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May 3 - May 16, 2024
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 »
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 »
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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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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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
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
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 »
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?
‘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 »
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’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 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 »
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 »
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 »
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’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
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’ 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 »
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 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
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
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 »
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 »
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 »
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
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’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 »
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
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 »
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 »
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
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’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 »
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 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 »
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 »
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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