Affairs of the Nation

Army Report Sean Clancy

Affairs of the Nation

OFFICER CLASS IN RETREAT

THE SPECTACLE of Defence Forces Chief of Staff (c/s) Seán Clancy being pilloried for denying he had encountered any abuse issues as highlighted by the Independent Review Group (IRG) is... 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

CIARA FLOOD’S BANKERS

AS THE dust settles on the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), assorted Irish customers with loan facilities are breathing a sigh of relief that HSBC came to the rescue.... 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

JAY BOURKE’S STORIES

GOLDHAWK’S OLD friend Jay Bourke addressed the AGM of the insolvency specialists’ representative body, Restructuring and Insolvency Ireland (RII) last month. Judging by a report in the Irish Times, bankrupt... Read more »

Affairs of the Nation

Gerry O'Carroll

Affairs of the Nation

GERRY O’CARROLL’S CRI DE COEUR

WITH EACH staging post along the 40-year-old Kerry Babies saga, the prevailing view is that several gardaí were involved in a travesty in which six members of Joanne Hayes’s family... Read more »
Claire Byrne

Affairs of the Nation

CLAIRE BYRNE’S ‘SUPER AGENT’

WITH THE clock ticking in the search for the new host of The Late Late Show (TLLS), there are those wondering if agent Noel Kelly can make it a hat-trick,... Read more »
Peter Taylor

Affairs of the Nation

MI5’s BENIGN ROLE IN IRELAND

THE NEW book by veteran British author and broadcaster Peter Taylor, Operation Chiffon, has much to say about MI5’s activities in Ireland. It also includes a claim by one spook,... 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

ELLIE KISYOMBE KEEPS BUSY

NO DOUBT one-time Social Democrats local election candidate Ellie Kisyombe was breathing a sign of relief last month when she was given just a caution at Blanchardstown District Court for... Read more »
Barry O'Kelly

Affairs of the Nation

MARC GODART’S TENANTS

FANS OF Goldhawk will have recognised the name of landlord extraordinaire Marc Godart on the front page of the Irish Times earlier this week when he was ordered to cease... Read more »
National Party Justin Barrett

Affairs of the Nation

NATIONAL PARTY ON THE RUN

After the fracas in Fermanagh, when antifascists confronted National Party (NP) members at their ard fheis in November, Goldhawk wonders whether, despite fighting talk, they have thrown in the towel.... Read more »
Michael Barrett

Affairs of the Nation

ONLY OUR RIVERS RUN FREE

A PLANNING row that began in 2012 over an Athlone marina has turned into a major confrontation involving Waterways Ireland (WI), Westmeath County Council, litigation and hearings at the Oireachtas... Read more »

Pillars of Society

Barry Connell

Pillars of Society

PROFILE: BARRY CONNELL

SINCE THE beginning of this year, racehorse trainer Barry Connell had been telling everyone who would listen that his horse, Marine Nationale, would win... Read more »

The Young Bloods

Pádraig O’Sullivan

The Young Bloods

YOUNG BLOOD: PÁDRAIG O’SULLIVAN

WITH FIANNA FÁIL continuing to lag in the polls and its support among young people at catastrophic levels, the party is hoping its young... Read more »

Fit to Print?

Peter Vandermeersch Newspaper Vat Rate

Fit to Print?

‘EXTENSIVE’ CUTS AT MEDIAHUIS

THE JOB cuts and restructuring announced last week by Mediahuis editor-in-chief Cormac Bourke and chief executive Peter Vandermeersch gave quite a different vision of the future of Irish newspapers’ than... Read more »
Simon Carswell

Fit to Print?

‘IT’ GOES PALE GREEN

IT IS only fair and fitting that long-time news editor of the Irish Times, Mark Hennessy, should be succeeded in that onerous post by one Simon Carswell. Not only has... Read more »

Last Refuge

Neutrality Forum Mícheál Martin

Last Refuge

NEUTRALITY: THE FINAL PUSH

THE GOVERNMENT has finally decided to launch a ground offensive against neutrality with a series of discussions or “forums” on the issue later this year led by the foreign and... Read more »
Kate Hoey

Last Refuge

FREE FRANCE!

FORMER BRITISH Labour MP, now Baroness Kate Hoey (courtesy of then UK prime minister Boris Johnson in 2020) has enraged even those who normally agree with her hard-line unionist views.... Read more »
Fianna Fáil Poll Leo Varadkar

Last Refuge

POLLS SPELL DISASTER FOR FF

ONCE AGAIN, the media fixation on the latest poll is on how Sinn Féin compares with both Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil. But the existential competition between the latter two... Read more »
Jim O'Callaghan

Last Refuge

BERTIE TO FIX IT FOR SF/FF COALITION?

WHAT SCHEMING object has the most cunning one in mind when he tells Fianna Fáil and its leader, Tánaiste Micheál Martin, that he should accept not only a coalition deal... Read more »

Hush Hush

New IRA John Caldwell

Hush Hush

NEW IRA HASN’T GONE AWAY

In the last few years, a number of militant dissident republican groups have announced ceasefires or merely faded away. The Republican Network for Unity, Republican Sinn Féin and 32 County... Read more »

Bog Cuttings

Bog-Cuttings-Defaul

Bog Cuttings

BOG CUTTINGS

‘SUCK MY DICKIE DICKIE’ SKIBBEREEN DISTRICT Court heard the case of Patrick O’Driscoll (38), who was accused of behaving in a lewd manner toward gardaí while intoxicated on St Patrick’s... Read more »

Fowl Emissions

Roundup Ireland John Hume Jnr.

