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MICHAEL H BURKE’S BLOODSTOCK

May 30, 2024

MICHAEL JAMES Burke, son of Chanelle Pharma founder Michael Hilary Burke and brother-in-law of Tony (Sir Anthony) McCoy, has been accused, in an... Read more »

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PAUL HOURICAN’S SURPRISE

May 16, 2024

AN ENGLISH firm, Igniyte Ltd, has just registered a judgment for a paltry €15,000 against a company owned by Goldhawk’s favourite landlord, Paul... Read more »

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NATO: WHAT’S IN A NAME?

May 16, 2024

THE AVALANCHE of articles in mainstream media demanding that Ireland abandons neutrality has been accompanied by the Defence Forces becoming closer to both... Read more »

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AINE O’CONNOR’S WHIP HAND

May 16, 2024

BOOKMAKERS AND punters might have been excused for diving for cover as the wayward Familiar Dreams carted a whipless Aine O’Connor to victory... Read more »

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AONTÚ: A ONE-TRICK PONY?

May 2, 2024

PREVIOUSLY A splinter from Sinn Féin, Peadar Tóibín’s Aontú may yet establish itself as a serious political player, with recent opinion polls putting... Read more »

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O’BRIEN’S OBSTACLES

April 18, 2024

While trainer Aidan O’Brien supplied three of the five runners in Leopardstown’s Group 3 PW McGrath Ballysax Stakes, it was Adrian Murray who... Read more »

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EN POINTE!

April 4, 2024

THE DECISION by Anne Maher’s Ballet Ireland (BI) to withdraw a piece choreographed by Israeli Ohad Naharin from its Bold Moves programme raised... Read more »

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COLOMBIA 3 MINING PROFITEERS

April 4, 2024

“ACTIVIST LUKE Holland has authored this report for Prime Time…” This was the rather odd introduction, read by Sarah McInerney, to an excellent... Read more »

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KATE O’CONNELL THE DISRUPTER

April 4, 2024
THE CLEAR desire of Simon Harris to add Kate O’Connell as a ‘partner’ to councillor James Geoghegan on the Dublin Bay South (DBS) general... Read more »

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MULLINS’S ROUGH DIAMOND

March 21, 2024

While Patrick Mullins’s victory aboard Jasmine De Vaux provided his father, Willie, with his 100th Cheltenham success, his faith in Ashroe Diamond in... Read more »

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U2 WINS AWARD SHOCK!

March 7, 2024

ON THURSDAY March 7 U2 are to receive this year’s RTÉ Choice Music Prize for Classic Irish Album for their 1991 album Achtung... Read more »

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MOLONEY’S ADVENTURES

February 22, 2024

AN INCIDENT at Cork racecourse between well-known trainer and breeze-up consignor Thomand O’Mara and IHRB clerk of the course Paul Moloney recently went... Read more »

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AUBREY’S ELECTION WAR CHEST

February 8, 2024

WITH MUCH of the political speculation focused, unsurprisingly, on the possible timing of a general election, one contest that looks set to go... Read more »

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A WAIT AT THE MUSEUM

February 8, 2024

A MERE six months after the closing date on the advert seeking new board members for the National Museum of Ireland (NMI), arts... Read more »

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JUSTICE DELAYED

February 8, 2024

RTÉ BOARD member and barrister Susan Ahern has plenty to keep here busy given events at Montrose. But she still finds time to... Read more »

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‘NEW’ CLIMATE DENIAL

January 25, 2024

Climate denial was once a straightforward affair. All you had to do was to grasp what a poor understanding the public and most... Read more »

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REALITY CHECK

January 25, 2024

THE LONG campaign to drag the Irish taxpayer into subsidising “unscripted” productions (ie reality TV shows) through the Section 481 tax break looks... Read more »

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PAUL FITZPATRICK’S MIS-STEP

January 25, 2024

GOLDHAWK SPIES a creditors’ meeting called for one of the companies linked to the Fitzpatrick shoe retailing dynasty. Meanwhile, it turns out that... Read more »

