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Sean Clancy Livex

Affairs of the Nation

‘A EUROPEAN ARMY — GETTING CLOSE’

A DEAFENING silence from the media and its normally enthusiastic security correspondents surrounds the European Union’s first ever live military exercise – near Cadiz in southern Spain – that included... 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

NOT EMUSED

THE FINAL page has been turned on the story of the multimillion-euro collapse of Irish TV tech outfit Emuse. Liquidator Joseph Walsh has called the final creditors’ meeting for the... Read more »
Siofra O'Leary

Affairs of the Nation

SIGHTS SET ON STRASBOURG

THE FIRST ever female president of the European Court of Human Rights (EHCR), Síofra O’Leary, was the subject of a glowing profile in the Business Post last month, with the... Read more »

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Leo Varadkar Irish Foreign Policy

Affairs of the Nation

DEMOCRATIC WEST

A FAVOURITE argument of Leo Varadkar and Micheál Martin is that the Russians have a stranglehold over Irish foreign policy because they can block any motion on the UN Security... Read more »
Peter Vandermeersch Mediahuis Newsbrands Ireland

Affairs of the Nation

MEDIA WAR ERUPTS

PHOENIX READERS will be familiar with the secession of Belgian multinational Mediahuis – the biggest media group in Ireland by far – from Newsbrands Ireland, the newspaper lobby group that... Read more »
Moore McDowell

Affairs of the Nation

MOORE McDOWELL’S ‘CONFLICT’

THERE WAS quite a setback last month in the High Court for private hospital entrepreneur Shay Sweeney in his (very) long-running case against health insurer VHI, which has been in... Read more »
Norman Crowley

Affairs of the Nation

STORMIN’ NORMAN’S HEADLINES

FAIR PLAY to Stormin’ Norman Crowley – he has the promotion of his Cool Planet brand down to a fine art. The latest example of his ability to generate headlines... Read more »
Charlie McConalogue

Affairs of the Nation

DODGY DUBLIN DECLARATION

IN OCTOBER 2022 Teagasc, the state agriculture research agency, hosted a conference of meat industry activists. Arising from this, the so-called ‘Dublin Declaration’ was issued. Since then, this one-page declaration... Read more »
Jimmy Savile

Affairs of the Nation

JIMMY SAVILE AND TED HEATH

Steve Coogan has earned plaudits for his unnerving portrayal of the late Jimmy Savile, the notorious BBC celebrity and child sex abuser. The late Ted Heath, the former UK prime... Read more »

Pillars of Society

Terry Prone

Pillars of Society

PROFILE: TERRY PRONE

THE QUEEN of public relations in Ireland, Terry Prone, has just published a select compilation of events amounting to an autobiography entitled Caution to... Read more »

The Young Bloods

Conor McGuinness

The Young Bloods

YOUNG BLOOD: CONOR MCGUINNESS

WITH Sinn Féin continuing to ride high in the opinion polls, the party is now getting down to the serious business of preparing candidates... Read more »

Fit to Print?

Alan English David Quinn

Fit to Print?

ISRAEL’S MEDIA CHAMPIONS

THE SUNDAY INDEPENDENT’S new columnist, David Quinn, has been regurgitating all the disingenuous clichés about Israel’s critics being anti-Semitic, Hamas using people as human shields and denials that Israel deliberately... 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?

STEPHEN RAE’S SETTLEMENT

A LONG-RUNNING High Court defamation case taken by the former editor-in-chief of Independent News & Media (INM) titles, Stephen Rae, against then Sunday Times journalist Mark Tighe and RTÉ has... Read more »
Paul Williams

Fit to Print?

‘DISAPPEARED’ HACK

THERE WAS much revelry and mutual congratulation at Dublin’s Sugar Club to mark the 50th anniversary of the Sunday Worst in conjunction with Nicola Tallant’s Crime World event. “To celebrate... Read more »

Last Refuge

Micheal Martin

Last Refuge

NATO AND ‘IRISH TIMES’ ADULTS

THERE WERE two types of media reaction to Dame Louise Richardson’s recent report of Micheál Martin’s forum on international security. One was to play it down to virtual non-existence; the... Read more »
Rory O'Connor

Last Refuge

CLONGOWES WOOD ‘IRREGULARS’

As the Decade of Centenaries comes to a close there seems to be a bit of unfinished business and even a hint of Civil War recrimination, although mercifully without any... Read more »
Alan Dillon

Last Refuge

ALAN DILLON KEEPS TABS ON TUBS

THE NEW chairman of the Fine Gael parliamentary party, Alan Dillon, is also leas chathaoirleach of the joint committee on media and a member of the Dáil Public Accounts Committee.... Read more »
Eoghan Harris

