Affairs of the Nation

Rishi Sunak Rwanda Bill

Affairs of the Nation

COALITION IGNORED RWANDA WARNING

It’s not as if they didn’t know. On December 7 last year, prominent Labour MP Stella Creasy, chair of the Labour Movement for Europe, wrote to Tánaiste Micheál Martin warning... Read more »
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LISA MULCAHY’S IFTA

IN TERMS of viewers, the most successful ‘Irish’ film in recent times has to be the Lindsay Lohan vehicle An Irish Wish. No matter than it’s on Netflix rather than... Read more »
Vinny Doyle

Affairs of the Nation

VINNIE DOYLE’S BUM NOTE

THIS WEEK, rock band Cry Before Dawn will be playing a gig at Whelan’s. While a good time is guaranteed for fans, it is to be hoped that the mind... Read more »

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Fionnán Sheahan Helen McEntee

Affairs of the Nation

HELEN MCENTEE’S LAND MINES

WHAT A startling suggestion the Indo’s Ireland editor, Fionnán Sheahan, made this week about the Department of Justice, which he accused of not “watching the justice minister’s back” as she... Read more »
Brendan Butler Dermot Farrell

Affairs of the Nation

ROME RULE

THE CATHOLIC Church’s much-publicised downsizing of dioceses in the west of Ireland was announced in a torrent of press releases from its Maynooth PR unit without consultation with either diocesan... 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

FALLING FIANNA FÁIL

WHILE MEDIA comment has mostly focused on the electoral apocalypse awaiting Fine Gael and the list of its TDs taking flight, an inordinate calm has surrounded Fianna Fáil’s abysmal poll... Read more »
Journal Media Eamonn Fallon

Affairs of the Nation

FALLON BOYS BACKTRACK

GOLDHAWK WAS as surprised as Mediahuis staff were to see that the Belgian media giant had been sniffing around online news platform The Journal. Also taken by surprise were the... Read more »
Rockvig Peter Kearns

Affairs of the Nation

BRÍD KEARNS’S WINDFALL

A COMPANY with the unlikely name of Rockvig Unlimited has just been quietly wound up. Goldhawk was most impressed to find that the assets to be divvied out here come... Read more »
National Library of Ireland Catherine Martin

Affairs of the Nation

OVERDUE AT THE LIBRARY

WITH ARTS minister Catherine Martin under pressure to make some appointments to the Arts Council, there are other vacancies that also require her attention. For example, the board of the... Read more »
Thales Hillary Clinton

Affairs of the Nation

DECOMMISSIONING QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY

Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 business has been booming at Thales UK’s weapons plants in the north. Thales designs and manufactures missiles including Starstreak, lightweight multi-role missile systems... Read more »
Patrick MacLellan Frank Kitson

Affairs of the Nation

BRIGADIER MACLELLAN IN DARK

WITH THE Crown’s decision last month not to prosecute the paratroopers who perjured themselves at the Saville inquiry, a number of doors slammed shut on the deepest secrets of Bloody... Read more »

Pillars of Society

Holly Cairns

Pillars of Society

PROFILE: HOLLY CAIRNS

As opinion polls indicate extreme volatility among the voters, is now the time for the Social Democrats to seize the day under its new... Read more »

The Young Bloods

Lyra

The Young Bloods

YOUNG BLOOD: LYRA

WITH HER general gobbiness, outlandish outfits and penchant for providing headline-grabbing soundbites (eg “I’ll carry my own knickers” – the Sunday Times), Cork singer-songwriter... Read more »

Fit to Print?

Arena Rafeef Ziadah

Fit to Print?

‘BALANCED’ DEBATE ON GAZA GENOCIDE

THE DOGMATIC radicals among Irish supporters of the Palestinians are outraged at the aesthetes on the editorial team at RTÉ’s arts programme, Arena, who bravely held the line against Palestinian... Read more »
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Fit to Print?

MEDIAHUIS’S MEDALS

MEDIAHUIS’S EDITORIAL supremo, Cormac Bourke, told staff last year that the media awards organised by NewsBrands – now franchised out by NewsBrands – were not modern and that other awards... Read more »
Ian Hyland

Fit to Print?

IAN HYLAND’S UCD BASH

CONGRATULATIONS TO Business & Finance publisher-turned-grandee Ian Hyland, who didn’t let the small matter of Gaza get in the way of a day out for his self-important Ireland Inc (II)... Read more »

Last Refuge

New Right Ciaran Mullooly

Last Refuge

NEW RIGHT TO WIN LOCAL/EU SEATS?

THE NEW right is dominating headlines now with vituperative social media comments and arson attacks on buildings supposedly intended to house immigrants and asylum seekers. However, it is unlikely that... Read more »
Ciarán Cuffe Lynn Boylan

Last Refuge

EU ELECTION STAKES

WITH JUST weeks to go, campaigns for the Euro seats are hotting up – if that’s the right word to use for the tepid indifference of the Irish electorate so... 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

AONTÚ: A ONE-TRICK PONY?

