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Ciaran Fitzgerald

CIARÁN FITZGERALD’S HARVEST

Date: September 18, 2025 - Brief Cases

GOLDHAWK’S FAVOURITE agri-industry economist/consultant, Ciarán Fitzgerald, has just wound up his profitable company, Ciarán Fitzgerald Consulting Ltd (CFC). Fitzgerald is well known in the agriculture sector and has written extensively for the Agriland website. He has popped up on assorted bodies in the past, including the likes of lobby group Meat Industry Ireland, which he… Read more »

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LISA JORDAN’S MILLION QUID

Date: September 18, 2025 - Brief Cases

CONGRATULATIONS TO social media influencer and businesswoman Lisa Jordan (aka Just Jordan), who continues to deliver a fashionable bottom line. She has two brands, LUNA by Lisa (makeup and hair care) and a fashion line called Edit Row. Significantly, the former is not owned by her but rather by pal Kieran Walsh’s successful National Beauty… Read more »

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Lisa Duffy

LISA DUFFY’S TINY TAX BILL

Date: September 18, 2025 - Brief Cases

SOME BAD news for another high-profile red carpet designer, Instagram influencer and fashionista Lisa Duffy, who has been off the radar for a while. Formerly a humble social care worker with the HSE, Duffy became a well-known figure in the fashion world, with her profile further boosted when she made headlines as the target of… Read more »

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Billy Kelleher

BILLY KELLEHER’S ATTEMPTED PUTSCH

Date: September 4, 2025 - Affairs of the Nation

THE SIGHS of relief from Fianna Fáil’s Mount Street HQ could be heard all the way to Cork this week, where Billy Kelleher’s rebel plotters were concentrated as the tide began to turn in favour of that other Corkman, Taoiseach Micheál Martin and his Dublin… Read more »

Michael Hackman

PROFILE: MICHAEL HACKMAN

Date: September 4, 2025 - Pillars of Society

AT THE start of the 2020s, LA-based real estate moneybags Michael Hackman started making big waves in the film and TV business, not by producing film and TV content but by having practically invented a new class of property portfolio investment. He raised a $1.6bn fund through Hackman Capital Partners LLC for the acquisition of… Read more »

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Seán Thim O’Leary

YOUNG BLOOD: SEÁN THIM O’LEARY

Date: September 4, 2025 - The Young Bloods

SEÁN THIM O’LEARY will lead Trinity College Dublin’s Student Union (TCDSU) into the 2025/26 academic year. The non-binary student from Wexford is former chair of the Trinity Social Democrats and previously worked as an intern for Fianna Fáil TD Malcolm Byrne (another SU hack) during… Read more »

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill

CARROLL MacNEILL AMBUSHES HARRIS

Date: September 4, 2025 - Last Refuge

THE PRESIDENTIAL splits in Fianna Fáil, Sinn Féin and Labour are timid affairs compared to the titanic political assault being prepared by Fine Gael’s answer to Maggie Thatcher, health minister Jennifer Carroll MacNeill, on party leader Simon Harris. That is what virtually every FG member acquainted with Jennie’s ringing declaration at Béal na Bláth last… Read more »

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Ciara Kelly

COURAGEOUS CIARA KELLY

Date: September 4, 2025 - Affairs of the Nation

NEWSTALK PRESENTER Ciara Kelly last week promised Independent readers that her column that day defending U2’s disingenuous statement on Gaza would be “OUTRAGEOUS” (her emphasis), code for brave, provocative etc. And the headline accused “woke” critics of U2 of not being genuinely interested in supporting Palestinians. However, the sequence of events around Israel’s escalating depravity… Read more »

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RYAN’S NEW POST

Date: September 4, 2025 - Affairs of the Nation

FORMER ENVIRONMENT minister Eamon Ryan’s new grace-and-favour gig as EU “housing tsar” kicks off in earnest this month in apparently straight-faced celebration of the resounding success of Irish housing policy. According to EU statistics, Ireland’s housing costs are a neat 101% higher than the EU… Read more »

Alan Kelly

ALAN ‘AK47’ KELLY MISFIRES

Date: September 4, 2025 - Affairs of the Nation

THE SPECTACLE of Alan Kelly being brought to heel by Labour leader Ivana Bacik, not to mention the brazen, public defiance by him of the leadership and a democratic party decision to support Catherine Connolly’s presidential campaign, indicates that the war isn’t over in Labour. It also reflects a deluded outlook by the old guard,… Read more »

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John Boyne

DIVERSITY DRAMA

Date: September 4, 2025 - Behind the Scenes

THERE MUST have been a little discomfort at the Irish Times when hacks covered the latest adventures of scribbler John Boyne, whose presence on the longlist for the Polari prizes for LGBTQ+ literature led to a lorryload of other nominees withdrawing their names from contention, along with a couple of the judges. Boyne has become… Read more »

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Jim O'Callaghan

JIM O’CALLAGHAN’S HIGH-WIRE ACT

Date: September 4, 2025 - Last Refuge

AFTER LESS than a year in Cabinet – the most high-achieving minister so far among their number – justice minister Jim O’Callaghan did not welcome MEP Billy Kelleher’s mutinous moves last week as an opportunity to revive rebellious sentiments among his supporters. But he will have noticed the hierarchy of personnel among Micheál Martin’s GHQ… Read more »

