Affairs of the Nation

Jim O'Callaghan

Affairs of the Nation

MICHEÁL MARTIN PREPARES TO FIGHT

THE CALM that that appears to have settled on Fianna Fáil is an illusion and both pro and anti Martin camps are preparing for a resumption of hostilities in the... Read more »
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Affairs of the Nation

TARGETING OPERATION TRANSFORMATION

AMONG THOSE piling in on RTÉ’s Operation Transformation last weekend was Louise McSharry, who is well known in Montrose where she worked as a presenter. That relationship, however, ended on... Read more »
Budget Jack Chambers Nicki Minaj B’Tselem Phil Hogan UCD IRTA DIGI Katy Brown Rory Godson Pallonji Mistry Shark Hanlon Frances Ruane Taste of Dublin Listowel Writers’ Week Paddy Curran Harvey Norman Anton Savage Paul Hourican Enda O’Coineen PfP Red C Poll IFTA Ben Gilroy Luke Comer Sue Spence Fingleton Aubrey McCarthy Matt Cooper Parker Green Danny McConnell Gayle Killilea Maura Derivan Ed Honohan INS Arts Council EDAF Emuse Rosslare Golf Club Mairead Casey Colm O’Rourke Stephen Connolly Peter Aiken John Malone Tom Barry Anthony Halpin Ian Kehoe Kevin Bakhurst Geraldine O’Leary Dennis Horgan RUSI Gareth McAllister Ryevale House Joe Macken RUC Omagh Patrick Connolly Paddy Cosgrave The Ditch Newstalk Fake Tan Fred Logue Ian Paisley Sean O’Riordan Margaret Sweeney Jay Bourke Ellie Kisyombe Francesca McDonagh Ted Cunningham National Space Centre An Irish Goodbye Oscar Robert Quirke Ciara Kelly Executive Women Gathering Doug Taylor Florian Haufe Robbie Henshaw Bill Shipsey Breaking the Silence L’Ecrivain Ronan McNally National Lottery Michael Roche Energy Action Balls.ie Newspapers VAT Abbey Theatre Patricia Madden Irish Banking Culture Board Randox Aoife Gallagher Book Dalai Lama Trinity Trevor White RTÉ Chairperson Shane Houlihan Noel Smyth IKC Bob Geldof Landlord Ireland Neutrality Ukraine

Affairs of the Nation

BARON MAGAN’S BAD NEWS

SO FAREWELL then to Castletown Estates Ltd, the English company controlled by George Magan, aka Baron Magan of Castletown. The hapless George had a most eventful 2021 and is currently... Read more »

Affairs of the Nation

Therese Bermingham

Affairs of the Nation

LEGAL JAMBOREE FOR ‘IRISH TIMES’

READERS OF the Irish Times have been treated to a glut of stories about the spats and schisms in the Scouting Ireland movement and the newspaper has since found itself... Read more »
Barry O'Kelly

Affairs of the Nation

MARC GODART V RTÉ

A PROGRAMME by the Prime Time Investigates team at the end of 2020 examined the apparently lax implementation of regulations to prevent overcrowding in accommodation settings, which is particularly important... Read more »
RTÉ Vacancy

Affairs of the Nation

PADDY-JON WILLIAMS

INDICATIONS THAT RTÉ’s head of news and current affairs Jon Williams has relinquished long-suspected career ambitions to head back to Blighty for a real executive job in broadcasting is evident... Read more »
Eamon Waters

Affairs of the Nation

MILLIONAIRE HOTELIERS BACK TO COURT

A SPAT between some heavy-hitters that appeared to have been settled has been re-ignited, with the legal eagles called in once more. Property developer Padraic Rhatigan and waste moneybags Eamon... Read more »
Prince Andrew

Affairs of the Nation

PAUL TWEED AND PRINCE ANDREW

BELFAST SOLICITOR to the stars, Paul Tweed, comes over all coy when it comes to mentioning his work for the York family: that’s the Duke of York or Prince Andrew,... Read more »
Mary Robinson

Affairs of the Nation

PRESIDENTIAL PURGE

IRISH TIMES news values asserted themselves days after Christmas with a front page story culled from declassified 1990 state papers headlined, “Áras in a shambles when Robinson arrived to move... Read more »
Helen McEntee

