Article Category: Affairs of the Nation

O’LEARY’S TURBULENCE IN D4

September 21, 2016
WHILE RYANAIR boss Mick O’Leary is clearly annoyed at objections to the planned new Dublin Airport runway, he is also facing an objection to... Read more »

KEVIN McGARRY’S VERY PRIVATE SECURITY

September 21, 2016
INTERESTING to see an apology in The Irish Times earlier this month to company KTech Security and its owner Kevin McGarry, who turns out... Read more »

GERRY CALLANAN’S HORSE TRADING

September 21, 2016
WITH AN appeal lodged by Horse Racing Ireland (HRI) against a recent Small Claims Court ruling, it appears the innocuous looking challenge by Gerry... Read more »

PICKARD’S CRIME BACKGROUND

September 21, 2016
THE mystery of just who murdered Charles Brooke Pickard – whose remains the gardaí hope to find in Kerry’s Ballaghisheen mountain pass – may... Read more »

JOHN BURNS’S COMRADES

September 21, 2016
WHAT a cheeky chappie Sunday Times associate editor John Burns is. He penned a wry sarcastic article last weekend about junior minister and Fine... Read more »

TIME WARP IN THE HIGH COURT

September 21, 2016
GOLDHAWK recently spotted a very odd High Court judgment in a case initiated in 1996 but, bizarrely, only heard in court this year. Despite... Read more »

KENNEDY: A BRIDGE TOO FAR?

September 21, 2016
HAS Ireland, and even Wexford, finally been overcome by ennui with the cult of the dead Kennedys? A row has broken out in New... Read more »

BLUESHIRT TICKET TROUBLE

September 21, 2016
FINE GAEL ladettes Senators Michelle Mulherin and Catherine Noone walked into an accidental ambush in O’Brien’s, the sporty Dublin 2 pub, on the eve... Read more »

JOHN GRIFFIN’S TV STATION

September 21, 2016
DOCUMENTS released to Goldhawk by the Department of Communications reveal the strategy being adopted by the Irish TV channel to reduce fees being demanded... Read more »

HILCO’S ‘GANGSTER CAPITALISM’ IN HMV

September 21, 2016
THE SUDDEN closure of Clery’s generated plenty of media criticism given the manner in which the hapless staff were treated. Now over in HMV,... Read more »

WHO WILL STOP DENIS?

September 7, 2016
INM’s intended purchase of another raft of regional newspapers is a measure of Denis O’Brien’s apparently well-founded belief that nothing and nobody will put... Read more »

INDO’S APPLE PIE

September 7, 2016
LAST WEEK the Indo was remarkably supportive of Apple in relation to the tax row, which may not be a surprise after last year’s... Read more »

STEPHEN DONNELLY WALKS

September 7, 2016
GIVEN that Stephen Donnelly had about as much time for social democracy as Danny Healy-Rae it is hardly surprising that his split from the... Read more »

BLUE BLOUSE TRUSTEES

September 7, 2016
FINE GAEL general secretary Tom Curran must be hoping that a robust and defiant letter sent recently to Sligo councillor Hubert Keaney, as well... Read more »

KEITH DUFFY’S CHARITY COSTS

September 7, 2016
B-LIST entertainer Keith Duffy responded like an A-List diva recently to remarks allegedly made by the chief executive of Irish Autism Action (IAA), Brian... Read more »

SIMON COVENEY SLIPS UP

September 7, 2016
THE little noticed announcement last July by environment minister Simon Coveney of the Constituencies Commission to scrutinise and revise electoral boundaries has dismayed Fine... Read more »

TIERNAN BRADY’S BRAINSTORM

September 7, 2016
“WORLD renowned marriage equality campaigner” was just one of the accolades showered on Ireland’s Yes Equality political director Tiernan Brady by the Australian media... Read more »

Trouble at Yeomanstown stud

September 7, 2016
HOW UNFORTUNATE for the respected O’Callaghan family of Yeoman Stud fame to find themselves caught up in a controversy, following the alleged discovery of... Read more »

SARAH KEANE’S OLYMPIC AMBITIONS

September 7, 2016
THE IRISH Rio Olympics controversy is not going away any time soon, with Pat Hickey – president of the OCI until he stepped aside... Read more »

‘Starchitect’

August 24, 2016
FANS of Goldhawk will have been well aware of TV architect Dermot Bannon’s legal battle that hit the headlines last week. However, while that... Read more »

JOE RYAN’S SECURITY SERVICE

August 24, 2016
THERE WAS no disguising former soldier Joe Ryan’s pitch for business in a column he penned in the Sindo earlier this month. The article... Read more »

WOLFE AT ZAPPER’S DOOR

August 24, 2016
SENIOR citizen activist and dogged barrack room lawyer John Wolfe has taken a constitutional case against the state over its generous, unvouched mileage allowances... Read more »

ERICA FLEMING BROUGHT TO HEEL

August 24, 2016
HOW satisfying to see homeless, single parent of two Erica Fleming brought to heel by public spirited elements, in conjunction with the Sunday Independent... Read more »

HENRY FITZSIMONS’S WUFF JUSTICE

August 24, 2016
LEGAL PROCEEDINGS have just been filed in the High Court by an interesting chap by the name of Henry Fitzsimons, who is suing RTÉ... Read more »

PAT HICKEY’S LEGAL EAGLE

August 24, 2016
MEDIA news desks and their libel lawyers became embroiled in litigious debate last week with solicitor Barry MacCarthy, he who relayed to Pat Hickey... Read more »

DEREK RICHARDSON’S MEDICAL PROBLEM

August 24, 2016
GOLDHAWK was not surprised this week to see publicity-shy millionaire Derek Richardson seeking to have injunction proceedings against him thrown out by the High... Read more »

Drury’s redemption

August 24, 2016
AS The Phoenix reported (see edition, 30/6/2016) former consultant, businessman and PR smoothie Fintan Drury underwent an apparent Pauline conversion from businessman to refugee... Read more »

WHO PUT PAT BACK IN HIS BOX?

August 24, 2016
IS there not something very questionable behind the extraordinary arrest, imprisonment and personal humiliation of the president of the European Olympic Council and board... Read more »

IAN BAILEY’S DOUBLE JEOPARDY

August 10, 2016
IAN BAILEY’S request that the Director of Public Prosecution reconsider its decision not to prosecute him for the alleged murder of Sophie Toscan du... Read more »

Sindo on Halawa

August 10, 2016
FOLLOWING Eoghan Harris’s recent attack on Ibrahim Halawa – jailed for three years and facing a possible death penalty in Egypt – Sindo writer... Read more »

Isolated?

August 10, 2016
DIARMUID MARTIN has been isolated from his 25 episcopal colleagues in alleging the existence of a gay culture in Maynooth. But he has the... Read more »

LEO SHERLOCK’S LIBERAL AGENDA

August 10, 2016
WHAT AN interesting family the Sherlock clan from Louth are. Cora Sherlock is one of the most strident spokespersons for the pro-life movement, but... Read more »

DUBLIN MAYOR IN HIGH COURT ROW

August 10, 2016
DUBLIN Lord Mayor Brendan Carr expressed unalloyed “joy” at his recent elevation as well as much gratitude to not only his own Labour Party... Read more »