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September 22 - October 5, 2023
Affairs of the Nation
LUKE COMER’S HANDICAP
THE WIDELY reported three-year suspension of the training licence of billionaire tax exile property developer Luke Comer is dividing opinion on the severity of the penalty. What is clear is... Read more »
ROSSLARE GOLF CLUB BUNKERED
THERE’S RARELY a dull moment at Rosslare Golf Club, where the latest spat relates to a €2m plan to sell off lands that ended up firmly in the bunker. Overseeing... Read more »
MAIREAD CASEY’S JUDGMENT
A HEFTY €¾m judgment has just been registered against Co Cork solicitor Mairead Casey by a UK property investment company called Advanced Industrial Technology Corporation Ltd (AITC). It is not... Read more »
SILENCE ON US SHANNON ROUTE
SINCE IT’S now out in the open that Ireland’s Defence Forces personnel are providing weapons training to the Ukrainian army and that our National Cyber Security Centre is working with... Read more »
SEÁN QUINN V JOHN McCARTIN
IT IS clear that former bankrupt Seán Quinn has little time for John McCartin – one of the two names he dropped on Newstalk last week when asked which executives... Read more »
UKRAINE: NOTHING TO SEE HERE
DESPITE BEING the ‘first casualty of war’, the truth about the Ukraine invasion sometimes emerges and from the strangest quarters, however unintended. Recent slips from Nato secretary general Jens Stoltenberg... Read more »
MORE IRA SPIES
Richard O’Rawe, a former IRA hunger striker turned author who fell out with the republican movement some years after the hunger strike — he later joined an ‘expert’ panel of... Read more »
LYRA’S LEGACY
BBC NI commissioned a documentary called The Lost Boys of Belfast from TV production company Alleycats. It was due for broadcast in May 2021 but was never shown (see The... Read more »
FARMERS LOSING THE MEDIA?
The recently formed Farmers’ Alliance (FA) hosted a public meeting in Portlaoise at the weekend, with a “diverse range of guest speakers” present to offer “something for everyone”, according to... Read more »
Pillars of Society
PROFILE: DARRAGH O’LOUGHLIN
THE SHENANIGANS at RTÉ have hogged headlines in recent months and one outfit more than happy with this state affairs, surely, is the Irish... Read more »
The Young Bloods
YOUNG BLOOD: CLARA ROCHE
THE NEW editor-in-chief of the University Times (UT), Clara Roche, has assumed leadership of a paper crying out for stability. Recent controversies have tarnished... Read more »
Fit to Print?
LEAKS FROM RTÉ BOARD
BRENDAN GRIFFIN’S attack on RTÉ at last week’s Oireachtas media committee was colourful but it obscured an intriguing tussle between committee chair Niamh Smyth and deputy chair of the RTÉ... Read more »
THE HARP THAT ONCE…
WHEN MEDIAHUIS last year launched a strong campaign to abolish Vat on newspapers, it claimed that democracy in Ireland was threatened by any decline in reporting capacity, to which the... Read more »
CORRECTION
GOLDHAWK HAS been contacted by NewsBrands Ireland to point out that the newspaper lobby group, along with the Press Council of Ireland and Google News Initiative, does not, as stated... Read more »
Last Refuge
DUBLIN BAY NORTH AFTER BRUTON
AFTER ALL the recent paeans of praise lavished upon Richard Bruton, the former minister and former leader of a failed coup in Fine Gael, the real question is what effect... Read more »
SEERY KEARNEY’S LAW ‘N’ ORDER PITCH
SENATOR MARY Seery Kearney was a little OTT with her demand that the Oireachtas media committee draw up protocols to guide journalistic standards. This followed Virgin Media’s decision to broadcast... Read more »
KYIV’S YURII FURY
A STORY about a pacifist being prosecuted by his government that is engaged in all-out war with a neighbour would receive much sympathetic support from our Government and media if... Read more »
AOIFE MOORE’S SHORT GAME
AOIFE MOORE, political journalist and author of the latest ‘tell-all’ book on Sinn Féin, The Long Game — Inside Sinn Féin, has cleverly developed Shane Ross’s trick in promoting his... Read more »
