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ANNUAL 2023: GOVERNMENT – VARADKAR TO CALL EARLY ELECTION?
Date: November 15, 2023 -
THE POLITICAL debate right now – public and private – is not simply who will win the next general election but when it will be called and will that make a difference. Two scenarios exist, with the first of these frightening the life out of Fianna Fáil TDs as suspicion grew over the past year… Read more »
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ANNUAL 2023: GOLDHAWK’S AWARDS FOR THE PASSING PARADE 2023
Date: November 15, 2023 -
DEE FORBES THERE WAS only ever one real contender for the 2023 Where’s Wally TV Drama Award. The biggest hit show this summer was without doubt Montrose, which was streamed daily to a gobsmacked public (formerly known as licence fee payers) starring ‘top talent’ Ryan Tubridy and a host of RTÉ extras. The nation became… Read more »
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ANNUAL 2023: OPPOSITION – SINN FÉIN: LEFT OR RIGHT?
Date: November 15, 2023 -
Can the forward march of Sinn Féin be halted? Will the party be left like Peri at the gates of paradise gazing on the promised land but unable to get past the door? Or will it put together a coalition for change that will make… Read more »
ANNUAL 2023: INDEPENDENTS/TROTS – NON-REPUBLICAN LEFT SQUEEZED
Date: November 15, 2023 -
READING HEADLINE coverage of political opinion polls, things could hardly be better for opposition parties and for the left in general. The conventional parties (Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael) are in retreat and the combined parties of the left have around 50% support. In the past, that’s been enough to assemble an overall majority. What… Read more »
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ANNUAL 2023: NORTHERN IRELAND – NORTH’S COMA
Date: November 15, 2023 -
The British government’s best effort at making political progress in the north was the Windsor Framework, which was agreed with the EU on February 27. In the words of the DUP’s Ian Paisley MP, it “did not cut the mustard”. The DUP has refused to join an executive at Stormont since collapsing it last year…. Read more »
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ANNUAL 2023: PROFILE – MICHAEL D HIGGINS
Date: November 15, 2023 -
In recent years supporters of the state of Israel in the US, UK, Germany and France have attempted to conflate criticism of its ruling ideology, Zionism, with anti-Semitism. They use anti-racism to justify a racist message. After Hamas launched its October 7 attack, Israel supporters… Read more »
ANNUAL 2023: PRINT MEDIA NOT YET ON THE ROCKS
Date: November 15, 2023 -
IRELAND’S PRINT media resembles the Titanic. With print revenues falling and digital income insufficient to make up the difference, disaster seems pre-programmed. But, while the Titanic’s collision with an iceberg came as a terrible surprise, the slow strangulation of the Irish newspaper and magazine industry has been under way for a long time. Every year,… Read more »
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ANNUAL 2023 – AIRWAVES – 2023: RTÉ’S END GAME?
Date: November 15, 2023 -
AFTER YEARS of dire warnings about incompetent management, waste and dubious work practices, the scandal surrounding secret payments to Ryan Tubridy finally laid bare the whole decaying edifice and the end of RTÉ, as we know it, is coming fast. In March Tubridy made the… Read more »
ANNUAL 2023: CLERICAL ERRORS – McALEESE FIGHTS ON
Date: November 15, 2023 -
THE MONTH-LONG Synod on Synodality convened in Rome by Pope Francis to update world Catholicism ended in anti-climax on Sunday October 29. This means that unresolved issues – such as same-sex unions and the ordination of the 600 million women who constitute half of Church membership – have been deferred until next autumn, when the… Read more »
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ANNUAL 2023: WIGS ON THE GREEN
Date: November 15, 2023 -
THE THEME of the legal system this year was very much a religious one so the end of year round-up fits very nicely. For example, a monk was in court – and then he wasn’t. The legal system is really all about hierarchies, temporal or spiritual — someone is at the bottom and someone is… Read more »
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ANNUAL 2023: ACADEMIA – ACADEMIC ‘ARSE COVERING’
Date: November 15, 2023 -
It hasn’t been a great year for the university sector. The glitz began to come off the new technological universities (TUs), while a couple of the longer-established unis ran into heavy weather over governance issues. They also earned a rebuke from education minister Norma Foley over their generosity in issuing honours degrees. They had criticised… Read more »
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ANNUAL 2023: FOREIGN FROLICS – IRISH FOREIGN POLICY REVERTS
Date: November 15, 2023 -
Foreign affairs have been dominated for most of the year, as they were last year, by the ongoing war in Ukraine. Now, however, the horrors of that war have been added to by the savage Israeli assault on Gaza, supposedly in retaliation for an astonishing assault by Hamas militants within Israel itself. The Israeli assault… Read more »
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ANNUAL 2023: BEHIND THE SCENES – BONO, BANSHEES AND BRENDAN BEHAN
Date: November 15, 2023 -
ONCE AGAIN, Bono, Larry Mullen Jr, Adam Clayton and The Edge were the subjemuch of the entertainment media’s focus in 2023, notably thanks to their effectively hyped Las Vegas stint, which has seen the boys in receipt of an award greater than any prize – oodles of cash. The band did have some competition for… Read more »
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ANNUAL 2023: HIGH SOCIETY – 2023: MONEY AND INFLUENCE
Date: November 15, 2023 -
AS ALWAYS, the year features an awful lot of people spending an awful lot of money and, in many cases, a large chunk ended up in the coffers of the legal eagles as parties fell out for assorted reasons. When they weren’t slugging it out… Read more »
ANNUAL 2023: MONEYBAGS – WHO WILL OVERCOME THE INTEREST RATE AND GEOPOLITICAL CHALLENGES IN 2024?
