Affairs of the Nation

Gabriel Makhlouf

Affairs of the Nation

CENTRAL BANK GENOCIDE CHARGE?

THAT THE Central Bank of Ireland (CBI), of all European banks, might face criminal charges over its enabling of the multi-billion sale of Israeli bonds used to support the genocidal... Read more »
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Affairs of the Nation

NEW FACES ON CHI BOARD

THE TIMING wasn’t great for the two new directors who have just been appointed to the board of Children’s Health Ireland (CHI). They arrived exactly as the brown stuff was... Read more »
Rob Heneghan

Affairs of the Nation

ICY DEFROSTED

A STEWARDS inquiry may be in order for outspoken online racing pundit Gearoid Norris (aka Icy), who has just found himself ‘unplugged’ from his X and Facebook soapboxes. Coincidentally, the... Read more »

Affairs of the Nation

Bertie Ahern

Affairs of the Nation

BERTIE’S ÁRAS BID

BERTIE AHERN is fretting at vacillating Taoiseach and Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin’s failure to make up his mind about whether the party will support the former taoiseach’s burning ambition... Read more »
Karl Brophy

Affairs of the Nation

BROPHY’S TIMES

THE IRISH TIMES has found it difficult to keep up with the chequered but successful CV of Karl Brophy, CEO of Red Flag Global, which was sold to New York-based... Read more »
Eoin McGee

Affairs of the Nation

EOIN McGEE’S ‘MATERIAL UNCERTAINTY’

CELEBRITY FINANCE expert Eoin McGee has been signed up by Mediahuis as a personal finance columnist and will apparently be writing for the so-called ‘Indo Money hub’, which, in case... Read more »
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Affairs of the Nation

LUCINDA CREIGHTON’S PROFITS

IT WAS reported in March that a couple of Irish Blueshirt adversaries have been generating significant revenue in their consultancy (ie lobbying) businesses in Brussels. Filings with the EU transparency... Read more »
Madeleine Delaney

Affairs of the Nation

BLINDNESS CHARITY BLINDSIDED

IT IS strange to see so little media coverage of the appointment by Charities Regulator Madeleine Delaney of inspectors to two blindness charities, the biggest of which by far is... Read more »
Fred Holroyd

Affairs of the Nation

THE MOST RELIABLE FRED HOLROYD

It is becoming clear that the Operation Denton inquiry into the crimes of the UVF’s Glenanne gang will establish a modicum of collusion with the UK state, albeit at the... Read more »
Malachy Steenson

Affairs of the Nation

BRITISH/IRISH FAR RIGHT

THE DEEPENING relationship between loyalists, British fascists and right-wing activists from the south was very much in evidence at a recent anti-immigration protest at Belfast City Hall. A few dozen... Read more »

Pillars of Society

James Browne

Pillars of Society

PROFILE: JAMES BROWNE

The appointment of James Browne as housing minister surprised many people, including the new minister himself. His performance since then in this most daunting... Read more »

The Young Bloods

Michael Roche

The Young Bloods

YOUNG BLOOD: MICHAEL ROCHE

UCD STUDENTS’ UNION (UCDSU) has a new president, Wexford native Michael Roche. He succeeds Miranda Bauer, whose family political background included the likes of... Read more »

Fit to Print?

Liz Kearney

Fit to Print?

MORE ‘SINDO’ FALL-OUT

THE ASCENT of new Sunday Independent editor Liz Kearney from highly proficient sub-editor to the top job at the country’s biggest-selling newspaper completes the Belgian counter-revolution at the Mediahuis Irish... Read more »
Ivan Yates Nell McCafferty RTÉ Lord Laird Intro Matchmaking NewsBrands Martin McGuinness Dún Laoghaire Pat Leahy Cormac Lucey John Cooney Irish Journalism Awards Steve Aiken Anton Savage John Downing Lucinda Creighton Marina Sologub Eilis O'Hanlon Ian Kehoe Danny McConnell Sindo O'Connor Mediahuis Stephen Collins Book Justine McCarthy Rewriting the Troubles Lynn Ruane Sinn Féin

Fit to Print?

DEIRDRE VELDON’S BLURRED VISION

Last weekend’s Sunday Times saw Deirdre Veldon – the €270,000-a-year MD of the Irish Times group – deny that Irish news publishers are as addicted as ever to newspaper ink... Read more »
Drew Harris

Fit to Print?

