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VIRGIN MEDIA’S ‘VIDEO NASTY’

Date: February 6, 2025 - Behind the Scenes

THE CRITICAL reaction to Virgin Media’s TV’s accomplished comedy/horror drama series set in the 1980s, Video Nasty, will have been toasted in Screen Ireland (SI) and Coimisiún na Meán, who chucked in a fair wedge, although BBC NI has been able to hog the limelight. The show, written by Hugh Travers, has aired on BBC… Read more »

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Jamie Myerscough

JAMIE’S MYERSCOUGH SHAKE-UP

Date: February 6, 2025 - Brief Cases

IT HAS been hard to avoid former Take That member Robbie Williams in recent weeks, as the hype machine has cranked up the gears to promote his Better Man biopic and album as well as the new world tour touching down in Croke Park next August. Presumably, one of the multitude in attendance will be… Read more »

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Micheal MacDonncha

UNSIGHTLY SCENES AT IRISH TIMES

Date: February 6, 2025 - Fit to Print?

JIM O’CALLAGHAN, now the justice minister, led the charge against the tents housing asylum seekers that sprouted up outside the International Protection Office (IPO) on Dublin’s Mount Street last year. Describing the tents as “dangerous and unhygienic and unfair”, he emphasised, in line with his pre-election pitch, that they were “also unlawful”; and in case… Read more »

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DUNDON’S QUICK STEP

Date: February 6, 2025 - High Society

HAVING LASTED longer than most predicted, clunky Kevin Dundon’s participation in RTÉ’s Dancing With The Stars further boosted the profile of the so-called ‘celebrity chef’, which should be good news for his business which is now under the control of the family of one Dr Mehmet Oz, aka ‘Dr Oz’. Late last year a rather… Read more »

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‘MAD’ MERRIGAN’S RETURN

Date: February 6, 2025 - Affairs of the Nation

GOLDHAWK’S FAVOURITE horseracing tipster Paddy ‘Mad’ Merrigan delighted his many followers with a surprise social media post last week, announcing the return of his live ‘Mad Merrigan Coldbeer Sports’ stream. The bolshy Merrigan has been conspicuous by his absence since a colourful video rant went viral in May last year and he received hundreds of… Read more »

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Sean Guerin

BAR COUNCIL TEA SHOCK

Date: February 6, 2025 - Affairs of the Nation

WHILE PLENTY of our learn’d friends in the Law Library are focused on recent activity over the the failure of the government to return the fees paid to barristers involved in legal aid criminal matters to pre-crash levels, of rather more import is the long delay in the re-opening of the Barristers’ Tea Rooms. Certainly,… Read more »

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Verona Murphy

VERONA SELL OUT?

Date: February 6, 2025 - Affairs of the Nation

WAS IT the main government parties, Fianna Fail and Fine Gael that capitulated to the growing public anger at the Rural Independent Group (RIG) trying to have it every way which way in the Dail? Or was it the RIG and the two Healy-Rae brothers that developed a cold sweat in the face of such… Read more »

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Paul Gallagher

THE BIG APPLE

Date: February 6, 2025 - Affairs of the Nation

IT ONLY took four months but the department of finance finally agreed to detail the names of the barristers and solicitors as well as the payments they received for their work in the state’s failed legal action with the EU Commission over its near €14bn Apple Tax ruling. When Goldhawk asked in mid-September last who,… Read more »

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Pat Watt

XL BULLY CAMPAIGN CONTINUES

Date: February 6, 2025 - Affairs of the Nation

THE CAMPAIGN by assorted charities against the implementation of the ban on the dangerous XL Bully breed of dog here continues to gain momentum, most recently with a High Court ruling that has put a temporary stay on the requirement of animal shelters to put down the animals. In parallel, the equally important PR campaign… Read more »

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Michael McKevitt

RIVAL OMAGH BOMBING CLAIMS

Date: February 6, 2025 - Affairs of the Nation

David Rupert, the FBI-MI5 spy who sat on the Army Council of the Real IRA, has said he is prepared to testify at Lord Turnbull’s Omagh bomb inquiry and will repeat a previous claim he made that it was the Continuity IRA, not the Real IRA, that carried out the bombing. Rupert is a former… Read more »

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Pat O'Connor

TRULY LETHAL

Date: February 6, 2025 - Affairs of the Nation

THE CURRENT obsession with militarisation in Ireland and other EU states has more to do with stimulating armaments manufacturing in Europe than Ukraine. One company well placed to take advantage of this bellicose mood is VRAI Simulation which has developed quite a niche for itself in Ireland’s technology sector. VRAI specialises in creating virtual reality… Read more »

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Keith Woods

AUSSIE NAZIS’ IRISH LINKS

Date: February 6, 2025 - Hush Hush

It’s not every day that seventeen neo-Nazis are arrested. So when members of the National Socialist Network (NSN) were rounded up at a rally in Adelaide over the Australia Day long weekend in January it made headlines across Australia’s media with pictures of the rally and arrests also going viral on social media. What might… Read more »

