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AFFAIRS OF THE NATION

DECLAN KELLY’S PREDICTIONS

November 5, 2020
NO DOUBT corporate strategist extraordinaire Declan Kelly was keeping a close eye on the US election results this week given his company’s strong links... Read more »

OOPS! THEY’VE DONE IT AGAIN

November 5, 2020
AN IRISH animated film topped the UK box office charts last month, offering another potential big pay day for Siún Ní Raghallaigh and Moe... Read more »

CRYING WOULFE

October 22, 2020
THE JUDICIARY’S ineffectual attempt to deal with their esteemed new Supreme Court member, Seamus Woulfe, following his double bogey on the 19th hole at... Read more »

MCDOWELL’S SILENCE

October 22, 2020
THE INFORMATIVE and provocative columns in the Irish Times by Senator Michael McDowell indicate a man who has rarely shied away from confrontation with... Read more »

IAN BAILEY AND THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

October 22, 2020
ATTORNEY GENERAL, Paul Gallagher has crossed Ian Bailey several times since the garda tried to pin the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier on... Read more »

DINNY’S AUSSIE DEAL

October 22, 2020
THE ONGOING High Court jousting concerning former Independent News and Media (INM) chairman Leslie Buckley has cast a spotlight on that strange deal involving... Read more »

FERGAL KEANE’S PPE CONTACTS

October 22, 2020
WITH NO sign of Covid-19 going away any time soon it, the state will be spending big on personal protection equipment (PPE) for some... Read more »

McNAMARA’S NEW BAND WAGGON

October 22, 2020
IT MIGHT be temporary, but the public mood is in favour of stern government measures against Covid, although that does not seem to deter... Read more »

WEE CARE’S BIG BUCKS

October 22, 2020
NO DOUBT the suits at RTÉ paid particular interest to a Court of Appeal ruling rejecting the unusual request by a most profitable crèche... Read more »

FLANAGAN’S CRYING GAME

October 22, 2020
NEWSTALK SHOWED great alacrity in interviewing former justice minister, Charlie ‘BlackandTanagain’ Flanagan about his attack on Unquiet Graves, the documentary about collusion (was Newstalk’s... Read more »

GOODBYE GIRLCREW

October 22, 2020
SO FAREWELL then GirlCrew, whose female-focused networking app never gained the traction required to become a big player in the social media maelstrom. The... Read more »

DENIS O’BRIEN’S APPLIANCES

October 8, 2020
A LIQUIDATOR has been appointed to a company called Demirca Ltd. Although not a familiar name, it turns out to be one of Denis... Read more »

PRINCES OF LAW

October 8, 2020
GOLDHAWK IS grateful to a reader who looked up the Wikipedia entry for controversial Supreme Court judge Séamus Woulfe. The highlight is, without doubt,... Read more »

QUIS CUSTODIET IPSOS CUSTODES

October 8, 2020
SÉamus Woulfe got filleted by the Irish Times for his deluded self-pity over Golfgate, but the judges’ favourite newspaper still blamed “successive governments going... Read more »

COVENEY YIELDS TO TRUMP ON ISRAEL

October 8, 2020
THE HIGHLY regarded Irish Times Middle East correspondent, Micheal Jansen, recently summarised the so-called breakthrough of the United Arab Emirate (UAE)-Bahrain-Israel deal as something... Read more »

WILLIE WALSH’S ROUTE MAP

October 8, 2020
WITH FORMER Aer Lingus boss Willie Walsh having finally exited the giant International Airlines Group (IAG), where he had been chief executive for nine... Read more »

ED GUINEY’S PLOT TWIST

October 8, 2020
FANS OF Goldhawk are familiar with the costly development and change of ownership of the controversial Pálás cinema project in Galway, where the opening... Read more »

CHARLIE FLANAGAN TO BE SUED?