TOP GARDA ‘SECURITY’ THREAT

THE IRISH Times reported last weekend on the “unprecedented… crisis” due to the ongoing pension tax anomaly that will see any senior Garda officer taking the Garda commissioner’s job facing... Read more »

Last Refuge

James Browne

Last Refuge

GENDER QUOTA BACKLASH

THE MOTHER of all political battles could be on the cards if disgruntled noises from inside the parliamentary parties of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael result in demands to scrap... Read more »
Michael Lowry

Last Refuge

MICHAEL LOWRY’S POLITICAL CHUMS

MICHAEL ‘NO MATES’ LOWRY is more isolated (outside the company of Micheál Martin and Simon Harris, that is) than many have realised and political schizophrenic TD Barry Heneghan is not... Read more »
Patrick O'Donovan

Last Refuge

LEFT UNITY THREAT

THE CENTRE-RIGHT parties and their media supporters ought to make up their minds about whether they support left unity or not. Recent reaction to the opposition uniting against the Lowry... Read more »
Colum Eastwood

Last Refuge

MICHEÁL MARTIN’S POLITICAL PEDIGREE

UNIONIST COMMENTATOR Sam McBride positively gurgled with pleasure in the Irish Independent and Belfast Telegraph at Micheál Martin’s dismissal last week of a border poll and a united Ireland –... Read more »

Hush Hush

Derry mural

Hush Hush

DISSIDENTS PEACE PROCESS

THE MOOD at dissident republican Easter commemorations in 2024 was subdued. This was because there was no sustained armed campaign under way but the frustration of dissident republicans was compounded... Read more »

Bog Cuttings

Bog-Cuttings-Defaul

Bog Cuttings

BOG CUTTINGS

‘SHEEP-SHAGGING VAN’ A 30-year-old man, who threatened to burn a charge sheet and bail bond while being released from custody, appeared before Cork District Court. The incident occurred on July... Read more »

Fowl Emissions

Frank O'Mara

Fowl Emissions

ESRI BLAMESFARM LOBBY

The latest research from the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) had some fascinating insights into how climate change is perceived by both urban and rural communities, but the real... Read more »
Luke Holland Climate Denial John Fagan Wolf Europe David Quinn Duncan Stewart Data Centre Carbon Emissions Conor Skehan Chris Hazzard

Fowl Emissions

TOMMY TIERNAN’S HOT AIR

Almost 10 years ago, comedian Tommy Tiernan roared from the Abbey Theatre stage: “It’s too fucking late.” The event was the Climate Gathering and Tiernan was warning that failure to... Read more »

The Hot Air Brigade

Fintan O'Toole

The Hot Air Brigade

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

There’s a psychosexual dimension to Trump’s tariffs. You don’t have to be Freud to see it. Fintan O’Toole (who else?), Irish Times That was the greatest slap in the face... Read more »

High Society

High Society

Grainne Mullins

High Society

GRÁINNE’S SWEET LIFE

LAST WEEK, in the run-up to the busy Easter period for chocolate-maker Gráinne Mullins of the high-profile Grá Chocolates operation in Galway, she posted... 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

KARL WHELAN’S GOOGLE GRUB

IT IS full steam ahead at the brash Boland’s Mill development in Dublin’s south docklands, acquired by Google for a reported €300m. Interestingly, it... Read more »

High Society

Emma Maye

High Society

EMMA MAYE’S MANSION

GOLDHAWK NOTES that Weavers Hall, a “New England style” mansion off Westminster Road in Foxrock, has come on the market with an asking price of over €7m. Although described by... Read more »

Behind the Scenes

Anne Clarke

Behind the Scenes

LANDMARK’S LOLLY

WHILE ARTS and culture minister Patrick O’Donovan has been playing Scrooge with the TV producers over the streaming levy, he has also been chucking the green stuff around at Culture... Read more »
Tailored Films Screen Ireland Perspectives DCCI Crescine Tarka Russell Lara Hickey Reality Check Sarah McInerney Irish Movies Paul Murray Arts Council Dublin Theatre Festival TWU Macdara Kelleher Richard Boyd Barrett DADC Cillian Murphy Terry McMahon Media Commission Ireland Kerlin Gallery Creative Ireland Section 481 Christine O’Donovan RTÉ Storyland NMI Board Vacancies IASCA Ossie Kilkenny RTÉ Original Programmes

