Affairs of the Nation

Dermot Desmond at Gerry Corr’s funeral

Affairs of the Nation

DERMOT DESMOND V THE PHOENIX

DATA Protection Commissioner Helen Dixon has rejected Dermot Desmond’s complaint that The Phoenix breached his privacy by publishing a photograph of him at a funeral in April 2015. Desmond’s solicitors... Read more »
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DEFAMATION NATION

FANS OF Goldhawk will recall that the Dublin Solicitors’ Bar Association will head off to sample the delights of Venice for their annual conference in September (see The Phoenix 4/5/18).... Read more »
Simon Coveney

Affairs of the Nation

ISRAEL DIPLOMACY

TÁNAISTE Simon Coveney’s dressing down of the Israeli ambassador for the latest massacre of Palestinians and his demand for a UN investigation is welcome. It reflects Irish sentiment towards the... Read more »

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Affairs of the Nation

‘NO’ VICTIMS

GOLDHAWK spotted a familiar face at a recent press conference for the No campaign. Last week, after Facebook announced it would be banning all foreign ads related to the referendum... Read more »
JD Buckley

Affairs of the Nation

JD BUCKLEY’S SUPPORTING ROLE

THIS WEEK’S AGM of Independent News and Media (INM) should prove lots of fun and the name of the company’s erstwhile chairman, Leslie Buckley, is sure to feature large. One... Read more »
Mohamed Salah

Affairs of the Nation

KOP ON

IN an embarrassing attempt to get onside with Irish-based Liverpool fans ahead of the upcoming UEFA champions League final, the Sindo’s Eoghan Harris lyricised about the club’s fans – “mystic... Read more »
Shane Ross

Affairs of the Nation

ROSS NO-SHOW AGAINST McDOWELL

SHANE ROSS’S campaign to block Senator Michael McDowell as chair of the Oireachtas committee to implement Maurice Manning’s Seanad reform proposals – ostensibly supported by Taoiseach Leo Varadkar – came... Read more »
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Affairs of the Nation

TURN AGAIN, MARTYN

IRISH TIMES cartoonist Martyn Turner usually manages to hit the sweet spot for south Dublin readers but his illustration this week of Israel and Hamas as co-equal perpetrators in the... Read more »

Pillars of Society

Denis Naughten

Pillars of Society

DENIS NAUGHTEN

INDEPENDENT TD and Minister Denis Naughten, once seen as a Fine Gael leadership contender, was fortunate to survive the backlash that followed his private... Read more »

The Young Bloods

Boni Odoemene

The Young Bloods

BONI ODOEMENE

THE OUTGOING president of DIT’s student union, Boni Odoemene (23), is one of the most controversial figures to climb the greasy poll of student... Read more »

Fit to Print?

Anne Harris

Fit to Print?

HACKS PRIVILEGED?

THE imminent appearance of ex-garda commissioners Martin Callinan and Nóirín O’Sullivan at the Charleton Tribunal has the media salivating, but the same hacks will immediately follow suit at Dublin Castle... Read more »
Maurice McCabe

Fit to Print?

MAURICE McCABE’S LEGAL LABYRINTH

THAT apology broadcast by RTÉ’s Prime Time last week to Supt Noel Cunningham over his dealings with whistleblower Sgt Maurice McCabe, was humble to the point of degradation. But the... Read more »
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Fit to Print?

VARADKAR’S PR

“SHAMBOLIC: blame shifts to Varadkar”, was the arresting, not to say provocative, headline on the front page of last Saturday’s Irish Independent over an article on the cervical cancer scandal... Read more »

Last Refuge

Roisin Shortall

Last Refuge

ROISIN SHORTALL’S JOURNEY

BEING the most politically correct party on the planet, it behoves the Social Democrats to be at the coalface of the repeal the 8th campaign and also in favour of... Read more »
John McGuinness

Last Refuge

MICHEÁL MARTIN V JOHN McGUINNESS

FIANNA FÁIL became embroiled yet again in theological and legalistic arguments about going all out against the government last week, this time over demands for the government to sack HSE... Read more »
Alan Kelly

