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Áine Lawlor Matt Carthy

IS SHANNON NEUTRAL GROUND?

Date: April 19, 2023 - Last Refuge

In two recent Morning Ireland interviews, Áine Lawlor has interrogated the details of Sinn Féin’s commitment to neutrality, a sensitive issue given the upcoming National Consultative Forum on Ireland’s International Security Policy. SF’s newly appointed spokesperson on foreign affairs and defence, Matt Carthy, was interviewed recently alongside Fianna Fáil MEP Barry Andrews. Carthy was definitive… Read more »

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Eviction Ban Leo Varadkar

NO COUNCIL HOUSES – NO COUNCIL DEBATE

Date: April 19, 2023 - Last Refuge

DAYS BEFORE Sinn Féin’s Dáil motion on ending the eviction ban and a fortnight before the ban was due to expire, Tánaiste Micheál Martin rounded on local councils and accused them of “resistance” to the scheme of buying homes with tenants in situ. The Fianna… Read more »

Tony Murphy Darragh O'Brien Balbriggan Housing

HOUSING FOR ALL… ELSEWHERE

Date: April 19, 2023 - Last Refuge

FIANNA FÁIL insiders raised an eyebrow last week at an Irish Independent report that housing minister Darragh O’Brien continues to send constituents with housing queries to an Independent councillor rather than a party colleague. But locals in Balbriggan have focused instead on the fact that the housing minister’s councillor of choice opposes housing developments. As… Read more »

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Terence O'Neill Jeffrey Donaldson

18 KIDS ON THE DOLE

Date: April 19, 2023 - Northwind

“It is frightfully hard to explain to Protestants that, if you give Roman Catholics a good job and a good house, they will live like Protestants because they will see neighbours with cars and television sets; they will refuse to have 18 children. But if a Roman Catholic is jobless and lives in the most… Read more »

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Mary Robinson

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: April 19, 2023 - The Hot Air Brigade

I told him that I’ve brought the famous light in the [Áras] window down to Ballina, so it will now be housed in the Mary Robinson Centre opposite where he will be speaking tonight. Mary Robinson gets her priorities right when asked about meeting US President Joe Biden, RTÉ’s News at One We believe anything… Read more »

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Bryan MacDonald Evan Gershkovich

MOBILE MEDIA ETHICS

Date: April 19, 2023 - Hush Hush

A common trope in the Irish media is the accusation of censorship by the Chinese Communist Party and the Russian government. According to Irish and most western media, since the invasion of Ukraine Russia has effectively criminalised opposition to the government and any independent reporting of the news. But what is the cause of the… Read more »

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IAN PAISLEY’S REAL RECORD

Date: April 19, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

The BBC’s House of Paisley marathon trilogy ignored vital chunks of Ian Paisley’s stormy career, despite the fact it had exposed many of them in the past. In 2019, former British army officer David Hancock told BBC NI’s Spotlight programme that Paisley had helped finance the Silent Valley bombing in 1969. It was a false… Read more »

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Freddie Scappaticci

SCAPPATICCI TALES

Date: April 19, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

In the early 1970s, the IRA adopted a cellular structure. The overlap between cells was kept to a bare minimum, thereby limiting the damage a British agent could inflict if he infiltrated one compartment. One of London’s spies in the IRA, the recently deceased Freddie Scappaticci, managed to breach the new arrangement. Scappaticci was run… Read more »

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Louise Richardson

DAME TO SAVE IRISH NEUTRALITY

Date: April 19, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

ONE TRUSTS that Tánaiste Micheál Martin’s recent failure to give Louise Richardson her full, proper title of Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (DBE) was a lapse in his usual respect for British authority and not an effort to obscure… Read more »

