Affairs of the Nation

Drew Harris

Affairs of the Nation

LIGHT TOUCH GARDA RESPONSE

THE POLICY of light-touch policing that gardaí have used to deal with far-right protests and provocations in recent months was again evident last week. This is despite statements from Messrs... Read more »
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Affairs of the Nation

FAKE TAN AT NEWSTALK

MUCH HAS been written about the Irish Times’s chatbot debacle and there are plenty of red faces on Tara Street this week. It turns out, however, that the IT is... Read more »
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

IN DEFENCE OF PADDY COSGRAVE

IT WAS hardly surprising to see the ‘nwl’ Twitter account wading into the controversy over Paddy Cosgrave’s €1m in funding for The Ditch website, courtesy of a broadside against Fianna... Read more »
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

FR MCMANUS’S PRESS RELEASE

The Belfast Telegraph has excommunicated the Irish National Caucus (INC). Fr Sean McManus, founder of the INC – which lobbies the US Congress in Washington and which was responsible for... Read more »
Simon Coveney

Affairs of the Nation

WILL THE NATO CAMPAIGN WORK?

IF THE Born-Again-Redmondites (BARs) in Government fail to deliver Irish neutrality up to the dogs of war in Nato and Brussels, it will not be the fault of a willing... Read more »
Paddy Kehoe

Affairs of the Nation

PADDY KEHOE’S ROUGH RIDE

HORSERACING PUNTERS have been enjoying the incendiary online spat between one Paddy Kehoe, the owner of racehorse Princess Zoe, and her former trainer, Tony Mullins (brother of superstar Willie). Kehoe’s... Read more »
Áine Moriarty

Affairs of the Nation

ÁINE MORIARTY’S ACADEMY REBOOT

THE IRISH Film and Television Academy (Ifta) production directed by Áine Moriarty was back from the Zoom wilderness for an in-person event this month, hosted by Deirdre O’Kane, to mark... Read more »
Eamon Ryan

Affairs of the Nation

GOOD ENERGY NEWS?

It’s almost 20 years since Ireland’s first offshore windfarm came into operation. By today’s standards, the 2004 Arklow Bank windpark is a tiddler, generating just 25MW of electricity, but then... Read more »

Pillars of Society

Anne Harris

Pillars of Society

PROFILE: ANNE HARRIS

THE IRISH TIMES prides itself as leading debate on the big issues of the day and down the years has acted as the vanguard... Read more »

The Young Bloods

Angela Scanlon

The Young Bloods

YOUNG BLOOD: ANGELA SCANLON

IT MAY once have sacked her from a high-profile gig but RTÉ has certainly shown faith in the gobby Angela Scanlon by giving her... Read more »

Fit to Print?

King Charles

Fit to Print?

DEFENDER OF THE FAITH

THERE WAS much joyous comment in the media – Irish as well as British – at the “inclusive” character of the coronation of King Charles III. This was reflected by... Read more »
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Fit to Print?

LUCINDA’S MESSAGE TO MELONI

DOES A recent Business Post column by Lucinda Creighton on Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni indicate that EU conservatives are ready to accept the rehabilitation of the far right? Lucinda... Read more »
Jennifer O'Connell

Fit to Print?

PALE, MALE AND ‘IT’

It took Irish Times editor Ruadhán Mac Cormaic some 48 hours to explain who, what, where and how the newspaper’s website ran an absurd opinion piece last week, but in... Read more »

Last Refuge

Simon Harris

Last Refuge

CONTENDERS CIRCLE VARADKAR

THE FEAR of an unseemly power struggle being displayed in public is one reason for the paralysis in Fine Gael over increasingly poor poll figures since Leo Varadkar reassumed leadership... Read more »
Robert Watt

Last Refuge

WATT’S PUBLIC SPENDING CONTROLS

While many politicians and commentators have been falling over themselves to characterise health department secretary general Robert Watt as “dismissive”, “cocky”, “combative” or  “arrogant”, civil service insiders have been perusing copies of... Read more »
Leo Varadkar

Last Refuge

LEO SWINGING TO THE LEFT?

Fine Gael’s staunch defence of the publicly owned Irish rail system against the EU’s Railway Directive continues to raise eyebrows in many quarters. For a party ideologically dedicated to market... Read more »
Sean Sherlock

Last Refuge

SINN FÉIN ‘UNITY’ IN CORK EAST

THE CORK EAST constituency was the scene of one of the triggers that provoked a rash of stories about ‘bullying’ by sensitive Sinn Féin members who found themselves competing with... Read more »

Hush Hush

Douglas Hurd

Hush Hush

MI6 SEEN BUT NOT HURD

Sir Simon McDonald, the former boss of the British Foreign Office, has just released his memoirs, Leadership: Lessons from a Life in Diplomacy. Unfortunately, he has landed himself in hot... Read more »
Aidan Minnock

Hush Hush

FRONTEX TOOLS UP FOR ACTION

Recently the 2023 budget of Frontex, the European border and coast guard agency, was released and lay bare the hundreds of millions of euros to be spent not only on... Read more »

Bog Cuttings

Bog-Cuttings-Defaul

Bog Cuttings

BOG CUTTINGS

NOT IN THE BIBLE A BALLYBOFEY man appearing before Letterkenny District Court, after failing to pay a parking fine, told Judge Éiteáin Cunningham that he didn’t pay up as Donegal... Read more »

Fowl Emissions

Alice Mary Higgins

Fowl Emissions

ENVIRONMENTAL ‘EXPERTS’

