Affairs of the Nation

Gerry Adams

Affairs of the Nation

ADAMS’S OPPONENT’S ‘LAWFARE’ SKILLS

MUCH OF the Irish Times’s summary of Gerry Adams’s successful defence against a civil case alleging multiple IRA actions reflected the angry statement by the victims’ lawyers, McCue Jury solicitors.... Read more »
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Affairs of the Nation

CHARLIE KELLY’S SCIENCE LESSON

GOLDHAWK WOULD like to congratulate Charlie Kelly, the entrepreneurial boss of the Explorium science centre in Sandyford, south Co Dublin. He has come up with a whizzer of an idea... Read more »
Pat Kenny

Affairs of the Nation

PAT KENNY’S CANDOUR

NEWSTALK’S WEEKEND mornings radio host, Pat Kenny, earned plenty of positive coverage for his Sindo interview with Niamh Horan earlier this month. He had lots to say, including about those... Read more »

Affairs of the Nation

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Affairs of the Nation

KEEPING TABS

LOOKS LIKE the trusting souls in justice are taking no chances when it comes to commissioning a book on the first 50 years of the department, 1918-68. The numerous layers... Read more »
Colin Wallace

Affairs of the Nation

COLIN WALLACE’S COVERT TRUTH

Colin Wallace, a former psychological operations officer in the British Army, is pursuing a legal action to compel the British government to reveal the truth about the covert operations in... Read more »
Ciaran Fitzgerald

Affairs of the Nation

RED FACES AT BLUE HAVEN

AN ATTEMPTED corporate rescue of the so-called Blue Haven ‘Collection’ in Kinsale has flopped and it looks like there could be a fair few creditors lining up behind the taxman,... Read more »
Paul Collins

Affairs of the Nation

PROTECTING PAUL COLLINS

BANDON DEVELOPER Paul Collins has been a controversial figure for many years, courtesy of his companies involvement in the International Protection Accommodation Service (Ipas). He fronts Remcoll Capital, where there... Read more »
Lord Mountbatten

Affairs of the Nation

KINCORA SURVIVOR’S MANY BATTLES

Richard Kerr, a survivor of sex abuse that he suffered at Kincora Boys’ Home, will commence his legal action against the NI state before the High Court in Belfast next... Read more »
Pat O'Connor

Affairs of the Nation

VRAI’S PADDY’S DAY BASH FOR US ARMY

The deepening crisis in the Middle East this month did not deter Irish company VRAI Simulation from pursuing business opportunities with the United States Army. As the US and Israeli... Read more »

Pillars of Society

Eoin Lenihan

Pillars of Society

PROFILE: EOIN LENIHAN

MOST IRISH people who have come across Eoin Lenihan would reference the publication of his Vandalising Ireland: How the Government, NGOs, Academia and the... Read more »

The Young Bloods

Rex Ryan

The Young Bloods

YOUNG BLOOD: REX RYAN

DUBLIN ACTOR and theatre producer Rex Ryan has proven to be a chip off the old block when it comes to courting publicity and... Read more »

Fit to Print?

Éamon Ó Cúiv

Fit to Print?

IRISH MEDIA’S NEUTRALITY BIAS

THAT A barely literate – politically and otherwise – group of western warriors campaigning to abolish Irish neutrality should be composed of a micro group of academics is a little... Read more »
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Fit to Print?

VIRGIN’S NEW MENU

JUST OVER a year ago Virgin Media said the Government’s refusal to give it a slice of the licence fee was putting its “public service broadcasting” schedule under pressure. On... Read more »
Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Fit to Print?

JOHN MOONEY’S SABOTAGE WARNINGS

WEEK BY week the Irish media, keen to prove its virility, ratchets up the prevalent war hysteria with lurid and rarely verified reports of Russian and/or Chinese depravity. A recent... Read more »

Last Refuge

James Lawless

Last Refuge

JAMES LAWLESS V JIM O’CALLAGAHAN

UNDERNEATH THE apparent calm of the Fianna Fáil parliamentary party after leader Micheál Martin’s near-death (political) experience in the presidential fiasco, the unrequited ambitions of various leadership pretenders remain undiminished.... Read more »
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill

Last Refuge

CRUELLA MISSING FROM STORY

THERE WAS a strange aspect to last weekend’s Sunday Times coverage of the tragedy of children dying from scoliosis due to delays in surgery. Goldhawk had been covering a political... Read more »
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Last Refuge

LEFT WAVE CRASHING

THERE ARE two myths about Galway City, the heartland of the Galway West constituency, that could trip up the Wave of the Left, an alliance based on supporters of Catherine... Read more »
Jamie Bryson

Last Refuge

QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY IRISH VOTE

Students at Queen’s University Belfast (QUB) have voted overwhelmingly to restore Irish-language signage along with English-language signs throughout the university’s campus. Of the students who voted, 92% voted to restore... Read more »

Northwind

JD Vance

Northwind

GORDON LYONS’S IDENTITY CRISIS

THE GOVERNMENT intends to make the most of the Irish diaspora’s connections to the 250th anniversary of the US Declaration of Independence. Last September the Government became a formal international... Read more »