Last Refuge

LABOUR’S LETHARGY ON REPEAL THE 8th

JUDGING by the limp effort of various Labour TDs in the repeal the 8th referendum, some have learned the lesson of the gay marriage campaign, namely that championing liberal causes... Read more »
Gerry Adams

Last Refuge

GERRY ADAMS HAS GONE AWAY, YOU KNOW

WHAT a witty and even perceptive response Leo Varadkar gave to Mary Lou McDonald’s tribute to the late Monica Barnes in which the Sinn Féin leader said – as a... Read more »

Hush Hush

Rupert Murdoch

Hush Hush

MORE DUBLIN / UK HACKING EVIDENCE

THE gruesome murder in 1987 of a London private investigator, Daniel Morgan, recently the subject of a case taken for malicious prosecution against the London Metropolitan Police, has produced an... Read more »

Student Life

Lorcán O'Maoileannaigh

Student Life

GALWAY STUDENTS’ LANDLORD BLUES

INTERESTING times at NUI Galway where protests have followed sudden rent increases at private student accommodation. After similar protests in DCU recently, the NUIG union staged a street protest last... Read more »

Bog Cuttings

Bog Cuttings

Bog Cuttings

BOG CUTTINGS

‘ONLY MEDICATING THE PEOPLE OF DERRY’ A MAN already serving a “substantial” prison sentence has been fined for having the Class B drug cannabis. Jamie Mullan (21) of Braehead Road,... Read more »

Fowl Emissions

Derek Mooney

Fowl Emissions

BOG STANDARD RTÉ PROGRAMME

“THIS IS the story of Ireland’s best kept secret.” So RTÉ’s Derek Mooney began Turf Life – A Day on the Bog. This statement was true in more ways than... Read more »

Bird's Eye View

Loyalist bonfire Féile Concert

Bird's Eye View

BONFIRE OF THE UNIONISTS

BONFIRES have always been a manifestation of unionist triumphalism but also trepidation. Their size is in direct proportion to unionist paranoia. All major political occasions have featured bonfires across the... Read more »

The Hot Air Brigade

Laura Kennedy

The Hot Air Brigade

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

The idea of ignorant knuckle-draggers deciding what others have the right to see immersed me in a miasma of irritation and despair, so I went for a walk in north... Read more »

High Society

High Society

High Society

NATHALIE DAURIAC’S COURT DATE

AT THE start of this month, a ruling was issued following a High Court battle in London that has grabbed the attention of the... Read more »

High Society

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WEDDING DATE

WITH MEDIA interest in the Meghan Markle and Prince Harry wedding nearing fever pitch, plenty of filler articles on the “wedding season” have popped... Read more »

Behind the Scenes

Josepha Madigan

Behind the Scenes

JOSEPHA MADIGAN’S AMERICAN DREAM

THE MANNER in which the Irish government funds the long delayed $62m Irish Arts Centre project in New York continues to raise questions. And it is far from clear if... Read more »
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Behind the Scenes

CREDIT WHERE (TAX) CREDIT IS DUE

WHILE THE Joint Oireachtas culture committee prepares its report on the film industry following recent hearings, Goldhawk asked the Revenue for some facts. The Section 481 tax gravy train for... Read more »
Selina Cartmell

Behind the Scenes

SELINA CARTMELL’S CONDITIONS

WITH THE Gate Theatre landing an extra €100,000 in funding from the Arts Council it looks like 2018 is shaping up to be a good year for director Selina Cartmell.... Read more »

Sport of Kings

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Sport of Kings

HERE COME THE GIRLS

THE PAST 10 years have been a golden era for female jockeys. Having proved their worth against the boys and earned the right to be known as jockeys as opposed... Read more »
Richard FitzGerald

Sport of Kings

DID HRI JUMP TOO EARLY?