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Siomha Ní Ruairc

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: February 6, 2025 - The Hot Air Brigade

In Irish there is feminine and masculine and ‘Irish’ is feminine. I absolutely love that our language is basically a woman. It’s a real power play isn’t it? Síomha Ní Ruairc, Irish Independent While running for an election (Seanad Trinity panel), it seems a bad time to quit a social media platform that I have… Read more »

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George Lee

STORMY WEATHER WE’RE HAVING

Date: February 6, 2025 - Fowl Emissions

Storm Éowyn elicited an array of knee-jerk reactions, but Independent Ireland leader Michael Collins’s was in a league of its own. “We need, as a state, to look at felling trees within 30 metres of all roadsides,” he told RTÉ’s Rachael English. “They’re taking down poles, they’re taking down broadband, they’re killing people, they’re injuring… Read more »

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KEVIN MCPARTLAN’S LEXICON

Date: February 6, 2025 - Fowl Emissions

Lobbyist Kevin McPartlan showed up in this magazine’s Hot Air Brigade in 2017, arguing against a sugar tax. “There is no such thing as a bad food – only inappropriate consumption,” said the then director of Food Drinks Industry Ireland, apparently with a straight face. McPartlan has since switched from fast food to fossil fuels,… Read more »

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Gavin Robinson

DUP IN FULL FLIGHT

Date: February 6, 2025 - Northwind

Five years since Brexit, four years since the Irish Sea border convulsed the DUP, protest marches, street demonstrations, riots led to the collapse of Stormont. Now, the north is back where it was with Stormont operating, but the Irish Sea border is tightening. The DUP remains implacable. The party split in 2021 over its response… Read more »

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James Browne

HOUSING MINISTER’S ANGST

Date: February 6, 2025 - Last Refuge

DESPITE HIS elevation to the most challenging department in government (that’s a polite euphemism for the job of housing minister, the most arduous and politically life threatening job in politics) colleagues of James Browne are not exactly overwhelmed at his ‘promotion’ to this posting. If Brian Cowen thought that the department of health was Angola… Read more »

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Fintan O'Toole

PRESIDENT O’TOOLE (POT)

Date: February 6, 2025 - Last Refuge

THAT SECULAR Irish Times preacher, Fintan O’Toole, declined to rule himself out of the running for the presidency in the Sunday Independent last week indicates that the semi-retired writer is giving serious thought to the proposition and that others, too, are considering him as a viable candidate. This is despite Fintan togging out before for… Read more »

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Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya

SVIATIANA’S CONFERENCE

Date: February 6, 2025 - Last Refuge

Having spent many summers in Roscrea as part of the Chernobyl Children’s Project, Belorussian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, has been fêted by the Irish political establishment ever since the imprisonment of her husband Siarhei Tsikhanousky. Taoiseach Micheál Martin in 2022 described Tsikhanouskaya as an “inspiring leader”, while, after meeting her in 2023, then Taoiseach Leo… Read more »

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Mattie McGrath

LONESOME COWBOY TD, MATTIE

Date: February 6, 2025 - Last Refuge

FOR SOME years Mattie McGrath was the archetypal rural Independent having left Fianna Fáil in 2010, partly over the EU-IMF bail-out and in recent years was seen as leader of the Rural Independent Group (RIG) formed after the 2020 general election. But the Independents are, if anything, more factional and fratricidal than the soldiers of… Read more »

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OFFIDE SUNDAY TIMES

Date: February 6, 2025 - Fit to Print?

THROUGH GRITTED teeth English rugby commentators conceded that their team was well beaten by the Aawrish last Saturday. Even MI5’s favourite newspaper, the Sunday Times’, in its main report was headlined “IRELAND SIMPLY HARDER, FASTER AND SMARTER”. Unfortunately, the colonial mindset sometimes rears its head in English rugger-bugger circles and writer, Stephen Jones, very early… Read more »

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Greg Miller

IRISH TIMES WARRIORS

Date: February 6, 2025 - Fit to Print?

THE PILE-ON against neutrality and for a serious increase in military expenditure is a sacred mission for the western jihadists in the Irish Times, and political editor, Pat Leahy, warmed yet again to this theme last weekend. A constant mantra recently is that the big boys in the EU are in a state of “disbelief”… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: February 6, 2025 - Bog Cuttings

CROSS BEHAVIOUR CORK DISTRICT Court heard the case of a woman charged with engaging in threatening and abusive behaviour toward gardaí, as well as assault causing harm, when she punched and bit an officer following an altercation. 25-year-old Teegan Lonergan appeared before the court relating to an incident that took place at St Luke’s Cross,… Read more »

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Mary Blanchfield

SLOWLY DOES IT IN KILKENNY

Date: February 6, 2025 - Behind the Scenes

IT HAS taken quite a while for Design & Crafts Council Ireland (DCCI) in Kilkenny to get around to advertising for its new chief executive, but the relaxed process is finally under way. It was back at the start of June last year that the Residential Tenancies Board announced that Rosemary Steen, then chief executive… Read more »

