Affairs of the Nation

Simon Coveney

Affairs of the Nation

IRISH ARMS TO ISRAEL

IT WAS hardly surprising that little or no fanfare accompanied Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment Simon Coveney’s release of the 2022 Annual Report on activity under the Control of... 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

NO DRAMA AT THE IRISH TIMES

THIS IS the time of year when the Irish Times announces the various luvvies who have been shortlisted for the annual IT Theatre Awards. That familiar script has been binned,... Read more »
David Whelan Ian Banham

Affairs of the Nation

DAVID WHELAN’S DANCE MOVES

THERE WAS the usual hype in the run-up to last weekend’s launch of the latest season of Dancing With the Stars on RTÉ 1 and Goldhawk was struck by the... Read more »

Affairs of the Nation

Princess Lucrezia Colonna di Stigliano Clonmannon

Affairs of the Nation

PRINCESS COLONNA’S NEIGHBOUR

FANS OF Goldhawk with long memories will recall that the Clonmannon retirement village in Ashford, Co Wicklow was bought out of liquidation in the 1990s by Roddy and Jane McGrath,... Read more »
Mary Lou McDonald Housing Crisis

Affairs of the Nation

MARY LOU BETS THE HOUSE ON IT

THE MOST interesting item in last weekend’s Sunday Independent/Ireland Thinks opinion poll was not the 1% rise in those who prioritised immigration but instead the focus on the housing crisis... Read more »
Chris Heaton-Harris Newton Emerson

Affairs of the Nation

DONALDSON RETREATS AGAIN

THE BACKLASH over the Irish Government’s case against the British government’s legacy act began with ex-northern secretary Brandon Lewis making a full-frontal assault against Dublin at the end of December... Read more »
Fintan O'Toole

Affairs of the Nation

FINTAN O’TOOLE ON ISRAEL

A RATHER Jesuitical argument from Irish Times resident ideologue Fintan O’Toole came in a polemic this week claiming: “It’s striking how brazen incitement against Irish Jews has become.” O’Toole used... Read more »
Brigadier Frank Kitson Derek Wilford

Affairs of the Nation

BLOODY SUNDAY: KITSON AND WILFORD

COL DEREK WILFORD, the commander of 1 Para in Northern Ireland in 1972, died last November. His former superior, Brigadier (later, General) Sir Frank Kitson, passed away earlier this month.... Read more »

Pillars of Society

John Hegarty

Pillars of Society

PROFILE: JOHN HEGARTY

TO ALL other media, the Irish Times exudes high principles, standards and a commitment to objective journalism. The paper claims to be liberal, a... Read more »

The Young Bloods

Sinead Sheppard

The Young Bloods

YOUNG BLOOD: SINÉAD SHEPPARD

With Cork East’s Fine Gael TD David Stanton having announced his intention to bow out at the next general election, has an opportunity opened... Read more »

Fit to Print?

Deirdre Veldon

Fit to Print?

DEIRDRE VELDON’S LOVE LETTER

JOURNALISTS AT the Irish Times – once jealously regarded by their peers elsewhere as the pampered literati of the newspaper world – were not exactly swooning with gratitude at the... Read more »
Diageo Dana An Garda Síochána IT Trust No Stone Unturned Irish Times Black Friday Vicky Conway

Fit to Print?

ARSON ABOUT

THOSE MOST-favoured words of security correspondents, “security… senior… sources”, can cover a multitude of issues when gardaí want to get a message across without having it ascribed to them individually... Read more »
Kieran McDaid

Fit to Print?

‘SUNDAY TIMES’ NEW LINE

THE NEW editorial regime at the Aawrish edition of the Sunday Times – with editor Kieran McDaid and associate editor Michael McNiff – appears to have overturned decades of imperialist... Read more »

Last Refuge

Janice Boylan Irish Military Mali Coolock Says No IFP Hermann Kelly Timmy Dooley Aontú Mal O’Hara Fintan O’Toole Josepha Madigan Eoghan Harris Ukraine War Micheál Martin Middle East Philip Ryan Seán Clancy Simon Coveney Hugo MacNeill Mountbatten Neasa Hourigan Green Party Martin NPT Ivana Bacik Independents Limerick Hospital Overcrowding Barry Cowen

Last Refuge

EOGHAN HARRIS’S GRIPE

EOGHAN HARRIS may have lost his platform in the country’s biggest-selling newspaper – the Mediahuis-owned Sunday Independent – but he appears to be welcome in the strongly unionist News Letter,... Read more »
Aodhan O'Riordain

Last Refuge

Ó RÍORDÁIN’S EU ELECTION TACTIC

COMMENTARY ON the EU election bid of Aodhán Ó Ríordáin has noted that it is effectively another defection from the Labour Party as it lies crashed on the dual rocks... Read more »
Micheál Martin Brandon Lewis

