Affairs of the Nation

Joan Kehoe

Affairs of the Nation

GAA GAMES ON GAZA AND ALLIANZ

DID THE GAA find that deliberations on its controversial Allianz sponsorship deal were simplified by the existence on its management committee of Joan Kehoe, a high-flying asset management executive with... Read more »
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Affairs of the Nation

KELCY WARREN’S WINGS

AT THE start of this month, the Irish Times announced that the man behind a €30m investment in Waterford Airport is Texan oil billionaire Kelcy Warren, “according to sources with... Read more »
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Affairs of the Nation

CUSHNAHAN’S CAPERS

THE DREADED taxman has just registered a chunky judgment against Goldhawk’s old pal, Dublin accountant Nicholas Cushnahan, whose clients have had their share of run-ins with the Revenue. Readers will... Read more »

Affairs of the Nation

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Affairs of the Nation

MAIRIA CAHILL’S IRANIAN INSIGHTS

THE BIZARRE world of Iranian dissidents and their western supporters is even more politically eclectic than first appears judging by a recent Sunday Independent article from Mairia Cahill. Goldhawk has... Read more »
Anton Savage

Affairs of the Nation

IN ANTON WE TRUST

NEWSTALK RADIO’S new schedule begins next week with Anton Savage – principal shareholder in PR consultancy and media trainer The Communications Clinic – occupying a prime slot as presenter of... Read more »
Anthony Moyles

Affairs of the Nation

DAVY’S BIG BOYS’ CLUB

JUST WHICH financial firms will get the biggest slice of the estimated €1.5bn in funds set to be released from the control of the courts as part of the Assisted... Read more »
Michael Hackman

Affairs of the Nation

MICHAEL HACKMAN’S HARD TIMES

FANS OF Goldhawk will be familiar with the activities of US real estate moneybags turned movie studio czar Michael Hackman, who has shaken up the business in Ireland. The plot,... Read more »
Fred Holroyd

Affairs of the Nation

DENTON: MI5 IN THE DOCK

A significant parting of ways has occurred between MI5 and Sir Iain Livingstone, the Scottish police officer who led the final Operation Kenova report into Freddie Scappaticci and the interim... Read more »
Séan Clancy

Affairs of the Nation

WILLING WARRIORS

General SÉan Clancy, former Irish Defence Forces chief of staff and now chair of the European Union Military Committee (EUMC) – see p10 – attended the Coalition of the Willing... Read more »

Pillars of Society

Niamh Smyth

Pillars of Society

PROFILE: NIAMH SMYTH

FROM OBSCURITY to centre stage is often a matter of timing but the Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence (AI), Niamh Smyth, has been... Read more »

The Young Bloods

How To Gael

The Young Bloods

YOUNG BLOOD: ‘HOW TO GAEL’ GALS

SEXING UP the teanga seems to be the main modus operandi of the three 30-something women behind the hip, bilingual How to Gael podcast.... Read more »

Fit to Print?

Pat Leahy

Fit to Print?

NEUTERED (NOT NEUTRAL) MEDIA

MEDIA ANALYSTS writing about issues of great moment at home and abroad can be forgiven for occasional pomposity but not for simply parroting government strategy as if such views were... Read more »
Diageo Dana An Garda Síochána IT Trust No Stone Unturned Irish Times Black Friday Vicky Conway

Fit to Print?

TRIPLE LOCK DOUBLE SPEAK

IN ITS haste to welcome the Government’s proposed abolition of the triple lock, the Irish Times front-page lead story this week regurgitated the killer argument (actually a rather dubious contention)... Read more »
Mike Sheehan

Fit to Print?

‘ECHO’ CHAMBER

AN ANXIOUS meeting of Echo staff journalists with the Irish secretary of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ), Séamus Dooley, was convened last month as the hacks’ worst fears appear... Read more »

Last Refuge

Micheál Martin

Last Refuge

MARTIN FACES DANGEROUS PERIOD

REASSURING NOISE from most media quarters about Micheál Martin’s survival as Fianna Fáil leader will, his minders hope, help to see him through the next few months and into the... Read more »
Helen McEntee

Last Refuge

McENTEE: IRELAND STILL NEUTRAL

A RITUAL that has become a standard part of every military initiative or belligerent statement by the Government and the Defence Forces is that Irish neutrality is still, and will... Read more »
Janice Boylan Irish Military Mali Coolock Says No IFP Hermann Kelly Timmy Dooley Aontú Mal O’Hara Fintan O’Toole Josepha Madigan Eoghan Harris Ukraine War Micheál Martin Middle East Philip Ryan Seán Clancy Simon Coveney Hugo MacNeill Mountbatten Neasa Hourigan Green Party Martin NPT Ivana Bacik Independents Limerick Hospital Overcrowding Barry Cowen

Last Refuge

HOLLY V IVANA

BARELY commented on in last Sunday’s Red C poll was the Social Democrats’ 10% to Labour’s 5% ratings, with the former party’s lead not only consistent since the November 2024... Read more »
John Stephens

Last Refuge

BERTIE’S BOY V DONOHOE’S BOY

THE DUBLIN CENTRAL by-election may provide a double bill comprising the main event – involving Sinn Féin’s candidate (yet to be declared), Social Democrats councillor Daniel Ennis and Gerry Hutch... Read more »

