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MICHEÁL MARTIN’S HOUSING SCAPEGOATS
Date: October 2, 2025 -
CONSIDER THE recent astonishing sequence of events in Brussels, Strasbourg, Ireland and New York, which will have a potentially multibillion-euro effect on housing in the EU and Ireland, even if the responsible and restrained Irish media do not seem to be unduly concerned about it. In July EU finance ministers in Brussels gave permission to… Read more »
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PROFILE: CATHERINE CONNOLLY
Date: October 2, 2025 -
CATHERINE CONNOLLY’S ‘game changing’ presidential campaign finally got off the ground this month. This was despite having to face down attempted sabotage from old-guard members within one of her own support organisations, the Labour Party, as well as pearl-clutching indecision from Sinn Féin. The show… Read more »
YOUNG BLOOD: CMAT
Date: October 2, 2025 -
DESCRIBED BY the Guardian as “pop’s gobbiest, gaudiest star”, singer-songwriter CMAT has a penchant for sharing her opinions on a wide range of topics. It’s a tactic that has served her well thus far, as by having a go at Bertie and pulling out of festivals over their sponsors,… Read more »
STEEN GRIPPED BY NEW RIGHT
Date: October 2, 2025 -
THE OUTRAGE displayed by Maria Steen’s allies and supporters at Michael McDowell’s failure to return her calls as she lobbied him for a presidential nomination was a master class in media manipulation by seasoned pros at this kind of game. Goldhawk suspects the headline ‘Politician fails to return call from ambitious candidate shock!’ would probably… Read more »
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SANCTUARY’S ROUGH RIDE
Date: October 2, 2025 -
THERE WAS plenty of media interest last month in the colourful spat between international showjumper Michelle Kenny and her business partner, the wonderfully named Rafael Ariza Sanctuary. The court action – which is due back in the Four Goldmines next week – is not the first controversy that poor old Rafael has been dragged into…. Read more »
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ZAPPER’S ZIGZAGS
Date: October 2, 2025 -
FORMER MINISTER, TD and senator Katherine Zappone is one of the most accomplished operators that ever climbed the greasy pole into Cabinet. The MO of this most resourceful politician does not accord with the modest account of her own selfless character and the political causes she espoused before leaving Ireland when she lost her Dáil… Read more »
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BEN GILROY V GOOGLE
Date: October 2, 2025 -
GOLDHAWK SPIES more legal proceedings issued by the colourful Ben Gilroy – anti-eviction campaigner and founder of right-wing political party Liberty Republic (which has gone rather quiet since last November’s general election). The outspoken campaigner has previously sued the likes of the State, RTÉ, LMFM Radio/Independent Broadcasting Commission and the Dublin Inquirer publication. (This latter… Read more »
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THE O’REILLYS’ UKRAINE ADVENTURE
Date: October 2, 2025 -
ELSEWHERE IN this issue (see p19), Goldhawk looks at the upcoming sale of a D4 property part-owned by low-profile couple Eva and Ian Sutherland (son of Peter). While the Sutherland name is well known, courtesy of ‘globalist’ and former Goldman Sachs chairman Peter, Eva’s dad – Eugene O’Reilly – is far from a household name…. Read more »
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VOL 43 NO 20
Date: October 2, 2025 -
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O’DONOVAN’S BUM NOTES
Date: October 2, 2025 -
THERE HAVE been late additions to the list of recipients for the Grassroots Music Venues Support Scheme, which was unveiled earlier this year by culture minister Patrick O’Donovan. With €½m to go around, there was plenty of interest in the fund but the manner in which the moolah has been dished out has raised eyebrows…. Read more »
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THE CULLEN-VELDONS DEPART
Date: October 2, 2025 -
THERE HAVE been four managing directors at the Irish Times in the last five years and the departure of the latest MD, Deirdre Veldon, has provoked sighs of exasperation from the hacks at the inability to find or retain the most appropriate personnel for this key position. The latest MD (acting) is chief financial officer… Read more »
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CHARLIE V GARRET: NO SMOKING GUN
Date: October 2, 2025 -
IN 2007, Michael McDowell – the then tánaiste, justice minister and leader of the Progressive Democrats – told Dáil Éireann that gardaí knew the source of the Star pistol used by the left-wing republican paramilitary group Saor Éire to kill Garda Richard Fallon during a bank raid in 1970. That should have put an end… Read more »
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SIMON HARRIS AND THE ARMS TRADE
Date: October 2, 2025 -
The recent Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) biennial defence and security trade exhibition in London indicates how militarisation is becoming an issue for Ireland, as well as Germany and other EU states. Some 51 Israeli arms companies displayed their products, while US firm Lockheed Martin – which manufactures the F-35 fighter jet used by… Read more »
