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November 1 - November 14, 2024
Affairs of the Nation
HONEY TRAP: RUSSIAN OR BRITISH?
THE SUNDAY TIMES may have unintentionally opened a can of worms with recent articles claiming that the Russian secret service was running an agent dubbed ‘Cobalt’ in the Oireachtas. The... Read more »
BIZ POST BLUNDER
READERS OF last weekend’s Business Post will have spotted a grovelling apology to one Ronan Minahan. But it looks like the issue has not gone away, with a High Court... Read more »
HIGH-FLYING KITE
IT HAS BEEN an eventful month for Darren Smith’s Kite Entertainment TV production outfit. Last weekend, its new series for RTÉ of Ireland’s Fittest Families was postponed following the tragic... Read more »
Sponsored Content
National Enterprise Hub Offers Easy Access to Government Supports for Businesses
Conor O’Donovan, Head of the National Enterprise Hub & Global Marketing & Communication, Enterprise Ireland. Running a business is challenging, but accessing government supports shouldn’t be. While there is... Read more »
CHILD SAFETY POLITICAL DEBATE
GIVEN THE recent public debate about child safety and the allegations made against Sinn Féin and party leader Mary Lou McDonald by Government parties, Goldhawk assumed that the latter would... Read more »
CHAWKE AND CHEESE
SOLICITOR MICHAEL FINUCANE has taken a High Court defamation action against thejournal.ie following its coverage of his clients’ appearance in court on charges of violent assault. Gardaí told the District... Read more »
LOUISE RICHARDSON’S DEFENCE
ON A trip back to the old sod recently, Louise Richardson – Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire – derided Irish neutrality as something that does not... Read more »
SHARK ATTACKED
LAST WEEK the appeal by racehorse trainer John ‘Shark’ Hanlon against the severity of a 10-month suspension for bringing the sport into disrepute resulted in a reduction of his ban... Read more »
LESLIE BUCKLEY’S HON DOC
JUST LIKE Goldhawk’s favourite former EU Commissioner, Big Phil Hogan, former Independent News and Media (INM) chairman Leslie Buckley had to wait rather a long time to collect his cap... Read more »
DOG FIGHT CONTINUES
FOR THE last week or so the Facebook page of animal welfare group Working Animal Guardian (WAG) has been choc-a-bloc with emotional rhetoric following the euthanising of two bull breeds... Read more »
SIR GARRET MISLED BY HAROLD WILSON
OPERATION DENTON, led by Sir Iain Livingstone, is looking at the 1974 Dublin-Monaghan bomb atrocities. It lays much emphasis on the fact it is an analytical review that is diligently... Read more »
Pillars of Society
PROFILE: MARY LOU MCDONALD
IN MAY 2023 Goldhawk asked whether Sinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald could face down a hostile media and maintain SF’s unity and political... Read more »
The Young Bloods
YOUNG BLOOD: SARAH RYAN
Increasingly on Gript Media’s weekly podcast, The Week That Really Was (TWTRW), which Sarah Ryan co-hosts with John McGuirk, you can sense their shared... Read more »
CEA 2024 Conference: Advancing Corporate Law Enforcement and Compliance
The Corporate Enforcement Authority (CEA) held its 2024 conference on October 17 at The Honorable Society of King’s Inns, Dublin. The event was attended by policymakers, regulatory bodies, and... Read more »
Fit to Print?
Ó FEARGHAÍL’S PA: ISRAEL SHOCK JOCK
KILKENNY COMMUNITY RADIO listeners are privileged to regularly receive the views of intense supporter of Israel, presenter and producer Eugene Doyle, although his opinions may not be typical among the... Read more »
SHANE ROSS’S RETURN
SUNDAY INDEPENDENT editor Alan English will be relieved to welcome back former minister and long-time Sindo columnist Shane Ross after an absence since the summer. The ex-politician’s first, predictable column... Read more »
‘IRISH TIMES’ BRICS IT
A SORROWFUL tone pervaded an Irish Times editorial last week regarding the Brics summit in Russia, with the first half of the tract concentrating on “eclipse of the empire” (no... Read more »
Last Refuge
MICHEÁL MARTIN’S U-TURN
WHAT A rollicking Micheál Martin gave to coalition ‘partners’ Fine Gael last weekend, with justice minister Helen McEntee in particular and Taoiseach Simon Harris also getting politically assaulted in the... Read more »
FINE GAEL IGNORES PALESTINE EU BODY
FINE GAEL MEPs have brought a new meaning to the boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign by Palestinian supporters with their own shunning of the European Parliament’s delegation for relations with... Read more »
SHATTER: TD AGAIN OR MERE DISRUPTER?
FINE GAEL activists in Dublin Rathdown are becoming a little edgy about former justice minister and Israel champion Alan Shatter’s general election campaign, which they fear could sabotage their chances... Read more »
DALY TO HIT SOC DEMS AND GREENS?
