Affairs of the Nation

Heather Humphreys

Affairs of the Nation

CONNOLLY WON’T FIGHT BACK

SECTIONS OF the Catherine Connolly-led left alliance are frustrated at the genteel refusal of their candidate to respond in kind to what they say has been a scurrilous campaign from... Read more »
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Affairs of the Nation

SWAN DIVE

IT WAS reported earlier this month that the fraud squad has recommended to the DPP that the principals in a liquidated company called Swan Fruit Ltd (SFL) be prosecuted. The... Read more »
Rob Kenny

Affairs of the Nation

ROB KENNY’S MEAT DISH

WHILE THERE was plenty of media coverage of the new Dublin restaurant Entrecôte, which turned out not to be associated in any way with similarly named establishments in France and... Read more »

Affairs of the Nation

Sean Guerin

Affairs of the Nation

COSTS SLASHED IN MURDER ACQUITTAL

THE acquittal in January of law professor Diarmuid Phelan on a charge of murdering Keith Conlon, whom he shot on his Co Dublin farm in 2022, came as a great... Read more »
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Affairs of the Nation

MEEHAN V HANLEY

A PREDICTABLE response to the recent killing of two Jewish people at a Manchester synagogue was a Sunday Times article in which stressed the need for extra security to protect... Read more »
Tiarnan O'Mahoney

Affairs of the Nation

TIARNAN O’MAHONEY’S ‘PASSION’

GOLDHAWK WAS surprised to see that one Tiarnan O’Mahoney has just been appointed a trustee of the Alfred Beit Foundation (ABF), which is responsible for managing the splendid 200-acre Russborough... Read more »
Niamh Sweeney

Affairs of the Nation

NIAMH SWEENEY’S CV

THE OFFICE of the Data Protection Commission (DPC) now boasts a full squad after justice minister Jim O’Callaghan appointed Niamh Sweeney as the third data protection commissioner. She turns out... Read more »

Pillars of Society

Billy Kelleher

Pillars of Society

PROFILE: BILLY KELLEHER

MICHEÁL MARTIN would not have anticipated that MEP Billy Kelleher would trigger the greatest political crisis of his leadership since Fianna Fáil’s disastrous 2020... Read more »

The Young Bloods

Bryan O'Mahony

The Young Bloods

YOUNG BLOOD: BRYAN O’MAHONY

WATERFORD NATIVE Bryan O’Mahony is the new president of Aontas na Mac Léinn in Éirinn (AMLÉ), formerly known as USI, the representative body of... Read more »

Fit to Print?

Mary McAleese

Fit to Print?

LUNDY LIVES!

LAUNCHING BEN Collins’s book, The Irish Unity Dividend, former president Mary McAleese recently told her Dublin audience: “The ending of partition and the unification of Ireland can be a really... Read more »
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Fit to Print?

ALAN ENGLISH’S EDITING

THE NEW associate editor of The Currency, Alan English – who resigned as editor of the Sunday Independent six months ago – has had a tumultuous ride in the sometimes... Read more »
Keir Starmer

Fit to Print?

STARMER: CHINA NO THREAT

THE SUNDAY TIMES Aawrish edition ran a special red China scare story last weekend – “one of the most serious cases of foreign interference uncovered in the state” – after... Read more »

Last Refuge

Jim O'Callaghan

Last Refuge

O’CALLAGHAN SITS TIGHT

WHEN BILLY KELLEHER threw down the gauntlet to Micheál Martin and his presidential choice, Jim Gavin, Jim O’Callaghan trod a most cautious path – while he did support his leader’s... Read more »
Maria Steen

Last Refuge

NEW RIGHT NEW PARTY

A NEW middle-class party appears to be in gestation, judging by the noise surrounding the failure of Maria Steen’s smash-and-grab effort to break into the presidential campaign. This helps to... Read more »
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Last Refuge

MI6 AND CHARLIE HAUGHEY

Martin Mansergh will be remembered for his role in the northern peace process but less so for his deep understanding of British intelligence machinations, something that was instrumental in helping... Read more »
Heather Humphreys

Last Refuge

YATES: ‘LET’S HEAR THE BASTARD DENY IT’

THE ARRESTING advice offered by ex-Fine Gael minister Ivan Yates to his former party colleague, presidential candidate Heather Humphreys, on how to handle Catherine Connolly was to “smear the bejaysus... Read more »

Northwind

Leo Varadkar

Northwind

‘MINORITY’ RULE OK!

