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BURYING MI5 TRUTH
Date: September 4, 2025 -
Kincora’s Lost Boys: The Truth MI5 Buried (KLB), written by an anonymous author, went on sale via Amazon a few months ago. It purports to delve into the Kincora child sex abuse scandal but offers no new revelations. The book is riddled with inaccuracies, potentially rivalling the criticised Hart Report of 2017 into Kincora. In… Read more »
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IRISH QUISLINGS AMBUSHED
Date: September 4, 2025 -
IN THE lead up to Remig 2025, a far-right conference organised by the Norgesdemokratene (ND) in Norway, Ireland’s National Party (NP) was keen to highlight on social media that it was sending a representative to participate. But the few photos that the NP and its representative, Jordan Crowley from Cork, posted afterwards glossed over what… Read more »
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THE HOT AIR BRIGADE
Date: September 4, 2025 -
She says she condemns Russia for the war on Ukraine. But when President Zelensky addressed the Dail in 2022, it was noted that while the vast majority of her colleagues applauded warmly, Connolly’s clapping was less than enthusiastic. Alison O’Connor on Catherine Connolly, Sunday Times I think he was treated worse than I was. Bertie… Read more »
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SDLP MUDDIES WATER
Date: September 4, 2025 -
LOUGH NEAGH has emerged as the number one late-summer destination for the north’s political leaders, with high-profile visits in recent days by the Alliance Party’s agriculture, environment and rural affairs minister, Andrew Muir; and the SDLP’s leader, Claire Hanna MP; among others. This summer’s algal bloom has given large parts of the lough a bright… Read more »
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GARDA COLONISE NORTH
Date: September 4, 2025 -
IN ANTICIPATION of public order (and public relations) problems caused by a planned protest against a proposed gold mine near Greencastle in Co Tyrone, Canadian mining company Dalradian Gold has erected fencing and CCTV equipment at a site occupied by campaigners in caravans. Relations with local policing services have never been ideal in parts of… Read more »
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UNIONISTS MOVE SHARP RIGHT
Date: September 4, 2025 -
The latest polling in the north shows no change in nationalism but a marked shift to the right in unionism and a shrinking so-called ‘middle ground’. Sinn Féin remains the largest party on 26%, a whopping nine points ahead of the DUP on 17%. The steady growth of Jim Allister’s Traditional Unionist Voice in the… Read more »
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THOMAS BYRNE: ‘NO PRESS GANG’
Date: September 4, 2025 -
EUROPEAN AFFAIRS minister Thomas Byrne was most indignant at Sinn Féin’s recent suggestion that conscription was on the cards if abolition of the triple lock and neutrality were implemented. He even wrote a letter to SF leader Mary Lou McDonald demanding that she withdraw such “misleading and incendiary comments” and “fearmongering” about the abolition of… Read more »
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FINLAY ‘COULDA BEEN A CONTENDER’
Date: September 4, 2025 -
FORMER GOVERNMENT spin doctor Fergus Finlay made a right Horlicks of explaining away his latest, mortifying effort to win the Labour Party’s nomination for the presidential election. Fungus has spent nearly 30 years trying to prevent, supplant or succeed Michael D Higgins as president, with… Read more »
MEDIAHUIS WARNING
Date: September 4, 2025 -
A SOMBRE if little noticed announcement from Mediahuis Ireland last week contained some rather bleak, if understated, commentary about the future of the European publishing group as well as a new, if somewhat grandiose, role for the chief executive of the Irish branch, Peter Vandermeersch…. Read more »
GAZA JOURNALIST IN US COURT
Date: September 4, 2025 -
The Palestine Chronicle – whose editor Dr Ramzy Baroud’s family has suffered many, many fatalities in Gaza since October 2023 – is facing proceedings in a federal US court that attempt to link the Chronicle to the kidnapping of Israeli hostages. The case is based on Abdallah Aljamal, a Palestinian journalist killed along with his… Read more »
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MAJOR TOM McDOWELL LIVES ON
Date: September 4, 2025 -
WAS IT the memory of the exposure of the Irish Times’s long-time chief executive, Major Tom McDowell, as an MI5 agent years ago that inspired the newspaper’s most sycophantic tribute to recently deceased MI5 director-general Stella Rimington? The Phoenix wrote about Rimington’s knowledge of and contribution to British security’s dirty tricks during the Troubles –… Read more »
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SINEAD O’CONNOR BIOPIC
Date: September 4, 2025 -
ANTICIPATION ABOUT an impending biopic of Sinéad O’Connor was boosted when Variety reported a line-up of producers in the UK joining with the BBC to back a script commissioned from Belfast writer Stacey Gregg. Despite the Irish subject matter and the potential for a global smash given the late singer’s profile, there is precious little… Read more »
