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Fintan O'Toole

FAIRWEATHER FINTAN

Date: June 26, 2025 - Last Refuge

THE VIRTUAL silence from both Labour and the Social Democrats to the notion of Irish Times guru Fintan O’Toole’s nomination as a presidential candidate compared sharply to the enthusiasm from Fintan’s peers in the media. Why so? It is just under nine years since the Soc Dems inaugural conference presented O’Toole as its keynote speaker… Read more »

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Colum Eastwood

COLUM EASTWOOD – ALWAYS THE BRIDESMAID

Date: June 26, 2025 - Last Refuge

IS FORMER SDLP leader Colum Eastwood suffering from some sort of political personality disorder brought on by persistent political abuse at the hands of Micheál Martin’s Fianna Fáil? How else to explain why the current head of the New Ireland Commission should open himself to further political derision and rejection by the cruel Martin, who… Read more »

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GABIJA’S BARISTA BOMBSHELL!

Date: June 26, 2025 - Fit to Print?

AS IF Government TDs did not have enough to put up with as voters whine about housing, it emerges that they are also being abused in public for the Government’s refusal to go further than verbally condemn the genocide in Gaza. The Sunday Independent’s Gabija Gataveckaite exclusively revealed that the abuse Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael… Read more »

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Terry Keane

DAY OF THE SQUIRE

Date: June 26, 2025 - Fit to Print?

RECENTLY DECEASED Freddie Forsyth, the author of The Day of the Jackal and other bestsellers, revealed in his 2015 biography, The Outsider, that he was once an asset of MI6. Forsyth lived in Ireland in the 1970s, where he availed of the tax exemption introduced by Charles Haughey for creative artists. The author soon became… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: June 26, 2025 - Bog Cuttings

ABUSIVE BEHAVIOUR Sligo District Court heard the case of 45-year-old Ronan Lynch, who was charged with engaging in threatening and abusive behaviour, and failing to provide his address on December 16 last. Gardaí had stopped a car on Cleveragh Road to speak with the occupants. Sergeant Keith Marron told the court that one passenger, Lynch,… Read more »

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ULTAN PRINGLE’S PROMOTION

Date: June 26, 2025 - Behind the Scenes

IN DONEGAL, up and coming playwright Ultan Pringle continues his momentum, ably assisted by the Arts Council. His new play, Snowflakes – partly “inspired by Greta Thunberg” – recently debuted for one night at An Grianán Youth Theatre, where the son of former TD Thomas Pringle is ensconced these days as writer in residence. Last… Read more »

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Ollie Sangster

OLLIE’S ARMY

Date: June 26, 2025 - Sport of Kings

IT WAS just like old times recently when the Magnier family plus its Coolmore entourage teamed up with one Ollie Sangster for racecourse success courtesy of a well-bred filly. This time, however, a Sangster was doing the training rather than paying the owner’s bills. Ollie, grandson of the late owner-breeder Robert Sangster, enjoyed training success… Read more »

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COLIN KEANE’S ASCOT CARD

Date: June 26, 2025 - Sport of Kings

JOCKEY Colin Keane’s new retainer with Juddmonte got off to the best start with a facile victory aboard the John and Thady Gosden-trained Field of Gold in Ascot’s Group 1 St James’s Palace Stakes. But it was heavy going from then on. The fortuitous Keane had replaced the ‘jocked-off’ Kieran Shoemark when steering the grey… Read more »

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LANSDOWNE PLACE’S NEW FACES

Date: June 26, 2025 - High Society

CONGRATULATIONS TO former Independent News & Media (INM) head honcho Vincent Crowley, who has just shifted an impressive 3,700 sq ft three-storey redbrick pile on leafy Herbert Park in the heart of D4 for €4.25m. Having now switched base to one of the upmarket apartments in Joe O’Reilly’s Lansdowne Place development, which would have set… Read more »

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Michael O'Leary

RYANAIR PROFITS SET TO SOAR DESPITE O’LEARY

Date: June 26, 2025 - Moneybags

FOR THE financial year ending March 31, 2025, Ryanair recorded net profits down 16% to €1.61bn, with CEO Mick O’Leary up to his old tricks. Poor fuel hedging yet again played its part, as did the group CEO’s bizarre obsession with ramping up capacity at all costs. As a result, Ryanair saw its earnings per… Read more »

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Jim Mintern

NEW REGIME AT CRH BUT SAME OLD STORY

Date: June 26, 2025 - Moneybags

THE REMARKABLY well-remunerated Albert Manifold has left the stage at CRH and his successor as CEO, Jim Mintern, has inherited a US-focused group. The Irish man has also inherited a profitable enterprise that is beset by falling sales and he urgently needs to adopt a strategy that doesn’t simply rely on shoving up prices, which… Read more »

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Sam Blanckensee

TENI’S BIG BACKERS

Date: June 26, 2025 - Brief Cases

THE CONTROVERSIAL Transgender Equality Network Ireland (Teni) last week found itself in the sights of conservative media organs such as Gript and the European Conservative after the charity was selected as one of the recipients of RTÉ’s Toy Show Appeal grants, scooping €15,000. Having featured prominently in these pages in the past over its failure… Read more »

