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Vona Groarke

VONA GROARKE’S GOOD NEWS

Date: August 7, 2025 - Behind the Scenes

GOLDHAWK RECENTLY reported on the appointment of Éilís Ní Dhuibhne as the new Laureate for Irish Fiction – an Arts Council-fronted gig dished out every three years to a worthy scribbler. A less high-profile post that is also doled out every three years is that of Ireland Professor of Poetry and the new incumbent has… Read more »

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Philip Rothwell

DREAL DEAL DELIVERS

Date: August 7, 2025 - Sport of Kings

DREAL DEAL, a horse with an interesting past and who was once trained by Ronan McNally, returned to something like his best form at Killarney recently, winning the €45,000 Boylesports Daily Moneyback Handicap Steeplechase at long odds under Simon Torrens. The Arvico gelding, who landed a monumental gamble when gaining his first success at Navan… Read more »

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Ed Dunlop David Dunsdon Sarah Lynam Rebecca May Wayne Hassett Eoin O'Brien Michael Burke Aine O’Connor Ashroe Diamond Thomand O’Mara Peter Keatley Timmy Hyde Coolmore All About Sunday Colin Keane Ronan Whelan JP McManus Jessica Harrington Dundalk Racecourse Paul Hensey Irish National Hunt Horse-racing Doping Paddy Walsh Tom Kelly Suspension

PHILIP ROTHWELL’S ALL-CLEAR

Date: August 7, 2025 - Sport of Kings

PHILIP ROTHWELL also made headlines at Ballinrobe recently, albeit for all the wrong reasons. His charge, Coolboy Christie, owned by the Geesala Racing Group syndicate and ridden by Tiernan Power Roche, was the subject of a running and riding enquiry following an unplaced finish in the O’Hare’s Bar Maiden Hurdle. The acting stewards on the… Read more »

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Ed Dunlop David Dunsdon Sarah Lynam Rebecca May Wayne Hassett Eoin O'Brien Michael Burke Aine O’Connor Ashroe Diamond Thomand O’Mara Peter Keatley Timmy Hyde Coolmore All About Sunday Colin Keane Ronan Whelan JP McManus Jessica Harrington Dundalk Racecourse Paul Hensey Irish National Hunt Horse-racing Doping Paddy Walsh Tom Kelly Suspension

KIA’S CONSISTENT FORM

Date: August 7, 2025 - Sport of Kings

HISTORY OFTEN repeats itself and ‘Glorious Goodwood’ – or not so glorious this year – once again saw the big-spending owners of Amo Racing remove some of their high-profile horses from trainer Ralph Beckett. According to the Oirish Sun, the horses removed included Partying, a £4.6m Frankel filly. Four years ago at the exact same… Read more »

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WEE CARE WOES

Date: August 7, 2025 - High Society

GOLDHAWK WAS surprised to see a closure order being served on the kitchen and staff canteen of RTÉ’s creche in Montrose due to extensive rodent droppings. Reporting of the matter may have upset the minted owners of the business behind the creche, given that they don’t like too much attention. The Belfast-controlled Wee Care nursery… Read more »

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Neill Hughes

NEILL HUGHES’ SECOND SHOT

Date: August 7, 2025 - High Society

LAST MONTH a most impressive Co Dublin property was advertised with a chunky €9.25m price tag. Emsworth in Kinsealy will presumably be of interest to those who also took the tour a few years ago when the same owner last tried to flog it. The good news is that a bargain could be on the… Read more »

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Donal Murphy

DCC’S SHARE PRICE UNDERVALUES COMPANY

Date: August 7, 2025 - Moneybags

IT IS hard to fully grasp CEO Donal Murphy’s conversion last November to stripping DCC down to its energy division by dumping the other divisions (a strategy Moneybags has been recommending for over 20 years) and “transforming to a leading multi-energy business with a clear and resilient strategy”. Although there are question marks over this energy… Read more »

