Affairs of the Nation

Luke Comer

Affairs of the Nation

LUKE COMER’S HANDICAP

THE WIDELY reported three-year suspension of the training licence of billionaire tax exile property developer Luke Comer is dividing opinion on the severity of the penalty. What is clear is... Read more »
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Affairs of the Nation

ROSSLARE GOLF CLUB BUNKERED

THERE’S RARELY a dull moment at Rosslare Golf Club, where the latest spat relates to a €2m plan to sell off lands that ended up firmly in the bunker. Overseeing... 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

MAIREAD CASEY’S JUDGMENT

A HEFTY €¾m judgment has just been registered against Co Cork solicitor Mairead Casey by a UK property investment company called Advanced Industrial Technology Corporation Ltd (AITC). It is not... Read more »

Affairs of the Nation

Matt Carthy Shannon Airport US

Affairs of the Nation

SILENCE ON US SHANNON ROUTE

SINCE IT’S now out in the open that Ireland’s Defence Forces personnel are providing weapons training to the Ukrainian army and that our National Cyber Security Centre is working with... Read more »
Sean Quinn

Affairs of the Nation

SEÁN QUINN V JOHN McCARTIN

IT IS clear that former bankrupt Seán Quinn has little time for John McCartin – one of the two names he dropped on Newstalk last week when asked which executives... Read more »
Jens Stoltenberg

Affairs of the Nation

UKRAINE: NOTHING TO SEE HERE

DESPITE BEING the ‘first casualty of war’, the truth about the Ukraine invasion sometimes emerges and from the strangest quarters, however unintended. Recent slips from Nato secretary general Jens Stoltenberg... Read more »
Martin McGuinness Richard O’Rawe

Affairs of the Nation

MORE IRA SPIES

Richard O’Rawe, a former IRA hunger striker turned author who fell out with the republican movement some years after the hunger strike — he later joined an ‘expert’ panel of... Read more »
Lyra McKee Alleycats

Affairs of the Nation

LYRA’S LEGACY

BBC NI commissioned a documentary called The Lost Boys of Belfast from TV production company Alleycats. It was due for broadcast in May 2021 but was never shown (see The... Read more »
Tim Cullinan

Affairs of the Nation

FARMERS LOSING THE MEDIA?

The recently formed Farmers’ Alliance (FA) hosted a public meeting in Portlaoise at the weekend, with a “diverse range of guest speakers” present to offer “something for everyone”, according to... Read more »

Pillars of Society

Darragh O'Loughlin

Pillars of Society

PROFILE: DARRAGH O’LOUGHLIN

THE SHENANIGANS at RTÉ have hogged headlines in recent months and one outfit more than happy with this state affairs, surely, is the Irish... Read more »

The Young Bloods

Clara Roche

The Young Bloods

YOUNG BLOOD: CLARA ROCHE

THE NEW editor-in-chief of the University Times (UT), Clara Roche, has assumed leadership of a paper crying out for stability. Recent controversies have tarnished... Read more »

Fit to Print?

Iah Kehoe

Fit to Print?

LEAKS FROM RTÉ BOARD

BRENDAN GRIFFIN’S attack on RTÉ at last week’s Oireachtas media committee was colourful but it obscured an intriguing tussle between committee chair Niamh Smyth and deputy chair of the RTÉ... Read more »
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Fit to Print?

THE HARP THAT ONCE…

WHEN MEDIAHUIS last year launched a strong campaign to abolish Vat on newspapers, it claimed that democracy in Ireland was threatened by any decline in reporting capacity, to which the... Read more »
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Fit to Print?

CORRECTION

GOLDHAWK HAS been contacted by NewsBrands Ireland to point out that the newspaper lobby group, along with the Press Council of Ireland and Google News Initiative, does not, as stated... Read more »

Last Refuge

Naoise Ó Muirí Richard Bruton

Last Refuge

DUBLIN BAY NORTH AFTER BRUTON

AFTER ALL the recent paeans of praise lavished upon Richard Bruton, the former minister and former leader of a failed coup in Fine Gael, the real question is what effect... Read more »
Aengus Ó Snodaigh

Last Refuge

SEERY KEARNEY’S LAW ‘N’ ORDER PITCH

SENATOR MARY Seery Kearney was a little OTT with her demand that the Oireachtas media committee draw up protocols to guide journalistic standards. This followed Virgin Media’s decision to broadcast... Read more »
Yurii Sheliazhenko

Last Refuge

KYIV’S YURII FURY

A STORY about a pacifist being prosecuted by his government that is engaged in all-out war with a neighbour would receive much sympathetic support from our Government and media if... Read more »
Mary Lou McDonald