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EMMET’S IMPROVERS
Date: September 4, 2025 -
KILKENNY TRAINER Emmet Mullins appears to have unearthed another ‘improver’ from the Co Laois stable of trainer Shane Duffy. Duffy, who has not trained a winner since September 2023, trained Darcy’s Friend and Chance Another One before they exited for Bagenalstown. Both horses had nearly identical profiles, having had five runs each and being pulled… Read more »
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MCKENNA RIDES ON
Date: September 4, 2025 -
GOLDHAWK NOTED the IHRB’s appeals body, chaired by Nick Wachman, has overturned a ban imposed on jockey Liam McKenna following a ride at Galway last month. In a handicap hurdle, McKenna was deemed to have ridden Battle of Ridgeway carelessly. As this was his third offence, he was landed with a stiff eight-day suspension but… Read more »
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HEFFERNAN’S HORSE
Date: September 4, 2025 -
IT WAS a very good day for the HOS Syndicate’s Ethical Diamond, which became the third Willie Mullins-trained winner of York’s Sky Bet Ebor Handicap, when powering clear under William Buick to win Europe’s richest handicap. Not surprisingly, perhaps, the horse looks like a very good acquisition for his minted owners, who know a thing… Read more »
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O’CALLAGHANS GET BACKSIDES KICKED
Date: September 4, 2025 -
The loaded O’Callaghan family of Tally Ho Stud opted for a high-profile gamble with one of their racehorses in the Coolmore Wootton Basset Nunthorpe Stakes in York – but failed spectacularly. The result more than justified the trainer’s view that this had been a foolish move. The outcome of running the speedy two-year-old Lady Iman… Read more »
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BEACON HOSPITAL PROFIT
Date: September 4, 2025 -
Accounts have just been filed by a company called Barrelridge Ltd, revealing the scale of the killing made by investors in Denis O’Brien’s Beacon private hospital in Sandyford, which was bought by Australian giants Macquarie last year. Barrelridge was jointly set up by Foxrock-based surgeon and hospital co-founder Mark Redmond and his wife, Suzanne, to… Read more »
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HOSTELWORLD GETS SET FOR PEACE DIVIDEND
Date: September 4, 2025 -
IN ITS ongoing recovery from the hugely impactful pandemic, Hostelworld Group’s operating profit more than doubled to €11.3m in 2024, so it came as a real shock last month when the company released its half-year results to June 30, 2025, which showed operating profits had almost halved for the six months to €2.1m. There are… Read more »
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TIMING OF DATALEX’S ROUTE CHANGE IS BAFFLING
Date: September 4, 2025 -
DERMOT DESMOND has had to endure an awful lot of bad press as a result of his long involvement in Datalex and he is probably relieved that the company is holding an EGM this week to greenlight the cancellation its stock exchange quotation. This may turn out to be a good move for the dominant… Read more »
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JOORABCHIAN’S PRIVATE EQUITY BACKERS
Date: September 4, 2025 -
IRANIAN-BORN multi-millionaire ‘football agent’ Kia Joorabchian has been making headlines again. Last month he continued where he had left off last autumn, by smashing the auction price record at the Arqana August Yearling Sale in Deauville with the €3m purchase of a Night Of Thunder filly out of the star broodmare Prudenzia from Lucien Urano’s… Read more »
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KIA JOORABCHIAN’S BACKERS
Date: September 4, 2025 -
THE FRENCH thoroughbred racehorse breeding outfit that sold the record-breaking €3m filly to Kia Joorabchian at the Arqana sale last month turns out to now have an Irish link. Earlier this summer, moneybags engineer Brian Acheson acquired a stake in Lucien Urano’s Ecurie des Monceaux. The Irish millionaire is well-known in racing circles and runs… Read more »
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BRENDAN MCDOWELL’S INFLUENCERS
Date: September 4, 2025 -
GOLDHAWK WAS not too surprised that Brendan McDowell’s remarkably profitable BPerfect Cosmetics operation did not respond to communications from the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA). The company has form in this field. Last month the ASA issued rulings against two influencers – Julia Haynes and Sarah O’Connor – who promoted the BPerfect brand without making it… Read more »
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MEDIA SETS HEATHER BLAZING
Date: August 21, 2025 -
THE PUNISHMENT meted out to presidential candidates and the relentless pursuit of any of their flaws and misdemeanours has become a media trope, but it hardly applies to the lyrical media coverage of the born-again Mother Teresa of Irish politics, Heather Humphreys. The Irish Times… Read more »
PROFILE: JOHN LAHART
Date: August 21, 2025 -
