Affairs of the Nation

Sophie Toscan du Plantier

Affairs of the Nation

MEDIA STILL HUNTS IAN BAILEY

WHEN FINTAN O’TOOLE gets it wrong he really gets it wrong, but his recent column on Ian Bailey, dressed up in liberal, feminist language, misses the point by a country... Read more »
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Affairs of the Nation

YVONNE DOLAN’S BLENDI BACKERS

AS FANS of Goldhawk are aware, Yvonne Dolan’s award-winning Blendi Snacks business ran out of flavour recently and the company was due to be wound up on July 15. The... Read more »
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Affairs of the Nation

TENI’S TIMING

AT LONG last Transgender Equality Network Ireland (TENI) has got around to filing its out-of-date 2019 accounts, which just might smooth the way for further funding. The good news for... Read more »
Paul Collins

Affairs of the Nation

PAUL COLLINS’S LIBEL ACTION

BANDON-BASED businessman Paul Collins has fingers in many pies but his provision of accommodation for asylum seekers has often landed him in the media spotlight for all the wrong reasons.... Read more »
Simon Coveney

Affairs of the Nation

OUR LINE IN TEL AVIV

FOREIGN MINISTER Simon Coveney has ducked and dived when confronted with Israeli depredations against the Palestinians but he appears to have been struck dumb by a speech from our man... Read more »
Frank O'Mara

Affairs of the Nation

CHARITY BEGINS ON THE FARM

ONE OF the most intriguing questions awaiting the incoming director of Teagasc, the state agriculture research and training agency, is: what kind of organisation, exactly, is he heading? Prof Frank... Read more »
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Affairs of the Nation

NEIL FRANCIS’S TACTICS

NEIL FRANCIS was never slow to dish it out, whether on the pitch or as a pundit, so there was a pretty long queue to put the boot in when... Read more »
Fiona O'Leary

Affairs of the Nation

REBELS IN WEST CORK

A BIZARRE stand-off in west Cork involving the Society of Saint Pius X Resistance. (SSPX Resistance), local campaigner Fiona O’Leary and gardaí is just the latest episode involving religious factionalism... Read more »
Tom Clonan

Affairs of the Nation

TCD BYELECTION

THE SUNDAY TIMES has already plugged long-time former Goldman Sachs director Hugo McNeill in the early reckoning for the Seanad’s Trinity College Dublin seat vacant after Ivana Bacik’s election to... Read more »
Rupert Murdoch

Affairs of the Nation

MURDER, BENT COPS AND DUBLIN MEDIA

COMMENTING ON the latest report that found the London Met guilty of “institutional corruption” in its treatment of the 1987 murder of Daniel Morgan, former home secretary David Blunkett made... Read more »

Pillars of Society

Brandon Lewis

Pillars of Society

PROFILE: BRANDON LEWIS

After AN uneventful 14 months since his appointment, the northern secretary Brandon Lewis has had his plate full since the beginning of April. First,... Read more »

The Young Bloods

Peter Kavanagh

The Young Bloods

YOUNG BLOOD: PETER KAVANAGH

ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES are being forcibly driven into our consciousness by the devastating floods in Europe, especially Germany. With the Green party still doing poorly... Read more »

Fit to Print?

Eoghan Harris

Fit to Print?

‘SINDO’ HIDES HARRIS FROM VIEW

SUNDAY INDEPENDENT editor Alan English sacked long-time columnist Eoghan Harris last May because, he said, Harris had written “contemptible” tweets under the pseudonymous Barbara J Pym account. That was explained... Read more »
Irish Times Black Friday Vicky Conway

Fit to Print?

MONICA LEECH’S PARTNER

FORMER PR consultant Monica Leech last month suffered an adverse judgment including as yet indeterminate legal costs after she lost her appeal against a High Court taxing master’s ruling that... Read more »
Desmond O’Malley

Fit to Print?

DES O’MALLEY’S MEDIA FOES

IF DES O’MALLEY did not suffer fools gladly he endured certain hacks – those who were not part of the near idolatrous Desocrats fan club – with even less grace.... Read more »

Last Refuge

Roisin Shortall

Last Refuge

SOC DEMS LEADERSHIP HEAVE

LABOUR’S BYELECTION triumph was not the root cause of the current split in the Social Democrats but it was certainly the catalyst to the leadership crisis now being played out... Read more »
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Last Refuge

MICHEÁL MARTIN’S TIMELINE

THAT MIDDLE ground group of Fianna Fáil TDs that has recently formed “to support Martin”, according to a headline in an Irish Times analysis piece last week, is not homogenous.... Read more »
Micheál Martin

Last Refuge

DAMNED LIES AND MARTIN’S STATS

MICHEÁL MARTIN’S PR maestro, Paul Clarkson, has been busy and successful in commandeering media exposure for the Fianna Fáil leader in recent months – as his brief entails – and... Read more »
Rebecca Moynihan

Last Refuge

LABOUR’S SEAT TARGETS?

