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Date: June 4, 2026 -
IT HAS been a turbulent year for Ciarán and Gillian Gleeson of the well-regarded Gleeson’s pub and guest-house in Blackrock, south Co Dublin. The couple have been having a spot of planning bother with their neighbours lately. In May of last year, the Gleesons got the green light for an extension to their house on… Read more »
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Date: May 21, 2026 -
THE GREATLY underestimated spin machine of Government, particularly the Fianna Fáil wing, has impressed upon a dependable media that the by-elections in Dublin Central and Galway West pose no threat to Taoiseach Micheál Martin’s leadership but do pose a danger for Mary Lou McDonald’s Sinn Féin leadership. Most government spin pre-election wise tends to push… Read more »
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Date: May 21, 2026 -
FOLLOWING A decade in which Sinn Féin assumed leadership of the opposition to the government, is there a right-wing alternative now in gestation in the form of Independent Ireland (II) led by Michael Collins TD? Coming over as paragons of ‘common sense’ (usually an indication… Read more »
Date: May 21, 2026 -
TALLAGHT GAL Grace Mongey, aka Faces by Grace, has built a large social media presence by sharing makeup tutorials, family life, mental health struggles and everyday routines with followers. With a persona based on being a somewhat frazzled and ordinary “mam”, Mongey (38) originally worked as a makeup artist before launching her online platform, posting… Read more »
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Date: May 21, 2026 -
IN RECENT months the Irish Times has presented a series of stories on Aughinish Alumina metals company – owned by Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska – supplying alumina to Russia, where it is then sold to firms that make weaponry for that country’s war effort in Ukraine. The newspaper has for some years made much of… Read more »
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Date: May 21, 2026 -
MOTOR MOUTH culture and communications minister Patrick O’Donovan was predictably quick out of the traps to put the boot into RTÉ after details emerged about Derek Mooney’s sudden appearance on the list of the top 10 on-air earners in Montrose. A provocative comment by the Blueshirt about the TV licence fee, however, is unlikely to… Read more »
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Date: May 21, 2026 -
A CREDITORS’ meeting has been called from a trendy sounding outfit called Public Pressure Ltd (PPL), which was cofounded by one Francesca Versace, niece of Donatella and the late Gianni Versace. Although headquartered in London, the achingly cool business incorporated an Irish entity in 2021, presumably for some class of tax benefit. PPL is described… Read more »
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Date: May 21, 2026 -
GIVEN THAT Micheál Martin has determined to go nowhere this side of a general election and is already basking in the limelight of a European Council presidency that does not begin for six weeks or so, his would-be successors are performing with indecent haste. Of the seven Fianna Fáil Cabinet members appointed by Meehole and… Read more »
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Date: May 21, 2026 -
AS PART of Jim O’Callaghan’s revamp of the asylum system, the number of centres to be used for International Protection Accommodation Services (Ipas) is being scaled back. Given that the state had entered into certain commitments with providers, the result has been a flurry of legal actions. One of these turns out to involve a… Read more »
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Date: May 21, 2026 -
The contrasting performances of the two candidates from Ireland’s new right-wing networks in the Galway West and Dublin Central by-election races is quite stark. Both AJ Cahill of Irish People (IP) and Independent Malachy Steenson have been prominent campaigners against immigration. But over the past 12 months, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have hardened their… Read more »
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Date: May 21, 2026 -
PADEL IS the name of the game these days and among the latest players to have joined the likes of committed fan Dermot Desmond is young David McCann Jr (scion of former Fyffes bananas chairman David McCann Sr), who has opened up two clubs in Antrim. The clubs have a total of six top-notch courts… Read more »
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Date: May 21, 2026 -
CONGRATULATIONS TO Niamh Tallon, the founder of Her Sport Media Ltd (HSM), which recently landed another grant from Coimisiún na Meán (CnaM) to help with the hosting of the rather well-sponsored Her Sports Awards 2025 in Belfield. Goldhawk wonders if the commission is aware that no accounts have been filed to date by HSM. CnaM… Read more »
