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AFFAIRS OF THE NATION

BRIAN POLLY’S LEGAL ACTION

March 11, 2021
HORSES HAVE been in the news for all the wrong reasons recently and another equine row is bubbling away, this time involving Brian Polly,... Read more »

DENIS O’BRIEN’S RADIO EXIT

March 11, 2021
DENIS O’BRIEN was happy to wave goodbye to his Irish radio business when the deal to sell his Communicorp radio group to Bauer Media... Read more »

RIGHT-WING SPECTRUM

March 11, 2021
FOLLOWING THE recent violent anti-lockdown protest in Dublin, justice minister Helen McEntee said she was reluctant “to get caught up in who was involved”.... Read more »

DAVY/‘IRISH TIMES’ AND ‘TRUST’

March 11, 2021
A BEAUTIFUL friendship, partnership even, has been destroyed by the actions of those wheeler-dealers at the Davy Group, which last year had joined in... Read more »

FF COMMITTEE CAST

March 11, 2021
THAT’S AN interesting committee selected to work on a postmortem about Fianna Fáil’s poor general election result last February. Two junior ministers, Seán Fleming... Read more »

BRIAN KAVANAGH’S NEXT RIDE?

March 11, 2021
INVESTORS IN the revamped Curragh racecourse (who include the likes of John Magnier, JP McManus and one Sheikh Mohammed al Maktoum), will be keen... Read more »

JOHN CORRIGAN’S ‘PRIVATE MATTER’

March 11, 2021
WHILE HEADS have rolled at Davy this week, chairman John Corrigan remains in place, which suggests he is doing a hell of a job... Read more »

COVENEY SILENT ON KHASHOGGI MURDER

March 11, 2021
WITH US President Joe Biden under pressure for not sanctioning Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for his role in the murder of Washington... Read more »

IRISH DPP SCOTS KINGMAKER

March 11, 2021
THE BYZANTINE feud between former Scottish first minister Alex Salmond and his successor Nicola Sturgeon involves complex legal and parliamentary detail, which is the... Read more »

TRACY PIGGOTT’S OUTRAGE

March 11, 2021
THE RACING community is still drawing breath after circulation of that photograph of Gordon Elliott sitting on a dead horse, with the trainer given... Read more »

MARY ROBINSON’S PR DISASTER

February 25, 2021
MARY ROBINSON has faced a barrage of criticism since the BBC’s report on the plight of Sheikha Latifa, the hapless daughter of United Arab... Read more »

UNA MCGURK’S FIGHTBACK

February 25, 2021
OUTSPOKEN SENIOR counsel Una McGurk received an apology from Irish Legal News (ILN) last week over an article in the online publication. It turns... Read more »

‘I. TIMES’ SILENT ON BETHANY BABY HOME

February 25, 2021
FOLLOWING JUDGE Yvonne Murphy’s report last month into mother and baby homes, The Phoenix published an investigation, ‘Bethany Baby Home and the Irish Times’... Read more »

EAMON RYAN’S PRIORITIES

February 25, 2021
THE DECISION of Dublin City Council to reject an application by the ESB to change the much-loved Georgian Museum on Lower Fitzwilliam Street to... Read more »

MARY AIKEN’S PAYDAY

February 25, 2021
GOLDHAWK WAS delighted to see that celebrity cyberpsychologist Mary Aiken has made a fair few bob out of her involvement with a US television... Read more »

‘SPINELESS TEAM EU’

February 25, 2021
CHEERY COMMENT from Irish Times Europe correspondent Naomi O’Leary recently – “Millions more doses secured for Ireland” – came a day after the infinitely... Read more »

SIMON COVENEY’S PROMISES

February 25, 2021
REMEMBER HOW foreign minister Simon Coveney made theatrical and rhetorical gestures about recognising Palestinian statehood and breaking with the EU consensus on foreign policy... Read more »

