TARGETING BOYD BARRETT
Affairs, 19 April 2019
A CAMPAIGN of sorts has been kicked off by film industry insiders, who appear to have had their fill of Richard Boyd Barrett of the People Before Profit (PBP) party. Find out why in the latest issue out now. You can also read Goldhawk’s profile of Boyd-Barrett below for free.
SDLP/FIANNA FÁIL: THE FIRST ITEM
Affairs, 18 April 2019
PIC: Mark Durkan HOW IS the ‘historic’ Fianna Fáil/SDLP alliance playing out in the European elections, especially in Dublin where FF candidate Barry Andrews would surely value SDLP support given the Blueshirts’ recruitment of ex-SDLP leader Mark ‘Muirsheen’ Durkan in the same election? Find out more in the latest edition hot off the press. You… Read more »
GREENWASHING THE BLUESHIRTS
Affairs, 18 April 2019
FINE GAEL MEPs managed to embarrass themselves with their limp attitude to Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orban, along with their colleagues in the European People’s Party (EPP). But they should also be blushing at the EPP’s initial response to climate change wunderchild, Greta Thunberg. The European Parliament was abuzz last week with a visit from… Read more »
PROFILE: PADDY COSGRAVE
Affairs, 17 April 2019
Paddy Cosgrave has said he is doing his patriotic duty by targeting Irish tax loopholes. What Cosgrave is doing is what he does best: promoting himself. Read Goldhawk’s profile here to find out more.
PROFILE: LIADH NÍ RIADA MEP
Affairs, 17 April 2019
Fifty-nine candidates have declared for the European elections. A total of 13 MEPs will be chosen to represent Ireland in the European Parliament when voters go to the polls at the end of May. Goldhawk has been busy perusing his archives in a bid to dig up some stories on a few of the hopefuls…. Read more »
GOODBYE MUIRSHEEN DURKAN?
Affairs, 16 April 2019
FINE GAEL’S supposed coup in recruiting former SDLP leader, Mark ‘Muirsheen’ Durkan, as their Dublin Euro candidate looks like bombing, despite Leo Varadkar’s initial hubris in putting one over on Micheál Martin and Fianna Fail. Read more in the latest issue here. Goldhawk has had his eye on Durkan in the past. The former SDLP… Read more »
ENDA KENNY’S BUSY SCHEDULE
Affairs, 16 April 2019
One wonders just how Enda Kenny will find time for his new role at VentureWave Capital. While already juggling a position on board the Ireland China Institute, the former Taoiseach has also confounded those familiar with him by landing a string of gigs on the lucrative corporate speaking circuit. Last year, he joined the Speaker… Read more »
YOUNG BLOODS: GARY GANNON
Affairs, 16 April 2019
Fifty-nine candidates have declared for the European elections. A total of 13 MEPs will be chosen to represent Ireland in the European Parliament when voters go to the polls at the end of May. Goldhawk has been busy perusing his archives in a bid to dig up some stories on a few of the hopefuls…. Read more »
GEMMA O’DOHERTY FOR EUROPE?
Affairs, 15 April 2019
‘Investigative journalist’ Gemma O’Doherty has been accepted as a candidate to run in the Euro elections. In a recent video posted to social media, the former Indo hack said that she was doing so to “fight to the death to save (Ireland) from the desecration that we are seeing all around us”. https://twitter.com/gemmaod1/status/1117729702196711424 Goldhawk has… Read more »
ALICE MARY HIGGINS
Affairs, 15 April 2019
Alice Mary Higgins will contest the Dublin Euro elections as an Independent candidate. Goldhawk profiled her back when she was but a Young Blood in 2016. ALICE MARY HIGGINS (@aliceeire) EU campaign launched by @IrishTimes today. ‘Independent’ senator anxious to disown any endorsement from President dad. Even keener to obliterate the memory of her own… Read more »
DALY AND WALLACE FOR EUROPE
Affairs, 15 April 2019
Clare Daly and Mick Wallace have confirmed that they will contest the Euro elections in their respective constituencies. Goldhawk predicted this back in March. You can read it for free here.
RICHARD BRUTON’S TO DO LIST
Affairs, 15 April 2019
When Enda Kenny set up the Citizens’ Assembly in 2016, it was to be an exercise in democracy, or perhaps in can-kicking. It wasn’t meant to change much. Three years on, abortion is legally available in Ireland. And now an Oireachtas Committee – created as a direct result of the Assembly – has delivered an… Read more »
LEFT, LEFT AND LEFT AGAIN
Affairs, 15 April 2019
THREE OF the four Dublin EU seats are predictable. But the battle for the fourth seat sees at least half a dozen putative candidates crowding on to the pitch; or threatening to. Read more in the new issue. And you can read more about the battle for that fourth seat free of charge here.
REFERENDUM CHAOS IN DCU
Affairs, 13 April 2019
As Israelis go to the polls, a vote closer to home has descended into farce. Results of a student referendum on whether or not DCU’s Student Union should support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanction movement against Israeli occupation has been nullified over what is being described as a technical fault in the online voting process…. Read more »
BISHOP CASEY TO BE REINTERRED?
Affairs, 12 April 2019
ANGER OVER fresh allegations of child sexual abuse and other improprieties going back to the 1960s against disgraced former Bishop Eamonn Casey have been ramped up by his ex-lover, Annie Murphy, who expressed how “shocked and saddened” she is. Read more in the latest issue.
IONA INSTITUTE’S NEW FACES
Affairs, 12 April 2019
WHILE DAVID Quinn has been busy preaching to the converted, his Iona Institute has been on something of a recruitment drive and has just added four new directors to its board. Read more in the latest issue out now. You can also read Goldhawk’s profile of Iona front man David Quinn here for free.