Budget Jack Chambers Nicki Minaj B’Tselem Phil Hogan UCD IRTA DIGI Katy Brown Rory Godson Pallonji Mistry Shark Hanlon Frances Ruane Taste of Dublin Listowel Writers’ Week Paddy Curran Harvey Norman Anton Savage Paul Hourican Enda O’Coineen PfP Red C Poll IFTA Ben Gilroy Luke Comer Sue Spence Fingleton Aubrey McCarthy Matt Cooper Parker Green Danny McConnell Gayle Killilea Maura Derivan Ed Honohan INS Arts Council EDAF Emuse Rosslare Golf Club Mairead Casey Colm O’Rourke Stephen Connolly Peter Aiken John Malone Tom Barry Anthony Halpin Ian Kehoe Kevin Bakhurst Geraldine O’Leary Dennis Horgan RUSI Gareth McAllister Ryevale House Joe Macken RUC Omagh Patrick Connolly Paddy Cosgrave The Ditch Newstalk Fake Tan Fred Logue Ian Paisley Sean O’Riordan Margaret Sweeney Jay Bourke Ellie Kisyombe Francesca McDonagh Ted Cunningham National Space Centre An Irish Goodbye Oscar Robert Quirke Ciara Kelly Executive Women Gathering Doug Taylor Florian Haufe Robbie Henshaw Bill Shipsey Breaking the Silence L’Ecrivain Ronan McNally National Lottery Michael Roche Energy Action Balls.ie Newspapers VAT Abbey Theatre Patricia Madden Irish Banking Culture Board Randox Aoife Gallagher Book Dalai Lama Trinity Trevor White RTÉ Chairperson Shane Houlihan Noel Smyth IKC Bob Geldof Landlord Ireland Neutrality Ukraine

SEAN O’RIORDAN’S RATIONALE

Date: April 19, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

SOME SORT of award should be organised to encourage Irish journalists competing with each other to be the most enthusiastic champions of Nato and/or an EU army with Ireland to the fore. The Henry Kissinger Pacifism Award or the Orwellian Literary Prize might produce improved arguments that say battle groups are not real armies or… Read more »

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Budget Jack Chambers Nicki Minaj B’Tselem Phil Hogan UCD IRTA DIGI Katy Brown Rory Godson Pallonji Mistry Shark Hanlon Frances Ruane Taste of Dublin Listowel Writers’ Week Paddy Curran Harvey Norman Anton Savage Paul Hourican Enda O’Coineen PfP Red C Poll IFTA Ben Gilroy Luke Comer Sue Spence Fingleton Aubrey McCarthy Matt Cooper Parker Green Danny McConnell Gayle Killilea Maura Derivan Ed Honohan INS Arts Council EDAF Emuse Rosslare Golf Club Mairead Casey Colm O’Rourke Stephen Connolly Peter Aiken John Malone Tom Barry Anthony Halpin Ian Kehoe Kevin Bakhurst Geraldine O’Leary Dennis Horgan RUSI Gareth McAllister Ryevale House Joe Macken RUC Omagh Patrick Connolly Paddy Cosgrave The Ditch Newstalk Fake Tan Fred Logue Ian Paisley Sean O’Riordan Margaret Sweeney Jay Bourke Ellie Kisyombe Francesca McDonagh Ted Cunningham National Space Centre An Irish Goodbye Oscar Robert Quirke Ciara Kelly Executive Women Gathering Doug Taylor Florian Haufe Robbie Henshaw Bill Shipsey Breaking the Silence L’Ecrivain Ronan McNally National Lottery Michael Roche Energy Action Balls.ie Newspapers VAT Abbey Theatre Patricia Madden Irish Banking Culture Board Randox Aoife Gallagher Book Dalai Lama Trinity Trevor White RTÉ Chairperson Shane Houlihan Noel Smyth IKC Bob Geldof Landlord Ireland Neutrality Ukraine

MARGARET SWEENEY’S BATTLE

Date: April 19, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

AS GOOD old corporate battles are rare enough here, there is mounting interest in the open challenge by a leading shareholder in the giant Ires Reit property rental company to the re-election of much of the board. It looks like the very well paid CEO, Margaret Sweeney, will have to earn her crust in the… Read more »

