ANNUAL 2020- CLERICAL ERRORS: IRISH APOSTATES CAST OUT
AFFAIRS OF THE NATION
Article Category: Affairs of the Nation
WOULFE IN JUDGE’S CLOTHING
November 19, 2020
HAVING BEEN transformed from predator into the hunted one vis-à-vis Supreme Court ‘colleague’ Séamus Woulfe, Chief Justice Frank Clarke may now feel he laid... Read more »
BIDEN AND IRISH NEUTRALITY
November 19, 2020
AS VICTORY for Joe Biden’s US presidential campaign inched closer, the Irish Times’s EU warriors became more exercised about the consequences for what is... Read more »
UNICORNS’ PROFITS
November 19, 2020
LAST YEAR the Dáil declared a biodiversity emergency and, in recent months, the EU’s Farm To Fork strategy set out ambitious targets to cut... Read more »
FARRELL’S FALL
November 19, 2020
GOLDHAWK’S OLD friend, security specialist Jim Farrell, has just been adjudged a bankrupt in relation to a row over his former company. Business Mobile... Read more »
LONDON CALLING
November 19, 2020
CONGRATS TO the chaps in News UK, London head Office of the Sunday Times – which dictates the tone and tenor of its aawrish... Read more »
WILD MOUNTAIN MEN
November 19, 2020
WITH ALL the fuss over the trailer for Wild Mountain Thyme, it is interesting to note that the taxpayer has put a fair few... Read more »
ANNUAL 2020: GOLDHAWK’S AWARDS FOR THE PASSING PARADE 2020
November 19, 2020
Tony Holohan IT IS probably safe to say that Monty Python’s Always Look on the Bright Side of Life is not on repeat on... Read more »
FRANK CLARKE’S APPOINTMENT
November 18, 2020
ANOTHER aspect of Séamus Woulfe’s term as attorney general that has recently been seized on is the secretive manner of his appointment to the... Read more »
VARADKAR’S VBFS
November 5, 2020
HOW PIQUANT that Leo Varadkar should have made cronyism such a strong part of his political profile when he began his bid for leadership... Read more »
GEMMA’S BRITISH COMRADES
November 5, 2020
GEMMA O’DOHERTY is positioned distinctly to the right on the political spectrum, but her rallies and those of other anti-immigrant ‘Irish patriots’, like the... Read more »
MARGARET SWEENEY’S €1M PA
November 5, 2020
FORMER DUBLIN Airport Authority boss Margaret Sweeney landed herself a 42% pay hike at the listed property giant I-Res Reit, where her total remuneration... Read more »
DERMOT LACEY’S STRANGE APPOINTMENT
November 5, 2020
EYEBROWS WERE raised recently when education minister Norma Foley quietly made her three appointments to the governing authority of UCD. One of the faces... Read more »
SIMONE ROCHA’S PEARLS
November 5, 2020
FASHION DESIGNER Simone Rocha recently launched her Spring 2021 ready-to-wear collection ‘in the flesh’, eschewing the online Zoom-type events that are increasingly familiar. Under... Read more »
DOCTORS DIFFER
November 5, 2020
THE LIST of characters in Leo Varadkar’s ‘confidential’ leak story includes the tánaiste himself, web summit guru Paddy Cosgrave, GP union head Dr Maitiú... Read more »
DR VARADKAR’S DILEMMA
November 5, 2020
TÁNAISTE DR Leo Varadkar’s medical interactions have seen him don scrubs and present as Joseph Lister in the first phase of Covid-19 last April... Read more »
SDLP FRACKING DILEMMA
November 5, 2020
NORTHERN CONTROVERSIES only attract media attention if they concern Sinn Féin, which might help to explain why the SDLP’s Nichola Mallon, Northern Ireland’s infrastructure... Read more »
DECLAN KELLY’S PREDICTIONS
November 5, 2020
NO DOUBT corporate strategist extraordinaire Declan Kelly was keeping a close eye on the US election results this week given his company’s strong links... Read more »
OOPS! THEY’VE DONE IT AGAIN
November 5, 2020
