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April 5 - April 18, 2024
Affairs of the Nation
RONAN COLLINS’S RUSSIAN CONNECTIONS
LAST MONTH a US-backed nursing home operator, which surfaced in 2016 with big plans to take a chunk of the market here, was placed in examinership, having previously emerged from... Read more »
EU ‘WAR ECONOMY’
LAST OCTOBER The Phoenix quoted an impeccable authority on western political and military strategy – the Economist magazine – which warned that the imminent retreat of the US from the... Read more »
JUDGING LUKE COMER JNR
THE MINTED Comer family, who made hundreds of millions of euro from the building sector, has had its fair share of stumbles in the racing world, most notably the suspension... Read more »
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DEREK RICHARDSON’S SCRUM
THE FORMER owner of bust English rugby union club Wasps – Derek Richardson – is keeping his lawyers busy. As has been reported, he is suing his legal advisers, Kennedys... Read more »
LEDDIN V O’DONOVAN
THE ANTICIPATION that Limerick’s first directly elected mayoral contest would be a bottomless borefest may turn out to be quite mistaken and Goldhawk will be keeping a watchful eye for... Read more »
DON’T MESS WITH BIG PHIL
SIMON COVENEY’S flight from Cabinet – before he could be pushed – had as much to do with former EU commissioner Phil Hogan as incoming Taoiseach Simon Harris. Not that... Read more »
VIRGIN’S ‘VANISHING TRIANGLE’
THE OMENS weren’t good when The Vanishing Triangle, backed with moolah from the taxpayer, failed to appear in the autumn schedule for Virgin Media Television (VMTV) last year without explanation.... Read more »
BRITISH AGENTS AND DUBLIN BOMBS
May 17 next will mark the 50th anniversary of the Dublin and Monaghan bomb massacres. One of the key figures in the Dublin leg of that operation was Robin ‘The... Read more »
INTERNMENT WITH TRIAL
The wall of silence by southern media on the recent acquittal of dissident republicans Colin Duffy and Harry Fitzsimons is in marked contrast to the sensational headlines that many carried... Read more »
Pillars of Society
PROFILE: SIMON HARRIS
HOW DID 37-year-old Simon Harris beat off heavyweight contenders Paschal Donohoe and Simon Coveney, as well as Helen McEntee and other ambitious souls, to... Read more »
The Young Bloods
YOUNG BLOOD: MARK MEHIGAN
WHILE HE remains unknown to a large swathe of the country, the multi-talented Mark Mehigan has his fingers in all sorts of pies. He’s... 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?
HUGH O’CONNELL’S LONG GOODBYE
THE EXIT of Hugh O’Connell from Mediahuis, where he was deputy group political editor working for the Sindo and Indo, came at a good time for the Aawrish edition of... Read more »
TARGETING MARTIN MCGUINNESS
RECENT SUGGESTIONS from the Sunday Independent and interpretations by others that the BBC Two’s programme, The Secret Army, shows Martin McGuinness was an informer have their origins in the late... Read more »
LIBERAL MEDIA DEBATES FAR RIGHT
APPEASEMENT IS a notion that some media columnists are using and debating right now in the face of a right-wing backlash against so-called ‘woke’ politics and legislation to criminalise hate... Read more »
Last Refuge
HELEN McENTEE’S FUTURE
JUSTICE MINISTER (as we speak) Helen McEntee has been pleading via the media and in person with her former rival and now leader, Simon Harris, not to sack her from... Read more »
IVANA BACIK’S NEW GENERATION
LABOUR LEADER Ivana Bacik recently deployed her considerable legal and verbal skills to exonerate the party’s local election Ringsend candidate, Carol Reynolds, who had said that Ireland had “too many... Read more »
KATE O’CONNELL THE DISRUPTER
THE CLEAR desire of Simon Harris to add Kate O’Connell as a ‘partner’ to councillor James Geoghegan on the Dublin Bay South (DBS) general election ticket is going to upset... Read more »
MARTIN TO PROVOKE MORE REFERENDUMS?
