Affairs of the Nation

Mary Lou McDonald Sinn Féin Election

Affairs of the Nation

MARY LOU’S POST MORTEM

FOLLOWING ITS dreadful local election results, Sinn Féin members believed that the outcome of the internal battle over policies and electoral strategy would depend on just who Mary Lou McDonald... 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

SHARK HANLON’S ROUGH RIDE

A VIDEO of an uncovered dead horse in an open builder’s trailer, which was being towed by John ‘Shark’ Hanlon’s Boylesports-sponsored horse box to a factory for disposal, went viral... 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

FRANCES RUANE’S TIMING

WHILE THE Abbey Theatre’s most famous Broadway hit of modern times, Brian Friel’s Tony award-winning Dancing at Lughnasa, is about to be produced by the Gate Theatre at the far... Read more »

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Dana Erlich Killarney

Affairs of the Nation

KILLARNEY’S GAZA STANCE

THE ISRAELI government will surely appreciate that it has finally and completely lost the global propaganda war when it receives a report from its ambassador, Dana Erlich, about the goings-on... Read more »
Sean Clancy Defence Forces Tribunal

Affairs of the Nation

NEW C/S FACES FIGHT

OUTRAGE AT soldiers’ violence against women and the lenient treatment many have received on conviction will have strengthened the hands of reformists in the Defence Forces. So will the Defence... Read more »
Peter Wedderburn

Affairs of the Nation

PETER WEDDERBURN’S BARK

WITH THE Dog Control Stakeholder Group set to meet this week to “prioritise” the issue of restricted dog breeds, the ante has been significantly upped by the minister responsible, Heather... Read more »
John Byrne

Affairs of the Nation

JOHN BYRNE’S BLINKERS

PROPERTY MONEYBAGS John Byrne – the new chairman of the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) – thanked “all those race-day staff and volunteers who commit to upholding the integrity of... 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

ALL IN GOOD TASTE

LAST WEEK Merrion Square finally fully reopened to Dublin’s citizens after nearly three weeks of severe restrictions, which were put in place so the Dublin City Council-controlled public space could... Read more »
Patrick Crinnion Charlie Haughey

Affairs of the Nation

MI6, HAUGHEY AND THE MAFIA

AN UPCOMING book on British intelligence in Ireland, The Puppet Masters, includes new material on Patrick Crinnion of Garda intelligence, who worked for MI6 in the 1960s and early 1970s.... Read more »
Sean White

Affairs of the Nation

BIG JOBS FOR BIG IRISH SOLDIERS

FOLLOWING THE appointment of Defence Forces chief of staff Seán Clancy as the first Irish chairman of the EU Military Committee, Irish ex-officer Seán White was appointed by the European... Read more »
Kate O'Connell Emma Blain

Affairs of the Nation

BLUE-BLOUSE BATTLES

GOLDHAWK REPORTED in the last edition on the two Dublin Bay South (DBS) Fine Gael personalities, ex-TD Kate O’Connell and newly elected councillor Emma Blain, who hoped to stand here... Read more »

Pillars of Society

Brid Smith

Pillars of Society

PROFILE: BRÍD SMITH

RECENT ELECTIONS stimulated much discussion about the centre-right, far-right, centre-left, Sinn Féin and so on, but very little about the small but sometimes significant... Read more »

The Young Bloods

Lottie Ryan

The Young Bloods

YOUNG BLOOD: LOTTIE RYAN

When she was announced last month as the new face of afternoon radio on 2FM, it seemed that Lottie Ryan was living proof of the... Read more »

Fit to Print?

Tom Lyons The Currency

Fit to Print?

IAN KEHOE’S ‘CURRENCY’ RATE

SIGNS ARE that Tom Lyons and Ian Kehoe, joint owners of digital financial publication the Currency, are intent on selling their company, judging by the recent release of its figures... Read more »
Diageo Dana An Garda Síochána IT Trust No Stone Unturned Irish Times Black Friday Vicky Conway

Fit to Print?

CLARE DALY AND THE ‘IT’

IS THE Irish Times worried that many readers recognise that its hounding of Dublin MEP Clare Daly helped to unseat her and nearly led to the election of new-right candidate... Read more »
Peter Vandermeersch

Fit to Print?

MEDIAHUIS SHEDS HACKS

AS MEDIAHUIS continues to cut a swathe through its workforce, the genial, soft-spoken Mediahuis chief executive, Peter Vandermeersch, has been issuing soothing statements coupled with financial warnings about inadequate revenue... Read more »

Last Refuge

Pippa Hackett

Last Refuge

GREEN ENTITLEMENT

GREEN SENATOR Pippa Hackett and her co-conspirators – senators Pauline O’Reilly (party chair) and Róisín Garvey – will likely be seen off by rival leadership contender Roderic O’Gorman, but the... 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

TIMMY DOOLEY’S DELIGHT

IT’S REFRESHING in these times of political hand-to-hand fighting and abuse of – and between – politicians to note the fraternal expression of great joy from Clare Fianna Fáil senator... Read more »
Jack Chambers

Last Refuge

DUBLIN DANGER FOR FIANNA FÁIL

MICHEÁL MARTIN’S appointment of Jack Chambers as finance minister and also as deputy leader of Fianna Fáil, a post that had been vacant for four years, was doubtless a recognition... Read more »
Helen McEntee D-M

Last Refuge

GARDA BUGGERS

TD RICHARD Boyd Barrett hauled justice minister Helen McEntee over the coals in the Dáil last week regarding Garda surveillance of the survivors and families of those butchered during the... Read more »