Behind the Scenes

O’DONOVAN’S ORDERS

THE LEGACY of the RTÉ Tubs scandal is now clearer, with arts and media minister Patrick O’Donovan introducing some policy swerves that will rankle in Montrose. Rather than adding to... Read more »

Sport of Kings

John Magnier

Sport of Kings

COOLMORE SHUFFLE

THE SQUIRE of Coolmore, John Magnier, and his team recently undertook a little international jockey juggling, with Ryan Moore jetting Down Under to ride in the valuable Star Championships at... Read more »
Ed Dunlop David Dunsdon Sarah Lynam Rebecca May Wayne Hassett Eoin O'Brien Michael Burke Aine O’Connor Ashroe Diamond Thomand O’Mara Peter Keatley Timmy Hyde Coolmore All About Sunday Colin Keane Ronan Whelan JP McManus Jessica Harrington Dundalk Racecourse Paul Hensey Irish National Hunt Horse-racing Doping Paddy Walsh Tom Kelly Suspension

Sport of Kings

PATRICK MULLINS’S MOUNTS

AMATEUR RIDER Patrick Mullins left his dismal Cheltenham form behind when winning on three of his five mounts at the Aintree festival, all of which were trained by his father,... Read more »
Ed Dunlop David Dunsdon Sarah Lynam Rebecca May Wayne Hassett Eoin O'Brien Michael Burke Aine O’Connor Ashroe Diamond Thomand O’Mara Peter Keatley Timmy Hyde Coolmore All About Sunday Colin Keane Ronan Whelan JP McManus Jessica Harrington Dundalk Racecourse Paul Hensey Irish National Hunt Horse-racing Doping Paddy Walsh Tom Kelly Suspension

Sport of Kings

TWOMEY’S CHALLENGE

IT WILL be recalled (see The Phoenix 12/7/24) that handler Paddy Twomey found himself on the end of some surprising criticism last season from former-trainer-turned-pundit Sarah Lynam, who suggested that... Read more »

Moneybags

Moneybags

Tom Hickey

Moneybags

WHAT IS KENMARE RESOURCES WORTH?

THE REACTION of Kenmare Resources CEO Tom Hickey to Mick Carvill’s €565m takeover bid for the company last month is reminiscent of Tony Smurfit’s... Read more »

Moneybags

Pat McClughan

Moneybags

CORRE ENERGY’S CASH PROBLEM

CORRE ENERGY investors have been on the proverbial rollercoaster ride, from the company’s September 2021 float at €1 a share to its delisting from... Read more »

Brief Cases

Mairead Sorensen

Brief Cases

BUTLERS CHOCOLATES PR TREAT

CONGRATULATIONS TO Butlers Chocolates, which got a valuable plug in the Indo last week in the run-up to Easter. Goldhawk is happy to fill in a couple of the more... Read more »
Finbarr Roche

Brief Cases

CHARITY’S €1M BLIND SPOT

ELSEWHERE IN this issue (see p5), Goldhawk looks at the decision of the Charities Regulator to send inspectors into two charities operating in the visually impaired area. One of these... Read more »
Kevin McCarthy

Brief Cases

GOOD ‘ADVISE’

THE FOUNDERS of high-tech analytics company Advise, Kevin McCarthy and John Phelan, had plenty to celebrate just before last Christmas when they attracted an impressive €1.66m in investment from assorted... Read more »
ZMG Cyril Murphy Newbridge College Peter Wilson Sporting Emporium Chris Wholey O'Kane God’s Creatures Film Tax Relief Anne Rossi Desmond Live Nation ESCADIA LTD Al Porter Comeback Gordon Elliott Clayton Love Ivan Wilde hot-water-brigade Parnells GAA Lawsuit

Brief Cases

CHRISTOPER MOOREHOUSE’S €2M TAX BILL

THE DREADED Revenue have just registered a judgment for a whopping €2m against one Christopher Moorehouse with an address in Salville Road, Drumgoold, Enniscorthy, Co Wexford. This turns out to... Read more »
Cormac O'Connor

Brief Cases

NOT SO SUPERMARKET

SOME ACTIVITY was spotted at Escadia Ltd and Belraine Ltd – the companies associated with a large SuperValu supermarket in Ardee, Co Louth – controlled by Margaret Lanney and her... Read more »