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August 9 - August 22, 2024
Affairs of the Nation
HUW EDWARDS AND MI5
HOW DID Huw Edwards, the former face of BBC News, maintain virtual immunity for so long given the evidence of his crimes involving sexual pictures of children? Police presented evidence... Read more »
TOM’S TROUBLES
GOLDHAWK’S OLD friend, Tom Ryan, has just had a judgment registered in Stubbs Gazette against him in London for no less than €3m by the dreaded taxman. He first popped up... Read more »
KATY BROWN’S HANDICAP
FANS OF The Phoenix will be familiar with outspoken racehorse trainer Katy Brown, who started last month with a second win in two runs for Petrol Head, in the €50,000... Read more »
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IRELAND SAID ‘NO’ TO PINOCHET
THE CHILEAN Supreme Court demanded Irish government co-operation in establishing the alleged guilt of the two Shannon sisters, Dubliners Frances and Christine, in a helicopter jail break of four anti-government... Read more »
LEYDEN AT LARGE
AFTER MANY years of ducking and diving and not a little in-fighting in Roscommon politics, as well as 43 years in the Dáil and Seanad, former Fianna Fáil junior minister... Read more »
BACHELOR FESTIVAL BLUES
A COUPLE of high-profile names found themselves with a free Friday night in the run-up to the August bank holiday weekend, having originally committed to being judges in the one... Read more »
MIKE ORMONDE’S RESCUES
ALMOST TWO YEARS on from the approval of a rescue plan, the company behind Mike Ormonde’s media content and production outfit, Packed.House (formerly Electric Media), is the subject of a... Read more »
ANNE DAVY’S CHILD’S PLAY
THREE MONTHS after agreeing to settle High Court proceedings involving 41 children, creche operator Hyde & Seek Childcare is clearly well able to afford the payouts and legal costs. The... Read more »
BRITISH AND IRISH FAR RIGHT
THAT A section of the anti-immigrant movement in the south was prepared to line up alongside Ulster loyalists and British fascists in racist attacks in Belfast last weekend indicates extreme... Read more »
PUTIN’S IRISH GUN SLINGERS
THE TABLOID-reading British public is losing sleep over an alleged disinformation operation being directed by Vladimir Putin to subvert the United Kingdom. Britain has been reliably informed by undisclosed security... Read more »
Pillars of Society
PROFILE: AENGUS Ó SNODAIGH
WITH SINN FÉIN under pressure after a disastrous local election, the promotion of 60-year-old Dublin South Central TD Aengus Ó Snodaigh is being seen... Read more »
The Young Bloods
YOUNG BLOOD: ESME DUNNE
ESME DUNNE has been making waves in activist circles these past few years as founder of the Dublin branch of Empower The Voice, a... 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?
THE ‘CURRENCY’ AND ‘WEIRD’ INM REPORT
THE ENORMOUSLY expensive (€5.67m) and lengthy (six years) High Court inspectors’ report into various goings-on at Independent News & Media (INM) has laboured to produce not even a mouse. But... Read more »
FIONNUALA ON EDNA O’BRIEN
IRISH TIMES columnist Finn (Fionnuala) McRedmond wisely decided to choose the New Statesman rather than her weekly Irish platform for a treatise on Edna O’Brien that contained the usual Punch... Read more »
Last Refuge
BUTTIMER V MULLINS AND COVENEY
RUCTIONS AT Fine Gael’s Cork South-Central general election convention have only increased since the meeting a fortnight ago, which saw members react angrily at a head office ‘diktat’ telling them... Read more »
IVEAGH HOUSE OLD-BOY DIPLOMACY
GOOD TO see the Irish Times maintain the high diplomatic style for which the paper of record is famous, with former Irish ambassador to Britain Bobby McDonagh recently giving a... Read more »
CAN MARY LOU BOUNCE BACK?
