Article Category: Affairs of the Nation

OFFICER CLASS IN RETREAT

April 6, 2023
THE SPECTACLE of Defence Forces Chief of Staff (c/s) Seán Clancy being pilloried for denying he had encountered any abuse issues as highlighted by... Read more »

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GERRY O’CARROLL’S CRI DE COEUR

April 6, 2023
WITH EACH staging post along the 40-year-old Kerry Babies saga, the prevailing view is that several gardaí were involved in a travesty in which... Read more »

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CLAIRE BYRNE’S ‘SUPER AGENT’

April 6, 2023
WITH THE clock ticking in the search for the new host of The Late Late Show (TLLS), there are those wondering if agent Noel... Read more »

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JAY BOURKE’S STORIES

April 6, 2023
GOLDHAWK’S OLD friend Jay Bourke addressed the AGM of the insolvency specialists’ representative body, Restructuring and Insolvency Ireland (RII) last month. Judging by a... Read more »

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MARC GODART’S TENANTS

April 6, 2023
FANS OF Goldhawk will have recognised the name of landlord extraordinaire Marc Godart on the front page of the Irish Times earlier this week... Read more »

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NATIONAL PARTY ON THE RUN

April 6, 2023
After the fracas in Fermanagh, when antifascists confronted National Party (NP) members at their ard fheis in November, Goldhawk wonders whether, despite fighting talk,... Read more »

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MI5’s BENIGN ROLE IN IRELAND

April 6, 2023
THE NEW book by veteran British author and broadcaster Peter Taylor, Operation Chiffon, has much to say about MI5’s activities in Ireland. It also... Read more »

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ONLY OUR RIVERS RUN FREE

April 6, 2023
A PLANNING row that began in 2012 over an Athlone marina has turned into a major confrontation involving Waterways Ireland (WI), Westmeath County Council,... Read more »

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ELLIE KISYOMBE KEEPS BUSY

April 5, 2023
NO DOUBT one-time Social Democrats local election candidate Ellie Kisyombe was breathing a sign of relief last month when she was given just a... Read more »

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CIARA FLOOD’S BANKERS

April 5, 2023
AS THE dust settles on the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), assorted Irish customers with loan facilities are breathing a sigh of relief... Read more »

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FRANCESCA’S SWISS ROLE

March 23, 2023
WHILE THERE has been acres of space devoted to the trials and tribulations of Credit Suisse in the business media in particular, the name... Read more »

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ENDA MCNULTY’S PERFORMANCE

March 23, 2023
IT HAS been hard to avoid the dulcet tones of former Armagh All-Ireland winning full-back Enda McNulty in recent weeks as he has done... Read more »

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€20M ‘KIN’ CONUNDRUM

March 23, 2023
WHILE THE crux of the opening episode of RTÉ’s second series of Kin (see review p23) is the €90m cost of the Kinsella family’s... Read more »

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TED CUNNINGHAM’S COURT CASE

March 23, 2023
THE LATEST development relating to Tipperary farmer Patrick Quirke’s conviction for murdering Bobby Ryan (aka DJ Mr Moonlight) in 2011 has been the subject... Read more »

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ENDA KENNY’S SPACE MISSION

March 23, 2023
THE COLOURFUL story of an alleged spy working for the National Space Centre (NSC) in Cork got quite the kicking in the Sindo last... Read more »

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MICHEÁL MARTIN’S NEW FRIENDS

March 23, 2023
AS The Phoenix has repeatedly pointed out, the Government, and in particular Micheál Martin, has in the last year moved further and further away... Read more »

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BARON’S PAEAN TO EOGHAN HARRIS

March 23, 2023
THE ULTIMATE British Tory journalist, Charles Moore – official biographer of the Iron Lady, Margaret Thatcher and past editor of the Daily Telegraph, Spectator... Read more »

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IFA ‘MODERATES’

March 23, 2023
If you run an industrial operation where there is a risk of pollution, you will require a licence from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).... Read more »

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MANCHESTER BOMB: MI5 INCOMPETENCE

March 23, 2023
MI5 DIRECTOR GENERAL Ken McCallum has said he is “profoundly sorry” that his service did not prevent the Manchester Arena suicide bombing, in which... Read more »

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SUE GRAY STILL TO RUN UK?