AN IRISH animated film topped the UK box office charts last month, offering another potential big pay day for Siún Ní Raghallaigh and Moe... Read more »
CRYING WOULFE
October 22, 2020
THE JUDICIARY’S ineffectual attempt to deal with their esteemed new Supreme Court member, Seamus Woulfe, following his double bogey on the 19th hole at... Read more »
MCDOWELL’S SILENCE
October 22, 2020
THE INFORMATIVE and provocative columns in the Irish Times by Senator Michael McDowell indicate a man who has rarely shied away from confrontation with... Read more »
IAN BAILEY AND THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
October 22, 2020
ATTORNEY GENERAL, Paul Gallagher has crossed Ian Bailey several times since the garda tried to pin the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier on... Read more »
DINNY’S AUSSIE DEAL
October 22, 2020
THE ONGOING High Court jousting concerning former Independent News and Media (INM) chairman Leslie Buckley has cast a spotlight on that strange deal involving... Read more »
FERGAL KEANE’S PPE CONTACTS
October 22, 2020
WITH NO sign of Covid-19 going away any time soon it, the state will be spending big on personal protection equipment (PPE) for some... Read more »
McNAMARA’S NEW BAND WAGGON
October 22, 2020
IT MIGHT be temporary, but the public mood is in favour of stern government measures against Covid, although that does not seem to deter... Read more »
WEE CARE’S BIG BUCKS
October 22, 2020
NO DOUBT the suits at RTÉ paid particular interest to a Court of Appeal ruling rejecting the unusual request by a most profitable crèche... Read more »
FLANAGAN’S CRYING GAME
October 22, 2020
NEWSTALK SHOWED great alacrity in interviewing former justice minister, Charlie ‘BlackandTanagain’ Flanagan about his attack on Unquiet Graves, the documentary about collusion (was Newstalk’s... Read more »
GOODBYE GIRLCREW
October 22, 2020
SO FAREWELL then GirlCrew, whose female-focused networking app never gained the traction required to become a big player in the social media maelstrom. The... Read more »
DENIS O’BRIEN’S APPLIANCES
October 8, 2020
A LIQUIDATOR has been appointed to a company called Demirca Ltd. Although not a familiar name, it turns out to be one of Denis... Read more »
PRINCES OF LAW
October 8, 2020
GOLDHAWK IS grateful to a reader who looked up the Wikipedia entry for controversial Supreme Court judge Séamus Woulfe. The highlight is, without doubt,... Read more »
QUIS CUSTODIET IPSOS CUSTODES
October 8, 2020
SÉamus Woulfe got filleted by the Irish Times for his deluded self-pity over Golfgate, but the judges’ favourite newspaper still blamed “successive governments going... Read more »
COVENEY YIELDS TO TRUMP ON ISRAEL
October 8, 2020
THE HIGHLY regarded Irish Times Middle East correspondent, Micheal Jansen, recently summarised the so-called breakthrough of the United Arab Emirate (UAE)-Bahrain-Israel deal as something... Read more »
WILLIE WALSH’S ROUTE MAP
October 8, 2020
WITH FORMER Aer Lingus boss Willie Walsh having finally exited the giant International Airlines Group (IAG), where he had been chief executive for nine... Read more »
ED GUINEY’S PLOT TWIST
October 8, 2020
FANS OF Goldhawk are familiar with the costly development and change of ownership of the controversial Pálás cinema project in Galway, where the opening... Read more »
MATT COOPER’S MANY HATS
October 8, 2020
MATT COOPER is a very busy chap, which may explain why he apparently forgot to mention his roles in Today FM and Virgin when... Read more »
CHARLIE FLANAGAN TO BE SUED?
October 8, 2020
IT’S RARE that a full-on riposte to Eoghan Harris’s attacks on those with the ‘wrong’ outlook is sanctioned by the Sunday Independent and even... Read more »