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VOL 43 NO 18

Date: September 4, 2025 -

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GAVIN’S MEDIA FANS

Date: September 4, 2025 - Affairs of the Nation

THE DIFFERENCE between the Indo and Irish Times’s coverage of Fianna Fáil’s Jim Gavin v Billy Kelleher presidential contest was startling in its emphasis and analysis. The day after the Dub GAA hero’s declaration of intent, the Indo pointed to Micheál Martin being “blind sided”; how Kelleher “stole a march” on Martin; TDs’ “backlash” against… Read more »

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Catherine Connolly

SINN FÉIN TO SUPPORT CONNOLLY?

Date: September 4, 2025 - Affairs of the Nation

AFTER MUCH agonising and ideological debate about downgrading the central demand for a united Ireland, Sinn Féin’s ard chomhairle (AC) is likely to endorse the left unity campaign of Catherine Connolly. A decision – if an AC meeting can be arranged in time – will… Read more »

Ronan Ryan and Pamela Flood

RONAN RYAN’S NEW MENU

Date: September 4, 2025 - High Society

IT HAS been a while since the name of one-time ‘celebrity chef’ Ronan Ryan came to Goldhawk’s attention but it turns out the controversial character has started a new project. He has also been tidying up loose ends. Ryan and his glamorous wife, former Miss Ireland Pamela Flood, regularly featured in the social columns back… Read more »

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Canon Ian Ellis

REDRESS FOR CATHOLICS ONLY

Date: September 4, 2025 - Affairs of the Nation

AN INTERESTING article in the Belfast News Letter in June by a Church of Ireland cleric, Canon Ian Ellis, has been brought to Goldhawk’s attention. It deals with the attitude of eight religious institutions that were the subject of the Nunan Report, published last April, into negotiations for financial redress for abuse of children. Catherine… Read more »

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Sean Clancy

GENERALISSIMO SEÁN CLANCY

Date: September 4, 2025 - Affairs of the Nation

MOMENTUM BEHIND the militarisation of the EU has not abated. While there has been some comment in Ireland’s media about removal of the triple lock, there has been little or no consideration of Ireland’s deepening military links to Ukraine and the Government’s attitude to the Defense, Security and Resilience Bank (DSRB), which is being developed…. Read more »

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Lord Mountbatten

BURYING MI5 TRUTH

Date: September 4, 2025 - Affairs of the Nation

Kincora’s Lost Boys: The Truth MI5 Buried (KLB), written by an anonymous author, went on sale via Amazon a few months ago. It purports to delve into the Kincora child sex abuse scandal but offers no new revelations. The book is riddled with inaccuracies, potentially rivalling the criticised Hart Report of 2017 into Kincora. In… Read more »

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Jordan Crowley

IRISH QUISLINGS AMBUSHED

Date: September 4, 2025 - Hush Hush

IN THE lead up to Remig 2025, a far-right conference organised by the Norgesdemokratene (ND) in Norway, Ireland’s National Party (NP) was keen to highlight on social media that it was sending a representative to participate. But the few photos that the NP and its representative, Jordan Crowley from Cork, posted afterwards glossed over what… Read more »

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Alison O'Connor

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: September 4, 2025 - The Hot Air Brigade

She says she condemns Russia for the war on Ukraine. But when President Zelensky addressed the Dail in 2022, it was noted that while the vast majority of her colleagues applauded warmly, Connolly’s clapping was less than enthusiastic. Alison O’Connor on Catherine Connolly, Sunday Times I think he was treated worse than I was. Bertie… Read more »

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Claire Hanna

SDLP MUDDIES WATER

Date: September 4, 2025 - Fowl Emissions

LOUGH NEAGH has emerged as the number one late-summer destination for the north’s political leaders, with high-profile visits in recent days by the Alliance Party’s agriculture, environment and rural affairs minister, Andrew Muir; and the SDLP’s leader, Claire Hanna MP; among others. This summer’s algal bloom has given large parts of the lough a bright… Read more »

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GARDA COLONISE NORTH

GARDA COLONISE NORTH

Date: September 4, 2025 - Fowl Emissions

IN ANTICIPATION of public order (and public relations) problems caused by a planned protest against a proposed gold mine near Greencastle in Co Tyrone, Canadian mining company Dalradian Gold has erected fencing and CCTV equipment at a site occupied by campaigners in caravans. Relations with local policing services have never been ideal in parts of… Read more »

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Jim Allister

UNIONISTS MOVE SHARP RIGHT

Date: September 4, 2025 - Northwind

The latest polling in the north shows no change in nationalism but a marked shift to the right in unionism and a shrinking so-called ‘middle ground’. Sinn Féin remains the largest party on 26%, a whopping nine points ahead of the DUP on 17%. The steady growth of Jim Allister’s Traditional Unionist Voice in the… Read more »

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Anthony Coughlan

THOMAS BYRNE: ‘NO PRESS GANG’

