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June 13 - June 26, 2025
Affairs of the Nation
HIT-AND-RUN DRIVER AN ‘INFORMER’
THE UNSTINTING state apology delivered in the Dáil recently by justice minister Jim O’Callaghan to the family of Shane O’Farrell – killed in 2011 near his Carrickmacross home by hit-and-run... Read more »
SUSAN FITZPATRICK’S TURBULENCE
THE LIQUIDATION of a raft of firms next week turns out to be linked to one Ivor Fitzpatrick, the high-flying legal eagle, businessman and good pal of Charlie Haughey’s, who... Read more »
NED O’SULLIVAN’S REVENGE
FANS OF Goldhawk are well aware of the disastrous IT project debacle in the Arts Council – including arts department secretary general Feargal Ó Coigligh, who told the Public Accounts... Read more »
PASCHAL DONOHOE’S JOB SEARCH
IS FINANCE MINISTER Paschal Donohoe becoming the Yosser Hughes of the European plutocracy? ‘Gizza job’ appears to be his mantra as he mingles with finance technocrats in the Eurogroup of... Read more »
DPP MAN VERSUS TAOISEACH AND HACK
IAN BAILEY would not have expected to play a posthumous role in last year’s general election but Taoiseach Micheál Martin’s public endorsement of a book claiming that Bailey should have... Read more »
NAEEM MANIAR’S MANY HATS
LIAM CUNNINGHAM was in the headlines this week for his spat with Conor McGregor after the latter mocked the actor’s role in supporting the Gaza aid boat’s attempt to breach... Read more »
LIFTING THE LID ON MOUNTBATTEN
Richard Kerr and Stephen Waring, two former residents of Kincora Boys’ Home, were trafficked by Kincora warden Joseph Mains to members of a paedophile network in the 1970s. The ring... Read more »
CYBER INSECURITY
IRELAND WAS one of 41 countries participating in last month’s Locked Shields 2025 in Tallinn, Estonia. The rationale given for Irish involvement in this “live-fire cyber defence exercise”, co-ordinated by... Read more »
Fit to Print?
CONFLICTS AT DE PAPER(S)
CORK’S ATTACHMENT to ‘de paper’ may soon be realised literally as one of de two newspapers, the Irish Examiner and the Echo, could be facing extinction. That’s what some analysts... Read more »
‘IRISH TIMES’ CRIES HALT IN GAZA
AMONG THOSE scrambling to get onside with the increasing revulsion at the slaughter in Gaza is the Irish Times, which recently editorialised against Israel’s now openly genocidal attacks on Palestinians.... Read more »
Bog Cuttings
BOG CUTTINGS
TIOCFAIDH ÁR LAW Derry Magistrate’s Court heard the case of a young woman who, on May 29, was found in an intoxicated state, lying on the road and yelling republican... Read more »
Fowl Emissions
GOVERNMENT DATA BULLIES
In a chilling public display of loyalty to our Big Tech overlords, Fianna Fáil heavyweights have been putting the boot into a senior civil servant who dared to question the... Read more »
MICHEÁL MARTIN’S ROADWORKS
“Roads are also important for environment, this doesn’t get said often enough.” That was Micheál Martin’s hot take in Galway last week as he pledged support for the city’s planned... Read more »
High Society
DER KAISER’S TRUSTEES
DERMOT DESMOND’S favourite charity, the Chester Beatty Library (CBL) – where he is a trustee “for life” – is set to get some new blood courtesy of arts minister Patrick... Read more »
HYLAND’S GRAVE CONCERN
THE ASSOCIATION of Irish Racehorse Owners (AIRO) held its recent AGM in the near empty Irish Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association headquarters in Kill, Co Kildare, where chairman David Hyland warned about... Read more »
ROMAN STERN’S EXPENSIVE ADVENTURE
GOLDHAWK NOTES that number-cruncher Roy Scannell of Moore Ireland has just been installed as liquidator of a company called SWR Properties Ltd. This was once the entity behind the sprawling... Read more »
Behind the Scenes
IMMA’S HALF DOZEN
ARTS MINISTER Patrick O’Donovan is seeking applications from worthies looking to fill no less than six upcoming vacancies on the Ali Curran-chaired board of Imma. At the end of last... Read more »
BEN BARNES’ BROADSIDE
WHILE THE Arts Council has been getting both barrels recently for rather obvious reasons (clue: €7m IT debacle), it is rarely criticised by its clients for equally obvious reasons. Certainly,... Read more »
Moneybags
OVOCA BIO TRANSFORMATION WILL BOOST MARKET ACTIVITY
IN WHAT is still called Ovoca Bio, CEO (for the second time) Tim McCutcheon – who is also the largest shareholder with 22% – has shifted the focus of the... Read more »
SMOOTH SAILING FOR ICG BOSS EAMONN ROTHWELL
PROBABLY THE most noteworthy aspect of the accounts for Irish Ferries owner Irish Continental Group (ICG) in recent times has been CEO Eamonn Rothwell’s very generous remuneration package in the... Read more »
Brief Cases
WOLFPACK STUBBED OUT
WITH VAPING very much on the rise here and around the world, Goldhawk was interested to see that a company called Wolfpack Wholesale Group Ltd (WWG) had come a cropper... Read more »
ALAN CLANCY’S TAXING MATTER
ONE OF the most high-profile players in the club and bar scene in Ireland, and especially Dublin, in recent years has been Alan ‘House’ Clancy, who is associated with numerous... Read more »
TV PRODUCERS’ UNSCRIPTED CREDIT
LAST WEEK the EU’s competition directorate approved the plan announced in Budget 2025 by then finance minister Jack Chambers to introduce a new tax break for “unscripted” TV productions. In... Read more »
BRANIGAN’S UNCOMFORTABLE SEATS
WITH THE deadline of June 16 for phase-one submissions to the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, high-flying radio boss Kevin Branigan will be keeping his fingers crossed that there are... Read more »
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