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June 27 - July 10, 2025
Affairs of the Nation
SENATORS POISED TO TAKE TEHRAN
THE IRANIANS will be relieved that field marshal Gerard Craughwell will not now be implementing his threat to inflict immediate and terrible rhetoric on the mullahs, a threat the senator... Read more »
WUFF JUSTICE
LAST MONTH Working Animals Guardians (WAG) secured an invitation to Leinster House to brief TDs and senators about the amendments required for Heather Humphreys’ XL bully breed ban. Among those... Read more »
TACKLING PADRAIC O’KANE
As the hype machine kicks in for the first ever ‘adult’ NFL game in Ireland – Minnesota Vikings v Pittsburgh Steelers at Croke Park in September – another American footie... Read more »
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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 »
COUGHLAN’S CAUTION
That indefatigable political warrior, academic Anthony Coughlan, recently came up with what appears to be a strong argument against the abolition of the triple lock that has not yet entered... Read more »
DUBLIN/MONAGHAN INQUIRY SLOWS
WITH THE Omagh bombing inquiry already slowing under the weight of its initial disclosure, the inquiry into the other most deadly attack of the Troubles, the UK’s Operation Denton into... Read more »
JANE MAHONY’S BOMBARDMENT
A LETTER published in the Irish Times last week attacked Trinity College in a no-holds barred manner over its decision to sever ties with Israeli academic institutions. The writer turns... Read more »
LIAM LYNCH’S IRISH GOODBYE
A CREDITORS’ meeting was held earlier this month for a company called Irish Studio Media Publishing Ltd (ISM), the outfit established here by New Jersey-based Irish-American moneybags Liam Lynch, which... Read more »
DID MI5 MANIPULATE GROOMING GANGS?
SIR KEIR Starmer has reluctantly agreed to establish a statutory inquiry into the failure of the police and other state agencies in the UK to confront the crimes of grooming... Read more »
Pillars of Society
PROFILE: PAUL MURPHY
PAUL MURPHY recently returned from his attempted relief mission to Gaza, prompting a boorish comment from former foreign minister Charlie Flanagan, who said the... Read more »
The Young Bloods
YOUNG BLOOD: CARL MULLAN
Carl Mullan knew exactly what he was doing when he shared a clip of himself sitting in Joe Duffy’s usual seat in the RTÉ... 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?
GREAT MINDS THINK ALIKE
DALKEY BOOK FESTIVAL, the ego-child of David McWilliams, came around this month with little danger of anyone in the literary and media establishment having a pop at the author’s limited... Read more »
GABIJA’S BARISTA BOMBSHELL!
AS IF Government TDs did not have enough to put up with as voters whine about housing, it emerges that they are also being abused in public for the Government’s... Read more »
DAY OF THE SQUIRE
RECENTLY DECEASED Freddie Forsyth, the author of The Day of the Jackal and other bestsellers, revealed in his 2015 biography, The Outsider, that he was once an asset of MI6.... Read more »
Last Refuge
BROWNE UNITES DUBLIN ON HOUSING
THE FULL extent of the political crisis on housing was revealed at Dublin City Council (DCC) this month, when housing minister James Brown managed to unite not only Sinn Féin... Read more »
PROXY FIANNA FÁIL ÁRAS CANDIDATE
HAS THE dearth of persuasive Fianna Fáil candidates – apart, perhaps, from Bertie Ahern – persuaded some sneaking regarders of the ‘republican’ party that a surrogate candidate and organisation could... Read more »
FAIRWEATHER FINTAN
THE VIRTUAL silence from both Labour and the Social Democrats to the notion of Irish Times guru Fintan O’Toole’s nomination as a presidential candidate compared sharply to the enthusiasm from... Read more »
COLUM EASTWOOD – ALWAYS THE BRIDESMAID
IS FORMER SDLP leader Colum Eastwood suffering from some sort of political personality disorder brought on by persistent political abuse at the hands of Micheál Martin’s Fianna Fáil? How else... Read more »
Northwind
VARADKAR V MARTIN AND DUP