FARMING FACTS

February 25, 2021
IT’S TOUGH work trying to put a positive PR spin on the environmental train wreck otherwise known as the Irish beef and dairy sector.... Read more »

EUGENE REGAN’S FRIENDS

February 25, 2021
WELL-CONNECTED former senator Eugene Regan has been reappointed to the Court of Justice to the EU for another six-year term following the intervention of... Read more »

CASHIERED CHAMBERS MARK 11

February 25, 2021
MINISTER CHAMBERS is still the subject of military disputation after the Minister for Defence (and foreign affairs), Simon Coveney, broke him down from the... Read more »

CLARIFICATION

February 25, 2021
An article in the issue of January 29, 2021, referred to the establishment by Noel and Jacinta McMahon of an online dating agency called... Read more »

MARTIN’S MEA CULPA

February 11, 2021
THE MOST extraordinary dual admission by Taoiseach Micheál Martin last Sunday appears to have been completely overlooked by the political correspondents and even senior... Read more »

FRAZIER V ALI

February 11, 2021
SECRETARY GENERAL of the Taoiseach’s department, heavy-hitting Martin Fraser, may be the Joe Frazier of government mandarins but chief medical officer Tony Holohan is... Read more »

ULICK McEVADDY’S RED FLAG

February 11, 2021
INTERESTING To see one Ulick McEvaddy pop up as a director of China International Aviation Leasing Services Ltd (CIALS), the company at the centre... Read more »

NICK ASHMORE’S SUCCESSOR

February 11, 2021
THE SEARCH is on to find a new chief executive at the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland (SBCI), the little known agency that has... Read more »

CARI’S JUDGMENT

February 11, 2021
GOLDHAWK WAS surprised to see Fingal County Council registering a judgment for a paltry €6,100 against Cari’s Closet Ltd, which has been the main... Read more »

TENI’S PRESCRIPTION

February 11, 2021
THE IRISH College of General Practitioners (ICGP) found itself under the spotlight last week after having to withdraw its online guide for doctors treating... Read more »

BREXIT INTEL

February 11, 2021
THE SURPRISE last-minute switch in the appointment of a new national intelligence adviser in the UK has bigger implications than the fact that Brexit... Read more »

FARMERS’ FUMING

February 11, 2021
WHILE most lobbyists at least pay lip service to caring about climate action, the Irish Farmers Association has no such compunctions. At its recent... Read more »

IRELAND TO ALLY WITH ISRAELI ARMY?

January 28, 2021
THERE HAS been no coverage by Irish media of a dramatic EU decision that could see EU states – including Ireland – involved in... Read more »

HAUGHEY TELLS MARTIN TO GO

January 28, 2021
THE NORMALLY inoffensive Fianna Fáil TD, Seán Haughey, let loose with both barrels against his leader, Micheál Martin, last weekend, remarking sweetly that the... Read more »

AILISH KELLY’S ‘ZOOM BOOM’

January 28, 2021
PRESUMABLY cosmetic surgery queen Ailish Kelly and her daughter, Niamh Murdock, were delighted with a plug – in the Business Post of all places... Read more »

PATRICK DORAN’S BIG BUCKS

January 28, 2021
INTERESTING TO see an Irish-backed operation raising big bucks in the US. One of the principals here turns out to be Patrick Doran, a... Read more »

ALI RYAN’S FIGURES

January 28, 2021
ALI RYAN, Goldhawk’s favourite celeb spotter, and the chief executive of Goss Media, has been generating her fair share of headlines recently. Less publicised... Read more »

FOX FAMILY LAWYERS UP

January 28, 2021
THINGS ARE starting to get rather complicated in relation to the tragic death of detective superintendent Colm Fox almost three years ago. Three new... Read more »

KERRY BABIES: COLDEST CASE

January 28, 2021
THE RECENT settlement between Joanne Hayes’ family and government (€2.5m) coupled with an apology and declaration that the Kerry Babies Tribunal reached incorrect conclusions... Read more »