Affairs of the Nation

Kevin Bakhurst

Affairs of the Nation

BAKHURST ‘CONFLICT OF INTEREST’

RTÉ’S SAVIOUR, new director general, Kevin Bakhurst, has made much of the need for a register of RTÉ employees’ interests and the avoidance of conflicts of interests. Bakhurst knows what... Read more »
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Affairs of the Nation

TOM BARRY’S FERTILE PROFITS

CONGRATULATIONS ARE in order for agribusiness operator and property investor Tom Barry, who has been making hay while the sun shines. Clearly, he has put his embarrassing carry-on in the... 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

JOHN MALONE’S TACTICS

IT WAS hardly surprising that Virgin Media should wade into the RTÉ pay and governance row. The owner of the station is so-called ‘cable cowboy’ John Malone, who has, however,... Read more »

Affairs of the Nation

Paul Cullen Climate

Affairs of the Nation

RYANAIR’S HOT AIR

THIS YEAR is, according to the Climate Change Advisory Council (CCAC) “a critical year for delivery of Ireland’s national climate action”. Given that total national emissions reductions in 2022 amounted... Read more »
Lucinda Creighton Mali

Affairs of the Nation

MALIGN MALIAN MISSION

SOMETIMES THE language of western diplomats jars with reality, especially when explaining the high-minded, humanitarian reasons for invading countries or even, as recently, when rationalising a hasty exit when things... Read more »
Malcolm Byrne Aodhagán Ó Súird

Affairs of the Nation

MALCOLM BYRNE’S “EXTRAORDINARY” EVIDENCE

THE IMPROPER sacking of Aodhagán Ó Súird as principal of Wexford primary school Gaelscoil Moshíológ has generated plenty of headlines given the 11 years it took for the matter to... Read more »
Moya Doherty

Affairs of the Nation

RTÉ BOARD BACK IN THE MONEY

WITH THE wait for RTÉ’s 2022 annual report going on, there will be some information included that may be of interest to followers of events at Montrose, specifically a return... Read more »
Andrew Cottey Signal

Affairs of the Nation

DEFENCE FORCES DIFFER ON SECURITY

IN THE summer edition of Signal, the biannual magazine of the Representative Association of Commissioned Officers (RACO), Micheál Martin, Tánaiste and Minister for Defence and Foreign Affairs, again went nuclear... Read more »
Hugo McNeill Richard Moore

Affairs of the Nation

TOFFS AGAINST TERRORISM

MI6 CHIEF Richard Moore paid a visit to Prague recently where he implored Russian officials to contact his service to help overthrow Vladimir Putin. Moore’s words were designed to prick... Read more »

Pillars of Society

Paschal Donohoe

Pillars of Society

PROFILE: PASCHAL DONOHOE

IN 2002, Jim Mitchell TD was Fine Gael’s deputy leader and finance spokesman. Neither of those exalted positions saved him from losing his Dublin... Read more »

The Young Bloods

The Young Bloods

YOUNG BLOOD: KIERAN CORRIGAN

EVER SINCE he kicked off his social media career in 2019, Kieran Corrigan has been trying hard – some might say way too hard... Read more »

Fit to Print?

Niall Meehan Dean Robert McCarthy

Fit to Print?

SECTARIAN SCOPING INQUIRY

The Irish Times is refusing to publish on its news pages the fact that a ministerial scoping inquiry into abuse in day and boarding schools excludes Protestant participation. Academic Niall... Read more »
Diageo Dana An Garda Síochána IT Trust No Stone Unturned Irish Times Black Friday Vicky Conway

Fit to Print?

BUGGER OFF!

IN WHAT must have ageing PSNI officers heaving with laughter at the sheer irony of it all, it has emerged that the filmmakers who were arrested following their award-winning documentary,... Read more »
Genivieve Carberry Review

Fit to Print?

AI REPORT PROLONGED

IRISH TIMES hack, Jennifer O’Connell was not five minutes in the role of opinion editor when that bogus article claiming the use of fake tan by Irish women is a... Read more »

Last Refuge

Mairead McGuinness

Last Refuge

McGUINNESS PLAYS HARD TO GET

DESPITE A glowing profile in the Business Post who last weekend depicted Heather Humphreys as a hot tip to be Fine Gael’s presidential candidate in 2025, Goldhawk believes that this... Read more »
Leo Varadkar and Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Last Refuge

MARTIN GAZUMPS VLAD

NO SOONER had Tánaiste Micheál Martin departed on a week-long trip to South Africa and Mozambique that he hoped would further burnish his reputation as a great European statesman, than... Read more »
Deirdre O’Brien Ned O’Keeffe

Last Refuge

O’KEEFFE DYNASTY AWAKENS

SPECULATION ABOUT candidates for the Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) has alerted some of the more paranoid members of both Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael to the spectre of a cunning... Read more »
Helen McEntee

Last Refuge

HELEN’S WALK ON THE WILD SIDE

FOR ONCE justice minister, Helen McEntee’s accomplished PR handlers made an error of judgement in their staging of a photo opportunity with Helen McEntee sauntering around Dublin’s north inner city... Read more »

Hush Hush

Mícheál Martin

Hush Hush

DECOMMISSIONING ARMS?

