October 9 - October 22, 2020 Archives

AFFAIRS OF THE NATION

DENIS O’BRIEN’S APPLIANCES

October 8, 2020

A LIQUIDATOR has been appointed to a company called Demirca Ltd. Although not a familiar name, it turns out to be one of... Read more »

PRINCES OF LAW

October 8, 2020

GOLDHAWK IS grateful to a reader who looked up the Wikipedia entry for controversial Supreme Court judge Séamus Woulfe. The highlight is, without... Read more »

QUIS CUSTODIET IPSOS CUSTODES

October 8, 2020

SÉamus Woulfe got filleted by the Irish Times for his deluded self-pity over Golfgate, but the judges’ favourite newspaper still blamed “successive governments... Read more »

PROFILE: NORMA FOLEY

October 8, 2020

FAILING TO get on to the Fianna Fáil general election ticket in Kerry last year, Norma Foley could not have imagined she would... Read more »

YOUNG BLOOD: LAURA WHITMORE

October 8, 2020

It has been a trying time of late for Bray’s sweetheart, Laura Whitmore, who struggles with balancing the demands of her rapidly ascending... Read more »

COVENEY YIELDS TO TRUMP ON ISRAEL

October 8, 2020

THE HIGHLY regarded Irish Times Middle East correspondent, Micheal Jansen, recently summarised the so-called breakthrough of the United Arab Emirate (UAE)-Bahrain-Israel deal as... Read more »

ALISON CANAVAN’S DREAM BUILDING

October 8, 2020

GOLDHAWK WAS interested to see that California-based model-turned-new-age-guru Alison Canavan has pulled the plug on her Irish wellness coaching business, Tinky Tock Productions.... Read more »

NIALL McFADDEN’S OPTIMISM

October 8, 2020

AN IMPRESSIVE house on the Mount Juliet estate has gone on the market with a near E2m price tag. It turns out that... Read more »

BURNING HERESIES – KEVIN MYERS (MERRION PRESS)

October 8, 2020

WHEN IS a victim not a victim? Apparently not when they’re single mothers whose children are described as “bastards”. Or a Traveller derided... Read more »

BLUESHIRT CALL TO ARMS

October 8, 2020

THAT’S A slightly unnerving group of right-wing Fine Gael TDs now ensconced in a political bunker hammering out a battle plan to revive... Read more »

BEATRICE TOLLMAN’S HOTEL BILL

October 8, 2020

WITH THE pandemic causing havoc in the hospitality sector – and little reason for believing things will change any time soon – it... Read more »

Vol 38 No 20

October 8, 2020

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ED GUINEY’S PLOT TWIST

October 8, 2020

FANS OF Goldhawk are familiar with the costly development and change of ownership of the controversial Pálás cinema project in Galway, where the... Read more »

WILLIE WALSH’S ROUTE MAP

October 8, 2020

WITH FORMER Aer Lingus boss Willie Walsh having finally exited the giant International Airlines Group (IAG), where he had been chief executive for... Read more »

MATT COOPER’S MANY HATS

October 8, 2020

MATT COOPER is a very busy chap, which may explain why he apparently forgot to mention his roles in Today FM and Virgin... Read more »

CHARLIE FLANAGAN TO BE SUED?

October 8, 2020

IT’S RARE that a full-on riposte to Eoghan Harris’s attacks on those with the ‘wrong’ outlook is sanctioned by the Sunday Independent and... Read more »

BLUESHIRT ETHICS

October 8, 2020

THE CHAIRPERSON of Dún Laoghaire Fine Gael constituency organisation, Edward Kennedy, takes his responsibilities seriously. ‘Ted’ informed members in a recent missive, “I... Read more »

GENE MURTAGH’S GONG

October 8, 2020

CONGRATULATIONS to Gene Murtagh, who has won the Irish Times’s Business Person of the Month Award for having “outperformed market expectations despite Covid-19”.... Read more »

