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Date: June 4, 2026 -
AS THE Government prepares to scrap the triple lock – once described by Taoiseach Micheál Martin as the “core” of Irish neutrality – the mantra from Government and foreign minister Helen McEntee is that Ireland was forced to abandon its role in Operation Irini in the Mediterranean last month because of the triple lock. McEntee… Read more »
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Date: June 4, 2026 -
As the crisis at Gript Media deepened in the last week of May over the suspension and then resignation of founding editor John McGuirk, there was much media attention on the news outlet’s owners. While Niamh Uí Bhriain (née Nic Mhathúna), who is co-owner of Gript along with Evelyn Porter, has been in and out… Read more »
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Date: June 4, 2026 -
YOUNG TOMAS Brennan has been beavering away over the last year buying up not one but two stock market listed companies in the US as he tries to achieve his father’s aim of creating a company that can revive assorted entrepreneurs brought low by the 2008 crash. Where his daddy failed, Tomas is hoping to… Read more »
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Date: June 4, 2026 -
THE SINDO’S jubilant front-page welcome for Holly Cairns’s statement, in which she appeared to be pulling the Social Democrats back from the left alternative at the next general election, was over-egged by a most enthusiastic newspaper. Interestingly, its editorial that day demanded that the Soc Dems create a weaker, centre-left alternative with Labour alone. This… Read more »
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Date: June 4, 2026 -
GOLDHAWK IS delighted to announce that the successful candidate for a brand new senior executive role at the Institute of Art, Design & Technology (IADT) is the outgoing chairman of the board, former fund manager and serial board member David Holohan. At least he should be fully up to speed on what is required in… Read more »
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Date: June 4, 2026 -
PUBLISHER AND “passionate advocate for women’s rights” Norah Casey has landed in the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) following allegations from journalist Andrea Smith while working for Casey’s Woman’s Way magazine. In a recent hearing, Smith said she suffered multiple breaches under the Redundancy Payments Act and the Unfair Dismissals Act by Casey’s company, Harmonia, owner… Read more »
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Date: June 4, 2026 -
CONTROVERSIAL SOCIAL Democrats TD Eoin Hayes circulated a colourful brochure to his Dublin Bay South constituents last month, where he referred to his “eventful first year in the Oireachtas”. Some of those who had not been keeping up with the news may not have realised just how eventful it was. There was no mention of… Read more »
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Date: June 4, 2026 -
NO DOUBT the local businesses in Adare are looking forward to some crumbs from the table of Geneva-based tax resident JP McManus in the run-up to next year’s Ryder Cup extravaganza. One of those who benefitted back in 2022 when McManus’s much-hyped Pro-Am was in town was fashion guru Kay Mulcaire, who has suffered a… Read more »
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Date: June 4, 2026 -
FOR THOSE who thought that Celtic Tiger Ireland had been quietly buried, the reappearance of Goldhawk’s old friend, Justin Carthy, around the betting ring suggests otherwise. Back in 2005, a “dashingly attired” Carthy posed over the headline, “Mixing With The Big Boys”, dressed more like a mid-ranking property developer than a racecourse bookmaker. The accompanying… Read more »
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Date: June 4, 2026 -
AS FANS of Goldhawk are aware, Paul Collins has proved a controversial figure due to his companies’ involvement in the International Protection Accommodation Service (Ipas). He fronts Remcoll Capital, where the losses (and interest bills) have been mounting, according to accounts just filed. The latest news is that one of the entities in the group… Read more »
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Date: June 4, 2026 -
A series of clashes on the streets with antifascists have meant that Justin Barrett and members of his party, Clann Éireann (CÉ), have to be quite circumspect about their activism. Even though CÉ is clearly on the ropes, Barrett recently appeared on the high-profile podcast of former MMA fighter turned professional troll on X, Jake… Read more »
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Date: June 4, 2026 -
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Date: June 4, 2026 -