Hush Hush

Keith Woods

Hush Hush

AUSTRALIAN NAZI’S OFFALY OFFENDED 

The recent appearance of Offaly man Graham Connolly on a livestream by Canadian antisemite and holocaust denier Alex Vriend goes to show how well networked far-right activists have become. Although... Read more »

Bog Cuttings

Bog-Cuttings-Defaul

Bog Cuttings

BOG CUTTINGS

CHEEKY BEHAVIOUR Derry Magistrate’s Court heard the case of Samantha Robinson, who was charged with indecent behaviour and disorderly behaviour during an Apprentice Boys march on Lundy’s Day, December 6.... Read more »

Fowl Emissions

Jack Chambers

Fowl Emissions

BAR COUNCIL WARNS AGAINST COST CAP

LAST MONTH the Law Library held a diplomatic conference for Government members and their advisors on The Accelerating Infrastructure Report and Action Plan. The olive branch was offered to Government... Read more »
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Fowl Emissions

GOLDEN HANDCUFFS

The Court of Appeal in the north has ruled that the PSNI has 30 days to provide data to the information commissioner relating to a 2017 Freedom of Information request... Read more »

The Hot Air Brigade

Geraldine Byrne Nason

The Hot Air Brigade

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

[Micheál Martin has seen] more of that green thread woven through the great tapestry of the great United States from the very, very beginning, [and the] forever romance between Ireland... Read more »

High Society

High Society

Bernadine & Sean Mulryan

High Society

MULRYAN’S HEAVY GOING

SEAN AND Bernardine Mulryan have not had the best of luck recently with their expensive string of racehorses and the minted couple’s poor run... Read more »

High Society

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High Society

SELLING BALLINACURRA HOUSE

IS THE Ballinacurra House saga coming to its final chapter? Goldhawk’s spies tell him that the surveyors and engineers have been on site, although... Read more »

High Society

James Dyson

High Society

JAMES DYSON’S OPERA CREDENTIALS

WITH THE annual Blackwater Valley Opera Festival (BVOF) set to kick off in May and most of the tickets for the productions of Mozart’s Don Giovanni already sold (between €120... Read more »

Behind the Scenes

Yvonne Kinsella

Behind the Scenes

JESSIE’S PLOT SPOILER

Predictably, at Oscars time, there’s a bandwagon to be jumped upon when one of our own grabs a gilded statuette but further down the pecking order, plus ça change… A... Read more »
Susan Bergin Marlowe Mullingar Film Studio RTÉ Self-Employment

Behind the Scenes

ALI CURRAN’S TINY TEAM

GOLDHAWK HAS previously highlighted the glacial pace of filling vacancies in the national cultural institutions. Sometimes this matters more than others and at Imma right now chairwoman Ali Curran might... Read more »

Sport of Kings

JP McManus

Sport of Kings

SOFTLY DOES IT

JP McMANUS and Willie Mullins were both highly critical about ground conditions at the recent Cheltenham festival. The apparent lack of watering prompted outbursts from both the leading trainer and... Read more »
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Sport of Kings

DECLAN QUEALLY’S ROUGH RIDE

DECLAN QUEALLY generated plenty of Cheltenham headlines at the recent racing showpiece. The Waterford amateur rider, who assists his father, Declan Queally Sr, was bidding to follow up his Naas... Read more »
Sam Ewing Willie Mullins

Sport of Kings

MULLINS V SKELTON

WHILE TOP trainer Willie Mullins had another excellent Cheltenham, he somehow still ended the week trailing Dan Skelton in the British National Hunt title race, with the latter remaining a... Read more »

Moneybags

Moneybags

Peter Jackson

Moneybags

PETER JACKSON’S SHORTENING ODDS AT FLUTTER ENTERTAINMENT

BARELY SIX months after Flutter Entertainment’s shares peaked at $3.09, when the company was valued at $54.4bn, the stock is now down at just... Read more »

Moneybags

Colin Hunt

Moneybags

COLIN HUNT DELIVERS BIG AT AIB BUT TROUBLE IS BREWING

AIB BOSS Colin Hunt must be very pleased, having turned in a most impressive pre-tax profit last year of €2.4bn. Even though this is... Read more »

Brief Cases

Kelcy Warren

Brief Cases

KELCY WARREN V GREENPEACE

GOLDHAWK HOPES that recently arrived US oil billionaire Kelcy Warren is getting plenty of enjoyment out of his splendid home, distillery and airport in the south east, but he might... Read more »
Philip Farrelly

Brief Cases

PHILIP FARRELLY’S BUSINESS CASE

WHILE THERE has, not surprisingly, been widespread coverage this week of the demolition of Chris and Rose Murray’s sprawling pile in Co Meath, another impending demolition is set to make... Read more »
Marco Herbst

Brief Cases

MARCO HERBST’S DIFFICULT YEAR

IT’S BEEN a tough few months for millionaire Marco Herbst, the chief executive of Evercam, a company that provides CCTV cameras primarily for building sites. Herbst knows a thing or... Read more »
Patrick Durkan

Brief Cases

PATRICK DURKAN’S WINDING-UP

THERE HAS been plenty of media focus on the D/Res property group in recent weeks, notably on foot of it closing an impressive €70m deal to acquire a 54-acre strategic... Read more »