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VOL 41 NO 08

Date: April 19, 2023 -

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Army Report Sean Clancy

OFFICER CLASS IN RETREAT

Date: April 6, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

THE SPECTACLE of Defence Forces Chief of Staff (c/s) Seán Clancy being pilloried for denying he had encountered any abuse issues as highlighted by the Independent Review Group (IRG) is ironic. Ever since he was appointed c/s in 2021, Clancy has been a target for the more conservative, male officers in the army who regard… Read more »

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Barry Connell

PROFILE: BARRY CONNELL

Date: April 6, 2023 - Pillars of Society

SINCE THE beginning of this year, racehorse trainer Barry Connell had been telling everyone who would listen that his horse, Marine Nationale, would win the opening race of the Cheltenham Festival – the Grade 1 Supreme Novices Hurdle – and he duly delivered. This was the latest significant step taken by the Dublin-based hedge fund… Read more »

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Pádraig O’Sullivan

YOUNG BLOOD: PÁDRAIG O’SULLIVAN

Date: April 6, 2023 - The Young Bloods

WITH FIANNA FÁIL continuing to lag in the polls and its support among young people at catastrophic levels, the party is hoping its young breed can find a way forward. Cork North Central (CNC) TD Pádraig O’Sullivan then has a pivotal role to play in the hoped-for regeneration of FF. But does he share the… Read more »

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Gerry O'Carroll

GERRY O’CARROLL’S CRI DE COEUR

Date: April 6, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

WITH EACH staging post along the 40-year-old Kerry Babies saga, the prevailing view is that several gardaí were involved in a travesty in which six members of Joanne Hayes’s family in Abbeydorney confessed to crimes in 1984 they could not possibly have committed. One such garda is retired Det Inspector Gerry O’Carroll, one of two… Read more »

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Claire Byrne

CLAIRE BYRNE’S ‘SUPER AGENT’

Date: April 6, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

WITH THE clock ticking in the search for the new host of The Late Late Show (TLLS), there are those wondering if agent Noel Kelly can make it a hat-trick, given that he also represents Ryan Tubridy and Pat Kenny. No doubt the influential owner of NK Management was delighted that the Mail on Sunday… Read more »

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Budget Jack Chambers Nicki Minaj B’Tselem Phil Hogan UCD IRTA DIGI Katy Brown Rory Godson Pallonji Mistry Shark Hanlon Frances Ruane Taste of Dublin Listowel Writers’ Week Paddy Curran Harvey Norman Anton Savage Paul Hourican Enda O’Coineen PfP Red C Poll IFTA Ben Gilroy Luke Comer Sue Spence Fingleton Aubrey McCarthy Matt Cooper Parker Green Danny McConnell Gayle Killilea Maura Derivan Ed Honohan INS Arts Council EDAF Emuse Rosslare Golf Club Mairead Casey Colm O’Rourke Stephen Connolly Peter Aiken John Malone Tom Barry Anthony Halpin Ian Kehoe Kevin Bakhurst Geraldine O’Leary Dennis Horgan RUSI Gareth McAllister Ryevale House Joe Macken RUC Omagh Patrick Connolly Paddy Cosgrave The Ditch Newstalk Fake Tan Fred Logue Ian Paisley Sean O’Riordan Margaret Sweeney Jay Bourke Ellie Kisyombe Francesca McDonagh Ted Cunningham National Space Centre An Irish Goodbye Oscar Robert Quirke Ciara Kelly Executive Women Gathering Doug Taylor Florian Haufe Robbie Henshaw Bill Shipsey Breaking the Silence L’Ecrivain Ronan McNally National Lottery Michael Roche Energy Action Balls.ie Newspapers VAT Abbey Theatre Patricia Madden Irish Banking Culture Board Randox Aoife Gallagher Book Dalai Lama Trinity Trevor White RTÉ Chairperson Shane Houlihan Noel Smyth IKC Bob Geldof Landlord Ireland Neutrality Ukraine