Hush Hush
PHILOSOPHICAL RIGHT-WINGERS
NOT ALL right-wing Irish politicos are street activists and some would affect a certain disdain for such extremist behaviour. Take the European Conservative (EC), which has a group of Irish writers... Read more »
Bog Cuttings
BOG CUTTINGS
TITS UP A Glenswilly man who told gardaí that he had “sniffed a load of drugs” appeared before Letterkenny District Court charged with engaging in threatening and abusive behaviour towards... Read more »
Fowl Emissions
MICHELLE O’NEILL’S HEADACHE
LOUGH NEAGH is by far the biggest lake in either Ireland or Britain. At 400 sq km, it is as large as the island of Malta and provides 40% of... Read more »
WOLVES AT THE DOOR
“These figures speak for themselves”. So read the statement from the European People’s Party (EPP), of which Fine Gael is a member. The statistic in question is that around 18,000... Read more »
The Hot Air Brigade
THE HOT AIR BRIGADE
Ireland’s rugby journey isn’t just about sport. It’s a testament to a nation’s mettle, and it casts shadows deep into our tech world’s relentless innovation. Jamie Heaslip, Twitter He is... Read more »
High Society
CHANTILLY SPACE
AN IMPRESSIVE pile has gone on the market in Rathmichael, Co Dublin, with a chunky €4.65m price tag. It turns out to be owned by sailing-mad investment suit Richard Goodbody... Read more »
ALI CURRAN’S NEW GIG AT IMMA
ALI CURRAN is now in situ as chair of the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) following a small hiatus when there was no chair in place. The arts consultant... Read more »
Behind the Scenes
McGRATH’S EXPANDING BOARD
THIS WEEK was the closing date for expressions of interest in joining the board of the Parnell Square-headquartered Irish Heritage Trust (IHT). According to the trust’s constitution, directors can serve... Read more »
ON THE FRINGE
AS THE Dublin Fringe Festival draws to a close there has been little sign of the outfit known as the Trans Writers Union (TWU) looking to organise any boycott of... Read more »
Sport of Kings
JACK CANTILLON’S LONG SHOT
LAWYER TURNED bloodstock entrepreneur Jack Cantillon’s latest venture into the stallion market has hit a significant speed bump. Jack Cantillon recently teamed up with racing broadcaster and general multitasker Kevin... Read more »
BYRNES FAMILY FORM
CHARLES BYRNES and his sons, Philip and Cathal, have generated acres of column inches in recent times but an incident that went under the radar involved jockey Philip, who was... Read more »
Moneybags
SIOBHÁN TALBOT’S SURPRISE EXIT FROM GLANBIA
IT IS a surprise to see Siobhán Talbot exiting Glanbia given that the CEO for the last 10 years appears to be on something of a roll, having almost doubled... Read more »
EAMONN ROTHWELL’S LOSS-MAKING CAR FERRIES
THERE WAS yet more good news this month for the lucky Irish Continental Group (ICG) captain, Eamonn Rothwell, when P&O Ferries announced it was exiting the Dublin-Liverpool ro-ro freight route,... Read more »
The Hot Water Brigade
ASHLING KILDUFF’S CURATED COMEBACK
GOLDHAWK SPIES that Naas-based number-cruncher Patrick McDonnell has stepped down as a director of a company called Curated Designs Ltd just 16 months after its incorporation. The company turns out... Read more »
DAVID MONGEY’S GOOD GOING
THE IRISH National Stud (INS) in Tully, Co Kildare, has had a change at the top as a result of the retirement of Irish Farmers Journal/Irish Field chairman Matt Dempsey... Read more »
KINGSPAN’S TROJAN HORSE
Does Kingspan have a Trojan horse strategy for the US? The news that the company had been in talks about a merger with an American outfit called Carlisle came as... Read more »
AILISH KELLY’S COSMETIC CHANGES
THERE WAS plenty of media coverage devoted to the announcement that Goldhawk’s old friends in The Avoca Clinic have received a whopping €7m courtesy of British equity fund BGF, with... Read more »
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