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THE HOT AIR BRIGADE
Date: September 18, 2025 -
As a result the play leans heavily into dream logic. “Are we our soul or our body? Is the soul older than the body?” McLaughlin asks in a playful tone. “If the moon can be a person, why can’t Oedipus be a baby and a man at the same time?” Caitríona McLaughlin, Abbey Theatre artistic… Read more »
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PAT FINUCANE: COLLUSION INQUIRY
Date: September 18, 2025 -
SIR GARY HICKINBOTTOM, chair of the Finucane Inquiry, is in consultation with northern secretary Hilary Benn to agree his terms of reference. The inquiry is to report on accusations of state collusion with the UDA gang responsible for the murder of Patrick Finucane at his Belfast home, in front of his wife Geraldine and their… Read more »
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WILLING TAOISEACH
Date: September 18, 2025 -
WHEN OUR willing Taoiseach Micheál Martin strides across the world stage, as he recently did with a message to the Coalition of the Willing (COTW) in support of Ukraine, he is determined to be in step with countries he describes as “like-minded European and international partners”. But there is a serious credibility gap between Martin’s… Read more »
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DARRAGH O’BRIEN’S FLIGHTS OF FANCY
Date: September 18, 2025 -
There is something almost nostalgic to see a north Dublin Fianna Fáil TD engaging in the kind of cute hoorism around climate change that was the political trademark of Squire Hockey in his pomp. The TD in question, Darragh O’Brien, was first elected to the Dáil in 2007 as a junior member of the FF-led… Read more »
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FISHY KILL
Date: September 18, 2025 -
State agencies are being remarkably coy about who is likely responsible for the massive fish kill along a 40km stretch of Cork’s Blackwater river. Ella McSweeney reported in the Irish Times at the weekend that since March 2020 the EPA has issued North Cork Creameries with a staggering 125 ‘non-compliance notices’, an average of one… Read more »
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TOXIC STORMONT
Date: September 18, 2025 -
At the beginning of the month the Stormont assembly returned from the long – many say too long – summer recess. It held its first executive meeting on September 4, after which Michelle O’Neill and Emma Little-Pengelly gave a joint press conference. They hadn’t been seen together for months, during which time there had been… Read more »
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DANGEROUS MOMENTS FOR MICHEÁL MARTIN
Date: September 18, 2025 -
WITH FIANNA FÁIL back bench TDs now getting the bit firmly between their teeth in the revolt against Micheál Martin’s Brezhnev behaviour in the selection of their presidential candidate, there is danger ahead for the Taoiseach. And the presidential campaign of Jim Gavin is only one of the unexploded mines strewn in Martin’s path as… Read more »
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VIKTOR ORBÁN SNUBBED
Date: September 18, 2025 -
HUNGARIAN PRIME MINISTER Viktor Orbán cut a lonely figure, politically and diplomatically speaking, at the Ireland v Hungary soccer match in Dublin this month. He was not accompanied by any Government representative and certainly not his counterpart, Taoiseach Micheál Martin. The official line from Government was that Orbán’s visit was a private one and he… Read more »
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CRUELLA MACNEILL DEVOURS HEALTH OFFICIAL
Date: September 18, 2025 -
FOLLOWING HER long-range sniper shot at party leader Simon Harris, appropriately enough at Béal na Bláth last month, news emerged of health minister Jennifer Carroll MacNeill’s metaphorical assassination of distinguished public servant David Begg in July. Cruella MacNeill swept out of the Mater Hospital, followed by her awe-struck retinue, after she had gunned down Begg,… Read more »
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LOYALIST SCHIZOPHRENIA
Date: September 18, 2025 -
SOUTHERN MEDIA continue to treat the black north like some unexplored 19th-century colony, with wildly different takes on sectarian attacks on Catholics and immigrants there – that’s if they bother to report on such events at all. A heart-warming headline in a recent Sunday Times Irish edition proclaimed: “Loyalists shield immigrants”. This was over an… Read more »
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SPY GAMES
Date: September 18, 2025 -
HOW FASCINATING to read in the Sunday Times – MI5’s favourite newspaper – that ex-taoiseach Leo Varadkar knew the Brits were capable of tapping Irish government phones during Brexit negotiations. Micheál Martin, on the other hand, said that because the two countries enjoy a “good relationship”, Britain did not need to keep us under surveillance…. Read more »
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UKRAINIAN DEMOCRAT’S MURDER
Date: September 18, 2025 -
THE IRISH and European media constantly deride the Russian media as Putin’s obedient mouthpiece – quite unlike the free western media, which does not simply regurgitate their government’s line in any global conflict. “Ukrainian lawmaker Andriy Parubiy” was recently shot dead in Lviv, Ukraine, and EU, British and Irish media wrote about his contribution to… Read more »