JAY BOURKE’S STORIES

Date: April 6, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

GOLDHAWK’S OLD friend Jay Bourke addressed the AGM of the insolvency specialists’ representative body, Restructuring and Insolvency Ireland (RII) last month. Judging by a report in the Irish Times, bankrupt Jayo was most effusive, as is his style – when it suits him. RII is chaired by Mark Woodcock of Fieldfisher but not on the… Read more »

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Marissa Carter

MARISSA CARTER’S GLOW-UP

Date: April 6, 2023 - Brief Cases

IT HAS been a busy few months for Marissa Carter, who was chosen as Newstalk’s Eversheds Sutherland-sponsored ‘Business Person of the Month’ for March. She also launched her budget cosmetics range, Carter Beauty, in Dubai a month earlier. In other good news, the tan queen appears less browned off with her business partners these days…. Read more »

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Milltown Golf Club Ann Marie Powell

ELECTIONS AT MILLTOWN

Date: April 6, 2023 - High Society

IT’S NEVER all that easy to secure membership of the more sought after golf clubs, especially those in and around south Co Dublin. One of these is obviously the venerable Milltown Golf Club, founded way back in 1907 and the 19th tee for many of Dublin’s most prominent business, professional and legal players. Last month,… Read more »

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Barry O'Kelly

MARC GODART’S TENANTS

Date: April 6, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

FANS OF Goldhawk will have recognised the name of landlord extraordinaire Marc Godart on the front page of the Irish Times earlier this week when he was ordered to cease short-letting apartments in a block on Dublin’s Reuben Street in Dolphin’s Barn. He has quite the record. The latest run-in relates to notices of termination… Read more »

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National Party Justin Barrett

NATIONAL PARTY ON THE RUN

Date: April 6, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

After the fracas in Fermanagh, when antifascists confronted National Party (NP) members at their ard fheis in November, Goldhawk wonders whether, despite fighting talk, they have thrown in the towel. At its recent ard fheis, leader Justin Barrett claimed the NP only wanted a calm and quiet debate but “if they want the other way,… Read more »

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GOD’S CREATURES

Date: April 6, 2023 - MoviesReviews

FITTINGLY FOR a movie set in a rural fishing village, God’s Creatures arrived on a tidal wave of hype now standard for any Paul Mescal film. This time, the golden boy of Irish cinema plays Brian, a moody young man whose return from Australia to his close-knit Kerry village sparks major drama, which unfortunately unfolds… Read more »

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Peter Taylor

MI5’s BENIGN ROLE IN IRELAND

Date: April 6, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

THE NEW book by veteran British author and broadcaster Peter Taylor, Operation Chiffon, has much to say about MI5’s activities in Ireland. It also includes a claim by one spook, ‘Robert’, of how he and other British agents helped to advance the peace process. Taylor’s book does not include one interesting story, which has been… Read more »

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Michael Barrett

ONLY OUR RIVERS RUN FREE

Date: April 6, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

A PLANNING row that began in 2012 over an Athlone marina has turned into a major confrontation involving Waterways Ireland (WI), Westmeath County Council, litigation and hearings at the Oireachtas joint committee on public petitions. Lakeside Marina owner Michael Barrett is rather cheesed off because since 2011 he has spent a lot of moolah negotiating… Read more »

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New IRA John Caldwell

NEW IRA HASN’T GONE AWAY

Date: April 6, 2023 - Hush Hush

In the last few years, a number of militant dissident republican groups have announced ceasefires or merely faded away. The Republican Network for Unity, Republican Sinn Féin and 32 County Sovereignty Movement continue to exist but have been unable to develop a political project beyond interpreting the actions of armed republicans. However, when MI5 released… Read more »

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Peter Vandermeersch

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: April 6, 2023 - The Hot Air Brigade

What I can say is that it’s indeed the preparation of what we call here the newsroom of the future. How Mediahuis Ireland CEO Peter Vandermeersch explains the redundancies being sought at the Independent group titles, Business Post We’d never eaten in either restaurant before, so when the window for February bookings opened on December… Read more »

