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May 30 - June 12, 2025
Affairs of the Nation
FFG AND ISRAELI ARMS
THE OUTRAGE of Tánaiste and Fine Gael leader Simon Harris as well as the loud shrieks from the party’s MEPs at the slaughter inflicted by the Israel Defence Forces (IDF)... Read more »
PETER SHANLEY’S LEGAL SQUAD
CONGRATULATIONS to senior counsel Peter Shanley, who was quick off the mark to take advantage of a key provision in the Legal Services Regulation Act, which allows direct access to... Read more »
MERRION SQUARE FIRING SQUAD
IT SHOULD be standing room only at the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) meeting this week as the Arts Council, National Gallery of Ireland (NGI) and arts and culture mandarins come... Read more »
Sponsored Content
deVeres: Outstanding Art Auction Tuesday 26th May at 6pm
On View at 35 Kildare Street, Dublin, Ireland: 22nd-26th May “The Irish Warhol” Andy Warhol was a leading figure in the American pop art. His works explore the relationship... Read more »
LEO’S LINE
THE NEW political editor of the Irish and Sunday Independent, Mary Regan is a most accomplished journalist as her work at RTÉ, the Irish Examiner and Business Post proves. So... Read more »
SPOOKY SWISS CLUB DE BERNE
IRELAND MAY not be able to conduct immigration security screening – necessary for the implementation of the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum – according to a Government report. This... Read more »
PADDY POWER’S TARGET
NEW YORK-listed Flutter Entertainment plc – owners of gambling giant Paddy Power – has launched High Court proceedings in Dublin against an Irish property company called Waymill Ltd. The name... Read more »
DANIEL O’DONNELL’S DUCATS
AS THE fans of Donegal crooner Daniel O’Donnell come to terms with the fact that he is to take an extended break from touring, the good news for the man... Read more »
JIMMY FENNELLY’S FINALE
TENACIOUS ACCOUNTANT Jimmy Fennelly will feel he balanced the books somewhat at last week’s AGM of the Chartered Accountants of Ireland (CAI), with whom he has been having a long-running... Read more »
KINCORA SECRETS STILL TUMBLING OUT
Sir Anthony Hart’s derided 2017 report into the Kincora abuse scandal was meant to quash interest in the story but served only to fuel a spate of reports in The... Read more »
RIGHT-WING ULTRAS
THAT SIX members of the National Party’s (NP) anti-Barrett faction travelled to Milan, Italy, for the recent Remigration Summit indicates how far the party’s brand of hardline ethnonationalism is from... Read more »
Pillars of Society
PROFILE: IVANA BACIK
THREE YEARS ago, Ivana Bacik became the sixth leader of the Labour Party in 20 years and last November its members hoped that its... Read more »
The Young Bloods
YOUNG BLOOD: EOGHAN GILROY
EOGHAN GILROY has managed to climb the ladder of student politics almost to the very top and shows no sign of slowing down (even... Read more »
Struggling to make a business loan repayment? Here is what you can do.
Catherine Collins, Head of Credit Review Have you missed a repayment on a loan recently or are you struggling to keep up with loan repayments? Given the... Read more »
Fit to Print?
RTÉ BLANKS GAZA PROTESTS
THE ANGUISH of RTÉ luvvies over a private firm being hired to produce an advert for RTÉ News in a simulated newsroom – ‘fake news,’ they cried – is nothing... Read more »
GAZA REVISITED
IT’S HARD to single out the most brazen U-turn on Gaza by those who might now be anxious about having endorsed – by word or even silence – the Government’s... Read more »
MICHAEL GAINE MURDER ‘SUSPECT’
KERRY-BASED American Michael Kelley, who was arrested on suspicion of murdering Kenmare farmer Michael Gaine and who gave an interview to the Irish Mirror last weekend about his arrest, ought... Read more »
Last Refuge
JACK V JIM: SLOW MOTION CONTEST
AN INTERESTING observation by Irish Times political editor Pat Leahy recently was to the effect that Jim O’Callaghan’s busy, public prominence is due to two reasons: the first is simply... Read more »
STAR-STUDDED ÁRAS HOPEFULS
THE LATEST Fianna Fáil no-hoper for the FF presidential nomination whose name is being floated (this time by the aspirant herself, not party handlers) is former minister Mary Hanafin. On... Read more »
TOOLE’S TRACK RECORD
THE LONE TD that remained sitting next to Michael Lowry, ‘chairman’ of the Regional Independent Group (RIG) – after Barry Heneghan had abandoned him – was Gillian Toole, Independent TD... Read more »
INSECURE SECURITY COMMITTEE (CH. II)
READERS WILL remember that there was consternation at the Dáil reform committee meeting to organise draft orders of reference for Oireachtas committees when Government members realised that the newly expanded... Read more »
Northwind
NORTH HOUSING CRISIS: DÉJÀ VU
There are about 13,000 people on the waiting list for social housing in Belfast. Those on the list are overwhelmingly concentrated in north and west Belfast and they are overwhelmingly... Read more »
