Affairs of the Nation

Duncan Stewart

Affairs of the Nation

DUNCAN’S DOSH

LAST WEEKEND climate activist and environmental campaigner Duncan Stewart got a run-out on Brendan O’Connor’s Radio 1 show on foot of the unpopular decision by Montrose to cease broadcasting the... Read more »
Bertie Ahern

Affairs of the Nation

BERTIE AHERN’S REAL AGENDA

WHETHER INSPIRED by some devious and cunning politician or whether they became obsessed with Bertie Ahern’s presumed presidential ambitions, journalists en masse were diverted from the real agenda behind his... 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

SISTERS’ SUMMIT

IT LOOKS like Dublin’s Convention Centre will be the hot ticket in May when Executive Women Gathering (EWG), described as “Ireland’s largest female executive leadership summit”, kicks off. Promoted by... Read more »

Affairs of the Nation

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

CIARA KELLY’S MORNING MOOLAH

AS ONE of star agent Noel O’Kelly’s roster of ‘talent’, doctor-turned-broadcaster Ciara Kelly is proving quite the earner. The Newstalk presenter’s profile on NM Management’s website notes that, apart from... Read more »
Fintan O'Toole Ukraine EPA

Affairs of the Nation

FINTAN CALLS TIME ON BIDEN

FINTAN O’TOOLE is probably the most influential opinion former in Ireland and thus far he has laid most blame for the war in Ukraine on President Vladimir Putin rather than... Read more »
Paul Niland

Affairs of the Nation

IRISH MEDIA AT WAR

A REHASHED article that has effectively been published already by the Irish Times, Irish Independent, RTÉ, BBC and now the Sunday Times again last weekend, lionised Paul Niland, Dublin’s answer... Read more »
Ireland Syria Bashar al-Assad

Affairs of the Nation

IDLIB: IRELAND’S IMPACT

THE EARTHQUAKES that hit south-eastern Turkey and north-western Syria caused widespread destruction of property and tens of thousands of death. The region has been ravaged by war for over a... Read more »
Michael O'Leary School Bus

Affairs of the Nation

MICHAEL O’LEARY ON THE BUSES

IN DECEMBER last, Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary made one of his trademark outbursts, this time with a target that, even by his standards, was unexpected; the subject of his ire was... Read more »
Colin Wallace

Affairs of the Nation

BAD APPLES

DAVID BURKE, the specialist author on British intelligence in Ireland, is shortly to release an old-fashioned pamphlet entitled An Orchard of Bad Apples (which will soon be available on the... Read more »

Pillars of Society

Douglas Taylor

Pillars of Society

PROFILE: DOUGLAS TAYLOR

FANS OF Goldhawk will be familiar with horseracing fanatic and scourge of the bookies Douglas Taylor, whose day job is CEO of the super-profitable... Read more »

The Young Bloods

Anluan Dunne

The Young Bloods

YOUNG BLOOD: ANLUAN DUNNE

CAN TRALEE’S Anluan Dunne confound the critics in Kerry and lead a Green march forward for the party in this most inhospitable of constituencies?... Read more »

Fit to Print?

Irish Media Ukraine Simon Coveney

Fit to Print?

GLOBAL MEDIA FUNDING

THE LAST edition of The Phoenix (see issue 10/2/23) drew attention to the media group-think and bias about Nato’s proxy war against Russia via its manipulation of Ukraine followed by... Read more »
Ivan Yates Nell McCafferty RTÉ Lord Laird Intro Matchmaking NewsBrands Martin McGuinness Dún Laoghaire Pat Leahy Cormac Lucey John Cooney Irish Journalism Awards Steve Aiken Anton Savage John Downing Lucinda Creighton Marina Sologub Eilis O'Hanlon Ian Kehoe Danny McConnell Sindo O'Connor Mediahuis Stephen Collins Book Justine McCarthy Rewriting the Troubles Lynn Ruane Sinn Féin

Fit to Print?

IAN KEHOE’S RTE CONCERNS

WHAT A remarkably detailed account of last September’s RTÉ board minutes was made available to the Sindo’s Mark Tighe last Sunday. And how prominent was RTÉ director Ian Kehoe in... Read more »
Hugh Linehan

Fit to Print?

