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PSNI CRISIS
Date: September 7, 2023 -
The PSNI is in crisis. That’s not only because of the decision of chief constable Simon Byrne to resign on Monday. Morale is in pieces after the huge data breach that saw the names, ranks and roles of all 10,000-odd officers and civilian staff published… Read more »
GOVERNMENT ACHIEVEMENTS!
Date: September 7, 2023 -
MICHEÁL MARTIN and his backroom team must be flummoxed at Fianna Fáil’s latest poll rating – at 18% the party is 3% behind Fine Gael and 15% behind Sinn Féin. This is despite FF minders’ recent publication and dissemination of a document entitled “ACHIEVEMENTS IN GOVERNMENT 3 YEARS IN OFFICE – AUGUST 2023 FIANNA FÁIL”…. Read more »
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BARRETT’S BLUNDER
Date: September 7, 2023 -
NATIONAL PARTY ‘leader’ Justin Barrett (see profile, p14) gave 24 hours advance notice on social media last Sunday of a speech he intended to deliver to the nation the following night (Monday). As he made this announcement, speaking in sombre tones as if he were Daniel O’Connell addressing a monster meeting, Barrett pledged to clarify… Read more »
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MICHEÁL MARTIN’S MISSION
Date: September 7, 2023 -
THE PRESS statement from the Department of Foreign Affairs about the visit of Micheál Martin to the Middle East is measured and make no bombastic claims about the seismic effect the Tánaiste’s visit to the region might have. The description of the visit of Micheál Martin as one to the Middle East is a little… Read more »
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DID COMMISSION DO DOWN LABOUR?
Date: September 7, 2023 -
SUPPORTIVE MEDIA pundits and Labour members themselves have already seized on the constituency revisions to explain why the party faces electoral Armageddon in the near future and how it is down to the Electoral Commission’s perverse emphasis on three-seat constituencies and so on. But as… Read more »
BANKING PROFESSOR O’KELLY
Date: September 7, 2023 -
HOW REFRESHING to read an argument about the big banks’ behaviour that does not pander to the populist mob and tells it like it truly is in the grown-up world of high finance – despite the bleating of customers complaining about very poor interest rates while the banks cream it via European Central Bank rates…. Read more »
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MEDIAHUIS’S LEGAL BILLS
Date: September 7, 2023 -
TWO THINGS are clear from the latest reports of the legal battle involving Mediahuis, ex-Independent News and Media (INM) chairman Leslie Buckley and 19 individuals suing the company. Firstly, the allegation that Buckley was acting on behalf of Denis O’Brien – the major INM shareholder at the time of Buckley’s alleged illegal data theft of… Read more »
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IRELAND’S SARAJEVO
Date: September 7, 2023 -
THE NUMBER of approving, even hyperbolic comments published in the Irish Times in the last two years about the book, Great Hatred: The Assassination of Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson MP, penned by the newspaper’s esteemed journalist, Ronan McGreevy, would amount to a small book itself. In September 2021, the IT told readers that as… Read more »
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CAROLINE DOWNEY’S LABEL
Date: September 7, 2023 -
AS HOZIER’S new album, Unreal Unearth, continues to generate oodles of hype, both here and abroad, it is interesting to see that the record label most closely associated with the singer in Ireland, Rubyworks, has just published chart-topping accounts. For Hozier’s manager, the news represents another boost. Hozier is managed by Caroline Downey, best known… Read more »
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TIM HYDE’S TREATMENT
Date: September 7, 2023 -
TIMMY HYDE is best known as the custodian of the famed Camas Park Stud near Cashel and is recognised as one of the top breeders and pin-hookers around. He also holds a trainer’s licence, mostly to run a few family-owned horses for his grandchildren to gain experience on, but he received a minor slap on… Read more »
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MARISSA CARTER’S ‘RETURN’
Date: September 7, 2023 -
THE SUNDAY Times reported at the weekend that Marissa Carter is “back at the helm” of her Cocoa Brown fake tan operation, although fans of Goldhawk are aware that the tanning queen has been making the right noises in recent months, having previously made it clear that she was positively browned off with her business… Read more »
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CIRCLING FITZWILLIAM SQUARE
Date: September 7, 2023 -
THERE HAS been some activity at the rather exclusive Fitzwilliam Square Association (FSA), where a couple of new locals have landed on the board. Meanwhile, there is no sign of progress in the opening up of Fitzwilliam Square park – the only one of the city’s five Georgian parks in private ownership. Back in April… Read more »
