Article Category: Affairs of the Nation

CHARLIE MCCONALOGUE’S EXTENSIONS

November 30, 2023

THERE HAS been some odd behaviour by agriculture minister Charlie McConalogue in relation to vacancies on the board of the Irish National Stud... Read more »

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FF DUBS OUT TO GET McENTEE

November 30, 2023
MORE THAN one media reference last weekend to Fianna Fáil backbenchers’ anger at Helen McEntee spells internal coalition trouble for the justice minister, especially... Read more »

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FIGHTING EXTREMISM

November 30, 2023
THE Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) presents as a welcome antidote to all things extreme. It also claims to be “fiercely independent” in the... Read more »

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STANDING BACK AND STANDING BY

November 30, 2023

FAR-RIGHT activists have been accustomed to the policy of Drew Harris for the gardaí to stand back as they have not only pushed... Read more »

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FRANCES RUANE’S REPORTS

November 30, 2023

GOLDHAWK PRESUMES there will be little enough Christmas spirit on show between the Arts Council (AC) and the Abbey Theatre this month as... Read more »

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POOR FARMERS SHOCK!

November 30, 2023

Despite the constant moaning and demands for bailouts coming from the sector, overall agriculture incomes have improved in recent years. However, according to... Read more »

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FIANNA FÁIL BACKS ISRAEL

November 15, 2023
THE HAND-WRINGING about divisions within EU states over the Israeli massacre of civilians in Gaza is one thing. But there has also been a... Read more »

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DERMOT DESMOND’S CELTIC CROSS

November 15, 2023

DERMOT DESMOND will be looking forward to the end of this year, as his control of Glasgow Celtic continues to deliver defeats both... Read more »

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LUCY IN THE SKY WITH ISRAELIS

November 15, 2023
A FAVOURITE tactic of western militarist think tanks, PR firms and lobbyists is to present as centre ground moderates that oppose extremism of the... Read more »

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NEALE RICHMOND’S FORUM

November 15, 2023

WHILE THERE wouldn’t be oodles of interest in a worthy sounding body such as the Enterprise Digital Advisory Forum (EDAF), the imminent appointment... Read more »

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MARTIN MOVES EARLY

November 15, 2023

CONGRATULATIONS ARE in order for arts and culture minister Catherine Martin, who recently advertised for would-be board members for the National Gallery of... Read more »

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NAZI REGALIA

November 15, 2023

SHOCKED AND perplexed observers of National Party leader Justin Barrett turning up to an anti-immigrant protest last week dressed in an SS overcoat... Read more »

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THE COUNTER-RESTORATION

November 15, 2023

DESPITE THE very best efforts of the European agri-industrial lobby and its allies on the political right, the EU’s Nature Restoration Law (NRL)... Read more »

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ANNUAL 2023: GOLDHAWK’S AWARDS FOR THE PASSING PARADE 2023

November 15, 2023

DEE FORBES THERE WAS only ever one real contender for the 2023 Where’s Wally TV Drama Award. The biggest hit show this summer... Read more »

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‘A EUROPEAN ARMY — GETTING CLOSE’

November 2, 2023

A DEAFENING silence from the media and its normally enthusiastic security correspondents surrounds the European Union’s first ever live military exercise – near... Read more »

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SIGHTS SET ON STRASBOURG

November 2, 2023

THE FIRST ever female president of the European Court of Human Rights (EHCR), Síofra O’Leary, was the subject of a glowing profile in... Read more »

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MOORE McDOWELL’S ‘CONFLICT’

November 2, 2023

THERE WAS quite a setback last month in the High Court for private hospital entrepreneur Shay Sweeney in his (very) long-running case against... Read more »

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JIMMY SAVILE AND TED HEATH

November 2, 2023
Steve Coogan has earned plaudits for his unnerving portrayal of the late Jimmy Savile, the notorious BBC celebrity and child sex abuser. The late... Read more »

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NOT EMUSED

November 2, 2023

THE FINAL page has been turned on the story of the multimillion-euro collapse of Irish TV tech outfit Emuse. Liquidator Joseph Walsh has... Read more »

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DEMOCRATIC WEST

November 2, 2023
A FAVOURITE argument of Leo Varadkar and Micheál Martin is that the Russians have a stranglehold over Irish foreign policy because they can block... Read more »

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MEDIA WAR ERUPTS

November 2, 2023

PHOENIX READERS will be familiar with the secession of Belgian multinational Mediahuis – the biggest media group in Ireland by far – from... Read more »

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STORMIN’ NORMAN’S HEADLINES

November 2, 2023
FAIR PLAY to Stormin’ Norman Crowley – he has the promotion of his Cool Planet brand down to a fine art. The latest example... Read more »

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DODGY DUBLIN DECLARATION

November 2, 2023

IN OCTOBER 2022 Teagasc, the state agriculture research agency, hosted a conference of meat industry activists. Arising from this, the so-called ‘Dublin Declaration’... Read more »

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IRELAND AND PALESTINE NOW

October 19, 2023
EXACTLY ONE year ago, European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said: “Russia’s attacks against civilian infrastructure, especially electricity, are war crimes. Cutting... Read more »

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DRINKAWARE’S HANGOVER

October 19, 2023

GOLDHAWK ALWAYS enjoys reading the annual report of the alcohol-industry-funded charity Drinkaware, and the one just published is as entertaining as always. It... Read more »

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ALAN SHATTER’S ROMP

October 19, 2023
CONGRATULATIONS TO loudmouth former politician Alan Shatter, whose saucy novel has been attracting rather a lot of media attention here. Given that it is... Read more »

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McENTEES: MEATH PATRIOTS

October 19, 2023
THE McENTEE family has done the county proud in recent years and efforts by two or more of the boys to promote the county... Read more »

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RACHEL KENNY’S WRITS

October 19, 2023

A COUPLE of libel writs have just landed relating to recent coverage of events in An Bord Pleanála (ABP). It looks like the... Read more »

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ABBEY THEATRE REVIEWS

October 18, 2023
WHILE ARTS and media minister Catherine Martin has come in for criticism over her hands-off style when it comes to the unfolding debacle at... Read more »

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BUDGET BLUES

October 18, 2023

FROM UNDER- to over-reaction, the gardaí lockdown around the Dáil and Government Buildings on budget day, to ward off protests, reminded Goldhawk of... Read more »

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RIC PARTY POOPERS

October 18, 2023

CHARLIE FLANAGAN is hanging up his blue shirt at the next election with the great disappointment that his “postponed” Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC)... Read more »

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‘WARRIOR CLASS OF OUR RACE’

October 18, 2023

MARK TWAIN’S assertion that “history never repeats itself but it does often rhyme” definitely holds water when you consider the composition of the... Read more »

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MORE MEDIA TRANSPARENCY

October 5, 2023

THERE IS something piquant about the current fury among the once-pampered literati at the Irish Times, who have for long purveyed ethical attachment... Read more »

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McGRATH TAKES LEAD FROM TRUSS

October 5, 2023

MICHAEL McGRATH and Liz Truss are not obvious political bed-fellows but the finance minister appears determined to announce similarly discredited policies of cutting... Read more »

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FIGHTING TALK

October 5, 2023

THE PHENOMENON of members of the Travelling community recording ‘call out’ videos – where they challenge others due to perceived slights, previous confrontations... Read more »

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ADMIRAL McDOWELL CLAMBERS ABOARD

October 5, 2023

THE ESCALATION of a planning row over an Athlone marina, which began in 2012, has moved from Westmeath County Council to the District... Read more »

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