COLOUR-BLIND CRITICS

HUGH LINEHAN has been conspicuously silent about the race row over nominations to the Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards 2022. The IT’s arts and culture editor, who also hosts the... Read more »

Last Refuge

Fine Gael United Ireland Lorraine Hall

Last Refuge

FINE GAEL CROSSES THE BORDER

FINE GAEL’S move to set up its own organizational structures north of the border says as much about Fianna Fáil’s wavering commitment to a united Ireland under Micheál Martin as... Read more »
Mary Fitzpatrick

Last Refuge

BERTIE’S GOOD OL’ BOYS

DOWN IN the constituency organisation of Fianna Fáil in Dublin Central (DC), one person who will have gritted her teeth while affecting to welcome Bertie Ahern back into the bosom... Read more »
Fine Gael Poll Leo Varadkar

Last Refuge

VARADKAR TAILS FAR RIGHT

THE LATEST party political poll – from the Sunday Times/Behaviour and Attitudes (B&A) – shows again the almost secret war raging between Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, with the latter... Read more »
Electoral Commission’s Catherine Martin

Last Refuge

WHO WILL WIN EXTRA DUBLIN DÁIL SEATS?

WITH ANYTHING from 11 to 21 extra seats likely to emerge from the impending constituency revisions to be brought in by the Electoral Commission, it is not easy yet to... Read more »

Hush Hush

Wagner Group Mali Sergey Lavrov

Hush Hush

THE SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA

EARLIER THIS month United Nations general secretary António Guterres rang alarm bells when he told the general assembly (in the context of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine): “I fear the world... Read more »

Bog Cuttings

Bog-Cuttings-Defaul

Bog Cuttings

BOG CUTTINGS

BUSTED DONNA CARROLL (29) of Shancastle Crescent, Clondalkin, Dublin, pleaded guilty before Cork District Court to charges of public intoxication and engaging in threatening and abusive behaviour toward gardaí. Judge... Read more »

Fowl Emissions

Eco Eye Duncan Stewart

Fowl Emissions

EYE ON THE WORLD

IRELAND’S LONGEST-running environmental TV programme, Eco Eye, bowed out this month after a 21-year run. With the climate and biodiversity crisis deepening by the month, the timing for RTÉ to... Read more »
Climate Disinformation Coillte Climate Action EU Livestock NDC Claude Etchelamendy Ed Brophy Richard Boyd-Barrett Kish Dale Crammond Frank Mitloehner Shell Greenwashing Meta Data Centres Ireland

Fowl Emissions

DAVID HORGAN’S HOT AIR

They say it’s best to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak up and remove all doubt. Petrel Resources chair David Horgan recently left both NewsTalk presenter... Read more »

The Hot Air Brigade

Bertie Ahern

The Hot Air Brigade

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

I’ve been up and down the country, particularly since 2014. I’ve been to conferences on Brexit in all the border counties, huge meetings in Cavan, Monaghan, in Donegal. Next week... Read more »

High Society

High Society

Ailish Kelly

High Society

AILISH KELLY’S FINE FIGURES

IT WAS not surprising to see media-savvy Ailish Kelly of the Avoca cosmetic surgery clinic in Co Wicklow pop up in a Sunday Times... Read more »

High Society

IHT CHL The Lion in Winter Racing Royalty Le Brocquy City of Troy Fitzwilliam Square AIRO Dermot Smurfit Ballinacarrig Park Club Cosgrave Fitzpatrick Keith Jameson National Gallery Collection Marissa Carter VG Tom Higgins Neil Jordan Laura Bonner Paul Ward Variety Jones Dtat Eathos Sharon Keegan Angela Scanlon Desmond Canouan Bellair Estate Bobby Flay John O’Conor Portrait of Omai Eibhlín Ní Chonghaile Wedding NGI Board Rachel Flynn JP McMahon Ash Quinn Pamela Laird Abdullah Al Naboodah Boundless Ocean

High Society

BOBBY FLAY’S FANS

THE ARRIVAL of minted US celebrity chef Bobby Flay on the Irish horseracing scene has got tongues wagging as the high-profile TV presenter and... Read more »

High Society

Killruddery Fionnuala and Anthony Brabazon

High Society

THE BRABAZONS’ BONANZA

GOLDHAWK NOTES a most impressive turnaround at Killruddery demesne outside Bray in Co Wicklow, where Anthony and Fionnuala Brabazon are pulling the strings these days. In the not-too-distant past, Anthony’s... Read more »

