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IRELAND’S ‘REAL’ PALESTINIAN POLICY
Date: December 11, 2025 -
NEW FOREIGN minister Helen McEntee must be embarrassed at having to suddenly retreat from her initial boast that the Occupied Territories Bill (OTB) would be one of the very first things she addressed in her new post. Being a former junior foreign minister, she ought to have known that her Iveagh House department has for… Read more »
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PROFILE: KEVIN BAKHURST
Date: December 11, 2025 -
RTÉ DIRECTOR GENERAL Kevin Bakhurst attended in person the Geneva meeting of the European Broadcasting Union that saw RTÉ confirm its boycott of next year’s Eurovision Song Contest. This exemplifies the DG’s reputation as a savvy operator in the Irish broadcasting world of office politics as well as the wider public. He and his new… Read more »
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YOUNG BLOOD: JULIE HAYNES
Date: December 11, 2025 -
CORK INFLUENCER Julie Haynes is known as Twins and Me on social media, where she has 225,000 followers on Instagram and 185,000 on TikTok. She is one of Ireland’s better-known “momfluencers” and having a large following makes her attractive to advertisers. Alas, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) hasn’t found her quite as appealing in recent… Read more »
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SELLING PTSB IS THE WRONG MOVE
Date: December 11, 2025 -
IT IS difficult to understand why Paschal Donohoe was so keen to back PTSB boss Eamonn Crowley’s “commencement of a formal sales process” for the bank. This move opens the door to a private-equity takeover that would be political suicide. Of course, a better option would be a big bank moving on PTSB – and… Read more »
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DISUNITED ARTS CLUB
Date: December 11, 2025 -
THIS WEEKEND’S members’ Christmas lunch at the venerable United Arts Club (UAC) on Upper Fitzwilliam Street could be the most fun in years, given that there is plenty for the guests to discuss. Earlier this year, there were a number of new arrivals on the UAC board, including illustrator Brian Gallagher, architect Martin Lynch, IT… Read more »
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ENTERPRISE IRELAND UP IN ARMS
Date: December 11, 2025 -
The fact that Irish company VRAI Simulation recently announced new partnership arrangements with arms manufacturers KNDS and Rheinmetall is significant for both Enterprise Ireland and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. When in August 2024 then tánaiste Micheál Martin announced that Ireland would no longer procure military and defence equipment or award contracts to… Read more »
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RORY GODSON’S DECLARATION
Date: December 11, 2025 -
LOTS Of coverage of the nod received by strategic communications suit Rory Godson from the City of London Corporation, which bestowed the Freedom of the City on the moneybags. It represents a warmer embrace than the reaction he generated last year when posting online. He had been walking down the leafy street where he lives… Read more »
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TOM KENNEDY’S HOUSE PARTY
Date: December 11, 2025 -
CONGRATULATIONS TO Tom Kennedy – co-founder of Hostelworld many moons ago – who has offloaded his impressive six-bed pile in Dublin 14 for a rather pretty penny. Happily for Kennedy, he scooped significantly more than the asking price for the sprawling three-storey Kindrum, sitting on a one-acre plot near Dundrum, which had been put on… Read more »
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PATRICK O’DONOVAN’S HOT AIR
Date: December 11, 2025 -
WHO’S BEEN giving Patrick O’Donovan media training? Donald Trump seems like a reasonable guess, judging by recent performances from the Fine Gael minister. The approach adopted by the culture and communications minister seems to be to bombard the public with a stream of questionable, exaggerated statements and, during an interview on RTÉ radio last week,… Read more »
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VOL 43 NO 24
Date: December 11, 2025 -
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MEDIA MANIA
Date: December 11, 2025 -
THE MEDIA frenzy triggered by drones in the vicinity of Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s flight to Dublin last week was described by the Irish Times as an effort to “disrupt” his passage. But two days later, when RTÉ’s Brendan O’Connor asked Maynooth academic John O’Brennan if it were “possible or probable that the Russians were trying to… Read more »
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VISION IRELAND’S NEW PRESCRIPTION
Date: December 11, 2025 -
LAST WEEK, the former CEO of Fáilte Ireland and now boss of the RDS, Paul Kelly, resigned from the board of charity group Vision Ireland (VI), formerly the National Council for the Blind in Ireland. He had been in situ for two-and-a-half years and announced on his LinkedIn profile that “there have been plenty of… Read more »
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ALAN CLANCY’S HANGOVER
Date: December 11, 2025 -
