Category: Affairs

YOUNG BLOOD: CATHAL HAUGHEY

Affairs, 9 May 2019

THERE IS an old saying that it only takes three generations to ruin a family business. Cathal Haughey (22) will be hoping it’s just a tired cliché when he makes his electoral debut later this month as a Fianna Fáil candidate for Dublin City Council in the Clontarf electoral area. Read more about the latest... Read more »

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FG PEMBROKE BLUE BLOODS

Affairs, 8 May 2019

WHAT A stellar trio of candidates Fine Gael has assembled in the local election barony of Pembroke – formerly Pembroke-South Dock – which has been stripped of the jarring, proletarian surrounds of Ringsend and has gained parts of Ranelagh and Rathmines. Read more about them in the latest addition.

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ROBBO’S FOUNDATION JOINS EXTINCT LIST

Affairs, 8 May 2019

SO FAREWELL then to the Mary Robinson Foundation (MRF) – the eponymous climate change organisation established by Mary Robinson almost ten years ago. It has just wound itself up. Last Christmas (see The Phoenix 14/12/18) Goldhawk revealed that Robbo had stepped down from the board of the MRF, where she had been in situ for... Read more »

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GEMMA O’DOHERTY’S BUSES

Affairs, 8 May 2019

THIS WEEK, commuters in Dublin are waking up to the sight of ‘investigative journalist’ Gemma O’Doherty on the side of buses. The European election candidate has spent around €15,000 on 25 advertisements which will criss cross the city over the next three weeks. Under the ‘Anti Corruption Ireland’ banner, ads carry the slogan that: “It... Read more »

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REBELS AND REACTIONARIES

Affairs, 8 May 2019

THE Extinction Rebellion movement brought civil disobedience on to streets across the world last month in a furious, but carefully planned, response to the twin existential threats of climate breakdown and species extinction. Our national broadcaster’s coverage included posing the following question to a panel of celebrities: “Climate change protesters – saving the planet or... Read more »

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IDENTITY IRELAND’S FAILURE TO LAUNCH

Affairs, 7 May 2019

EURO HOPEFUL Peter O’Loughlin faces a difficult job in Ireland South where he will be hoping to get past the second count for the first time. This is the fourth election for Identity Ireland’s leader who has previously run for Europe and the Dáil, polling around 1% of the vote. O’Loughlin’s anti-immigration endeavours have struggled... Read more »

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TREE TOPPLING TIME

Affairs, 7 May 2019

In case you needed another reason to believe insurers are sucking the life out of us, the industry has been identified as the dark force behind the slaughtering of thousands of healthy trees across Ireland. Read more in the latest issue out now.

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PROFILE: CLARE DALY TD

Affairs, 7 May 2019

CLARE DALY’S EU election bid in Dublin – as well as her political and personal partner Mick Wallace TD’s outing in the South constituency – has added excitement to a relatively mundane campaign. Read more in the latest issue hot off the press. Goldhawk predicted that Daly and Wallace would join the race for Europe... Read more »

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FIGHT AT THE MUSEUM

Affairs, 6 May 2019

STILL NO word on the National Museum of Ireland’s internal review of its ‘Spanish Flu’ debacle last year. No doubt Catherine Heaney and her board are hoping that any allegations of dubious behaviour are kept in the isolation ward. Read more in the latest issue out now.

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RABBITTE’S TUAM BABIES BLUNDER

Affairs, 4 May 2019

FIANNA FÁIL has landed itself in la merde over the Tuam babies with a most disingenuous statement from TD Anne Rabbitte. Read more in the latest issue out now. And you can read all about why Rabbitte feels unloved here for free.

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CIARA KELLY’S BAD MEDICINE

Affairs, 3 May 2019

The latest JNLR figures will come as bitter medicine for Ciara Kelly whose Lunchtime Live has lost gains since the start of this year. The doctor has drawn sustained criticism online in recent months as the show becomes increasingly sensationalist. As with others on Newstalk, divisive topics are intended to generate a bit of a... Read more »

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CIUDADANOS & THE IRISHMAN

Affairs, 3 May 2019

Among the winners and losers in last week’s Spanish election are the once marginal Ciudadanos who increased their number to 57 seats. The party are benefiting from disillusionment with traditional ruling parties, but the ‘Citizens’ are also having trouble shaking off the past. The party teamed up with Declan Ganley under the Libertas Spain... Read more »

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PETER CASEY AND HERMANN KELLY

