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‘IRISH TIMES’ LOSES SECTARIAN DEBATE

May 1, 2025
Last week the Irish Times lost a Press Council appeal against a Press Ombudsman’s decision. It is, for the paper, a disastrous outcome and... Read more »

PROFILE: LIZ KEARNEY

May 1, 2025

THERE WAS a time when the incoming editor of the biggest-selling newspaper in the country would already be known to many in the... Read more »

YOUNG BLOOD: EOIN HAYES

May 1, 2025

ALAS, ALL political careers end in failure but minister Eoin Hayes has turned Enoch Powell’s old adage on its head and begins his... Read more »

BUCK HOUSE COVER-UP

May 1, 2025

PRINCE ANDREW became a severe embarrassment to Buckingham Palace after sordid details of his sexual exploitation of Virginia Giuffre (neé Roberts) emerged in... Read more »

CONOR McGREGOR’S PALS

May 1, 2025

DESPITE THE rallying effect that Conor McGregor is having on the new-right scene and his close association with Donald Trump and Tucker Carlson,... Read more »

BRENDAN McDONAGH’S RECORD

May 1, 2025

THERE WAS no explanation forthcoming from the housing department to Goldhawk’s query about any plan to advertise – or rather not advertise –... Read more »

TOM McFEELY’S RECEIVER

May 1, 2025

IN RECENT times, not an awful lot has been heard here about former IRA hunger striker turned boom-time property developer turned bankrupt Tom... Read more »

NOEL KELLY’S PET PROJECT

May 1, 2025

WHATEVER HAPPENED to Petfix Club, the expensive website set up by some familiar faces to give “affordable trustworthy and high quality online veterinary... Read more »

VOL 43 NO 09

May 1, 2025

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BRENDAN MULLIN’S JUDGMENT

May 1, 2025

A JUDGMENT has just been registered against Dublin builders John G Burns Ltd (trading as Burns Construction) for €35,000. The plaintiff here is... Read more »

ROCKET SCIENCE

May 1, 2025

THE MEDIA’S alarmingly war-like recruitment officers for Irish military involvement in western armies often resort to sarcasm at what they describe as the... Read more »

NOT SINCE THE BLUESHIRTS…

May 1, 2025

As anti-immigration protesters gathered at the Garden of Remembrance on Saturday April 26, it was clear from early on that this was going... Read more »

GET BACK

May 1, 2025
GIVEN KNEECAP’S recent troubles with British police and media, along with Taoiseach Micheál Martin and Tory party leader Kemi Badenoch, it will be interesting... Read more »

RACING UNCERTAINTY

May 1, 2025

NOT SURPRISINGLY, there has been plenty of comment on the €300,000 winning bet placed with Ladbrokes by stable lad Dylan Phelan, for which... Read more »

VIRTUAL WAR BUT REAL MONEY

May 1, 2025

When VRAI Simulation recently launched its new office in Orlando, Florida, it hyped up the significance of the move with copious references to... Read more »

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

May 1, 2025

What was most extraordinary about him was how the words seemed to enter him. Viscerally. Quietly. It struck me that I had never... Read more »

CLIMATE NEUTRALITY ‘WISHFUL THINKING’

May 1, 2025

When it comes to Ireland’s energy transition, “wishful thinking needs to be replaced by the realities of engineering, finance and project delivery”. So... Read more »

‘IT’ HOT AIR

May 1, 2025

While there is no future in fossil gas, the outlook is equally bleak for biomethane, a highly problematic gas that increasingly looks like... Read more »

NO POPERY IN LISBURN

May 1, 2025

Easter Monday is traditionally the date of the first big loyalist parade in the north. This year it was the Apprentice Boys of... Read more »

BLUESHIRTS CORK CIVIL WAR

May 1, 2025

THERE IS a lot more than has been reported to that cross-party letter about the underfunding of the tenant-in-situ scheme, which was sent... Read more »

McDOWELL SAYS NO TO PRESIDENCY

May 1, 2025

MICHAEL McDOWELL was pretty defiant when it was put to him in March that, with Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael each intent on... Read more »

DONOHOE FOR EUROGROUP JOB?

May 1, 2025

GROUP THINK in the media Greek chorus of the Irish financial establishment is that finance minister Paschal Donohoe only has to turn up... Read more »

VARADKAR V MARTIN

May 1, 2025

FOR TAOISEACH and Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin to be battling with former taoiseach and Fine Gael leader Leo Varadkar over a united... Read more »

DISAPPEARANCE OF THE DISAPPEARED STORY

May 1, 2025

WHATEVER HAPPENED to the crusade that began in January, when the Sunday Times launched its Forgotten Graves campaign to grant a proper burial... Read more »

THE LATE LATE SHOW

May 1, 2025

AN APPARENTLY non-descript and rather short story, informing Irish Times readers that Denis O’Brien had received nearly €6m for his Moriarty Tribunal legal... Read more »

NO TO ‘IRISH TIMES’!

May 1, 2025

A DISAPPOINTED Irish Times was recently compelled to report that voters favoured retention of neutrality by over 2:1 but the good news for... Read more »

BOG CUTTINGS

May 1, 2025

BAILING OUT Cork District Court heard the case of a man accused of carrying a knife, engaging in threatening and abusive behaviour, and... Read more »

DENIS DESMOND’S MUSIC NOTES

May 1, 2025

THERE HAS been yet more fine-tuning of the corporate set up at LN-Gaiety Holdings, the utterly dominant concert and music venue joint venture... Read more »

REBECCA’S FAIRYTALE

May 1, 2025

HAITI COULEURS, trained by Rebecca Curtis, showed his rivals a clean pair of heels when running away with Ireland’s richest national hunt race,... Read more »

WILLIE’S WIN

May 1, 2025

EVEN THOUGH Dan Skelton had led Willie Mullins going into the final day of the UK National Hunt Championship at Sandown, there was... Read more »

PATRICK DORAN’S SUPPORT

May 1, 2025

IT IS slow ahead on Shrewsbury Road in D4, where aircraft leasing moneybags Aengus Kelly and his wife, Deirdre O’Malley, are looking to... Read more »

D6 DENIZENS

May 1, 2025

IT WAS reported by the Sindo that “the well-heeled denizens of Palmerston Road in Dublin 6” would be raising a toast on foot... Read more »

OFFLOADING PEMBROKESTOWN HOUSE

May 1, 2025

WITH A price tag of just on €3m, following a “remarkable renovation”, including a “showstopping swimming pool”, the impressive early 19th-century Pembrokestown House... Read more »

DALTON PHILIPS’S AUDACIOUS TAKEOVER BID

May 1, 2025

GREENCORE’S AGREED £1.2bn takeover of the Icelandic-founded British Bakkavor convenience food company has a certain air of déjà vu. The company previously spent... Read more »

KINGSPAN’S MYSTERIOUS SETBACKS

May 1, 2025

THE FINAL report on the Grenfell Tower disaster was published by Martin Moore-Bick last September. While Kingspan was only a bit player, it has... Read more »

DES MCGAHAN’S DES RES

May 1, 2025

A YEAR on from Goldhawk’s last look at the impressive Ballinacurra House outside Kinsale – where one Michael Jackson previously enjoyed a sojourn... Read more »

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