Affairs of the Nation

Huw Edwards

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 »
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

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 »
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

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 »

Affairs of the Nation

General Pinochet Frances Shannon

Affairs of the Nation

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 »
Terry Leyden

Affairs of the Nation

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 »
Una Healy Westmeath Bachelor Festival

Affairs of the Nation

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 Packed.House

Affairs of the Nation

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

Affairs of the Nation

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 »
Malachy Steenson UDA

Affairs of the Nation

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 »
Vladimir Putin

Affairs of the Nation

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 »
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Pillars of Society

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

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

Esme Dunne

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 »

Fit to Print?

Ian Kehoe CEA

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 »
Finn McRedmond

Fit to Print?

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

Una McCarthy

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 »
Bobby McDonagh

Last Refuge

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 »
Eoin Ó Broin SF Housing

Last Refuge

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 »
Michael Cahill FG Kerry

Last Refuge

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

Vincent Kearney IPT

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

Micheal Martin Ireland Taiwan

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-Defaul

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

Joe Duffy Jon Williams

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 »
Luke Holland Climate Denial John Fagan Wolf Europe David Quinn Duncan Stewart Data Centre Carbon Emissions Conor Skehan Chris Hazzard

Fowl Emissions

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

Barry Egan

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

High Society

Orla Gallagher Russborough House

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 »

High Society

IHT CHL The Lion in Winter Racing Royalty Le Brocquy City of Troy Fitzwilliam Square AIRO Dermot Smurfit Ballinacarrig Park Club Cosgrave Fitzpatrick Keith Jameson National Gallery Collection Marissa Carter VG Tom Higgins Neil Jordan Laura Bonner Paul Ward Variety Jones Dtat Eathos Sharon Keegan Angela Scanlon Desmond Canouan Bellair Estate Bobby Flay John O’Conor Portrait of Omai Eibhlín Ní Chonghaile Wedding NGI Board Rachel Flynn JP McMahon Ash Quinn Pamela Laird Abdullah Al Naboodah Boundless Ocean

High Society

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 »

High Society

Behind the Scenes

Peter Aiken PFL

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 »
Tailored Films Screen Ireland Perspectives DCCI Crescine Tarka Russell Lara Hickey Reality Check Sarah McInerney Irish Movies Paul Murray Arts Council Dublin Theatre Festival TWU Macdara Kelleher Richard Boyd Barrett DADC Cillian Murphy Terry McMahon Media Commission Ireland Kerlin Gallery Creative Ireland Section 481 Christine O’Donovan RTÉ Storyland NMI Board Vacancies IASCA Ossie Kilkenny RTÉ Original Programmes

Behind the Scenes

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

Dermot Weld

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 »
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

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

Moneybags

Gary Morrison

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 »

Moneybags

Fiona Dunlevy

Moneybags

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 »

Brief Cases

Brian Cregan Bodywise

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

Brief Cases

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 »
WAVF Castleknock Hospitality BAL Susan Bergin Tixserve EOG Fergal Naughton hot-water-brigade def

Brief Cases

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 »
Karen Erwin Alfred Beit

Brief Cases

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 »
PJ Lynch John Swan

Brief Cases

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 »