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GAYLE KILLILEA AND DER KAISER

December 14, 2023
FOLLOWERS OF the entertaining X account of Gayle Killilea saw her react in characteristic fashion to a two-page spread in the Indo about her... Read more »

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McGRATH TAKES LEAD FROM TRUSS

October 5, 2023

MICHAEL McGRATH and Liz Truss are not obvious political bed-fellows but the finance minister appears determined to announce similarly discredited policies of cutting... Read more »

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MAIREAD CASEY’S JUDGMENT

September 21, 2023

A HEFTY €¾m judgment has just been registered against Co Cork solicitor Mairead Casey by a UK property investment company called Advanced Industrial... Read more »

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CORRECTION

September 21, 2023

GOLDHAWK HAS been contacted by NewsBrands Ireland to point out that the newspaper lobby group, along with the Press Council of Ireland and... Read more »

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COOLMORE’S FAMOUS FIVE

August 24, 2023

FOUR YEARS ago, Swiss billionaire Georg von Opel made some seven-figure purchases of prime horseflesh at Irish sales under his thoroughbred investment vehicle,... Read more »

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PETER WILSON’S DOG FIGHT

August 10, 2023

SOME BAD news for The Black Dog Communications, run by Peter Wilson, which provides billing services for “dating, psychic or adult chat” lines,... Read more »

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JOHN MALONE’S TACTICS

July 27, 2023

IT WAS hardly surprising that Virgin Media should wade into the RTÉ pay and governance row. The owner of the station is so-called... Read more »

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WHAT ABOUT SUNDAY?

July 27, 2023

FANS OF racing investment syndicates might be wondering what is going on at the All About Sunday racing club, which offers micro ownership... Read more »

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DERMOT DESMOND’S DIRECTOR

July 27, 2023

DERMOT DESMOND continues to slowly ring the changes at his Sporting Emporium casino business off Grafton Street. Last month, he pulled in the... Read more »

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JUDGE HALPIN V RTÉ

July 13, 2023

THE LESS than media shy judge Anthony Halpin garnered himself a fair few headlines last week when he gave RTÉ execs and ‘talent’... Read more »

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WHAT RICHARD SAID

July 13, 2023

IN THE midst of sell-out hearings into the RTÉ debacle, there was a near-empty Dáil for the sitting to adopt the report of... Read more »

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HORGAN & HOGAN

June 29, 2023

DENNIS HORGAN is a highly regarded aerial photographer who has published assorted well-received books, most recently Ireland’s Guiding Lights, for which he captured... Read more »

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ANGLO-US MEDIA

June 29, 2023

PREDICTABLE DENUNCIATION of anti-war protesters at Micheál Martin’s security forum came from the Irish edition of the Sunday Times – Whitehall’s favourite Aawrish... Read more »

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BITTERSWEET WEEK

June 29, 2023

IT COMES as a surprise to many racing fans that multiple champion jockey Colin Keane only rode his first Royal Ascot winner last... Read more »

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CASHING IN ON CHATHAM ST

June 15, 2023
GOLDHAWK WAS interested to spy that a company called Dtat Ltd has just been wound up by its owners, who have scooped a fair... Read more »

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WHELAN’S WHIP WOES

June 15, 2023

KILDARE JOCKEY Ronan Whelan has enjoyed a fine start to the flat season but his momentum has been stalled after racking up a... Read more »

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CHRIS WHOLEY’S SETBACKS

June 15, 2023
INTERESTING TO see long-established engineering business KC Civil Engineering Ltd (KCCE) on the wrong end of a judgment for €66,000 from suppliers Stakelums Hardware... Read more »

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JOE MACKEN’S FORMER PARTNER

June 1, 2023

GOLDHAWK’S one-time favourite restaurateur Joe Macken (see Young Blood 6/4/12) was in the news again last week when he took a pop at... Read more »

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