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DERMO’S HOUSING ANXIETY

July 2, 2020

‘THE KAISER’, Dermot Desmond, and his missus, Pat Desmond, are certainly exhibiting high anxiety about the housing crisis, as it affects the nation... Read more »

TRUMP OBLIGES LONDON

June 18, 2020

The 1988 state-sponsored assassination attempt on Belfast man Malachy McAllister and his family is key to understanding the British government’s pursuit of McAllister... Read more »

DERMOT O’LEARY’S SOLUTION

June 18, 2020

THE OIREACHTAS Covid-19 Committee has been presented with an exciting submission from Dermot O’Leary’s National Bus and Rail Union (NBRU), namely the extension... Read more »

COVERT COVID FORCES

June 4, 2020

The deployment of a British army internet warfare unit – 77th Brigade – in Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings’s response to alleged Covid-19... Read more »

MIAMI BREACH

June 4, 2020

GOLDHAWK SPOTTED a post on the Facebook page of a Waterford tanning business from The Sunbed Association, highlighting the opening of tanning salons... Read more »

MURDOCH’S HACKS AND HACKERS

May 21, 2020

The idea that a veteran journalist might also be a state spy is unfortunately not as farfetched as it sounds. Former News of... Read more »

GERALDINE BYRNE NASON’S DIMPLOMACY

May 21, 2020

OUR WOMAN at the United Nations, Ambassador Geraldine Byrne Nason – recently reported as having a sharp spat with Ireland’s military advisor to... Read more »

THE OFFICIAL LINE

May 7, 2020

‘OPERATION SPLASH’ was a 1970s arms importation op by the Official Republican Movement organised by Séamus Costello and Cathal Goulding. That’s according to... Read more »

EAMON FARRELL’S TIMING

May 7, 2020

TIMING IS everything in showbiz, so spare a thought for Eamon Farrell, brother of Hollywood superstar Colin, whose National Performing Arts School has... Read more »

THE DANGER OF ‘GOING NORTH’

April 23, 2020

THE RECENT murder of psychopath Robbie Lawlor in Belfast has generated a lot of lurid headlines, but the media missed the all-Ireland realpolitik... Read more »

VINCENT JENNINGS’S WORKERS

April 23, 2020

THE COUNTRY’S corner-shop keepers and ‘convenience store’ owners got a shock in recent weeks as their poorly paid employees did a runner. They... Read more »

THE RUC’S PROXIES

April 9, 2020

THE COVERT intelligence operations carried out by RUC Special Branch during the Troubles are still beyond the reach of public investigation. One case... Read more »

RICHARD BRUTON’S APPOINTMENT

April 9, 2020

WHILE THE Greens may be determined to stay out of government despite the climate crisis, the wheels keep turning and Richard Bruton is... Read more »

SPOOKS AT THE SHELBOURNE

March 26, 2020

DOUBLE AGENT – the new book by British agent in the IRA Peter Keeley – is remarkably similar to his 2006 publication, Unsung... Read more »

BARBARA CONDON’S CAMPAIGN

March 26, 2020

With advertising decimated by Covid-19, one of the few campaigns getting plenty of airtime recently was the ‘We Don’t Buy It’ initiative, which... Read more »

‘DISSIDENT’ ATTACKS ON SF

February 27, 2020

GIVEN THE requirement to paint Sinn Féin rallies as somehow sinister and threatening, little attention has been given to the more substantial threats... Read more »

JOHN DRENNAN’S GRIPT GIG

February 27, 2020

GOLDHAWK NOTICED that former Sindo columnist turned Renua spin doctor John Drennan has joined John McGuirk’s Gript media. His freshman offering for the... Read more »

WHO WIELDED THE STAKEKNIFE?