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KEARNS SIBLINGS’ LEGAL LESSON
Date: September 18, 2025 -
GOLDHAWK SPIES an interesting-looking case filed in the High Court, with two unlikely named unlimited companies – Unifield and Minervavig – suing recruitment consultants Louise Allen and Brian Cunningham. The low-profile plaintiffs here have pretty deep pockets. Defendants Allen and Cunningham are well-known players in the recruitment consultancy business but were in the news for… Read more »
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MOLING’S MISSION
Date: September 18, 2025 -
AS REVEALED by Goldhawk (see The Phoenix 25/7/25), culture minister Patrick O’Donovan has installed his department’s favourite troubleshooter, Moling Ryan, as the interim director of the Arts Council. He replaces Maureen Kennelly and his selection confirms the minister’s view that a Merrion Square insider was not going to be considered for the gig. Indeed, it… Read more »
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BEACH BODIES
Date: September 18, 2025 -
LAYTOWN RACES’S September beach race day featured some popular winners this year. Owner James McAuley and his Hilltop Racing entourage returned from a self-imposed sabbatical to again team up with trainer Denis Hogan’s stable for victory in the Download The New Tote App Qualified Riders race. Having trained predominantly for his uncle – the tenacious… Read more »
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UNIPHAR’S SHARE PRICE BASED ON AN AWFUL LOT OF OPTIMISM
Date: September 18, 2025 -
UNIPHAR has been generating glowing tributes in the media and the marketplace this year on foot of the impressive performance of its shares on the Irish market, which have almost doubled from €2.12 at the end of last year to over €4 currently, at which the company is now capitalised at just over €1bn. There have… Read more »
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QUESTIONS OVER CALIBRE OF DIAGEO’S BOSS-IN-WAITING
Date: September 18, 2025 -
THE INSTALLING two months ago of Nik (Manik) Jhangiani as the interim CEO at Diageo has attracted plenty of glowing headlines but, while the share price was initially boosted, it has drifted back to the level it was at when under-fire CEO Debra Crew exited “with immediate effect” in July. Jhangiani talks a good game… Read more »
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ROWSOMES RUN OUT OF TIME
Date: September 18, 2025 -
JUST FIVE months after the directors signed off the 2024 accounts, stating in a note that they had “a reasonable expectation that the company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence and to meet its financial obligations as they fall due for at least 12 months”, FlexTime Ltd has collapsed into liquidation. It is… Read more »
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CIARÁN FITZGERALD’S HARVEST
Date: September 18, 2025 -
GOLDHAWK’S FAVOURITE agri-industry economist/consultant, Ciarán Fitzgerald, has just wound up his profitable company, Ciarán Fitzgerald Consulting Ltd (CFC). Fitzgerald is well known in the agriculture sector and has written extensively for the Agriland website. He has popped up on assorted bodies in the past, including the likes of lobby group Meat Industry Ireland, which he… Read more »
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LISA JORDAN’S MILLION QUID
Date: September 18, 2025 -
CONGRATULATIONS TO social media influencer and businesswoman Lisa Jordan (aka Just Jordan), who continues to deliver a fashionable bottom line. She has two brands, LUNA by Lisa (makeup and hair care) and a fashion line called Edit Row. Significantly, the former is not owned by her but rather by pal Kieran Walsh’s successful National Beauty… Read more »
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LISA DUFFY’S TINY TAX BILL
Date: September 18, 2025 -
SOME BAD news for another high-profile red carpet designer, Instagram influencer and fashionista Lisa Duffy, who has been off the radar for a while. Formerly a humble social care worker with the HSE, Duffy became a well-known figure in the fashion world, with her profile further boosted when she made headlines as the target of… Read more »
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BILLY KELLEHER’S ATTEMPTED PUTSCH
Date: September 4, 2025 -
THE SIGHS of relief from Fianna Fáil’s Mount Street HQ could be heard all the way to Cork this week, where Billy Kelleher’s rebel plotters were concentrated as the tide began to turn in favour of that other Corkman, Taoiseach Micheál Martin and his Dublin… Read more »
PROFILE: MICHAEL HACKMAN
Date: September 4, 2025 -
AT THE start of the 2020s, LA-based real estate moneybags Michael Hackman started making big waves in the film and TV business, not by producing film and TV content but by having practically invented a new class of property portfolio investment. He raised a $1.6bn fund through Hackman Capital Partners LLC for the acquisition of… Read more »
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YOUNG BLOOD: SEÁN THIM O’LEARY