Last Refuge

EOGHAN HARRIS IS BACK

DUBLIN UNIONISTS are called to a small room in Buswell’s Hotel on November 8 to discuss ‘Irish Protestant minority experiences’. There, northern unionists and Eoghan Harris, a faithful southern friend,... Read more »

Hush Hush

Bog Cuttings

Bog-Cuttings-Defaul

Bog Cuttings

BOG CUTTINGS

CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM A Letterkenny man who appeared before Letterkenny District Court charged with two public order offences was fined €250 by Judge Éiteáin Cunningham. The first charge related to... Read more »

Fowl Emissions

Tim Lombard

Fowl Emissions

LOMBARD SMITES ZEALOTS

Environmental “zealots” are putting lives at risk by objecting to flood defences, declared Fine Gael senator Tim Lombard in the wake of the catastrophe that hit Midleton last month. The... 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

Fowl Emissions

ZUCKERBERG’S SUNSHINE

The prospect of our homes, schools, cars and more being powered by the sun’s clean energy is one genuinely feel-good story that should help drive the green transition. Last year... Read more »

The Hot Air Brigade

Karlin Lillington

The Hot Air Brigade

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

The resignation this week of Web Summit chief executive Paddy Cosgrave somehow managed to be both startling and utterly predictable at the same time, not unlike Cosgrave himself. He’s always... Read more »

High Society

High Society

Rachel Flynn Nobo

High Society

RACHEL FLYNN’S CHOCOLATE DROP

In August last year, Hilliard Lombard and David McKernan’s food investment firm, BiaVest, pumped €700,000 into Nobó, the vegan ice cream and chocolate operation... Read more »

High Society

Kaz and Sophie Balinski-Jundzill

High Society

COUNT KAZ AND THE REFUGEES

THE LOW-profile loaded Count Kazimierz ‘Kaz’ Balinski-Jundzill raised his head last week to challenge a plan by the state to house 950 Ukrainians on... Read more »

Behind the Scenes

Orlaith McBride NAI

Behind the Scenes

ORLAITH McBRIDE’S ARCHIVES

INTERESTING TO see that arts and culture minister Catherine Martin found time last week to drop into the €2.4m pa National Archives of Ireland (NAI) premises on Bishop Street in... 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

BIENNALE BOO-BOO

IT LOOKS like the Arts Council and Culture Ireland got a little ahead of themselves earlier this year when they advertised for expressions of interest from architect types to represent... Read more »

Sport of Kings

Michael O'Leary

Sport of Kings

O’LEARY TAKES OFF AGAIN

THE 2019 claim by Mick O’Leary that he was winding down his huge string of jumps horses and quitting going racing looks a pretty long shot today. While the Ryanair... Read more »
Oisin Murphy

Sport of Kings

WHIPPING UP A STORM

OISIN MURPHY has made more than a decent fist of rebuilding his career after serving a well-documented 14-month ban from riding that he picked up last year. But he could... Read more »

Moneybags

Moneybags

Jim Joyce

Moneybags

WRITING WAS ON THE WALL FOR HEALTHBEACON

BACK IN January last year, Moneybags expressed concern about Jim Joyce’s medtech outfit, HealthBeacon, which had just floated off at €5.85 a share (see... Read more »

Moneybags

Larry Goodman BOE

Moneybags

BARRYROE OILFIELD SAGA FAR FROM OVER

BEEF-BARON-turned-oil-explorer Larry Goodman knows a good thing when he sees it. His move to gain control of Barryroe Offshore Exploration (BOE) is clearly based... Read more »

The Hot Water Brigade

Niall Quinn

The Hot Water Brigade

NIALL QUINN’S TACTICS

CONGRATULATIONS TO former Irish goal-scoring machine Niall Quinn and his missus, Gillian, who have joined the movers and shakers by purchasing a rather large apartment in the K Club development.... Read more »
India Mullen Vanishing Triangle

The Hot Water Brigade

‘VANISHING TRIANGLE’ SIGHTED

FANS OF Goldhawk will be familiar with Virgin Media TV’s (VMTV) ‘missing’ drama series, The Vanishing Triangle – a six-part effort from Ivan Kavanagh and Annmarie Naughton’s Park Films based... Read more »
Brid Cannon

The Hot Water Brigade

AMNESTY’S CAMPAIGN WOES

GIVEN THE turmoil in the Middle East, it is not surprising that Amnesty International Ireland (AII) has been extra busy, for example through its central role in the Irish Anti-Apartheid... Read more »
COLM WU

The Hot Water Brigade

COLM WU’S TAXING MATTERS

IT LOOKS like 2023 is ending with Goldhawk’s old friend, hospitality operator Colm ‘Bo Vision’ Wu, on the back foot, just as he ended 2022. Next week, no less than... Read more »