WHILE LEINSTER Rugby continues to lick its wounds after yet another defeat in the Champions Cup last month in sunny Bilbao (a fifth final defeat in a row), there are rather more serious problems at rivals Munster. One person set to benefit from the turmoil in the province is governance guru David Duffy. Munster Rugby… Read more »
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Date: June 4, 2026 -
A GENUINE West Brit is Gript writer and home-loving woman Laura Perrins, a barrister from Balbriggan who emigrated to Britain but returned after 20 years with her hubbie and four children. She co-founded The Conservative Woman (TCW) website in London and became a well known, right-wing journalist during the Brexit saga. Perrins wears her West… Read more »
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Date: June 4, 2026 -
THE LAST edition of The Phoenix (22/5/26) reported that Sean O’Callaghan – a Garda informer operating within the IRA – set a trap for fellow informer John Corcoran to deflect attention from his own role as a mole and to place Corcoran in the firing line instead of himself. This underhanded manoeuvre cost Corcoran his… Read more »
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Date: June 4, 2026 -
The January 2025 takeover of Harland & Wolff by Spain’s state-owned shipbuilder, Navantia, epitomised just how precarious the position of loyal Belfast has become. Last month details were revealed of the contract Navantia UK has with the Royal Navy for the production of large autonomous surface vessels (LASV75) that now sustains employment at the shipyard…. Read more »
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Date: June 4, 2026 -
The government has of late been lurching aimlessly in its energy policy, with Micheál Martin’s curious late-career dalliance with nuclear energy being just its most recent iteration. Mind you, our elected representatives have no shortage of helpful advice. In March the Irish Academy of Engineering (IAE) emailed all TDs and senators, as well as appearing… Read more »
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Date: June 4, 2026 -
Well done to Independent Ireland Noel Thomas who, in the end, sadly became a victim of the voting system. Niall Boylan, X JFK and his lover Marilyn Monroe were murdered by the CIA because they were about to reveal aliens had visited Earth! Surprising headline in the Oirish Mail on Sunday Maybe it’s a fashion… Read more »
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Date: June 4, 2026 -
There are many scary climate scenarios facing Ireland, none more so than a collapse of the Gulf Stream, which would play havoc with the global climate. So what to make of an Irish Times piece that began: “The best news I heard recently was that the Gulf Stream is weakening”? Author Patsy McGarry seems to… Read more »
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Date: June 4, 2026 -
THE GYRATIONS of Labour leader Ivana Bacik on the issue of left unity or an electoral left alternative cannot be explained solely by the recent by-elections or the political arguments around Sinn Féin. More important by far in Bacik’s on/off attitude to left unity is the division inside Labour, where the old guard, now gathered… Read more »
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Date: June 4, 2026 -
Last week a large banner was erected at a children’s playpark in Moygashel, a village near Dungannon. There was a dividing line on the banner and on one side it depicted children playing on a bright, sunny day. The other, darker side portrayed men wearing Muslim headgear beside a sign saying: “Not welcome, not wanted,… Read more »
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Date: June 4, 2026 -
AN OLD Chinese proverb says that, if you sit on a bridge long enough, the body of your worst enemy will come floating down the river. Sure enough Sue Gray – once described by Conservative Home.com as “the most important government official you have never heard of and the most powerful woman in Britain” –… Read more »
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Date: June 4, 2026 -
SINN FÉIN and its president, Mary Lou McDonald, have some national problems to sort out in the Republic as a whole following the recent by-elections, including how to deal with immigration; a consistently hostile media; a restless, working-class base that can see no progress towards a government of change; and ‘allies’ that run away in… Read more »
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Date: June 4, 2026 -
TRANSPORT MINISTER Darragh ‘Del Boy’ O’Brien’s name continues to crop up in media and political speculation about the next leader of Fianna Fáil but he had a depressing month of May. An interesting sequence of events, beginning at the FF ard fheis, heard Del Boy accuse Sinn Féin’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) chairman John Brady… Read more »
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Date: June 4, 2026 -
