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February 9 - February 22, 2024
Affairs of the Nation
IRELAND-US MILITARY ALLIANCE
NOT FOR decades has a Middle East crisis come so close to provoking war on a global scale of East versus West, with Ireland by now virtually dragooned into being... Read more »
MATT COOPER V RTÉ
THE UBIQUITOUS Matt Cooper was taking pops at RTÉ once again last weekend in the Business Post, a pastime neither he nor his editor feels should be qualified by any... Read more »
AUBREY’S ELECTION WAR CHEST
WITH MUCH of the political speculation focused, unsurprisingly, on the possible timing of a general election, one contest that looks set to go ahead is the by-election to determine David... Read more »
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MARY LOU’S BACK YARD MESS
DESPITE THE ascent of Sinn Féin’s northern leader, Michelle O’Neill, to the Stormont summit, Mary Lou McDonald and SF have endured various tribulations down south in recent months. The latest setback... Read more »
GROW UP, SENATORS!
MARK FOLEY, the smooth-talking CEO of Eirgrid, got quite a rude response last week from senators Alice Mary Higgins (Independent) and Lynn Boylan (Sinn Féin) at an Oireachtas climate action... Read more »
THE ‘IT’ ON JOHN BRUTON
In an obit of nearly 2,500 words, the Irish Times devoted just over 200 words to the stewardship of the late John Bruton of the peace process – damning him... Read more »
ALL CHANGE AT GLENCREE CENTRE
JUST WHAT is going on on the board of the publicly funded Glencree Centre for Peace and Reconciliation, where there have been some odd comings and goings? Despite being a... Read more »
PARKER GREEN TRIMMED
A COMPANY with the name of GEI Crystal Ltd has just been wound up by its owners, although it is unlikely that many would recognise the name, given that for... Read more »
PAUL HOURICAN’S NEW HAT
GOLDHAWK’S FAVOURITE landlord, Paul Hourican, is back in action again, with a new company but some of the same old problems. Fans of The Phoenix will be familiar with Hourican’s... Read more »
Pillars of Society
PROFILE: IAN BAILEY
THE DEATH of Ian Bailey, ‘chief suspect’ for the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier in 1996, drew the sort of crowd that sometimes... Read more »
The Young Bloods
YOUNG BLOOD: ANNIE HOEY
FRESH FROM being squeezed out of a Labour Party nomination to stand in the forthcoming European election, can vibrant senator Annie Hoey build on... Read more »
ESB’s Ardnacrusha Power Station Reopens for Free Public Tours This Summer
ESB is once again running guided tours at Ardnacrusha Power Station in Co Clare this summer, offering the public a rare opportunity to explore one of Ireland’s most significant... Read more »
Fit to Print?
POLLS DISTORT REFUGEE ‘CRISIS’
ARE THE ‘quality’ broadsheet Sunday newspapers reflecting the crisis and anger about immigration or are they stimulating it with sensationalist coverage? Scrutiny of recent polls would indicate that sometimes the... Read more »
BASHFUL BRENDAN O’CONNOR
RTÉ PRESENTER and Sindo front-page commentator Brendan O’Connor has turned out to be the shy, retiring type, despite giving the impression of being full of in-your-face braggadocio. And how ironic... Read more »
MARK’S ISRAELI VICTIMS
THE REVIVAL of an Israeli PR blunder – unusual for the well-resourced PR machine of Israel and the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) – was reported in the Irish Times last... Read more »
Last Refuge
REGINA V JOSEPHA V BARRY
THE THREE-CORNERED battle between Fine Gael ex-minister and now senator Regina Doherty, junior education minister Josepha Madigan and senator Barry Ward for the Dublin nomination at the EU election will... Read more »
YOUNG BLUESHIRTS CHAMPION McMANUS
HEALTHY RIVALRY is how Fine Gael councillor David McManus would likely describe a leaflet due to be distributed in his local election area of Rathfarnham-Templeogue this weekend. The leaflet has... Read more »
EARLY ELECTION?
