Article Category: Affairs of the Nation

BRENDAN O’CONNOR’S FAVOURITE GUESTS

May 7, 2026

GOLDHAWK HAS highlighted the unusually blatant bias in media coverage of the Government’s abandonment of neutrality and Ireland’s traditional foreign policy. A feature... Read more »

KATIE TAYLOR’S FIZZ

May 7, 2026

BOXING LEGEND Katie Taylor showed impressive timing last month when she announced that she wants her final bout to take place in Dublin... Read more »

NEIL SANDS’S PR PROBLEM

May 7, 2026

The PUBLIC Relations Institute of Ireland (PRII) hosts its national conference next week and among the speakers is Goldhawk’s old friend, Neil Sands.... Read more »

‘NEUTRAL’ THINK TANK’S AGENDA

May 7, 2026

THE IRISH edition of the Sunday Times was pleased recently to credit the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) with exposing a cunning plot... Read more »

McENTEE’S NATO STRATEGY

May 7, 2026

Defence Minister Helen McEntee highlighted the growing threat to Ireland’s maritime infrastructure at the Valentia Island Subsea Cable Security and Resilience Symposium on... Read more »

GERMANY AND PSNI TARGET PA PROTESTS

May 7, 2026

In the last week of April, just as the trial of Dublin man Daniel Tatlow-Devally opened in Germany for allegedly participating in a... Read more »

SMITH TACKLES ‘GRIPT’ HEAD ON

April 23, 2026

AS IF the right-wing Gript website had not enough trouble to contend with – its editor, John McGuirk, has been placed on leave... Read more »

PATRICK TREACY’S ADVENTURES

April 23, 2026

AS A result of having treated former pop superstar Michael Jackson during his sojourn in Ireland many moons ago, cosmetic specialist Patrick Treacy... Read more »

DECLAN GANLEY’S IMPERIAL PROPOSALS

April 23, 2026

As those active in the networks of Ireland’s new right continue to jockey for position, Declan Ganley has been taking an increasingly hands-on... Read more »

MAURA DERIVAN’S MEDAL

April 23, 2026

CONGRATULATIONS TO Goldhawk’s old friend, solicitor extraordinaire Maura Derivan, who has just been awarded something called the Trophee de L’Egalite in recognition of... Read more »

CHAMBERS JOINS MILITARY BIG BOYS

April 23, 2026

The increasing number of Irish delegates at the annual Bilderberg conference highlights Ireland’s growing importance to the western military-industrial complex. This secretive group... Read more »

STRANGE RUMOUR AFTER ADAMS’S WIN

April 23, 2026

EXASPERATION AT the failure of a concerted effort this month to nail Gerry Adams in a London court, with the aid of ‘lawfare’... Read more »

JACK LYNCH’S ‘CARTE BLANCHE’ TO UK

April 23, 2026

Recently declassified files from the 1970s offer an insight into the Cosgrave government’s diffidence in its dealings with Whitehall after gardaí arrested a... Read more »

THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING

April 9, 2026

IT IS difficult to say whether it is the Government or the media that is the main driver of the 1950s-type Cold War... Read more »

DERMOT DESMOND’S SOUR NOTES

April 9, 2026

A BROADBAND network business that was once set to put Ireland at the forefront of the global fibre network roll-out has been quietly... Read more »

‘CRUELLA’ V HARRIS

April 9, 2026

HEALTH MINISTER Jennifer ‘Cruella’ MacNeill is currently being assailed from all sides as her ambition to restructure the health service – or restructure... Read more »

ROB HENEGHAN’S NOT SO SURE THING

April 9, 2026

GOLDHAWK WAS interested to see his litigious pal Rob Heneghan featuring on the front page of the Irish Times this week as a... Read more »

KEITH WOODS’S MYSTERY BACKER

April 9, 2026

A handful of National Party (NP) members gathered briefly at the Grave for the 1916 Leaders monument in Arbour Hill this Easter. The... Read more »

LITTLE TO BE SONAS ABOUT

April 9, 2026

The clock is ticking fast for the sick, elderly and disabled residents of six independent-living units in the Sonas Retirement Village in Enniscrone,... Read more »

DID MI5 HAVE ROLE IN SCOTT MILLS AFFAIR?

April 9, 2026

Scott Mills, a familiar voice on BBC radio, has been removed from his role as host of BBC Radio 2’s breakfast show following... Read more »

ADAMS’S OPPONENT’S ‘LAWFARE’ SKILLS

March 26, 2026

MUCH OF the Irish Times’s summary of Gerry Adams’s successful defence against a civil case alleging multiple IRA actions reflected the angry statement... Read more »

PAT KENNY’S CANDOUR

March 26, 2026

NEWSTALK’S WEEKEND mornings radio host, Pat Kenny, earned plenty of positive coverage for his Sindo interview with Niamh Horan earlier this month. He... Read more »

COLIN WALLACE’S COVERT TRUTH

March 26, 2026

Colin Wallace, a former psychological operations officer in the British Army, is pursuing a legal action to compel the British government to reveal... Read more »

RED FACES AT BLUE HAVEN

March 26, 2026

AN ATTEMPTED corporate rescue of the so-called Blue Haven ‘Collection’ in Kinsale has flopped and it looks like there could be a fair... Read more »

PROTECTING PAUL COLLINS

March 26, 2026

BANDON DEVELOPER Paul Collins has been a controversial figure for many years, courtesy of his companies involvement in the International Protection Accommodation Service... Read more »

KINCORA SURVIVOR’S MANY BATTLES

March 26, 2026

Richard Kerr, a survivor of sex abuse that he suffered at Kincora Boys’ Home, will commence his legal action against the NI state... Read more »