Affairs of the Nation

Brendan O'Connor

Affairs of the Nation

BRENDAN O’CONNOR’S FAVOURITE GUESTS

GOLDHAWK HAS highlighted the unusually blatant bias in media coverage of the Government’s abandonment of neutrality and Ireland’s traditional foreign policy. A feature of this partiality is the relentless platforming... Read more »
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Affairs of the Nation

JOHN CUNNINGHAM’S BAM GIG

THERE HAS been a tsunami of negative media coverage of National Children’s Hospital building contractor BAM Ireland, on foot of the latest failed deadline for the opening. Presumably, John Cunningham... Read more »
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Affairs of the Nation

JACQUELINE HALL’S MANY HATS

LAST MONTH culture minister Patrick O’Donovan finally got around to filling the long-standing vacancies on the board of the Chester Beatty Library (CBL). One new arrival turns out to be... Read more »

Affairs of the Nation

Sasha Havlicek

Affairs of the Nation

‘NEUTRAL’ THINK TANK’S AGENDA

THE IRISH edition of the Sunday Times was pleased recently to credit the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) with exposing a cunning plot by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)... Read more »
Katie Taylor

Affairs of the Nation

KATIE TAYLOR’S FIZZ

BOXING LEGEND Katie Taylor showed impressive timing last month when she announced that she wants her final bout to take place in Dublin this year (“It’s Croke Park or nowhere”)... Read more »
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Affairs of the Nation

DECLAN GANLEY’S EXEC EXIT

FOLLOWERS OF Declan Ganley will be aware of recent reports that his Rivada operation lost the licence for “Liechtenstein’s Ka-band spectrum, a prized low Earth orbit frequency used for high-speed... Read more »
Neil Sands

Affairs of the Nation

NEIL SANDS’S PR PROBLEM

The PUBLIC Relations Institute of Ireland (PRII) hosts its national conference next week and among the speakers is Goldhawk’s old friend, Neil Sands. According to his bio posted on the... Read more »
Helen McEntee

Affairs of the Nation

McENTEE’S NATO STRATEGY

Defence Minister Helen McEntee highlighted the growing threat to Ireland’s maritime infrastructure at the Valentia Island Subsea Cable Security and Resilience Symposium on April 23. McEntee is building up the... Read more »
Daniel Tatlow-Devally

Affairs of the Nation

GERMANY AND PSNI TARGET PA PROTESTS

In the last week of April, just as the trial of Dublin man Daniel Tatlow-Devally opened in Germany for allegedly participating in a Palestine Action (PA) protest, a freedom of... Read more »

Pillars of Society

Martin Heydon

Pillars of Society

PROFILE: MARTIN HEYDON

FOR ALL the vast quantity of ink spilt analysing the revolt of Ireland’s kulaks over the cost of fuel, the quiet man at the... Read more »

The Young Bloods

Seán de Búrca

The Young Bloods

YOUNG BLOOD: SEÁN DE BÚRCA

THE UNIVERSITY of Galway Students’ Union (UGSU) has a new president, 23-year-old Loughrea native Seán de Búrca. He must contend with growing frustration over... Read more »

Fit to Print?

Robbie Purfield

Fit to Print?

SIPTU LEADS FIGHT AGAINST RTÉ MOVES

A SERIES of militant initiatives to defend RTÉ’s public service broadcasting remit – by Siptu, not Montrose management – has been held since the new year. However, whatever Larkinite traditions... Read more »
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Fit to Print?

RE-RATING JIM O’CALLAGHAN

JIM O’CALLAGHAN’S gaffe in threatening to call in the army during the recent upheavals drew universal media agreement that he had damaged himself, not critically but definitely in his first... Read more »
Patrick Kielty

Fit to Print?

KIELTY TRADUCED BY ‘TELEGRAPH’

THE IRISH media ignored the edgy part of the interview that Late, Late Show host Patrick Kielty conducted with Boy George last weekend, preferring to focus on the pop star’s... Read more »

Last Refuge

Michael Healy-Rae

Last Refuge

HEALY-RAE DYNASTY SPLIT IS PERMANENT

THE DRAMATIC walk-out from Government of minister Michael Healy-Rae and his brother, backbench TD Danny, in the face of last month’s national fuel protests was explained in some detail by... Read more »
Patrick O'Donovan

Last Refuge

MEDIA MAESTRO MINISTER O’DONOVAN

COMMUNICATIONS MINISTER Patrick O’Donovan became aware, belatedly, that demanding a Coimisiún na Meán review of RTÉ’s coverage of the recent protests was a political blunder. But did it not dawn... Read more »
Mary Lou McDonald

Last Refuge

IS SF’S MARY LOU IN TROUBLE?

