Affairs of the Nation

Gerard Craughwell

Affairs of the Nation

SENATORS POISED TO TAKE TEHRAN

THE IRANIANS will be relieved that field marshal Gerard Craughwell will not now be implementing his threat to inflict immediate and terrible rhetoric on the mullahs, a threat the senator... Read more »
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Affairs of the Nation

WUFF JUSTICE

LAST MONTH Working Animals Guardians (WAG) secured an invitation to Leinster House to brief TDs and senators about the amendments required for Heather Humphreys’ XL bully breed ban. Among those... Read more »
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Affairs of the Nation

TACKLING PADRAIC O’KANE

As the hype machine kicks in for the first ever ‘adult’ NFL game in Ireland – Minnesota Vikings v Pittsburgh Steelers at Croke Park in September – another American footie... Read more »

Affairs of the Nation

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Affairs of the Nation

COUGHLAN’S CAUTION

That indefatigable political warrior, academic Anthony Coughlan, recently came up with what appears to be a strong argument against the abolition of the triple lock that has not yet entered... Read more »
Fred Holroyd

Affairs of the Nation

DUBLIN/MONAGHAN INQUIRY SLOWS

WITH THE Omagh bombing inquiry already slowing under the weight of its initial disclosure, the inquiry into the other most deadly attack of the Troubles, the UK’s Operation Denton into... Read more »
Jane Mahony

Affairs of the Nation

JANE MAHONY’S BOMBARDMENT

A LETTER published in the Irish Times last week attacked Trinity College in a no-holds barred manner over its decision to sever ties with Israeli academic institutions. The writer turns... Read more »
Liam Lynch

Affairs of the Nation

LIAM LYNCH’S IRISH GOODBYE

A CREDITORS’ meeting was held earlier this month for a company called Irish Studio Media Publishing Ltd (ISM), the outfit established here by New Jersey-based Irish-American moneybags Liam Lynch, which... Read more »
Keir Starmer

Affairs of the Nation

DID MI5 MANIPULATE GROOMING GANGS?

SIR KEIR Starmer has reluctantly agreed to establish a statutory inquiry into the failure of the police and other state agencies in the UK to confront the crimes of grooming... Read more »

Pillars of Society

Paul Murphy

Pillars of Society

PROFILE: PAUL MURPHY

PAUL MURPHY recently returned from his attempted relief mission to Gaza, prompting a boorish comment from former foreign minister Charlie Flanagan, who said the... Read more »

The Young Bloods

Carl Mullan

The Young Bloods

YOUNG BLOOD: CARL MULLAN

Carl Mullan knew exactly what he was doing when he shared a clip of himself sitting in Joe Duffy’s usual seat in the RTÉ... Read more »

Fit to Print?

David McWilliams

Fit to Print?

GREAT MINDS THINK ALIKE

DALKEY BOOK FESTIVAL, the ego-child of David McWilliams, came around this month with little danger of anyone in the literary and media establishment having a pop at the author’s limited... 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?

GABIJA’S BARISTA BOMBSHELL!

AS IF Government TDs did not have enough to put up with as voters whine about housing, it emerges that they are also being abused in public for the Government’s... Read more »
Terry Keane

Fit to Print?

DAY OF THE SQUIRE

RECENTLY DECEASED Freddie Forsyth, the author of The Day of the Jackal and other bestsellers, revealed in his 2015 biography, The Outsider, that he was once an asset of MI6.... Read more »

Last Refuge

James Browne

Last Refuge

BROWNE UNITES DUBLIN ON HOUSING

THE FULL extent of the political crisis on housing was revealed at Dublin City Council (DCC) this month, when housing minister James Brown managed to unite not only Sinn Féin... Read more »
Gareth Sheridan

Last Refuge

PROXY FIANNA FÁIL ÁRAS CANDIDATE

HAS THE dearth of persuasive Fianna Fáil candidates – apart, perhaps, from Bertie Ahern – persuaded some sneaking regarders of the ‘republican’ party that a surrogate candidate and organisation could... Read more »
Fintan O'Toole

Last Refuge

FAIRWEATHER FINTAN

THE VIRTUAL silence from both Labour and the Social Democrats to the notion of Irish Times guru Fintan O’Toole’s nomination as a presidential candidate compared sharply to the enthusiasm from... Read more »
Colum Eastwood

Last Refuge

COLUM EASTWOOD – ALWAYS THE BRIDESMAID

IS FORMER SDLP leader Colum Eastwood suffering from some sort of political personality disorder brought on by persistent political abuse at the hands of Micheál Martin’s Fianna Fáil? How else... Read more »

Northwind

Leo Varadkar

Northwind

VARADKAR V MARTIN AND DUP

TAOISEACH Micheál Martin and the DUP’s deputy first minister, Emma Little-Pengelly, have at least one thing in common – neither of them wants to talk about a united Ireland. But... Read more »

