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Sean O'Driscoll

‘WHO IS SEAN O’DRISCOLL?’

Date: January 29, 2026 - Brief Cases

GOLDHAWK’S EYE was caught by a blog by Cian Ginty, the editor of cycling website IrishCycle.com, that posed the provocative question: “Who is Sean O’Driscoll? And why does the Government and media keep treating him as an infrastructure expert?” A strange question maybe but, in order to brush up on the former Glen Dimplex boss,… Read more »

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Louis and Mairead Ronan

THE RONANS’ ‘ENTERTAINMENT AREA’

Date: January 29, 2026 - Brief Cases

MOVERS AND shakers Mairead and Louis Ronan – media personality and scion of wealthy business family respectively – have had little luck in their efforts to get their holiday home in Waterford into just the shape they want. The Ronans have been trying for an exhausting four years to get an impressive extension added to… Read more »

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Micheál Martin

YULETIDE PROJECT FEAR

Date: January 15, 2026 - Affairs of the Nation

GOLDHAWK HAS never witnessed such a full-on campaign by government, media, academia and other power centres as in the run-up to Christmas when propagators of a European army and a European war went into overdrive. Fearful that EU states would disrespect us, the Irish comprador elite fought as never before in a near-hysterical attack on… Read more »

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Ben Tonra

PROFILE: BEN TONRA

Date: January 15, 2026 - Pillars of Society

BEN TONRA, a ‘full professor of international relations’ in UCD, fully backs ending Irish military neutrality. The academic persuader is also linked to arms manufacturers in the Irish Defence and Security Association (IDSA), which he founded in 2021. As a polemicist, Tonra prefaces prescribed conclusions with preferred facts. He researches and arranges factual material in… Read more »

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Ryan O'Meara

YOUNG BLOOD: RYAN O’MEARA

Date: January 15, 2026 - The Young Bloods

AS FIANNA Fáil gears up for the new political year, with members of the parliamentary party jockeying to resolve the issue of the leadership – when Micheál Martin will go and who will replace him – attention is turning to the batch of newly elected TDs, such as Tipperary North’s Ryan O’Meara, who have the… Read more »

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UNIVERSITY CHALLENGE IN CORK

Date: January 15, 2026 - Affairs of the Nation

GOLDHAWK SPIES a juicy-looking gig that is up for grabs in UCC, carrying a very nice €200,000 pa salary package. The position, however, does require the applicants to deal with the erratic finances of the college, which in the not-too-distant past found itself in hot water with the Higher Education Authority (HEA). The chief financial… Read more »

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Alan Shatter

ALAN SHATTER ON IRISH ANTISEMITISM

Date: January 15, 2026 - Affairs of the Nation

FORMER MINISTER Alan Shatter’s article in the Jerusalem Post last week, headlined “Ireland, Israel, and the Normalization of Antisemitism”, is largely a critique of the Irish Government’s policies on Israel and Palestine as well as the solidarity shown by Irish civil society for Palestinians. Shatter lambasts Ireland’s politicians, trade unions, civil society, NGOs, activist groups… Read more »

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Alison O’Connor

ALISON REVISITS GAZA — AGAIN

Date: January 15, 2026 - Fit to Print?

GOLDHAWK HAS listened to some sophisticated arguments from those who resist action in support of Palestinians even as they still face daily slaughter but Sunday Times columnist Alison O’Connor deserves some sort of award for meaningful, original thinking in the face of genocide. Last weekend she argued that the Mercosur deal, Donald Trump’s Venezuelan piracy,… Read more »

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CILLIAN MURPHY’S CAST

Date: January 15, 2026 - Affairs of the Nation

WHILE JESSIE Buckley is the hot favourite to land the Oscar this year, actual Academy Award winner Cillian Murphy will be back in the headlines shortly thanks to the upcoming release of Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man, a movie version of the hit TV series. Meanwhile, there have been a number of significant cast choices… Read more »

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Dermot Desmond

DERMOT DESMOND’S MIXED BAG

Date: January 15, 2026 - Brief Cases

IT IS, unsurprisingly, rather difficult to say just how much billionaire Dermot Desmond made from the recently announced audacious sale of British nursing home chain Barchester but the signs are that he filled his boots. Elsewhere, however, the financial wizard has found good news hard to come by. Barchester was a £5.2bn whopper of a… Read more »

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Simone Rocha

SIMONE’S STYLISH NUMBERS

Date: January 15, 2026 - High Society

WITH THE Christmas consumer spending blitz receding into the background, London-based designer Simone Rocha presumably managed to shift plenty of her expensive clobber, having attracted a fair degree of attention at London Fashion Week for a spring/summer 2026 collection that “returned to her obsessions, fixations and fetishes”. Fans of Simone can currently add to their… Read more »

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Date: January 15, 2026 -

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PATRICK O’DONOVAN’S EMPTY SEATS

