April 4 - April 17, 2025 Archives - The Phoenix Magazine

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TOO MANY TDs FOR MARTIN’S LIKING

April 3, 2025

THERE IS a particular irony in the resentment felt by many Fianna Fáil backbench TDs at the new Dáil speaking-time arithmetic, which has... Read more »

PROFILE: CONOR MCGREGOR

April 3, 2025

THE GENERAL, European and local elections in 2024 show that the audience for McGregor’s brand of right-wing populism is limited. And even within... Read more »

YOUNG BLOOD: JACK KEATING

April 3, 2025

NEOPHYTE RADIO presenter and social media influencer Jack Keating wanted to do a communications course after leaving school but sadly didn’t get the... Read more »

BOD’S BASELAYERS

April 3, 2025

THERE WERE plenty of column inches devoted to the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CPPC) pinging Irish international rugby legend Brian O’Driscoll last... Read more »

JOHN MAGNIER’S NEXT RACE?

April 3, 2025

STRANGE BEHAVIOUR at last week’s annual general meeting of the beleaguered Irish Racehorse Trainers Association (IRTA), where there were more questions than answers.... Read more »

CAROLINE O’MAHONY’S MOOLAH

April 3, 2025

ALTHOUGH FAB fitness influencer Caroline O’Mahony was no doubt unhappy at being outed by the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) for failing... Read more »

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AMBASSADOR ROBBIE HENSHAW

April 3, 2025

RUGBY INTERNATIONAL Robbie Henshaw, who had a relatively underwhelming outing during the Six Nations, was in top form last month when it came... Read more »

TOM LYONS’S SUBPOENA

April 3, 2025

WITH THE Web Summit run in the Four Goldmines coming to an early end, there was no need for Tom Lyons, chief executive... Read more »

MICRO-MANAGING JAMES BROWNE

April 3, 2025

HOUSING MINISTER James Browne provided Sinn Féin’s housing know-all, Eoin Ó Broin, with enough ammo to shoot him down no less than five... Read more »

VOL 43 NO 07

April 3, 2025

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PÁLÁS PLOT TWIST

April 3, 2025

WHILE IT appeared that a final ‘cut’ had been called on Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe’s bijou Pálás cinema in Galway, the desire... Read more »

AZURE’S AMAZONIAN BOSS

April 3, 2025

A RECENT Irish Times lecture about the shamefully inadequate state of Ireland’s security strategy referred to the “independent security think tank”, the Azure... Read more »

TACKLING NEIL FRANCIS

April 3, 2025

A RECEIVER has just been installed by one of the creditors of a company called KC Property Developments Ltd (KCP), where a 50%... Read more »

ANNE-MARIE O’BRIEN’S FORM

April 3, 2025

ELSEWHERE IN this issue (see p5) Goldhawk examines the runners and riders in the recent annual general meeting of the Irish Racehorse Trainers... Read more »

MURDERED HACK WAS DOUBLE AGENT

April 3, 2025

GOLDHAWK HAS for long been aware that the Sunday Times has excellent sources within British intelligence but never suspected that MI6’s top asset... Read more »

BANG FOR OUR BUCKS

April 3, 2025

Tánaiste Simon Harris recently speculated that Ireland’s military spending needed to expand rapidly and could soon reach €3bn annually. So it is worth... Read more »

JERUSALEM FAR-RIGHT FURORE

April 3, 2025

ISRAELI PRESIDENT Isaac Herzog often refers to his Irish connections but, since the start of the war on Gaza, he has been quite... Read more »

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

April 3, 2025

Penta Group is at the forefront of using research and analytics to make a real impact, and I look forward to contributing to... Read more »

‘LIVING IN THE REAL WORLD’

April 3, 2025

“A victory for common sense over ideological dogma,” was Fianna Fáil MEP Billy Kelleher’s response to An Bord Pleanála’s recent decision to grant... Read more »

NATURE RESERVED

April 3, 2025

Coillte, the state forestry agency, has long been under fire for its dire environmental record and its focus on industrial conifer plantations that... Read more »

NÍ GHÉILLFEAR!

April 3, 2025

NEW GRAND CENTRAL station in Belfast, which opened last year, is the biggest transport hub on the island and cost a staggering £340m.... Read more »

LEFT UNITY ÁRAS CANDIDATE

April 3, 2025

THE BIG question for Mary Lou McDonald and the Sinn Féin leadership in their tight, internal debate about who to run in the... Read more »

TWO FINGERS AGAIN FROM GOVERNMENT

April 3, 2025

SINN FÉIN’S Gaeltacht and arts spokesperson, Aengus Ó Snodaigh, has discovered that the Government’s innovative approach to political democracy has spread beyond the... Read more »

OPPOSITION SPLIT ON SPEAKING RIGHTS

April 3, 2025

UNITY IN the opposition ranks may still be intact on the issue of speaking rights for the schizophrenic group of TDs led by... Read more »

SECOND-GUESSING IRELAND FIRST

April 3, 2025

WITH FURIOUS ‘debate’ recently about voting rights and the like, the Electoral Commission will have been fazed to receive a complaint from Dr... Read more »

ISRAELI SOLDIERS – THE REAL VICTIMS

April 3, 2025

THE WAVE of antisemitic terror sweeping across Ireland, which the Irish Times and other media have been courageously exposing, has reached appalling levels... Read more »

EU WARRIORS ON THE RETREAT?

April 3, 2025

HAVE DIVISIONS among the European shock troops limbering up to confront Putin’s Russia caused some to have second thoughts? This disappointing retreat from... Read more »

VICTIMISING MUSK

April 3, 2025

Sir, I was disappointed to read your article in the Phoenix titled “X marks the drop in standards” because I... Read more »

BOG CUTTINGS

April 3, 2025

RINGING BELLS Claire Gallagher appeared before Drogheda District Court after an incident last month in the town. Sergeant John O’Hehir told the court... Read more »

NIALL DOYLE’S NEXT GIG?

April 3, 2025

AS GOLDHAWK revealed (see The Phoenix 7/3/25), Niall Doyle, the long-time head of music and opera at the Arts Council, is one of... Read more »

MORE ARTS COUNCIL CONSULTANTS

April 3, 2025

AS THE Arts Council prepares for an eventual outing before the Public Accounts Committee, it is business as usual on Merrion Square. A... Read more »

SEAN DAVIS’S DOUBLE

April 3, 2025

PART-TIME jockey and now trainer Sean Davis had waited more than two years to train his first winner but he landed a double... Read more »

POOR PATRICK MULLINS

April 3, 2025

AMATEUR RIDER Patrick Mullins has had a few recent setbacks in his quest to ride a winner at every UK National Hunt course.... Read more »

MARY CANNON’S JOINT

April 3, 2025

AN IMPRESSIVE looking timber-clad pile on the salubrious Claremont Road in Howth has just gone on the market with a chunky €3m price... Read more »

KIERAN WALSH’S STYLE

April 3, 2025

LOADED COSMETICS entrepreneur Kieran Walsh was, er, made up recently when he landed a gong at the Cork Chamber of Commerce annual dinner,... Read more »

SILVANA’S ‘HANDBAG INVESTMENTS’

April 3, 2025

CONGRATULATIONS TO Argentinian-Italian handbag queen Silvana Landa, who landed yet another big plug in the Business Post last month, just one year after... Read more »

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