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RIGHT-WING SPLIT
Date: October 2, 2025 -
JUST AS negotiations between various right-wing parties and Independent activists regarding the formation of a united right-wing party were concluded recently, news of a major split in the Irish Freedom Party (IFP) was being revealed online. At its ard fheis in May, IFP president Hermann Kelly faced a heave against his leadership. A motion tabled… Read more »
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THE HOT AIR BRIGADE
Date: October 2, 2025 -
I know I write beautiful sentences, but they are to other people, not to me. It would be fatal if I loved my own work. John Banville’s humility, Irish Times Roy Barrett, the grizzled dealmaker and corporate warrior, has joined up with the magnificently “woke” Bohemian FC in one of the most unlikely collabs since… Read more »
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HEYDON ARGUES FOR EXCEPTIONAL IRISH
Date: October 2, 2025 -
AT THE UN General Assembly on September 23 Donald Trump took aim at climate regulation, telling over 150 world leaders that climate change was “the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world”. This comes amid growing speculation that the US will remove itself from the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. Taoiseach Micheál Martin… Read more »
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DRAINING THE SHANNON
Date: October 2, 2025 -
“Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink,” went the famous line in ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’. Published in 1798, the poem may also describe water provision in Ireland in 2025. Driven by poor water infrastructure, unsustainable suburban planning and water-guzzling industry such as data centres in the greater Dublin region, the quango… Read more »
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DUBLIN CAVES IN ON LEGACY
Date: October 2, 2025 -
On September 19 the press gathered in Hillsborough Castle, just outside Lisburn, to hear Tánaiste Simon Harris and northern secretary Hilary Benn announce the newly agreed Legacy Framework between Britain and Ireland. The assembled hacks were handed another document, which detailed a “protection package” for veterans. The UK government website shows it was presented by… Read more »
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EU: THE REAL CON
Date: October 2, 2025 -
WITH DONALD TRUMP dissing the European Union and also declaring climate change to be one big con, it’s worth looking at the real cons being played by the EU when it comes to climate change right now. The European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), first finalised in 2023 and delayed in 2024, has been pulped once… Read more »
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FF COUNCILLORS VOTE DOWN MARTIN’S ‘SHARED ISLAND’
Date: October 2, 2025 -
MICHEÁL MARTIN’S attack on local councils over housing policy is not the only cause for local dissent with the Taoiseach and his northern policy has, in effect, been roundly trashed in recent weeks by votes on two of the biggest councils in the state, Dublin City Council and Cork City Council. Meehole’s northern policy is… Read more »
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CONNOLLY’S COLONIAL COMRADES
Date: October 2, 2025 -
THE MAIN bone of contention for some in Sinn Féin at Catherine Connolly’s presidential nomination (see p14) was whether she was serious about her commitment to a united Ireland. This was eventually settled to the satisfaction of the leadership and most party members after she made assurances to that effect. But will everyone in Catherine’s… Read more »
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GELDOF WAIVES AWAY THE ÁRAS
Date: October 2, 2025 -
LIKE GROUPIES throwing their underwear at a real rock star, the fawning behaviour of various hacks at the feet of Bob Geldof as they urged him to save Ireland and run for the presidency was unsettling. But the story line from Bob and his media courtiers took a sharp turn when Micheál Martin made clear… Read more »
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HUMPHREYS’ ‘ORANGE’ LINK
Date: October 2, 2025 -
THE IRISH TIMES was quick to publish a denunciation of the Irish Mail on Sunday for questioning presidential candidate Heather Humphreys and hubby Eric about any Orange links they had in the past. The man they chose to denounce the Mail was Edward Burke, who thought it “self-evidently inappropriate” to ask such questions. It is… Read more »
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FIONNUALA’S FANTASIES
Date: October 2, 2025 -
FORMER CAMBRIDGE young Tory, now Irish Times columnist Tory, Finn (Fionnuala) McRedmond likes to lecture the Irish for being no better than the British anti-Irish media. “In reverting to base instincts – indulging latent nationalistic one-upmanship – we reveal ourselves to be no better than the British tabloid press,” she told a perhaps receptive IT… Read more »
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MOLI’S SCARY PLOT
Date: October 2, 2025 -