October 8, 2020
IT’S RARE that a full-on riposte to Eoghan Harris’s attacks on those with the ‘wrong’ outlook is sanctioned by the Sunday Independent and even... Read more »

MATT COOPER’S MANY HATS

October 8, 2020
MATT COOPER is a very busy chap, which may explain why he apparently forgot to mention his roles in Today FM and Virgin when... Read more »

BLUESHIRT ETHICS

October 8, 2020
THE CHAIRPERSON of Dún Laoghaire Fine Gael constituency organisation, Edward Kennedy, takes his responsibilities seriously. ‘Ted’ informed members in a recent missive, “I am... Read more »

IAN MARSHALL’S SF SUPPORTERS

October 8, 2020
IS Micheál Martin about to make an embarrassing blunder by failing to present as unionist friendly, compared to those subversive, sectarian etc Sinn Féin... Read more »

FRENCH GO FOR BAILEY — AGAIN

September 24, 2020
THE SUPREME Court will rule next month on the appeal by Ian Bailey against the High Court endorsement of the latest French extradition warrant... Read more »

KINAHANS VS DISSIDENTS

September 24, 2020
Failure to burn the getaway car after the murder of dissident republican Michael Barr eventually led to the apprehension and jailing of two key... Read more »

BLUESHIRTS BROKE

September 24, 2020
A HARDENED electorate will hardly weep, but Fine Gael is facing a financial crisis, partly because of Covid-19 but also because of post-election factors... Read more »

MICHAEL CREED’S LEGACY

September 24, 2020
IRELAND’S NEW 10-year Agrifood 2030 strategy is in breach of national and EU law and “will expose the department and the state to multiple... Read more »

NEW BROOM AT ‘SINDO’

September 24, 2020
What’s in a name? That’s a question that Alan ‘New Broom’ English has likely been pondering since taking over at the Sunday Independent. With... Read more »

FEXCO’S COVID ADVICE

September 24, 2020
FEXCO chief executive Denis McCarthy, son of Fexco founder Brian McCarthy, recently revealed a hitherto unknown medical bent as well as a Donald Trump-like... Read more »

TRUSTING CYBER CRIMINALS

September 24, 2020
SURPRISINGLY LITTLE attention was paid to the cyber ransomware attacks early this year against at least two Irish universities – NUI Galway and Maynooth... Read more »

PIRATED DELANEY BOOK

September 24, 2020
THE BOOK, Champagne Football – which reads more like a can of stale lager being poured over ex-FAI boss John Delaney – by prolific... Read more »

FLANAGAN’S NEW ROLE

September 10, 2020
FORMER JUSTICE minister and RIC champion Charlie Flanagan has been appointed to the board of Co-operation Ireland, where he should fit in nicely with... Read more »

GOLFGATE ‘CULTURE AND PROTOCOLS’

September 10, 2020
SO FAR, a minister (Dara Calleary) and an EU commissioner (Phil Hogan) have lost their jobs and a Supreme Court judge (ex-attorney general Séamus... Read more »

HOGAN’S CLUMSY ASSASSINATION

September 10, 2020
NOBODY EXCEPT the new EU commissioner for finance, Máiréad McGuinness, got what they wanted out of the downing of big Phil Hogan, although it... Read more »

BRIAN POLLY’S ROUGH RIDE

September 10, 2020
WHILE HORSERACING has been back in action for a number of weeks, the real excitement is taking place off the track, where internecine feuding... Read more »

JUDICIAL TRANSPARENCY

September 10, 2020
WITH TRANSPARENCY supposedly the preferred way of doing business these days, it is refreshing that some things don’t change that much. Justice minister Helen... Read more »

FALSE FLAGS?

September 10, 2020
HEALTH MINISTER Stephen Donnelly has a lot riding on the testing programme for Covid-19. With reported cases rising recently, there is more focus on... Read more »

NIALL MCGARRY’S LEGACY

September 10, 2020
WITH ICONIC Media currently bedding in the restructuring of the Maximum Media online outfit following its purchase by investment fund Greencastle Capital, across the... Read more »