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Down Loyalists Dee Stitt and Arlene Foster

GOOD UDA V BAD UDA

Date: April 6, 2023 - Northwind

THERE’S Yet another so-called ‘loyalist feud’, one of many that have erupted over the past 25 years, but this time there’s a difference. It’s not happening in the back streets off Belfast’s Shankill Road or the impoverished housing estates of loyalist Larne or Carrickfergus. It’s in prosperous north Down – Bangor, Donaghadee, Newtownards – where… Read more »

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Neutrality Forum Mícheál Martin

NEUTRALITY: THE FINAL PUSH

Date: April 6, 2023 - Last Refuge

THE GOVERNMENT has finally decided to launch a ground offensive against neutrality with a series of discussions or “forums” on the issue later this year led by the foreign and defence minister, Tánaiste Micheál Martin. The actual content of Irish neutrality has been hollowed out in recent years with membership of Pesco and various Nato… Read more »

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Kate Hoey

FREE FRANCE!

Date: April 6, 2023 - Last Refuge

FORMER BRITISH Labour MP, now Baroness Kate Hoey (courtesy of then UK prime minister Boris Johnson in 2020) has enraged even those who normally agree with her hard-line unionist views. During the recent House of Lords debate on the Stormont brake, Hoey described those MLAs who would accept the new framework deal on the assembly… Read more »

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Fianna Fáil Poll Leo Varadkar

POLLS SPELL DISASTER FOR FF

Date: April 6, 2023 - Last Refuge

ONCE AGAIN, the media fixation on the latest poll is on how Sinn Féin compares with both Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil. But the existential competition between the latter two parties is the really historic battle being played out in front of everyone and the ongoing polls have for some time now indicated that FF… Read more »

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Jim O'Callaghan

BERTIE TO FIX IT FOR SF/FF COALITION?

Date: April 6, 2023 - Last Refuge

WHAT SCHEMING object has the most cunning one in mind when he tells Fianna Fáil and its leader, Tánaiste Micheál Martin, that he should accept not only a coalition deal with Sinn Féin but also a subsidiary position in such a government? Bertie Ahern does not make pronouncements of such weight without a clear goal… Read more »

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Peter Vandermeersch Newspaper Vat Rate

‘EXTENSIVE’ CUTS AT MEDIAHUIS

Date: April 6, 2023 - Fit to Print?

THE JOB cuts and restructuring announced last week by Mediahuis editor-in-chief Cormac Bourke and chief executive Peter Vandermeersch gave quite a different vision of the future of Irish newspapers’ than last year. Vandermeersch said that, as the changes would be “extensive”, there was a chance the company would seek compulsory cuts as well as voluntary… Read more »

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Simon Carswell

‘IT’ GOES PALE GREEN

Date: April 6, 2023 - Fit to Print?

IT IS only fair and fitting that long-time news editor of the Irish Times, Mark Hennessy, should be succeeded in that onerous post by one Simon Carswell. Not only has Simon filled the position of public affairs correspondent with distinction at the newspaper but he also performed well as the IT’s man in Washington. Carswell… Read more »

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Roundup Ireland John Hume Jnr.

ROUND UP THE USUAL LOBBYISTS

Date: April 6, 2023 - Fowl Emissions

‘ROUNDUP’ SEASON is approaching – that time of year when Ireland’s verges, parks, playgrounds and farmland are doused in toxic chemicals that trash biodiversity, reduce insect numbers and cause cancer in humans. Also approaching is a historic moment in Brussels when the king of weedkillers could be banned across the EU. The licence to sell… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: April 6, 2023 - Bog Cuttings

‘SUCK MY DICKIE DICKIE’ SKIBBEREEN DISTRICT Court heard the case of Patrick O’Driscoll (38), who was accused of behaving in a lewd manner toward gardaí while intoxicated on St Patrick’s Day last year. On the evening in question, gardaí noticed the accused standing by the side of the road, at Kilmacabea in Leap, in a… Read more »

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