Date: November 15, 2023 -
AFTER A decade of unprecedented low interest rates, the market is not finding it easy to cope with the very hefty 5% increase in ECB base rates, from a minus 0.5% to the current positive 4.5%. Combined with inflated energy prices, which have not returned to pre-Ukraine war levels, and the disruption to supply lines,… Read more »
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ANNUAL 2023: MONEYBAGS – WINNERS AND LOSERS IN 2023
Date: November 15, 2023 -
THESE ARE pretty uncertain times courtesy of the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, inflation, and interest rates. Different sectors have dealt with the challenges in different ways but it is surprising that the top of both the winners and losers share tables were companies in the health sector. WINNERS TOPPING THE winners table for 2023… Read more »
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ANNUAL 2023: MONEYBAGS – NAMA AND THE HOUSING CRISIS
Date: November 15, 2023 -
AS HOUSING continues to be the domestic political issue of the day, with the Government sweating that it will be the one that effectively decides the next election, it is time to take a serious look at the single most important player in the crisis, the National Assets Management Agency (Nama). Its fingerprints are all… Read more »
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ANNUAL 2023: BRIEF CASES – 2023: A YEAR OF COURT CASES AND SOUR DISHES
Date: November 15, 2023 -
IT’S BEEN a tough end to 2023 for Paddy Cosgrave, who for years has got away with spouting all sorts of nonsense online (dead nurses, anyone?) but had the dreadful misfortune of sending his Web Summit into a spiral over some rather banal truths about Israel’s campaign of brutalising the Palestinian people. But, of course,… Read more »
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‘A EUROPEAN ARMY — GETTING CLOSE’
Date: November 2, 2023 -
A DEAFENING silence from the media and its normally enthusiastic security correspondents surrounds the European Union’s first ever live military exercise – near Cadiz in southern Spain – that included the Irish Defence Forces. The Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence, Micheál Martin, has had much to say about the conflict in Palestine… Read more »
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PROFILE: TERRY PRONE
Date: November 2, 2023 -
THE QUEEN of public relations in Ireland, Terry Prone, has just published a select compilation of events amounting to an autobiography entitled Caution to the Wind — A Memoir. Does this suggest that 74-year-old Terry is nearing retirement or even the winding down of her career, fuelled by a prodigious work rate, as a media… Read more »
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YOUNG BLOOD: CONOR MCGUINNESS
Date: November 2, 2023 -
WITH Sinn Féin continuing to ride high in the opinion polls, the party is now getting down to the serious business of preparing candidates and constituencies for a second TD (even three in some constituencies), with Dungarvan councillor Conor McGuinness high on its list of winnable seats in Waterford. SF TD David Cullinane, who is… Read more »
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SIGHTS SET ON STRASBOURG
Date: November 2, 2023 -
THE FIRST ever female president of the European Court of Human Rights (EHCR), Síofra O’Leary, was the subject of a glowing profile in the Business Post last month, with the paper noting that she has “presided over some of the most historic cases of our time”. What is of rather more interest, at least to… Read more »
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‘DISAPPEARED’ HACK
Date: November 2, 2023 -
THERE WAS much revelry and mutual congratulation at Dublin’s Sugar Club to mark the 50th anniversary of the Sunday Worst in conjunction with Nicola Tallant’s Crime World event. “To celebrate we are looking back over some of the front page stories, scandals with the big… Read more »
COUNT KAZ AND THE REFUGEES
Date: November 2, 2023 -
THE LOW-profile loaded Count Kazimierz ‘Kaz’ Balinski-Jundzill raised his head last week to challenge a plan by the state to house 950 Ukrainians on his Glendalough estate in Co Wicklow for 32 weeks, saying he will deny access to the lands, which he believes to… Read more »
MOORE McDOWELL’S ‘CONFLICT’
Date: November 2, 2023 -
