January 31 - February 13, 2020 Archives

AFFAIRS OF THE NATION

MURPHY’S LAW RUNS IN RANELAGH

January 30, 2020

Even if Eoghan Murphy is relieved of his environment ministerial portfolio, he may not be free from planning issues. The local worthies in... Read more »

VARADKAR’S RUNNING MATES

January 30, 2020

IT’S HARD to recall any taoiseach that has failed to bring in a running mate in their own constituency at a general election... Read more »

PROFILE: EAMON RYAN

January 30, 2020

IS EAMON RYAN poised to become tánaiste in a coalition government that again involves the Green Party? And again with Fianna Fáil? The... Read more »

YOUNG BLOOD: JAMES O’CONNOR

January 30, 2020

YOUNG FIANNA Fáil candidate James O’Connor was lucky to land on the general election ticket in the Cork East constituency, but the whippersnapper... Read more »

SF SPECTRE LOOMS

January 30, 2020

FIANNA FÁIL TDs believe that Micheál Martin will be forced to do the U-turn of the millennium and form a coalition government with... Read more »

ROBERT NAIRAC OUTED

January 30, 2020

BRITISH ARMY undercover operative Captain Robert Nairac’s central involvement in the 1975 Miami Showband Massacre has now been finally confirmed at Belfast High... Read more »

DR EVA’S PRISON

January 30, 2020

FANS OF health guru Dr Eva Orsmond have presumably been glued to the TV on Sunday nights to watch Dr Eva’s Great Escape,... Read more »

TACKLING TONY ENSOR

January 30, 2020

FORMER LAW Society president and international rugby star Tony Ensor exposed a soft shoulder to High Court president Peter Kelly earlier this month.... Read more »

BLINDBOY BOATCLUB – BOULEVARD WREN AND OTHER STORIES (GILL BOOKS)

January 30, 2020

THE FIRST laugh generated by Boulevard Wren unintentionally arrives courtesy of the publishers, Gill Books, which assert that Blindboy Boatclub is “one of... Read more »

IMAGE MEDIA’S IMAGE PROBLEM

January 30, 2020

A BAD HAIR day for Image Publications CEO Clodagh Edwards, whose Irish female-fronted glossy monthly Image magazine came under fire online earlier this... Read more »

Volume 38 Issue 02

January 30, 2020

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JOSEPHA’S VACANCIES

January 30, 2020

ONE OF the games played by politics watchers around election time is clocking how many board appointments the various outgoing ministers manage to... Read more »

TARGETING THE SCIENTOLOGISTS

January 30, 2020

THE RULING earlier this month by High Court judge Mark Heslin greenlighting the Scientologists’ multi-million euro drug treatment centre in the Meath village... Read more »

FARMERS’ VENGEANCE ON CREED

January 30, 2020

A BIG scalp hiding in plain sight is that of Michael Creed but, if the agriculture minister loses his seat, which Fine Gael... Read more »

FOLLOW THE MONEY

January 30, 2020

Leo Varadkar’s two-and-a-half years as taoiseach saw him use the previously obscure ‘money message’ to block 55 pieces of legislation that had won... Read more »

ARTHUR NUGENT’S LICENCE

January 30, 2020

GOLDHAWK has reported elsewhere (see p5) on the bruising judgment issued by Judge Peter Kelly in the High Court in relation to an... Read more »

ARAMARK DROPS OUT

January 30, 2020

Activists in Trinity College Dublin are basking in the afterglow of a victory in their fight against the on-campus presence of US food... Read more »

BAHRAIN AND THE DUP

January 30, 2020

THE TWO death sentences on civil rights activists in Bahrain would be a further embarrassment to the DUP if the Irish and British... Read more »

NOEL CORCORAN’S HUMANITARIAN FUND

January 30, 2020

GOLDHAWK spotted an entity with the impressive name of The United Development Humanitarian Fund being added to the Companies Office strike-off list. This... Read more »

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE 3802

January 30, 2020

Hello my fellow citizen, this is my first time running in, The General Election but it’s now time to bring about change &... Read more »

THE HOLY GROUND

January 30, 2020

The north leaves the EU on 31 January but, as with everything else about the north, it’s more complicated than that. First, the... Read more »

HOWLIN’S KERRY BLUES

January 30, 2020

REPEATED REPORTS that Brendan Howlin and Labour expect to take 14 or 15 seats at the election can best be judged by the... Read more »

GREY BLUESHIRT STAFF BROWNED OFF

January 30, 2020

THE Fine Gael boo-boo on pensions has angered not only grey voters – that most prolific cohort – but also grey grafters among... Read more »

COVENEY’S CAPTAIN IN ELECTION ROW

January 30, 2020

WITH Fine Gael heading for electoral defeat, the locus of the party leadership is likely to move rapidly from Dublin to Cork with... Read more »

MARKING PAUL’S CARDS

January 30, 2020

A CLARIFICATION in the Irish Times noted recently that its article about foreign investment in Israel “involved a visit to Israel… organised and... Read more »

‘FRIENDLY’ SPIES

January 30, 2020

AN INTRIGUING story appeared in the Irish Times before Christmas headlined, “Cabinet warned about threat from foreign spies”. The story referred to a... Read more »

ADVERTISING SNAKE BITES

January 30, 2020

IN AN unusual departure for the Irish Times, the newspaper devoted two full-coloured broadsheet pages (pages two and three in front of the... Read more »

CLIMATE ELECTION?

January 30, 2020

With the fate of humanity hanging in the balance, surely this was to be climate election? Surveys show a majority of voters want... Read more »

GAS MAN PHIL HOGAN

January 30, 2020

As Blueshirt ministers do their best to sound concerned about the climate crisis, former colleague Phil Hogan is refreshingly devoid of such virtue-signalling.... Read more »

BOG CUTTINGS 3802

January 30, 2020

DOG ATE PENALTY NOTICE A solicitor proffered a familiar excuse for his client’s failure to pay a fixed-charge penalty notice during a hearing... Read more »

FIONA McHUGH’S OTHER INVESTOR

January 30, 2020

WITH THE denizens of leafy Dublin 6 still mourning the passing of their beloved Fallon & Byrne supermarket – sorry, food hall –... Read more »

ADRIAN BLANC’S FOXROCK PILE

January 30, 2020

IF THE last couple of years were bad ones for Foxrock-based suit Adrian Blanc (also known as Adrian Le Blanc), 2020 hasn’t got... Read more »

IN AND OUT AT THE ARTS COUNCIL

January 30, 2020

SOME ITEMS in the recent Arts Council minutes caught Goldhawk’s eye. For example, it was noted, “There is still uncertainty over the allowable... Read more »

VARADKAR’S PLOT SPOILER

January 30, 2020

THE UPWARDS trajectory continues for Troy Studios in Limerick, where Siún Ní Raghallaigh, chief executive and shareholder, has proved adept at squeezing public... Read more »

BLAKE LIVELY’S RHYTHM SECTION

January 30, 2020

FANS OF The Phoenix who like their Nordic-Noir detective series may have watched the last episode of Wisting on BBC4 last week, but... Read more »

NEW TUNE FOR THE NCH

January 30, 2020

IT WILL be interesting to see if culture minister Josepha Madigan looks to make a few board appointments before the new government is... Read more »

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