Last Refuge

MICHEÁL MARTIN’S ‘SHAMELESS’ NEW POLITICS

POLITICAL CORRESPONDENTS appear to be disinterested in the discernible differences between Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and Tánaiste Micheál Martin on Israel’s genocidal assault on Palestinians, including thousands of children, and also... Read more »

Hush Hush

Peter Caddle Burkean

Hush Hush

ORBÁN’S IRISH YOUNG EAGLES

When Hungary takes over the presidency of the Council of the European Union for six months in July, Viktor Orbán hopes that the media outlets his government is sponsoring in... Read more »

Bog Cuttings

Bog-Cuttings-Defaul

Bog Cuttings

BOG CUTTINGS

POETRY CORNERED A man appearing before Gort District Court was told by Judge Alec Gabbett that his offer to pen a ‘short poem’ to the court, in lieu of paying... Read more »

Fowl Emissions

Eamon Ryan Fossil Fuel

Fowl Emissions

FOSSIL FUEL FINITO?

In light of the PR trainwreck that was Sultan Al Jaber’s presidency of the Cop28 climate summit – including his extremely high-profile row with Mary Robinson – you’d imagine future... 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

HOT AIR HOLIDAYS

One of the Irish Times’s last editorials of 2023 called for “a more radical approach” to climate action. Goldhawk looks forward to the day when the new generation at the... Read more »

The Hot Air Brigade

Paul Costello

The Hot Air Brigade

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

I think in the UK, I’m underrated. Not so much here, but in the UK. And I think I know tailoring as good as anybody. I still think I’m a... Read more »

High Society

High Society

Lady Ballyedmond Norbrook

High Society

LADY MARY’S WINDFALL

WHILE 2023 was a year to forget for many employees of the giant Norbrook veterinary pharmaceutical group, it turns out that it was a... Read more »

High Society

Glenbrook House Des O’Neill

High Society

DES O’NEILL’S DES RES

A BARRISTER who made quite a name (and a lot of money) for himself as the star performer in the Mahon Tribunal, Des O’Neill... Read more »

High Society

Lisa Jordan

High Society

LISA JORDAN’S WINDING UP

INTERESTING TO see that blogger/influencer/businesswoman Lisa Jordan has just wound up the company that registered the name “Lisa Jordan”. This follows her move last year into the fashion world with... Read more »

Behind the Scenes

Morgan O'Sullivan IFWA

Behind the Scenes

MORGAN’S PLOT TWIST

FANS OF Goldhawk have been kept up to date with the travails of John Arkins’s Irish Film Workers Association (IFWA) over the years. The organisation took to picketing film and... Read more »

Sport of Kings

Tony Martin

Sport of Kings

TONY MARTIN’S CHRISTMAS PRESENT

WHILE TRAINER Tony Martin must have breathed a sigh of relief after avoiding having his licence suspended before Christmas, he has nevertheless lodged an appeal against the severity of the... Read more »

Moneybags

Moneybags

TCDMichael O'Leary

Moneybags

RYANAIR SHARES SET TO SOAR, UNLESS…

THE STARS have been aligning for Ryanair, with Mick O’Leary keeping one eye on the share price given the potential astronomical bonus on the... Read more »

Moneybags

John Teeling

Moneybags

BOTSWANA DIAMONDS LOOKING ROUGH FOR TEELING

WHILE JOHN Teeling has been overseeing remarkable success in his whiskey distilling business in Ireland, further afield his Botswana Diamonds mining outfit has struggled,... Read more »

Brief Cases

Gene Murtagh NOH2O

Brief Cases

NOH20 HITS THE BRAKES

THE MUCH-hyped “bespoke on demand in-house app for carwashing”, NOH2O Ltd, has just collapsed into liquidation. Founded by self-described “brand innovator” Emmet O’Brien, the company’s business was based on waterless... Read more »
Simone Rocha

Brief Cases

SIMONE ROCHA’S FRENCH FANCY

LATER THIS month, superstar fashion designer Simone Rocha will appear at the prestigious Haute Couture Week in Paris, where she will be filling the role of guest couture designer for... Read more »
PJ Lynch John Swan

Brief Cases

THE NYHANS’ TAX BILL

THE DREADED Revenue has just registered a judgment for €221,000 against a company called Rostella Nyhan Holdings Ltd. This outfit should be familiar to fans of Goldhawk given its ties... Read more »
Ant and Dec Mark Lenherr

Brief Cases

MARK LENHERR’S CARIBBEAN COLLAPSE

THE EXOTIC-sounding Caribbean Jewel Investments Ltd is to be liquidated next week but this is far from the first setback for one of the main players here, English property investor... Read more »