REPETITIVE SPECULATION about an early general election – before the local and EU elections in June – is being argued about among ministers from the three Government parties, according to... Read more »
IRISH FREELOADING ON ‘BRITISH ISLES’
A RECENT report by British think-tank Policy Exchange describes our foreign security policy as “persistent Irish security freeloading” just as “Russia once more poses a maritime threat to the Western... Read more »
Northwind
THE NEW REGIME
It was the changing of the guard in the north on February 3 in more ways than one. Obviously the most historic and revolutionary change was a republican taking the... Read more »
Hush Hush
IRISH FAR-RIGHT FEARS
THE PLIGHT of British far-right activist Sam Melia – who was convicted in January at Leeds Crown Court for inciting racial hatred and intentionally encouraging or assisting racially aggravated criminal... Read more »
Bog Cuttings
BOG CUTTINGS
HIGH KING OF IRELAND A man claiming to be the “king of Ireland” appeared before Thurles District Court wearing a crown and his driver’s licence on a lanyard around his... Read more »
The Hot Air Brigade
THE HOT AIR BRIGADE
I cannot emphasise enough the speed and turnaround they arranged in getting us up and home in their beautiful PC12. Christian Stokes expresses gratitude to Stellaer private jet business after... Read more »
High Society
NOT SO SUPERJET
GOLDHAWK SPIES a creditors’ meeting has been called for Superjet Leasing Private Ltd, a company where the director is Indian moneybags Jayvaradhan ‘Jay’ Goenka.... Read more »
CHARITY BEGINS OFFSHORE
BILLIONAIRE BUDDIES – and fellow Swiss tax residents – JP McManus and John Magnier have been making headlines for their charitable deeds. It emerged... Read more »
HENRY GWYN-JONES’S HOUSE
THERE HAS been plenty regurgitation of the Irish Examiner’s scoop that UK billionaire James Dyson is set to acquire the impressive Ballynatray House on 850 acres on the banks of... Read more »
CEA: There is No Such Thing as Director-lite
THE Corporate Enforcement Authority (CEA) enforces any breach of company law by companies or the directors of a company. Michael Dillon, CEA’s Director of Legal, explains that... Read more »
Behind the Scenes
A WAIT AT THE MUSEUM
A MERE six months after the closing date on the advert seeking new board members for the National Museum of Ireland (NMI), arts minister Catherine Martin has announced the new... Read more »
RAMSAY’S IRISH RECIPE
IT HAS probably escaped most viewers’ attention that the latest TV venture of Gordon Ramsay, Next Level Chef – Series 3, launched this week in the US on Fox’s Food... Read more »
Sport of Kings
RICKY DOYLE’S POST
GRAND NATIONAL-winning jockey Ricky Doyle’s X social media profile photo shows him donning the famous green and gold silks of JP McManus. Ricky Doyle was viewed in a different context... Read more »
KEATLEY’S BUSY AGENDA
FANS OF Goldhawk will recall that popular Curragh trainer Brendan Duke secured a temporary ex-parte injunction against the purchasers of Fenway House in Pollardstown, Co Kildare – Peter Keatley and... Read more »
JUSTICE DELAYED
RTÉ BOARD member and barrister Susan Ahern has plenty to keep here busy given events at Montrose. But she still finds time to chair assorted IHRB referrals committee hearings. A... Read more »
Moneybags
I-RES DIRECTORS DESERVE TO BE VOTED OUT
FANS OF Moneybags will not have been surprised by moves by 5% dissident shareholder in I-Res Reit, Vision Capital Corp (VCC), to requisition an... Read more »
MAURICE HEALY’S LATEST CRASH-LANDING
MAURICE HEALY floated off software company Glantus on the AIM market in London with an air of optimism in June 2021 at £1 a... Read more »
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Brief Cases
SHANE KENNY’S BURRITOS
THIS WEEK sees a creditors’ meeting being held for Poblano Ltd, which turns out to be the company behind Mexican burrito chain Tolteca, which had four restaurants around Dublin, all... Read more »
WINDING UP DELTA INDEX
WITH MICHAEL O’Shea busy making an impact thanks to his Pulse Market cloud-based platform, which loftily promises to help companies “do business for good”, he may have missed the recent... Read more »
PETER DONNELLY’S POOR DIAGNOSIS
IT WAS only a few years ago that the Dundalk Argus was highlighting the “life saving device for Africa” designed by Irish outfit Tapa Healthcare. Today, however, the company is... Read more »
THE BROWNS PULL THE PLUG
THE SURPRISE dispersal of the entire string of racehorses owned by Andy and Gemma Brown, the star of which was Grade 1 Future Champions’ Novice Hurdle winner Caldwell Potter, took... Read more »
Orla Kiely: A Life in Pattern at National Design & Craft Gallery
The highly anticipated Orla Kiely: A Life in Pattern exhibition has arrived at Design & Crafts Council Ireland (DCCI) National Design and Craft Gallery in Kilkenny. Running from February... Read more »
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