TAOISEACH Micheál Martin and the DUP’s deputy first minister, Emma Little-Pengelly, have at least one thing in common – neither of them wants to talk about a united Ireland. But... Read more »
Hush Hush
THE WHITE NORTH
FOR OVER a week in early June the pogroms in Ballymena, Larne and elsewhere in the north grabbed media headlines, while dramatic broadcasts of immigrants being targeted and burned out... Read more »
Bog Cuttings
BOG CUTTINGS
ABUSIVE BEHAVIOUR Sligo District Court heard the case of 45-year-old Ronan Lynch, who was charged with engaging in threatening and abusive behaviour, and failing to provide his address on December... Read more »
Fowl Emissions
DARRAGH O’BRIEN’S DOPPELGÄNGER
These are trying times for climate minister Darragh O’Brien, as his doppelgänger, transport minister Darragh O’Brien, continually tries to undermine his every effort at emissions reductions. Earlier this week, the... Read more »
OIL SPILL
An Post garnered some soft PR for plans to reduce the carbon footprint of its fleet. Given the state company is already successfully operating 1,400 electric vehicles, it was hugely... Read more »
The Hot Air Brigade
THE HOT AIR BRIGADE
I think it’s a bit of a superpower to be a little bit underestimated. Pippa O’Connor, Sunday Independent Life Magazine For Silver Light, think of rules that produce unpredictable outcomes.... Read more »
High Society
WILLIE MULLINS’ NOBLE AMBITIONS
PERHAPS THE most eyebrow-raising outcome at Royal Ascot last week was the failure of big-spending Kia Joorabchian’s Amo Racing to have a single success... Read more »
LANSDOWNE PLACE’S NEW FACES
CONGRATULATIONS TO former Independent News & Media (INM) head honcho Vincent Crowley, who has just shifted an impressive 3,700 sq ft three-storey redbrick pile... 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
GRABBING GRAHAM DWYER
GOLDHAWK WAS surprised to see that the headline-grabbing new documentary on the Graham Dwyer murder of Elaine O’Hara was produced not by an Irish company but by London-headquartered Wag Entertainment... Read more »
ULTAN PRINGLE’S PROMOTION
IN DONEGAL, up and coming playwright Ultan Pringle continues his momentum, ably assisted by the Arts Council. His new play, Snowflakes – partly “inspired by Greta Thunberg” – recently debuted... Read more »
Sport of Kings
OLLIE’S ARMY
IT WAS just like old times recently when the Magnier family plus its Coolmore entourage teamed up with one Ollie Sangster for racecourse success courtesy of a well-bred filly. This... Read more »
COLIN KEANE’S ASCOT CARD
JOCKEY Colin Keane’s new retainer with Juddmonte got off to the best start with a facile victory aboard the John and Thady Gosden-trained Field of Gold in Ascot’s Group 1... Read more »
Moneybags
RYANAIR PROFITS SET TO SOAR DESPITE O’LEARY
FOR THE financial year ending March 31, 2025, Ryanair recorded net profits down 16% to €1.61bn, with CEO Mick O’Leary up to his old... Read more »
NEW REGIME AT CRH BUT SAME OLD STORY
THE REMARKABLY well-remunerated Albert Manifold has left the stage at CRH and his successor as CEO, Jim Mintern, has inherited a US-focused group. The... 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
TENI’S BIG BACKERS
THE CONTROVERSIAL Transgender Equality Network Ireland (Teni) last week found itself in the sights of conservative media organs such as Gript and the European Conservative after the charity was selected... Read more »
THE OTHER MULTIMILLION-EURO ‘VERBAL CONTRACT’
THE HIGHLY entertaining contest in the Four Goldmines between John Magnier and Richard Thomson-Moore over the disputed €15m sale of the 750-acre Barne Estate in Co Tipperary increasingly reminds Goldhawk... Read more »
ROSS O’DWYER’S IMPRESSIVE SQUAD
GOLDHAWK NOTES a recent order in the High Court striking out a petition from the dreaded taxman to wind up a company called Readia Ltd. This turns out to be... Read more »
THE ‘POST’S’ WAREHOUSE
ELSEWHERE IN this issue (see p5) Goldhawk looks at former Business Post shareholder Liam Lynch’s challenges in his Irish company, which built up losses of almost €3m. What is also... 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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