Fowl Emissions

ROUND UP THE USUAL LOBBYISTS

‘ROUNDUP’ SEASON is approaching – that time of year when Ireland’s verges, parks, playgrounds and farmland are doused in toxic chemicals that trash biodiversity, reduce insect numbers and cause cancer... Read more »
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Fowl Emissions

TECH ENERGY CUTS?

“We have placed Amazon in energy sobriety because we are looking for billions to finance pensions and we believe this money is there.” So said Claude Etchelamendy of French trade... Read more »

The Hot Air Brigade

Peter Vandermeersch

The Hot Air Brigade

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

What I can say is that it’s indeed the preparation of what we call here the newsroom of the future. How Mediahuis Ireland CEO Peter Vandermeersch explains the redundancies being... Read more »

High Society

High Society

Milltown Golf Club Ann Marie Powell

High Society

ELECTIONS AT MILLTOWN

IT’S NEVER all that easy to secure membership of the more sought after golf clubs, especially those in and around south Co Dublin. One... Read more »

High Society

John Thomas Gallagher The Loop Head property

High Society

JOHN THOMAS GALLAGHER’S €10M PILE

GOLDHAWK’S EYE was caught by a puff piece in the Irish Times last week about a property outside Kilrush, Co Clare, that has just... Read more »

Behind the Scenes

Sean Rainbird Bachelor’s Walk In Memory

Behind the Scenes

CHASING ‘BACHELOR’S WALK’

DOCUMENTS RELEASED to Goldhawk reveal the pressure arts minister Catherine Martin came under in 2021 to come up with the readies to enable the National Gallery of Ireland (NGI) to... Read more »
Susan Bergin Marlowe Mullingar Film Studio RTÉ Self-Employment

Behind the Scenes

SUSAN BERGIN’S WINNING BOARD MEMBERS

AT LAST, the 2021 annual report of Susan Bergin’s Screen Ireland (SI) board has appeared in a discreet corner of the agency website. In her introduction, Susan Bergin refers to... Read more »

Sport of Kings

Aintree Grand National Noble Yeats

Sport of Kings

AINTREE’S GREEN TINGE

IRISH-TRAINED horses have won the last four runnings of the Aintree Grand National and it looks short odds that they will make it five in a row in the world-famous... Read more »
Ronan McNally Ithaka Horse

Sport of Kings

ITHAKA’S GAMBLE

WITH RONAN McNally’s imminent appeal hearing over his 12-year suspension, an ex-horse of his, Ithaka, landed a tidy gamble in England recently. The horse is now in the care of... Read more »
O'Leary Horse

Sport of Kings

O’LEARY’S NAMING GAME

MICK O’LEARY performed a U-turn last year by investing in some young national hunt horses to be trained by Willie Mullins, one of which was a three-year-old gelding by Blue... Read more »

Reviews

god creatures

Movies

GOD’S CREATURES

FITTINGLY FOR a movie set in a rural fishing village, God’s Creatures arrived on a tidal wave of hype now standard for any Paul Mescal film. This time, the golden... Read more »

Moneybags

Moneybags

Peter Jackson

Moneybags

FLUTTER ENTERTAINMENT’S DANGEROUS US BET

PETER JACKSON is preparing to seek an additional listing for Flutter Entertainment (owner of Paddy Power) in the US, with a view to eventually... Read more »

Moneybags

Michael Carvill

Moneybags

KENMARE RESOURCES SHARES COULD RISE TO €20

TWO YEARS ago (see The Phoenix 7/5/21), Moneybags noted that Kenmare Resources shareholders should be happy to “sit tight for the next 12 months... Read more »

Brief Cases

Michael Woodlock

Brief Cases

MICHAEL WOODLOCK’S WOES

GOLDHAWK WAS interested to see his old pal, Michael Woodlock (whose brother-in-law was former Fianna Fáil North Tipp TD Michael O’Kennedy), generating headlines last month. The Clonmel-based businessman was fined... Read more »
Marissa Carter

Brief Cases

MARISSA CARTER’S GLOW-UP

IT HAS been a busy few months for Marissa Carter, who was chosen as Newstalk’s Eversheds Sutherland-sponsored ‘Business Person of the Month’ for March. She also launched her budget cosmetics... Read more »
ZMG Cyril Murphy Newbridge College Peter Wilson Sporting Emporium Chris Wholey O'Kane God’s Creatures Film Tax Relief Anne Rossi Desmond Live Nation ESCADIA LTD Al Porter Comeback Gordon Elliott Clayton Love Ivan Wilde hot-water-brigade Parnells GAA Lawsuit

Brief Cases

GOD’S FEATURES

FOLLOWING THE Oscars hype in Ireland, man of the moment Paul Mescal pops up on screen again with God’s Creatures (see review p22), the latest release to benefit from Irish... Read more »
John Thomas Gallagher

Brief Cases

GALLAGHER’S INTERNATIONAL FLAVOUR

ELSEWHERE IN this issue (see p18) Goldhawk examines the story behind a remarkable property on the Clare coast on the market with a near €10m price tag. It is owned... Read more »