Hush Hush
FREEDOM OF HATE SPEECH
When the European Commission issued a statement in early May outlining the sanctions Ireland will face for failing to implement legislation criminalising hate speech, the response of some ‘centre-right’ politicians... Read more »
Bog Cuttings
BOG CUTTINGS
THREAT, NOT PROMISE Sligo District Court heard the case of a man accused of verbally abusing gardaí on two occasions. On January 17 officers received reports of an intoxicated and... Read more »
Fowl Emissions
GREAT GAS
It must be a head-spinning time to work for Gas Networks Ireland (GNI), the semi-state company responsible for operating Ireland’s fossil gas grid. On the one hand, the Government announced... Read more »
WATERED DOWN
Today 33 Irish rivers are classified as “heavily modified water bodies” (HMWBs), meaning they are of minimal ecological value and so don’t need to be counted against our EU targets... Read more »
The Hot Air Brigade
THE HOT AIR BRIGADE
I took that medal on behalf of all those people who don’t get medals – the activists, the people who are getting killed now in Gaza. Bono on his much-criticised... Read more »
High Society
A LOAD OF POLLOCKS
THE IMPRESSIVE early 18th-century Mountainstown House on 121 acres outside Navan, Co Meath, will be auctioned on June 12, having been in the ownership... Read more »
IMAGE’S TAX DEAL
THE MCDONNELL sisters, Jane and Sarah, had an outing in The Currency last week, where they got to plug their latest venture, Design Week... Read more »
TOM HIGGINS’S FLIGHT PLAN
IN THE wake of the high-profile ‘gals in space’ media stunt by Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin, it is interesting to note that the market has recently taken a shine to... Read more »
Corporate Enforcement Authority publishes new Information Note with guidance on electronic participation in companies’ general meetings
The aim of this note is to support companies in meeting governance requirements while promoting transparency, fairness and ease of understanding in how meetings should be conducted. The recent... Read more »
Behind the Scenes
THE BIG GIG
AN ADVERT for one of the more prestigious jobs in the arts sector has just been posted by the National Concert Hall (NCH) on its website. It turns out that... Read more »
COUNCIL ARCHIVED
GOLDHAWK NOTED Orlaith McBride popping up in the media last week on foot of the Government’s plan for the 1926 census, the first of the Irish Free State, to be... Read more »
Sport of Kings
TONY MULLINS’S MEMORIES
EARLIER THIS month, Tony Mullins – brother of Willie – failed to overturn a Workplace Relations Commission award of a chunky €86,000 made to Yasir Ali, a former stable hand... Read more »
TED WALSH’S WOES
Ted Walsh – the trainer, pundit and patriarch of the Walsh family of racing TV presenters – was back in hot water with the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) stewards... Read more »
Moneybags
UNDERPOWERED GREENCOAT RENEWABLES RIPE FOR PICKING
IT IS difficult to know what Paul O’Donnell and Bertrand Gautier – the so-called investment managers in Schroders Greencoat Capital who run Greencoat Renewables... Read more »
JUST WHY IS THE BOARD TRYING TO SELL DALATA?
IT REMAINS difficult to know who is pushing to have Dalata Hotels Group bought out. AS CEO, Dermot Crowley is clearly front and centre... Read more »
Joint venture between ESB and BnM opens Community Benefit Fund for Applications
Oweninny Power 2 DAC has announced the opening of Oweninny Wind Farm Phase 2 RESS Community Benefit Fund. Oweninny Wind Farm is the largest onshore wind farm in Ireland... Read more »
Brief Cases
DEREK MADDEN’S PRIME PROBLEM
FANS OF Goldhawk with long memories will recall an interesting little bioenergy company called Prime Energy Power Ltd (PEP), where Nicholas O’Dwyer of Grant Thornton was installed as liquidator after... Read more »
GARY MULLAN’S BAD VIBE
GOLDHAWK SPIES that the company behind the lauded Prosperity recruitment firm is being liquidated this week. The good news is that it looks like the multi-talented founder of the firm... Read more »
BIG NOISE MATT GLEESON
A COMPANY called Blackberry Hearing Ltd has just had a charge registered against it by non-bank lender InvoiceFair Ltd, which now trades as FinanceFair. This follows on foot of a... Read more »
‘IMAGE’ MAKEOVER
ELSEWHERE IN this issue, Goldhawk notes the agreement between Image Publications Ltd (IPL) and the Revenue in relation to repayment of warehoused pandemic-period taxes (see p18). It is also worth... Read more »
Gold in an Inflationary World: Why the Recent Pullback Is No Cause for Alarm
Given the ongoing events in the Middle East, Ireland may soon find itself in an inflationary environment worse than that in the aftermath of the Covid lockdowns. When global... Read more »
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