Affairs of the Nation

Simon Coveney

Affairs of the Nation

UN SEAT: COVENEY CHECKMATES CANADA

TÁNAISTE and foreign minister Simon Coveney’s stirring speech to the United Nations General Assembly last weekend championed the Palestinians in a manner that belies the government record of refusing to... Read more »
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Affairs of the Nation

BEHIND THE ÁRAS

A HIDDEN hand or hands have been at play in what is shaping up to be the dirtiest presidential campaign ever. Labour Party campaigners and other supporters of Michael D... Read more »
Tim Brennan

Affairs of the Nation

TIM BRENNAN VS RTÉ

THE FALL-OUT from a finding by the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) that Co Kilkenny vet Tim Brennan is not guilty of passing on inside information continues. RTÉ has just received... Read more »

Affairs of the Nation

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Affairs of the Nation

WEE DANIEL’S BIG BUCKS

WEE DANIEL O’Donnell has been keeping busy, serenading the Pope and popping up in TV adverts. It is not surprising that the Donegal crooner is worth a few bob, as... Read more »
Vogue Williams

Affairs of the Nation

THE HUMBLING OF PAUL STENSON

VOGUE Williams is back on Irish screens with a new season of her documentary series and one episode in particular caught Goldhawk’s eye. In My Sponsored Life, the model-turned-documentarian investigated... Read more »
Ben Gilroy

Affairs of the Nation

BEN GILROY’S ‘ABHORRENT’ BEHAVIOUR

IT WAS reported this week that Goldhawk’s old pal, Direct Democracy founder Ben Gilroy, is the subject of a High Court order from Judge Robert Haughton preventing him from taking... Read more »

Pillars of Society

Liadh Ní Riada MEP

Pillars of Society

PROFILE: LIADH NÍ RIADA MEP

THERE ARE those in Sinn Féin who believe that the party’s presidential bid via Liadh Ní Riada, daughter of iconic Irish composer Seán Ó... Read more »

The Young Bloods

Louise O'Neill

The Young Bloods

YOUNG BLOOD: LOUISE O’NEILL

It’s been a bumper year for young adult fiction writer Louise O’Neill (33). The Cork native has published two books since the spring and... Read more »

Fit to Print?

Paul O'Neill

Fit to Print?

JOURNALISM MATTERS (SOMETIMES)

THE MOST laudable campaign, Journalism Matters Week, launched by NewsBrands Ireland recently, was enthusiastically promoted by the Irish Times in particular. The Old Lady of Tara Street draped the banner... Read more »
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Fit to Print?

EXAMINER’S LEGACY DEBT

A LEGACY debt the Irish Times had to pick up following its recent takeover of the Irish Examiner arose from a rather serious mistake the paper made in naming Ciaran... Read more »
Radio Kerry

Fit to Print?

RADIO SILENCE

KERRY’S EYE sleuth Aidan O’Connor recently provided his newspaper with a local media scoop concerning a €1m High Court judgment against a pillar of the community in Kerry. For one... Read more »

Last Refuge

Paschal Donoghue

Last Refuge

PASCHAL VS MARY LOU VS PARTY RIVALS

FINANCE MINISTER Paschal Donohoe has made a bold move in his Dublin Central constituency. He has taken on a running mate, even though he narrowly staved off a threat to... Read more »
Michael D Higgins

Last Refuge

HIGGINS NO-SHOWS

MICHAEL D HIGGINS has shown yet again that he is anything but a naïve aesthete, as his deft political footwork and PR manipulation illustrated last week. RTÉ’s news and current... Read more »
Irish Military Mali Coolock Says No IFP Hermann Kelly Timmy Dooley Aontú Mal O’Hara Fintan O’Toole Josepha Madigan Eoghan Harris Ukraine War Micheál Martin Middle East Philip Ryan Seán Clancy Simon Coveney Hugo MacNeill Mountbatten Neasa Hourigan Green Party Martin NPT Ivana Bacik Independents Limerick Hospital Overcrowding Barry Cowen

Last Refuge

VERSATILE VINCENT

GREEN but multi-coloured Vincent P Martin is surely the most versatile political personality in Ireland. The senior counsel, former legal/property activist with New Beginnings and a member of the Private... Read more »
Sean Sherlock

Last Refuge

SHERLOCK GETS BACK ON THE WAGON

LABOUR TD Seán Sherlock, caused some concern among party TDs and senators recently as he appeared to have succumbed to the demon drink again – politically, not personally – as... Read more »