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Seamus Keating

FD TECHNOLOGIES SALE LOOKS LIKE THE DEAL OF THE DECADE

Date: August 7, 2025 - Moneybags

IT LOOKS like the CEO of FD Technologies (FDT – previously First Derivatives), Seamus Keating, pulled a rabbit out of the hat when flogging off the KX analytics database engine – the last remaining business inside FDT – for a remarkable €655m. The shareholders must be a relieved bunch. Approval was obtained on July 17,… Read more »

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Justin Green

PROFESSOR GREEN’S GIGS

Date: August 7, 2025 - Brief Cases

GOLDHAWK SPOTTED some corporate activity by PR operator Justin Green, who will be familiar to fans of The Phoenix for his militant approach to those pesky music hacks who crossed his former employer, Denis Desmond’s MCD, where he controlled the guest list for almost 20 years. In 2011, however, the MCD veteran cut the apron… Read more »

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Pat McDonagh

PAT MCDONAGH’S BAD NEWS

Date: August 7, 2025 - Brief Cases

IT’S NOT too often that Pat ‘Supermacs’ McDonagh reports losses of €½m but one of his multitude of investment companies, Cave Projects Ltd (CPL), has just delivered less-than-tasty figures. In this case, however, Pat will be hoping that he can scoop a few million quid from a very lengthy legal battle. Fans of Goldhawk will… Read more »

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Mary Lou McDonald

SINN FÉIN DIVIDE ON MARY LOU

Date: July 24, 2025 - Affairs of the Nation

THE DIVISIONS within Sinn Féin over whether to run party leader, Mary McDonald, for the presidency are multiple and have created political paralysis within the party. Even worse, it has handed the leadership of a united, anti-government presidential campaign to Independent candidate, Catherine Connolly and… Read more »

Jamie Bryson

PROFILE: JAMIE BRYSON

Date: July 24, 2025 - Pillars of Society

What manner of man is Jamie Bryson, the man who described placing an effigy of immigrants in a boat on a loyalist bonfire in Tyrone as an “artistic political protest”? Like his political hero Napoleon, Jamie is short in stature and like his unionist ally, TUV… Read more »

Jennifer Bray

YOUNG BLOOD: JENNIFER BRAY

Date: July 24, 2025 - The Young Bloods

While Jennifer Bray only took up the position of political editor of the Irish edition of the Sunday Times in March, she is flat out promoting her forthcoming debut fiction novel at present. Although Bray’s thriller, The Lies Between Us, is not due out until February 2026 on Penguin Sandycove — who were the victors after a three-way auction… Read more »

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Maurice Regan

MAURICE REGAN’S OTHER ACTION

Date: July 24, 2025 - Affairs of the Nation

WHILE CONSTRUCTION magnate Maurice Regan is not a party to the high profile litigation between John Magnier et al and Richard Thompson Moore and the other owners of the sprawling Barne estate, the previously low-profile Kerry-born billionaire has featured large in the reporting of the action. Having offered €7m more for the Tipperary property than… Read more »

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Colin Hunt

SOARING AIB SHARES HEADING FOR A €½ BN WAKE-UP CALL

Date: July 24, 2025 - Moneybags

THE IRISH banking duopoly is back in business, returning combined pre-tax profits of €4.6bn as the competition has cleared off, principally KBC, Ulster Bank and Bank of Scotland (Ireland). AIB has been the star performer, returning jaw-dropping profits and return on equity but all this is set to change as the European Central Bank’s (ECB) cutting… Read more »

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MILK WAY

Date: July 24, 2025 - Fowl Emissions

Fat-filled milk powder (FFMP) is the biggest Irish export you’ve never heard of. While it can’t be legally described in the EU as “milk”, enterprising Irish dairy PLCs have sold over 415,000 tonnes of the “nutritionally mediocre” stuff into West African markets in just the last four years. Bord Bia has spent €170,000 in taxpayers’… Read more »

