Affairs of the Nation

Maria Walsh

Affairs of the Nation

FFG AND ISRAELI ARMS

THE OUTRAGE of Tánaiste and Fine Gael leader Simon Harris as well as the loud shrieks from the party’s MEPs at the slaughter inflicted by the Israel Defence Forces (IDF)... Read more »
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Affairs of the Nation

PETER SHANLEY’S LEGAL SQUAD

CONGRATULATIONS to senior counsel Peter Shanley, who was quick off the mark to take advantage of a key provision in the Legal Services Regulation Act, which allows direct access to... Read more »
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Affairs of the Nation

MERRION SQUARE FIRING SQUAD

IT SHOULD be standing room only at the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) meeting this week as the Arts Council, National Gallery of Ireland (NGI) and arts and culture mandarins come... Read more »

Affairs of the Nation

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Affairs of the Nation

LEO’S LINE

THE NEW political editor of the Irish and Sunday Independent, Mary Regan is a most accomplished journalist as her work at RTÉ, the Irish Examiner and Business Post proves. So... Read more »
Jim O'Callaghan

Affairs of the Nation

SPOOKY SWISS CLUB DE BERNE

IRELAND MAY not be able to conduct immigration security screening – necessary for the implementation of the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum – according to a Government report. This... Read more »
Sharon Collins

Affairs of the Nation

PADDY POWER’S TARGET

NEW YORK-listed Flutter Entertainment plc – owners of gambling giant Paddy Power – has launched High Court proceedings in Dublin against an Irish property company called Waymill Ltd. The name... Read more »
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Affairs of the Nation

DANIEL O’DONNELL’S DUCATS

AS THE fans of Donegal crooner Daniel O’Donnell come to terms with the fact that he is to take an extended break from touring, the good news for the man... Read more »
Barry Doyle

Affairs of the Nation

JIMMY FENNELLY’S FINALE

TENACIOUS ACCOUNTANT Jimmy Fennelly will feel he balanced the books somewhat at last week’s AGM of the Chartered Accountants of Ireland (CAI), with whom he has been having a long-running... Read more »
Margaret Thatcher

Affairs of the Nation

KINCORA SECRETS STILL TUMBLING OUT

Sir Anthony Hart’s derided 2017 report into the Kincora abuse scandal was meant to quash interest in the story but served only to fuel a spate of reports in The... Read more »
Martin Sellner

Affairs of the Nation

RIGHT-WING ULTRAS

THAT SIX members of the National Party’s (NP) anti-Barrett faction travelled to Milan, Italy, for the recent Remigration Summit indicates how far the party’s brand of hardline ethnonationalism is from... Read more »

Pillars of Society

Ivana Bacik

Pillars of Society

PROFILE: IVANA BACIK

THREE YEARS ago, Ivana Bacik became the sixth leader of the Labour Party in 20 years and last November its members hoped that its... Read more »

The Young Bloods

Eoghan Gilroy

The Young Bloods

YOUNG BLOOD: EOGHAN GILROY

EOGHAN GILROY has managed to climb the ladder of student politics almost to the very top and shows no sign of slowing down (even... Read more »

Fit to Print?

Kevin Bakhurst

Fit to Print?

RTÉ BLANKS GAZA PROTESTS

THE ANGUISH of RTÉ luvvies over a private firm being hired to produce an advert for RTÉ News in a simulated newsroom – ‘fake news,’ they cried – is nothing... Read more »
Alison O'Connor

Fit to Print?

GAZA REVISITED

IT’S HARD to single out the most brazen U-turn on Gaza by those who might now be anxious about having endorsed – by word or even silence – the Government’s... Read more »
Ivan Yates 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?

MICHAEL GAINE MURDER ‘SUSPECT’

KERRY-BASED American Michael Kelley, who was arrested on suspicion of murdering Kenmare farmer Michael Gaine and who gave an interview to the Irish Mirror last weekend about his arrest, ought... Read more »

Last Refuge

Jack Chambers

Last Refuge

JACK V JIM: SLOW MOTION CONTEST

AN INTERESTING observation by Irish Times political editor Pat Leahy recently was to the effect that Jim O’Callaghan’s busy, public prominence is due to two reasons: the first is simply... Read more »
Mary Hanafin

Last Refuge

STAR-STUDDED ÁRAS HOPEFULS

THE LATEST Fianna Fáil no-hoper for the FF presidential nomination whose name is being floated (this time by the aspirant herself, not party handlers) is former minister Mary Hanafin. On... Read more »
Gillian Toole

Last Refuge

TOOLE’S TRACK RECORD

THE LONE TD that remained sitting next to Michael Lowry, ‘chairman’ of the Regional Independent Group (RIG) – after Barry Heneghan had abandoned him – was Gillian Toole, Independent TD... Read more »
Duncan Smith

Last Refuge

INSECURE SECURITY COMMITTEE (CH. II)