Hush Hush

Jack Sen

Hush Hush

WILD ATLANTIC FASCISTS

A GARDA ASU (armed support unit) assisting detectives from Milford and involving four garda jeeps recently raided a home near Annagry, close to Donegal Airport, arresting a prominent UK far-right... Read more »
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Hush Hush

LESLIE BUCKLEY’S GOOD TIMES

Leslie Buckley has had a lot on his plate courtesy of that investigation into Independent News and Media by the ODCE. However, the good news is that he continues to... Read more »

Bog Cuttings

Bog Cuttings

Bog Cuttings

BOG CUTTINGS

A night on the gargoyle A DRUNK Donegal man was caught smashing up a garden gargoyle and taking washing from a clothesline of another man who he had been in... Read more »

Fowl Emissions

Ed Walsh

Fowl Emissions

COVENEY BINS CLIMATE DENIAL

Ireland’s chronic inaction on tackling climate change is inflicting acute reputational damage internationally. And while Taoiseach Leo Varadkar still thinks ‘climate action’ has something to do with paper cups, foreign... Read more »
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Fowl Emissions

JOHN FITZGERALD’S HOT AIR

There are worrying signs that government Climate Change Advisory Council chair Prof John FitzGerald has fallen hook, line and sinker for agri-industrial spinning about methane magically disappearing from the atmosphere.... Read more »

Bird's Eye View

Theresa May

Bird's Eye View

BRITISH ARMY’S LEGACY

Last week Michael Quinn was awarded £193,000 for what the judge described as the “pain and suffering” he endured as a result of being shot on Bloody Sunday in 1972.... Read more »

Wigs on the Green

Colm Murphy

Wigs on the Green

‘DISCIPLINARY MATTERS’

HOLLOW LAUGHTER from solicitor Colm Murphy in Kenmare could surely be heard all the way to the Law Society’s HQ in Blackhall Place in Dublin when the latest edition of... Read more »
Gerry Byrne

Wigs on the Green

‘INDO’S’ K CLUB COCK-UP

THE LITIGATION between former K Club catering manager Peter Curran and the K Club, its head of security and one Mick Smurfit is due back in court this week when... Read more »

The Hot Air Brigade

Boris Johnson

The Hot Air Brigade

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

What we need to do is build a bridge between our islands. Why don’t we? Why don’t we? Boris Johnson pushes for a ‘Brexit bridge’ between Scotland and the north,... Read more »

High Society

Avril Stanley

High Society

AVRIL STANLEY’S SWEET SOUNDS

IT LOOKS like combining music with new age hippy mysticism and mindfulness is a rather profitable business. Earlier this summer (before those post-Electric Picnic images), festival promoter Avril Stanley had... Read more »
Consuelo O’Connor

High Society

BERNIE GALLAGHER’S RENOVATION

SOME LONG overdue renovation works are being carried out on a prestige property on leafy Herbert Park in the heart of Ballsbridge. No 34 has lain vacant for many years,... Read more »
Crohan O'Shea

High Society

CROHAN O’SHEA’S €10M PILE

WHILE THE property market has shown faint signs of slowing down, there was no hint of this last week when property developer Crohan O’Shea – Kerry Person of the Year... Read more »

Behind the Scenes

Susan Bergin Marlowe Mullingar Film Studio RTÉ Self-Employment

Behind the Scenes

NEW FACES AT THE CHESTER BEATTY

THERE HAS been some recent (and overdue) activity on the board of the Chester Beatty Library, where some new faces are joining Dermot Desmond and his fellow trustees. The current... Read more »
Selina Cartmell

Behind the Scenes

AUDITIONING FOR THE GATE

THERE HAS been lots of good news for the Gate Theatre lately, putting quite a nice gloss on Selina Cartmell’s tenure on Parnell Square to date. Not only has the... Read more »
Helen Boyle

Behind the Scenes

HELEN BOYLE’S FUNDING BOOST

AS MICK Hannigan and Una Feely prepare to fire up their IndieCork film and music festival, it seems that relations between their erstwhile employer – Cork Film Festival (CFF) –... Read more »

Sport of Kings

Joseph O'Brien

Sport of Kings

BABY JOSEPH IS IN THE PINK

THE SUCCESS of the Joseph O’Brien-trained Baby Pink in a valuable listed race in Galway recently was an interesting one when one delves into the filly’s ownership history. Originally purchased... Read more »
Sheikh Mohammed al Maktoum