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Paul Nicholls

NICHOLLS NOBBLED AGAIN

Date: February 6, 2025 - Sport of Kings

THE RECORD €740,000 purchase from the Alan and Gemma Brown’s dispersal sale at Tattersalls – Caldwell Potter – was a beaten odds-on favourite for the second time in three starts since joining Paul Nicholls from the Gordon Elliott stable. The grey Martaline gelding is the latest in the series of high-priced flops to emerge from… Read more »

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WILLIE MULLINS’S CHASER SUPREME

Date: February 6, 2025 - Sport of Kings

AT THE Dublin Racing Festival, where the target of 18,500 pre-booked tickets for each of the two days was not reached, the crowds were treated to another Willie Mullins masterclass, even if he was slightly off. The trainer was “a bit confused” that the Paddy Power Gold Cup (won by the Turley family’s Galopin Des… Read more »

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Sean Coyle

ORIGIN DIRECTORS SEND RIGHT SIGNAL TO SCEPTICAL MARKET

Date: February 6, 2025 - Moneybags

THE STOCK market usually regards directors buying shares in their own company as a positive signal and there has been some noticeable activity on this front at Origin Enterprises. This seems to contradict the underwhelming results in recent times, but certainly sends a positive signal to wary investors. Origin’s non-executive chairman Gary Britton (ex-KPMG) had… Read more »

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Michael Stanley

CAIRN HOMES SHARES TO CLIMB IN SHORT TERM

Date: February 6, 2025 - Moneybags

IT IS hardly surprising that Darragh O’Brien is no longer housing minister. Despite the huge spend on housing and temporary abolition of levies, the number of units delivered last year fell well short of the 40,000 target. It is rather bizarre that, given this housing output failure, the two Irish quoted house building companies, Cairn… Read more »

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Shane Corry

SHANE CORRY’S TAX BILL

Date: February 6, 2025 - Brief Cases

INTERESTING TO report a chunky €427,000 tax judgment registered against one Shane Corry, with an address on Foxfield Road in Raheny, D5. It has certainly been a while since Corry appeared on Goldhawk’s radar. It is unclear what the big Revenue hit relates to and it is also unclear what the hapless Corry is up… Read more »

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Aine Moriarty

ÁINE MORIARTY’S IFTA PLOT

Date: February 6, 2025 - Brief Cases

ÁINE MORIARTY’S annual publicly-funded IFTA gong show for the nation’s film and TV industry luvvies takes place fittingly on Valentine’s Day. The big question on the night will be whether producer/actor Cillian Murphy and writer Enda Walsh’s adaptation of Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These – which has several category nominations – will suffer something… Read more »

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Colin Gaynor

HIBERGENE’S MEDICAL REPORT

Date: February 6, 2025 - Brief Cases

THE LIQUIDATOR of the controversial HiberGene Diagnostics Ltd (HDL) has filed returns in the Companies Registration Office revealing the scale of the debts owed to unsecured creditors. HDL, which was backed by Enterprise Ireland, collapsed in 2022 leaving assorted investors millions out of pocket. Up to €15m had been raised from backers, mostly in Ireland,… Read more »

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FANCY THAT!

Date: February 6, 2025 - Brief Cases

Yet that is not how Elon’s Nazi salute was framed in much of the media. It was variously described as “a hand gesture” which “draws scrutiny”, and which “ignites online speculation”. Elon was “accused of appearing to make” this gesture … It was a textbook illustration of how the right has been winning the propaganda… Read more »

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Micheal Martin

MARTIN BOWS TO TRUMP ON GAZA

Date: January 23, 2025 - Affairs of the Nation

The timing of Micheál Martin and the Government’s adoption of the pro-Israeli definition of antisemitism drawn up by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) is extraordinary. It was discussed secretly, hidden from the electorate during the general election campaign and subsequent government negotiations, and lacks any mandate – explicit or implicit. It effectively endorses the… Read more »

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Michael Lowry

PROFILE: MICHAEL LOWRY

Date: January 23, 2025 - Pillars of Society

DESCRIPTIONS OF Michael Lowry as ‘kingmaker’ in government formation talks have been rejected by Micheál Martin and Simon Harris, who argue that the TD has been elected by voters in Tipperary. The trouble is, leaders of the same Government parties demanded that Lowry resign from the Dáil – regardless of Tipperary voters – back in… Read more »

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Pádraig Mac Brádaigh

YOUNG BLOOD: PÁDRAIG MAC BRÁDAIGH

Date: January 23, 2025 - The Young Bloods

IN THE spring of 2024, Pádraig Mac Brádaigh was elected as the first ever Irish-language officer of Trinity College Dublin Students’ Union (TCDSU). In the last year, he has spearheaded the campaign for the promotion of the Irish language on Trinity’s campus. However, despite being elected by a landslide vote, not everyone has supported his… Read more »

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