IVANA BACIK’S Dublin Bay South byelection triumph has emboldened Labour and there has been much talk of a possible resurgence of the party’s electoral fortunes. It has even identified a... Read more »

Hush Hush

James Reynolds

Hush Hush

RIGHT-WING SCAPEGOAT

THE RECENT Dublin Bay South (DBS) byelection has damaged the political career of Longford man James Reynolds, founder and deputy leader of the National party along with leader Justin Barrett.... Read more »

Bog Cuttings

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Bog Cuttings

BOG CUTTINGS

‘Big Fucking Wages’ Kevin O’Flynn (23) of Glantane, Mallow, Cork, pleaded guilty to engaging in threatening behaviour and public intoxication after an altercation with members of the public and gardaí... Read more »

Fowl Emissions

RTÉ Vacancy

Fowl Emissions

RTÉ’S CHANGEABLE CLIMATE REPORTAGE

IT’S BEEN an unusually bruising time for RTÉ managing director of news Jon Williams, culminating in his online mea culpa this week over the station’s dire performance on climate coverage.... Read more »
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Fowl Emissions

FARMERS’ “POSITIVE TRENDS”

“IT’S THE way I tell ’em!” The famous Frank Carson catch-cry came to mind when reading various versions of a recent Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) report on water indicators. ‘Almost... Read more »

The Hot Air Brigade

Diarmuid Gavin

The Hot Air Brigade

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

It was very rock ’n’ roll. I used to go to the Hootenanny with Jools Holland every year and the rock stars thought we were the rock stars. Diarmuid Gavin,... Read more »

High Society

Gerardine Connolly

High Society

DÉJÀ VU IN HOWTH

IT LOOKS like a case of déjà vu on Howth Hill, where a planning row is brewing at the hilltop Heather Cottage, owned by sculptor Patrick O’Reilly (of bronze teddy... Read more »
Consuelo O’Connor

High Society

SILENT AT RUSSBOROUGH

HAVING BOUNCED into the black in recent years, it is not surprising that things took a turn for the worst at Russborough House during the pandemic. The good news is... Read more »
Kilmurry House

High Society

JAMES HENNESSY’S SAMURAI WARRIORS

THERE WAS a glowing write-up in the Business Post last weekend of the impressive Kilmurry House in Co Kilkenny, a mid-18th century pile on 90 acres that has just gone... Read more »

Behind the Scenes

Liz Brennan

Behind the Scenes

LIZ BRENNAN’S BUDGET

PERHAPS THE new chair of Screen Ireland, Susan Bergin, might move to speed up the publishing of its funding decisions. It can take a couple of years to find out... Read more »
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Behind the Scenes

MAUREEN KENNELLY’S EXPANDING COLLECTION

WITH A fair amount of moolah sloshing around the arts world these days, it is not surprising that the Arts Council has announced the addition of yet more works to... Read more »

Sport of Kings

Philip Rothwell

Sport of Kings

ROTHWELL’S RANT

THE TRAINER Philip Rothwell has been moaning about ground conditions at some Irish tracks and it climaxed for him at Kilbeggan recently when he withdrew all his intended runners after... Read more »
Stephen Mahon

Sport of Kings

PISS-TAKE

THE CONTROVERSIAL Stephen Mahon continues to attract the wrong kind of attention, while he awaits the outcocme of his appeal for a four-year training ban following a high-profile neglect case.... Read more »
Michael Moloney

Sport of Kings

MOLONEY’S CROWD CONTROL

WHILE IT is round two of an essentially spectator-free Galway Festival this week, at least the 2021 event won’t be quite as soulless as last year’s effort, with the 1,000-person... Read more »
John Osborne

Sport of Kings

JOHN OSBORNE’S HEADACHE

WITH HORSERACING keen to keep its nose clean after the PR mauling casued by the Gordon Elliott affair, there was some serious head shaking after the incendiary – and according... Read more »

Reviews

Poster Boys

Movies

POSTER BOYS

PUBLIC MONEY, even lots of it, is no guarantee of quality, as Goldhawk has noted in countless reviews of Irish films in recent years. A possible reason for the dearth... Read more »
Diving for Pearls

Books

DIVING FOR PEARLS – JAMIE O’CONNELL

THIS DEBUT novel is set about a decade ago, mainly in Dubai, where the dead body of a young Emirati woman, Hiyam Husayin, is found in the city’s marina. The... Read more »

Moneybags

Alan Linn

Moneybags

TOP BRASS WEIGHS DOWN PROVIDENCE SHARE PRICE

THE FAILURE of Spot-On Energy to deliver the non-recourse funding elements of Providence Resources’ development programme, as envisaged in the farm-in programme for its Barryroe licence, inevitably meant there had... Read more »
Cathal Friel

Moneybags

OPEN ORPHAN IDEALLY PLACED TO BENEFIT FROM THE PANDEMIC

CATHAL FRIEL has been making a lot of bold moves as executive chairman of Open Orphan, such as the company’s strategic decision in March 2020 to develop a Covid-19 challenge... Read more »

The Hot Water Brigade

Stuart McGoldrick

The Hot Water Brigade

STUART MCGOLDRICK’S SKI ACCIDENT

THERE WAS bad news for customers of the Dublin Ski Centre in Sandyford this month when the facility announced it was keeping it doors shut. A creditors’ meeting will take... Read more »
Marcus White

The Hot Water Brigade

MARCUS WHITE’S LEGAL HEADACHE

THE FOUR Goldmines are beckoning for the irrepressible Marcus White, organiser of the Lisdoonvarna Matchmaking Festival and high-profile operator of a number of hotels in Clare and Donegal. Proceedings have... Read more »
Leigh Wrafter

The Hot Water Brigade

JOHN WRAFTER’S WOES

A HIGH Court action has just been launched by the receiver of south Dublin firm WR Land Ltd. This turns out to be one of the interests on Goldhawk’s old... Read more »
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The Hot Water Brigade

ORLA DEANE’S APARTMENT

BAD NEWS last week from Dublin City Council for Orla Deane’s proposed apartment scheme in Ranelagh D6. The planners were not taken by an attempt to bolt on an extra... Read more »