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

October 8, 2020

Every morning, when you get out of bed, stand in front of a full-length mirror and give yourself some unconditional love: say out... Read more »

WHAT BREXIT WILL MEAN

October 8, 2020

Naturally, all attention is focussed on Britain’s last-minute high-wire act in talks about a trade deal with the EU. However, the fact remains... Read more »

SEPARATING JUDGES AND POLITICIANS

October 8, 2020

SÉAMUS WOULFE has achieved the compelling feat of lowering the stock of judges to beneath that of politicians. But amid the reams of... Read more »

MICK BARRY’S MEDIA STRATEGY

October 8, 2020

OPPOSITION TDS and even Fianna Fáil have denounced the obsession with spin and media manipulation engaged in by Leo Varadkar in recent years.... Read more »

FIVE-YEAR LIBEL CASE

October 8, 2020

A SLOW-motion defamation action in the Northern Circuit Court is causing some confusion within and without Fianna Fáil. This is because the plaintiff... Read more »

HACK GOES DOWN ON GALWAY BAY

October 8, 2020

AN INCESTUOUS spat and legal action between Galway Bay FM and a journalist from the radio station’s owners, the Connacht Tribune, was settled... Read more »

EXCLUSIVE MATERIAL

October 8, 2020

THAT “FEARLESS” Sunday Times and Sunday Telegraph correspondent, the late Chris Ryder, was for many years an inspiration to British hacks covering the... Read more »

NUIG JOB CONFLICT

October 8, 2020

EX-IRISH TIMES editor Conor Brady’s appointment as Honorary Professor of Journalism at NUI Galway (NUIG) underlines the ambition of the university’s top hack-ademic,... Read more »

PREDATORY FRACKERS

October 8, 2020

At first glance, John Mullins’s journey from his €400,000-a-year job as head of Bord Gáis to running his own renewable energy company, Amarenco... Read more »

RYAN LEAVES DOOR OPEN

October 8, 2020

A law to ban new oil and gas exploration licences “would be a historic change” and an inspiration “for the rest of the... Read more »

BOG CUTTINGS

October 8, 2020

Red Card Michael Lyons of Stoneyview, Knockbrack, Burnfort, Cork, appeared before Cork District Court after abusing a referee during an under-age football match.... Read more »

MATT DEMPSEY’S HEADACHE

October 8, 2020

THE CHAIRMAN of the Irish National Stud (INS), Matt Dempsey, and his €140,000 pa chief executive, Cathal Beale, will have been chuffed at... Read more »

CHARLES COLTHURST’S NEIGHBOURS

October 8, 2020

THE SQUIRE of Blarney Castle, Charles St John Colthurst, has been kicking up about a proposed housing development not too far from his... Read more »

CHAMPAGNE FOOTBALL – MARK TIGHE & PAUL ROWAN

October 8, 2020

GIVEN THE recent trend for behind-the-scenes football documentaries, ex-FAI boss John Delaney could probably have solved the association’s car-crash finances simply by agreeing... Read more »

CHAMPERS ALL ROUND

October 8, 2020

LUCK PLAYS a big part in the success or otherwise of horse racing, but one group of owners who must be pinching themselves... Read more »

TOUGH GOING AT GOFFS

October 8, 2020

FEARS THAT the value of bloodstock would plunge due to the effects of Covid-19 (see The Phoenix 25/9/20) were justified when Goffs staged... Read more »

OISIN MURPHY’S DRUG WAR

October 8, 2020

THE NEWS that racing’s latest poster boy, Oisin Murphy, tested positive for metabolites of cocaine at Chantilly in July could prove a major... Read more »

NO GAIN FOR AIDAN O’BRIEN

October 8, 2020

WITH HEAVY rain in Paris scuppering the participation of Aidan O’Brien’s main challenger, Love, in the Arc de Triomphe, a last minute scare... Read more »

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