February 13, 2020

Operation Kenova’s investigations into the so-called Stakeknife affair have now, inevitably, led it to turn its gaze upon RUC Special Branch. Given that... Read more »

ARC’S ADVERTISING BUDGET

February 13, 2020

ACCOUNTS JUST filed for the Abortion Rights Campaign (ARC) show a significant increase in spending in the year to the end of March... Read more »

MIAMI SHOWBAND: NEW EVIDENCE

January 16, 2020

SEISMIC NEW evidence regarding the 1975 Miami Showband massacre will be revealed at Belfast High Court in the coming months by bass player... Read more »

ALAN HYDE’S PROVISION CENTRE

January 16, 2020

GOLDHAWK NOTES that an old friend is to close the doors of his direct provision centre next month. The Mount Trenchard operation in... Read more »

WHO REALLY RAN STAKEKNIFE?

December 12, 2019

The new Glenanne Gang terror probe announced recently has attracted a surprisingly high level of support from collusion campaigners. But the fact that... Read more »

KEVIN TOLAND’S ADVICE

December 12, 2019

YOU HAVE to hand it to the chief executive of troubled Swiss-Irish baked goods outfit Aryzta. Last month, the rather well-remunerated suit took... Read more »

LORD BEW DISAPPEARS

November 28, 2019

Paul Bew, or ‘Baron Bew of Donegore’, played a key role in the now discredited Boston Tapes project. However, so far, Bew –... Read more »

LESLIE REYNOLDS’S RECEIVERSHIP

November 28, 2019

GOLDHAWK spotted last week the cessation of the long-running receivership of a company called Leslie Reynolds & Co, where number cruncher Declan Taite... Read more »

DUP/UDA ‘TARGETS’

November 14, 2019

A PRECURSOR to the ‘pressure’ from the UDA on the Ulster Unionist Party to give the DUP a free run in the Westminster... Read more »

GAVAN REILLY’S TWEETS

November 14, 2019

Virgin Media journalist Gavan Reilly hasn’t had a vintage couple of weeks. Known for scooping the competition by breaking big stories on Twitter,... Read more »

LOYALIST THREATS

October 31, 2019

THERE IS something ironic about PSNI chief constable Simon Byrne’s unprecedented political intervention last week, with his warnings about loyalist violence in the... Read more »

JOSEPHA MADIGAN’S NEW UNIT

October 31, 2019

THERE ARE some harsh findings in the spending review on the Pálás cinema in Galway just published (see p6). Not surprisingly, the original... Read more »

WILLIE FRAZER’S ‘VICTIMHOOD’

October 16, 2019

Justice Minster Charlie Flanagan’s praise for Loyalist killer Willie Frazer, now deceased, looks a little misjudged. Flanagan’s posthumous eulogy to Frazer was posted... Read more »

ALL-IRELAND KINAHANS

October 3, 2019

AN EAST European 9mm Makarov semi-automatic pistol, or PM, is not one traditionally associated with gangland crime here in Ireland. However, the formerly... Read more »

CIA-FUNDED SCARE STORIES

September 19, 2019

THE RECYCLING of propaganda by western spook ‘think-tanks’ presented as objective truths is reaching epidemic proportions in the media, with the ‘Aarish’ edition... Read more »

MOUNTBATTEN AND WARRENPOINT

September 5, 2019

THERE IS nothing in the latest book about Lord Louis Mountbatten, The Mountbattens, that explains how the IRA was able to assassinate him... Read more »

CAPTAIN NAIRAC’S ACTIVITIES

August 22, 2019

Last week, the head of the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims’ Remains (ICLVR) Geoff Knupfer was busy pouring cold water on... Read more »

BERNADETTE MCALISKEY’S U-TURN

August 22, 2019

SOUTHERN PARTITIONISTS and neo-Unionists in the hated Free State (especially those with nice lawns and big beef farmers with much grassland) will be... Read more »

THE SCAPPATICCI MYTH

August 8, 2019

THE SUNDAY TIMES is cited in a ‘psyops’ complaint lodged at Belfast High Court recently by Belfast Solicitors, Brentnall Legal. The complaint takes... Read more »