Affairs of the Nation

Linda Doyle Berkeley Library

Affairs of the Nation

DENAMING TCD’S MAKTOUM CENTRE?

THE HIGH-profile decision of the board in Trinity College to ‘dename’ the Berkeley Library has attracted plenty of attention. Goldhawk wonders why there isn’t the same level of concern being... Read more »
Budget Jack Chambers Nicki Minaj B’Tselem Phil Hogan UCD IRTA DIGI Katy Brown Rory Godson Pallonji Mistry Shark Hanlon Frances Ruane Taste of Dublin Listowel Writers’ Week Paddy Curran Harvey Norman Anton Savage Paul Hourican Enda O’Coineen PfP Red C Poll IFTA Ben Gilroy Luke Comer Sue Spence Fingleton Aubrey McCarthy Matt Cooper Parker Green Danny McConnell Gayle Killilea Maura Derivan Ed Honohan INS Arts Council EDAF Emuse Rosslare Golf Club Mairead Casey Colm O’Rourke Stephen Connolly Peter Aiken John Malone Tom Barry Anthony Halpin Ian Kehoe Kevin Bakhurst Geraldine O’Leary Dennis Horgan RUSI Gareth McAllister Ryevale House Joe Macken RUC Omagh Patrick Connolly Paddy Cosgrave The Ditch Newstalk Fake Tan Fred Logue Ian Paisley Sean O’Riordan Margaret Sweeney Jay Bourke Ellie Kisyombe Francesca McDonagh Ted Cunningham National Space Centre An Irish Goodbye Oscar Robert Quirke Ciara Kelly Executive Women Gathering Doug Taylor Florian Haufe Robbie Henshaw Bill Shipsey Breaking the Silence L’Ecrivain Ronan McNally National Lottery Michael Roche Energy Action Balls.ie Newspapers VAT Abbey Theatre Patricia Madden Irish Banking Culture Board Randox Aoife Gallagher Book Dalai Lama Trinity Trevor White RTÉ Chairperson Shane Houlihan Noel Smyth IKC Bob Geldof Landlord Ireland Neutrality Ukraine

Affairs of the Nation

OONAGH BUCKLEY’S APOLOGY

IT DIDN’T take the interim chair of An Bord Pleanála (ABP) too long to issue an apology to top planning lawyer Fred Logue, after she suggested he was raking it... Read more »
Budget Jack Chambers Nicki Minaj B’Tselem Phil Hogan UCD IRTA DIGI Katy Brown Rory Godson Pallonji Mistry Shark Hanlon Frances Ruane Taste of Dublin Listowel Writers’ Week Paddy Curran Harvey Norman Anton Savage Paul Hourican Enda O’Coineen PfP Red C Poll IFTA Ben Gilroy Luke Comer Sue Spence Fingleton Aubrey McCarthy Matt Cooper Parker Green Danny McConnell Gayle Killilea Maura Derivan Ed Honohan INS Arts Council EDAF Emuse Rosslare Golf Club Mairead Casey Colm O’Rourke Stephen Connolly Peter Aiken John Malone Tom Barry Anthony Halpin Ian Kehoe Kevin Bakhurst Geraldine O’Leary Dennis Horgan RUSI Gareth McAllister Ryevale House Joe Macken RUC Omagh Patrick Connolly Paddy Cosgrave The Ditch Newstalk Fake Tan Fred Logue Ian Paisley Sean O’Riordan Margaret Sweeney Jay Bourke Ellie Kisyombe Francesca McDonagh Ted Cunningham National Space Centre An Irish Goodbye Oscar Robert Quirke Ciara Kelly Executive Women Gathering Doug Taylor Florian Haufe Robbie Henshaw Bill Shipsey Breaking the Silence L’Ecrivain Ronan McNally National Lottery Michael Roche Energy Action Balls.ie Newspapers VAT Abbey Theatre Patricia Madden Irish Banking Culture Board Randox Aoife Gallagher Book Dalai Lama Trinity Trevor White RTÉ Chairperson Shane Houlihan Noel Smyth IKC Bob Geldof Landlord Ireland Neutrality Ukraine

Affairs of the Nation

CATHERINE MARTIN’S SLOW PACE

WITH SPORT having lost out on increased funding this year, despite all the moolah sloshing around, the good news is that a new chairman has finally been appointed to the... Read more »

Affairs of the Nation

Hamish Macauley

Affairs of the Nation

HAMISH MACAULEY’S FISH SUPPER

GOLDHAWK THOROUGHLY enjoyed the Oirish Sun’s Punchestown splash on bloodstock agent Hamish Macauley last weekend. He is certainly a chap on the move but the tabloid has put something of... Read more »
Micheal Martin

Affairs of the Nation

THE MOUSE THAT ROARS

MEDIA SPECULATION about the appetite of Tánaiste Micheál Martin for the post in foreign affairs – something that became very apparent in the months before the changeover with Leo Varadkar... Read more »
Kildare Street & University Club King Charles III

Affairs of the Nation

SEND HIM VICTORIOUS!

