Affairs of the Nation

Patrick O'Donovan

Affairs of the Nation

THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING

IT IS difficult to say whether it is the Government or the media that is the main driver of the 1950s-type Cold War hysteria about Russia and its diabolic intentions,... Read more »
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Affairs of the Nation

THE ROYAL FAMILY

NEXT WEEK something called the Royal Television Society (RTS) Ireland will host its annual Irish Television Awards in the appropriate location of the Dublin Royal Convention Centre. The RTS is... Read more »
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Affairs of the Nation

MURDOCH’S RADIO INTERFERENCE

THESE DAYS Rupert Murdoch’s Wireless Group is a big player in the Irish radio market and owns a number of high-profile stations here. It turns out, however, that broadcasting has... Read more »

Affairs of the Nation

Dermot Dougan

Affairs of the Nation

LITTLE TO BE SONAS ABOUT

The clock is ticking fast for the sick, elderly and disabled residents of six independent-living units in the Sonas Retirement Village in Enniscrone, Co Sligo, who are facing eviction on... Read more »
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill

Affairs of the Nation

‘CRUELLA’ V HARRIS

HEALTH MINISTER Jennifer ‘Cruella’ MacNeill is currently being assailed from all sides as her ambition to restructure the health service – or restructure the Fine Gael leadership – is at... Read more »
Dermot Desmond

Affairs of the Nation

DERMOT DESMOND’S SOUR NOTES

A BROADBAND network business that was once set to put Ireland at the forefront of the global fibre network roll-out has been quietly wound up, finally putting the business out... Read more »
Rob Heneghan

Affairs of the Nation

ROB HENEGHAN’S NOT SO SURE THING

GOLDHAWK WAS interested to see his litigious pal Rob Heneghan featuring on the front page of the Irish Times this week as a result of posting messages online (since deleted)... Read more »
Keith Woods

Affairs of the Nation

KEITH WOODS’S MYSTERY BACKER

A handful of National Party (NP) members gathered briefly at the Grave for the 1916 Leaders monument in Arbour Hill this Easter. The half dozen gathered there took some pictures... Read more »
Scott Mills

Affairs of the Nation

DID MI5 HAVE ROLE IN SCOTT MILLS AFFAIR?

Scott Mills, a familiar voice on BBC radio, has been removed from his role as host of BBC Radio 2’s breakfast show following a police investigation into allegations of historical... Read more »

Pillars of Society

Ronan McGreevy

Pillars of Society

PROFILE: RONAN MCGREEVY

ANGLO-IRISH commentator Ronan McGreevy has edited a book, Seán Lemass: The Lost Memoir, that lionises former taoiseach Lemass and which drew current Taoiseach Micheál... Read more »

The Young Bloods

Enzo Crothers

The Young Bloods

YOUNG BLOOD: ENZO CROTHERS

UCD STUDENTS’ Union (UCDSU) has a new president in the form of Meath native and Sinn Féin activist Enzo Crothers, a third-year history and... Read more »

Fit to Print?

Danny Morrison

Fit to Print?

BBC’S JOHN WARE V DANNY MORRISON

BBC JOURNALIST John Ware attempted to effectively convict Gerry Adams of IRA activity in the recently abandoned London lawfare civil case (see The Phoenix 27/3/26). Over time Ware has left... Read more »
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Fit to Print?

DARLINGS OF THE AMERICAN RIGHT

IT COMES as no surprise to Goldhawk that Irish journalists turned champions of right-wing causes everywhere, husband-and-wife team Phelim McAleer and Anne McElhinney, are the script writers of October 7.... 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?

PUTIN’S ARMADA

A RECENT Irish Times story concerned the Arne cargo ship, which featured in a story about alleged sanctions busting (see p10). The same ship featured last month in an IT... Read more »

Last Refuge

Mary Lou McDonald

Last Refuge

BOYLAN’S COUP IS SNUB TO MARY LOU

MEDIA GRATIFICATION at what is seen as Sinn Féin’s likely losses in the two upcoming by-elections might be a bit previous if Mary Lou McDonald and the party leadership can... Read more »
Patrick O'Donovan

Last Refuge

O’DONOVAN SCORES ANOTHER OWN GOAL

IS SPORTS, arts and communications minister Patrick O’Donovan determined to rival his ministerial and Fine Gael colleague, Jennifer ‘Cruella’ MacNeill, as the fiercest warrior in the Blueshirt ranks? His political... Read more »
Jacqui McCrum

Last Refuge

IRELAND’S BILLIONS FOR FRENCH ARMS

WITH WELL-JUDGED timing, less than three months before Ireland takes over presidency of the EU on July 1, the French embassy is organising a Franco-Irish dialogue on European security. And... Read more »

