Affairs of the Nation

Dara Murphy

Affairs of the Nation

DARA’S EUROPEAN PROGRESS

IF DARA MURPHY has long since jettisoned his domestic career boosters – ex-taoiseach Enda Kenny, as well as Cork moneybags and Fine Gael trustee Jerry Carey (see p10) – as... Read more »
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Affairs of the Nation

RANDAL MACDONNELL’S OBITUARY

SO FAREWELL then to dodgy Randal MacDonnell, whose adventures were chronicled by Goldhawk dating back 35 years (see The Phoenix, 24/5/8). While fans of The Phoenix enjoyed updates on a... Read more »
Graham McLaren

Affairs of the Nation

ABBEY’S BAD REVIEW

FANS OF Goldhawk will be familiar with the goings on at the Abbey Theatre, where a near revolution among a sizeable chunk of the theatre community at the start of... Read more »

Affairs of the Nation

Claire Byrne

Affairs of the Nation

BOYLAN’S BRUISED BY BYRNE

THE RAPTUROUS review of super-smooth gynaecologist Peter Boylan’s book, In the Shadow of the Eighth, by Indo columnist Martina Devlin, referred to his “courageous stance in working closely with… a... Read more »
Anne-Marie McNally

Affairs of the Nation

GANNON’S GARDENS

AS PREDICTED, Anne-Marie McNally, political director of the Social Democrats, had a by-election to forget in Dublin Mid West. An abysmal turnout probably had an impact but, behind the scenes,... Read more »
Niall McGarry

Affairs of the Nation

NIALL MCGARRY’S TAX SCHEME

ONE OF the potential side effects of the controversy surrounding the Maximum Media online publishing business (from which founder Niall McGarry has stepped back) concerns a group of Davy investors.... Read more »
Samantha McCaughren

Affairs of the Nation

THE NEXT ‘SINDO’ EDITOR?

A DOZEN or more aspirant editors of the Sunday Independent, the biggest-selling newspaper in Ireland, are being interviewed over three days this week. The applicants are expected to make a... Read more »
Edmund Honohan

Affairs of the Nation

LEGAL STORM BREWING

A CONCERTED campaign by the judiciary to silence querulous voices – be they the Master of the High Court Ed Honohan or lay litigants like Jerry Beades – has been... Read more »
Miriam O'Callaghan

Affairs of the Nation

LARKIN DEFENDS RTÉ’S TOP TEN

THE 1913 lockout is being re-enacted at Montrose, where Irish National Union of Journalists (NUJ) secretary Séamus Dooley has rallied to the clarion call from the Indo and Sindo (once... Read more »
Laura Harmon

Affairs of the Nation

LABOUR GRADUATES

It has been a fruitful year for former Union of Students in Ireland (USI) presidents like Kevin Donoghue and Annie Hoey, who both secured local council seats in May’s elections... Read more »

Pillars of Society

Richard Barrett

Pillars of Society

PROFILE: RICHARD BARRETT

ONE OF Fine Gael’s most trumpeted policies is the sprawling Rebuilding Ireland “action-driven plan to dramatically increase the delivery of homes nationwide”. The person... Read more »

The Young Bloods

Joe O'Brien

The Young Bloods

YOUNG BLOOD: JOE O’BRIEN

The Green surge in the local and European elections last June caused a tsunami of delight in the mainstream media – at last, there... Read more »

Fit to Print?

Kevin Myers

Fit to Print?

MYERS’ DUAL LIBEL SUITS

KEVIN MYERS will be grateful for an extraordinary slip up by RTÉ in his High Court action for libel against a Morning Ireland report, a blunder that occurred in the... Read more »
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Fit to Print?

HERMANN KELLY’S CORRECTION

HERMANN KELLY, founder of the decidedly, er, right-of-centre Irish Freedom Party and spin doctor for Nigel Farage has struck a blow for freedom against what he sees as the “slavishly... Read more »
Fintan O'Toole

Fit to Print?