Behind the Scenes

Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards 2022 Lorelei Harris

Behind the Scenes

DRAMA FOR THE JUDGES

SPARE A thought for the judges in the Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards 2022, who have been dragged into the latest culture war as a result of a lack of... Read more »
Tailored Films Screen Ireland Perspectives DCCI Crescine Tarka Russell Lara Hickey Reality Check Sarah McInerney Irish Movies Paul Murray Arts Council Dublin Theatre Festival TWU Macdara Kelleher Richard Boyd Barrett DADC Cillian Murphy Terry McMahon Media Commission Ireland Kerlin Gallery Creative Ireland Section 481 Christine O’Donovan RTÉ Storyland NMI Board Vacancies IASCA Ossie Kilkenny RTÉ Original Programmes

Behind the Scenes

JAMES HICKEY’S LEVY LOBBY

GOLDHAWK’S OLD pal James Hickey was juggling his many former and current hats at last week’s sitting of the Oireachtas culture and arts committee. Fans of Goldhawk will recall that... Read more »

Sport of Kings

Horse Racing Prize Money Suzanne Eade

Sport of Kings

SUZANNE EADE’S MONEY TREE

IRISH HORSE racing bodies are quick to champion the hefty prize money on offer here, particularly when the figures are compared with those on offer in Britain, where the debate... Read more »
Homer Scott Daniel Dunne Darragh O’Loughlin

Sport of Kings

HOMER SCOTT’S SOFT RIDE

IRISH RACING took another battering in the Sindo earlier this month when Paul Kimmage exposed an upsetting welfare case involving former trainer Homer Scott. The case did little to boost... Read more »
Oisin Murphy

Sport of Kings

OISIN MURPHY’S COMEBACK

KILLARNEY NATIVE Oisin Murphy made his comeback last week after over a year on the sidelines following a British Horseracing Authority (BHA) ban for failing two alcohol tests and breaching... Read more »
Henry Beeby

Sport of Kings

WILL COOLMORE CASH IN?

GOFFS BOSS Henry Beeby is shedding no light on the issue of whether the buyer of the sale topper from last year’s Orby Yearling Sale has paid his bill or... Read more »

Reviews

56 DAYS - CATHERINE RYAN HOWARD

Books|Reviews

56 DAYS – CATHERINE RYAN HOWARD

ALTHOUGH LONG-listed for this year’s lucrative Dublin Literary Award, 56 Days was first published in 2021. It is hard to see what has earned the book its nomination. Set against... Read more »

Moneybags

Moneybags

Donal Murphy

Moneybags

DCC SHARE PRICE DRIFT PUTS IT INTO PLAY

IT IS fair to describe DCC boss Donal Murphy as being in a tough spot as he goes through the process of rebranding the... Read more »

Moneybags

Brian Larkin

Moneybags

UNITED OIL & GAS’S SHARES STRUGGLE DESPITE $7M DEAL

WITH THE sale of its Maria discovery block in the North Sea to Quattro Energy for up to $7m (the latter is in the... Read more »

Brief Cases

Hugh Cahill

Brief Cases

HUGH CAHILL’S OWN GOALS

IT HAS been an unfortunate start to the year for RTÉ sports broadcaster Hugh Cahill, whose company has just gone into liquidation. On top of this setback, the well-known media... Read more »
Peter McDonnell Helen Brand

Brief Cases

PETER MCDONNELL’S ‘EXCLUSION’

GOLDHAWK WAS interested to see a legal action filed in the High Court last week by Donegal accountant Peter McDonnell against the Association of Chartered Accountants (ACCA), a global representative... Read more »
Hadageo Ltd Neil Francis

Brief Cases

NEIL FRANCIS’S WINNING PERFORMANCE

WHILE FORMER Ireland rugby international Neil Francis must still be red-faced after last month’s Sunday Times front-page apology over his ‘story’ on a former Blackrock College classmate, he has not... Read more »
Eugene Murtagh

Brief Cases

EUGENE MURTAGH’S PROPERTIES

“KINGSPAN BILLIONAIRE Eugene Murtagh is deploying more of his family’s fortune in Dublin 2,” the Sunday Times reported last week. Murtagh has, of course, been retired as chair of Kingspan... Read more »
Niamh Parker

Brief Cases

NIAMH PARKER’S TWEETS

THE STORY of Altada’s travails keeps on giving and last weekend the Business Post featured a large spread detailing multiple criticisms of founder director Allan Beechinor from the recently appointed... Read more »