Sport of Kings

GODOLPHIN SPLASHES OUT

THE REBUILDING of relations between the behemoths of global racing Coolmore and Godolphin continues apace with mutual support of each entity’s top stallions now commonplace as well as the purchasing... Read more »
Brendan Duke Adrian Murray Mick Bailey

Sport of Kings

PAT KELLY’S COBALT CASE

IT HAS been a tough couple of weeks at the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB), with a number of referral cases heard covering assorted misdemeanours from cobalt abuse to seaweed... Read more »
Ger Lyons

Sport of Kings

GER LYONS’S GRIPE

IRISH CHAMPIONS weekend was again deemed a success, with some thrilling finishes, good weather and a few breakthrough Group 1 wins for some of the lesser celebrated figures in racing.... Read more »

Moneybags

Adrian Howd

Moneybags

BAD MEDICINE AT MALIN CORPORATION

THE SAME week that Malin Corporation had its explosive AGM (September 13), Don Panoz – the founder of its predecessor company, Elan Pharmaceuticals – died at the age of 83.... Read more »
Mike Donoghue

Moneybags

ORMONDE MINING’S PATIENT SHAREHOLDERS SET FOR PAYDAY

AFTER 25 years of mineral exploration in Spain, Ormonde Mining is on the cusp of delivering a mine producing 13% of the western world’s tungsten – a mineral that is... Read more »

The Hot Water Brigade

Greg Kavanagh

The Hot Water Brigade

GREG KAVANAGH’S LATEST HEADACHES

ARKLOW property developer Greg Kavanagh’s scrap with his former New Generation Homes partner Pat Crean is back in the Four Goldmines next week. Meanwhile, the taxman has just registered a... Read more »
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The Hot Water Brigade

BOBBY KERRISK’S TAX BILL

THE TAXMAN has just slapped Dublin builder and developer Robert ‘Bobby’ Kerrisk with a judgment for €80,000. Once a small-time but busy developer in north Dublin, Kerrisk – who traded... Read more »
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The Hot Water Brigade

SEAN FOY’S FOIBLES

SPARE a thought for Mayo solicitor Sean Foy, who recently received a dressing down from the Law Society. It’s not the first time the legal eagle – who practises as... Read more »
Sean Lyne

The Hot Water Brigade

SEAN LYNE’S LATEST LIQUIDATION

AN ENTITY called CLS Crystal Partners Holding Company Ltd is calling in the liquidator. Once upon a time, this was the central company in Clare developers’ Sean Lyne and Noel... Read more »
Nobby O’Reilly

The Hot Water Brigade

MICHAEL O’REILLY’S VULTURE PROBLEM

MORE headaches for former Pierse Contracting director Michael O’Reilly, who has just been hit with a judgment for over €1m by a vulture fund subsidiary of Goldman Sachs. Builder Mick... Read more »
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The Hot Water Brigade

STRONG HEADWINDS AT WATERFORD AIRPORT

THERE has been more turbulence at Waterford Airport. Last year, Aer Southeast – fronted by Icelandic businessman Einar Adalsteinsson – announced that it was going to establish routes from Waterford... Read more »
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The Hot Water Brigade

VULTURE PECKS GEORGE STAFFORD

SPARE a thought for George and Patricia Stafford of the mighty Wexford Stafford dynasty. Launceston Property Finance, a vulture fund subsidiary of CarVal, has just registered matching judgments against the... Read more »
Pat O'Sullivan

The Hot Water Brigade

WINDING UP LIMERICK FC

JP MCMANUS must have been delighted with the generous media coverage of his largesse recently. One entity that could use a dig out from the so-called Sundance Kid is Limerick... Read more »
Robert Simmons

The Hot Water Brigade

ROBERT SIMMONS CUTS BACK

SPARE a thought for veteran Dublin hairdresser and stylist Robert Simmons, who has had to call in the liquidator at his Powerscourt Townhouse Centre-based hair salon. Pzazz Hair Design Ltd... Read more »
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The Hot Water Brigade

DAVID HERLIHY’S HIGH COURT SCRAP

FORMER Limerick solicitor David Herlihy is back in the High Court next week in his scrap with the Law Society. It’s the latest episode in the former legal eagle’s row... Read more »