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AFFAIRS OF THE NATION

MEDIA STILL HUNTS IAN BAILEY

July 29, 2021
WHEN FINTAN O’TOOLE gets it wrong he really gets it wrong, but his recent column on Ian Bailey, dressed up in liberal, feminist language,... Read more »

OUR LINE IN TEL AVIV

July 29, 2021
FOREIGN MINISTER Simon Coveney has ducked and dived when confronted with Israeli depredations against the Palestinians but he appears to have been struck dumb... Read more »

NEIL FRANCIS’S TACTICS

July 29, 2021
NEIL FRANCIS was never slow to dish it out, whether on the pitch or as a pundit, so there was a pretty long queue... Read more »

PAUL COLLINS’S LIBEL ACTION

July 29, 2021
BANDON-BASED businessman Paul Collins has fingers in many pies but his provision of accommodation for asylum seekers has often landed him in the media... Read more »

YVONNE DOLAN’S BLENDI BACKERS

July 29, 2021
AS FANS of Goldhawk are aware, Yvonne Dolan’s award-winning Blendi Snacks business ran out of flavour recently and the company was due to be... Read more »

TENI’S TIMING

July 29, 2021
AT LONG last Transgender Equality Network Ireland (TENI) has got around to filing its out-of-date 2019 accounts, which just might smooth the way for... Read more »

CHARITY BEGINS ON THE FARM

July 29, 2021
ONE OF the most intriguing questions awaiting the incoming director of Teagasc, the state agriculture research and training agency, is: what kind of organisation,... Read more »

REBELS IN WEST CORK

July 29, 2021
A BIZARRE stand-off in west Cork involving the Society of Saint Pius X Resistance. (SSPX Resistance), local campaigner Fiona O’Leary and gardaí is just... Read more »

TCD BYELECTION

July 29, 2021
THE SUNDAY TIMES has already plugged long-time former Goldman Sachs director Hugo McNeill in the early reckoning for the Seanad’s Trinity College Dublin seat... Read more »

MURDER, BENT COPS AND DUBLIN MEDIA

July 29, 2021
COMMENTING ON the latest report that found the London Met guilty of “institutional corruption” in its treatment of the 1987 murder of Daniel Morgan,... Read more »

MICHEÁL BEGINS HIS FIGHTBACK

July 15, 2021
IT’S A long time since the Irish Times gave such unqualified and partisan backing to a Fianna Fáil leader but it was through that... Read more »

PETER DUNN’S PAPAL GONG

July 15, 2021
IT’S NOT every day that a ‘Pro-Ecclesia et Pontifice’ award (PEP) is dished out here but one was accepted last week by Peter Dunn... Read more »

CATHY DAVEY’S LOVELY CHARITY

July 15, 2021
CONGRATULATIONS TO songwriter Cathy Davey, whose animal charity is doing better then observers may have expected. Last year, the Irish Times ran a piece... Read more »

GAISFORD ST LAWRENCE’S MANSION

July 15, 2021
A LETTER from one Julian Gaisford St Lawrence popped up in the Irish Times last week. The address was given as Coolcarrigan in Co... Read more »

CATHERINE MARTIN’S TEAM TACTICS

July 15, 2021
FANS OF Goldhawk will be aware that Green party minister Catherine Martin has a tendency to leave boards under her remit full of vacancies... Read more »

HAZEL HOVERS

July 15, 2021
MANY SEIZED on the elimination of Kate O’Connell by Fine Gael’s leadership and local members to explain the defeat of that party’s candidate, James... Read more »

REHMAN’S RESTRICTION

July 15, 2021
ONE OF the directors of a private English language college that shut tis doors in 2018 has just been restricted from acting as a... Read more »

VIDEO REWIND

July 15, 2021
T WAS surely only ever a matter of time before Hilco, which specialises in picking up ‘distressed’ investments, pulled the plug on its Xtra-Vision... Read more »