Date: September 4, 2025 -
SEÁN THIM O’LEARY will lead Trinity College Dublin’s Student Union (TCDSU) into the 2025/26 academic year. The non-binary student from Wexford is former chair of the Trinity Social Democrats and previously worked as an intern for Fianna Fáil TD Malcolm Byrne (another SU hack) during… Read more »
CARROLL MacNEILL AMBUSHES HARRIS
Date: September 4, 2025 -
THE PRESIDENTIAL splits in Fianna Fáil, Sinn Féin and Labour are timid affairs compared to the titanic political assault being prepared by Fine Gael’s answer to Maggie Thatcher, health minister Jennifer Carroll MacNeill, on party leader Simon Harris. That is what virtually every FG member acquainted with Jennie’s ringing declaration at Béal na Bláth last… Read more »
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COURAGEOUS CIARA KELLY
Date: September 4, 2025 -
NEWSTALK PRESENTER Ciara Kelly last week promised Independent readers that her column that day defending U2’s disingenuous statement on Gaza would be “OUTRAGEOUS” (her emphasis), code for brave, provocative etc. And the headline accused “woke” critics of U2 of not being genuinely interested in supporting Palestinians. However, the sequence of events around Israel’s escalating depravity… Read more »
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RYAN’S NEW POST
Date: September 4, 2025 -
FORMER ENVIRONMENT minister Eamon Ryan’s new grace-and-favour gig as EU “housing tsar” kicks off in earnest this month in apparently straight-faced celebration of the resounding success of Irish housing policy. According to EU statistics, Ireland’s housing costs are a neat 101% higher than the EU… Read more »
ALAN ‘AK47’ KELLY MISFIRES
Date: September 4, 2025 -
THE SPECTACLE of Alan Kelly being brought to heel by Labour leader Ivana Bacik, not to mention the brazen, public defiance by him of the leadership and a democratic party decision to support Catherine Connolly’s presidential campaign, indicates that the war isn’t over in Labour. It also reflects a deluded outlook by the old guard,… Read more »
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DIVERSITY DRAMA
Date: September 4, 2025 -
THERE MUST have been a little discomfort at the Irish Times when hacks covered the latest adventures of scribbler John Boyne, whose presence on the longlist for the Polari prizes for LGBTQ+ literature led to a lorryload of other nominees withdrawing their names from contention, along with a couple of the judges. Boyne has become… Read more »
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JIM O’CALLAGHAN’S HIGH-WIRE ACT
Date: September 4, 2025 -
AFTER LESS than a year in Cabinet – the most high-achieving minister so far among their number – justice minister Jim O’Callaghan did not welcome MEP Billy Kelleher’s mutinous moves last week as an opportunity to revive rebellious sentiments among his supporters. But he will have noticed the hierarchy of personnel among Micheál Martin’s GHQ… Read more »
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VOL 43 NO 18
Date: September 4, 2025 -
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GAVIN’S MEDIA FANS
Date: September 4, 2025 -
THE DIFFERENCE between the Indo and Irish Times’s coverage of Fianna Fáil’s Jim Gavin v Billy Kelleher presidential contest was startling in its emphasis and analysis. The day after the Dub GAA hero’s declaration of intent, the Indo pointed to Micheál Martin being “blind sided”; how Kelleher “stole a march” on Martin; TDs’ “backlash” against… Read more »
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SINN FÉIN TO SUPPORT CONNOLLY?
Date: September 4, 2025 -
AFTER MUCH agonising and ideological debate about downgrading the central demand for a united Ireland, Sinn Féin’s ard chomhairle (AC) is likely to endorse the left unity campaign of Catherine Connolly. A decision – if an AC meeting can be arranged in time – will… Read more »
RONAN RYAN’S NEW MENU
Date: September 4, 2025 -
IT HAS been a while since the name of one-time ‘celebrity chef’ Ronan Ryan came to Goldhawk’s attention but it turns out the controversial character has started a new project. He has also been tidying up loose ends. Ryan and his glamorous wife, former Miss Ireland Pamela Flood, regularly featured in the social columns back… Read more »
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REDRESS FOR CATHOLICS ONLY
Date: September 4, 2025 -
AN INTERESTING article in the Belfast News Letter in June by a Church of Ireland cleric, Canon Ian Ellis, has been brought to Goldhawk’s attention. It deals with the attitude of eight religious institutions that were the subject of the Nunan Report, published last April, into negotiations for financial redress for abuse of children. Catherine… Read more »
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GENERALISSIMO SEÁN CLANCY
Date: September 4, 2025 -
MOMENTUM BEHIND the militarisation of the EU has not abated. While there has been some comment in Ireland’s media about removal of the triple lock, there has been little or no consideration of Ireland’s deepening military links to Ukraine and the Government’s attitude to the Defense, Security and Resilience Bank (DSRB), which is being developed…. Read more »
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