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Joan Kehoe

GAA GAMES ON GAZA AND ALLIANZ

Date: January 29, 2026 - Affairs of the Nation

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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Niamh Smyth

PROFILE: NIAMH SMYTH

Date: January 29, 2026 - Pillars of Society

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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How To Gael

YOUNG BLOOD: ‘HOW TO GAEL’ GALS

Date: January 29, 2026 - The Young Bloods

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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Anthony Moyles

DAVY’S BIG BOYS’ CLUB

Date: January 29, 2026 - Affairs of the Nation

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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John Stephens

BERTIE’S BOY V DONOHOE’S BOY

Date: January 29, 2026 - Last Refuge

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

LAURA DOWLING’S VULVA PUPPET

Date: January 29, 2026 - High Society

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

MICHAEL HACKMAN’S HARD TIMES

Date: January 29, 2026 - Affairs of the Nation

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 - Affairs of the Nation

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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Date: January 29, 2026 -

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MAIRIA CAHILL’S IRANIAN INSIGHTS

Date: January 29, 2026 - Affairs of the Nation

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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Anton Savage

IN ANTON WE TRUST

Date: January 29, 2026 - Affairs of the Nation

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 - Brief Cases

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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Fred Holroyd

DENTON: MI5 IN THE DOCK

Date: January 29, 2026 - Affairs of the Nation

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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Séan Clancy

WILLING WARRIORS

Date: January 29, 2026 - Affairs of the Nation

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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Keith Woods

WILD COLONIAL NAZIS

Date: January 29, 2026 - Hush Hush

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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Miriam O'Callaghan

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: January 29, 2026 - The Hot Air Brigade

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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James O'Connor

SOLAR PANEL REBELS

Date: January 29, 2026 - Fowl Emissions

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 - Fowl Emissions

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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Diana Armstrong

SINN FÉIN’S ‘STUDY’ GROUPS

Date: January 29, 2026 - Northwind

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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Micheál Martin

MARTIN FACES DANGEROUS PERIOD

Date: January 29, 2026 - Last Refuge

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 - Affairs of the Nation

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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Helen McEntee

McENTEE: IRELAND STILL NEUTRAL

Date: January 29, 2026 - Last Refuge

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 - Last Refuge

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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Pat Leahy

NEUTERED (NOT NEUTRAL) MEDIA

Date: January 29, 2026 - Fit to Print?

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 - Fit to Print?

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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Mike Sheehan

‘ECHO’ CHAMBER

Date: January 29, 2026 - Fit to Print?

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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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: January 29, 2026 - Bog Cuttings

‘SQUARED UP TO’ GARDA Alan Healy (59) received an eight-week suspended sentence at a recent sitting of Cork District Court after pleading guilty to charges of public intoxication and engaging in abusive behaviour on two separate incidents in October 2025. Judge John King was told that gardaí observed Healy in a heated exchange with another… Read more »

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Oliver Sears

OLIVER SEARS’S COMMITTEE WORK

Date: January 29, 2026 - Behind the Scenes

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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Harry Cobden

TARGETING COBDEN

Date: January 29, 2026 - Sport of Kings

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 - Sport of Kings

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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Eric Matthews and Richie Barrett

BANG’S NEW MENU

Date: January 29, 2026 - High Society

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 - High Society

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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John Sherman

CONROY’S SOARING SHARE PRICE STILL LEAVES GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY

Date: January 29, 2026 - Moneybags

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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Tim McCutcheon

OVOCA BIO’S TALISMAN METALS TRANSFORMATION

Date: January 29, 2026 - Moneybags

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 and Michelle Robson

ERIK ROBSON’S TAXING TIME

Date: January 29, 2026 - Brief Cases

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 - Brief Cases

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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