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AFFAIRS OF THE NATION
Article Category: Affairs of the Nation
PETER GOULANDRIS’S CBE
February 27, 2020
GOLDHAWK was delighted to see that the low-profile moneybags, Peter Goulandris (older brother of Chryss), had landed himself a CBE for “services to business”.... Read more »
LILLIPUT’S INTERNSHIP
February 27, 2020
A RECENTLY announced unpaid internship with Arts Council-funded Lilliput Press has not been well received and may run foul of a new policy promoted... Read more »
TORY DONOR AND SINN FÉIN UNITE
February 27, 2020
CONSERVATIVE PARTY donor to the tune of €5 million over the last three years, John Gore, who is also an award-winning Broadway producer, appears... Read more »
MICHEÁL MARTIN IN DEEP TROUBLE
February 13, 2020
THE GENERAL election drama is only beginning and the desolation of Fianna Fáil TDs is turning from shock and trauma to anger with their... Read more »
KATHRYN BYRNE’S BAD PR
February 13, 2020
GOLDHAWK WAS surprised to see in Stubbs Gazette that a judgment was registered against high-profile public relations outfit Limelight Communications, where Fianna Fáiler Kathryn... Read more »
JOE RYAN’S SKILLS
February 13, 2020
GOLDHAWK was interested to read the press release on the five-year plan published last month by the Irish Film and Television Academy (IFTA). It... Read more »
NO SWEAT
February 13, 2020
THE RECENT judgment by High Court Judge Mark Heslin in favour of the Church of Scientology’s drug rehab centre in the Meath village of... Read more »
W2’S ‘VIKINGS’ RAID
February 13, 2020
THE LATEST plot development in the blockbuster courtroom drama playing at the Four Goldmines between producers Morgan O’Sullivan and James Flynn, and plaintiff, German... Read more »
IRFU: THE WEST’S AWAKE
February 13, 2020
THE IRISH rugby team has shown renewed fighting spirit in the Six Nations Rugby Championship competition so far, but there are allegations of rough... Read more »
PRESS COUNCIL VS ‘IRISH TIMES’
February 13, 2020
HAS THE Press Council become the editorial arbiter between the Irish Times and complainants who demand fairness and transparency in the ‘paper of reference’,... Read more »
JOHNNY COLLINS DISMOUNTS
February 13, 2020
HAVING HAD a very successful 2019, this year has not proved quite so memorable for Carrigtwohill, Co Cork, racehorse trainer John Collins, who found... Read more »
AK47 HOVERS AGAIN
February 13, 2020
IT’S NOT just Micheál Martin and Leo Varadkar that face career-ending prospects in the coming weeks or months. Labour leader Brendan Howlin is also... Read more »
MURPHY’S LAW RUNS IN RANELAGH
January 30, 2020
Even if Eoghan Murphy is relieved of his environment ministerial portfolio, he may not be free from planning issues. The local worthies in Ranelagh... Read more »
SF SPECTRE LOOMS
January 30, 2020
FIANNA FÁIL TDs believe that Micheál Martin will be forced to do the U-turn of the millennium and form a coalition government with Sinn... Read more »
ROBERT NAIRAC OUTED
January 30, 2020
BRITISH ARMY undercover operative Captain Robert Nairac’s central involvement in the 1975 Miami Showband Massacre has now been finally confirmed at Belfast High Court,... Read more »
TACKLING TONY ENSOR
January 30, 2020
FORMER LAW Society president and international rugby star Tony Ensor exposed a soft shoulder to High Court president Peter Kelly earlier this month. The... Read more »
JOSEPHA’S VACANCIES
January 30, 2020
ONE OF the games played by politics watchers around election time is clocking how many board appointments the various outgoing ministers manage to make... Read more »
TARGETING THE SCIENTOLOGISTS
January 30, 2020
THE RULING earlier this month by High Court judge Mark Heslin greenlighting the Scientologists’ multi-million euro drug treatment centre in the Meath village of... Read more »
FARMERS’ VENGEANCE ON CREED
January 30, 2020
A BIG scalp hiding in plain sight is that of Michael Creed but, if the agriculture minister loses his seat, which Fine Gael members... Read more »
FOLLOW THE MONEY
January 30, 2020
Leo Varadkar’s two-and-a-half years as taoiseach saw him use the previously obscure ‘money message’ to block 55 pieces of legislation that had won majority... Read more »
ARTHUR NUGENT’S LICENCE
January 30, 2020
GOLDHAWK has reported elsewhere (see p5) on the bruising judgment issued by Judge Peter Kelly in the High Court in relation to an appeal... Read more »
ARAMARK DROPS OUT
January 30, 2020
Activists in Trinity College Dublin are basking in the afterglow of a victory in their fight against the on-campus presence of US food services... Read more »
VLAD’S FALSE START
January 16, 2020
LEO VARADKAR met his election target date, but the manner of its announcement was belated and cack-handed. Fine Gael’s delicate political choreography came undone... Read more »
IAN BAILEY: THIRD TIME UNLUCKY?
January 16, 2020
MUCH LEGAL comment has focussed on the change in extradition law and how this may enable the despatch of Ian Bailey to the tender... Read more »
COVENEY’S €50M COUP
January 16, 2020
WITH THE general election having been called, Tánaiste Simon Coveney must be relieved he got to deliver the news of a big funding boost... Read more »
ANGUS’S ASSETS
January 16, 2020
THERE WAS a fl urry of fi lings around Christmas by players at the centre of a legal action by the Solicitors Mutual Defence... Read more »
TENEO’S SPORTING INTERESTS
January 16, 2020
TENEO, THE global corporate communications outfit headed by Declan Kelly, brother of Labour TD Alan ‘AK47’ Kelly, has won a contract as PR and... Read more »
SINKING SOC DEMS
January 16, 2020
THE SOCIAL Democrats might be staring into the abyss at this election. The centre-left group, headed by TDs Catherine Murphy and Roísin Shortall, had... Read more »
‘SINDO’ INSIDERS ‘SWOTTED’ ASIDE
January 16, 2020
A MOOD of rejection and indeed resentment was palpable at Independent House last week as various ‘leading’ in-house contenders for the post of Sunday... Read more »
TRUMP CARD FOR EU ARMY
January 16, 2020
THOSE MODERATE Irish Europhiles who are so aghast at Donald Trump’s belligerent foreign policy have managed to use his latest excess against the Iranians... Read more »
GAME OVER
January 16, 2020
A COMPANY called Tag Media Ltd (TML) has shut it doors, but a new one has opened for its principal. The digital print design... Read more »
STUDENTS NO-VOTE
January 16, 2020
THE CONTROVERSY over the voter register for next month’s election threatens to undo a lot of the Union of Students in Ireland (USI) work... Read more »
SHANE ROSS’S LIFEJACKETS
January 16, 2020
WHILE SHANE Ross has been busy generating headlines for himself, one area of responsibility for his Department of Transport, the Irish Coast Guard (ICG),... Read more »
DARA’S EUROPEAN PROGRESS
December 12, 2019
IF DARA MURPHY has long since jettisoned his domestic career boosters – ex-taoiseach Enda Kenny, as well as Cork moneybags and Fine Gael trustee... Read more »
BOYLAN’S BRUISED BY BYRNE
December 12, 2019
THE RAPTUROUS review of super-smooth gynaecologist Peter Boylan’s book, In the Shadow of the Eighth, by Indo columnist Martina Devlin, referred to his “courageous... Read more »