Last Refuge

AOIFE MOORE’S SHORT GAME

AOIFE MOORE, political journalist and author of the latest ‘tell-all’ book on Sinn Féin, The Long Game — Inside Sinn Féin, has cleverly developed Shane Ross’s trick in promoting his... Read more »

Hush Hush

Lorcan Price Mark Dooley

Hush Hush

PHILOSOPHICAL RIGHT-WINGERS

NOT ALL right-wing Irish politicos are street activists and some would affect a certain disdain for such extremist behaviour. Take the European Conservative (EC), which has a group of Irish writers... Read more »

Bog Cuttings

Bog-Cuttings-Defaul

Bog Cuttings

BOG CUTTINGS

TITS UP A Glenswilly man who told gardaí that he had “sniffed a load of drugs” appeared before Letterkenny District Court charged with engaging in threatening and abusive behaviour towards... Read more »

Fowl Emissions

Michelle O'Neill Lough Neagh

Fowl Emissions

MICHELLE O’NEILL’S HEADACHE

LOUGH NEAGH is by far the biggest lake in either Ireland or Britain. At 400 sq km, it is as large as the island of Malta and provides 40% of... Read more »
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Fowl Emissions

WOLVES AT THE DOOR

“These figures speak for themselves”. So read the statement from the European People’s Party (EPP), of which Fine Gael is a member. The statistic in question is that around 18,000... Read more »

The Hot Air Brigade

Jamie Heaslip

The Hot Air Brigade

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Ireland’s rugby journey isn’t just about sport. It’s a testament to a nation’s mettle, and it casts shadows deep into our tech world’s relentless innovation. Jamie Heaslip, Twitter He is... Read more »

High Society

High Society

Chantilly House Richard Goodbody

High Society

CHANTILLY SPACE

AN IMPRESSIVE pile has gone on the market in Rathmichael, Co Dublin, with a chunky €4.65m price tag. It turns out to be owned... Read more »

High Society

Ali Curran

High Society

ALI CURRAN’S NEW GIG AT IMMA

ALI CURRAN is now in situ as chair of the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) following a small hiatus when there was no... Read more »

Behind the Scenes

IHT Board Clare McGrath

Behind the Scenes

McGRATH’S EXPANDING BOARD

THIS WEEK was the closing date for expressions of interest in joining the board of the Parnell Square-headquartered Irish Heritage Trust (IHT). According to the trust’s constitution, directors can serve... Read more »
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Behind the Scenes

ON THE FRINGE

AS THE Dublin Fringe Festival draws to a close there has been little sign of the outfit known as the Trans Writers Union (TWU) looking to organise any boycott of... Read more »

Sport of Kings

Jack Cantillon

Sport of Kings

JACK CANTILLON’S LONG SHOT

LAWYER TURNED bloodstock entrepreneur Jack Cantillon’s latest venture into the stallion market has hit a significant speed bump. Jack Cantillon recently teamed up with racing broadcaster and general multitasker Kevin... Read more »
Philip Byrnes

Sport of Kings

BYRNES FAMILY FORM

CHARLES BYRNES and his sons, Philip and Cathal, have generated acres of column inches in recent times but an incident that went under the radar involved jockey Philip, who was... Read more »

Moneybags

Moneybags

Siobhan Talbot

Moneybags

SIOBHÁN TALBOT’S SURPRISE EXIT FROM GLANBIA

IT IS a surprise to see Siobhán Talbot exiting Glanbia given that the CEO for the last 10 years appears to be on something... Read more »

Moneybags

Eamonn Rothwell

Moneybags

EAMONN ROTHWELL’S LOSS-MAKING CAR FERRIES

THERE WAS yet more good news this month for the lucky Irish Continental Group (ICG) captain, Eamonn Rothwell, when P&O Ferries announced it was... Read more »

Brief Cases

Ashling Kilduff

Brief Cases

ASHLING KILDUFF’S CURATED COMEBACK

GOLDHAWK SPIES that Naas-based number-cruncher Patrick McDonnell has stepped down as a director of a company called Curated Designs Ltd just 16 months after its incorporation. The company turns out... Read more »
David Mongey INS

Brief Cases

DAVID MONGEY’S GOOD GOING

THE IRISH National Stud (INS) in Tully, Co Kildare, has had a change at the top as a result of the retirement of Irish Farmers Journal/Irish Field chairman Matt Dempsey... Read more »
Kingspan Gene Murtagh

Brief Cases

KINGSPAN’S TROJAN HORSE

Does Kingspan have a Trojan horse strategy for the US? The news that the company had been in talks about a merger with an American outfit called Carlisle came as... Read more »
Ailish Kelly

Brief Cases

AILISH KELLY’S COSMETIC CHANGES

THERE WAS plenty of media coverage devoted to the announcement that Goldhawk’s old friends in The Avoca Clinic have received a whopping €7m courtesy of British equity fund BGF, with... Read more »