Affairs of the Nation

Simon Harris Ireland Israel

Affairs of the Nation

HARRIS’S GAZA MOVE

A FORTNIGHT ago, August 24, Taoiseach Simon Harris said there was no scope for Ireland to act unilaterally against Israel. A week later he implied he wanted to do just... Read more »
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

ODDS ON FOR IRTA

NINE MONTHS after a devastating court of appeal ruling in a defamation case, the odds on the Irish Racehorse Trainers Association (IRTA) – whose directors include the likes of Aidan... Read more »
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

PHIL HOGAN’S LONG WAIT

IT TURNS out that Goldhawk’s favourite former EU commissioner, Phil Hogan, had to wait an awfully long time for an honorary doctorate from UCD. At the start of July, UCC... Read more »

Affairs of the Nation

Robert Nairac

Affairs of the Nation

PEACE-WASHING CAPTAIN NAIRAC

EVERY TIME the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims’ Remains (ICLVR) makes an initiative, behind the scenes ‘sources’ swing into action with stories depicting British Army undercover operative Robert... Read more »
Linda O’Shea Farren NUI Chancellor

Affairs of the Nation

NUI CHANCELLOR ELECTION

THE PATRICIAN Seanad may be under threat from a vulgar populism in these menacing times but standards have been maintained in academia where a small portion of the 250,000 or... Read more »
Abbey Theatre

Affairs of the Nation

THE ABBEY’S ‘SENSE OF RELIEF’

CONGRATULATIONS TO the board of the €8.5m per annum Abbey Theatre, which pulled off quite the media coup in light of some damning findings in a corporate governance review carried... Read more »
Luke Comer Jnr

Affairs of the Nation

HEAVY GOING FOR THE COMERS

BOTH LUKE Comer senior and junior, in the space of just six weeks, have had their racehorse training licences revoked by the Bowler Hats in the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board... Read more »
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

PÓGING THE THÓIN!

I strongly suspect that everyone’s favourite peacemaker – Bono – also played a part. He’s thick as thieves with Noely G and his son Elijah Hewson is best friends with... Read more »
Micheal Martin Nato

Affairs of the Nation

NATO CODS IRELAND

WHEN IRELAND concluded its individually tailored partnership programme (ITPP) governing continued co-operation with Nato under Partnership for Peace from 2024 to 2028 in February, protection against threats to undersea infrastructure... Read more »
Eliza Manningham-Buller Stakeknife

Affairs of the Nation

MI5 BOSS: ‘I KNOW NAWTHING’

Freddie Scappaticci was the UK’s most lethal mole in the IRA. His codename was Stakeknife. Last March the interim report of Operation Kenova concluded that a string of murders he... Read more »

Pillars of Society

Roderic O'Gorman

Pillars of Society

PROFILE: RODERIC O’GORMAN

JUST AS the Green Party faces up to the imminent slashing of its dozen TDs to about half that number – on a good... Read more »

The Young Bloods

Laura Fox

The Young Bloods

YOUNG BLOODS: LAURA FOX

AFTER THE turmoil created by the ‘great exodus of 2024’, Laura Fox has finally been pushed front and centre of the 2FM schedule. It... Read more »

Fit to Print?

Elon Musk TikTok

Fit to Print?

TICKING OFF TIKTOK

WITH THE ongoing saga of justice minister Helen McEntee’s on again, off again hate speech bill – or, to give its formal title, the Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or... Read more »
Nell McCafferty RTÉ Lord Laird Intro Matchmaking NewsBrands Martin McGuinness Dún Laoghaire Pat Leahy Cormac Lucey John Cooney Irish Journalism Awards Steve Aiken Anton Savage John Downing Lucinda Creighton Marina Sologub Eilis O'Hanlon Ian Kehoe Danny McConnell Sindo O'Connor Mediahuis Stephen Collins Book Justine McCarthy Rewriting the Troubles Lynn Ruane Sinn Féin

Fit to Print?

McCAFFERTY TRIBUTES

GUSHING TRIBUTES to the late Nell McCafferty from most media were carefully phrased to avoid referencing her instinctive Republicanism. But RTÉ was especially disingenuous in its rhetorical flourishes about Nell... Read more »
Simon Harris MBHCI

Fit to Print?

ABUSE STORIES CENSORED

When Greystones native Simon Harris was elected Taoiseach, former residents of the town’s Protestant Westbank Orphanage asked him to accept a twice-expressed Mother and Baby Home Commission of Investigation (MBHCI)... Read more »

Last Refuge

Conor Lenihan

Last Refuge

GENDER TRAP FOR CONOR LENIHAN

ONE OF the first but definitely not the last tale of woe from a disappointed general election hopeful who faces rejection because of the gender quota is likely to be... Read more »
Aidan Mullins

Last Refuge

SF REP RESIGNS OVER TRANS POLICY

THE RESIGNATION of Sinn Féin’s long-standing Laois councillor, Aidan Mullins, has raised questions as the party wrestles with various policy issues and just what is meant by returning to basics... Read more »
SF Polling Eoin Ó Broin

Last Refuge

CRUCIAL WEEKS FOR SINN FÉIN

These are crucial weeks for Sinn Féin (SF), as its revival in the polls remains partial and its future, pre-election polling trend is difficult to assess. Certainly, the recent level... Read more »
Labour Party Ivana Bacik

