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HACKETT UNDER FIRE

August 27, 2020

While two high-profile ministerial casualties at Agriculture have grabbed the headlines, the Greens junior minister for land use and biodiversity, Pippa Hackett, is... Read more »

BOYS AND GIRLS OF THE OLD BRIGADE

August 13, 2020

Boris Johnson’s bestowal of peerages to a former militant supporter of the IRA’s armed struggle, along with the DUP’s Nigel Dodds and the... Read more »

JAMES MYLER’S PILE

August 13, 2020

DESPITE THE pandemic, some owners of substantial properties have not been deterred from sticking them on the market. One of those happy to... Read more »

HAS PEGASUS FLOWN TO IRELAND?

July 30, 2020

Given the ongoing controversies about personal data tracking this week, reports of an Israeli surveillance app that invades smartphones is surely big news.... Read more »

CAHIR O’HIGGINS AND THE VILLAGE

July 30, 2020

PROLIFIC SOLICITOR Cahir O’Higgins is about to launch proceedings alleging defamation against Village magazine. A well-known, frenetically busy solicitor, Cahir is also a... Read more »

STAKEKNIFE BLUNTED

July 16, 2020

The so-called British army ‘Stakeknife’ at the heart of the IRA has now been confirmed as less an intelligence dagger than the product... Read more »

CATHERINE HEANEY’S NEW COMPANY

July 16, 2020

NATIONAL MUSEUM chair Catherine Heaney is winding up the limited company behind her DHR Communications PR outfit, but the good news is that... Read more »

WILLIE FRAZER’S RECORD

July 2, 2020

Charlie Flanagan’s final act as justice minister last week was to warn the Dáil of the continued threat from republican paramilitary organisations in... Read more »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »