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THE OIRISH FAVOURITE

February 21, 2019
SUNDAY’S OSCARS look certain to feature The Favourite heavily and the green jersey has... Read more »

SIMON COVENEY’S PRIORITIES

February 21, 2019
WITH THE children’s hospital overrun grabbing headlines for the last month, the contractors, BAM,... Read more »

RONAN KEATING’S CORPORATE PAL

February 21, 2019
WITH BOYZONE winding down their farewell tour, which concludes in Dubai (natch) in April,... Read more »

DEALING WITH CYRIL BURKE

February 21, 2019
FINE GAEL’S executive council must grapple with a delicate issue in the next few... Read more »

STOP THAT WOMAN HANAFIN!

February 21, 2019
BARRY ANDREWS’S formidable, family political machine was a big factor in his Fianna Fáil... Read more »

COVENEY HIDES BEHIND AG

February 7, 2019
THE MANNER of Simon Coveney’s dismissal of several legal opinions in support of Senator... Read more »

ED HONOHAN PURGED

February 7, 2019
THAT meddlesome Master of the High Court, Ed Honohan, has been effectively purged after... Read more »

SARAH LIPSETT’S ELECTION CAMPAIGN

February 7, 2019
WANNABE politician Sarah Lipsett got her local election campaign off to a flying start... Read more »

MADURO’S IRISH CRITICS

February 7, 2019
ONE GROUP that will be delighted by Ireland’s support for the Venezuelan opposition and... Read more »

DINNY’S HAITIAN HEADACHE

February 7, 2019
DENIS O’BRIEN’S Caribbean woes continue, with fuel shortages in Haiti causing his mobile phone... Read more »

COLLISON BROTHERS’ BLUES

February 7, 2019
THE HIGH fives at John and Patrick Collison’s Stripe tech outfit following last week’s... Read more »

PLOT TWIST AT THE IFTAS

February 7, 2019
THERE’S A bit of a lull among the film and TV luvvies given the... Read more »

PATRICK DORGAN’S HIGHS AND LOWS

February 7, 2019
THE Law Society’s announcement of the elevation of solicitor Patrick Dorgan to its presidency... Read more »

AODHÁN Ó RÍORDÁIN’S CONSTITUENTS

February 7, 2019
‘PROPERTY OWNERS of Howth, unite! You have nothing to lose but your cliff views’... Read more »

SECRET CENTENARY PLANS PRISED OPEN

January 24, 2019
THE OIREACHTAS commemoration of the first Dáil passed off without controversy, but the government’s... Read more »

DINNY’S DWINDLING ASSETS

January 24, 2019
DENIS O’BRIEN must have been chuffed with the guesstimate of his wealth that appeared... Read more »

TABLOID TALKING POINTS ON ‘PRIME TIME’

January 24, 2019
TRANS RIGHTS and gender recognition are trendy, emotive and complex issues and it wasn’t... Read more »

THE ABBEY’S BAD TIMING

January 24, 2019
IN THIS issue (see p14), Goldhawk profiles the man at the centre of the... Read more »

VARADKAR’S YELLOW PERIL

January 24, 2019
WHAT A strange, strident initiative Taoiseach Leo Varadkar made on behalf of Ireland during... Read more »

ROSS VS JUDGES: INJURY TIME

January 24, 2019
IS SHANE Ross’s Judicial Appointments Bill in its final stages of enactment or will... Read more »

GARY KAVANAGH’S PALS

January 24, 2019
THERE HAS been quite a surge in activity in recent weeks at right-wing “think... Read more »

PAISLEY’S JUNKET

January 24, 2019
CO-OPERATION IRELAND, which funded Ian Paisley’s first-class junket (£6,327 in travel and accommodation) to... Read more »

LAW SOCIETY WARS

January 24, 2019
MAYO SOLICITOR Daniel Coleman has just emerged from a decade-long joust with the Law... Read more »

PADDY PRENDERGAST’S PROJECT

January 24, 2019
NOT FOR the first time, Trinity College Dublin students are expressing their dissatisfaction with... Read more »

EILEEN BATTERSBY’S LITERARY LUVVIES

January 10, 2019
THE OUTPOURINGS from literati in the Irish Times and elsewhere following the death of... Read more »

MARY ROBINSON’S CREDENTIALS

January 10, 2019
MOST OBSERVERS have been baffled by Mary Robinson’s blunder in giving cover to the... Read more »

DIARMUID MARTIN’S SUCCESSOR

January 10, 2019
The race to succeed Diarmuid Martin as Archbishop of Dublin has begun in earnest,... Read more »

NIALL MCGARRY’S BIG YEAR

January 10, 2019
GOLHAWK’S favourite self-promoting online publisher, Niall McGarry, has hit the ground running in 2019,... Read more »

‘IRISH TIMES’ ROMAN FEUD

January 10, 2019
THE IRISH TIMES’S refusal to adequately recompense Paddy Agnew, its Rome correspondent of 28... Read more »

THOSE IRISH YELLOW VESTS

January 10, 2019
Who exactly are the Irish Yellow Vests? The movement in France is a leaderless... Read more »

HELEN LUCEY’S SEMI-KINGDOM

January 10, 2019
THE LAW Society Gazette’s report last month on sanctions imposed on Listowel solicitor Helen... Read more »

ODRAN REID’S POLITICS

January 10, 2019
The changes continue apace at Brendan Halligan’s Ireland China Institute, the “independent think tank... Read more »

SOFTLY DOES IT WITH THE MAKTOUMS

January 9, 2019
GIVEN THE influence of the Dubai ruling Al Maktoum family here, the silence to... Read more »

COVENEY’S CAREFUL CHOREOGRAPHY

December 13, 2018
ALAN SHATTER’S predictable outburst against Simon Coveney on the Israel-Palestine issue will actually be... Read more »

TROUBLE BREWING AT TROY STUDIOS?

December 13, 2018
IN FEBRUARY this year, culture minister Josepha Madigan was invited to a ‘do’ in... Read more »

PITT’S HUNT FOR INM LEAKS

December 13, 2018
THE SHINE has come off former Independent News & Media (INM) chief executive Robert... Read more »

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