Date: January 15, 2026 - Affairs of the Nation

AS 2026 gets under way, there is no sign of the board vacancies at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (Imma) being filled, despite applications having been sought six months ago. There are currently three empty seats on the Ali Curran-chaired board with another set to be vacated next month. The terms of fundraiser Mary… Read more »

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Maurice Cohen

HATRED’ IN THE KINGDOM

Date: January 15, 2026 - Affairs of the Nation

AN INTRIGUING tale of antisemitic persecution in Killorglin, Co Kerry, was referred to by the Irish Times before Christmas, which the Jewish Representative Council is to include in a report of over 100 incidents of alleged “hatred against Jewish people in Ireland” over a four-month period in 2025. The report is to be released soon…. Read more »

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READY, AIM …

Date: January 15, 2026 - Affairs of the Nation

THE Project Fear campaign, designed to strike the fear of God into the citizenry so that they tolerate expenditure of extra billions in high-tech weaponry, is itself costing many extra millions, much of which will be spent on “providing security for world leaders at a time when there is war on the continent”. That’s the… Read more »

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Freddie Scappaticci

STAKEKNIFE: MI5’S CREATURE

Date: January 15, 2026 - Affairs of the Nation

The recently published final report of Operation Kenova marks a significant shift from its interim findings regarding MI5’s involvement with Agent Stakeknife, aka Freddie Scappaticci. Contrary to the interim report, which placed the blame on the British Army’s Force Reconnaissance Unit, the final report makes it clear that MI5 was deeply involved with Scappaticci during… Read more »

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Malachy Steenson

IRISH RIGHT WING AND VENEZUALA

Date: January 15, 2026 - Hush Hush

THE US military operation that saw Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro and his wife kidnapped revealed a similar analysis that Ireland’s new right shares with Fine Gael. Eighteen months ago Fine Gael MEPs, along with their colleagues in the centre-right European People’s Party (EPP), lined up with far-right members of the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR)… Read more »

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Bono

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: January 15, 2026 - The Hot Air Brigade

The Gorgeous, Unglamorous Work of Freedom. Notes from an “actualist” on what liberation requires. Title to Bono’s article in The Atlantic Cloud Dancer is setting the tone in the interiors world this year. The wispy white shade evokes a sense of calm and comfort within your home. Brown Thomas website The public relations industry plays… Read more »

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Jon Burrows

‘NAYCE’ UNIONISTS

Date: January 15, 2026 - Northwind

At the end of this month the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) will appoint a new leader. He will be Jon Burrows, a former PSNI chief inspector who only joined the party last year and was co-opted to the Stormont assembly after the UUP’s North Antrim assembly member, Colin Crawford, resigned. Crawford’s resignation came after a… Read more »

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Robert Heneghan

ROB HENEGHAN’S BEACH HOUSE

Date: January 15, 2026 - Affairs of the Nation

A TIPPING website for gamblers has been displaying some top-quality form and the chief jockey here, Rob Heneghan, must be a happy man. Indeed, it turns out that his company – Pro Sports Advice Ltd (PSA) – recently splashed out just over a million spondoolicks on a large “Malibu-lifestyle home” at Silver Beach outside Gormanston,… Read more »

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Oisin Fanning

OISIN FANNING’S APPEAL

Date: January 15, 2026 - Affairs of the Nation

EVER SINCE stockbroker-turned exploration exec Oisin Fanning’s San Leon company delisted from the London Stock Exchange, it has been hard to get a close read on the status of the oil firm’s fundraising efforts. Rather easier to keep tabs on has been the activity around Fanning’s personal finances, which have been played out in courts… Read more »

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Eamon Ryan

TOO MUCH INFORMATION

Date: January 15, 2026 - Fowl Emissions

RESEARCH PUBLISHED by University College Cork in early December pointed to the “alarming” climate impact of the glut of data centres being built in Ireland. Report author Prof Hannah Daly warned that data centre demand is simply “incompatible with Ireland’s climate commitments”. Worse still, data centres are connecting directly to Ireland’s fossil gas network to… Read more »

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MERCUSOR MANURE

Date: January 15, 2026 - Fowl Emissions

Eamon Ryan is also out of step with the mainstream environmental movement in broadly supporting the Mercosur agreement between the EU and South America. While there is much to debate on the eco impacts of this deal, what clearly motivated the Irish beef sector’s vigorous anti-Mercosur campaign was naked protectionism. The industry demands deregulation at… Read more »

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Micheál Martin

MARTIN V MILITARY INTELLIGENCE

Date: January 15, 2026 - Last Refuge

IN CHINA last week Micheál Martin was drawn into commentary on international conflicts in Venezuala, Ukraine, Taiwan and Greenland; human rights in China; and, of course, the Mercosur trade deal. He was also inveigled into fleeting commentary on allegations that China posed security risks to Ireland via academic exchanges with Irish universities but he brushed… Read more »