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Aga Khan

THE OTHER MULTIMILLION-EURO ‘VERBAL CONTRACT’

Date: June 26, 2025 - Brief Cases

THE HIGHLY entertaining contest in the Four Goldmines between John Magnier and Richard Thomson-Moore over the disputed €15m sale of the 750-acre Barne Estate in Co Tipperary increasingly reminds Goldhawk of a similar high-stakes battle many moons ago. There are a number of similarities between the current case and the action taken by the Aga… Read more »

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Ross O'Dwyer

ROSS O’DWYER’S IMPRESSIVE SQUAD

Date: June 26, 2025 - Brief Cases

GOLDHAWK NOTES a recent order in the High Court striking out a petition from the dreaded taxman to wind up a company called Readia Ltd. This turns out to be the company behind Pundit Arena, which describes itself as “one of Ireland’s premium sports media houses, delivering content in written, video and audio format, while… Read more »

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THE ‘POST’S’ WAREHOUSE

Date: June 26, 2025 - Brief Cases

ELSEWHERE IN this issue (see p5) Goldhawk looks at former Business Post shareholder Liam Lynch’s challenges in his Irish company, which built up losses of almost €3m. What is also worth a look is the scenario at the operating company behind the Post, which has just filed its own accounts. Ownership of the Post these… Read more »

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Jim O'Callaghan

HIT-AND-RUN DRIVER AN ‘INFORMER’

Date: June 12, 2025 - Affairs of the Nation

THE UNSTINTING state apology delivered in the Dáil recently by justice minister Jim O’Callaghan to the family of Shane O’Farrell – killed in 2011 near his Carrickmacross home by hit-and-run driver Zigimantas Gridziuska, who should have been in jail at the time – was welcomed by O’Farrell’s family. So were the sincere speeches by not… Read more »

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Daniel Lambert

PROFILE: DANIEL LAMBERT

Date: June 12, 2025 - Pillars of Society

As manager of the Irish-speaking, hip-hop/rap trio Kneecap, Daniel Lambert has found himself increasingly in the spotlight as he is called upon to defend the group over their pro-Palestinian commentary and messaging. These values appear to align with the passionate and pragmatic Dubliner’s own views on the subject and his measured defence of the band… Read more »

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Keira Keogh

YOUNG BLOOD: KEIRA KEOGH

Date: June 12, 2025 - The Young Bloods

Guaranteeing the succession is always a fraught task in politics but 37-year-old Keira Keogh managed to climb back from a poor local election outing to hold Michael Ring’s Fine Gael seat in West Mayo at the general election. FG has had a strong grip on this constituency since the watershed election of 2011, when Fianna… Read more »

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Gerry Adams

OOH AH, YOU’RE IN THE ’RA, SAID THE BBC

Date: June 12, 2025 - Last Refuge

THE BBC must cough up millions and lose face over its astonishing decision to broadcast an allegation of murder against Gerry Adams, citing on television just one anonymous source. But the reaction of the southern legal and political ruling classes to the Adams libel action tells its own story. While much was made by some… Read more »

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NED O’SULLIVAN’S REVENGE

Date: June 12, 2025 - Affairs of the Nation

FANS OF Goldhawk are well aware of the disastrous IT project debacle in the Arts Council – including arts department secretary general Feargal Ó Coigligh, who told the Public Accounts Committee earlier this month that he only became aware of the €7m balls-up after being forwarded queries from The Phoenix. The most high-profile casualty has… Read more »

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Suzanne O'Connell

SETBACK FOR SUZANNE O’CONNELL

Date: June 12, 2025 - Affairs of the Nation

GOLDHAWK SPIES a winding-up meeting has been called for a charity called Outreach Moldova, which raised funds for orphans in the eastern European country that borders Ukraine. The writing was, however, on the wall for some time. A message on the now-defunct social media platform for the charity stated: “After 25 years of caring for… Read more »

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John Magnier

MAGNIER’S NEW WORLD

Date: June 12, 2025 - Sport of Kings

DISCONTENT WITH Coolmore’s near stranglehold on Irish racing had been a talking point at bloodstock sales in recent seasons but that has all changed. But the result is a significant hike in prices for top-quality horseflesh. Tattersalls and Goffs sales have seen records tumble, with Sheik Mohammed al Maktoum’s Godolphin, Kia Joorabchian and John Stewart’s… Read more »

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Alan Clancy

ALAN CLANCY’S TAXING MATTER

Date: June 12, 2025 - Brief Cases

ONE OF the most high-profile players in the club and bar scene in Ireland, and especially Dublin, in recent years has been Alan ‘House’ Clancy, who is associated with numerous well-known venues. Alas, one of his many companies has come to the attention of the dreaded taxman, who is seeking to have it liquidated in… Read more »

