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August 25 - September 7, 2023
Affairs of the Nation
IRISH ‘NON-LETHAL’ NEUTRALITY
SOONER OR later ministers were going to trip themselves up with contradictory and meaningless rhetoric about Irish neutrality being compatible with offering political, financial and military support alongside Nato and... Read more »
LEAVING LISTOWEL WRITERS’ WEEK
THE FUN and games continue at Listowel Writers’ Week where a new programme director is about to be announced following exit of the first ever professional curator after just one... Read more »
FARRELLY’S PROFILE TAKES OFF
WHILE MICK O’Leary’s almost comical levels of indignation continue to feature regularly in the media, one person who might be enjoying the pantomime is Fingal County Council boss Ann-Marie Farrelly.... Read more »
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The Evolution of Company Secretaries: Navigating Governance in a Dynamic Landscape
Nadine Conlon, President, The Chartered Governance Institute UK & Ireland In the past decade, the role of the company secretary has undergone a remarkable transformation, evolving from a technical... Read more »
EDITING THE JOURNALISM AWARDS
THE 2023 Irish Journalism Awards are being organised by an amalgamation of NewsBrands Ireland and its new partners in this endeavour, Google News Initiative and the Press Council of Ireland.... Read more »
CAPTAINS AND THE KINGS
EFFORTS TO create a Houses for Heroes memorial to WWI soldiers in the Dublin suburb of Killester, led by local resident Aaron Crampton, have been stalled by Dublin City Council... Read more »
HANDICAPPING BRENDAN DUKE
THERE WAS a lot of discussion off the turf last week in relation to the attempted eviction from his Fenway House property in Co Kildare of well-liked trainer Brendan Duke.... Read more »
HORSING AROUND IN THE FOUR GOLDMINES
GOLDHAWK HAS spotted an interesting looking High Court action that has been lodged by an outfit called Studbook Development Ireland Ltd (SDI), which operates a studbook for the Irish warmblood... Read more »
IRISH FREEDOM PARTY ‘FAKE NEWS’
PRESS OMBUDSMAN Susan McKay recently ruled on a complaint from Hermann Kelly, leader of the Irish Freedom Party. It was Kelly’s fifth complaint in the last few years. It related... Read more »
McGURK’S BAR COVER-UP
WHILE THE British government is holding a judicial inquiry into the Real IRA’s bombing of Omagh – death toll 29 – the McGurk’s bar bomb of 1971, which claimed 15... Read more »
Pillars of Society
PROFILE: IAN KEHOE
IN A little under two months the latterly eventful five-year term of Ian Kehoe as a member and deputy chair of the RTÉ board... Read more »
The Young Bloods
YOUNG BLOOD: JENNY KEANE
“HOLISTIC SEX educator” and tantric yoga instructor Jenny Keane has proven adept at garnering media attention ever since she launched herself on to the... Read more »
Coillte : Positioning Wood as the Sustainable Building Material of the Future
Coillte‘s forestry strategic vision aims to balance and deliver the multiple benefits of its forests for climate, nature, wood, and people. This is a long-term vision that will see... Read more »
Fit to Print?
SEE NO EVIL, PRINT NO EVIL
THE COMPLICITY of the media in largely failing to highlight clerical child abuse unless it is perpetrated by Catholic clergy has recently been exposed yet again (see below). This sectarian... Read more »
TUBS’S IMMODEST SUCCESSOR
MOST NEWSPAPERS could not resist listing the contenders to replace Ryan Tubridy in his radio morning slot and most were relatively objective in their assessments. Of the weekend’s Sunday Independent,... Read more »
Last Refuge
BLUESHIRT LAW LIBRARY REVOLT
JUNIOR ENTERPRISE minister Neale Richmond will not have been pleased at being described by Fine Gael spin doctors as the person responsible for the cancellation of last October’s Business Breakfast... Read more »
SIMON HARRIS’S TACTICS
IF RESENTFUL Fine Gael colleagues really believe that Simon Harris leaks like a sieve, they should have a word with Mediahuis political hack Philip Ryan. Philip recently got a scoop... Read more »
MULTI-TASKING DARA MURPHY
NEWS WINGS its way to Goldhawk of the revitalised political and military career in European circles of former Fine Gael minister Dara Murphy, who like many whose talents were unappreciated... Read more »
SUMMER SELECTION
ONE SUMMER school the Irish Times won’t be covering is the 33rd Desmond Greaves Summer Weekend School at the Irish Institute, 27 Pearse Street, Dublin 2, from September 1-3. The... Read more »
THE COSTELLOS’ LABOUR LEGACY
A GLOWING political obituary of former Labour minister Joe Costello was delivered from the appropriate pulpit of the Irish Times last week. The lengthy article covering Costello’s political career of... Read more »
Hush Hush
O’DUFFY LIVES!
