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DEFENCE FORCES DIFFER ON SECURITY
Date: July 27, 2023 -
IN THE summer edition of Signal, the biannual magazine of the Representative Association of Commissioned Officers (RACO), Micheál Martin, Tánaiste and Minister for Defence and Foreign Affairs, again went nuclear when the issue of Irish neutrality was alluded to. Signal editor, Ruairi Kavanagh merely asked, “should the government, and indeed past governments, have done more… Read more »
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DECOMMISSIONING ARMS?
Date: July 27, 2023 -
LAST MONTH the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), the most prominent of Britain’s defence and security think tanks, issued a report, “The Defence Industry in Northern Ireland: Leveraging Untapped Potential”. As planned expenditure by the British Ministry of Defence over the next 10 years is estimated to be in the region of £242bn, the report… Read more »
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THE HOT AIR BRIGADE
Date: July 27, 2023 -
All we wanted the board and the council to do was to follow the rules and those rules involve protecting the badger. This is the badgers’ Alamo – they have nowhere else to go. Pat Kenny on permission being granted for the development of a nursing home bordering his property, Irish Independent A move to… Read more »
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CENSORSHIP AT WILDLIFE TRUST
Date: July 27, 2023 -
ONE OF Ireland’s leading environmental NGOs, the Irish Wildlife Trust (IWT) has been thrown into chaos following the resignation of its campaigns officer, Pádraic Fogarty. Fogarty’s decision followed a move by the board of IWT to censor his blog published on the trust’s website that had been highly critical of a perceived lurch to the… Read more »
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DAVID QUINN’S CONVERSION
Date: July 27, 2023 -
IN A shocking epiphany, Iona Institute director and media commentator David Quinn has finally admitted the climate change is… real. “I think a lot of it is caused by us”. This breakthrough comes after years of mockery and denial by Quinn in assorted newspaper columns…. Read more »
SUNAK PLAYS THE DUP
Date: July 27, 2023 -
WHEN LEO Varadkar met Rishi Sunak in Moldova on June 1 he asked to be “kept informed” of any deal with the DUP about re-entering the Stormont executive. He added, “we would just like to be aware so we’re not caught off guard or by surprise and that there’s nothing that would concern us in… Read more »
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McGUINNESS PLAYS HARD TO GET
Date: July 27, 2023 -
DESPITE A glowing profile in the Business Post who last weekend depicted Heather Humphreys as a hot tip to be Fine Gael’s presidential candidate in 2025, Goldhawk believes that this nomination is firmly in the grasp of the, em, grasping hands of EU Commissioner, Mairead… Read more »
MARTIN GAZUMPS VLAD
Date: July 27, 2023 -
NO SOONER had Tánaiste Micheál Martin departed on a week-long trip to South Africa and Mozambique that he hoped would further burnish his reputation as a great European statesman, than Taoiseach Leo Varadkar made a daring – and unannounced – dash to war-torn Kyiv to… Read more »
O’KEEFFE DYNASTY AWAKENS
Date: July 27, 2023 -
SPECULATION ABOUT candidates for the Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) has alerted some of the more paranoid members of both Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael to the spectre of a cunning plan by the long-time FF TD, Ned O’Keeffe and his brood to make a comeback. Time was when Ned O’Keeffe was a junior minister for… Read more »
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SECTARIAN SCOPING INQUIRY
Date: July 27, 2023 -
The Irish Times is refusing to publish on its news pages the fact that a ministerial scoping inquiry into abuse in day and boarding schools excludes Protestant participation. Academic Niall Meehan, who has pursued the issue with the education minister, sent the paper a letter,… Read more »
BUGGER OFF!