PUBLICATION LAST week of the revised housing policy of Sinn Féin (SF) – originally scheduled for next month – is part of a concerted effort by Mary Lou McDonald, Eoin... Read more »
FF/FG CIVIL WAR IN KERRY
THE DELIGHT of handlers in Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil at the transfer pattern in the local elections has led to mutual and optimistic assumptions about a repeat at the... Read more »
Northwind
PSNI SNOOPS
The plot thickens in the ongoing saga of the PSNI snooping on journalists and lawyers. Investigative journalist Barry McCaffrey and film maker Trevor Birney finally dragged the PSNI, as Birney... Read more »
Hush Hush
MARTIN LIVING IN INTERESTING TIMES
THE RECENT public unveiling of the prototype for a new armoured combat vehicle by the Taiwanese Army might prove embarrassing for the Irish Government. The 8×8 armoured vehicle is designed... Read more »
Bog Cuttings
BOG CUTTINGS
TITS OUT! A woman who exposed her breasts to startled onlookers during an Orange Order march on July 12 has described herself as “an absolute eejit”. Clodagh Byrne (31) of... Read more »
Fowl Emissions
RTÉ’S CLIMATE ‘STRATEGY’
FOR YEARS RTÉ’s coverage of the climate emergency has vacillated between lukewarm and non-existent. It reached such a low point that in July 2021 its then managing director of news,... Read more »
MCCONALOGUE’S MANURE
Slight reductions in emissions from agriculture in 2023 have been attributed to cuts in the use of chemical nitrogen and was celebrated by farm advisory agency Teagasc as proving the... Read more »
The Hot Air Brigade
THE HOT AIR BRIGADE
Beyond the velvet rope at the world’s greatest nightclub. Barry Egan chats to Robbie Fox about the long-gone Pink Elephant, Sunday Independent Opening a new book by poet Paul Muldoon... Read more »
High Society
BAILING OUT RUSSBOROUGH HOUSE
AS THE annual Heritage Week at Russborough House in Blessington kicks off this weekend, visitors will encounter new pathways created courtesy of a €200,000... Read more »
LE BROCQUY’S COTTAGES
INTERESTING TO see a property on Eglinton Road in Donnybrook, D4, going on the market with a €2.75m price tag. It is owned by... Read more »
JESSICA HARRINGTON’S ‘LIGHT BITES’
GOLDHAWK WAS interested to see that some of the high-flying players in the sport of kings have developed yet another source of income, courtesy of reserved tours of their training... 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
PETER AIKEN’S NEW GIG
THE ADVERTISING blitz right up to the kick-off of the All Together Now festival in the grounds of Henry de la Poer Beresford’s Curraghmore Castle in Co Waterford reflects the... Read more »
AFTER SUSAN BERGIN
TEN WEEKS after Screen Ireland (SI) chairwoman Susan Bergin resigned three years into her four-year term “due to other commitments”, there has been no sign of arts minister Catherine Martin... Read more »
Sport of Kings
WELD’S GRIM GALWAY
SURELY THE biggest surprise in Galway last week was that Dermot Weld failed to have a single winner, despite having been the champion trainer there on many occasions. It is... Read more »
DAVID DUNSDON DELIVERS
PROPERTY MONEYBAGS David Dunsdon dusted off his riding boots to make a winning return to race riding when landing Galway’s €110,000 Connacht Hotel (QR) Handicap on his own mare, Sirius.... Read more »
Moneybags
HOSTELWORLD SET TO BOOK BIG PROFITS AS COSTS TUMBLE
THERE ARE not too many sectors globally where an Irish company is the dominant player. This is the case for Hostelworld, which is admittedly... Read more »
MARKET FINALLY CATCHES UP WITH MALIN’S VALUE
MALIN CORPORATION has been on quite the journey in recent years but it looks like the market has finally woken up to the real... 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
DAVID KENNEDY’S SURPRISE MOVE
A COMPANY that was behind an established massage clinic operating out of a premises in D2 is set to be wound up on foot of a High Court ruling, a... Read more »
BRIAN DURKAN’S INTEREST CHARGES
A COMPANY called Cedarvale Commercial Ltd has been wound up boasting some pretty hefty losses, with most of the red ink down to interest charges that have built up since... Read more »
DAN FLINTER’S STALLION PROBLEM
IN HIS first review as chairman of the Irish National Stud (INS), former Irish Times chairman Dan Flinter tried his best to put a gloss on the figures but the... Read more »
BEIT FOUNDATION’S LEGAL BILLS
ELSEWHERE IN this issue (see p18) Goldhawk looks at the increasingly fraught financial picture at the Alfred Beit Foundation (ABF), which oversees the historic Russborough House in Blessington, Co Wicklow,... Read more »
JOHN SWAN’S FRUIT AND VEG ORDER
FANS OF Goldhawk will be familiar (see The Phoenix 22/2/19) with the gruelling liquidation of Carlow-based Swan Fruit Ltd (SFL), where the principal, John Swan , has just come a... 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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