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GAA GAMES ON GAZA AND ALLIANZ
Date: January 29, 2026 -
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 links to global finance firms? These firms in turn have strong links to companies with Israeli interests and personnel. Kehoe, who has a glittering CV… Read more »
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PROFILE: NIAMH SMYTH
Date: January 29, 2026 -
FROM OBSCURITY to centre stage is often a matter of timing but the Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence (AI), Niamh Smyth, has been landed with something of a poisoned chalice as she faces up to the ‘nudification’ controversy with X. How she handles it will be a real test of her ability and of… Read more »
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YOUNG BLOOD: ‘HOW TO GAEL’ GALS
Date: January 29, 2026 -
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. The podcast is front and centre of the current revival of the Irish language and is quite the all-encompassing enterprise, incorporating brand collaborations, live shows, international appearances and festival shows. It… Read more »
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DAVY’S BIG BOYS’ CLUB
Date: January 29, 2026 -
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 Decision-Making (Capacity) Act? This legislation alters the regime for the management of (often substantial) cash investments to be implemented on behalf of vulnerable people. Among… Read more »
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BERTIE’S BOY V DONOHOE’S BOY
Date: January 29, 2026 -
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 – as well as a supporting act in which the two Government parties, Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil, fight it out to see who gets… Read more »
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LAURA DOWLING’S VULVA PUPPET
Date: January 29, 2026 -
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 planned for the venue and the construction of the NCH’s €21m Discovery Centre. There was also good news for fans of ‘Fab Pharmacist’ Laura Dowling,… Read more »
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MICHAEL HACKMAN’S HARD TIMES
Date: January 29, 2026 -
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, however, has taken something of a twist, with a major setback in sunny California. Hackman Capital Partners made quite the impact here in 2021 when… Read more »
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CUSHNAHAN’S CAPERS
Date: January 29, 2026 -
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 recall that a few years ago (see The Phoenix 22/2/19) Cushnahan was slapped on the wrist for failing to co-operate with a disciplinary investigation being… Read more »
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VOL 44 NO 02
Date: January 29, 2026 -
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MAIRIA CAHILL’S IRANIAN INSIGHTS
Date: January 29, 2026 -
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 tracked the history of interactions between the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) and a group of Irish politicians headed by Independent senator Gerard… Read more »
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IN ANTON WE TRUST
Date: January 29, 2026 -
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 Newstalk Breakfast. Despite his rise in recent years as a programmer, Savage has repeatedly declined to answer questions about potential conflicts of interest between his… Read more »
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ALKEN BROTHERS WHINE TIME
Date: January 29, 2026 -
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 March. On top of this, the principals in the firm – Anthony and Greg Alken – are facing real heat in the courts from Neil… Read more »
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DENTON: MI5 IN THE DOCK
Date: January 29, 2026 -
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 Operation Denton report on the 1974 Dublin-Monaghan bombings. MI5 has withdrawn co-operation with the ongoing Dublin-Monaghan enquiry. When he released the Operation Kenova report, Livingstone… Read more »
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WILLING WARRIORS
Date: January 29, 2026 -
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 meeting on January 18 with French armed forces commander-in-chief General Fabien Mandon; UK defence staff chief, air chief marshal Sir Richard Knighton; US European Command… Read more »
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WILD COLONIAL NAZIS
Date: January 29, 2026 -
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 Network (NSN), one of the organisations targeted by the new legislation, is a neo-Nazi group with close links to prominent figures active in right-wing circles… Read more »
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THE HOT AIR BRIGADE
Date: January 29, 2026 -
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 O’Leary an idiot – among other things. Thus, a nation stepped in. If he [O’Leary] is an idiot (he’s not), then he’s OUR idiot (he’s… Read more »
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SOLAR PANEL REBELS
Date: January 29, 2026 -
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 needs a lot more of – solar panels. Is the state’s approach to solar farms creating resentment and hostility to what should be a good… Read more »
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DARRAGH O’BRIEN’S STROKE
Date: January 29, 2026 -
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 he asked an Oireachtas committee to waive pre-legislative scrutiny of a proposed new law that itself represents a stunning power grab. The Strategic Gas Emergency… Read more »
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SINN FÉIN’S ‘STUDY’ GROUPS
Date: January 29, 2026 -