Affairs, 3 May 2019

HAVE THOSE soul brothers on the right of Irish politics, EU candidates Peter Casey (Midlands North-West – MNW) and Hermann Kelly (Dublin) had a split already? Or is it that Peter has a little more nous than Hermann, who is the founder and driving force of The Irish Freedom Party? Find out more in the... Read more »

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WALSH-MCGUINNESS SHOOT OUT

Affairs, 3 May 2019

THE BLUEBLOUSE EU candidate in the Midlands-North-West (MNW), Maria Walsh, proved she is no wilting Tralee Rose with a retaliatory broadside against her running mate, Máiréad McGuinness, following the MEP’s recent incursion into her territory. Read more about the battle between the Blueblouse pair in the latest issue. And feel free to read Goldhawk’s profile... Read more »

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DER KAISER’S INDO DEAL

Affairs, 2 May 2019

ALTHOUGH IT was Goldhawk who first revealed that Denis O’Brien wanted to sell up at Independent News & Media, the nature of the agreed exit deal is far more gobsmacking than imagined. The shareholders are rightly pissed off, but at least Dermot Desmond is avoiding the worst of the pain. Read more in the latest... Read more »

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PENNE FOR YOUR THOUGHTS

Affairs, 2 May 2019

There has been yet further disappointment for John Hamill at the Equality Tribunal. The Atheist Ireland crusader had taken a complaint against Dublin City Council on grounds of religious discrimination under the Equal Status Act. Hamill, who claims to be an “ordained Minister in the Congregationalist Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster”, insists that... Read more »

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MADURO’S IRISH CRITICS

Affairs, 2 May 2019

Exactly who were the Venezuelans so “enraged” by Clare Daly’s comments on the troubled country, according to a recent Sunday Times article? One is Luis Alvarez, a Dublin-based supporter of the self-declared, US-backed president of Venezuela, Juan Guaido. Alvarez is also described in the piece by ST journalist Rosanna Cooney as a member of the... Read more »

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AIRBNB’S BIG WIN

Affairs, 1 May 2019

What has been hailed as a ‘big win’ for Airbnb this week at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) may well spell further discomfort for Ireland. The case, originating with France’s hotel federation and taken up by prosecutors, argued that Airbnb should be also bound by regulations governing standards in the accommodation industry. The country... Read more »

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HELEN DIXON’S AWARD

Affairs, 1 May 2019

CONGRATULATIONS are in order for Data Protection Commissioner Helen Dixon, who was in Washington DC last night to receive an award for ‘distinguished public service’. The honour was bestowed by the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) as part of a 10th birthday bash at the swanky LINE Hotel. The FPF, an industry backed advocacy group,... Read more »

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NO SIGN OF SINN FEIN EXILES JOINING FORCES

Affairs, 1 May 2019

PIC: Carol Nolan There is no sign former Sinn Féin TD Carol Nolan following fellow exile Peadar Tóibín on his new adventures. While the Aontú brand seems like a natural home for Nolan, she reckons her chances of being re-elected are better as an independent. In recent months, she has been working with independents Michael... Read more »

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DUP AND SF TO DEVOUR RIVALS

Affairs, 30 April 2019

PIC: SF candidate John Finucane Observers will be watching the north’s local elections for answers to a series of political questions. Will Sinn Féin suffer for their abstentionist policy at Westminster? Will the DUP suffer for their support of Brexit in the face of opposition from business and agricultural interests? How far will the SDLP... Read more »

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DREW HARRIS CROSS-BORDER SECURITY

Affairs, 30 April 2019

Elite and heavily armed units of the PSNI cruising around Dublin is a steep step change in policing here in the south. But this is the reality under Garda commissioner Drew Harris’s command and it has not gone down well with gardaí at senior level as well as the rank and file. Read more about... Read more »

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RABBITTE FEELS UNLOVED

Affairs, 30 April 2019

FIANNA FÁIL’S two-candidate strategy in the Midlands-North-West (MNW) EU constituency – the, er, ‘dream ticket’ of Brendan Smith and Anne Rabbitte – is already strained, with the Galway East TD, Rabbitte, emoting all over twitter about being disregarded by her party colleagues. Read all about it in the latest issue hot of the press. And... Read more »

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HSE PAUL REID’S RADICAL PAST

Affairs, 30 April 2019

WHAT AN interesting journey the new €300,000-salaried HSE director general, Paul Reid, has travelled since the days of his firebrand activism in politics and the trade union movement. Find out more about Reid in the latest issue out now.