A SIGN of ‘how far we have come’, as some modernists put it, is the invite to its members from the Kildare Street & University Club this weekend. There they... Read more »
Liz Truss

Affairs of the Nation

LIZ TRUSS FOR SECRET COURT CASE

THE BRIEFEST of British prime ministers, Liz Truss, could find herself called in a dramatic court case that her government is trying to have heard in secret as it concerns... Read more »
Dairy Ireland Alice Doyle

Affairs of the Nation

POLLUTERS PARADISE

The polluter’s paradox is the term given to the fact that the more polluting a company or sector is, the more it has to spend on both politics and advertising... Read more »
American Irish Historical Society Kevin Cahill

Affairs of the Nation

NEW YORK’S FINEST

A SHORT and largely unnoticed announcement last week on the website of the American Irish Historical Society (AIHS) signalled an emphatic victory for over 40,000 Irish New Yorkers led by... Read more »

Pillars of Society

Mary Lou McDonald

Pillars of Society

PROFILE: MARY LOU MCDONALD

THERE WAS a time when the question mark over Mary Lou McDonald was whether she could adequately replace her predecessor, Gerry Adams – a... Read more »

The Young Bloods

Lousie McSharry

The Young Bloods

YOUNG BLOOD: LOUISE MCSHARRY

WHILE LOUISE McSharry has a penchant for shoving her oar in on current affairs issues on social media, her recent swipe at RTÉ suggests... Read more »

Fit to Print?

Tucker Carlson

Fit to Print?

CARLSON’S DOWNFALL

Tucker Carlson, a right-wing broadcasting star on Fox News, was tipped as the political heir to Donald Trump, until he was sacked – without an explanation – last month by... Read more »
Diageo Dana An Garda Síochána IT Trust No Stone Unturned Irish Times Black Friday Vicky Conway

Fit to Print?

NO HELP FOR MCREDMOND

POWERSCOURT GROUP boss Rory Godson contacted Goldhawk to inform us that we were incorrect to say he had assisted David McRedmond – former chairman of Powerscourt’s Irish arm – in... Read more »
Kevin Myers

Fit to Print?

KEVIN MYERS ‘SET UP’

RIGHT-WING outlet Gript recently interviewed right-wing ex-Sunday Times journalist Kevin Myers about how he got sacked after making a “little joke” about two well-paid, Jewish, women BBC journalists. Myers denied... Read more »

Last Refuge

Verona Murphy

Last Refuge

FARMERS IN SHEEP’S CLOTHING

ROSCOMMON-GALWAY TD Michael Fitzmaurice got a predictable reaction from Green Party representatives when he mooted his new farmers’ party. Junior agriculture minister and Green senator Pippa Hackett said Fitzmaurice was... Read more »
RLF Gerard Craughwell

Last Refuge

OLD ARMIES AND NEW

THE WAR of words between the official National Army and the Respect and Loyalty to the Forgotten (RLF), a group of retired army officers, continued last weekend. In the absence... Read more »
Robert Watt

Last Refuge

ROBERT WATT’S PERFORMANCE

Much has been made of the demeanour of Robert Watt, secretary general of the Department of Health, with many Government TDs joining their opposition counterparts in criticising the combative, soccer-loving,... Read more »
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin Cian O'Callaghan

Last Refuge

SOC DEMS TO ECLIPSE LABOUR?

THE ONLY constituency in the state to house both a Labour and a Social Democrats TD is Dublin Bay North (DBN) with Aodhán Ó Ríordáin and Cian O’Callaghan respectively. This... Read more »

Northwind

DUP Windsor Framework Chris Heaton-Harris

Northwind

TORIES TAKE ON THE DUP

The DUP is furious with the British government. The DUP hasn’t realised that the terms of trade have changed since the overwhelming 515-29 vote in Westminster to endorse the Windsor... Read more »

Hush Hush

Keith Woods Elon Musk

Hush Hush

HATE-FREE SPEECH

As far back as November 2019 Garda Commissioner Drew Harris told the Policing Authority that Ireland was beginning to see a rise in right-wing extremism. He stated: “The difficulty with... Read more »

Bog Cuttings

Bog-Cuttings-Defaul

Bog Cuttings

BOG CUTTINGS

NAGS AND FAGS Letterkenny District Court heard the case of a man arrested for driving his horse and cart while drunk. Danny Connors (48), of Canal Road, Neil T Blaney... Read more »

Fowl Emissions

LNG Ossian Smyth

Fowl Emissions

ANOTHER GREEN/RED LINE GONE

Sinn Féin really is a laggard when it comes to climate policy but some in the party seem to be making an effort. Last week senator Lynn Boylan pitched a... Read more »
Climate Disinformation Coillte Climate Action EU Livestock NDC Claude Etchelamendy Ed Brophy Richard Boyd-Barrett Kish Dale Crammond Frank Mitloehner Shell Greenwashing Meta Data Centres Ireland

Fowl Emissions

TACKLING MICHAEL D.