For years one of the most controversial far-right summer schools has been the American Renaissance (AR) conference, organised by the New Century Foundation (NCF). This year one of the eight... Read more »
Bog Cuttings
BOG CUTTINGS
OH BROTHER A 34-year-old man pleaded guilty, though in absentia due to being sentenced to five months behind bars the week previous, to charges of engaging in threatening, abusive or... Read more »
Fowl Emissions
MEDIA TURNS ON BIG AGRI
After years of coverage ranging from uncritical to downright fawning, there are clear hints that the Irish media’s love affair with agriculture may finally be cooling. In the Business Post,... Read more »
LIVELY LIVESTOCK
New research has found that livestock farmers in the EU receive around 1,200 times more public funding than plant-based or cultivated meat groups. “Powerful vested interests exerted their political influence... Read more »
The Hot Air Brigade
THE HOT AIR BRIGADE
I seem to have developed a brand online where people think I am a rock of sense. Perhaps it was the straight-talking, factual information I provided during lockdowns about what... Read more »
High Society
SHARON KEEGAN’S SUPPORTERS
LAST MONTH Goldhawk’s favourite athleisure wear seller, Sharon Keegan of Peachylean, gave her tuppenceworth on succeeding in business in an online discussion with “global retail expert” Nicole Higgins, aka The... Read more »
TOM HIGGINS’S COUNTDOWN
NO DOUBT, after the high-profile launch of Virgin Galactic’s (VG) first ever batch of private space tourists earlier this month, Irish space cadet Tom ‘Psychics Live’ Higgins must be getting... Read more »
PETER WHITE’S PROPERTIES
A VERY lengthy renovation project on leafy Wellington Road in D4 has finally concluded. The impressive pile was most closely associated with businessman and one-time restaurateur Peter White, although it... Read more »
Transform Your Outdoor Space with A Room Outside…
Established in 2009 by Liam and Caroline Whelan, A Room Outside has gone from strength to strength to be the leading suppliers of hot tubs, swim spas, outdoor kitchens,... Read more »
Behind the Scenes
CAROLINE DOWNEY’S SHOOTING STAR
INTERESTING TO see a new constitution filed for the unlimited holding company Ronmall, where promoters extraordinaire Denis Desmond and Caroline Downey stash most of their millions. At the same time,... Read more »
Sport of Kings
DUKE’S HEAVY GOING
CURRAGH TRAINER Brendan Duke has an ugly battle on his hands to remain in situ in his rented training yard (see p5). The High Court recently granted him a temporary... Read more »
COOLMORE’S FAMOUS FIVE
FOUR YEARS ago, Swiss billionaire Georg von Opel made some seven-figure purchases of prime horseflesh at Irish sales under his thoroughbred investment vehicle, Westerberg. Most of the deals were made... Read more »
Moneybags
HOSTELWORLD JOURNEYING TOWARDS REAL PROFITABILITY
THE LATEST results from Hostelworld demonstrate that CEO Gary Morrison has been doing an impressive job getting this online travel booking engine back into action. The latest figures, covering the... Read more »
C&C LEAVES A BAD TASTE IN MARKET’S MOUTH
THE C&C group is unique in that it is the only Irish-quoted company whose financial year ends on February 28. In the ordinary way this would not be significant but... Read more »
How To Protect Yourself From the Next Banking Crisis
Dave Russell, CEO, GoldCore Ltd This year 88.5% of respondents to Goldcore‘s annual survey told us that they ‘view owning gold as a way to protect against bank failure.’... Read more »
The Hot Water Brigade
ANNE HERATY’S SAD STOREY
SOME BAD news for Anne Heraty and hubby Paul Carroll, who got a red light from Dublin City Council (DCC) planning officials when seeking an extra floor on their building... Read more »
RUNNING OUT OF ENERGY
IT IS not looking like a great year for energy safety expert Denis Higgins, who is a director of two separate regulatory bodies that lost out on state contracts courtesy... Read more »
SUSAN KIRBY’S HEADACHE
IT TOOK a while – and pickets on the studios in Hollywood by the actors’ union SAG-AFTRA, supported by the likes of Meryl Streep and Matt Damon – but the... Read more »
JOHN MCGUIRK’S AWARDS
THE DEDICATED hacks of Gript, the conservative news website that says it’s an antidote to “the all-pervasive groupthink that exists across most Irish media platforms”, could be forgiven for celebrations... Read more »
FINAN O’DONOGHUE’S HOLIDAY WOES
IT MAY come as a surprise to fans of camping in Europe that a business set up a few years ago to sell increasingly popular outdoor holidays is collapsing into... Read more »
‘Layers of Dublin Port’ Mapped for First Time in New Conservation Strategy
On April 30, Dublin Port Company (DPC) unveiled its inaugural Conservation Strategy, meticulously documenting the layered tapestry of natural, industrial, and cultural heritage within Dublin Port, spanning over three... Read more »
AINTREE ANTICS
WHILE ZILLIONAIRE Geneva tax resident JP McManus won his third Aintree Grand ...
SUSAN O’REILLY’S ‘APPARITION’
A “STUNNING beachfront house hovering over the water in Howth” has attracted ...
MARK GALLAGHER’S €10M MANSION
THE ADVERTISING by Sherry FitzGerald of a redbrick pile on leafy Ailesbury ...
JOHN MAGNIER’S SILAGE
JOHN MAGNIER, obviously not thwarted by the previous rejection of his acts ...
LYRA V BEYONCÉ
IT HAS been hard to avoid Irish singer Laura McNamara (aka Lyra) ...
CATHERINE MARTIN’S LATEST VACANCY
THE RETICENCE of arts and culture minister Catherine Martin when it comes ...
LARA HICKEY’S CLOSE-UP
THE FILM and TV business has long been one where ‘who you ...
TONY’S FAILED APPEAL
THE RECENT overturning by the IHRB appeals panel of the referral committee’s ...
O’BRIEN’S OBSTACLES
While trainer Aidan O’Brien supplied three of the five runners in Leopardstown’s ...
DES McGAHAN’S BOLTHOLE BLUES
GOLDHAWK SPIED yet another glowing report in the Business Post on the ...