Date: September 4, 2025 - Last Refuge

EUROPEAN AFFAIRS minister Thomas Byrne was most indignant at Sinn Féin’s recent suggestion that conscription was on the cards if abolition of the triple lock and neutrality were implemented. He even wrote a letter to SF leader Mary Lou McDonald demanding that she withdraw such “misleading and incendiary comments” and “fearmongering” about the abolition of… Read more »

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Fergus Finlay

FINLAY ‘COULDA BEEN A CONTENDER’

Date: September 4, 2025 - Last Refuge

FORMER GOVERNMENT spin doctor Fergus Finlay made a right Horlicks of explaining away his latest, mortifying effort to win the Labour Party’s nomination for the presidential election. Fungus has spent nearly 30 years trying to prevent, supplant or succeed Michael D Higgins as president, with… Read more »

Peter Vandermeersch

MEDIAHUIS WARNING

Date: September 4, 2025 - Fit to Print?

A SOMBRE if little noticed announcement from Mediahuis Ireland last week contained some rather bleak, if understated, commentary about the future of the European publishing group as well as a new, if somewhat grandiose, role for the chief executive of the Irish branch, Peter Vandermeersch…. Read more »

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GAZA JOURNALIST IN US COURT

Date: September 4, 2025 - Fit to Print?

The Palestine Chronicle – whose editor Dr Ramzy Baroud’s family has suffered many, many fatalities in Gaza since October 2023 – is facing proceedings in a federal US court that attempt to link the Chronicle to the kidnapping of Israeli hostages. The case is based on Abdallah Aljamal, a Palestinian journalist killed along with his… Read more »

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Stella Rimington

MAJOR TOM McDOWELL LIVES ON

Date: September 4, 2025 - Fit to Print?

WAS IT the memory of the exposure of the Irish Times’s long-time chief executive, Major Tom McDowell, as an MI5 agent years ago that inspired the newspaper’s most sycophantic tribute to recently deceased MI5 director-general Stella Rimington? The Phoenix wrote about Rimington’s knowledge of and contribution to British security’s dirty tricks during the Troubles –… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: September 4, 2025 - Bog Cuttings

LEGLESS AND SHOELESSBANTRY DISTRICT Court heard the case of a young woman who engaged in abusive and threatening behaviour towards a garda during an incident in Bantry on October 28 2024. Solicitor Flor Murphy appeared before the court on behalf of Caroline O’Donovan of Moulnaskeha, Ahakista, Cork. The court heard that, on the date in… Read more »

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SINEAD O’CONNOR BIOPIC

Date: September 4, 2025 - Behind the Scenes

ANTICIPATION ABOUT an impending biopic of Sinéad O’Connor was boosted when Variety reported a line-up of producers in the UK joining with the BBC to back a script commissioned from Belfast writer Stacey Gregg. Despite the Irish subject matter and the potential for a global smash given the late singer’s profile, there is precious little… Read more »

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Emmet Mullins

EMMET’S IMPROVERS

Date: September 4, 2025 - Sport of Kings

KILKENNY TRAINER Emmet Mullins appears to have unearthed another ‘improver’ from the Co Laois stable of trainer Shane Duffy. Duffy, who has not trained a winner since September 2023, trained Darcy’s Friend and Chance Another One before they exited for Bagenalstown. Both horses had nearly identical profiles, having had five runs each and being pulled… Read more »

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MCKENNA RIDES ON

Date: September 4, 2025 - Sport of Kings

GOLDHAWK NOTED the IHRB’s appeals body, chaired by Nick Wachman, has overturned a ban imposed on jockey Liam McKenna following a ride at Galway last month. In a handicap hurdle, McKenna was deemed to have ridden Battle of Ridgeway carelessly. As this was his third offence, he was landed with a stiff eight-day suspension but… Read more »

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HEFFERNAN’S HORSE

Date: September 4, 2025 - Sport of Kings

IT WAS a very good day for the HOS Syndicate’s Ethical Diamond, which became the third Willie Mullins-trained winner of York’s Sky Bet Ebor Handicap, when powering clear under William Buick to win Europe’s richest handicap. Not surprisingly, perhaps, the horse looks like a very good acquisition for his minted owners, who know a thing… Read more »

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Tony Bloom

O’CALLAGHANS GET BACKSIDES KICKED

Date: September 4, 2025 - High Society

The loaded O’Callaghan family of Tally Ho Stud opted for a high-profile gamble with one of their racehorses in the Coolmore Wootton Basset Nunthorpe Stakes in York – but failed spectacularly. The result more than justified the trainer’s view that this had been a foolish move. The outcome of running the speedy two-year-old Lady Iman… Read more »

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BEACON HOSPITAL PROFIT

Date: September 4, 2025 - High Society

Accounts have just been filed by a company called Barrelridge Ltd, revealing the scale of the killing made by investors in Denis O’Brien’s Beacon private hospital in Sandyford, which was bought by Australian giants Macquarie last year. Barrelridge was jointly set up by Foxrock-based surgeon and hospital co-founder Mark Redmond and his wife, Suzanne, to… Read more »

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