Hush Hush

Derek Blighe John McGuirk

Hush Hush

NEW-RIGHT RIFTS

FOLLOWING THE recent elections there has been feverish speculation about how Ireland’s new right could have a significant impact on the Irish political landscape if it could just find a... Read more »

Bog Cuttings

Bog-Cuttings-Defaul

Bog Cuttings

BOG CUTTINGS

HOLDING UP TRAFFIC A man who let a garda know, in no uncertain terms, of his frustration at being asked to produce evidence of insurance was issued a €500 fine... Read more »

Fowl Emissions

Donald Trump Climate

Fowl Emissions

TRUMP ‘HATES’ WIND ENERGY

The EU elections may have been a bad day for the planet, with climate disinformation helping the far right take seats across Europe, but the vista is altogether more appalling... Read more »
Climate Disinformation Coillte Climate Action EU Livestock NDC Claude Etchelamendy Ed Brophy Richard Boyd-Barrett Kish Dale Crammond Frank Mitloehner Shell Greenwashing Meta Data Centres Ireland

Fowl Emissions

THE EARL AND THE ENVIRONMENTALISTS

Nicholas Ashley-Cooper, 12th Earl of Shaftesbury, has never lived in Ireland but has managed to hang on to a colonial inheritance – ownership of the bed of Lough Neagh. This... Read more »

The Hot Air Brigade

Ken Early

The Hot Air Brigade

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

To travel by train is to see a textbook case of neoliberal capitalism’s endgame. Football hack Ken Early’s, er, interesting take on at Euro 2024 in Germany, Irish Times Like... Read more »

High Society

High Society

Neville Eagers Crystal Black

High Society

NEVILLE EAGER’S ASCOT OUTING

THERE WAS significant success in Royal Ascot last week for the syndicate owners of a horse called Crystal Black, which is trained by Ger... Read more »

High Society

Mary Keane

High Society

SUCCEEDING MARY KEANE AT THE NGI

NEXT MONTH marks the end of the term of Mary Keane as chairwoman of the National Gallery of Ireland (NGI). The vacancy should not... Read more »

High Society

Lansdowne Place Joe O'Reilly

High Society

DEEP D4 PROPERTY POCKETS

DEVELOPER Joe O’Reilly must be delighted with the Irish Times giving a plug to his swanky Lansdowne Place apartment scheme in Ballsbridge. The paper reported that a three-bed penthouse has... Read more »

Behind the Scenes

Lucy Ryan Smock Alley Theatre

Behind the Scenes

SMOCK ALLEY’S PATHWAY

ACCOUNTS SIGNED off this month for Smock Alley Theatre (SAT) in Temple Bar make clear the state of affairs that has seen Dublin City Council (DCC) moving in to take... 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

BOXED OFFICE

THE DREADFUL home box-office performance of Irish films will be familiar to fans of Goldhawk. Now, research from Crescine, a €4m cinema research project looking at seven small EU states,... Read more »

Sport of Kings

Ed Dunlop David Dunsdon Sarah Lynam Rebecca May Wayne Hassett Eoin O'Brien Michael Burke Aine O’Connor Ashroe Diamond Thomand O’Mara Peter Keatley Timmy Hyde Coolmore All About Sunday Colin Keane Ronan Whelan JP McManus Jessica Harrington Dundalk Racecourse Paul Hensey Irish National Hunt Horse-racing Doping Paddy Walsh Tom Kelly Suspension

Sport of Kings

HASSETT’S ALLOWANCE

PUNTERS WHO backed John ‘Minella’ Nallen’s Pinball Wizard in Sligo’s Web The Tool Company Handicap on May 15 can feel a little hard done by. Having finished second to Carlo... Read more »
Ado McGuinness

Sport of Kings

ABANDONING ADO

LUSK TRAINER Ado McGuinness, who has been having a quiet season, delivering a 6% strike rate, was dealt a further blow with the announcement that Shamrock Thoroughbreds is removing all... Read more »

Moneybags

Moneybags

Debra Crew

Moneybags

NO TOAST FOR DEBRA CREW AT DIAGEO

IT WAS never going to be easy for the new CEO of Diageo to follow Ivan Menezes’s decade-long reign to June 2023. While his... Read more »

Moneybags

Aminex map

Moneybags

AMINEX SHARES DOUBLE AS TANZANIA HEATS UP

THE LAST five years have been hugely frustrating for Aminex shareholders, who have been waiting for the company to drill its critical third step-out... Read more »

The Hot Water Brigade

Dermot Desmond DIL

The Hot Water Brigade

DERMOT DESMOND’S WINDING UP

A MYSTERIOUS company called Dies Irae Ltd (DIL) – linked to Dermot Desmond’s International Investment and Underwriting (IIU) investment vehicle – has been quietly wound up. It is hard to... Read more »
Trevor White Little Museum of Dublin

The Hot Water Brigade

TREVOR WHITE’S MUSEUM PIECES

READERS OF the Irish Times last week would have noticed a couple of adverts for Trevor White’s very well-funded Little Museum of Dublin (LMD), inviting people to take one of... Read more »
Jamie Kenny

The Hot Water Brigade

PRIDE PAYS

IT WAS surprising to see Dublin Pride festival manager Jamie Kenny going to the trouble of telling Irish Defence Force members and courts services workers that they are not welcome... Read more »
Will Wollen Smock Alley Company

The Hot Water Brigade

DRAMA IN TEMPLE BAR

ELSEWHERE IN this issue (see p17) Goldhawk reports on the ongoing structural changes at the Smock Alley Theatre, which have come about as a result of the financial stresses within... Read more »