REVOLVING DOORS
Affairs, 12 April 2019
As the saga of Bríd Smith’s Climate Emergency Measures Bill – to ban new oil and gas exploration licences – drags on, Goldhawk has been perusing the lobbying register (www.lobbying.ie). One name that caught his eye was Feargal Purcell, former Fine Gael press officer and later government press secretary under both Enda Kenny and Leo… Read more »
YOUNG BLOOD: RUAIRÍ Ó MURCHÚ
Affairs, 11 April 2019
The largely unknown Dundalk councillor, Ruairí Ó Murchú, will attempt to replace the rather well-known former Sinn Féin leader, Gerry Adams, as TD in Louth at the next general election after being co-opted onto the county council just a year and a half ago. Read more about the SF hopeful here.
RUSSIAN ROULETTE IN KILDARE SOUTH
Affairs, 11 April 2019
Yesterday, former Fianna Fáil Councillor, Mark Dalton, admitted to stealing more than 200 grand from a Kildare voluntary housing association. Dalton did so by forging Ceann Comhairle Seán Ó Fearghaíl’s signature back when the latter was but a lowly TD. Fans of Goldhawk, with half decent memories, will remember The Phoenix reporting on the case… Read more »
PETER CASEY’S RETREAT
Affairs, 11 April 2019
PETER CASEY’S reversion to the European elections rather than the Dáil has more to do with headlong retreat from Donegal than any gap left by Marian Harkin in the Midlands-North-West Euro constituency. “I will definitely be standing in Donegal at the next general election,” he said in February. Since then, various facts of political life… Read more »
IRISH HYPOCRISY ON GAZA
Affairs, 11 April 2019
Benjamin Netanyahu has won his fifth term as Prime Minister of Israel. Speaking about Bibi’s victory; Hanan Ashrawi, a senior Palestinian official, said that Israelis had “overwhelmingly voted for candidates that are unequivocally committed to entrenching the status quo of oppression, occupation, annexation and dispossession in Palestine. “They have chosen an overwhelmingly rightwing, xenophobic and… Read more »
WIKILEAKS: THE IRISH-US MILITARY CONNECTION
Affairs, 11 April 2019
Following the news of Julian Assange’s arrest in London and the very real prospect of him being extradited to the Land of the Free to spend the rest of his natural days in prison, Goldhawk casts his peering gaze back to 2010, when Wikileaks uncovered the connection the US war machine had with a seemingly… Read more »
RUN RABBITTE RUN FOR DÁIL AND EU
Affairs, 11 April 2019
Why has FF’s constituency committee decided to add Galway East TD, Anne Rabbitte, to the ticket along with Brendan Smith TD in Midlands-North-West (MNW) European constituency? Read more in the latest issue to find out. And you can find out why Rabbitte felt a slight chill in 2017 for free here.
SIMON HARRIS’S HOSPITAL HEADACHE
Affairs, 10 April 2019
With news that all but €16.5 million of the ludicrous €450 million (which could still rise) over-spend at the new National Children’s Hospital could have been controlled, Goldhawk has had a root in his archive having previously fixed his gaze on the contractors at the centre of the storm, BAM. Read more here and here… Read more »
GREEN ALLIGATORS AND UNICORNS
Affairs, 10 April 2019
‘Unicorn’ has become a popular word recently to describe Brexiteers in England who, in desperation, spot mythical creatures like German car manufacturers opposing the EU’s Withdrawal Agreement so as to help the UK. However, Brexiteers are not the only people who spot unicorns. Political parties and many commentators in the Republic discern plenty of unicorns…. Read more »
COOPERATION IRELAND AND DUP
Affairs, 9 April 2019
COOPERATION IRELAND receives by far the greatest stipend yearly from the Reconciliation Fund, which in turn is bankrolled by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT). But the political antics of Coop Ireland’s chairman, Dr Christopher Moran, must surely have puzzled Iveagh House mandarins in recent times. Read all about it in the latest… Read more »
ALICE MARY HIGGINS EU CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED BY IRISH TIMES TODAY
Affairs, 9 April 2019
‘Independent’ senator anxious to disown any endorsement from President dad. Even keener to obliterate the memory of her own past, deep Labour Party involvement, avoiding any mention at all.
BRIT SPOOKS IN THE REPUBLIC
Affairs, 9 April 2019
THE MEDIA’S gullible lionising of ex-British Army under cover operative, ‘Sean Hartnett’ (not his real name) and his second book, Client Confidential, shows a remarkable willingness to sanction much dubious activity, south as well as north of the border. Read more in the latest issue here.
TCD BUGGING BACKLASH
Affairs, 9 April 2019
A FORTNIGHT’S a long time in student politics. Just two weeks ago, The University Times (UT) —newspaper of Trinity College’s Student Union (SU) — was raising eyebrows over its role in a so-called ‘bugging’ row. Now, the tide seems to have turned with a number of high profile journalists rowing in behind the embattled newspaper… Read more »
SEE NO ARMY, SPEAK NO ARMY
Affairs, 9 April 2019
In the latest issue, Goldhawk explores Angela Merkel’s visit to Dublin which “underlines the EU’s determination to protect its borders.” However, this is only part of Germany and France’s strategy of post-Brexit EU integration. There is something else at play here also, something that involves the creation of an EU Army. Goldhawk has long explored… Read more »
DAVID QUINN’S POLITICAL PROBLEM
Affairs, 6 April 2019
DAVID QUINN, director of the high profile Catholic advocacy group, the Iona Institute, could find himself having to go to Confession if the Charities Regulator frowns on his call for people at a meeting in the Grand Hotel in Malahide last month to vote for named political parties. This is considered a cardinal sin for… Read more »
