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May 16 - May 29, 2025
Affairs of the Nation
NO BAFTA FOR KINCORA FILM
The BBC has just secured a prestigious Bafta (British Academy Film and Television Arts) award for Clive Myrie’s Caribbean Adventure made by Alleycats of Derry and directed by Des Henderson. The... Read more »
RTÉ’S LATEST HOT SEAT
WITH THE Oireachtas committees finally in place, certain state board vacancies can now be filled. One place they could start is RTÉ, which is facing its latest scandal with an... Read more »
DUBLIN PRIDE’S PREDICAMENT
SINN FÉIN has been carrying out a damage limitation exercise after comments by health spokesman David Cullinane saw Trans and Intersex Pride Dublin ban the party from its annual march... Read more »
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AFTER COMISKEY
SENIOR CLERICS such as Bishop Brendan Comiskey could hardly complain about being targeted for covering up child abuse by priests in their diocese but the platitudes of politicians and others... Read more »
DEMPSEY’S ACADEMIC DISCOURSE
Back in June 2010, UCD conferred one of its highest accolades, an honorary Doctor of Science, on Irish Farmers Journal (IFJ) editor Matt Dempsey. Thanks to his leadership, the journal... Read more »
LYRA’S COMFORT ZONE
CAROLINE DOWNEY must be delighted with the latest outing for the singer-songwriter she manages, Lyra, who continues to benefit from a remarkably high profile despite her relative lack of music... Read more »
TRUMP’S PLOT(S) SPOILER
WITH ARTS minister Patrick O’Donovan having just reappointed four directors of Screen Ireland (SI), including chairman Ray Harman, at least the state film funding agency has a full complement at... Read more »
THE MANN WHO KEPT HIS BALLS INTACT
Notorious ex-SAS officer and soldier of fortune Simon Mann has died. In 2004 he led a failed plot to topple President Teodoro Obiang of oil-rich Equatorial Guinea. Baroness Thatcher and... Read more »
LEFT V RIGHT MARCHES
In the weeks that followed the recent large anti-immigration protest in Dublin, right-wing activists have tried to tap into that energy by calling a series of local demonstrations. This has... Read more »
Pillars of Society
PROFILE: RUADHÁN MAC CORMAIC
THE PRESS COUNCIL’S recent confirmation of a Press Ombudsman’s decision underlines the Irish Times’s one-sided coverage of clerical child abuse. An IT article last... Read more »
The Young Bloods
YOUNG BLOOD: EOGHAN KENNY
WHILE THE Labour Party nearly doubled its Dáil representation in 2024 with only a marginal increase in the percentage of votes it received in... Read more »
Gold Outshines Bitcoin
David Higgins, Head of Trading, Merrion Gold Long touted by proponents as a digital alternative to gold, or even as digital gold itself, Bitcoin has failed to... Read more »
Fit to Print?
LOW-COST MEDIA FREEDOM
UNSURPRISINGLY, THERE has been little or no media coverage of the pay-outs to media organisations recently from the Government or, rather, the taxpayers’ largely unknowing munificence so generously enabled by... Read more »
CLARE DALY V ‘SUNDAY TIMES’
GOLDHAWK PREDICTED as far back as 2022 that then MEP Clare Daly would come for those sections of the media that had, as she saw it, set out to politically... Read more »
FUNDING GREAT BRITISH NEWS
IRISH TAXPAYERS will be equally happy – in the spirit of our shared island and its history – to learn that the Government’s media largesse has spread to the north.... Read more »
Last Refuge
‘INSECURE’ OIREACHTAS COMMITTEE
THERE WAS consternation among certain members of the Dáil reform committee when it met to ratify the draft Orders of Reference and Establishment of Committees Report. A one-line footnote in the... Read more »
HAS BACIK BACKED OFF LEFT UNITY?