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AIDAN EAMES’S CLIENTS

Affairs, 28 April 2019

THE MOST influential man in the room at the recent Oireachtas Committee on Sport hearing was not Football Association of Ireland (FAI) demoted executive John Delaney, committee chair Fergus O’Dowd TD nor even FAI president Donal Conway. Legal Svengali, solicitor Aidan Eames sat silently throughout the hearing, but his experience and advice on the Oireachtas... Read more »

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HEEEE’S OUTTA HERE!

Affairs, 27 April 2019

PIC: Nick Lockwood RELATIONS between Ireland and the US may have been slightly dented by an incident last week at Dublin Airport, which saw a baseball coach given his marching orders as his visit turned into a surprise home run. Read more in the latest issue.

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MICHAEL McDOWELL’S FREE MEDIA PLATFORMS

Affairs, 26 April 2019

DUBLIN BAY South TDs Jim O’Callaghan and Kate O’Connell must have been chewing their carpets at the flattering exposure granted to former minister and attorney general, Senator Michael McDowell, by the state broadcaster in recent weeks. Read more in the latest issue out now. And you can read Goldhawk’s March 2019 profile of McDowell here... Read more »

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REGINA DOHERTY’S PATERNITY ‘SOLUTION’

Affairs, 26 April 2019

MINISTER FOR SOCIAL PROTECTION Regina Doherty hasn’t made any friends among the new Dad community this week. Regina has claimed that the reason for the low up-take of paternity leave among fathers has absolutely nothing to do with cash. Rather, Doherty has said that there is a “narrative that the value of money associated with... Read more »

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‘AMAZING’ SAUDI REFORMS

Affairs, 25 April 2019

Interesting to spot in the Indo today, via Bloomberg, that HSBC chief John Flint says he’s “excited about the role that we [HSBC] can play here.” The exuberant Flint was speaking at the high-profile ‘Financial Sector Conference’ held in the medieval kingdom’s capital, Riyadh. Flint was one of many potential investors that skipped a conference... Read more »

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POLICING AUTHORITY REPORT 2018

Affairs, 25 April 2019

PIC: Justice Minister, Charlie Flanagan THE POLICING AUTHORITY report 2018 found “significant” concern at low crime detection – ie, assaults up; detection of assaults down. Also, senior gardai don’t even see need for “culture” change. Solution? Abolish Policing Authority. Read Goldhawk’s 2018 profile of Charlie Flanagan here to find out more.

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MARTIN SUPPORTS EU ARMY

Affairs, 25 April 2019

A STRAINED silence emanated from Fianna Fáil following the revelation that Fine Gael successfully blocked its EU grouping, the European Peoples Party (EPP), from inclusion of support for an EU army in its EU-wide election manifesto. Is this because FF’s EU partners, the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE), proposes a similar goal... Read more »

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YOUNG BLOOD: MARIA WALSHE

Affairs, 25 April 2019

IF FINE GAEL’S cosmopolitan leadership could manufacture a candidate under laboratory conditions, the result would probably look a lot like former Rose of Tralee Maria Walsh (31). Read more about the Euro election hopeful in the latest issue of The Phoenix. You can also read Goldhawk’s profile of FG leader Leo Varadkar, back when he... Read more »

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IFA VS DR WHO

Affairs, 24 April 2019

PIC: Joe Healy When you find yourself picking a fight with schoolkids, chances are you’re going to end up on the losing side, as the Irish Farmers Association (IFA) has been finding out. Read more in the latest issue out now. And you can read more about the IFA, Varadkar, Coveney, Barnier and how agri-lobbyists... Read more »

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REGINA’S ‘BODY SHAMING’

Affairs, 23 April 2019

Interesting to see Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection Regina Doherty hitting out on radio at Saoradh “muppets” after their march at the weekend. However, while the Newstalk website duly highlighted her call for legislation to ensure paramilitary style clothing cannot be used during protests, it opted not to focus on her disappointment at... Read more »

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KERRY (IN)SANITY PLEA

Affairs, 23 April 2019

PIC: JIM BAILEY ANOTHER HSE controversy is trundling down the tracks, courtesy of Kerry’s Eye, following the HSE’s grudging agreement to correct a false record stating that Castlemaine man Jim Bailey had been admitted to St Finan’s Mental Hospital. Read more in the latest issue out now.

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PAT MCDONAGH’S NOMINATION

Affairs, 23 April 2019

PIC: McDonagh with Roz Purcell Congratulations to burger baron Pat McDonagh whose name features amongst the contenders for this years EY Entrepreneur of the Year award. One would assume this has something to do with Pat standing up to fast-food behemoth McDonalds. Nice to see that none of those pesky bogus letters regarding the planned... Read more »

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