Northwind

Tracy Kelly

Northwind

BELFAST’S SLOW TRANSFORMATION

Unionists west of the Bann have always been a minority although, thanks to gerrymandering, most notoriously in Derry, they were able to run councils until the 1970s. Since then nationalists... Read more »

Hush Hush

Lyra McKee

Hush Hush

‘MI5 HELL HOLES’

The number of commemorations over Easter week organised by dissident republicans might seem impressive but many of the groups active in this increasingly splintered scene seem to lack any political... Read more »

Bog Cuttings

Bog-Cuttings-Defaul

Bog Cuttings

BOG CUTTINGS

FIGHTING PIGS A man appeared before Sligo District Court charged with public intoxication and engaging in abusive and threatening behaviour on March 2. Garda Nuala Gaffney observed Ryan Kilcoyne (30)... Read more »

Fowl Emissions

Judge Richard Humphreys

Fowl Emissions

DATA CENTRE BOOST DEEPENS CRISIS

As Ireland hunkers down for long-term energy disruption due to the Iran war, while bracing for ever more severe impacts from climate-fuelled extreme weather events, what a great time to... Read more »
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Fowl Emissions

DARRAGH O’BRIEN’S HOT AIR

Nothing to see here. That was the reassuring message from energy minister Darragh O’Brien recently on RTÉ’s Prime Time. While other European countries are looking at fuel rationing, lowering speed... Read more »

The Hot Air Brigade

Francis Brennan

The Hot Air Brigade

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

I know a lot of people become very posh when they get a TV job, but that hasn’t quite happened to me. Francis Brennan, Irish Tatler He asked about the... Read more »

High Society

High Society

Wilfred Stevenson

High Society

BARON WILF’S HOUSE SALE

GOLDHAWK SPIES an impressive 9,000 sq ft Georgian pile in Skibbereen, set on nine acres, has come on the market for a chunky €3.95m.... 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

DERMO’S PADEL PROJECT

READERS OF The Phoenix will be familiar with the goings on at Old Belvedere Rugby Club, which backs on to the garden of Dermot... Read more »

High Society

Charles E Noell III

High Society

NEW CHAPTER FOR ARDBRACCAN HOUSE

NEXT WEEK there will be an interesting online auction, courtesy of Christie’s, that will feature the impressive contents of Ardbraccan House in Co Meath, which has just been off-loaded for... Read more »

Behind the Scenes

Eibhlin Morley

Behind the Scenes

NEW STORY FOR IMMA

CONGRATULATIONS TO culture minister Patrick O’Donovan, who has finally filled the board at Imma. Goldhawk had previously highlighted (see The Phoenix 12/6/25) the fact that expressions of interest for the... Read more »
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Behind the Scenes

SUSAN KIRBY’S HR PLOT

THERE IS precious little about industrial relations in Framing the Future, a strategic plan for 2025-2030 published by Susan Kirby’s representative group for production companies, Screen Producers Ireland (SPI). But... Read more »

Sport of Kings

Margaret Heffernan

Sport of Kings

DOWN AND OUT IN DUBAI

NOT A great outing for the boys in green last week at the Dubai World Cup meet, which proved about as unrewarding as the soccer team’s World Cup qualifier. The... 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

O’LOUGHLIN’S BET BLUES

STILL NO sign of the contract being awarded for the all-important role of monitoring betting patterns for Irish racing. The gig had previously been contracted out to the British Horseracing... Read more »

Moneybags

Moneybags

Tom Hickey

Moneybags

KENMARE’S SHAREHOLDERS HAUNTED BY THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY

IT HAS not been a great 12 months for Kenmare Resources boss Tom Hickey. Having refused a generous-looking near €600m takeover for the company... Read more »

Moneybags

Sean Coyle

Moneybags

ORIGIN ENTERPRISES STILL UNDERVALUED BY MARKET

THE SHARE price graph for Origin Enterprises is looking pretty good for those who took on board Moneybags’s analysis of the company at the... Read more »

Brief Cases

Paul Cummins

Brief Cases

TÁ ‘BLUEY’ AG TEACHT

RTÉ WAS delighted to announce last month that it is now showing ‘Bluey as Gailege’ on RTÉ Jr and RTÉ Player. The lengthy press release opened with the news that... Read more »
Mark Beard

Brief Cases

MARK BEARD’S BIG JOB

OVER AT the Business Post they have a habit of plugging their group’s own activities, so it was no surprise last weekend to see the news and conference outfit writing... Read more »
Paul and Paula Keeley

Brief Cases

FASHION VICTIM PAUL KEELEY

PARENTS OF young children enrolled in part-time fashion design courses with a business call Project Fashion might have spit out their cornflakes when browsing the news last week. A report... Read more »