MICHEÁL MARTIN’S move to legislate for the abolition of the triple lock could run into political, constitutional and even EU legislative trouble, judging by statements uttered by Martin himself and... Read more »
Northwind
DONALDSON UNDONE
When the news broke at 1.00 pm on Good Friday that DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson had been charged with historical sex offences including rape, there had already been a... Read more »
Hush Hush
MONEY TO BURN
With European and local elections fast approaching, many candidates to the right of Fine Gael are declaring their intention to stand with the Irish Freedom Party (IFP), Ireland First (IF),... Read more »
Bog Cuttings
BOG CUTTINGS
A GIANT TOOL A 24-year-old man who ran down North Main Street, Cork, waving a pitchfork in the early afternoon of July 3, 2023, was sentenced to three months in... Read more »
Fowl Emissions
COLOMBIA 3 MINING PROFITEERS
“ACTIVIST LUKE Holland has authored this report for Prime Time…” This was the rather odd introduction, read by Sarah McInerney, to an excellent and harrowing report last week from the... Read more »
UNCLE COLM’S CONCERNS
There’ve been some high-profile interventions in the long-running battle to prevent Canadian firm Dalradian digging up the Sperrin Mountains in Tyrone to mine billions worth of gold. Last year campaigners... Read more »
The Hot Air Brigade
THE HOT AIR BRIGADE
We firmly believe in the unifying power of music, enabling people to transcend differences and foster meaningful conversations. We feel it is our duty to create and uphold this space,... Read more »
High Society
CORRECTING CHRISTINE DAVIES
THERE WAS some bad news for the glamorous Christine Jane Davies, owner of the sprawling Ballybla House and estate outside Ashford in Co Wicklow... Read more »
JOHN MAGNIER’S CEREMONY
THE ASSOCIATION of Irish Racehorse Owners (AIRO) has just published its annual report for 2023, showing income of €270,000, the majority of which (€169,000)... Read more »
KILLIAN POYNTON’S HIGH NET WORTH CLIENTS
GREEN BIRD Ltd, a company catering to the needs of so-called “high net worth individuals”, has found itself on the end of a judgment from the dreaded Revenue. Established by... 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
SMOCK ALLEY’S BAD REVIEW
WITH DUBLIN City Council (DCC) preparing to take over Smock Alley Theatre (SAT) in Temple Bar, the board of the linked Gaiety School of Acting next door will be hoping... Read more »
EN POINTE!
THE DECISION by Anne Maher’s Ballet Ireland (BI) to withdraw a piece choreographed by Israeli Ohad Naharin from its Bold Moves programme raised eyebrows, given the predominantly conservative character of... Read more »
Sport of Kings
APPEALING BEHAVIOUR
THE REVELATION last month that the IHRB had been described by consultants in 2021 as “not fit for purpose” was dismissed by the agency on the grounds that the new... Read more »
SEAMIE HEFFERNAN DISMOUNTS
MEYDAN RACECOURSE Dubai was the location on Saturday afternoon where the spotlight really shone on Rebels Romance. Ballydoyle’s champion, Auguste Rodin, who had been so impressive at Dundalk under regular... Read more »
Moneybags
MYLES O’GRADY PUTS LID ON BOI SHARE PRICE
IT WAS pretty eyebrow-raising that when Bank of Ireland (BoI) released its full-year results for 2023, showing pre-provisional and pre-exceptional profits that had almost... Read more »
ARYZTA’S RECOVERY NOW BAKED INTO SHARE PRICE
A COMPANY that has effectively disappeared off the radar here is Aryzta, which is not surprising given its Swiss quote, but there remains significant... Read more »
Croke Park’s Newest Hospitality Experience
THIS EXCLUSIVE section blends the hospitality experience of Croke Park with a social, shared space, giving you the best of both worlds to enhance your match-day experience. Located in... Read more »
Brief Cases
NOEL MORAN’S CAR TROUBLE
THERE WAS a potentially expensive setback in the High Court last month for Noel Moran of Noel Moran Recovery, when his damages claim against a company called Blackstar Management, concerning... Read more »
HEAVY GOING FOR FOLEY AND PARKIN
“WE’RE NEARLY like family and I treat him like a brother,” was a recent remark by the minted founder of Clipper Logistics, Steve Parkin, about his advisor, Joe Foley, owner... Read more »
CYRIL MURPHY’S NETWORK ERROR
A MOBILE network data firm marked out as a future star player in the sector, Equiendo Ltd, has just had its connection cut and is to be wound up next... Read more »
CATCHING UP WITH JOHNNIE COOKE
ELSEWHERE IN this issue (see p19), Goldhawk takes a look at an operation called Green Bird, which was established by one Killian Bewley Poynton to provide concierge services to super... 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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