Affairs of the Nation

Micheál Martin EUMAM

Affairs of the Nation

‘HUMANITARIAN’ IRISH WAR EFFORT

LAST OCTOBER the then foreign minister and defence minister, Simon Coveney, spoke in humanitarian terms when announcing the plan for Irish Defence Forces’ participation in the EU’s Military Assistance Mission... 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

PETER AIKEN’S SIDE BET

WHILE IMPRESARIO Peter Aiken is currently engaged in a high-profile boundary dispute (see p18), he will have been keeping an eye on the All Together Now festival in Co Waterford.... Read more »

Affairs of the Nation

AUF WIEDERSEHEN WIRECARD

SO FAREWELL then Wirecard Payments Solutions Holdings Ltd, the Irish arm of the uber controversial German outfit, Wirecard AG. It will be finally wound up next week, three years after... Read more »

Affairs of the Nation

Helen McEntee

Affairs of the Nation

HELEN McENTEE PROJECT UNDONE

THE carefully constructed Fine Gael leadership campaign of Helen McEntee was given what appeared to be the kiss of death with her recent walk on the wild side of Dublin’s... Read more »
Katie Prendergast The Scoop Foundation

Affairs of the Nation

KIDS CHARITY SCOOPED!

SO farewell then to The Scoop Foundation (Supporting Children Out Of Poverty), a charity that has just been wound up on foot of its liabilities, despite everything looking hunky-dory just... 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

JOHN ROBERTS’S MENU

A COMPANY linked to Crackbrgr restaurant, owned by John Roberts, is being wound up next week, just a couple of months after the operation opened its doors in Temple Bar.... Read more »
Fergus Appelbe

Affairs of the Nation

GEORGINA’S GOOD NEWS

GOLDHAWK SPOTTED a rather chunky judgment satisfaction registered in Stubbs Gazette this week. The defendant who has had the debt cleared is one Georgina Appelbe and the amount in question... Read more »
Lord Mountbatten Andrew Lownie

Affairs of the Nation

DEEP STATE AND MOUNTBATTEN

Andrew Lownie has been monitoring his social media accounts for at least five years. Files surrendered to him included a flyer about a talk he gave at a bookshop, something... Read more »
Conor Skehan

Affairs of the Nation

NOT-SO-QUIET MAN

As signs of the ever-deepening climate emergency become all but impossible to ignore, some of those voices who have peddled climate denial for years have had to adapt. Chief among... Read more »

Pillars of Society

Michael Fitzmaurice

Pillars of Society

PROFILE – MICHAEL FITZMAURICE

IS THERE anybody in Leinster House who wants to be a minister more than Independent TD Michael Fitzmaurice? The Roscommon turf-cutting contractor recently made... Read more »

The Young Bloods

David McManus

The Young Bloods

YOUNG BLOOD: DAVID MCMANUS

UNEASY LIES the head that wears the crown and uneasy it seems is Fine Gael TD Colm Brophy as he peers over his shoulder... Read more »

Fit to Print?

Mark Tighe

Fit to Print?

‘SLAPPING’ THE MEDIA

GOLDHAWK WAS greatly impressed by the deliberations of various politicians, lawyers and media executives who gathered at the Oireachtas joint committee on justice last month to discuss amendments to the... Read more »
Ivan Yates Nell McCafferty RTÉ Lord Laird Intro Matchmaking NewsBrands Martin McGuinness Dún Laoghaire Pat Leahy Cormac Lucey John Cooney Irish Journalism Awards Steve Aiken Anton Savage John Downing Lucinda Creighton Marina Sologub Eilis O'Hanlon Ian Kehoe Danny McConnell Sindo O'Connor Mediahuis Stephen Collins Book Justine McCarthy Rewriting the Troubles Lynn Ruane Sinn Féin

Fit to Print?

STEVE AIKEN’S BROADSIDE

Steve Aiken, former Ulster Unionist Party leader from 2019 to 2021 and before that a commander on Royal Navy nuclear-powered submarines, launched an attack on Irish neutrality recently in the... Read more »
Timmy Dooley Willie O'Dea

Fit to Print?

O’DEA V DOOLEY

Much media ink – and pixels – have been devoted to Fine Gael justice minister Helen McEntee in recent weeks, with quite a few stories referring to her positioning within... Read more »

Last Refuge

Michael McGrath Micheál Martin Commission

Last Refuge

MICHEÁL MARTIN’S CAREER CURVE

CONSTANT ASSERTIONS by Micheál Martin – repeated at the weekend in a statement to the Sunday Times – that he will lead Fianna Fáil into the next election have long... Read more »
Michael O'Flynn

Last Refuge

O’FLYNN’S HOUSING ‘GUIDELINE’

THE SPLIT on the Government’s Housing Commission sees one side, led by developer Michael O’Flynn, arguing that a housing referendum should be more of a guideline than a hard imperative.... Read more »
Janice Boylan 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

GENERAL CLANCY’S CALL

THE DEFENCE Forces chief of staff, Lieutenant General Seán Clancy, made quite a statement at the recent unveiling of a monument to honour the national army dead in the Civil... Read more »
Ossian Smyth Bank of Ireland

Last Refuge

CLIMATE-FRIENDLY BANKS

LISTENERS TO RTÉ’s Morning Ireland awoke last week to the sound of Bank of Ireland’s new CEO, Myles O’Grady, reading a statement about how the bank’s new strategy, Refresh, had... Read more »

Northwind

Jeffrey Donaldson

Northwind

DONALDSON’S TRIMBLE MOMENT

Former UUP leader Reg, now Lord, Empey says DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson is “approaching his David Trimble moment”. By that he means Donaldson is going to have to make a... Read more »