Last Saturday at about 8.15pm, someone using an angle grinder cut the Irish-language section, which read Páirc an tSeandúin, out of a Belfast street sign. What remained is the English... Read more »

Hush Hush

Justin Barrett

Hush Hush

JUSTIN BARRETT’S RIGHT SIDE

A 34-PAGE Electoral Commission (EC) report last month on the contested leadership of the hard-right National Party (NP) seems to have finally brought the dispute to a conclusion. After two... Read more »

Bog Cuttings

Bog-Cuttings-Defaul

Bog Cuttings

BOG CUTTINGS

ARRESTING WISDOM Letterkenny District Court heard the case of Conor Coyle (21), who became abusive towards gardaí during an incident on lower Main Street, Letterkenny, on February 3. Sergeant Jim... Read more »

Fowl Emissions

John Collison

Fowl Emissions

MARTIN’S CLIMATE CURVE

Taoiseach Micheál Martin told the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow in November 2021 in the starkest possible terms of the gravity of the climate crisis and stressed Ireland’s willingness to... Read more »
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Fowl Emissions

RICHARD KENNEDY’S MAGIC TRICK

Did you know that incredible breakthrough technologies being developed by an Irish firm “have the potential to wipe out emissions from the State’s cattle herd by 2025”? That was the... Read more »

The Hot Air Brigade

Keith Barry

The Hot Air Brigade

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

I am not a mind reader, but I can hack brains by deducing people, so I take a lot of inspiration from Sherlock Holmes. ‘Mentalist’ Keith Barry on who he... Read more »

High Society

High Society

Bernadine & Sean Mulryan

High Society

SEAN MULRYAN’S HEAVY GOING

PROPERTY DEVELOPER extraordinaire Sean Mulryan has been focusing much of his energy on London in recent years, although the Irish market still looms very... Read more »

High Society

John Cunningham

High Society

JOHN CUNNINGHAM’S EXTRA TIME

THE DIRECTOR of the Irish Museum of Modern Art (Imma), Annie Fletcher, was celebrating least month after the national cultural institution landed the impressive-sounding... Read more »

Behind the Scenes

Patrick O'Donovan

Behind the Scenes

O’DONOVAN LOSES THE PLOT

FANS OF Goldhawk are well aware of a grant awarded to Listowel Writers’ Week (LWW) – now chaired by former Fianna Fáil senator Ned O’Sullivan – to compensate for the... Read more »

Sport of Kings

JP McManus

Sport of Kings

JP McMANUS’S COMPO

JP McMANUS and veteran light-weight jockey Niall McCullagh recently teamed up to land quite a punt in the valuable Friends of the Curragh Irish Cesarewitch. The Geneva-based zillionaire may have... Read more »
Nobody Knows

Sport of Kings

MULRYAN’S FORM

BIG-SPENDING racehorse owner Sean Mulryan also happens to be a minted property developer and he recently landed the Freedom of the City of London at the city’s Guildhall for putting... Read more »

Moneybags

Moneybags

Gene Murtagh

Moneybags

HYPED IPO PLAN AT KINGSPAN HELPS TO DISGUISE STAGNATION

KINGSPAN CEO Gene Murtagh’s announcement last month that he will target the data-centre boom by floating off 25% of the so-called ADVNSYS business came... Read more »

Moneybags

Tony Smurfit

Moneybags

SMURFIT WESTROCK COMBO FAILS TO EXCITE THE YANKS

SMURFIT WESTROCK (SWR) CEO Tony Smurfit is not having a smooth journey on the New York Stock Exchange. Rather than taking off as anticipated,... Read more »

Brief Cases

Orla Gallagher

Brief Cases

RUSSBOROUGH’S ROUGH RIDE

ACCOUNTS HAVE just been filed for the Alfred Beit Foundation (ABF) that oversees the running of the historic Russborough House in Blessington, Co Wicklow. Things are not looking good. The... Read more »
Tomas Brennan

Brief Cases

A FAMILY AFFAIR

THERE HAVE been some tough times of late for John Kieran Brennan, founder of Moralltach, a vehicle set up after the crash to bail out heavily indebted property companies, but... Read more »
Revenue

Brief Cases

TAXING TIMES FOR DALY AND COLLINS

GOLDHAWK SPOTTED a hefty judgment registered by the dreaded Revenue Commissioners against a company with links to well-known Cork accountancy firm O’Brien Cahill & Co, which was founded back in... Read more »

Brief Cases

ODHRAN O’REILLY’S BOUNDARY

A LITTLE-known company called Landour Ltd, owned by a minted couple in the heart of Ballsbridge, has just registered a significant judgment against one Odhran O’Reilly, an experienced financial suit... Read more »