Date: July 27, 2023 -
IN WHAT must have ageing PSNI officers heaving with laughter at the sheer irony of it all, it has emerged that the filmmakers who were arrested following their award-winning documentary, No Stone Unturned, may also have been bugged. According to the Guardian this week, the secretive Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) is now investigating the complaint… Read more »
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AI REPORT PROLONGED
Date: July 27, 2023 -
IRISH TIMES hack, Jennifer O’Connell was not five minutes in the role of opinion editor when that bogus article claiming the use of fake tan by Irish women is a form of “cultural appropriation” was published, and she came under critical scrutiny in the days immediately afterwards. Editor, Ruadhán Mac Cormaic quickly issued a statement… Read more »
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MACDARA’S NEW CAST
Date: July 27, 2023 -
THIRD PLACE on the list of Screen Ireland’s upcoming productions is an “Untitled Universal Monster Thriller”, which is being produced by Wild Atlantic Pictures (WAP), owned by Macdara Kelleher. The project turns out to be a movie known variously as Abigail, Abducting Abigail, and even Dracula’s Daughter, and is currently filming in Dublin and Boston,… Read more »
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SHARK ATTACKS GALWAY
Date: July 27, 2023 -
WELL-KNOWN trainer John ‘Shark’ Hanlon must be increasingly focused trying to land back-to-back runnings of the Galway Plate with stable-star and bargain extraordinaire Hewick. A good Galway festival would be just what the doctor ordered for the struggling Shark. Hewick, which was bought by Hanlon for only €850, faces no easy task in the €¼m… Read more »
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WHAT ABOUT SUNDAY?
Date: July 27, 2023 -
FANS OF racing investment syndicates might be wondering what is going on at the All About Sunday racing club, which offers micro ownership shares in racehorses. There has been significant activity on the website that appears to reflect a change of structure. The outfit was founded a number of years ago by Noel Hayes and… Read more »
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BROWNSTOWN’S PANAMA PARENT
Date: July 27, 2023 -
A PIECE in last weekend’s Business Post puffed up the sprawling Brownstown Regency estate outside Navan, Co Meath, which has just come on the market with a total price tag (including the 560 acres of land) of a cool €9m. With its “magnificent reception rooms”, wine cellar, equestrian facilities, and dairy farm, the property should attract… Read more »
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WAITING AT EXPANDING IMMA
Date: July 27, 2023 -
WITH IMMA boosting its collection courtesy of some munificence from arts minister Catherine Martin, there will be an expanded collection waiting for the incoming chair of the museum whenever he or she is finally put in place. Earlier this year, Martin advertised for expressions of interest in the role of chairperson in Kilmainham. This was… Read more »
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KINGSPAN SHARES CLEARLY NOT FIRE RESISTANT
Date: July 27, 2023 -
WHILE KINGSPAN is in the news for the wrong reasons again – this time due to criticism of its sponsorship deal with Ulster Rugby – the really big concern is, of course, the final report of the Grenfell Inquiry due later this year. The Irish insulation behemoth has shipped serious damage over its handling of… Read more »
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HOLY MOLY!
Date: July 27, 2023 -
HATS OFF to Garry O’Sullivan, who is proving that even if it is notoriously difficult for a rich man to enter the kingdom of Heaven, the editor of the Irish Catholic has no trouble filling the boots. Last year, publisher Garry set up a new… Read more »
IAN REDMOND’S BUM NOTE
Date: July 27, 2023 -
DESPITE THE much hyped efforts of the Give Us the Night campaign, Dublin’s rapidly declining nightlife offering was dealt another blow this month with the closure of the Tramline nightclub off D’Olier Street in D2. A notice posted by the owners stated, “The pandemic, together with the costs now associated with running a business in… Read more »
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DERMOT DESMOND’S DIRECTOR
Date: July 27, 2023 -
DERMOT DESMOND continues to slowly ring the changes at his Sporting Emporium casino business off Grafton Street. Last month, he pulled in the skills and expertise of Carol Markey, the number cruncher who currently acts as a director of the next-door Zozimus cocktail bar, a project of Dermo’s son, Dery. As fans of Goldhawk are… Read more »
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PATRICK KIELTY’S RIGHT HAND MAN
Date: July 27, 2023 -
WHILE THERE has been plenty of media coverage of the gap between the pay packet for the incoming host of The Late Late Show, Patrick Kielty and the rather well remunerated Ryan Tubridy, the saving will not be all it’s cracked up to be. When… Read more »
BARTH O’NEILL’S INTERESTING LENDER
Date: July 27, 2023 -
AN ENTERTAINING tussle between Kerry builder Barth O’Neill and his lender, Golden Door Lending (GDL), was settled in the Four Goldmines recently. In 2018, O’Neill’s construction firm, Dunboy Greener Homes (DGH), was a borrower with GDL where the main player is Cheng Bi, who hails from far off Vanuatu. Cheng holds his shares in the… Read more »
