Affairs of the Nation

Rory Montgomery Tom Crilly

Affairs of the Nation

TRIPLE-LOCK MYTHS

THE BIG argument behind the frustration of Leo Varadkar and Micheál Martin, who feel blocked from getting young Irish people to tool up and go to war with the big... 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

SHANE ROSS’S CURRENCY EXCHANGE

LAST WEEKEND, Shane Ross fixed his sights on Montrose, which comes as no surprise given that the former politician is penning a book on the Tubridy debacle. One of those... 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

JUDGE HALPIN V RTÉ

THE LESS than media shy judge Anthony Halpin garnered himself a fair few headlines last week when he gave RTÉ execs and ‘talent’ both barrels while overseeing the prosecution of... Read more »

Affairs of the Nation

Fran McNulty David Nally

Affairs of the Nation

RTÉ BOSSES’ TORMENT

DAVID NALLY, RTÉ editorial adviser, RTÉ content (salary €150,000), was obviously aggrieved at being ‘dragged’ into the Montrose maelstrom last week by Irish Times columnist Justine McCarthy. But given 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

NOEL KELLY’S PORSCHE

NOEL KELLY’S arrival at Leinster House on Tuesday came as a great disappointment to Goldhawk given the blaze of advance publicity about the Mr Big of super agents for the... Read more »
Niamh Brennan

Affairs of the Nation

NIAMH BRENNAN’S TRANSPARENCY

AS THOSE RTÉ committee hearings concluded this week, the focus moved to the clean up at Montrose, which is being spearheaded by Niamh Brennan (aka Mrs Michael McDowell). The question... 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

BAKHURST’S BLITZKRIEG

WHILE RTÉ director general Kevin Bakhurst has attracted plaudits for “hitting the ground running”, maybe he is moving too fast. Certainly, Kev wasted no time before announcing the standing down... Read more »
Niall Fortune

Affairs of the Nation

NIALL FORTUNE’S MISFORTUNE

GOLDHAWK is surprised to spot that a couple of ventures owned by burger king Niall Fortune of Eddie Rocket’s fame are going into liquidation this week, both having availed of... Read more »
Mainstream Renewable Power Eddie O'Connor

Affairs of the Nation

UP IN SMOKE IN CHILE

INVESTORS IN the Sandyford-based Mainstream Renewable Power (MRP) must be aghast at losses continuing to accumulate – €630m in 2022, following on from a loss of €87m in 2021. Founded... Read more »
Elon Musk Tucker Carlson

Affairs of the Nation

DIRECT MESSAGES DIRECT TO GCHQ

IRISH MINISTERS, senior civil servants and others in authority are going to have to take care while using Twitter to transmit ‘direct messages’, known by users as DMs. They are... Read more »

Pillars of Society

Peadar Toibin

Pillars of Society

PROFILE: PEADAR TÓIBÍN

ONE OF the most prolific TDs with an impressive array of interventions on everything from health to homelessness, immigration and, of course, abortion is... Read more »

The Young Bloods

Daithi de Roiste

The Young Bloods

YOUNG BLOOD: DAITHÍ DE RÓISTE

DUBLIN HAS been infertile territory for Fianna Fáil for some time but the party hopes that the newly elected lord mayor of the city,... Read more »

Fit to Print?

Brendan O'Connor

Fit to Print?

DON’T HOLD THE FRONT PAGE

SOMETIMES IT’S not what you print but what you don’t print that tells a tale and, among those journalists who are somewhat conflicted by the RTÉ/Ryan Tubridy affair, Brendan O’Connor... 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?

ANTON SAVAGE’S CLIENTS

LISTENING TO The Communications Clinic (CC) public relations manipulator, Anton Savage, interviewing film producer and media guru David Puttnam about public service broadcasting and the RTÉ crisis on Newstalk last... 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?

WHAT’S THE STORY, RORY?

RETIRED DIRECTOR of strategy Rory Coveney said two things about his and RTÉ’s disastrous project, Toy Show The Musical, last week. The first was that he had received a lot... Read more »

Last Refuge

Helen McEntee

Last Refuge

HELEN’S LEADERSHIP CAMPAIGN REVIVAL

WHAT A remarkable exclusive the Irish Times delivered to its readers last Saturday week, with a large colour photo of justice minister Helen McEntee dominating the front page. The accompanying... Read more »
Micheál Martin

Last Refuge

MICHEÁL MARTIN’S STRATEGY

If Micheál Martin is indeed eyeing up a top EU job, it might explain his discretion on the issue of the US supplying cluster bombs to Ukraine, spurning yet another... Read more »
Garret Kelly Brigadier General Philip Brennan

Last Refuge

MILITARY COUP INSIDE GREENS

REACTION INSIDE the Green Party to its barely reported debate about abandoning the triple-lock mechanism – which requires Dáil, government and UN Security Council approval to send Irish troops abroad... Read more »
Peter Casey

Last Refuge

THE TRAVELLER’S RETURN

ANTI-TRAVELLER and anti-social welfare recipient, presidential campaigner Peter Casey has been negotiating a pact with TD Mattie McGrath’s Rural Independent Group (RIG) to form a new, rural-based party. But the... Read more »