IS SINN FÉIN president Mary Lou McDonald in trouble and is she about to lose her leadership? The avalanche of articles predicting political doom for the party and the early... Read more »

Northwind

Bobby Sands

Northwind

SDLP’S OWN GOAL

The SDLP in Belfast shot itself in the foot last month. The wound may turn out to be terminal for the party in west Belfast. SDLP councillors abstained on a... Read more »

Hush Hush

Keith Woods

Hush Hush

KEITH WOODS’S SUPER RACE

LAST MONTH Keith Woods (pseudonym of Roscommon native Keith O’Brien), Ireland’s best-known far-right activist internationally, was in Rome to network with prominent American white nationalists and Italian fascists. As Ireland’s... Read more »

Bog Cuttings

Bog-Cuttings-Defaul

Bog Cuttings

BOG CUTTINGS

POOR FORM A woman whose solicitor described her as not being in “good form” on a night when she was charged with engaging in threatening and abusive behaviour appeared before... Read more »

Fowl Emissions

Donald Trump

Fowl Emissions

TRUMP’S GREEN REVOLUTION

Ireland’s long-overdue renewable energy revolution is now in full swing, with sales of electric vehicles more than doubling last month compared to April 2025. Sales of diesel-engined cars have fallen... Read more »
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Fowl Emissions

SCHOOL LESSON

Goldhawk is mystified at just how little Irish media coverage a new study on global meat and dairy industry sustainability pledges received, with narry a mention in even the normally... Read more »

The Hot Air Brigade

Aidan O'Shea

The Hot Air Brigade

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

We’re a customer experience speedboat in a sea of container ships. Aidan O’Shea, CEO of Otonomee, Sunday Times Horology shares a fundamental obsession with architecture: resolving form and function into... Read more »

High Society

High Society

Brendan Molloy

High Society

BRENDAN MOLLOY’S BEAUTIFUL PROBLEM

THE DREADED taxman has gone and spoiled the celebrations for beauty clinic entrepreneur Brendan Molloy, just days after he launched his latest venture. Brendan... Read more »

High Society

Suzanne Fowler

High Society

FOWLER’S NAIL-BITER

COSMETIC MEDICINE may be the growth area of today’s beauty business but boring old make-up still shifts product in vast quantities. Last weekend saw... Read more »

High Society

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High Society

BLACK TIE BLATHER

WITH THE 50th anniversary black tie bash for the Image Business Woman of the Year Awards set to take place in the RDS next weekend, presumably the myriad of nominees... Read more »

Behind the Scenes

Kathy Burke

Behind the Scenes

PEARSON’S CRITIC

GOLDHAWK SPOTTED Tommy Tiernan interviewing one of the best things to have come out of north London, Kathy Burke, on his eponymous show last month. Not surprisingly she plugged her... Read more »
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Behind the Scenes

O’DONOVAN’S MUSEUM PIECES

AS THE culture department continues to “liaise closely” with the National Museum of Ireland (NMI) on the thorny subject of a proposed new women’s museum in Limerick, there is no... Read more »

Sport of Kings

Paul Byrne

Sport of Kings

PAUL BYRNE’S PALE BLUE

LAST MONTH, in a Racing Post interview conducted by David Jennings, it was pointed out by Emmet Mullins: “We both get a good laugh out of everyone thinking we’re smart.”... Read more »
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Sport of Kings

PETER KEATLEY’S TAX TROUBLE

READERS MAY recall the high-profile 2023 ‘Eviction Stakes’ featuring the ousting from his Fenway House property in Co Kildare of trainer Brendan Duke (see The Phoenix 24/8/23). On the winning... Read more »

Moneybags

Moneybags

Eamonn Crowley

Moneybags

THE PTSB DEAL IS ACTUALLY A GOOD ONE

IT IS hard to justify much of the near hysterical commentary on the terms for the proposed sale of PTSB to Austrian bank Bawag,... Read more »

Moneybags

Gene Murtagh

Moneybags

KINGSPAN’S PROBLEMS NOT INSULATED BY ACQUISITIONS

AFTER ABORTING a strange attempt to float off Kingspan’s so-called Advnsys business, CEO Gene Murtagh has delivered what looks like a hugely underwhelming performance... Read more »

Brief Cases

Belinda Kieswetter

Brief Cases

BEATING BARRY CONNELL

AS IS often the case ahead of big race meets, the name of fund manager-turned-trainer Barry Connell featured widely in the media in the run-up to the Punchestown racing festival,... Read more »
Jenni Timony

Brief Cases

THIRD TIME UNLUCKY FOR JENNI TIMONY

FANS OF Goldhawk may not be shocked to hear that multi-talented Sligo entrepreneur Jenni Timony is winding up her FitPink athleisure brand, where the performance fell well short of fulfilling... Read more »
Jay Bradley

Brief Cases

JAY BRADLEY’S BOOZE

JAY BRADLEY, who once cribbed that he had “more haters than anyone else in Irish whiskey”, might be unenthusiastic about the amount of newsprint he has been generating lately. The... Read more »
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Brief Cases

GLANBIA’S GLOW

FANS OF Moneybags have continued to cash in on foot of last year’s analysis of dairy and nutritionals outfit Glanbia’s then struggling shares. Last weekend the Business Post caught up,... Read more »
Prem Sikka

Brief Cases

GENE MURTAGH’S NEW CRITIC

IRELAND’S MOST famous Tesla driver, Kingspan boss Gene Murtagh, will be wondering how much longer he is going to have to face enemy fire over those embarrassing revelations about the... Read more »