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Dermot Desmond

DER KAISER’S TRUSTEES

Date: June 12, 2025 - High Society

DERMOT DESMOND’S favourite charity, the Chester Beatty Library (CBL) – where he is a trustee “for life” – is set to get some new blood courtesy of arts minister Patrick O’Donovan. This week is the deadline for expressions of interest from suitable candidates to fill three upcoming vacancies on the 12-member CBL board of trustees,… Read more »

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Date: June 12, 2025 -

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SUSAN FITZPATRICK’S TURBULENCE

Date: June 12, 2025 - Affairs of the Nation

THE LIQUIDATION of a raft of firms next week turns out to be linked to one Ivor Fitzpatrick, the high-flying legal eagle, businessman and good pal of Charlie Haughey’s, who died last year. The Squire of Castle Howard had fingers in many pies and was reported to have been worth around €100m when he died… Read more »

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Ian Bailey

DPP MAN VERSUS TAOISEACH AND HACK

Date: June 12, 2025 - Affairs of the Nation

IAN BAILEY would not have expected to play a posthumous role in last year’s general election but Taoiseach Micheál Martin’s public endorsement of a book claiming that Bailey should have been charged with Sophie Toscan du Plantier’s murder has provoked legal action by DPP official Robert Sheehan. He has sought a date from Dún Laoghaire… Read more »

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Liam Cunningham

NAEEM MANIAR’S MANY HATS

Date: June 12, 2025 - Affairs of the Nation

LIAM CUNNINGHAM was in the headlines this week for his spat with Conor McGregor after the latter mocked the actor’s role in supporting the Gaza aid boat’s attempt to breach the 18-year-old blockade. Cunningham has also been a regular critic of the government, particularly over current attempts to dump the triple-lock system, while another target… Read more »

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Lord Mountbatten

LIFTING THE LID ON MOUNTBATTEN

Date: June 12, 2025 - Affairs of the Nation

Richard Kerr and Stephen Waring, two former residents of Kincora Boys’ Home, were trafficked by Kincora warden Joseph Mains to members of a paedophile network in the 1970s. The ring included Lord Mountbatten. Kerr is now taking a case against the UK state, which is progressing through the north’s legal system at a snail’s pace…. Read more »

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Simon Harris

CYBER INSECURITY

Date: June 12, 2025 - Affairs of the Nation

IRELAND WAS one of 41 countries participating in last month’s Locked Shields 2025 in Tallinn, Estonia. The rationale given for Irish involvement in this “live-fire cyber defence exercise”, co-ordinated by the Nato Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (CCDCOE), was to ensure collective security and the protection of critical national infrastructure. How reassuring. Shortly after… Read more »

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Niall McConnell

PATRIOT GAMES IN DONEGAL

Date: June 12, 2025 - Hush Hush

Donegal man Niall McConnell has been central to anti-immigration protests in Monaghan and Donegal over the last two months. His links to loyalists and British fascists may help explain why much of his online content in relation to these protests targets Sinn Féin. A sheep farmer from Castlefin, Donegal, McConnell has been active on Ireland’s… Read more »

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John Magnier

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: June 12, 2025 - The Hot Air Brigade

“Money doesn’t mean much to me. It’s just to keep the score, that’s all.” Asked if he was a billionaire and not a millionaire, Magnier said: “I hope so.” John Magnier giving evidence in the High Court, Sunday Independent The racehorse breeder said he had people to advise him. Asked if he was resident in… Read more »

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Micheál Martin

GOVERNMENT DATA BULLIES

Date: June 12, 2025 - Fowl Emissions

In a chilling public display of loyalty to our Big Tech overlords, Fianna Fáil heavyweights have been putting the boot into a senior civil servant who dared to question the divine right of data centres to monopolise Ireland’s precious resources and scarce infrastructure. Oonagh Buckley, secretary general at the Department of Environment, Climate and Energy,… Read more »

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MICHEÁL MARTIN’S ROADWORKS

Date: June 12, 2025 - Fowl Emissions

“Roads are also important for environment, this doesn’t get said often enough.” That was Micheál Martin’s hot take in Galway last week as he pledged support for the city’s planned ring road. He said the health and environmental benefits of new roads are often overlooked. Indeed. In 2023 the High Court quashed the road proposal… Read more »

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Winston Irvine

NOD IS AS GOOD AS A WINK

Date: June 12, 2025 - Northwind

Last month Winston ‘Winkie’ Irvine, the top UVF boss in Belfast’s Shankill district, was jailed for 30 months, half on licence. That sentence, for possession of a haul of guns and ammunition in his car boot, sparked outrage across the political divide in the north. Former UUP leader Doug Beattie called it “bizarre”. Other politicians… Read more »

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Gabriel Makhlouf

MARTIN WRONG ON ISRAELI WAR BONDS

Date: June 12, 2025 - Last Refuge

HEATED POLITICAL polemic on the Occupied Territories Bill (OTB) a fortnight ago saw the Government contradicted on the legal front, at home and abroad, over its excuse to delay the OTB, which relied, erroneously, on EU trade law. But when finance minister Paschal Donohoe said his hands were tied when it was demanded that he… Read more »

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