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Date: May 21, 2026 -
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Date: May 21, 2026 -
THE GAA and its surprisingly antagonistic president, Jarlath Burns, will be anxious to dampen down expectations around yet another motion demanding the end of its relationship with sponsors Allianz. The Dublin County Board is due to debate a motion from inner city Dublin club St Joseph’s/O’Connell Boys at its meeting in early June that will… Read more »
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Date: May 21, 2026 -
THIS WEEK, the intriguing legal face-off between suspended Gript editor John McGuirk and loudmouth Web Summit boss Paddy Cosgrave returns to the High Court for mention. And the hapless McGuirk is also busy fighting a PR battle with his employer in Gript Media, Niamh Uí Bhriain, who issued a statement earlier this month relating to… Read more »
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Date: May 21, 2026 -
BUSY LEGAL eagle and former Iona Institute member John Reid seems to have taken his eye off the ball and ended up on the end of a rather hefty Revenue judgment. This is not his first setback with the dreaded taxman, however – in 2023 he also found himself on the end of a big… Read more »
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Date: May 21, 2026 -
LAST SATURDAY Kildare county councillor Tom McDonnell took to the stage, while waving a tricolour, in London’s Parliament Square at Tommy Robinson’s (pseudonym of Stephen Yaxley Lennon) Unite the Kingdom rally. McDonnell tried to play to the prejudices of this gathering of English nationalists and, seemingly oblivious to Ireland’s colonial history, he claimed that the… Read more »
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Date: May 21, 2026 -
A SEQUENCE of events involving the IRA and two Garda informants unfolded in 1985, when one, John Corcoran, was shot dead by the other, Sean O’Callaghan. At best, it was a catastrophic failure of management and oversight at the highest levels of An Garda Síochána. At worst, it amounted to the deliberate sacrifice of Corcoran’s… Read more »
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Date: May 21, 2026 -
“Cannibalising” is a word not commonly seen in government-level reports but that’s how the Climate Change Advisory Council (CCAC) has described the impact of data centre growth on Ireland’s renewable energy generation. In other words, the insatiable growth of the former is gobbling up all increases in the latter. Is the council’s stronger language in… Read more »
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Date: May 21, 2026 -
Their refusal to give it oxygen is clear evidence that group-think is far from a distant memory at the national broadcaster. Shane Ross is “gobsmacked” by the lack of publicity on RTÉ for his new book on RTÉ, Sunday Independent I incorporate ethical learning from other-than-human agencies into this vision of freedom, proposing a conception… Read more »
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Date: May 21, 2026 -
The latest science-defying report from the Irish Academy of Engineering (IAE) calls for Moneypoint power station to revert to burning coal and Ireland’s ban on offshore fossil fuel exploration to be reversed. But it turns out not everyone in the IAE is on board. Trinity provost Linda Doyle, UCC academic Brian Ó Gallachóir and ESB… Read more »
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Date: May 21, 2026 -
The once all-powerful Ulster Unionist Party that ran the north from 1922 to 1972 has been thrashing around in recent years to find a coherent electoral position. The party has never recovered after Ian Paisley’s DUP overtook it in 2005 to become the largest unionist party. No new leader has been able to find a… Read more »
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Date: May 21, 2026 -
THE James Connolly Festival 2026 organised by the Communist Party of Ireland (CPI) is the source of a most fractious debate among comrades about Connolly; the primacy of the working class; and, worst of all in these enlightened days, misogyny. All of which is a little removed from the Fianna Fáil centenary ard fheis that… Read more »
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Date: May 21, 2026 -
AS THE vultures circle over Micheál Martin’s Fianna Fáil leadership, a certain revisionism has taken hold in the Irish Times, traditionally the party’s most implacable enemy but which has become its most enthusiastic supporter since FF’s latest incarnation as Fine Gael’s saviour in Government. IT political editor Pat Leahy penned a rather, em, revisionist outline… Read more »
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Date: May 21, 2026 -