HARDLY THE most publicly contentious or outspoken of backbench TDs, Fianna Fáil’s John Lahart was chosen to chair the Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs, which involved him overseeing its recently published report on the Occupied Territories Bill (OTB). He must have been highly thought of by party leader Micheál Martin, who has been seen by… Read more »
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VOL 43 NO 17
Date: August 21, 2025 -
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YOUNG BLOOD: GARRON NOONE
Date: August 21, 2025 -
Musician, comedian and social media content creator Garron Noone caused a stir recently when he announced his decision to cancel his nationwide tour and several dates in the US, following a few challenging months. Scrapping the tour is likely to disappoint followers of Noone, who… Read more »
MARY LOU POISED TO RUN FOR PARK
Date: August 21, 2025 -
A STRONG indication of the decision that the Sinn Féin leadership will likely take in the presidential election came with the circulation of a strong editorial in Belfast Media, the umbrella group composed of Andersonstown News and its equivalents in north and south Belfast. This was headlined: “WE SAY: Mary Lou should throw her hat… Read more »
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SALLY ROONEY’S IRISH TARGET
Date: August 21, 2025 -
WHILE ARTISTS here and elsewhere have sensed the changing temperature around the Gaza genocide and started to speak up – even Bono and Bob Geldof felt it was okay to jump on the bandwagon – it will not surprise many that it is Sally Rooney… Read more »
MICHAEL D’S ALBUMS
Date: August 21, 2025 -
WHILE PRESIDENT Michael D Higgins may be annoyed at the Irish Times for its hit job last month – when the paper highlighted the degree to which the number of engagements had decreased over his second term – he does have an unmissable outing lined up for next month, where he will also be hoping… Read more »
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BANISHING BANVILLE
Date: August 21, 2025 -
POOR OLD Jawn Banville must be wondering what he did wrong when he found himself out in the cold earlier this month after the Sunday Times chose its “pick of the top British and Irish fiction of the past 25 years”. Banville has, of course, been one of the truly dominant Irish novelists of recent… Read more »
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DERMOT DESMOND’S INTERVENTIONS
Date: August 21, 2025 -
NOT SURPRISINGLY, billionaire Swiss tax resident Dermot Desmond got plenty of blowback for his recent AI-based intervention in the MetroLink debate. There was rather less coverage of his new role relating to the 2031 Ryder Cup, where DD has joined up with his fellow billionaire old pal and Malta tax resident Denis O’Brien. Coincidentally, the… Read more »
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TERRY PRONE’S ‘MASS GRAVE’
Date: August 21, 2025 -
THE IRISH edition of the Sunday Times recently focused on the discovery in the past few years of another “mass grave”, which is adjacent to the site where nearly 800 infants were buried in a septic tank at the former Bons Secours mother and baby home in Tuam. The grave – containing 48 circa bodies,… Read more »
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JOHN BYRNE’S HOTEL GUESTS
Date: August 21, 2025 -
THE LATEST list of food hygiene infringers produced by the Irish Food Safety Authority (IFSA) got a fair degree of attention last week due to the naming of one of Lidl’s Dublin stores (Sallynoggin) as a business where rodent droppings had been found “in multiple areas”. Of more interest to Goldhawk was the cockroach problem… Read more »
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DUALTA MOORE’S LESSON
Date: August 21, 2025 -
WHILE Dualta Moore’s exciting online learning platform, GoConqr, looked set to become a superstar business, judging by the hype surrounding its launch a decade ago, things haven’t quite worked out that way. Back in 2015, a Business Post article on Moore’s cloud-based educational platform was headlined “E-learning platform plans to Conqr the US”. Moore was… Read more »
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MICHEÁL MARTIN’S REBELS
Date: August 21, 2025 -
DISCONTENT IN Fianna Fáil’s parliamentary party about Micheál Martin’s failure to put forward a presidential candidate has seen an alarmingly high majority of TDs, senators and MEPs – including junior minister Niamh Smyth – polling in favour of running a candidate. This was impudent enough in a party that has until recently been unable to… Read more »
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PETER MANDELSON’S GOLDEN TOUCH
Date: August 21, 2025 -
CANADIAN company Dalradian, which is behind a proposed gold mine near Omagh, Co Tyrone, has upped the ante on its planning application that was delayed by an abortive “public local inquiry” organised by the north’s Planning Appeals Commission. The inquiry, merely a routine consultation procedure for all planning proposals of “regional significance”, collapsed ignominiously on… Read more »
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