Affairs of the Nation

Leo Varadkar

Affairs of the Nation

FIANNA FÁIL BACKS ISRAEL

THE HAND-WRINGING about divisions within EU states over the Israeli massacre of civilians in Gaza is one thing. But there has also been a clear division of perspective between the... Read more »
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Affairs of the Nation

NEALE RICHMOND’S FORUM

WHILE THERE wouldn’t be oodles of interest in a worthy sounding body such as the Enterprise Digital Advisory Forum (EDAF), the imminent appointment of a new squad of techie types... Read more »
Dermot Desmond

Affairs of the Nation

DERMOT DESMOND’S CELTIC CROSS

DERMOT DESMOND will be looking forward to the end of this year, as his control of Glasgow Celtic continues to deliver defeats both on and off the pitch. DD has... Read more »
Lucinda Creighton

Affairs of the Nation

LUCY IN THE SKY WITH ISRAELIS

A FAVOURITE tactic of western militarist think tanks, PR firms and lobbyists is to present as centre ground moderates that oppose extremism of the left and right variety. Usually, these... Read more »
Catherine Martin

Affairs of the Nation

MARTIN MOVES EARLY

CONGRATULATIONS ARE in order for arts and culture minister Catherine Martin, who recently advertised for would-be board members for the National Gallery of Ireland (NGI) before the terms of the... Read more »
Justin Barrett

Affairs of the Nation

NAZI REGALIA

SHOCKED AND perplexed observers of National Party leader Justin Barrett’s appearance at an anti-immigrant protest last week dressed in an SS overcoat may be interested to learn the reasons for... Read more »
Paul O'Brien

Affairs of the Nation

THE COUNTER-RESTORATION

DESPITE THE very best efforts of the European agri-industrial lobby and its allies on the political right, the EU’s Nature Restoration Law (NRL) remains on track to come into legal... Read more »
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Affairs of the Nation

ANNUAL 2023: GOLDHAWK’S AWARDS FOR THE PASSING PARADE 2023

DEE FORBES THERE WAS only ever one real contender for the 2023 Where’s Wally TV Drama Award. The biggest hit show this summer was without doubt Montrose, which was streamed... Read more »

Fit to Print?

Eoghan Harris

Fit to Print?

EOGHAN HARRIS’S LONG WAR

IRISH TIMES correspondent Ronan McGreevy celebrated Eoghan Harris’s “bravura performance” when the latter concluded last week’s conference on southern Protestants in Dublin’s Buswell’s Hotel. Harris complained of Protestant failure to... Read more »
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Fit to Print?

CORMAC LUCEY’S HOT AIR

Climate denial comes in all guises but Goldhawk was surprised to see it appear on the website of the august Chartered Accountants Ireland. There, accountant, TCD lecturer and Sunday Times... Read more »
Martin Doyle

Fit to Print?

BOOKS EDITOR’S ‘CLASSIC’ BOOK

A NEW literary genius would appear to have been discovered and is working away, almost unknown and unrecognised, in the Irish media, judging by an especially favourable review in the... Read more »
Noirin Hegarty

Fit to Print?

ANNUAL 2023: PRINT MEDIA NOT YET ON THE ROCKS

IRELAND’S PRINT media resembles the Titanic. With print revenues falling and digital income insufficient to make up the difference, disaster seems pre-programmed. But, while the Titanic’s collision with an iceberg... Read more »

Student Life

Norma Foley kept parents happy with the announcement of free school books for the first three years of secondary school but she was criticised by third-level institutions over Leaving Cert grade inflation.