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FIONNÁN V MICHEÁL

Date: January 15, 2026 - Last Refuge

IT’S COME to something when the Irish Independent takes to lecturing Fianna Fáil on its neglect of the party’s primary principle, Irish unity. But Micheál Martin as presented as so opposed to Irish unity in recent years that the Indo’s Ireland editor, Fionnán Sheahan, last week described him as more John Bruton than Éamon de… Read more »

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Patrick O'Donovan

FINE GAEL ENFORCER O’DONOVAN

Date: January 15, 2026 - Last Refuge

MINISTER for Kulture Patrick O’Donovan has emerged as the hard man of the coalition, on the Fine Gael side of the house at any rate, but hard men should know that if you live by the sword then that’s how you die. O’Donovan has been especially active in recent months, particularly during the presidential nomination… Read more »

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Jennifer Carroll MacNeill

FINE GAEL LEADER’S WAITING ROOM

Date: January 15, 2026 - Last Refuge

TÁNAISTE AND Fine Gael leader Simon Harris’s position is regarded by party members as relatively safe for now, even if he ‘could do better’, as the saying goes. But this does not mean that future contenders are lolling about the place waiting for the starting pistol to crack, as indicated by more than one off-record… Read more »

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Anton Savage

BLIND FAITH IN ANTON SAVAGE

Date: January 15, 2026 - Fit to Print?

COMMUNICATIONS CLINIC MD Eoghan Tomás McDermott declined an invitation to appear before the Oireachtas media committee last November to discuss Coimisiún na Meán’s Media Service Code and the controversy about conflicts of interest in the broadcast media à la Ivan Yates (see The Phoenix 28/11/25). At first it looks as though this does not reflect… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: January 15, 2026 - Bog Cuttings

TRAIN WRECK Drogheda District Court heard the case of a Dublin man who became abusive towards gardaí last St Patrick’s Day. The officers received reports of a man passed out on a train stopped at McBride Station, Drogheda, at around 7:30pm on the day in question. They discovered an intoxicated Bernard Joyce (26), of Kilshane… Read more »

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Pat Kiely

PAT KIELY’S GOOD NEWS

Date: January 15, 2026 - Behind the Scenes

CULTURE MINISTER Patrick O’Donovan launched the latest taxpayer crutch for the nation’s voracious television producers, saying: “This new tax credit is about backing Irish storytellers, producers and crews, while ensuring that Irish and European culture is clearly reflected on screens at home and around the world.” Just to be clear, the Limerick West minister is… Read more »

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MUSEUM PIECES

Date: January 15, 2026 - Behind the Scenes

NO GREAT surprise to see board seats on national cultural institutions being advertised a few months after the vacancies arose, as is the case this month with the National Museum of Ireland (NMI). This follows the exit early last year of former acting chairman, legal-eagle Ambrose Loughlin – whose term was not due to expire… Read more »

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Simon Munir

TALK THE PR TALK

Date: January 15, 2026 - Sport of Kings

THE MUCH-HYPED Talk The Talk, owned by Isaac Souede and Simon Munir, has been the subject of chat and PR bluster since his recent stumble in Leopardstown’s Paddy Power Future Champions Novice Hurdle (Grade 1). Rider Sam Ewing, who managed to picked up two winning Grade 1 spare rides at the big Christmas meet, missed… Read more »

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SAM EWING’S SUCCESS

Date: January 15, 2026 - Sport of Kings

LAST MONTH Barry Connell’s Marine Nationale ran a most impressive race, albeit ending in defeat, in Leopardstown’s Grade 1 Paddy´s Rewards Club Steeplechase but the big winner at the post-Christmas meet was rider Sam Ewing. Having all but unseated his rider at the second fence, Marine Nationale was nursed back into contention by Sean Flanagan… Read more »

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PALMERSTON ROAD RELOAD

Date: January 15, 2026 - High Society

RETIRED FINANCE suit Michael Cullen and his wife, Marian, stuck their impressive six-bed abode in D6 on the market with a very hefty €5.25m price tag back in 2023. It turns out that they had acquired a nearby smaller abode on Moyne Road, Ranelagh for a mere €1.3m. According to the Property Price Register, the… Read more »

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Ger Aherne

BRIGADIER GENERAL AHERNE’S NEW RECRUITS

Date: January 15, 2026 - High Society

WHILE THE wheels continue to move slowly at the planned new museum at 12 Lower Fitzwilliam Street in D2, there are signs of activity at the joint promoters of the multimillion-euro project, the Irish Heritage Trust (IHT). The agency has just advertised for expressions of interest in filling vacancies on the board and the closing… Read more »

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Ian Perks

AILING TULLOW OIL COULD OFFER GAMBLE ON OIL PRICE

Date: January 15, 2026 - Moneybags

AFTER THE sudden exit last February of Rahul Dhir as Tullow Oil’s CEO and his interim replacement by CFO Richard Miller, next out the door was heavyweight exec Sheila Khama (ex-DeBeers). The trickle became a flood of sorts last month when the chairman, Phuthuma Nhleko, also jumped ship with immediate effect, along with three other… Read more »

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