THERE WAS quite a setback last month in the High Court for private hospital entrepreneur Shay Sweeney in his (very) long-running case against health insurer VHI, which has been in train for the best part of a decade. One big factor in the delay was the proposed role in affairs of one Moore McDowell, brainy… Read more »
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JIMMY SAVILE AND TED HEATH
Date: November 2, 2023 -
Steve Coogan has earned plaudits for his unnerving portrayal of the late Jimmy Savile, the notorious BBC celebrity and child sex abuser. The late Ted Heath, the former UK prime minister (1970-74) who died in 2005, was another child sex predator. In 2017 after a… Read more »
ALAN DILLON KEEPS TABS ON TUBS
Date: November 2, 2023 -
THE NEW chairman of the Fine Gael parliamentary party, Alan Dillon, is also leas chathaoirleach of the joint committee on media and a member of the Dáil Public Accounts Committee. One expects, therefore, that he would keep well up to speed on financial developments in… Read more »
EOGHAN HARRIS IS BACK
Date: November 2, 2023 -
DUBLIN UNIONISTS are called to a small room in Buswell’s Hotel on November 8 to discuss ‘Irish Protestant minority experiences’. There, northern unionists and Eoghan Harris, a faithful southern friend, will instruct them on how Protestants never had it so bad. Contributors to Protestant and Irish, the definitive book with a different opinion, have not… Read more »
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VOL 41 NO 22
Date: November 2, 2023 -
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NOT EMUSED
Date: November 2, 2023 -
THE FINAL page has been turned on the story of the multimillion-euro collapse of Irish TV tech outfit Emuse. Liquidator Joseph Walsh has called the final creditors’ meeting for the company, which has featured some familiar faces down the years. Emuse was set up at the end of 1998 by former college lecturer Patrick Rainsford… Read more »
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DEMOCRATIC WEST
Date: November 2, 2023 -
A FAVOURITE argument of Leo Varadkar and Micheál Martin is that the Russians have a stranglehold over Irish foreign policy because they can block any motion on the UN Security Council with their power of veto. The triple requirement for sending Irish troops abroad is… Read more »
MEDIA WAR ERUPTS
Date: November 2, 2023 -
PHOENIX READERS will be familiar with the secession of Belgian multinational Mediahuis – the biggest media group in Ireland by far – from Newsbrands Ireland, the newspaper lobby group that for many years also organised an annual journalism awards contest. Mediahuis Ireland boss Peter Vandermeersch was mightily peed off at the “unfair” treatment meted out… Read more »
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STORMIN’ NORMAN’S HEADLINES
Date: November 2, 2023 -
FAIR PLAY to Stormin’ Norman Crowley – he has the promotion of his Cool Planet brand down to a fine art. The latest example of his ability to generate headlines came in the Sindo last weekend, which ran a piece headlined: “Cool Planet aims to… Read more »
DODGY DUBLIN DECLARATION
Date: November 2, 2023 -
IN OCTOBER 2022 Teagasc, the state agriculture research agency, hosted a conference of meat industry activists. Arising from this, the so-called ‘Dublin Declaration’ was issued. Since then, this one-page declaration has proved an invaluable industry lobbying tool. The conference was opened by minister of state (and beef farmer) Martin Heydon, with European commissioner Mairead McGuinness… Read more »
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PALESTINIAN REPUBLICAN LINKS
Date: November 2, 2023 -
In the last month Irish politicians from Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil, Sinn Féin, the Social Democrats and even Labour have walked a fine line as they condemned the co-ordinated attacks by Palestinian militants on Israel, while at the same time showing solidarity with the population… Read more »
THE HOT AIR BRIGADE
Date: November 2, 2023 -
The resignation this week of Web Summit chief executive Paddy Cosgrave somehow managed to be both startling and utterly predictable at the same time, not unlike Cosgrave himself. He’s always been an energetic creative dynamo with a contrarian bent. Karlin Lillington, Irish Times Bono talks about the cycle of creating, degenerating and regenerating as a… Read more »
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