MEDIA MANIPULATORS in both Government parties have become more assertive in the last 12 months and commentaries after the recent by-elections saw the promotion of two ministers, one Fianna Fáil and one Fine Gael, as leadership contenders in each party. There was more than one article in the Sunday papers about public expenditure minister Jack… Read more »
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Date: June 4, 2026 -
A PLEASING Irish Times article on yet another plaudit for “award winning Irish Times journalist Sally Hayden” recently was inspired by her latest book, This is also a love story, about how love keeps people going in harrowing circumstances. IT editor Ruadhán Mac Cormaic said the award-winning journalist’s new book told of how “a world… Read more »
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Date: June 4, 2026 -
THE CLOSING date for applications for the job of director of the National Museum of Ireland (NMI) has passed and Cathal O’Donoghue’s board will be hoping for a prompt decision, given that it is four months since former director Lynn Scarff was announced as the new executive director of the Royal Irish Academy. It is… Read more »
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Date: June 4, 2026 -
BIG NEWS for trainer Joseph O’Brien, whose speedy rise to the top continues courtesy of Barry Mahon and the team in the minted Juddmonte operation, which has now entrusted the handler with some of its juveniles. Clearly Joseph’s income stream has increased significantly since his little hiccup a few years ago. Back in 2018 the… Read more »
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Date: June 4, 2026 -
FOUR YEARS ago Goldhawk reported that the Wicklow-based veteran of the Ireland-China hardware trade, Joe O’Connell of Universal Innovations, had quietly put his lucrative movie business, Ashford Studios, on the market. But Joe has now lobbed in a plan to significantly expand the studio complex, only for Wicklow County Council to come back with a… Read more »
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Date: June 4, 2026 -
THERE WERE fun and games at the Curragh last month when the Irish Racehorse Trainers Association (IRTA) took aim at the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) over the impact of the latter’s pre-race veterinary check regime, an issue that has been bubbling away for a while. Frustrations re-emerged when the filly Magny Cours finished 10th… Read more »
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Date: June 4, 2026 -
THERE WAS a glowing account in the Business Post of a property in south Co Dublin that has just gone on the market with a hefty €3.25m price tag. It turns out this is the abode of none other than the chief justice, Donal O’Donnell and his artist wife, Mary-Rose Binchy. According to the Post,… Read more »
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Date: June 4, 2026 -
FANS OF Prime Time on RTÉ may recall a show that examined the surge in young children following advanced skincare routines involving anti-ageing and exfoliating products. One of the experts who gave her tuppence worth on the worrying trend was Dr Rosemary Coleman. At the time of the 2024 broadcast, Goldhawk noted that the tele-friendly… Read more »
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Date: June 4, 2026 -
FANS OF Moneybags will not be too surprised that, fuelled by a £5bn takeover approach, the share price for DCC has jumped by a chunky 32%. It was stated in these pages less than 10 months ago that “the shares look seriously undervalued” (see The Phoenix 8/8/25). The question is whether the DCC management can… Read more »
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Date: June 4, 2026 -
WITH THE various thoroughbreds under starter’s orders for the blue riband contest at Epsom this weekend, it presumably comes as no surprise that one of Coolmore’s Aidan O’Brien-trained nags finds itself in prime position with the bookies. Not too far behind, however, is a horse trained by Aidan’s son, Joseph O’Brien, while the listed part-owner… Read more »
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Date: June 4, 2026 -
TWO YEARS on from the acquisition/merger by Smurfit Kappa with the North American WestRock operation, the signs are that there is an awful lot wrong in the enlarged group, which boasts a market capitalisation of just on $22bn. Certainly, there does not appear to be much love for CEO and president Tony Smurfit, who has… Read more »
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Date: June 4, 2026 -
THE SINDO’S celebrity stalker, Niamh Horan, managed to pry some rich details out of former presidential hopeful and Nutriband boss Gareth Sheridan and his Mormon wife, Heidi, last weekend. Not too surprisingly, the happy couple gushed about their adopted baby, whose birth mother is Heidi’s half-sister and whose arrival had apparently come as a surprise… Read more »
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