ALMOST 20 months on from when it first emerged that the Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI) on St Stephen’s Green was in financial disarray, the operation continues to haemorrhage money despite significant cutbacks. The new boss clearly has a hell of a job on his hands. It will be recalled (see The Phoenix 22/2/24) that… Read more »
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AMNEST’S FINANCES
Date: October 2, 2025 -
GIVEN THE current state of play in the Middle East, it is not surprising that Amnesty International Ireland (AII) has been issuing statements on the Gaza genocide. Another statement that chairwoman Bríd Cannon has just issued is the financial one, which has put the final nail in the disastrous ‘Face To Face’ (F2F) membership drive… Read more »
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NCH VACANCY
Date: October 2, 2025 -
ELSEWHERE IN this issue (see p18) Goldhawk looks at the appointment of a new chief executive at the National Concert Hall (NCH). There has not, however, been any appointment of new board members. The NCH board should have 10 directors but, although the cultural institution is on the cusp of undertaking a huge multimillion-euro capital… Read more »
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INTERVIEW WITH THE JOCKEY
Date: October 2, 2025 -
THREE JOCKEYS – Ben Harvey, Alex Harvey and Tom Harney – were each fined €400 by the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board’s (IHRB) referrals committee following an investigation into comments made in a post-run Racing TV interview at Leopardstown in April. The interview, conducted by Gary O’Brien, followed the success of the Willie Harvey-trained Harbanaker in… Read more »
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THE REAL WHACKER
Date: October 2, 2025 -
ENGLAND-BASED trainer Patrick Neville has just been adjudged a bankrupt at Darlington court. According to the Racing Post, the petition had been lodged by creditor Rebecca Dennis, a former associate of Neville, who owns a quarter share in stable star The Real Whacker. At issue was a 2022 loan of €110,000 made by Dennis to… Read more »
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GOOD FRIDAY GOING
Date: October 2, 2025 -
LEOPARDSTOWN RACECOURSE’S interim boss, Vicki Donlon, oversaw a 12% rise in attendance at the recent Championship Weekend race day, before exiting the south Co Dublin track to take up her new position with Diageo. Presumably, the drinks giant will be looking to shift lots of product on Good Friday next year. It looks like Donlon… Read more »
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MAKING PLANS FOR NIGEL
Date: October 2, 2025 -
CONGRATULATIONS to Nigel Flegg, who has landed one of the most prestigious jobs in the Irish cultural sector, having been appointed as chief executive of the National Concert Hall (NCH). He certainly has a lot on his plate. The exit after five years of former NCH boss Robert Read has come as something of a… Read more »
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JOE ELLIOT’S GARDEN
Date: October 2, 2025 -
LAST WEEKEND it emerged that veteran rock-n-roller Joe Elliott was in yet another dispute with his neighbour over ambitious plans for his garden in Stepaside, south Co Dublin. A few years ago it was a giant treehouse that caused ructions and this time it’s a rather large statue, which might actually be more accurately described… Read more »
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SUTHERLANDS SELLING UP
Date: October 2, 2025 -
INTERESTING TO see a modern three-bedroom house in the gated ‘Shrewsbury’ development off Merrion Road coming on the market. Not surprisingly, the Irish Times described the recently developed (2010) exclusive development as “sought after”. It turns out that the property in question is owned by one Ian Sutherland – son of former attorney general and… Read more »
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CORRIGAN’S CASH
Date: October 2, 2025 -
MOUTHY CELEBRITY chef Richard Corrigan has just published accounts that, not surprisingly, show turnover for his operations in Ireland was down last year. The good news is that, despite the overall drop in tables served, the holding company managed to boost profits. Registered in London – where Dickie is behind the likes of Bentley’s Oyster… Read more »
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IAG SHARES SET TO SOAR BUT AER LINGUS LAGS
Date: October 2, 2025 -
IT IS a decade since the giant International Airlines Group (IAG) took over Aer Lingus for €1.4bn. This deal would possibly never have flown were it not for the fact that Willie Walsh, who had previously run Aer Lingus, was at the time CEO of British Airways (BA), one of the four brands that make… Read more »
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A NEW CHAPTER FOR MINCON
Date: October 2, 2025 -
A NEW chapter beckons for Irish engineering firm Mincon, which specialises in rock drilling tools. Last May, company founder Paddy Purcell announced his retirement as a non- executive director and it now turns out that chairman Hugh McCullough will step down at the end of the year, to be replaced by number-cruncher and former Applegreen… Read more »
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