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Éilís Ní Dhuibhne

NÍ DHUIBHNE’S NEW PLOT

Date: July 24, 2025 - Behind the Scenes

LOTS OF coverage for the new Laureate for Irish Fiction, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, whose appointment balances the male/female ratio as expected, with Anne Enright having been installed as the first laureate in 2018, followed by Sebastian Barry and Colm Tóibín. This is a nice gig, with a pretty undemanding schedule and oodles of kudos. Nevertheless,… Read more »

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Vernon Kay and Tess Daly

EOIN KEENAN’S WELLNESS BOXES

Date: July 24, 2025 - Brief Cases

LONDON-BASED Trinity College graduate Eoin Keenan must have been delighted with the extensive coverage generated earlier this month for Goodrays, the cannabidiol brand he co-founded. The news blitz was on foot of a £5m fundraiser backed by investment house Guinness Ventures, although boasting a share register that includes Vernon Kay and Tess Daly naturally helped… Read more »

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Michael O'Leary

BEYOND PR

Date: July 24, 2025 - Fowl Emissions

BACK IN 2000, energy giant BP announced that in future its initials would now stand for ‘Beyond Petroleum’, rather than the outdated ‘British Petroleum’. As part of this radical rebrand, its logo was changed to that of a sunflower. At the dawn of the new century, BP set itself firmly on course to break radically… Read more »

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Eimear & Eddie Irwin

EDDIE IRWIN’S TRACK RECORD

Date: July 24, 2025 - High Society

HAVING MANAGED to keep a low profile for decades, it will have come as no surprise to John Magnier’s “fixer” (sorry Coolmore finance director) Eddie Irwin to find himself tagged in the extensive media coverage of the High Court action involving his boss and the disputed €15m sale of Barne Estate. It has been alleged… Read more »

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VOL 43 NO 15

Date: July 24, 2025 -

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ROBBO’S DOC

Date: July 24, 2025 - Affairs of the Nation

NO DOUBT the legions of Mary Robinson’s fans will have been glued to their tellies this week for the terrestrial broadcasting of Mrs Robinson, which enjoyed a (brief) run in cinemas here last August. Described by RTÉ as “a fresh look at the life and legacy of Ireland’s first woman president”, the less than critical… Read more »

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NEW ARTS COUNCIL CHIEF

Date: July 24, 2025 - Affairs of the Nation

AS PREDICTED (see The Phoenix 11/7/25) culture minister Patrick O’Donovan has gone outside the Arts Council to find an interim director to replace Maureen O’Sullivan. The new face turns out to be troubleshooter Moling Ryan, a favourite at the department. Although the Arts Council told Goldhawk that its board “has the responsibility of appointing a… Read more »

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Bobby Storey

MI6 FOUL-UP PUTS AGENTS AT RISK

Date: July 24, 2025 - Affairs of the Nation

WHITEHALL MANDARINS and MI6 agents in Britain, Ireland and around the globe have been having sleepless nights after yet another flabbergasting data leak which has exposed details of MI6 agents, this time in Afghanistan. The identities of over 18,000 Afghans, who worked for the UK, were leaked by an official working at UK Special Forces… Read more »

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Deirdre Heenan

HEINOUS PLOT BY MARTIN

Date: July 24, 2025 - Affairs of the Nation

THERE ARE good reasons for believing reports that northern academic, Deirdre Heenan would appeal to Micheal Martin as a presidential candidate for Fianna Fail, but there are also caveats. For a start Deirdre dismisses out of hand the prospects of a border poll and in… Read more »

Terence O'Rourke

RTÉ’S BOARD VACANCIES

Date: July 24, 2025 - Affairs of the Nation

AT LONG last, culture and media minister Patrick O’Donovan has got around to advertising for expressions of interest in filling a ministerial vacancy on the board of RTÉ. Given the level of scrutiny the directors will be under in the coming years, as the public broadcaster undergoes its post-Tubs ‘transformation’, the position may prove less… Read more »

