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Micheál Martin Irish Neutrality

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 »
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Affairs of the Nation

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 »
AnnMarie Farrelly

Affairs of the Nation

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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Peter Vandermeersch

Affairs of the Nation

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 »
Michael Nugent Aaron Crampton

Affairs of the Nation

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 »
Peter Keatley

Affairs of the Nation

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 »
Ray Brady

Affairs of the Nation

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 »
Hermann Kelly

Affairs of the Nation

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 in rubble

Affairs of the Nation

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

Ian Kehoe

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

Jenny Keane

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 »

Fit to Print?

Dean Victor Griffin Glenn Milne

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 »
Brendan O'Connor Tubridy Radio

Fit to Print?

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

Charlie Flanagan Business Breakfast

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 »
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Last Refuge

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 »
Dara Murphy

Last Refuge

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 »
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

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 »
Marie Sherlock

Last Refuge

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 »

Northwind

Stephen Nolan

Northwind

NOLAN AT THE BBC’S NORTH FACE

The north’s only shock-jock is in trouble. Stephen Nolan, the BBC’s fifth-highest-paid star at around £400,000, has faced a series of accusations in recent weeks including allegations of bullying, circulating... Read more »

Hush Hush

Keith Woods

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-Defaul

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

Fintan O'Toole Ukraine EPA

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 »
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Fowl Emissions

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

Stefanie Preissner

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

High Society

Peachylean Sharon Keegan

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... 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

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... Read more »

High Society

Peter White

High Society

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 »

Behind the Scenes

Lyra Caroline Downey

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

Brendan Duke Fenway House

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 »
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Sport of Kings

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

Moneybags

Gary Morrison

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... Read more »

Moneybags

Patrick McMahon

Moneybags

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... Read more »

Brief Cases

Anne Heraty

Brief Cases

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 »
Eamon Ryan Denis Higgins

Brief Cases

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 Irish Equity

Brief Cases

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

Brief Cases

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

Brief Cases

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 »