“Many economists remain stuck in an inexorable growth narrative, or at best a ‘green growth’ narrative,” which has “resulted in a discipline… blinkered to the ecological challenge – the ecological... Read more »

The Hot Air Brigade

Marina Devlin

The Hot Air Brigade

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

The king will travel in the Gold State Coach. This is splendour played out on an epic canvas. It’s extraordinary how Britain has changed since the last coronation. Don’t expect... Read more »

High Society

High Society

Lee Bushell

High Society

LEE BUSHELL TRIPS UP

A BIRMINGHAM millionaire – who even owns a bank – is behind the Irish Aldo shoe business relaunched here 12 months ago, which has... 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

BOWING OUT AT BALLYFIN

AFTER over 20 years in situ on the board of Fred Krehbiel’s magnificent Ballyfin Demesne, James Reynolds – whose garden designing skills were much... Read more »

High Society

David Sharkey Waverley in Foxrock

High Society

DAVID SHARKEY’S ‘MAN CAVE’

GOLDHAWK WAS not surprised to see the Irish Times drooling over a handsome red-brick, modern house on one acre in Foxrock, which is on the market for no less than... Read more »

Behind the Scenes

DTF Donna Marie O'Donovan

Behind the Scenes

THEATRE FESTIVAL’S DIVERSITY PLOT

LAST MONTH, the Dublin Theatre Festival (DTF) issued a call for potential directors. It looks like David Nolan’s board is anxious to avoid the kind of controversy that recently landed... Read more »

Sport of Kings

premier Magic Bradley Gibbs

Sport of Kings

BRADLEY GIBBS’S GRIPES

PUNCHESTOWN IS often referred to as Ireland’s version of Cheltenham and many UK owners and trainers try to beat the Irish on home turf. One such UK horse, Premier Magic,... Read more »
Danny Mullins

Sport of Kings

DANNY’S WHIP HAND

ANOTHER EXAMPLE of the disparity of racing rules between Irish and British jurisdictions (see ‘Bradley Gibbs’s Gripes’) was evident last week. At Punchestown, Danny Mullins got a three-day ban after... Read more »
Gordon Elliot Punchestown

Sport of Kings

ELLIOTT’S SADDLES

HOT ON the hooves of his recent cock-up at Navan (see The Phoenix 21/4/23), Gordon Elliott fell foul at Punchestown when putting the wrong saddles on two runners in the... Read more »
Michael O'Callaghan

Sport of Kings

MICHAEL O’CALLAGHAN’S MISHAP

SPARE A thought for Kildare trainer Michael O’Callaghan, who has just moved into his new purpose-built training complex, which cost a fair few bob to construct. O’Callaghan would have had... Read more »

Reviews

The Coroners Daughter

Books|Reviews

THE CORONER’S DAUGHTER – ANDREW HUGHES

FIRST PUBLISHED back in 2018, Andrew Hughes’s period thriller, The Coroner’s Daughter is the One Dublin One Book choice for 2023. The author is an archivist and historian whose research... Read more »

Moneybags

Moneybags

Declan Moylan

Moneybags

I-RES REIT ONLY ITSELF TO BLAME FOR REVOLT

FANS OF Moneybags are very familiar with the criticism in these pages of the remarkably generous management fee arrangements put in place by the... Read more »

Moneybags

Joe Purcell

Moneybags

MINCON SHAREHOLDERS PREPARE TO MINE PROFITS

MINCON, which is headquartered in Shannon, has gradually become a worldwide force in designing and producing rock drilling tools for the mining and construction... Read more »

Brief Cases

Lisa McGowan

Brief Cases

LISA MCGOWAN’S BIG PLANS

LISA McGOWAN, the fashion blogger and influencer, betrayed a touch of frustration in her interview with the Sindo’s gossip queen, Niamh Horan, last weekend. Publicity surrounding McGowan’s near €1m profit... Read more »
Film plc Vittorio Cecchi Gori

Brief Cases

DUBLIN’S DISASTER MOVIE

A COMPANY with the unwieldy name of Finance For An Italian Library Of Movies plc (Film) has been placed in receivership, almost 25 years after it was incorporated here as... Read more »
Wexpack Jim Wallace

Brief Cases

TAXING TIMES IN WEXFORD

THE DREADED taxman has just registered a judgment for €237,000 against a company called Wexpack International Trading Company Ltd, which doesn’t appear to have any directors. Until last year, however,... Read more »
Zulleon Noel Donegan

Brief Cases

OOKS A DAISY!

THE ODDLY named Zulleon Ltd has gone into liquidation, despite a share register choc-a-bloc with KPMG heavy hitters, some of who recently scooped millions from the sale of Global Shares... Read more »