Affairs of the Nation

EU SPECIAL POLICE

IT HAS come to Goldhawk’s attention that the garda’s Emergency Response Unit (ERU) is part of an interesting and little known European Union entity called ATLAS. The ATLAS Network is... Read more »

Pillars of Society

Paddy Cosgrave

Pillars of Society

PROFILE: PADDY COSGRAVE

IS PADDY COSGRAVE a spoilt child of the techie boom, a born again socialist-republican or a prodigious, canny businessman? If it is the latter,... Read more »

The Young Bloods

Louis O'Hara

The Young Bloods

YOUNG BLOOD: LOUIS O’HARA

SINN FÉIN is scouring the electoral landscape to see where – and how – it can pick up the extra seats that the polls... Read more »

Fit to Print?

Paschal Donohoe

Fit to Print?

RAIDER OF THE LOST TAX

NEW YEAR’S DAY is always a slow news day, but this hardly explains why the Irish Times devoted more than 2,500 words to finance minister Paschal Donohoe allegedly taking on... Read more »
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Fit to Print?

MATT COOPER V RTE

MATT COOPER is a very busy chap, albeit a little less so since he chucked in his Tonight Show gig on Virgin Media One. While he is no longer a... Read more »
Kate Hoey

Fit to Print?

BARONESS KATE HOEY AND THE IRA

PROVOCATIVE UNIONIST Baroness Kate Hoey attracted more attention than usual with her remarks about nationalists in various professions such as journalism and the law. The National Union of Journalists condemned... Read more »

Last Refuge

Mary Lou McDonald

Last Refuge

REPUBLICAN BOWEL MOVEMENT

THE REACTION from Charlie Flanagan, Michael McGrath and Ged Nash to Sinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald’s remarks on a “constipated” civil service can be dismissed as self-interested comments from... Read more »
Harold Macmillan

Last Refuge

IS PASCHAL RECONSIDERING?

THE CONCLUSION reached many months ago by many of his own Fine Gael colleagues is that finance minister Paschal Donohoe – and more importantly, his wife, Justine – want out... Read more »
David McCourt

Last Refuge

COMRADE MCCOURT

IRISH-AMERICAN BILLIONAIRE David McCourt is a master of spin and soft PR, but revelations in December about the murky corporate structure and questionable financial arrangements behind his company National Broadband... Read more »
John Hume

Last Refuge

STATE PAPERS: JOHN BRUTON’S DIPLOMACY

IN ITS coverage of state papers released after 25 years, the Irish Times treatment of the then taoiseach John Bruton’s stewardship of the peace process, in particular the 1996 breakdown... Read more »

Hush Hush

Des Dalton

Hush Hush

DISSIDENT DISSIDENTS!

ON NOVEMBER 18, Derry republican Patrick McDaid was granted bail after his cousin agreed to provide a cash surety of £50,000. There were a couple of reasons that McDaid being... Read more »

Bog Cuttings

Bog-Cuttings-Defaul

Bog Cuttings

BOG CUTTINGS

‘Dropped His Trousers’ A 43-year-old man pleaded guilty to charges of public intoxication and engaging in threatening and abusive behaviour towards gardaí in Cork District Court. Sgt John Kelleher said... Read more »

Fowl Emissions

Mairead McGuinness

Fowl Emissions

GAS IS ‘GOOD’ FOR YOU

THE CONSERVATIVE International Energy Agency (IEA) created headlines worldwide last May when it effectively signalled the end of the fossil fuel era by stating bluntly that the development of all... Read more »
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Fowl Emissions

FRANK MITLOEHNER’S CAMEO

THE LIVESTOCK industry has come under sustained fire for its oversized contribution to deforestation, surging methane emissions and for fuelling global food insecurity. Just like the fossil fuel and tobacco... Read more »

The Hot Air Brigade

Missy Keating

The Hot Air Brigade

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

You know what? I had the best year of my life in 2021. I moved to London, then to Dublin, and back again, [while] single. And took time to just... Read more »