Hush Hush

Rally for Life Mattie McGrath

Hush Hush

FAR RIGHT ALLY WITH PRO-LIFE

NUMBERS AT the annual Rally for Life, organised by the Life Institute, have continued to fall. Only a few thousand showed up this year, despite organisers supplying posters and banners... Read more »

Bog Cuttings

Bog-Cuttings-Defaul

Bog Cuttings

BOG CUTTINGS

TOPLESS CHAOS A MAN who was so intoxicated that he started taking off his clothes in an apartment above a Tullamore pub, believing it was his own home, was fined... Read more »

Fowl Emissions

Citibank Cecilia Ronan

Fowl Emissions

BANKS’ GLOBAL CLIMATE ARSON

Citibank’s European HQ in Dublin’s docklands was bedecked with rainbow flags for last month’s Pride festival. Nothing unusual there – Pride has become swamped by corporate branding in recent years.... Read more »
Luke Holland Climate Denial John Fagan Wolf Europe David Quinn Duncan Stewart Data Centre Carbon Emissions Conor Skehan Chris Hazzard

Fowl Emissions

LANSDOWNE OIL’S SUNSET

It finally looks like it’s curtains for the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT), which allows corporations to sue governments if policy decisions – including climate action – affect their anticipated profits.... Read more »

The Hot Air Brigade

Justine McCarthy

The Hot Air Brigade

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Ryan Tubridy has a lovely home. It is a mirror of its owner – congenial with no excess bulk. Justine McCarthy, Irish Times Her My Fair Lady-inspired hat of swirling... Read more »

High Society

High Society

Oonagh O'Hagan

High Society

OONAGH’S INCOME SUPPLEMENT

GOLDHAWK SPOTTED his favourite ‘celebrity pharmacist’, Oonagh O’Hagan, giving very informed tips in the Indo to hapless readers for the best way to deal... 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

PAUL WARD’S MOVIE PLOT

THERE HAS been plenty of activity on Irish Multiplex Cinemas Ltd (IMC) since that legal spat between Paul Ward and his equally minted siblings... Read more »

High Society

John Collison

High Society

MORE COLLISON MILLIONS IN ABBEYLEIX

IT WON’T come as too much of a surprise to hear that the 2021 acquisition of Abbeyleix House by John Collison has seen the Stripe founder chuck millions of euros... Read more »

Behind the Scenes

Maureen Kennelly & Richard Ford

Behind the Scenes

RICHARD FORD’S FESTIVITIES

MAUREEN KENNELLY’S support of the new regime at Listowel Writers’ Week looks likely to land the Kerry gig a rather high-profile new president – Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Ford. A... 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

WHAT RICHARD SAID

IN THE midst of sell-out hearings into the RTÉ debacle, there was a near-empty Dáil for the sitting to adopt the report of the Budgetary Oversight Committee on the costly... Read more »

Sport of Kings

Baroness Bamford

Sport of Kings

BARONESS BAMFORD’S BLUES

THE GROUP 1 Pretty Polly Stakes at the Curragh is a race that is becoming known for the wrong reasons. Last year, there was the debacle of the Paddy Twomey-trained... Read more »
Nick Luck Ger Lyons

Sport of Kings

THE LYONS’ DEN

THE CURRAGH hosted British racing broadcaster Nick Luck’s usually entertaining Luck On Sunday show live from the track on Irish Derby morning and it was well worth a watch. There... Read more »

Moneybags

Moneybags

Dermot Crowley

Moneybags

DALATA SHARES NOW LOOK UNDERVALUED

A RECENT trading update from Dalata Hotels Group suggests that some serious profits are set to be generated this year, leaving the shares looking... Read more »

Moneybags

David Horgan

Moneybags

CLONTARF ENERGY’S BOLIVIAN LONG SHOT

IT IS no easy task for David Horgan to fill the boots of John Teeling, even having worked alongside him for over 20 years.... Read more »

Brief Cases

Doireann Garrihy

Brief Cases

DOIREANN GARRIHY’S SPLASH

AS REPORTS emerged of the various money-making wheezes of RTÉ broadcaster Doireann Garrihy, Montrose claimed it was an “editorial” decision to host a number of 2FM parties on boats owned... Read more »
Yvonne Brady

Brief Cases

YVONNE BRADY’S SHORTS

A FAIR few of the companies that featured on the Irish version of Dragons’ Den have come a cropper over the years and the latest one to bite the dust... Read more »
SPI Susan Kirby

Brief Cases

MOVIE PRODUCERS’ BIG BUDGETS

AT AN Oireachtas committee hearing on the Section 481 tax credit earlier this month (see p17), Susan Kirby’s film and television lobby group, Screen Producers Ireland (SPI), found itself in... Read more »
Dermot Crowley

Brief Cases

CROWLEY’S EXPENSIVE ROOMS

ELSEWHERE IN this issue (see p23) the finances of the listed Dalata Hotels Group are analysed. One “case study” included relates to the opening of a new Maldron hotel last... Read more »