THE GROWING movement pushing for broad left unity among the opposition received two signals last week at a large rally to retain the triple lock that involved most, but not... Read more »
BERTIE BANGS ON ÁRAS DOOR
MUCH MEDIA attention was given – as intended – to a rather self-serving organisation, which is entitled the InterAction Council. It is composed of former world leaders and has been... Read more »
Northwind
EASTWOOD ROUNDS ON TAOISEACH
At the end of April Colum Eastwood, MP for Foyle and former leader of the SDLP, had an article published in the Irish Times that is a scathing criticism of... Read more »
Hush Hush
FAR-RIGHT COUPS
THAT LARGE anti-immigrant march in Dublin recently masked upheavals and faction fighting among new-right corporals jostling for ascendancy. Two casualties appear to be Justin Barrett – still claiming to be... Read more »
Bog Cuttings
BOG CUTTINGS
THIRSTY WORK The actions of a Roscommon man charged with theft and leaving a restaurant without paying were described as “the lowest of the low” when the case came before... Read more »
Fowl Emissions
GOLD MINE PROJECT FOYLED AGAIN
In a saga of government department hypocrisy that Strabane man Brian O’Nolan (aka Myles na gCopaleen) may have considered perfect fodder for his Cruiskeen Lawn column, the Sinn Féin-led Northern... Read more »
The Hot Air Brigade
THE HOT AIR BRIGADE
They should follow the masters, who are U2. Bono goes on, he talks about Palestine. He does it in peace. He’s pro-Palestine, that’s his opinion, Bono, God bless him, but... Read more »
High Society
McDOWELL’S TIKTOK TRIUMPH
BELFAST-BASED cosmetics czar Brendan McDowell (who landed the Entrepreneur of the Year award at Ali Ryan’s Gossies bash in the RDS last year) continues... Read more »
TOM KENNEDY’S YOGA STUDIO
AN IMPRESSIVE six-bedroom pile in D14 that has gone on the market with a chunky €4m price tag turns out to be owned by... Read more »
LAURA MAGEE’S ‘THOROUGHBRED EXPERIENCES’
WHILE MINISTERS Peter Burke (enterprise and trade) and Martin Heydon (agriculture and food) were no doubt entertained on Punchestown’s Gold Cup day, they also took the time to officially launch... Read more »
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Behind the Scenes
PATRICK O’DONOVAN’S HEADACHE
ANYONE SURPRISED at Donald Trump’s threat of a 100% tariff on films produced in “foreign lands” must not have been paying attention. But there are some players who have more... Read more »
PIANO BLUES
THE 13TH Dublin International Piano Competition (DIPC) takes place this week in the Royal Irish Academy of Music, with the final showdown at the National Concert Hall on Friday May... Read more »
Sport of Kings
MAGNIER ON THE ROPES
IF LEINSTER’S European semi-final exit to Northampton was a bona fide sporting shock, the drubbing handed out to John Magnier and the gang at Coolmore was also a bruising affair.... Read more »
McGARVEY’S MOVE
JODY McGARVEY signed off on his riding career with a third place aboard the well-supported Willie Mullins-trained beaten favourite Mirazur West in Punchestown’s Frontline Security Handicap Chase. Predictably, his final... Read more »
Moneybags
WHY IT’S TIME TO CHOP UP GLANBIA
ACTIVIST INVESTOR Clearway Capital is correct in its view that Glanbia should be broken up into its three component parts. Tirlán Co-Op, which is... Read more »
WINDING DOWN LAND-HOARDER NAMA
AFTER THE furore surrounding the mooted appointment of Nama CEO Brendan McDonagh as the head of the Government’s new housing activation office, the focus... Read more »
A Christmas Gift that Carries the Story of Ireland
At a time of year when meaningful gifts matter most, Irish Pens offers something truly distinctive – handcrafted writing instruments made from the wood of Ireland’s own landscape. Created... Read more »
Brief Cases
CHOPHOUSE CHOPPED
EIGHT MONTHS after Kevin and Jillian Arundel (née Mulcahy) pulled down the shutters on their high-profile gastropub in Ballsbridge, The Chophouse, they have wound up the company behind their second... Read more »
BRIAN MOONEY’S GOLF SWING
THIS MONTH is the deadline for creditors to submit any claims concerning an interesting company called Golphysics Ltd, which was set up by engineering whizz Brian Mooney to exploit some... Read more »
BRONAGH CONLON’S HANGOVER
THE DREADED taxman has registered a judgment in the High Court for €124,000 against Bronagh Conlon’s Listoke Distillery operation in Co Louth, which had been operating until recently as both... Read more »
BERNIE’S BAD NEWS
SINCE GOLDHAWK revealed (see The Phoenix 9/1/25) that a number of companies established by boom-time builder Bernard McNamara were to be wound up, things have continued to go downhill fast... Read more »
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