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BANK OF IRELAND’S BUMPER PROFITS NO SURPRISE
Date: September 7, 2023 -
THE BANKS have been in the spotlight in recent weeks and it is easy to see why. Bank of Ireland’s (BoI) recently published half-year figures reveal unprecedented levels of profitability and, given that the bank may be looking at an after-tax surplus for 2023 of a gobsmacking €2bn, the shares look grossly undervalued on a… Read more »
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NO LOVE FROM RUSSIA FOR PETRONEFT
Date: September 7, 2023 -
DOING BUSINESS in Russia has, not surprisingly, become increasingly difficult during the reign of Vladimir Putin, reaching a nadir as a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Failing to toe the line can make life very difficult for investors and the downing of Yevgeny Prigozhin’s plane marks the latest chapter in the… Read more »
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MAURICE PRATT’S PRESCRIPTION
Date: September 7, 2023 -
HEALTHCARE GIANT Uniphar recently reported a healthy looking set of results for 2022, boasting a profit before tax of over €58m. There have, however, been some linked companies liquidated last month that have gone under the radar, although the listed Uniphar had nothing to say on the matter when asked by Goldhawk. Presumably they would… Read more »
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NO SO JOLLY HOCKEY STICKS
Date: September 7, 2023 -
A SPAT has emerged between the residents who live around Newbridge College, one of the more affordable private schools in Ireland, with fees of a mere €4,700 a year. The school plans to build 18-metre-high floodlights for the school’s hockey pitch but has hit something of a snag over the locals’ predictable concerns about bright… Read more »
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JOHN MOORE’S VIRTUAL IMPAIRMENT
Date: September 7, 2023 -
SELF-STYLED “rebel entrepreneur” and “concerned citizen” John Moore, now based in sunny Lisbon in Portugal, has had a bit of a setback with his virtual reality punt, Roomality, according to figures just filed. Moneybags Moore made a killing when he offloaded his 3D4 Medical operation in 2019 to Elsevier for a reported $50m. Given that… Read more »
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CAROLINE DOWNEY’S SHOOTING STAR
Date: August 24, 2023 -
INTERESTING TO see a new constitution filed for the unlimited holding company Ronmall, where promoters extraordinaire Denis Desmond and Caroline Downey stash most of their millions. At the same time, Caroline’s pet pop projects have been generating plenty of hype. The new filing for Ronmall reveals a hike in its share capital to just on… Read more »
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PROFILE: IAN KEHOE
Date: August 24, 2023 -
IN A little under two months the latterly eventful five-year term of Ian Kehoe as a member and deputy chair of the RTÉ board draws to its conclusion. While from the current vantage point it seems unlikely that the co-owner and founder of The Currency… Read more »
YOUNG BLOOD: JENNY KEANE
Date: August 24, 2023 -
“HOLISTIC SEX educator” and tantric yoga instructor Jenny Keane has proven adept at garnering media attention ever since she launched herself on to the sexual health therapy scene during the pandemic. Bringing her shtick on tour should generate more moolah but sales suggest that maybe sex doesn’t always sell. La Keane – who describes herself… Read more »
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IRISH ‘NON-LETHAL’ NEUTRALITY
Date: August 24, 2023 -
SOONER OR later ministers were going to trip themselves up with contradictory and meaningless rhetoric about Irish neutrality being compatible with offering political, financial and military support alongside Nato and the EU in Ukraine. Even the Irish Times, momentarily, had to concede last week that… Read more »
TUBS’S IMMODEST SUCCESSOR
Date: August 24, 2023 -
MOST NEWSPAPERS could not resist listing the contenders to replace Ryan Tubridy in his radio morning slot and most were relatively objective in their assessments. Of the weekend’s Sunday Independent, Irish Independent, Business Post and Sunday Times, the last three all placed Oliver Callan at… Read more »
JOHN MCGUIRK’S AWARDS
Date: August 24, 2023 -
THE DEDICATED hacks of Gript, the conservative news website that says it’s an antidote to “the all-pervasive groupthink that exists across most Irish media platforms”, could be forgiven for celebrations this month. From now on, they will get to compete against those liberal-agenda pushers in the newly designed Irish Journalism Awards, where ex-Indo editor Claire… Read more »
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MULTI-TASKING DARA MURPHY
Date: August 24, 2023 -