Hush Hush

Derek Blighe

Hush Hush

THE WHITE NORTH

FOR OVER a week in early June the pogroms in Ballymena, Larne and elsewhere in the north grabbed media headlines, while dramatic broadcasts of immigrants being targeted and burned out... Read more »

Bog Cuttings

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Bog Cuttings

BOG CUTTINGS

ABUSIVE BEHAVIOUR Sligo District Court heard the case of 45-year-old Ronan Lynch, who was charged with engaging in threatening and abusive behaviour, and failing to provide his address on December... Read more »

Fowl Emissions

Darragh O'Brien

Fowl Emissions

DARRAGH O’BRIEN’S DOPPELGÄNGER

These are trying times for climate minister Darragh O’Brien, as his doppelgänger, transport minister Darragh O’Brien, continually tries to undermine his every effort at emissions reductions. Earlier this week, the... Read more »
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Fowl Emissions

OIL SPILL

An Post garnered some soft PR for plans to reduce the carbon footprint of its fleet. Given the state company is already successfully operating 1,400 electric vehicles, it was hugely... Read more »

The Hot Air Brigade

Pippa O'Connor

The Hot Air Brigade

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

I think it’s a bit of a superpower to be a little bit underestimated. Pippa O’Connor, Sunday Independent Life Magazine For Silver Light, think of rules that produce unpredictable outcomes.... Read more »

High Society

High Society

Lord Bamford and Willie Mullins

High Society

WILLIE MULLINS’ NOBLE AMBITIONS

PERHAPS THE most eyebrow-raising outcome at Royal Ascot last week was the failure of big-spending Kia Joorabchian’s Amo Racing to have a single success... Read more »

High Society

Lansdowne Place

High Society

LANSDOWNE PLACE’S NEW FACES

CONGRATULATIONS TO former Independent News & Media (INM) head honcho Vincent Crowley, who has just shifted an impressive 3,700 sq ft three-storey redbrick pile... Read more »

Behind the Scenes

Paul Williams

Behind the Scenes

GRABBING GRAHAM DWYER

GOLDHAWK WAS surprised to see that the headline-grabbing new documentary on the Graham Dwyer murder of Elaine O’Hara was produced not by an Irish company but by London-headquartered Wag Entertainment... Read more »
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Behind the Scenes

ULTAN PRINGLE’S PROMOTION

IN DONEGAL, up and coming playwright Ultan Pringle continues his momentum, ably assisted by the Arts Council. His new play, Snowflakes – partly “inspired by Greta Thunberg” – recently debuted... Read more »

Sport of Kings

Ollie Sangster

Sport of Kings

OLLIE’S ARMY

IT WAS just like old times recently when the Magnier family plus its Coolmore entourage teamed up with one Ollie Sangster for racecourse success courtesy of a well-bred filly. This... Read more »
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Sport of Kings

COLIN KEANE’S ASCOT CARD

JOCKEY Colin Keane’s new retainer with Juddmonte got off to the best start with a facile victory aboard the John and Thady Gosden-trained Field of Gold in Ascot’s Group 1... Read more »

Moneybags

Moneybags

Michael O'Leary

Moneybags

RYANAIR PROFITS SET TO SOAR DESPITE O’LEARY

FOR THE financial year ending March 31, 2025, Ryanair recorded net profits down 16% to €1.61bn, with CEO Mick O’Leary up to his old... Read more »

Moneybags

Jim Mintern

Moneybags

NEW REGIME AT CRH BUT SAME OLD STORY

THE REMARKABLY well-remunerated Albert Manifold has left the stage at CRH and his successor as CEO, Jim Mintern, has inherited a US-focused group. The... Read more »

Brief Cases

Sam Blanckensee

Brief Cases

TENI’S BIG BACKERS

THE CONTROVERSIAL Transgender Equality Network Ireland (Teni) last week found itself in the sights of conservative media organs such as Gript and the European Conservative after the charity was selected... Read more »
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Brief Cases

THE OTHER MULTIMILLION-EURO ‘VERBAL CONTRACT’

THE HIGHLY entertaining contest in the Four Goldmines between John Magnier and Richard Thomson-Moore over the disputed €15m sale of the 750-acre Barne Estate in Co Tipperary increasingly reminds Goldhawk... Read more »
Ross O'Dwyer

Brief Cases

ROSS O’DWYER’S IMPRESSIVE SQUAD

GOLDHAWK NOTES a recent order in the High Court striking out a petition from the dreaded taxman to wind up a company called Readia Ltd. This turns out to be... Read more »
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Brief Cases

THE ‘POST’S’ WAREHOUSE

ELSEWHERE IN this issue (see p5) Goldhawk looks at former Business Post shareholder Liam Lynch’s challenges in his Irish company, which built up losses of almost €3m. What is also... Read more »