LAST MONTH the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), the most prominent of Britain’s defence and security think tanks, issued a report, “The Defence Industry in Northern Ireland: Leveraging Untapped Potential”.... Read more »

Bog Cuttings

Bog-Cuttings-Defaul

Bog Cuttings

BOG CUTTINGS

DANGEROUS STREETS MATTHEW CONROY, of Kilcommon, Tipperary appeared before Nenagh District Court charged with a number of public order offences. Gardaí discovered an intoxicated Conroy behaving erratically in The Square,... Read more »

Fowl Emissions

Padraig Fogarty

Fowl Emissions

CENSORSHIP AT WILDLIFE TRUST

ONE OF Ireland’s leading environmental NGOs, the Irish Wildlife Trust (IWT) has been thrown into chaos following the resignation of its campaigns officer, Pádraic Fogarty. Fogarty’s decision followed a move... Read more »
Luke Holland Climate Denial John Fagan Wolf Europe David Quinn Duncan Stewart Data Centre Carbon Emissions Conor Skehan Chris Hazzard

Fowl Emissions

DAVID QUINN’S CONVERSION

IN A shocking epiphany, Iona Institute director and media commentator David Quinn has finally admitted the climate change is… real. “I think a lot of it is caused by us”.... Read more »

The Hot Air Brigade

Pat Kenny

The Hot Air Brigade

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

All we wanted the board and the council to do was to follow the rules and those rules involve protecting the badger. This is the badgers’ Alamo – they have... Read more »

High Society

High Society

Brownstown Estate

High Society

BROWNSTOWN’S PANAMA PARENT

A PIECE in last weekend’s Business Post puffed up the sprawling Brownstown Regency estate outside Navan, Co Meath, which has just come on the... Read more »

High Society

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High Society

LAURA BONNER’S BACKERS

INTERESTING TO see that legal eagle Joseph O’Malley has joined the board of Laura Bonner’s much-hyped booze operation, Muff Liquor Company (MLC). This follows... Read more »

High Society

David Harvey IMMA

High Society

WAITING AT EXPANDING IMMA

WITH IMMA boosting its collection courtesy of some munificence from arts minister Catherine Martin, there will be an expanded collection waiting for the incoming chair of the museum whenever he... Read more »

Behind the Scenes

Fergus Cronin

Behind the Scenes

FERGUS CRONIN’S NEXT GIG

THE REMARKABLE level of promotion of the debut collection of short stories from septuagenarian businessman-turned-scribbler Fergus Cronin continues to impress Goldhawk. The latest gig for the fledgling artist is at... Read more »
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Behind the Scenes

MACDARA’S NEW CAST

THIRD PLACE on the list of Screen Ireland’s upcoming productions is an “Untitled Universal Monster Thriller”, which is being produced by Wild Atlantic Pictures (WAP), owned by Macdara Kelleher. The... Read more »

Sport of Kings

John ‘Shark’ Hanlon

Sport of Kings

SHARK ATTACKS GALWAY

WELL-KNOWN trainer John ‘Shark’ Hanlon must be increasingly focused trying to land back-to-back runnings of the Galway Plate with stable-star and bargain extraordinaire Hewick. A good Galway festival would be... Read more »
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Sport of Kings

WHAT ABOUT SUNDAY?

FANS OF racing investment syndicates might be wondering what is going on at the All About Sunday racing club, which offers micro ownership shares in racehorses. There has been significant... Read more »

Moneybags

Moneybags

Alan Curran

Moneybags

BARRYROE SAGA STARTING TO LOOK VERY EXPENSIVE

THE SAGA of the attempts by Barryroe Offshore Energy (BOE) to develop a huge oil and gas field off the south coast of Ireland... Read more »

Moneybags

Gene Murtagh

Moneybags

KINGSPAN SHARES CLEARLY NOT FIRE RESISTANT

WHILE KINGSPAN is in the news for the wrong reasons again – this time due to criticism of its sponsorship deal with Ulster Rugby... Read more »

Briefcases

Garry O’Sullivan

Briefcases

HOLY MOLY!

HATS OFF to Garry O’Sullivan, who is proving that even if it is notoriously difficult for a rich man to enter the kingdom of Heaven, the editor of the Irish... Read more »
Ian Redmond

Briefcases

IAN REDMOND’S BUM NOTE

DESPITE THE much hyped efforts of the Give Us the Night campaign, Dublin’s rapidly declining nightlife offering was dealt another blow this month with the closure of the Tramline nightclub... Read more »
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Briefcases

DERMOT DESMOND’S DIRECTOR

DERMOT DESMOND continues to slowly ring the changes at his Sporting Emporium casino business off Grafton Street. Last month, he pulled in the skills and expertise of Carol Markey, the... Read more »
Patrick Kielty

Briefcases

PATRICK KIELTY’S RIGHT HAND MAN

WHILE THERE has been plenty of media coverage of the gap between the pay packet for the incoming host of The Late Late Show, Patrick Kielty and the rather well... Read more »
Judge Eileen Roberts Barth O’Neill

Briefcases

BARTH O’NEILL’S INTERESTING LENDER

AN ENTERTAINING tussle between Kerry builder Barth O’Neill and his lender, Golden Door Lending (GDL), was settled in the Four Goldmines recently. In 2018, O’Neill’s construction firm, Dunboy Greener Homes... Read more »