COMMUNICATING WITH COMMUNICORP
November 28, 2019
NEXT MONTH’S meeting of the compliance committee of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) concerning bans imposed by Denis O’Brien’s Communicorp group on certain... Read more »
BLOXHAM PARTNERS ON THE HOOK?
November 28, 2019
AFTER ALMOST a decade of inactivity, a High Court action involving the Solicitors Mutual Defence Fund (SMDF) and the various partners in the failed... Read more »
COVENEY ‘SUPPORT’ FOR PALESTINE
November 28, 2019
AS EVENTS in the Middle East degenerate, Simon Coveney’s masterful Palestinian strategy has been laid bare. This follows Fine Gael’s revelation that its commitment... Read more »
KBC’S SMART PR
November 28, 2019
THE WHIZZ media handler for KBC – the bank that told the Central Bank to “turn the page” on the tracker mortgage scandal –... Read more »
RACISM OR FILTHY LUCRE?
November 14, 2019
THE RECENT debate between Sinn Féin TD Martin Kenny and Ballinamore Community Group spokesman Gordon Hughes on RTÉ’s Claire Byrne Live was respectful and... Read more »
QUINN DIRECTOR TO STAND FOR FG?
November 14, 2019
FINE GAEL handlers are still mobbing mountains to persuade former Independent MEP Marian Harkin to stand at the general election in Sligo-Leitrim. They do... Read more »
NOEL ROCK WALKS ALONE
November 14, 2019
The only thing red about Ballymun Blueshirt TD Noel Rock is his soccer jersey. The Fine Gael Tory boy and chair of the Oireachtas... Read more »
JOHN GORMLEY’S REVENUE HEADACHE
November 14, 2019
IT LOOKS like red tape rather than red carpets is increasingly on the minds of the nation’s hard-pressed movie moguls following the imposition by... Read more »
RIGHT-WING RUSTICS
November 14, 2019
RIGHT-WING activists have been using An Óige hostels – unbeknownst to management of the state-owned hostel network – for bonding and political training retreats.... Read more »
SOLIDARITY WITH RTÉ
November 14, 2019
IVAN YATES and Matt Cooper thundered recently about the inept, spendthrift, tax-funded RTÉ on their Virgin One The Tonight Show as the private TV... Read more »
DRINKAWARE’S STRATEGY
November 14, 2019
NEWS THAT a ban on alcohol advertising within 200 metres of a school or crèche from later this month will have been clocked by... Read more »
WHO FEARS TO SPEAK OF BORDER POLL?
October 31, 2019
CONCERNED NOISES are emanating from the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI), the only entity in the southern establishment that has clocked the political... Read more »
MARY ROBINSON’S SHRINE
October 31, 2019
THERE HAVE been some changes to the board of The Victoria House Foundation, the legal entity set up to progress the Mary Robinson shrine... Read more »
LAW SOCIETY ROW: LIBEL THREATS
October 31, 2019
THE NORMALLY sedate AGM of the Mayo Solicitors’ Bar Association (the Mayo branch of the Law Society) was enlivened this year when a row... Read more »
UCD REVOLT OVER NEWMAN BOYCOTT
October 31, 2019
UCD’S CRASS decision to boycott the canonisation of its founder, John Henry Newman, was reversed, the university said, because the government had reconsidered its... Read more »
LIMERICK STUDENTS GO LOGO LOCO
October 31, 2019
Branding fever is once again gripping the University of Limerick (UL), where students are up in arms about a controversial new logo. At the... Read more »
REVIEWING GALWAY’S €10M CINEMA HORROR
October 31, 2019
FANS OF Goldhawk are well acquainted with the historical horror-show behind Galway’s bijou Pálás cinema, originally promoted by Lelia Doolan’s Solas Galway Picture Palace... Read more »
RED FLAG AGGRO
October 31, 2019
The recent release of Environmental Protection Agency data for 2018, revealing spiralling agri emissions, seemed like an odd day to unveil a new campaign... Read more »