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Nigel Farage

BRITANNIA RULES THE RIGHT

Date: July 24, 2025 - Affairs of the Nation

A year on from the European and Local Government elections Ireland’s emerging right wing networks are still desperately trying to establish a united political party that can have an impact electorally. However, these efforts have recently been dogged by controversy due to the involvement of British right wing figure Jim Ferguson in the ‘unity’ process…. Read more »

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Robert Nairac

NAIRAC AGAIN …

Date: July 24, 2025 - Affairs of the Nation

All the portents are that Operation Denton’s report into the crimes of the UVF’s Glenanne gang, will paint a double coat of whitewash over the roles played by MI5, Capt. Robert Nairac and the RUC special branch, in control of the gang. However, a detailed account of many of the more egregious offences  of the… Read more »

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Eamon Martin

LIFE ON THE RIGHT

Date: July 24, 2025 - Hush Hush

HOW COULD it be controversial for the Primate of All Ireland Archbishop Eamon Martin to participate in an anti-abortion march? Well the matter in question for the Archbishop arises from the new-right wing organisations he chooses to march alongside. The recent All-Ireland Rally for Life organised by the Life Institute and Precious Life which Archbishop… Read more »

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Brendan O'Connor

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: July 24, 2025 - The Hot Air Brigade

While the government is maybe the head and brain of the country, the presidency is more about the heart of the country and you are a man with a huge heart. Brendan O’Connor’s forensic interview with potential presidential candidate Michael Flatley, RTE Radio 1 Rather than feel the pressure of expectation from the huge partisan… Read more »

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Nuala O'Loan

STARMER’S LEGACY

Date: July 24, 2025 - Northwind

Sir Keir Starmer’s plans to deal with the north’s intractable disputes about security force killings in the north are under attack on several fronts. The British Labour party’s manifesto promised to repeal the Conservatives’ 2023 Legacy Act which no one but the Conservatives supported. Easy to promise, but what do you replace it with? It’s… Read more »

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Dan O'Brien

IIEA SPLIT ON ISRAEL?

Date: July 24, 2025 - Last Refuge

FEW PEOPLE would regard the Institute of International and European Affairs (IIEA) as a front for Hamas, but neither is it a cheer leader for Benjamin Netanyahu and the IDF in Gaza, despite its Europhile outlook. However, not all institute members share the Irish empathy with Palestinians and one of these, Dan O’Brien, who glories… Read more »

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Jim O'Callaghan

DPP V DPP

Date: July 24, 2025 - Last Refuge

MUCH CRITICISM was levelled at the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) by various media and others for failing to prosecute the late Ian Bailey for Sophie Toscan du Plantier’s murder in 1996. Now there is something of a spat going on between the DPP and the official assigned to the murder file… Read more »

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SHANE ROSS’S RECOMMENDATION

Date: July 24, 2025 - Last Refuge

SHANE ROSS comes over as the essence of sweet reason these days as exemplified by his proposal in the Sindo last weekend that Micheál Martin, should put the chairman of the Jewish Representative Council of Ireland, Maurice Cohen, into the Seanad. Ross praised Cohen’s moderation, relative to Alan Shatter’s “over-the-top script” as the two attacked… Read more »

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Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

JAMES CONNOLLY IS ALIVE AND WELL!

Date: July 24, 2025 - Last Refuge

IT IS hard to say what Labour’s policy on neutrality and EU militarisation actually is given the confusion in the anti-war movement about the party’s stated position when compared to its absence from planning meetings and protest rallies (see The Phoenix, 16/5/25). But its sole MEP, Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, appears to be quite certain that… Read more »

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Mark Mellett

RTÉ’S NEUTRALITY

Date: July 24, 2025 - Fit to Print?

WESTERN CLICHÉS about Orwellian media bias in Russia and other ‘bad‘ countries could well describe RTÉ and Coimisiún na Meán’s (CnaM) response to a complaint about alleged “false … misleading” and “wholly untrue” statements in an RTÉ Prime Time report recently. A complaint from viewer Stephen Kelly (he subsequently became chair of the Peace and… Read more »

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