March 8, 2023
THE MOST powerful woman in Britain – according to various British sources – is Sue Gray and she has now emerged as British Labour... Read more »

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LITTLE MUSEUM, BIG BRANDS

March 8, 2023
CLEVER TREVOR WHITE, director of the Little Museum of Dublin, exudes ethical concern for children, climate and other issues as manifest in various ways.... Read more »

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MODEST ANNE HARRIS

March 8, 2023
THE HEROISM attributed to TD Catherine Murphy by Anne Harris in the Irish Times this week was a study in selfless endeavour untainted by... Read more »

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BRENDAN MULLIN SCORES

March 8, 2023
INTERESTING TO see a judgment for the sum of €163,000 being registered against a property development company by one Brendan Mullin – former Ireland... Read more »

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PRINCE KHALED’S IRISH JET

March 8, 2023
GOLDHAWK WAS interested to see that a colourful Saudi prince, Khaled, who owns the most expensive house in the UK, is currently embroiled in... Read more »

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TRICOLOURS AND THE FAR RIGHT

March 8, 2023
SOME OF the boneheads running the Irish far-right scene have stumbled on the contradictions of cosying up to right-wing extremists and criminals from Blighty... Read more »

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CONSULATE’S OSCAR PERFORMANCE

March 8, 2023
THERE IS one possible result at Sunday’s Oscars that may not be top of the wish list for film funding agency Screen Ireland. While... Read more »

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ROBERT QUIRKE’S MALTESE MOOLAH

March 8, 2023
THE Comptroller and Auditor General’s scathing report into the farce surrounding HSE spending on ventilators in the early days of the Covid pandemic reminded... Read more »

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BURNING ISSUE

March 8, 2023
If an outsider were to land in rural Ireland for the first time in recent weeks, what would be their enduring impression of the... Read more »

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BERTIE AHERN’S REAL AGENDA

February 22, 2023
WHETHER INSPIRED by some devious and cunning politician or whether they became obsessed with Bertie Ahern’s presumed presidential ambitions, journalists en masse were diverted... Read more »

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DUNCAN’S DOSH

February 22, 2023
LAST WEEKEND climate activist and environmental campaigner Duncan Stewart got a run-out on Brendan O’Connor’s Radio 1 show on foot of the unpopular decision... Read more »

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MICHAEL O’LEARY ON THE BUSES

February 22, 2023
IN DECEMBER last, Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary made one of his trademark outbursts, this time with a target that, even by his standards, was unexpected;... Read more »

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CIARA KELLY’S MORNING MOOLAH

February 22, 2023
AS ONE of star agent Noel O’Kelly’s roster of ‘talent’, doctor-turned-broadcaster Ciara Kelly is proving quite the earner. The Newstalk presenter’s profile on NM... Read more »

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FINTAN CALLS TIME ON BIDEN

February 22, 2023
FINTAN O’TOOLE is probably the most influential opinion former in Ireland and thus far he has laid most blame for the war in Ukraine... Read more »

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SISTERS’ SUMMIT

February 22, 2023
IT LOOKS like Dublin’s Convention Centre will be the hot ticket in May when Executive Women Gathering (EWG), described as “Ireland’s largest female executive... Read more »

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IRISH MEDIA AT WAR

February 22, 2023
A REHASHED article that has effectively been published already by the Irish Times, Irish Independent, RTÉ, BBC and now the Sunday Times again last... Read more »

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IDLIB: IRELAND’S IMPACT

February 22, 2023
THE EARTHQUAKES that hit south-eastern Turkey and north-western Syria caused widespread destruction of property and tens of thousands of death. The region has been... Read more »

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