THE CONTROVERSIAL media rights deal that saw Horse Racing Ireland (HRI) hand over the keys to Irish racing to Satellite Information Services (SIS) took another twist recently when the At... Read more »
John Magnier and Derrick Smith

Sport of Kings

JOHN MAGNIER’S TRIPLE CROWN TARGET

WHILE OUT of luck in Churchill Downs when a quagmire of a track played its part in Mendelssohn finishing dead last in the Kentucky Derby, the Coolmore team had more... Read more »
Alan Fleming

Sport of Kings

ALAN FLEMING’S LOADED NEW OWNERS

CURRAGH TRAINER Alan Fleming is generally more associated with his national hunt string, being more or less a private trainer for Barry Connell. The handler may have landed himself an... Read more »

Reviews

Maeve Fitzgerald and Lorcan Cranitch

Reviews

ON RAFTERY’S HILL – ABBEY THEATRE

AT LAST, here’s Marina Carr. As Irish theatres obsess over gender imbalance in the industry following Waking the Feminists, it’s surprising the moody midlands playwright hasn’t cropped up sooner. Her... Read more »
Heartland

Books

HEARTLAND – PATRICK McCABE (NEW ISLAND)

SINCE THE success of The Butcher Boy in 1992, Patrick McCabe has pioneered a distinctive literary genre. His claustrophobic narratives – usually about the demise of small-town Ireland – have... Read more »
Hugh Wallace

Reviews

THE GREAT HOUSE REVIVAL – RTÉ 1

IRELAND’S enduring love affair with home ownership is unlikely to end anytime soon – particularly as so many property porn programmes continue to hog the national broadcaster’s schedules. With Home... Read more »

Moneybags

Moneybags

Mick Stanley

Moneybags

CLEANING UP INSIDE CAIRN HOMES

CLEARLY Mick Stanley and his Scottish finance mentor and supporter, Alan McIntosh, have done an impressive job in building a sizeable Irish house-building operation... Read more »

Moneybags

Philip O’Quigley

Moneybags

FALCON’S FRACKING GAMBLE DOWN UNDER

SUPPORTERS of the highly controversial oil and gas extraction technique of hydraulic fracking got a boost recently courtesy of an Australian government-commissioned report. It... Read more »

The Hot Water Brigade

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The Hot Water Brigade

CHECKING OUT AT THE PLAZA

TOUGH times at Phelan Hotels Ltd (PHL) where the liquidator is set to check in. The company behind the Plaza Hotel in Tallaght has declared itself insolvent ahead of a... Read more »
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The Hot Water Brigade

ANTHONY FITZPATRICK’S ‘NEEDLESS’ INTERVENTION

IT LOOKS like one of Anthony Fitzpatrick’s liquidation sagas has come to an end. In April, Goldhawk’s old pal Fitzpatrick had a bad result in the Court of Appeal, which... Read more »
Ross Maguire

The Hot Water Brigade

ROSS MAGUIRE’S NEW BEGINNING

THE ORIGINAL company behind barrister Ross Maguire’s debt campaign advice service is listed for striking off the Companies Register. Maguire became chief executive of New Beginning Advisors in 2015, bringing... Read more »
John Declan Flanagan

The Hot Water Brigade

TAXMAN WHACKS CLARE BUSINESSMEN

A COUPLE of Co Clare businessmen have landed on the wrong side of the taxman. Doolin developer and hotelier John Declan Flanagan was slapped with a small €26,000 tax judgment... Read more »
Paddy McKillen Jnr

The Hot Water Brigade

PADDY MCKILLEN’S MOUNT MERRION BATTLES

THE UBIQUITOUS Paddy McKillen Jr just can’t catch a break in Mount Merrion. No sooner had Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown Council granted permission for his company, Tomose Ltd, to demolish Kiely’s Pub... Read more »
Ali Ryan

The Hot Water Brigade

ALI RYAN’S €1M REBUFF

GOLDHAWK was surprised to read that Goss.ie ‘girlboss’ Ali Ryan has turned down a seven-figure deal for her entertainment and showbiz news brand. Fans of Goldhawk will recall that the... Read more »
Jim Wallace

The Hot Water Brigade

JIM WALLACE’S FASHION JUDGMENT

SPARE a thought for Wexford master tailor Jim Wallace, who has just been slapped with a €470,000 judgment courtesy of KBC Bank. Wallace, cousin of Independent TD Mick Wallace, is... Read more »