FORMER MEP Clare Daly lost her EU seat last June due to a combination of factors, with one being a media witch hunt against her because of her anti-western politics... Read more »
Hush Hush
EU’S BEST FORM OF DEFENCE
THE European Union’s appointment this autumn of Lithuania’s Andrius Kubilius as the blocs first defence commissioner is a clear sign of an increase in the momentum towards militarisation of the... Read more »
Bog Cuttings
BOG CUTTINGS
‘GALLANT’ STAND LEADS TO ALTERCATION Cork District Court heard the case of a “gallant” man, who called an off-duty garda a “prick” and a “langer” following an altercation with security... Read more »
Fowl Emissions
HARRIS/FITZMAURICE AGREE ON AGRI
With the general election just weeks away, competition is hotting up as to which politician can most cravenly capitulate to special-interest lobbying from the agri-industrial sector. Though relatively new in... Read more »
DOIREANN BREATHNACH’S ADVICE
Congratulations to climate warrior Doireann Breathnach for making quite a splash in her role with consultancy firm Accenture. She recently stood down as Irish Refugee Council chair and has also... Read more »
The Hot Air Brigade
THE HOT AIR BRIGADE
Like, I look at someone like Ian Dempsey and I feel like genuflecting. Anyone that sees that man should hug him. To have done what he has done [presenting breakfast... Read more »
High Society
JP McMANUS’S ANNUS HORRIBILIS
THIS YEAR has turned out to be a forgettable one for Geneva-based zillionaire JP McManus. Hot on the heels of a ruling by a... Read more »
SLOWLY DOES IT AT ABBBEYLEIX HOUSE
IT WAS reported recently that John and Patrick Collison purchased a nice pile on Ailesbury Road, D4, which is now being given as the... Read more »
ALIAS TOM’S FASHION STATEMENT
THE PROPOSED High Court winding up of Alias Tom Ltd – the company behind the eponymous high-end men’s fashion retailer off Dublin’s Grafton Street – does not have the support... Read more »
A Year of Innovation with NEAT Fusion
As we approach the end of 2024, NEAT Gates celebrates a landmark year of innovation, marked by the success of NEAT Fusion – a cutting-edge, one-piece, easy-install automated gate... Read more »
Behind the Scenes
FIDGET FEET’S SHORTAGES
LAST MONTH saw the launch at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance in Limerick of Micheál Ó Súilleabháin: A Life in Music. The venue was certainly apt given... Read more »
MARY MCCARTHY’S ADDITIONS
CONGRATULATIONS TO Mary McCarthy et al at the Crawford Gallery in Cork, who have just landed some acquisitions to bolster the national collection. Catherine Martin’s arts department has provided €69,000... Read more »
Sport of Kings
KATY BROWN’S ALL-CLEAR
THE BOWLER Hats of the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) were kept busy last month. Along with backtracking on the high-profile Shark Hanlon horse carcass case, they concluded the investigation... Read more »
ERIC McNAMARA’S GOOD BUY
HAVING SADDLED five winners at September’s Listowel Harvest Festival, Rathkeale trainer Eric McNamara continued his recent hot streak when saddling Real Steel to a front-running success in Limerick’s BoyleSports JT... Read more »
Moneybags
PTSB STILL FAILING TO CHALLENGE PILLAR BANKS
THE RECENT half-year figures for Permanent TSB (PTSB) reveal that annualised earnings for 2024 are around 15c, which leaves these shares on a prospective... Read more »
FD TECHNOLOGIES NOW A PALE SHADOW OF FORMER SELF
THIS MONTH’S £230m sell-off of the original core derivatives activity of FD Technologies group – founded by the impressive Brian Conlon, who died in... Read more »
Gold – Uncertainty and Your Business
Have you ever considered holding gold as part of your business’s portfolio? It’s not that surprising if you haven’t, but it’s also not surprising that an increasing number of... Read more »
The Hot Water Brigade
DEIRDRE VELDON’S SMOOTH RIDE
READERS OF The Currency online business publication were treated to yet another gushing interview with a publishing figurehead at an acquisitive media group last week, this time in the form... Read more »
KEITH MCDONNELL’S BIKE CRASH
IT WAS something of a surprise to see a creditors’ meeting called for next week for an outfit called The Lazy Bike Tour Company Ltd. Currently in the saddle here... Read more »
DUNNES STORES STATS
THERE WAS much interest in the Sindo’s exclusive last weekend on the contents of the will of Frank Dunne, brother of Margaret Heffernan and the late Ben Dunne, who died... Read more »
BAD ATTITUDE
THE DREADED taxman has tracked down a company that was set up in Cork to develop and distribute pet GPS systems. Back in 2015 Rochestown-based Chinese national Songtao Dai founded... Read more »
SHARON KEEGAN’S ‘EMPOWERMENT BRAND’
GOLDHAWK IS sad to see that the leisurewear company set up by his favourite “inspirational leader”, Sharon Keegan, is being wound up next week. The liquidation is bad news for... Read more »
Credit Review: Helping Irish Businesses Secure Credit
Recent economic surveys indicate that Irish SMEs are positive about the future, with more than two-thirds expecting sales to grow. To support their growth, many businesses will seek bank... Read more »
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