NEWS WINGS its way to Goldhawk of the revitalised political and military career in European circles of former Fine Gael minister Dara Murphy, who like many whose talents were unappreciated at home in Ireland has made it big abroad. A begrudging media and jealous political rivals made life difficult for Dara as he took a… Read more »
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LEAVING LISTOWEL WRITERS’ WEEK
Date: August 24, 2023 -
THE FUN and games continue at Listowel Writers’ Week where a new programme director is about to be announced following exit of the first ever professional curator after just one year. He has since claimed to have been hounded out by local resentment of his… Read more »
HANDICAPPING BRENDAN DUKE
Date: August 24, 2023 -
THERE WAS a lot of discussion off the turf last week in relation to the attempted eviction from his Fenway House property in Co Kildare of well-liked trainer Brendan Duke. It turns out that the other runner here has some form of note. Duke managed to secure a temporary injunction against the recent purchasers of… Read more »
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FARRELLY’S PROFILE TAKES OFF
Date: August 24, 2023 -
WHILE MICK O’Leary’s almost comical levels of indignation continue to feature regularly in the media, one person who might be enjoying the pantomime is Fingal County Council boss Ann-Marie Farrelly. Ryanair motormouth O’Leary has been to the fore in criticising the actions of Fingal Co Co in connection with the north runway at Dublin Airport…. Read more »
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VOL. 41 NO. 17
Date: August 24, 2023 -
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EDITING THE JOURNALISM AWARDS
Date: August 24, 2023 -
THE 2023 Irish Journalism Awards are being organised by an amalgamation of NewsBrands Ireland and its new partners in this endeavour, Google News Initiative and the Press Council of Ireland. But the impression of an expanding organisation is a reverse of the reality, which is… Read more »
CAPTAINS AND THE KINGS
Date: August 24, 2023 -
EFFORTS TO create a Houses for Heroes memorial to WWI soldiers in the Dublin suburb of Killester, led by local resident Aaron Crampton, have been stalled by Dublin City Council (DCC), which has demanded a more inclusive memorial that reflects the community and history of the area. The Killester WW1 Memorial Campaign website explains that… Read more »
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HORSING AROUND IN THE FOUR GOLDMINES
Date: August 24, 2023 -
GOLDHAWK HAS spotted an interesting looking High Court action that has been lodged by an outfit called Studbook Development Ireland Ltd (SDI), which operates a studbook for the Irish warmblood breed of sport horses. On the receiving end is the body that manages horse shows around the country and three of its senior officers. The… Read more »
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IRISH FREEDOM PARTY ‘FAKE NEWS’
Date: August 24, 2023 -
PRESS OMBUDSMAN Susan McKay recently ruled on a complaint from Hermann Kelly, leader of the Irish Freedom Party. It was Kelly’s fifth complaint in the last few years. It related to two articles published by Extra.ie that included the claim that “far right demonstrators and members of the Irish Freedom Party (IFP) marched to the… Read more »
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McGURK’S BAR COVER-UP
Date: August 24, 2023 -
WHILE THE British government is holding a judicial inquiry into the Real IRA’s bombing of Omagh – death toll 29 – the McGurk’s bar bomb of 1971, which claimed 15 lives, is being studiously ignored, despite an ongoing campaign by surviving relatives. The official line… Read more »
O’DUFFY LIVES!
Date: August 24, 2023 -
For years one of the most controversial far-right summer schools has been the American Renaissance (AR) conference, organised by the New Century Foundation (NCF). This year one of the eight speakers at the conference was Keith Woods (pseudonym of Keith O’Brien) from Roscommon, a prominent far-right personality online. The NCF, founded in 1990 by Jared… Read more »
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THE HOT AIR BRIGADE
Date: August 24, 2023 -
I seem to have developed a brand online where people think I am a rock of sense. Perhaps it was the straight-talking, factual information I provided during lockdowns about what was or wasn’t allowed. Stefanie Preissner, Life Magazine Hozier is niche and Hozier is utterly mainstream. Hozier is specific and Hozier is broad. Hozier is,… Read more »
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MEDIA TURNS ON BIG AGRI
Date: August 24, 2023 -
After years of coverage ranging from uncritical to downright fawning, there are clear hints that the Irish media’s love affair with agriculture may finally be cooling. In the Business Post, for instance, Daniel Murray ripped into the Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA), accusing it of “misrepresentation of science” around methane and criticising its attacks on the… Read more »
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