Northwind

Diana Armstrong

Northwind

SINN FÉIN’S ‘STUDY’ GROUPS

Fermanagh & Omagh District Council (FODC) has provoked outrage among unionists by setting up an Irish Unity group “to assess views on all the issues relating to constitutional change”. It... Read more »

Hush Hush

Keith Woods

Hush Hush

WILD COLONIAL NAZIS

In the aftermath of 15 people being gunned down at Hanukkah celebrations near Bondi Beach, Sydney in December, Australia’s parliament last week passed tough new anti-hate-speech legislation. The National Socialist... Read more »

Bog Cuttings

Bog-Cuttings-Defaul

Bog Cuttings

BOG CUTTINGS

‘SQUARED UP TO’ GARDA Alan Healy (59) received an eight-week suspended sentence at a recent sitting of Cork District Court after pleading guilty to charges of public intoxication and engaging... Read more »

Fowl Emissions

James O'Connor

Fowl Emissions

SOLAR PANEL REBELS

Cork’s rebel spirit is being invoked to resist an 800-acre development near Killeagh village in the east of the county. But what’s being opposed is something Ireland and the world... Read more »
Luke Holland Climate Denial John Fagan Wolf Europe David Quinn Duncan Stewart Data Centre Carbon Emissions Conor Skehan Chris Hazzard

Fowl Emissions

DARRAGH O’BRIEN’S STROKE

In an attempt to fast-track the Government’s proposed LNG storage facility in Co Clare, minister Darragh O’Brien tried to pull a stroke that would make an autocrat blush. Last week... Read more »

The Hot Air Brigade

Miriam O'Callaghan

The Hot Air Brigade

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Miriam O’Callaghan has weighed in on the Beckham family feud, saying that a public rift with any of her children would be her “worst nightmare”. Sunday Times He called Michael... Read more »

High Society

High Society

Eric Matthews and Richie Barrett

High Society

BANG’S NEW MENU

THE DUBLIN restaurant scene appeared to get something of a shake-up when it was widely reported last month that “the duo behind Kicky’s” on... 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

DR EVA LETS GO

HEALTH GURU Dr Eva Orsmond popped up earlier this month in the Sindo’s My Money column, where the colourful businesswoman informed readers that her... Read more »

High Society

Laura Dowling

High Society

LAURA DOWLING’S VULVA PUPPET

THERE WAS good news for the National Concert Hall (NCH) earlier this month when culture minister Patrick O’Donovan claimed money is “not an issue” in relation to the huge redevelopment... Read more »

Behind the Scenes

Oliver Sears

Behind the Scenes

OLIVER SEARS’S COMMITTEE WORK

AS JANUARY draws to an end there is still no sign of any report from the Government’s committee on the repatriation of cultural artefacts, the laboriously titled Advisory Committee on... Read more »

Sport of Kings

Harry Cobden

Sport of Kings

TARGETING COBDEN

HARRY COBDEN, the newly retained jockey for JP McManus, had an inauspicious beginning to the new partnership when he missed out through injury on a Grade 1 winning ride on... 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

MULLINS MISSES OUT

PATRICK MULLINS’S quest to ride a winner at every UK racecourse suffered another setback at Fakenham earlier this month where he was legged up on two beaten odds-on shots trained... Read more »

Moneybags

Moneybags

John Sherman

Moneybags

CONROY’S SOARING SHARE PRICE STILL LEAVES GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY

WHEN THE Turkish giant exploration outfit Demir Exports opted to pull out of its farm-in agreement in June 2024, it certainly looked likely that... Read more »

Moneybags

Tim McCutcheon

Moneybags

OVOCA BIO’S TALISMAN METALS TRANSFORMATION

THE TRANSFORMATION of Ovoca Bio into Talisman Metals was due to be voted through at the EGM this week. It is clear that investors... Read more »

Brief Cases

Erik and Michelle Robson

Brief Cases

ERIK ROBSON’S TAXING TIME

THE DREADED taxman has petitioned the High Court to wind up a company called Powerglade Ltd that has links to the popular and long-established Ely Wine Bar in D2 fronted... Read more »
Lochlann Quinn

Brief Cases

LOCHLANN QUINN’S JET BET

JUST BEFORE Christmas in the High Court a judgment was executed in favour of a company called Associated Energy Group LLC, which sued Shannon-based private jet fleet operator Westair Aviation... Read more »
ZMG Cyril Murphy Newbridge College Peter Wilson Sporting Emporium Chris Wholey O'Kane God’s Creatures Film Tax Relief Anne Rossi Desmond Live Nation ESCADIA LTD Al Porter Comeback Gordon Elliott Clayton Love Ivan Wilde hot-water-brigade Parnells GAA Lawsuit

Brief Cases

ALKEN BROTHERS WHINE TIME

FOR THE second time, the Revenue has petitioned the High Court to wind up a company called Alken Brothers Wine Merchants Ltd (ABW), having previously set the ball rolling last... Read more »
Sean O'Driscoll

Brief Cases

‘WHO IS SEAN O’DRISCOLL?’

GOLDHAWK’S EYE was caught by a blog by Cian Ginty, the editor of cycling website IrishCycle.com, that posed the provocative question: “Who is Sean O’Driscoll? And why does the Government... Read more »
Louis and Mairead Ronan

Brief Cases

THE RONANS’ ‘ENTERTAINMENT AREA’

MOVERS AND shakers Mairead and Louis Ronan – media personality and scion of wealthy business family respectively – have had little luck in their efforts to get their holiday home... Read more »