Hush Hush

Justin Barrett National Party

Hush Hush

CHASING AFTER FOOL’S GOLD

The surreal nature of the crisis enveloping the National Party (NP) began with the revelation of the €400,000 worth of gold bars stored in vaults in Dublin 4, before competing... Read more »

Bog Cuttings

Bog-Cuttings-Defaul

Bog Cuttings

BOG CUTTINGS

101 CONVICTIONS CORK DISTRICT Court heard the case of Patrick Fennelly, who had 101 previous convictions and was charged with two public order offences. The 51-year-old defendant, of Charlemont Terrace,... Read more »

Fowl Emissions

Wes Edens Climate Camp

Fowl Emissions

CLIMATE CAMP POLITICS

Ireland’s first Climate Camp in 2009 pitched up beside the peat-burning power station at Shannonbridge. The plant has since shut. In 2010 they protested against a planned new road in... Read more »

The Hot Air Brigade

Gerry Thornley

The Hot Air Brigade

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Yet this glass ceiling has become a monkey around the necks of Irish teams, and seemingly with increasing weight. What’s more, it is used as a stick to beat over... Read more »

High Society

High Society

Mary Aiken

High Society

MARY AIKEN’S NEIGHBOURS

INTERESTING TO see that concert promoter extraordinaire Peter Aiken and his wife, Mary, are suing their Howth neighbours, Moya Doherty and John McColgan and... 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

NEIL JORDAN’S PLOT

FILMMAKER TURNED novelist Neil Jordan has been generating plenty of media hype for his latest buke, The Well of Saint Nobody. He might also... Read more »

High Society

Ann Corcoran

High Society

ANN’S CHINESE PUZZLE

THE IMPRESSIVE Cambridge House on Cambridge Road in Rathmines has come on the market with a €3.5m price tag. Until recently, this late Victorian detached pile was owned by high-flyers... Read more »

Behind the Scenes

Susan Bergin

Behind the Scenes

FILM BOARD’S DIVERSE CAST

TO THE surprise of absolutely no one, arts minister Catherine Martin has yet to fill two seats on the Screen Ireland (SI) board, which have been empty for three months.... Read more »
Tailored Films Screen Ireland Perspectives DCCI Crescine Tarka Russell Lara Hickey Reality Check Sarah McInerney Irish Movies Paul Murray Arts Council Dublin Theatre Festival TWU Macdara Kelleher Richard Boyd Barrett DADC Cillian Murphy Terry McMahon Media Commission Ireland Kerlin Gallery Creative Ireland Section 481 Christine O’Donovan RTÉ Storyland NMI Board Vacancies IASCA Ossie Kilkenny RTÉ Original Programmes

Behind the Scenes

COVENEY’S NEW CHAIR

UNLIKE SCREEN Ireland, whose board members receive not a cent in fees, the directors of the Design and Crafts Council of Ireland (DCCI) are paid €7,000 for their eight meetings... Read more »

Sport of Kings

Fahad Al Thani Saleh Al Homaizi

Sport of Kings

SHEIKH FAHAD’S BARGAIN

IT WAS around this time last year that British bloodstock agent Richard Knight began his $20m spending spree at yearling sales in Ireland, England, France and the US on behalf... Read more »
Cathal Byrnes Gearoid Brouder

Sport of Kings

CATHAL BYRNES BRISTLES

WHEN THE referrals committee of the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) ruled that jockey Gearoid Brouder had tested positive for a metabolite of cocaine and suspended his licence for four... Read more »

Moneybags

Moneybags

Eric Born Gavin Slark

Moneybags

MARKET STILL CONFUSED BY GRAFTON’S STRATEGY

AS GAVIN Slark was in situ as Grafton Group CEO until November 2022, he has the bulk of responsibility for where the company now... Read more »

Moneybags

Kirill Golovanov

Moneybags

WAITING ON OVOCA BIO’S BLOCKBUSTER DRUG

AS AN Irish company now dominated by Russian shareholders, Ovoca Bio has been badly impacted by the Ukraine war and CEO Kirill Golovanov has... Read more »

Brief Cases

PJ Lynch Nyhan Brothers

Brief Cases

THE BUTCHERS’ CUT

IT HAS been a long time coming but Goldhawk’s favourite butchers, brothers Sean and Paul Nyhan, are set to be restricted from acting as company directors following a decade of... Read more »
Jackie Owens

Brief Cases

JACKIE’S FLAG WAVING

WHEN KATEO Investments Ltd, owner of the Thomas Moore Inn on Aungier Street in D2, applied to Dublin City Council for permission to retain a number of flag poles outside... Read more »
ZMG Cyril Murphy Newbridge College Peter Wilson Sporting Emporium Chris Wholey O'Kane God’s Creatures Film Tax Relief Anne Rossi Desmond Live Nation ESCADIA LTD Al Porter Comeback Gordon Elliott Clayton Love Ivan Wilde hot-water-brigade Parnells GAA Lawsuit

Brief Cases

PETER WILSON’S DOG FIGHT

SOME BAD news for The Black Dog Communications, run by Peter Wilson, which provides billing services for “dating, psychic or adult chat” lines, amongst others. Black Dog had already been... Read more »
Rafal Strzelecki

Brief Cases

BEYOND SAVING

THIS WEEK a creditors’ meeting will be held for the impressive sounding CashDirector EU Ltd, a digital business service provider that was incorporated three years ago by Polish suit Rafal... Read more »
Neil Hughes Martin O'Dowd

Brief Cases

NURSING THEIR WOUNDS

A TAX judgment has been registered against a company called Eldabane Properties Ltd (EPL), which was involved in the development of a nursing home in Co Roscommon. The two main... Read more »