Academia

ANNUAL 2023: ACADEMIA – ACADEMIC ‘ARSE COVERING’

It hasn’t been a great year for the university sector. The glitz began to come off the new technological universities (TUs), while a couple of the longer-established unis ran into... Read more »

High Society

Pippa O'Connor

High Society

PIPPA O’CONNOR’S PLUG

PIPPA O’CONNOR is expanding her empire with a new range of cosmetics and she must have been delighted with the drooling profile in the Sunday Times at the weekend that... Read more »
Jacqueline Hall

High Society

JACQUELINE HALL’S CULTURAL CREDENTIALS

SO IT’S welcome to the Irish Georgian Society (IGS) for Jacqueline Hall, public relations hot shot and daughter of former Fine Gael matriarch Nuala Fennell (who was herself a significant... Read more »
Moya Doherty

High Society

ANNUAL 2023: HIGH SOCIETY – 2023: MONEY AND INFLUENCE

AS ALWAYS, the year features an awful lot of people spending an awful lot of money and, in many cases, a large chunk ended up in the coffers of the... Read more »

Behind the Scenes

Marian Keyes

Behind the Scenes

SISTERS CASHING IN

AS USUAL, it was rather late in the day (and following a couple of queries by Goldhawk) when Désirée Finnegan’s Screen Ireland (SI) eventually got around to publishing its funding... Read more »
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Behind the Scenes

REVIEWING PAUL MURRAY

ON NOVEMBER 26 assorted scribblers will find out if they have landed the literary sales steroid that is the Booker Prize. Two Irish novelists are in the mix – Paul... Read more »
Taylor Swift

Behind the Scenes

ANNUAL 2023: BEHIND THE SCENES – BONO, BANSHEES AND BRENDAN BEHAN

ONCE AGAIN, Bono, Larry Mullen Jr, Adam Clayton and The Edge managed to grab much of the entertainment media’s focus in 2023, notably thanks their effectively hyped Las Vegas stint... Read more »
When Ryan Tubridy finally acknowledged his part in the payments scandal that rocked the national broadcaster it was too late – the public, his colleagues and politicians had already lost faith and his career in RTÉ was over.

Air Waves

ANNUAL 2023 – AIRWAVES – 2023: RTÉ’S END GAME?

AFTER YEARS of dire warnings about incompetent management, waste and dubious work practices, the scandal surrounding secret payments to Ryan Tubridy finally laid bare the whole decaying edifice and the... Read more »

Moneybags

Colin Hunt

Moneybags

ANNUAL 2023: MONEYBAGS – WHO WILL OVERCOME THE INTEREST RATE AND GEOPOLITICAL CHALLENGES IN 2024?

AFTER A decade of unprecedented low interest rates, the market is not finding it easy to cope with the very hefty 5% increase in ECB base rates, from a minus... Read more »
Yamin ‘Mo’ Khan

Moneybags

ANNUAL 2023: MONEYBAGS – WINNERS AND LOSERS IN 2023

THESE ARE pretty uncertain times courtesy of the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, inflation, and interest rates. Different sectors have dealt with the challenges in different ways but it is... Read more »
Brendan McDonagh

Moneybags

ANNUAL 2023: MONEYBAGS – NAMA AND THE HOUSING CRISIS

AS HOUSING continues to be the domestic political issue of the day, with the Government sweating that it will be the one that effectively decides the next election, it is... Read more »

The Hot Water Brigade

Brian Ormond

Brief Cases

BRIPPA’S PROPERTY

ELSEWHERE (see p16) Goldhawk takes a look at the latest business move by Pippa O’Connor, who launched her Poco Beauty range this month. This seems to be completely separate from... Read more »

Brief Cases

DAVID BARNIVILLE’S LIST

WITH THE deadline having now passed for applications for the €230,000-a-year job as chair of An Bord Pleanála (ABP), minister Darragh O’Brien will be anxious to get a permanent player... Read more »
Declan Murphy

Brief Cases

BONOBO BOYS’ APPEALING BEHAVIOUR

A LARGE apartment scheme proposed for Smithfield by Durkan Residential has been shot down by An Bord Pleanála (ABP), overturning the decision of Dublin City Council (DCC). Among the appellants... Read more »
Dylan McGrath

Brief Cases

ANNUAL 2023: BRIEF CASES – 2023: A YEAR OF COURT CASES AND SOUR DISHES

IT’S BEEN a tough end to 2023 for Paddy Cosgrave, who for years has got away with spouting all sorts of nonsense online (dead nurses, anyone?) but had the dreadful... Read more »