FIFTH COLUMNIST FINTAN

THE Irish Times has been in full-on battle mode against proposals for a citizens’ assembly to prepare for a border poll and has published a stream of articles from conservative... Read more »

Last Refuge

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Last Refuge

KEVIN DOYLE’S HARD SHOULDER

MIRIAM LORD regaled Irish Times readers last weekend with a tale of how Indo group political editor Kevin Doyle was given the Florence Nightingale treatment by Sinn Féin health spokeswoman... Read more »
Leo Varadkar

Last Refuge

TREBLE JOBBER DARA MURPHY

IN HIS anxiety to defend multiple jobber Dara Murphy, Leo Varadkar made some rather risqué remarks in the Dáil about double-jobbing members of the Fianna Fáil frontbench. Presumably he had... Read more »
Martin Kenny

Last Refuge

LEITRIM IS A VERY FUNNY PLACE, SIR

THE ASYLUM-seekers row in Ballinamore is not over yet, as reported – not by a long shot. Junior Minister for Integration David Stanton has reached a deal with the local... Read more »
John McCartin

Last Refuge

QUINN SUPPORTERS TAKE OUT McCARTIN

LEO VARADKAR has been out-voted – or had his mind changed – by Fine Gael director of elections Paschal Donohoe and general secretary Tom Curran over the vexed question of... Read more »

Hush Hush

Freddie Scappaticci

Hush Hush

WHO REALLY RAN STAKEKNIFE?

The new Glenanne Gang terror probe announced recently has attracted a surprisingly high level of support from collusion campaigners. But the fact that this probe will be carried out by... Read more »
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Hush Hush

KEVIN TOLAND’S ADVICE

YOU HAVE to hand it to the chief executive of troubled Swiss-Irish baked goods outfit Aryzta. Last month, the rather well-remunerated suit took it upon himself to warn the government... Read more »

Bog Cuttings

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Bog Cuttings

BOG CUTTINGS 3724

Losing the head A MOUNTRATH man, who tried to headbutt a traffic warden after repeatedly parking his car in an area of Portlaoise without a proper permit, has been given... Read more »

Fowl Emissions

Richard Bruton

Fowl Emissions

CLIMATE PR

FOR THE global army of Irish diplomats who have canvassed for years on behalf of Ireland’s vanity project – a seat on the UN Security Council – the year of... Read more »
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Fowl Emissions

JOHN FITZGERALD’S PHILOSOPHY

Leo and Richard are fond of saying that they’re listening to the angry young climate activists taking to the streets in their thousands, but it’s reassuring to know that, ultimately,... Read more »

High Society

High Society

Dave Price

High Society

EDEN ONE VS PERPETUA

THE LULULEMON-sporting gym bunnies in D4 will be excited at the news that January 15 has been set as the date for the opening... Read more »

High Society

Consuelo O’Connor

High Society

CARRY-ON AT THE CARBERY HUNT

GOLDHAWK was surprised to see claims of “disgraceful” behaviour associated with the long-established Carbery Foxhounds in Bandon, Co Cork (not to be confused with... Read more »

High Society

Marian O'Gorman

High Society

GREG O’GORMAN’S NEW HURDLE

PRESUMABLY, members of the O’Gorman family will be hoping for a quiet 2020 now that the High Court family spat is well behind them. For Greg O’Gorman, the new year... Read more »

Behind the Scenes

Josepha Madigan

Behind the Scenes

THEATRICAL LICENCE AT THE ABBEY

VERY LATE in the day, the Abbey Theatre has got around to advertising the three long-unfilled vacancies on its board. Unusually, however, the call for expressions of interest has been... Read more »
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Behind the Scenes

BUCZKOWSKA JOINS ARTS COUNCIL

GOOD TO report that the Arts Council is back up to full strength following the resignation for personal reasons at the end of October of Vodafone’s head of talent, Claudine... Read more »
Tom Sherry

Behind the Scenes

KATE O’RIORDAN’S RTÉ DRAMA

AT A time when Dee Forbes and RTÉ have again been crying wolf about the death of public-service broadcasting, Montrose has given a plum commission to the BBC’s international sales... Read more »

Sport of Kings

David Dunne

Sport of Kings

DUNNE AND DUSTED?