High Society

High Society

Des and Lisa McGahan

High Society

MICHAEL JACKSON’S BOLTHOLE

WITH MARQUEE properties proving tricky enough to sell in the current environment it is, perhaps, no surprise that a Georgian pile on 25 acres... Read more »

High Society

Domini Kemp

High Society

DOMINI KEMP’S NEW BUSINESS PARTNER

THERE WAS bad news for fans of the Hatch & Sons restaurant brand, which operated two outlets on St Stephen’s Green but which has... Read more »

Behind the Scenes

Michael Wall

Behind the Scenes

ABBEY’S ‘NEW’ CAST

THE ABBEY Theatre has started the new year with its board no longer limping along on one leg, thanks to some late-in-the-day appointments immediately before Christmas. Fans of Goldhawk will... Read more »
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Behind the Scenes

CULTURAL DIVIDENDS

JUST A week before Christmas, Screen Ireland (SI) announced that three new “regional film and TV crew hubs” were joining a new “national talent academies network”. The first of these... Read more »

Sport of Kings

Gordon Elliott

Sport of Kings

ELLIOTT’S CHRISTMAS BONUS

WITH SO much racing on before and during the festive period, a huge gamble landed by Gordon Elliott at Ascot just before Christmas went under the radar for most punters.... Read more »
Tom Magnier

Sport of Kings

COOLMORE’S HORSEPOWER

COOLMORE STUD’S Australian wing, which is run by John Magnier’s eldest son Tom, has come up with a pretty high-end bonus scheme to help in the promotion of one of... Read more »
Sarah Lynam

Sport of Kings

SARAH LYNAM LETS FLY

A NEW year initiative has been introduced by Horse Racing Ireland (HRI) that means that a series of races at Dundalk are restricted to jockeys who have not ridden more... Read more »
Mark Fahey

Sport of Kings

LESS THAN APPEALING

THE IRISH Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) boosted its coffers at the end of 2021 when handing out €6,000 fines to two small-scale trainers, Mark Fahey and Brian McMahon. Both were... Read more »

Reviews

Gemma Leah-Devereux

Reviews

SMOTHER (RTÉ ONE)

DESPITE THE fact that the series was a bog standard drama of the sort pumped out relentlessly these days, RTÉ was mightily pleased with the first series of Smother, Kate O’Riordan’s... Read more »
Small things like these

Books|Reviews

SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE (CLAIRE KEEGAN)

AT ABOUT 100 pages, this novella is dedicated to those who suffered in Ireland’s mother-and-baby homes and Magdalene laundries. There is a lot packed in, but to what end? The... Read more »

Moneybags

Moneybags

Jim Joyce

Moneybags

MAKING SENSE OF HEALTHBEACON’S PROJECTIONS

GIVEN THE continuing exodus of companies from the Dublin Stock Exchange, either as a result of being taken out or migrating their prime quotation... Read more »

Moneybags

Jost Massenberg

Moneybags

KINGSPAN SHARES SOAR DESPITE LEADERSHIP CONCERNS

THE RECENT performance of Kingspan’s share price has been little short of astonishing, especially in light of public relations disasters. With a new chairman... Read more »

Briefcases

Niall Horgan

Briefcases

NIALL HORGAN’S MONEY MACHINE

LAST YEAR proved a pretty good one for Niall Horgan and his Gym+Coffee, which is understood to have shifted significant volumes of its trendy ‘athleisure’ gear, despite the various lockdowns.... Read more »
Kapil Khanna

Briefcases

KAPIL KHANNA’S ALL-STARS

GOLDHAWK was delighted to see an enticing invite pop up in his inbox at the dreary start of 2022, when motivation can be thin on the ground. Happily, the All... Read more »
John Collison

Briefcases

JOHN COLLISON’S PROPERTY PAL

LIMERICK TECH whizkid John Collison ventured outside of his ‘circle of competence’ last week to hold forth on housing and planning in Ireland. Courtesy of an accommodating ear from Indo... Read more »
Douglas Taylor

Briefcases

DOUG TAYLOR’S GOOD PANDEMIC

HIGH-PROFILE horseracing fan Doug Taylor continues to build up his horseracing interests and recently was expanding his stallion interests with the addition of Sheikh Mohammed al Maktoum’s Dee Ex. He... Read more »