SALLINS TRAIN TRIAL REVISITED

July 15, 2021
THE FAMILY of Osgur Breatnach, wrongly convicted of the 1976 Sallins train robbery, have launched a campaign for a public inquiry into the controversial... Read more »

THE GENTLE BLACK AND TAN

July 15, 2021
BLINKERED NATIONALISTS have long argued that the West Cork History Festival (aka the West Brit Hist Fest) run by Simon and Victoria Kingston, exists... Read more »

DAVID MCWILLIAMS AND ‘GROUND ZERO’

July 15, 2021
THE FORAYS of pop economist David McWilliams into commentary on agriculture are rare indeed, and from the evidence of his most recent efforts, that’s... Read more »

IAN BAILEY’S STAR WITNESS

July 1, 2021
THE RE-EMERGENCE in the Sophie Toscan du Plantier murder saga of Marie Farrell – once the garda’s star witness against so-called suspect Ian Bailey... Read more »

WOMEN’S COUNCIL’S CRITICS

July 1, 2021
THE NATIONAL Women’s Council of Ireland (NWCI) found itself in the spotlight last month in relation to the endless gender identity debate. Given how... Read more »

RÓISÍN INGLE’S TWEETS

July 1, 2021
LAST MONTH’s ruling against the Carlow Nationalist by the press ombudsman over the paper’s wrong story on the ‘body-shaming’ of girls at Presentation College... Read more »

LEAVING LISSADELL

July 1, 2021
LAST MONTH, it was reported that the impressively renovated Lissadell pile on leafy Shrewsbury Road in D4 has been sold for a whopping €11m... Read more »

SHARON ALSTON’S MUSIC NOTES

July 1, 2021
GOLDHAWK WAS delighted to se that his favourite music festival organiser and vet, Sharon Alston, was one of the lucky recipients of arts minister... Read more »

DONALDSON THE ‘MODERATE’

July 1, 2021
DUP DARLING of RTÉ and the Irish Times, new party leader Jeffrey Donaldson has been presented as the civilised alternative to creationist Edwin Poots... Read more »

IRELAND’S PAST VERSUS FUTURE

July 1, 2021
ROLE REVERSAL between Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil on the national question has been a feature of politics in recent years but FG’s Leo... Read more »

MARY DALY’S LECTURE

July 1, 2021
PROFESSOR MARY E DALY, one of the members of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes, is already in hot water for declining... Read more »

INM DATA FRENZY

June 17, 2021
THE PRIVACY action being taken by former INM editor-in-chief Stephen Rae against Mediahuis Ireland, current owner of the newspaper group, reflects the hothouse atmosphere... Read more »

SARAH KEANE’S BELLY FLOP

June 17, 2021
WHAT A bad week it was for Sarah Keane, president of the Irish Olympic Federation (IOF) and chief executive of Swim Ireland. After the... Read more »

THE ABBEY’S DRAMATIC LICENCE

June 17, 2021
WITH THE director team of Graham McLaren and Neil Murray preparing to exit the Abbey next month, the incoming pair of Caitriona McLaughlin and... Read more »

DARRAGH O’LOUGHLIN’S STRONG MEDICINE

June 17, 2021
THE BELATED opening-up of the pharmacy sector to the administering of Covid-19 vaccines represents some good news for the country’s chemists. It comes, however,... Read more »

CONDEMNING EOGHAN HARRIS

June 17, 2021
EOGHAN HARRIS was condemned from a great height by Cork City councillors who voted unanimously this week to “condemn the use of anonymous twitter... Read more »

POLITICS AND LAW

June 17, 2021
JENNIFER CARROLL MACNEILL has had enough of the frenzy about political cronyism in the sphere of judicial appointments as she made clear in a... Read more »

SONAR’S ‘DIPLOMACY’

June 17, 2021
A CONTROVERSIAL event at Trinity College Dublin last month resulted in Palestinian ambassador Jilan Wahba Abdalmajid expressing her outrage at the failure to inform... Read more »