BARELY A month after Goldhawk revealed that bar and nightclub supremo Alan Clancy had exited the board of the company behind the swanky new Díon venue on the top two floors (9 and 10) of the former Central Bank building on Dame Street, D2, the whole hospitality empire looks like it’s starting to crumble. Díon… Read more »
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DENTON’S NON-REPORT
Date: December 11, 2025 -
Operation Denton (OD) has concluded that the UVF carried out the 1974 Dublin-Monaghan bombings without assistance from the UK state, despite a mountain of evidence to the contrary. The Phoenix voiced its concerns about OD (see edition 22/3/24), reporting that Colin Wallace, a psychological operations officer at British Army HQNI in the 1970s, had provided… Read more »
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SPECIAL BRANCH EDUCATION
Date: December 11, 2025 -
OCTOBER’S DISTURBANCES at the Citywest Hotel in Saggart following the alleged sexual assault of a 10-year-old girl are just the most recent outbursts in a series of racist riots across the island. These include the Dublin riots in November 2023 as well as subsequent rioting in Belfast and Ballymena. These mobs have not only been… Read more »
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THE HOT AIR BRIGADE
Date: December 11, 2025 -
I kept The Late Late Show alive! I was the only woman they ever had who could talk, be funny, sing, dance. And why not now at Christmas with the country’s supposedly Queen of the Panto coming out of retirement for panto with Alan Hughes? Twink on her Late Late Show snub, Sunday Independent Life… Read more »
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MARTIN’S PRIORITIES
Date: December 11, 2025 -
Scientists have for decades speculated about what would happen should the powerful system of submarine ocean currents that keep north-western Europe habitable collapse. The system, known as the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (Amoc), transfers heat equivalent to the output of a million nuclear power stations from the ultra-warm waters close to the Equator and draws… Read more »
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MINORITY RULES OK!
Date: December 11, 2025 -
The Palestinian flag few over Belfast city hall on November 30, albeit a day later than planned because of a legal challenge from a member of extreme unionist party the TUV. Led by Jim Allister KC MP, the party has been gaining ground on the DUP and pushing it further right to fight Sinn Féin… Read more »
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PASCHAL’S PYGMIES MUST WAIT
Date: December 11, 2025 -
WHO DOES Kevin Cunningham think he is? An article by the managing director of polling company Ireland Thinks had the audacity to suggest in last weekend’s Sunday Independent that Simon Harris’s leadership was safe because there were no real alternatives in the Fine Gael party right now. This, Cunningham declared boldly, very boldly, was because… Read more »
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THE FULL IRISH
Date: December 11, 2025 -
Congratulations to Fine Gael’s team of MEPs, all of whom are members of the right-wing European People’s Party (EPP) grouping in the European Parliament. The EPP has enjoyed great recent success lobbying on behalf of the pesticides industry and has voted solidly to undermine EU efforts to rein in the use of toxic pesticides. A… Read more »
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IRISH TIMES PARK LIFE
Date: December 11, 2025 -
THE Irish Times excelled itself in fighting off the proposal to rename Herzog Park, in a campaign that went beyond the usual liberal agenda and resembled an old-style Sindo campaign against IRA perdition. The real reason why some Irish people – including those who abhor Israel’s genocide – retreated from re-naming the park was because… Read more »
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LABOUR PAINS
Date: December 11, 2025 -
IRISH TIMES coverage of the left alliance – the putative broad front that aims to replace the centre-right Fianna Fáil/Fine Gael/Lowry front in Government – has been less than welcoming. The paper recently wrote with just a hint of pleasure about the refusal of Labour councillors to support its left-wing ‘allies’ on Dublin City Council… Read more »
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MOLNÁRFI’S HORSESHOE MOMENT
Date: December 11, 2025 -
FORMER HEAD of Trinners students’ union László Molnárfi has been causing trouble in the Irish far left after his expulsion from the very far-left Red Network. Originally formed within People Before Profit in 2021, the splinter group left PBP in June in a polemical blitz, bringing Molnárfi with them (see The Phoenix 12/6/25). Led by… Read more »
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PUTIN OUTFOXES EU AT UNITED NATIONS
Date: December 11, 2025 -
THE VISIT to Ireland of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was preceded by an interesting vote at the United Nations, which showed that while EU countries, including Ireland, like to claim that Vladimir Putin’s Russian Federation is globally isolated because of its war with Ukraine, the reality is quite different. A favourite Russian manoeuvre at the… Read more »
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‘IRISH TIMES’: REPEAT OFFENDER
Date: December 11, 2025 -