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 allocated £20,000 for the research documents to be completed by March. The newly appointed UUP deputy leader, Diana Armstrong, an assembly member for Fermanagh/South Tyrone… Read more »
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MARTIN FACES DANGEROUS PERIOD
Date: January 29, 2026 -
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 presidency of the EU Council in July, following which he will bow out gracefully in early 2027. This has been the considered judgement of Martin’s… Read more »
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KELCY WARREN’S WINGS
Date: January 29, 2026 -
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 knowledge of the deal”. Before Christmas, readers of The Phoenix also had knowledge of the deal (see “Kelcy Warren’s Runway”, The Phoenix 12/12/25). Companies Office… Read more »
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McENTEE: IRELAND STILL NEUTRAL
Date: January 29, 2026 -
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 always be, intact. A variation on this Orwellian word game was the statement in 2023 by government that the Defence Forces were training Ukrainian soldiers… Read more »
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HOLLY V IVANA
Date: January 29, 2026 -
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 election but growing. The general election saw the parties almost tied on 4.8 (Soc Dems) and 4.7 (Labour). That gain grew steadily and has continued… Read more »
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NEUTERED (NOT NEUTRAL) MEDIA
Date: January 29, 2026 -
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 objective and free of pressure from government handlers. The coverage of the Irish and EU governments’ response to Donald Trump’s conduct last week was a… Read more »
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TRIPLE LOCK DOUBLE SPEAK
Date: January 29, 2026 -
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) that ,since 2014, the Russians, Chinese and Americans could veto Irish troops deployment anywhere. That would be around the same time that Martin declared the… Read more »
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‘ECHO’ CHAMBER
Date: January 29, 2026 -
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 to have been confirmed. Readers will recall that the since-departed group MD of the Irish Times, Deirdre Veldon, along with Mike Sheehan (then head of… Read more »
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OLIVER SEARS’S COMMITTEE WORK
Date: January 29, 2026 -
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 the Restitution and Repatriation of Cultural Heritage. Its establishment was announced two-and-a-half years ago and it had its first meeting under chairman Donnell Deeny two… Read more »
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TARGETING COBDEN
Date: January 29, 2026 -
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 the Nicky Henderson-trained Jonbon. Although officially not starting his new gig until May, Cobden was set to ride McManus’s star chaser in the Clarence House… Read more »
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MULLINS MISSES OUT
Date: January 29, 2026 -
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 by his dad, Willie. The first of the Mullins reversals was suffered aboard Clay Pigeons, who had recorded a bumper win at Catterick for the… Read more »
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BANG’S NEW MENU
Date: January 29, 2026 -
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 D2’s South Great George’s Street were “to take over Bang restaurant” off St Stephen’s Green. In fact, the new ownership structure is a little more complicated than that. The new Bang… Read more »
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DR EVA LETS GO
Date: January 29, 2026 -
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 biggest extravagances are “clothes and fashion” and that she still carries cash (“it makes you more conscious of spending”). Of more interest to Goldhawk was her answer to the question about… Read more »
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CONROY’S SOARING SHARE PRICE STILL LEAVES GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY
Date: January 29, 2026 -
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 the curtain was set to come down on Conroy Gold and Natural Resources and its remarkably long-running efforts to turn gold deposits into gold nuggets for the hapless shareholders. This setback… Read more »
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OVOCA BIO’S TALISMAN METALS TRANSFORMATION
Date: January 29, 2026 -
THE TRANSFORMATION of Ovoca Bio into Talisman Metals was due to be voted through at the EGM this week. It is clear that investors have significant faith in the latest chapter for Ovoca, which looks set to considerably broaden its horizons under CEO Tim McCutcheon. Having sold its remaining interest in its failed biopharmaceutical business,… Read more »
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ERIK ROBSON’S TAXING TIME
Date: January 29, 2026 -
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 by Erik and Michelle Robson. The Ely Wine Bar on Ely Place, which celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2024 is something of an institution in… Read more »
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LOCHLANN QUINN’S JET BET
Date: January 29, 2026 -
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 Ltd. This latter entity, incorporated back in 1979, has boasted an impressive share register that included heavy hitters such as former AIB chairman and Merrion… Read more »
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‘WHO IS SEAN O’DRISCOLL?’
Date: January 29, 2026 -
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 and media keep treating him as an infrastructure expert?” A strange question maybe but, in order to brush up on the former Glen Dimplex boss,… Read more »
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