PREVIOUSLY A splinter from Sinn Féin, Peadar Tóibín’s Aontú may yet establish itself as a serious political player, with recent opinion polls putting the party above the Greens and Labour,... Read more »
SDLP Micheál Martin

Last Refuge

FIANNA FÁIL’S TWO FINGERS TO SDLP

REMARKABLY, EVEN for the Government-compliant Dublin media, there was no coverage of the snub delivered to the SDLP by Micheál Martin’s Fianna Fáil at the party’s recent ard fheis. FF... Read more »

Hush Hush

Helen O'Sullivan

Hush Hush

HELEN O’SULLIVAN’S BELGIAN BLUES

LAST MONTH’S new-right National Conservatism conference in Brussels descended into farce as the mayor of the Saint-Josse-ten-Noode municipality, Emir Kir, tried to prevent it from going ahead. Kir argued that... Read more »

Bog Cuttings

Bog-Cuttings-Defaul

Bog Cuttings

BOG CUTTINGS

DRUNKEN NEIGHBOUR Tullamore District Court heard the case of a man accused of engaging in threatening and abusive behaviour toward gardaí following an altercation with officers outside his home. Richard... Read more »

Fowl Emissions

Data Centres Micheal McCarthy

Fowl Emissions

DATA CENTRES’ PR WAR

A recent entry in the lobbying register illustrates the enchanted realm inhabited by corporate lobbyists when it comes to getting access to those at the highest levels of government. Amazon’s... Read more »
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Fowl Emissions

LISA CHAMBERS’S HOT AIR

Goldhawk was expecting elevated levels of climate disinformation in the run-up to the European elections in June – considering the number of reactionary and conspiracy-minded candidates running – but he... Read more »
Justin Barrett James Reynolds

Fowl Emissions

JUSTIN BARRETT LAYS DOWN THE LAW

WHEN THE Registrar of Elections’s Art O’Leary announced in Iris Oifigiúil that he was denying separate applications from both Justin Barrett and James Reynolds to amend the registration details of... Read more »

The Hot Air Brigade

Marc Canham

The Hot Air Brigade

THE HOT AIR BIRGADE

We recognise that the timelines and deadlines that we’ve previously set have created a sense of expectation and potentially confusion for everyone. Marc Canham on the FAI further delaying the... Read more »

High Society

High Society

John Magnier

High Society

JOHN MAGNIER’S SILAGE

JOHN MAGNIER, obviously not thwarted by the previous rejection of his acts of generosity towards his “strapped for cash” Co Tipperary neighbours, Richard and... Read more »

High Society

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High Society

JOHNNY RONAN’S PARK

FITZWILLIAM SQUARE was in the news again last month when the Irish Times wondered if the proposed sale by receivers of Johnny Ronan’s four-storey... Read more »

High Society

Ballinacurra House Des McGahan

High Society

DES McGAHAN’S BOLTHOLE BLUES

GOLDHAWK SPIED yet another glowing report in the Business Post on the impressive Ballinacurra House outside Kinsale, which is on the market for €4m. The same property had a price... Read more »

Behind the Scenes

Marsh’s Library Linda Doyle

Behind the Scenes

CATHERINE MARTIN’S LATEST VACANCY

THE RETICENCE of arts and culture minister Catherine Martin when it comes to filling vacancies on the boards of the national cultural institutions has attained joke status at this stage.... Read more »

Sport of Kings

Paddy Brennan

Sport of Kings

PADDY BRENNAN’S TIMELY DISMOUNT

THE CLUNKILY titled Weatherite Air Conditioning Handicap Chase at Cheltenham will be remembered as the race in which Paddy Brennan brought the curtain down on his 1,500-winner career. Having cruised... Read more »
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

DANIEL O’RAHILLY’S BIG CHEQUE

THIS YEAR’S Aintree Grand National winner, I Am Maximus (trained by newly crowned British champion jumps trainer Willie Mullins), and the 2021 winner, Minella Times, were paraded before huge crowds... Read more »

Moneybags

Moneybags

The Phoenix, March 24, 2023

Moneybags

CRH SHARES PLATEAU AFTER US ROCKET RIDE

THE SWEDES in Cevian Capital will have been popping the champagne corks as a result of the explosion in the CRH share price since... Read more »

Moneybags

Keith McGrane

Moneybags

CORRE ENERGY’S CORE PROBLEM IS MONEY

WITH THE 2023 figures for Corre Energy due to be released at the end of this month, investors will be looking to see if... Read more »

Brief Cases

Queally Michael Lynch

Brief Cases

MICHAEL LYNCH’S LIMERICK GIG

REPORTS OF colossal double bets being struck and landed were rife at the Limerick races last month, when the well-punted Declan Queally pair, Rocky’s Diamond and Diamond Nora, won their... Read more »
Harish Bansal Mary Laffoy

Brief Cases

HARISH BANSAL’S BIG TAX BILL

ONE OF the bigger judgments that Goldhawk has come across in recent times popped up in Stubbs Gazette last month, where one Harish Bansal, with an address in The Gallops,... Read more »
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Brief Cases

SEAN MULRYAN’S INVESTMENT

GOLDHAWK SPIES a familiar face among the backers of Patrick Kirby’s digital ticketing business, Tixserve. Tixserve has been attracting a fair deal of attention in recent times and, more importantly,... Read more »
Caroline Desmond

Brief Cases

CAROLINE DOWNEY’S RUBY

ELSEWHERE IN this issue (see p16), we profile new pop-dance sensation Lyra (aka Laura McNamara), who has been benefiting from the business muscle of her manager, Caroline Downey, to the... Read more »
Michael Hackman

Brief Cases

LIGHTS, CAMERA…

WITH PLANS having been drawn up for new mega film studio developments in west Dublin and Wicklow, and other local authorities anxious to get in on the act, a studio... Read more »