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AFFAIRS OF THE NATION

‘IRISH TIMES’ WOMEN: THERMIDOR!

August 22, 2019
INCENDIARY OUTRAGE has been the reaction of some Irish Times male hacks to the document supported by most of their female colleagues conveying the... Read more »

ROSE OF TRALEE FESTIVAL’S RED INK

August 22, 2019
WITH THE 60th Rose of Tralee hooley kicking off this weekend, the build-up has been marred somewhat by the decision of the Irish greyhound... Read more »

IT’S THE ‘SUN’ WOT WON IT

August 22, 2019
RUPERT MURDOCH’S News Corp has probably done more for project Brexit than Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage and David Cameron put together. Now it looks... Read more »

BRIAN MCDONAGH’S ‘FRONT’ COMPANY

August 22, 2019
GRANJA LTD, a company linked to Brian McDonagh – the man at the centre of efforts to stop a proposal by Apple (since abandoned)... Read more »

SHANE ROSS’S RHINOCEROS

August 22, 2019
DESPITE BREXIT, Leo Varadkar’s and Micheál Martin’s unofficial negotiators continue to court the Greens, Labour and the Social Democrats with sweet talk of a... Read more »

EMILY AND BETTY AND ORLAGH

August 22, 2019
IT WILL be interesting to see if three members of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHREC) – the current chief commissioner and... Read more »

FUNDING THE HARE KRISHNAS

August 22, 2019
THE FOOD Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) has been busy in recent weeks, most notably forcing the shut down of spring water production at... Read more »

BURKIAN EXPANSION

August 22, 2019
THIS WEEK saw the official social media launch of gript.ie, a conservative online media platform that features some familiar faces. Not surprisingly, there is... Read more »

IRA KIDNAP DISPUTE

August 22, 2019
FORMER RTÉ executive David Blake Knox (DBK) has provoked a reaction from more than one quarter with his recently published book, The Killing of... Read more »

JIM FARRELL’S SECURITY SITUATION

August 22, 2019
GOLDHAWK WAS intrigued to see the name of his old friend and security expert, Jim Farrell, crop up in an ex-parte (one side only)... Read more »

PAT HICKEY’S MEDAL RUN

August 8, 2019
IT IS not surprising that the photo of former Olympic Federation of Ireland (OFI) boss Pat Hickey having a chinwag with his good friend,... Read more »

MEDIAHUIS LEGAL DEBUT

August 8, 2019
THE WEEK in which Mediahuis received High Court approval of its INM takeover also saw a slew of legal problems and potentially huge damages... Read more »

BERNARD BROGAN’S GOALS

August 8, 2019
WITH MANY Dubs fans hoping that Bernard Brogan will be back in the squad for this weekend’s All Ireland semi-final clash with Mayo, he... Read more »

MARY HARNEY’S TIMELY EXIT

August 8, 2019
GOLDHAWK was surprised to spy the appointment of an administrator to the UK-registered parent of Mary O’Brien’s VideoDoc operation. The good news is that... Read more »

EMILY LOGAN’S APPOINTMENT

August 8, 2019
IT EMERGED at the weekend that justice minister Charlie Flanagan has stripped away the red tape previously wrapped around the re-appointment of serving commissioners... Read more »

MICHAEL NUGENT’S LUNCH DATE

August 8, 2019
INTERESTING TO see Atheist Ireland (AI) founder and High Priest Michael Nugent lending his impressive intellectual ballast to yet another unpopular cause. Last week,... Read more »

BAHRAIN BLAST

August 8, 2019
The recent executions in Bahrain of three Shi’ite activists were met with opprobrium from human rights groups and civil unrest in the Middle Eastern... Read more »

SEE THE QUEEN!

August 8, 2019
Boris Johnson arrived at Stormont on 31 July all bluff, bluster and bonhomie, urging the north’s parties to “seal the deal on power-sharing”. We’re... Read more »

MATT DEMPSEY’S CAMPAIGN

August 8, 2019
BEEF FARMERS make unlikely victims but former editor of the Irish Farmers Journal (IFJ), Matt Dempsey, has fought back against the “virulent vegan” vilification... Read more »

FILM PLOT THICKENS

August 8, 2019
EARLIER THIS month, the latest episode of the ongoing film and TV union saga played out at a meeting to discuss assorted plot lines,... Read more »

DANIELLE’S TWEET

August 8, 2019
GOLDHAWK was curious to read a report of defamation proceedings by the father of rugby player Paddy Jackson over comments circulated on Twitter by... Read more »

GALWAY RADICALS

August 8, 2019
FOLLLOWING THE recent attack on the Galway Maryam Mosque, the president of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Association of Ireland, Dr M A Malik, pointedly remarked... Read more »

HEATHER’S HOUSE

August 8, 2019
SPARE a thought for Mark Thornburgh, who stumped up over E170,000 to help his sister Heather Perrin – the only Irish judge ever to... Read more »

‘MACHO BOYS CLUB’ AT THE ‘IRISH TIMES’

July 25, 2019
THE MOST shocking news likely to be (not) reported in the Irish Times for years is the document drawn up by women in the... Read more »

DECLAN CREGAN’S US TROOP MOVEMENTS

July 25, 2019
INTERESTING TO see that US customs and border pre-clearance at Shannon Airport is being expanded to include corporate jets from the Kingdom of Saudi... Read more »

MADIGAN’S FANTASY

July 25, 2019
FORMER LEINSTER and Ireland out-half Ian Madigan has been having a tough time of late, but there has now been some good news on... Read more »

PAULA TIERNAN’S PAST

July 25, 2019
IRATE CIRCUIT Court judge Jacqueline Linnane claimed earlier this month that some solicitors should be more selective with the clients they take on. This... Read more »

DAVID COLEMAN’S JUDGMENT

July 25, 2019
GOLDHAWK’S old friend, legal eagle David Coleman, has suffered a setback at the hands of one of those dreadful vulture funds. The high-profile solicitor,... Read more »

VLAD CULLS NO-HOPE CANDIDATES

July 25, 2019
WITH NO obvious signs of mutiny after the de-selection of one or more general election candidates, Fine Gael’s director of organisation and director of... Read more »

ARJUM WAJID’S ERROR

July 25, 2019
PALESTINIAN SUPPORTERS were seriously embarrassed at the blunder by NUJ executive member Arjum Wajid, who had been the target of Irish NUJ executive member... Read more »

THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING!

July 25, 2019
THE ANTI-RUSSIAN campaign in the so-called ‘Irish’ edition of the Sunday Times is reaching Cold War proportions and reflects the obsessions of Whitehall rather... Read more »

PATRICIA RYAN’S PROMOTION

July 25, 2019
THE RECENT handover of the presidency of the Circuit Court from Judge Raymond Groarke to Judge Patricia Ryan was met with high spirits by... Read more »

BIG PHIL’S PAYBACK FROM LEO

July 11, 2019
THE ANGST-RIDDEN debate on the EU deal with South American trading block Mercosur is one thing, and it may be that the government can... Read more »

SARAH O’SHEA’S FOOTBALL SKILLS

July 11, 2019
IF ALL goes according to plan on July 20, then the subsequent annual general meeting of the FAI could see a brand new 12-person... Read more »

DERMOT DESMOND’S JET LAG

July 11, 2019
SURPRISING to see three companies associated with Dermot Desmond’s former investment in a Swiss private jet hire operation being listed for striking off the... Read more »

PAT QUIRKE’S RESIGNATION

July 11, 2019
THREE MONTHS on from Tipperary farmer Pat Quirke’s high-profile conviction for murder, the company he set up to run his business has just filed... Read more »