THE CASE featuring the testing positive for an anabolic steroid of the David Dunne-trained Druim Samhraidh following his win at Ballinrobe in August has come to a conclusion. While Dunne... Read more »
Declan McDonagh

Sport of Kings

DECLAN MCDONAGH’S OPPORTUNITY

DONNACHA O’BRIEN’S departure from the weighing room isn’t exactly great news for Irish trainers, given they now have another O’Brien handler to contend with, but it will surely provide some... Read more »
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Sport of Kings

QUINLAN’S NARROW ESCAPE

THE WAR on drugs continues, but it remains a serious concern for the sport that such a high proportion of jockeys are engaging in the dangerous activity of riding with... Read more »
Tim Husbands

Sport of Kings

TIM HUSBANDS’S HOMEWORK

ONE PERSON who will be keeping a close eye on the racing at Leopardstown this Christmas is the track’s soon-to-be manager, Tim Husbands. Husbands, whose career has been focused mainly... Read more »

Reviews

Chaos is a friend

Books

CHAOS IS A FRIEND OF MINE – EWAN MACKENNA

THERE IS no question that the Conor McGregor story is a classic of the sports genre: a man who once looked like he was on the path to sporting immortality... Read more »

Moneybags

Moneybags

Tom O'Mahony

Moneybags

UNLOVED ORIGIN ENTERPRISES SHARES UNDER-RATED

TOM O’MAHONY has taken two significant steps in his ongoing development of Origin Enterprises. Most recently, there was the €48m sale of the group’s... Read more »

Moneybags

Fiona Muldoon

Moneybags

FIONA MULDOON LEAVES FBD STRUGGLING

DESPITE THE poor track record of Irish-owned general insurance companies – Equitable Insurance, PMPA, AIB’s Insurance Corporation of Ireland and Quinn Direct – Fiona... Read more »

Brief Cases

Nicholas O'Connor

Brief Cases

NICHOLAS O’CONNOR’S BAD LUCK

SPARE a thought for Goldhawk’s old pal Nicholas O’Connor, who just can’t seem to catch a break. Following the taxman slapping him with a judgment for a paltry €6,000 in... Read more »
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Brief Cases

SEAN MCKEON’S LIQUIDATION

GOLDHAWK spotted an interesting High Court judgment recently relating to a company called Sutton Castle Developments Ltd (SCD). This turns out to be a subsidiary of the MKN property group,... Read more »
Ray Norton

Brief Cases

RAY NORTON’S CONSUMER WARNING

THE BIZARRE saga of Ennis businessman Ray Norton’s online tech retailer Click.ie rattles on. Last week, the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) issued a public warning after becoming “concerned... Read more »
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Brief Cases

MOUNTAINVIEW’S INSECURITIES

A FAMILIAR company that popped up on the Revenue’s latest list of tax defaulters was Castlebar property outfit Mountainview Securities Ltd. The once-mighty construction and property vehicle, now in receivership,... Read more »
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Brief Cases

MORE HEAT FOR HAVANA THERAPY

A DUBLIN company called Havana Digital Media Ltd (HDML) has just had a small tax judgment (€4,000) registered against it. Although their names don’t appear on company documents, the entity... Read more »
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Brief Cases

JEAN LOGUE’S TAX BILL

A SMALL hotel company called Spanish Point Investments Ltd was named on the latest tax defaulters list. This is the entity behind the Bellbridge House Hotel in Miltown Malbay, Co... Read more »
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Brief Cases

ALL THAT GLITTERS

NEXT WEEK the dreaded taxman will be in the High Court seeking to wind up the high-profile Hynes Jewellers (Wexford) operation. This is actually the second time creditors have come... Read more »
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Brief Cases

IPA’S NEW DIRECTORY

GOLDHAWK looks forward to this time of year when the Institute of Public Administration’s indispensable annual directory, Ireland – A Directory, lands on his desk, jammed full of useful information... Read more »