Once the favourite punch-bag of environmentalists, the semi-state Bord na Móna (BnaM)has morphed from the bog-destroying climate villain to the squeaky new corporation that is, in its own words, working... Read more »
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Fowl Emissions

MILK BILL

The free-spending National Dairy Council (NDC) – a private, farmer-owned marketing company – has not been seeing eye to eye with the Revenue Commissioners of late. According to its 2021... Read more »

The Hot Air Brigade

Ruadhan Mac Cormaic

The Hot Air Brigade

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

If a good newspaper is a nation talking to itself, the Opinion section is where much of that talking happens. Irish Times editor Ruadhán Mac Cormaic in his apology about... Read more »

High Society

Yvonne Deeney

High Society

YVONNE DEENEY’S DES RES

IT WAS reported by the Sunday Times earlier this month that Natalia Sutherland – daughter of former Goldman Sachs chairman Peter ‘Suds’ Sutherland – and her hubby, finance suit Paul... Read more »
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High Society

SHARON KEEGAN’S FANS

THERE WAS yet more valuable publicity for Sharon Keegan of the Peachylean athleisure brand last weekend, with the Business Post reporting that she is planning to expand across the Atlantic.... Read more »
Tresillian House

High Society

MERCURY RISING

THE PROPERTY section of the Irish Times carried a suitably bloated article last week puffing up the proposed sale of an impressive Victorian pile on Silchester Road in Glenageary. At... Read more »

Behind the Scenes

The cover of ‘Beginnings’

Behind the Scenes

CREATIVE DIFFERENCES

GOLDHAWK WAS struck by the rather glossy-looking Beginnings, a book commissioned by the Art Council to mark 40 years of artists’ organisation Aosdána, where the current membership of the toscaireacht... Read more »
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Behind the Scenes

FAREWELL

SO, FAREWELL then The Drama Academy Development Company (DADC) in Trinity College. While a separate company, which is behind the high-profile Lir drama academy, is still very much treading the... Read more »

Sport of Kings

Rachael Blackmore

Sport of Kings

BLACKMORE’S TACTICS

STAR JOCKEY Rachael Blackmore is clearly the leading lady of Irish racing but she fluffed her lines at Kilbeggan last week. Blackmore was riding the Louise Lyons-trained Lady Rita in... Read more »
Eddie Ahern

Sport of Kings

EDDIE AHERN’S COMEBACK

EDDIE AHERN, the champion apprentice jockey in Ireland in 1997, who has been banned from riding for the last 10 years, is set to re-apply for his jockey’s licence. Tipperary-born... Read more »
Des McDonagh

Sport of Kings

UNDER STARTER’S ORDERS

BEING A national hunt race starter can be an unenviable position, given that trying to get upwards of 25 adrenaline-fuelled horses and jockeys to line up in a calm and... Read more »
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Sport of Kings

JESSICA HANDICAPS THE HANDICAPPERS

IT WAS the handicappers rather than the starters who featured at an appeal hearing last week chaired by barrister Ian Whelan, which resulted in a win for trainer Jessica Harrington.... Read more »

Reviews

Charlene McKenna

Reviews

CLEAN SWEEP – RTÉ ONE

HAVING ENJOYED an unusual level of critical and audience appreciation for gangster series Kin, RTÉ is back on familiar territory with Clean Sweep. The plodding ‘thriller’ stars Peaky Blinders’ Charlene... Read more »

Moneybags

Sean Corkery

Moneybags

CORKERY LEADS DATALEX INTO TURBULENCE

THIS IS not the first time that the accounts for airline software outfit Datalex have left Moneybags scratching his head. This time, the outturn is so bad that it borders... Read more »
Stephen Garvey

Moneybags

GLENVEAGH HOMES SHARE PRICE HIDES PROGRESS

DESPITE THE fact that Stephen Garvey’s Glenveagh Properties only kicked off in October 2017, two years after Cairn Homes, the former has managed to more or less catch up, completing... Read more »

The Hot Water Brigade

Paddy Cosgrave

The Hot Water Brigade

RIO BRAVO

GOLDHAWK WAS struck by the coverage in the Business Post earlier this month of Paddy Cosgrave’s latest Web Summit (WS) shindig – in Rio no less, the first time the... Read more »
Rita Crosbie

The Hot Water Brigade

RITA CROSBIE’S BATTLES

GOOD NEWS for Rita Crosbie (Harry’s missus), with Dublin City Council having given the thumbs up for two retail kiosks on Grand Canal Square, despite significant local opposition from the... Read more »
Siobhan Tighe

The Hot Water Brigade

SIOBHÁN TIGHE’S LEISURELY LIQUIDATION

A COMPANY called Coral Leisure Askeaton Ltd has just collapsed into liquidation, which must have come as something of a surprise to followers of Siobhán Tighe’s “leading leisure and energy... Read more »
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The Hot Water Brigade

O’KANE FAMILY’S FORESTS

ELSEWHERE IN this issue (see p18), Goldhawk takes a look at the sale price changes associated with a valuable Foxrock house owned by the O’Kane family of Mercury Engineering fame.... Read more »
Florence Pugh

The Hot Water Brigade

PLOT TWIST FOR FILM PRODUCERS

IRELAND’S ASSORTED movie moguls, still high on this year’s awards season, will have plenty to chew over after reading the Oireachtas budgetary oversight committee’s report on the film tax relief... Read more »