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December 12, 2025 - January 15, 2026
Affairs of the Nation
IRELAND’S ‘REAL’ PALESTINIAN POLICY
NEW FOREIGN minister Helen McEntee must be embarrassed at having to suddenly retreat from her initial boast that the Occupied Territories Bill (OTB) would be one of the very first... Read more »
TOM KENNEDY’S HOUSE PARTY
CONGRATULATIONS TO Tom Kennedy – co-founder of Hostelworld many moons ago – who has offloaded his impressive six-bed pile in Dublin 14 for a rather pretty penny. Happily for Kennedy,... Read more »
DISUNITED ARTS CLUB
THIS WEEKEND’S members’ Christmas lunch at the venerable United Arts Club (UAC) on Upper Fitzwilliam Street could be the most fun in years, given that there is plenty for the... Read more »
MEDIA MANIA
THE MEDIA frenzy triggered by drones in the vicinity of Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s flight to Dublin last week was described by the Irish Times as an effort to “disrupt” his passage.... Read more »
PATRICK O’DONOVAN’S HOT AIR
WHO’S BEEN giving Patrick O’Donovan media training? Donald Trump seems like a reasonable guess, judging by recent performances from the Fine Gael minister. The approach adopted by the culture and... Read more »
VISION IRELAND’S NEW PRESCRIPTION
LAST WEEK, the former CEO of Fáilte Ireland and now boss of the RDS, Paul Kelly, resigned from the board of charity group Vision Ireland (VI), formerly the National Council... Read more »
DENTON’S NON-REPORT
Operation Denton (OD) has concluded that the UVF carried out the 1974 Dublin-Monaghan bombings without assistance from the UK state, despite a mountain of evidence to the contrary. The Phoenix... Read more »
ENTERPRISE IRELAND UP IN ARMS
The fact that Irish company VRAI Simulation recently announced new partnership arrangements with arms manufacturers KNDS and Rheinmetall is significant for both Enterprise Ireland and the Department of Foreign Affairs... Read more »
IRISH TIMES PARK LIFE
THE Irish Times excelled itself in fighting off the proposal to rename Herzog Park, in a campaign that went beyond the usual liberal agenda and resembled an old-style Sindo campaign... Read more »
SPECIAL BRANCH EDUCATION
OCTOBER’S DISTURBANCES at the Citywest Hotel in Saggart following the alleged sexual assault of a 10-year-old girl are just the most recent outbursts in a series of racist riots across... Read more »
Fit to Print?
‘IRISH TIMES’: REPEAT OFFENDER
IS THE Irish Times intent on provoking a third Press Council/Ombudsman hearing in 15 months about its erroneous reportage of child abuse? The paper has already lost a Press Council... Read more »
BRITISH MEDIA DEMAND WE FIGHT
ISN’T IT time some Government politician or public personality did a de Valera and demanded silence from British and EU militarists and their warmongering demands of the Irish? If only.... Read more »
Bog Cuttings
BOG CUTTINGS
DEARTH OF A SALESMAN A MAN who appeared before Dundalk Circuit Court on a charge of cocaine possession for the purpose of sale or supply complained to gardaí when arrested... Read more »
Fowl Emissions
MARTIN’S PRIORITIES
Scientists have for decades speculated about what would happen should the powerful system of submarine ocean currents that keep north-western Europe habitable collapse. The system, known as the Atlantic Meridional... Read more »
THE FULL IRISH
Congratulations to Fine Gael’s team of MEPs, all of whom are members of the right-wing European People’s Party (EPP) grouping in the European Parliament. The EPP has enjoyed great recent... Read more »
High Society
GRÁINNE BARRY’S BLUES
IT HAS been a forgettable few days for the multi-talented Gráinne Barry, head of operations at London-headquartered Stats Perform, which describes itself as “the world leader in Sports AI”. Barry... Read more »
MISTRY MYSTERY
EARLIER THIS year, Goldhawk was very surprised to see a company previously controlled by the richest man in Ireland, Pallonji Mistry, was wound up by the High Court. It turns... Read more »
JENNI TIMONY NOT QUITE IN THE PINK
NO DOUBT a popular gift this season will be the Head To Toe Luxe Gift Box from Jenni Timony’s athleisure brand, FitPink. Priced at €153 (for a fleece, leggings, T-shirt... Read more »
Behind the Scenes
WEXFORD OPERA’S BIG PRODUCTION
WITH THE curtain having come down on the 2025 Wexford Festival Opera (WFO), the focus now turns to next year’s 75th anniversary shindig, which should be quite the affair. The... Read more »
Moneybags
SELLING PTSB IS THE WRONG MOVE
IT IS difficult to understand why Paschal Donohoe was so keen to back PTSB boss Eamonn Crowley’s “commencement of a formal sales process” for the bank. This move opens the... Read more »
GREENCORE WILL SUFFER FROM UK MARKET DEPENDENCE
DALTON PHILIPS has now got Greencore’s operating profits back over the level they stood at in pre-pandemic 2019 but he still has some way to go to reach the 7.3%... Read more »
Brief Cases
RORY GODSON’S DECLARATION
LOTS Of coverage of the nod received by strategic communications suit Rory Godson from the City of London Corporation, which bestowed the Freedom of the City on the moneybags. It... Read more »
ALAN CLANCY’S HANGOVER
BARELY A month after Goldhawk revealed that bar and nightclub supremo Alan Clancy had exited the board of the company behind the swanky new Díon venue on the top two... Read more »
KELCY WARREN’S RUNWAY
THE NAME doing the rounds in Co Waterford of the mysterious investor understood to be offering to pump €30m into William Bolster’s Waterford Airport is one Kelcy Warren. He turns... Read more »
ELITE TAX BILL
AN EMBARRASSING-looking judgment has just been registered by the Revenue Commissioners against a company called, er, Elite Accounts & Tax Services Ltd (EATS). The business was set up in 2016... Read more »
SEAN MULRYAN’S CRITICS
WHEN BALLYMORE boss Sean Mulryan was awarded the Freedom of the City of London in September (see The Phoenix 16/10/25), his press release claimed the award recognised his “transformative contribution... Read more »
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