CATCHING UP WITH PETER PAN
October 31, 2019
A RECEIVER has just been appointed to the Irish end of a multi-million euro Indian animation outfit that is behind international TV shows such... Read more »
PAUL KIMMAGE’S QUESTIONS
October 31, 2019
IT IS hard to understand why former Ireland rugby captain Jamie Heaslip and his ghost writer, the ubiquitous Matt Cooper, have been giving the... Read more »
CONFUSION AT CLONGOWES
October 31, 2019
CLONGOWES WOOD COLLEGE alumni have always and unashamedly prided themselves on providing “leaders in the areas of business, sport, politics and the arts”, and... Read more »
€40BN ARMAMENTS STROKE
October 16, 2019
A SPEECH last year by then TD Mick Wallace and a short paragraph in the Sunday Times, of all places, are the only references... Read more »
RACHEL MORAN’S REACTIONS
October 16, 2019
FORMER PROSTITUTE Gayle Dalton would have expected a reaction from high-profile, media-friendly anti-sex-work campaigner Rachel Moran after challenging the latter’s account of her past... Read more »
VLAD’S PLANS
October 16, 2019
THOSE who believe Leo Varadkar is not even considering an early election should revisit his recent taunts about the Fianna Fáil frontbench. Vlad compared... Read more »
LIAM LYNCH’S LOSSES
October 16, 2019
THE NEWS that Enda O’Coineen is about to purchase Irish Tatler magazine from Irish Central Media (ISM) suggests that Liam Lynch and Niall O’Dowd... Read more »
RTÉ VS OIREACHTAS
October 16, 2019
A MOST interesting and possibly expensive conflict between RTÉ’s Prime Time Investigates programme and members of an Oireachtas committee will play out in the... Read more »
FG GONE TO DOGS
October 16, 2019
How embarrassing that the first greyhound to be traced under the Irish Greyhound Board’s (IGB) new ‘care line’ is still registered to an Oireachtas... Read more »
IFTA’S MYSTERY PLOT
October 16, 2019
EARLIER THIS year (see The Phoenix, 8/2/19) Goldhawk noted a potential lacuna in the diaries of the nation’s celebs with the non-appearance on the... Read more »
ENDA KENNY’S CADDY
October 3, 2019
CONGRATS TO Mark Kennelly, former chief of staff to Enda Kenny during his reign as taoiseach, who has landed the plum post of Golf... Read more »
SAUDIS BACK IRELAND AT UN
October 3, 2019
FOREIGN MINISTER Simon ‘Covetous’ Coveney and Iveagh House mandarins will have been pleased at receiving Saudi Arabia’s support last week for the government’s aching... Read more »
ZAPPER FOR UN?
October 3, 2019
KATHERINE ZAPPONE’S appointment as the government’s “special envoy” in the urgent quest for a UN security council seat is a strange one, even allowing... Read more »
SENATOR WILSON VS LADY KILBRACKEN
October 3, 2019
A FEUD between Fianna Fáil senator Diarmuid Wilson and Lady Kilbracken is now the subject of an inquiry by party leader Micheál Martin, with... Read more »
O’LEARY’S ‘HELL’
October 3, 2019
AS BREXIT neurosis sweeps the country, the citizenry can always turn to the sagacious and comforting insights of Michael O’Leary. The Ryanair boss said... Read more »
JUDGE KELLY VS JERRY BEADES
October 3, 2019
WILL JUDGE Peter Kelly ever be rid of that inexhaustible lay litigant, Jerry Beades, whose legal actions to block Kelly’s appointment as High Court... Read more »
MORE LEFT SPLITS
October 3, 2019
POLITICAL splits on the Left are mirrored by the disintegration of the Take Back the City (TBTC) campaign a year after its headline grabbing... Read more »
NIGERIAN ARMS AND BILLIONS
October 3, 2019
Process & Industrial Developments (P&ID), founded by the late Mick Quinn, recently won an €8.6bn award against the Nigerian government, with the support of... Read more »