Last Refuge

LABOUR FACING VIRTUAL WIPE-OUT

POLLING ANALYSIS tends to focus on which of the bigger parties will be in government post-election but mournful commentary from the Irish Times last weekend posited difficulties for Labour in... Read more »

Hush Hush

Justin Barrett IFP

Hush Hush

RIGHT-WING DIVISIONS

With the general election imminent, Ireland’s new-right candidates are frantically trying to finalise preparations for their campaigns. Throughout August, however, internal divisions and the not-so-veiled threats of Justin Barrett to... Read more »

Fowl Emissions

David McWilliams Data Centres

Fowl Emissions

McWILLIAMS’S BLUFF

HERE’S THE choice: Ireland can either opt for a coherent national climate and energy strategy or we can back the rampant expansion of gigantic energy-sucking data centres to service multinationals.... Read more »
Climate Disinformation Coillte Climate Action EU Livestock NDC Claude Etchelamendy Ed Brophy Richard Boyd-Barrett Kish Dale Crammond Frank Mitloehner Shell Greenwashing Meta Data Centres Ireland

Fowl Emissions

POST HOT AIR

Kudos to the Business Post for once again fearlessly standing up for the right of the highly polluting aviation sector to enjoy untrammelled expansion in the teeth of a climate... Read more »

The Hot Air Brigade

Justine McCarthy

The Hot Air Brigade

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

How are we to capture the memories that are supposed to sustain us between now and the spring after a summer of protracted sensory deprivation?… Will those days ever come... Read more »

High Society

High Society

Jenny Keane

High Society

JENNY KEANE’S BOTTOM LINE

GOLDHAWK’S FAVOURITE ‘holistic sex educator’, Jenny Keane, shows no sign of slowing down after becoming a mother. Indeed, she has found yet more ways... Read more »

High Society

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

COOLMORE AND MORE

A MOST impressive pair of racehorses trained by Aidan O’Brien – City of Troy and The Lion in Winter – each excelled at the... Read more »

High Society

Rosemary Coleman

High Society

ROSEMARY COLEMAN’S SKINCARE EDIT

LAST WEEK RTÉ’s Prime Time caused a bit of a stir when it examined the surge in young children following advanced skincare routines, which regularly involve anti-ageing and exfoliating products... Read more »

Behind the Scenes

Michael Wall

Behind the Scenes

MICHAEL WALL’S BAD REVIEW

ONE ASPECT of Crowe-Ireland’s review of the corporate governance farce at the Abbey Theatre that has not got its fair share of attention is the starring role played by high-flying... Read more »
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

HICKEY’S PROSPECTS

GOLDHAWK PREVIOUSLY reported on the career trajectories of siblings Jack and Lara Hickey (see The Phoenix 19/4/24) and it looks like we are set to hear a lot more about... Read more »

Sport of Kings

Rich Ricci

Sport of Kings

GETTING UP FOR DOWN UNDER

RICH RICCI’S rarely seen bonce got an outing at York when the moneybags’s hat took flight in the windy parade ring before the Weatherbys Hamilton Lonsdale Cup Stakes (Group 2).... 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

ED DUNLOP’S BRIGHTON KNOCK

NEWMARKET TRAINER Ed Dunlop has been handed a suspended one-year period of disqualification from racing after his charge, Lucidity, tested positive for a metabolite of cocaine when a beaten favourite... Read more »

Moneybags

Moneybags

Peter Jackson Flutter Ent

Moneybags

TIME FOR FLUTTER ENTERTAINMENT TO DIVERSIFY

FLUTTER ENTERTAINMENT – operating mainly through FanDuel – is now the dominant betting platform across the Atlantic, with gross turnover last year of $4.5bn,... Read more »

Moneybags

Richard Conroy

Moneybags

CONROY GOLD SHAREHOLDERS FEEL THE PAIN

IT MUST have come as a shock to Conroy Gold and Natural Resources shareholders that, after spending €5.65m drilling the Conroy Gold Irish properties... Read more »

The Hot Water Brigade

Michael Mulcahy

The Hot Water Brigade

MICHAEL MULCAHY’S MANY HATS

GOLDHAWK’S POST-Sunday-lunch indigestion was exacerbated by the work involved in deciphering the Sindo’s exciting tale of regrets, recriminations, homophobia and padel tennis last week. The good news is that “Cork... Read more »
Gillian O'Connor Finn Boylan

The Hot Water Brigade

LEGAL EAGLES FLY THE NEST

LAST WEEKEND the Business Post property editor Tina-Marie O’Neill waxed lyrical about the impressive Argyle at Ballybride Manor in the Dublin mountains, which has just gone on the market with... Read more »
Nell McCafferty

The Hot Water Brigade

NELL MCCAFFERTY’S SHARE TIPS

THERE WERE, unsurprisingly, many heartfelt tributes last month to the irrepressible Nell McCafferty, with contributors highlighting her significant impact on Irish society and the no-nonsense personality that won the Derry... Read more »
Eddie Hobbs

The Hot Water Brigade

EDDIE HOBBS’S SOUR TREAT

THE OFFICIAL end is nigh for one of the various businesses that financial adviser Eddie ‘Rip Off Republic’ Hobbs has backed over the years. Treatdrop Ltd is an e-commerce company... Read more »