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June 28 - July 11, 2024
Affairs of the Nation
MARY LOU’S POST MORTEM
FOLLOWING ITS dreadful local election results, Sinn Féin members believed that the outcome of the internal battle over policies and electoral strategy would depend on just who Mary Lou McDonald... Read more »
SHARK HANLON’S ROUGH RIDE
A VIDEO of an uncovered dead horse in an open builder’s trailer, which was being towed by John ‘Shark’ Hanlon’s Boylesports-sponsored horse box to a factory for disposal, went viral... Read more »
FRANCES RUANE’S TIMING
WHILE THE Abbey Theatre’s most famous Broadway hit of modern times, Brian Friel’s Tony award-winning Dancing at Lughnasa, is about to be produced by the Gate Theatre at the far... Read more »
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Corporate Enforcement Authority Publishes First Annual Report
The Corporate Enforcement Authority (CEA) has published its first Annual Report. The Report, covers provides a comprehensive account of the steps taken to establish the CEA’s presence, and of... Read more »
KILLARNEY’S GAZA STANCE
THE ISRAELI government will surely appreciate that it has finally and completely lost the global propaganda war when it receives a report from its ambassador, Dana Erlich, about the goings-on... Read more »
NEW C/S FACES FIGHT
OUTRAGE AT soldiers’ violence against women and the lenient treatment many have received on conviction will have strengthened the hands of reformists in the Defence Forces. So will the Defence... Read more »
PETER WEDDERBURN’S BARK
WITH THE Dog Control Stakeholder Group set to meet this week to “prioritise” the issue of restricted dog breeds, the ante has been significantly upped by the minister responsible, Heather... Read more »
JOHN BYRNE’S BLINKERS
PROPERTY MONEYBAGS John Byrne – the new chairman of the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) – thanked “all those race-day staff and volunteers who commit to upholding the integrity of... Read more »
ALL IN GOOD TASTE
LAST WEEK Merrion Square finally fully reopened to Dublin’s citizens after nearly three weeks of severe restrictions, which were put in place so the Dublin City Council-controlled public space could... Read more »
MI6, HAUGHEY AND THE MAFIA
AN UPCOMING book on British intelligence in Ireland, The Puppet Masters, includes new material on Patrick Crinnion of Garda intelligence, who worked for MI6 in the 1960s and early 1970s.... Read more »
BIG JOBS FOR BIG IRISH SOLDIERS
FOLLOWING THE appointment of Defence Forces chief of staff Seán Clancy as the first Irish chairman of the EU Military Committee, Irish ex-officer Seán White was appointed by the European... Read more »
BLUE-BLOUSE BATTLES
GOLDHAWK REPORTED in the last edition on the two Dublin Bay South (DBS) Fine Gael personalities, ex-TD Kate O’Connell and newly elected councillor Emma Blain, who hoped to stand here... Read more »
Pillars of Society
PROFILE: BRÍD SMITH
RECENT ELECTIONS stimulated much discussion about the centre-right, far-right, centre-left, Sinn Féin and so on, but very little about the small but sometimes significant... Read more »
The Young Bloods
YOUNG BLOOD: LOTTIE RYAN
When she was announced last month as the new face of afternoon radio on 2FM, it seemed that Lottie Ryan was living proof of the... Read more »
International Recognition For Dublin Safeport
Dublin SafePort, the port-wide collaborative safety initiative at Dublin Port, has been recognised by the International Harbour Masters Association (IHMA) at its congress in Tanger Med, Morocco. One of the... Read more »
Fit to Print?