One interesting bit of news in the Irish Times’s recent coverage of the ethics involved in state funding of media is that, while the IT group itself has been offered over €1.2m for 2026, the Irish Times newspaper has not applied for any dosh – “to date”. But the rest of the IT’s group (Irish… Read more »
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Date: May 21, 2026 -
THE DIFFERENT line taken by the Irish Times and Irish Independent on RTÉ’s boycott of the Eurovision Song Contest because of the Gaza genocide is a reversal of long-standing positions usually adopted by one of these newspapers – the Indo. The IT once purported to publish a neutral, factual stance on the Middle East conflict… Read more »
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Date: May 21, 2026 -
ONE OF Israel’s chief supporters in Ireland is journalist Dan O’Brien, the chief economist at the Institute of International and European Affairs (IIEA) and a columnist at the Currency. In the last 12 months or so, O’Brien has posted a stream of arguments in print, broadcasting and social media about the catastrophic consequences for the… Read more »
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Date: May 21, 2026 -
WITH A whopping €94m redevelopment project on the go at the Crawford Art Gallery (CAG) in Cork, it is not surprising that culture minister Patrick O’Donovan is urgently looking to install someone with the requisite skills on the board. His department has now advertised for expressions of interest in the vacancy, with a closing date… Read more »
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Date: May 21, 2026 -
RTÉ has announced that filming has begun in Galway on a big-budget thriller called The Yank, which is scripted by Eithne Verling, formerly director of Galway Museum. The big bucks for this project are not coming from Ireland, however. Former Screen Ireland (SI) board member Katie Holly is a co-producer through her profitable Keeper Pictures… Read more »
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Date: May 21, 2026 -
There was a stewards’ enquiry called at Leopardstown on Derby Trial Stakes day earlier this month but it did not involve an incident on the track but rather a matter of law involving Ivan Yates and the Paddy Power racecourse shop staff. Ivan’s son, Andrew, posted on X, describing Paddy Power as “utterly shameless”, later… Read more »
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Date: May 21, 2026 -
THERE WAS no little reaction this month when Local News struck at 100-1 for local trainer Richard Hennessy at Cork. The debutante nag provided Hennessy with a first winner since following his father, Joseph, into the training ranks last year and much of the media coverage of the race centred around Richard’s background as an… Read more »
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Date: May 21, 2026 -
WITH A chunky €5m price tag, Heather Cottage in Howth is strictly aimed at the well-heeled. Locals may be hoping there will be a little less contentious planning activity by the new owners than was the case under current occupants – sculptor Patrick O’Reilly (of bronze teddy bears fame) and his missus, legal eagle Geraldine… Read more »
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Date: May 21, 2026 -
OVER A year after a bizarre story of “covert surveillance” at the National Gallery of Ireland (NGI) emerged, there is no sign of the investigation concluding. In March 2025, gardaí received a complaint about “potential criminality” at the NGI, including the possibility of a listening device being illegally used. A search was carried out and… Read more »
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Date: May 21, 2026 -
IT IS surely bizarre that, for each of the last four years, CRH’s volume sales have actually fallen and it is only through pushing up prices and making acquisitions that the company has been able to report what appear to be very strong figures. This strategy simply cannot continue. In the annual report, when reviewing… Read more »
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Date: May 21, 2026 -
HAVING SURVIVED the pandemic intact, accommodation booking engine Hostelworld looked set to rapidly push ahead after the world re-opened. CEO Gary Morrison certainly appeared to adopting the right strategy but the expected growth has not come and the share price has suffered. Now, however, it looks like these undervalued shares have turned a corner. After… Read more »
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Date: May 21, 2026 -
LIQUIDATOR TOM Murray of Friel Stafford has been installed at a company called Choice Entertainment Ltd, which was behind the highly regarded Choice Cuts dance promotion outfit fronted by Mark Murphy. He has other strings to his bow, however, having been appointed director of Cork Jazz Festival a few years ago. For many years, Choice… Read more »
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