IS THE Irish Times intent on provoking a third Press Council/Ombudsman hearing in 15 months about its erroneous reportage of child abuse? The paper has already lost a Press Council appeal against a Press Ombudsman’s decision that it failed to detail abuse of Protestant children (see The Phoenix 2/5/25). This was in an article in… Read more »
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BRITISH MEDIA DEMAND WE FIGHT
Date: December 11, 2025 -
ISN’T IT time some Government politician or public personality did a de Valera and demanded silence from British and EU militarists and their warmongering demands of the Irish? If only. Twice now RTÉ’s Morning Ireland has regurgitated abuse from the Financial Times, which recently devoted around 3,000 words to Ireland becoming an “international liability” and… Read more »
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GRÁINNE BARRY’S BLUES
Date: December 11, 2025 -
IT HAS been a forgettable few days for the multi-talented Gráinne Barry, head of operations at London-headquartered Stats Perform, which describes itself as “the world leader in Sports AI”. Barry also knows a thing or two about dating websites and wellness but there was little love and harmony around last week. Based in Parteen, Co… Read more »
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MISTRY MYSTERY
Date: December 11, 2025 -
EARLIER THIS year, Goldhawk was very surprised to see a company previously controlled by the richest man in Ireland, Pallonji Mistry, was wound up by the High Court. It turns out that creditors are owed millions of euro. Pallonji Mistry and his family found themselves right at the top of those Irish rich lists for… Read more »
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JENNI TIMONY NOT QUITE IN THE PINK
Date: December 11, 2025 -
NO DOUBT a popular gift this season will be the Head To Toe Luxe Gift Box from Jenni Timony’s athleisure brand, FitPink. Priced at €153 (for a fleece, leggings, T-shirt and socks), it can be snapped up now at a handy 25% discount (€115). Looking less of a bargain, however, are shares acquired in the… Read more »
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WEXFORD OPERA’S BIG PRODUCTION
Date: December 11, 2025 -
WITH THE curtain having come down on the 2025 Wexford Festival Opera (WFO), the focus now turns to next year’s 75th anniversary shindig, which should be quite the affair. The good news is that the finances are in rude health heading into the big year, which should ease the stress for festival chairman Paul Cleary… Read more »
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DONNELLYS’ HOLLOW SEASON
Date: December 11, 2025 -
LOADED OWNERS Joe and Marie Donnelly watched on last season as their horses suffered numerous setbacks and some bad luck. Now their focus is on Cheltenham 2026, where they will have a likely favourite for the Champion Hurdle. The couple’s disastrous season culminated with the last hurdle departure for State Man when having the Cheltenham… Read more »
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TATTERSALLS TALES
Date: December 11, 2025 -
DESPITE SPENDING over £11m for four mares at the recent Tattersalls Newmarket Mare Sale, Coolmore’s MV Magnier failed to secure the top lot. This distinction fell to Sugar Whiskey Trading, courtesy of its online bid of £4,800,000 for the Jessica Harrington-trained Barnavara. The loaded purchaser, believed to be an associate of Yulong Investments Ace Stud,… Read more »
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GREENCORE WILL SUFFER FROM UK MARKET DEPENDENCE
Date: December 11, 2025 -
DALTON PHILIPS has now got Greencore’s operating profits back over the level they stood at in pre-pandemic 2019 but he still has some way to go to reach the 7.3% trading margins achieved back then, with only 6.5% delivered last year. It is too early to rate the CEO’s performance but a key challenge will be… Read more »
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KELCY WARREN’S RUNWAY
Date: December 11, 2025 -
THE NAME doing the rounds in Co Waterford of the mysterious investor understood to be offering to pump €30m into William Bolster’s Waterford Airport is one Kelcy Warren. He turns out to be a billionaire fan of Donald Trump and his name is being touted partly because he had previously picked up the splendid Castletown… Read more »
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ELITE TAX BILL
Date: December 11, 2025 -
AN EMBARRASSING-looking judgment has just been registered by the Revenue Commissioners against a company called, er, Elite Accounts & Tax Services Ltd (EATS). The business was set up in 2016 and the sole director is listed as Thomas Clooney, who has an address on Dublin Road, Mullingar, Co Westmeath, while the shares are held by… Read more »
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SEAN MULRYAN’S CRITICS
Date: December 11, 2025 -
WHEN BALLYMORE boss Sean Mulryan was awarded the Freedom of the City of London in September (see The Phoenix 16/10/25), his press release claimed the award recognised his “transformative contribution to London’s urban landscape over the past four decades”. But not everyone is fully on board with Mulryan’s grand vision. In the aftermath of the… Read more »
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