READERS WILL remember that there was consternation at the Dáil reform committee meeting to organise draft orders of reference for Oireachtas committees when Government members realised that the newly expanded... Read more »

Northwind

John Finucane

Northwind

NORTH HOUSING CRISIS: DÉJÀ VU

There are about 13,000 people on the waiting list for social housing in Belfast. Those on the list are overwhelmingly concentrated in north and west Belfast and they are overwhelmingly... Read more »

Hush Hush

Helen McEntee

Hush Hush

FREEDOM OF HATE SPEECH

When the European Commission issued a statement in early May outlining the sanctions Ireland will face for failing to implement legislation criminalising hate speech, the response of some ‘centre-right’ politicians... Read more »

Bog Cuttings

Bog-Cuttings-Defaul

Bog Cuttings

BOG CUTTINGS

THREAT, NOT PROMISE Sligo District Court heard the case of a man accused of verbally abusing gardaí on two occasions. On January 17 officers received reports of an intoxicated and... Read more »

Fowl Emissions

Ronan Galwey

Fowl Emissions

GREAT GAS

It must be a head-spinning time to work for Gas Networks Ireland (GNI), the semi-state company responsible for operating Ireland’s fossil gas grid. On the one hand, the Government announced... 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

WATERED DOWN

Today 33 Irish rivers are classified as “heavily modified water bodies” (HMWBs), meaning they are of minimal ecological value and so don’t need to be counted against our EU targets... Read more »

The Hot Air Brigade

Bono

The Hot Air Brigade

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

I took that medal on behalf of all those people who don’t get medals – the activists, the people who are getting killed now in Gaza. Bono on his much-criticised... Read more »

High Society

High Society

Atalanta Pollock

High Society

A LOAD OF POLLOCKS

THE IMPRESSIVE early 18th-century Mountainstown House on 121 acres outside Navan, Co Meath, will be auctioned on June 12, having been in the ownership... 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

IMAGE’S TAX DEAL

THE MCDONNELL sisters, Jane and Sarah, had an outing in The Currency last week, where they got to plug their latest venture, Design Week... Read more »

High Society

Tom Higgins

High Society

TOM HIGGINS’S FLIGHT PLAN

IN THE wake of the high-profile ‘gals in space’ media stunt by Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin, it is interesting to note that the market has recently taken a shine to... Read more »

Behind the Scenes

Maura McGrath

Behind the Scenes

THE BIG GIG

AN ADVERT for one of the more prestigious jobs in the arts sector has just been posted by the National Concert Hall (NCH) on its website. It turns out that... 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

COUNCIL ARCHIVED

GOLDHAWK NOTED Orlaith McBride popping up in the media last week on foot of the Government’s plan for the 1926 census, the first of the Irish Free State, to be... Read more »

Sport of Kings

Tony Mullins

Sport of Kings

TONY MULLINS’S MEMORIES

EARLIER THIS month, Tony Mullins – brother of Willie – failed to overturn a Workplace Relations Commission award of a chunky €86,000 made to Yasir Ali, a former stable hand... Read more »
Ted Walsh

Sport of Kings

TED WALSH’S WOES

Ted Walsh – the trainer, pundit and patriarch of the Walsh family of racing TV presenters – was back in hot water with the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) stewards... Read more »

Moneybags

Moneybags

Paul O'Donnell

Moneybags

UNDERPOWERED GREENCOAT RENEWABLES RIPE FOR PICKING

IT IS difficult to know what Paul O’Donnell and Bertrand Gautier – the so-called investment managers in Schroders Greencoat Capital who run Greencoat Renewables... Read more »

Moneybags

Dermot Crowley

Moneybags

JUST WHY IS THE BOARD TRYING TO SELL DALATA?

IT REMAINS difficult to know who is pushing to have Dalata Hotels Group bought out. AS CEO, Dermot Crowley is clearly front and centre... Read more »

Brief Cases

Dermot Smurfit

Brief Cases

DEREK MADDEN’S PRIME PROBLEM

FANS OF Goldhawk with long memories will recall an interesting little bioenergy company called Prime Energy Power Ltd (PEP), where Nicholas O’Dwyer of Grant Thornton was installed as liquidator after... Read more »
Gary Mullan

Brief Cases

GARY MULLAN’S BAD VIBE

GOLDHAWK SPIES that the company behind the lauded Prosperity recruitment firm is being liquidated this week. The good news is that it looks like the multi-talented founder of the firm... Read more »
Matt Gleeson

Brief Cases

BIG NOISE MATT GLEESON

A COMPANY called Blackberry Hearing Ltd has just had a charge registered against it by non-bank lender InvoiceFair Ltd, which now trades as FinanceFair. This follows on foot of a... Read more »
Clodagh Edwards

Brief Cases

‘IMAGE’ MAKEOVER

ELSEWHERE IN this issue, Goldhawk notes the agreement between Image Publications Ltd (IPL) and the Revenue in relation to repayment of warehoused pandemic-period taxes (see p18). It is also worth... Read more »