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NIAMH BRENNAN’S TRANSPARENCY
Date: July 13, 2023 -
AS THOSE RTÉ committee hearings concluded this week, the focus moved to the clean up at Montrose, which is being spearheaded by Niamh Brennan (aka Mrs Michael McDowell). The question must be, why. Last week, media minister Catherine Martin announced “an independent root-and-branch examination of… Read more »
PROFILE: PEADAR TÓIBÍN
Date: July 13, 2023 -
ONE OF the most prolific TDs with an impressive array of interventions on everything from health to homelessness, immigration and, of course, abortion is the Meath West deputy Peadar Tóibín, leader of Aontú, which is one of the smallest political parties in the state and certainly the youngest. Tóibín could have been a significant player… Read more »
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YOUNG BLOOD: DAITHÍ DE RÓISTE
Date: July 13, 2023 -
DUBLIN HAS been infertile territory for Fianna Fáil for some time but the party hopes that the newly elected lord mayor of the city, 35-year-old Ballyfermot councillor Dáithí de Róiste, can reverse the trend of recent years and lead a fight back of sorts in… Read more »
JUDGE HALPIN V RTÉ
Date: July 13, 2023 -
THE LESS than media shy judge Anthony Halpin garnered himself a fair few headlines last week when he gave RTÉ execs and ‘talent’ both barrels while overseeing the prosecution of people for non-payment of the TV licence fee. He has been the subject of the odd headline himself in the past. The “appalled and disgusted”… Read more »
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HOLLY AND THE ‘SINDO’
Date: July 13, 2023 -
THE SUNDAY INDEPENDENT appears to be still infatuated with Social Democrats leader Holly Cairns and has gone to extraordinary lengths to promote her in the perhaps over-optimistic belief of its political specialist, Jody Corcoran, that Holly is destined to be taoiseach after the next general election. On Cairns’s election as leader in March, the Soc… Read more »
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DOIREANN GARRIHY’S SPLASH
Date: July 13, 2023 -
AS REPORTS emerged of the various money-making wheezes of RTÉ broadcaster Doireann Garrihy, Montrose claimed it was an “editorial” decision to host a number of 2FM parties on boats owned by her “family business”. Garrihy’s father, Eugene, is MD of Dublin Bay Cruises (DBC) and the company’s website states that the ferry company is owned… Read more »
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DIRECT MESSAGES DIRECT TO GCHQ
Date: July 13, 2023 -
IRISH MINISTERS, senior civil servants and others in authority are going to have to take care while using Twitter to transmit ‘direct messages’, known by users as DMs. They are not a safe method of cloistered communication. Goldhawk suggested (see The Phoenix 5/5/23) that a factor in the dismissal of right-wing Fox News mega star… Read more »
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NIALL FORTUNE’S MISFORTUNE
Date: July 13, 2023 -
GOLDHAWK is surprised to spot that a couple of ventures owned by burger king Niall Fortune of Eddie Rocket’s fame are going into liquidation this week, both having availed of the Revenue Commissioners’ debt warehousing scheme that is now landing participants with interest bills. Fortune has been a fixture on the burger joint scene since… Read more »
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RICHARD FORD’S FESTIVITIES
Date: July 13, 2023 -
MAUREEN KENNELLY’S support of the new regime at Listowel Writers’ Week looks likely to land the Kerry gig a rather high-profile new president – Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Ford. A new festival programmer is also on the cards. Arts Council boss Kennelly was a high-profile presence at last month’s Writers’ Week and was photographed with… Read more »
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VOL 41 NO 14
Date: July 13, 2023 -
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TRIPLE-LOCK MYTHS
Date: July 13, 2023 -
THE BIG argument behind the frustration of Leo Varadkar and Micheál Martin, who feel blocked from getting young Irish people to tool up and go to war with the big boys in the west, is that the triple lock on sending Irish troops abroad shackles… Read more »
SHANE ROSS’S CURRENCY EXCHANGE
Date: July 13, 2023 -
LAST WEEKEND, Shane Ross fixed his sights on Montrose, which comes as no surprise given that the former politician is penning a book on the Tubridy debacle. One of those who caught Ross’s eye was RTÉ board member and deputy chair Ian Kehoe, who is also editor of The Currency news website, which competes with… Read more »
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RTÉ BOSSES’ TORMENT
Date: July 13, 2023 -
DAVID NALLY, RTÉ editorial adviser, RTÉ content (salary €150,000), was obviously aggrieved at being ‘dragged’ into the Montrose maelstrom last week by Irish Times columnist Justine McCarthy. But given his role and remuneration as well as his professional altercation with journalist Fran McNulty, Nally appears… Read more »
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