgins Neil Jordan Laura Bonner Paul Ward Variety Jones Dtat Eathos Sharon Keegan Angela Scanlon Desmond Canouan Bellair Estate Bobby Flay John O’Conor Portrait of Omai Eibhlín Ní Chonghaile Wedding NGI Board Rachel Flynn JP McMahon Ash Quinn Pamela Laird Abdullah Al Naboodah Boundless Ocean

High Society

HERITAGE TRUST SEATS

THE ESB announced a significant plan to develop a museum at 12 Fitzwilliam Street, adjacent to its expensive HQ, where it will partner with... Read more »

High Society

Paul Anderson Killead on Shrewsbury Road

High Society

PAUL ANDERSON’S €20M HOUSES

FANCY DUBLIN 4 houses coming on the market with seven-figure price tags barely raise an eyebrow these days but this is not the case when there are eight-figures involved. Hence,... Read more »

Behind the Scenes

Martina Moloney Heritage Council

Behind the Scenes

HERITAGE COUNCIL’S CHEAP SEATS

HOUSING AND heritage minister Darragh O’Brien has sought expressions of interest in two vacancies on the Kilkenny-headquartered Heritage Council as a result of the early exit of the chatelaine of... Read more »
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Behind the Scenes

PAY DAY!

THOSE UNFAMILIAR with Ruth Treacy and Julianne Forde’s Tailored Films will be interested to know that “the company’s vision is to be renowned for creating edgy film and TV content,... Read more »

Sport of Kings

Keith Watson

Sport of Kings

WATSON’S WOES

ARMAGH TRAINER Keith Watson and his son and assistant, Marshall, have questioned the reasoning behind the decision of the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) to prevent their Springfield stable in Killylea... Read more »
Joseph O'Brien

Sport of Kings

POOR FORM FOR RICH RACES

ONLY 14 went to post last weekend for Europe’s most lucrative race for two-year-olds – the Goffs Million – which saw the Joseph O’Brien-trained Apples and Bananas narrowly defeat Antelope... Read more »

Moneybags

Moneybags

Gene Murtagh Kingspan

Moneybags

POST-GRENFELL KINGSPAN’S PERFORMANCE LOOKING OMINOUS

IN THE immediate aftermath of last month’s Grenfell Tower Inquiry phase two report, Kingspan’s PR spinners were quick out of the blocks to advise:... Read more »

Moneybags

Hugh McCullough

Moneybags

MINCON’S MYSTERIOUS REVERSAL OF FORTUNES

IT WAS quite the setback last year for the now 86-year-old founder of Mincon, Paddy Purcell, who saw his company suffer a serious reversal,... Read more »

The Hot Water Brigade

Senan Allen Cormac Lohan

The Hot Water Brigade

CORMAC LOHAN’S VAT BILLS

GOLDHAWK’S OLD friend, Athlone legal eagle Cormac Lohan, has suffered yet another setback, this time in the Court of Appeal courtesy of a ruling by Judge Senan Allen. Lohan, who... Read more »
Examiner Joe Walsh Frank Carroll

The Hot Water Brigade

FRANK CARROLL’S FURNITURE

THE APPOINTMENT last month of Joe Walsh of JW Accountants as interim examiner at swanky furniture manufacturer Alfrank Designs follows AIB’s taking over of the company’s debts from Ulster Bank... Read more »
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The Hot Water Brigade

BUDGET PLOT

THE LOBBYING by film and TV interest groups in the run-up to this week’s budget has been escalating since June, when Susan Kirby’s Screen Producers Ireland lobby group launched the... Read more »
Enda O'Coineen Business Post

The Hot Water Brigade

WAREHOUSING AT THE ‘BIZ POST’

AS BEFITS the parish newsletter of the SME community in Ireland, the Business Post has been blasting out articles for much of this year warning about the looming deadline for... Read more »
IHT CHL The Lion in Winter Racing Royalty Le Brocquy City of Troy Fitzwilliam Square AIRO Dermot Smurfit Ballinacarrig Park Club Cosgrave Fitzpatrick Keith Jameson National Gallery Collection Marissa Carter VG Tom Higgins Neil Jordan Laura Bonner Paul Ward Variety Jones Dtat Eathos Sharon Keegan Angela Scanlon Desmond Canouan Bellair Estate Bobby Flay John O’Conor Portrait of Omai Eibhlín Ní Chonghaile Wedding NGI Board Rachel Flynn JP McMahon Ash Quinn Pamela Laird Abdullah Al Naboodah Boundless Ocean

The Hot Water Brigade

STEPHEN DONNELLY’S SAVINGS

IT WILL be recalled (see The Phoenix 12/7/24) that Goldhawk was curious about a restaurant company called Castleknock Hospitality Ltd (CHL) that had quietly ceased trading and, although employees had... Read more »