IAN KEHOE’S ‘CURRENCY’ RATE
SIGNS ARE that Tom Lyons and Ian Kehoe, joint owners of digital financial publication the Currency, are intent on selling their company, judging by the recent release of its figures... Read more »
CLARE DALY AND THE ‘IT’
IS THE Irish Times worried that many readers recognise that its hounding of Dublin MEP Clare Daly helped to unseat her and nearly led to the election of new-right candidate... Read more »
MEDIAHUIS SHEDS HACKS
AS MEDIAHUIS continues to cut a swathe through its workforce, the genial, soft-spoken Mediahuis chief executive, Peter Vandermeersch, has been issuing soothing statements coupled with financial warnings about inadequate revenue... Read more »
Last Refuge
GREEN ENTITLEMENT
GREEN SENATOR Pippa Hackett and her co-conspirators – senators Pauline O’Reilly (party chair) and Róisín Garvey – will likely be seen off by rival leadership contender Roderic O’Gorman, but the... Read more »
TIMMY DOOLEY’S DELIGHT
IT’S REFRESHING in these times of political hand-to-hand fighting and abuse of – and between – politicians to note Clare Fianna Fáil senator Timmy Dooley’s fraternal expression of great joy... Read more »
DUBLIN DANGER FOR FIANNA FÁIL
MICHEÁL MARTIN’S appointment of Jack Chambers as finance minister and also as deputy leader of Fianna Fáil, a post that had been vacant for four years, was doubtless a recognition... Read more »
GARDA BUGGERS
TD RICHARD Boyd Barrett hauled justice minister Helen McEntee over the coals in the Dáil last week regarding Garda surveillance of the survivors and families of those butchered during the... Read more »
Hush Hush
NEW-RIGHT RIFTS
FOLLOWING THE recent elections there has been feverish speculation about how Ireland’s new right could have a significant impact on the Irish political landscape if it could just find a... Read more »
Bog Cuttings
BOG CUTTINGS
HOLDING UP TRAFFIC A man who let a garda know, in no uncertain terms, of his frustration at being asked to produce evidence of insurance was issued a €500 fine... Read more »
Fowl Emissions
TRUMP ‘HATES’ WIND ENERGY
The EU elections may have been a bad day for the planet, with climate disinformation helping the far right take seats across Europe, but the vista is altogether more appalling... Read more »
THE EARL AND THE ENVIRONMENTALISTS
Nicholas Ashley-Cooper, 12th Earl of Shaftesbury, has never lived in Ireland but has managed to hang on to a colonial inheritance – ownership of the bed of Lough Neagh. This... Read more »
The Hot Air Brigade
THE HOT AIR BRIGADE
To travel by train is to see a textbook case of neoliberal capitalism’s endgame. Football hack Ken Early’s, er, interesting take on at Euro 2024 in Germany, Irish Times Like... Read more »
High Society
NEVILLE EAGER’S ASCOT OUTING
THERE WAS significant success in Royal Ascot last week for the syndicate owners of a horse called Crystal Black, which is trained by Ger Keane and managed to land the... Read more »
SUCCEEDING MARY KEANE AT THE NGI
NEXT MONTH marks the end of Mary Keane’s terms as chairwoman of the National Gallery of Ireland (NGI). The vacancy should not take long to fill given that arts and... Read more »
DEEP D4 PROPERTY POCKETS
DEVELOPER Joe O’Reilly must be delighted with the Irish Times giving a plug to his swanky Lansdowne Place apartment scheme in Ballsbridge. The paper reported that a three-bed penthouse has... Read more »
West Cork Distillers: From Humble Beginnings to Award-Winning Innovators
At West Cork Distillers, there is a rich history dating back to 2003, when childhood friends John O’Connell, Denis McCarthy, and Ger McCarthy founded the distillery. It began operating... Read more »
Behind the Scenes
SMOCK ALLEY’S PATHWAY
ACCOUNTS SIGNED off this month for Smock Alley Theatre (SAT) in Temple Bar make clear the state of affairs that has seen Dublin City Council (DCC) moving in to take... Read more »
BOXED OFFICE
THE DREADFUL home box-office performance of Irish films will be familiar to fans of Goldhawk. Now, research from Crescine, a €4m cinema research project looking at seven small EU states,... Read more »
Sport of Kings
HASSETT’S ALLOWANCE
PUNTERS WHO backed John ‘Minella’ Nallen’s Pinball Wizard in Sligo’s Web The Tool Company Handicap on May 15 can feel a little hard done by. Having finished second to Carlo... Read more »
ABANDONING ADO
LUSK TRAINER Ado McGuinness, who has been having a quiet season, delivering a 6% strike rate, was dealt a further blow with the announcement that Shamrock Thoroughbreds is removing all... Read more »
Moneybags
NO TOAST FOR DEBRA CREW AT DIAGEO
IT WAS never going to be easy for the new CEO of Diageo to follow Ivan Menezes’s decade-long reign to June 2023. While his record had been mixed, Menezes nevertheless... Read more »
AMINEX SHARES DOUBLE AS TANZANIA HEATS UP
THE LAST five years have been hugely frustrating for Aminex shareholders, who have been waiting for the company to drill its critical third step-out well in the Ntorya gas discovery... Read more »
Will Investing In Gold Change Your Life?
Dave Russell, CEO, GoldCore Ltd Most of us turn to the internet when we want to gather information on a particular topic. A quick glance at Google Trends will... Read more »
The Hot Water Brigade
DERMOT DESMOND’S WINDING UP
A MYSTERIOUS company called Dies Irae Ltd (DIL) – linked to Dermot Desmond’s International Investment and Underwriting (IIU) investment vehicle – has been quietly wound up. It is hard to... Read more »
TREVOR WHITE’S MUSEUM PIECES
READERS OF the Irish Times last week would have noticed a couple of adverts for Trevor White’s very well-funded Little Museum of Dublin (LMD), inviting people to take one of... Read more »
PRIDE PAYS
IT WAS surprising to see Dublin Pride festival manager Jamie Kenny going to the trouble of telling Irish Defence Force members and courts services workers that they are not welcome... Read more »
DRAMA IN TEMPLE BAR
ELSEWHERE IN this issue (see p17) Goldhawk reports on the ongoing structural changes at the Smock Alley Theatre, which have come about as a result of the financial stresses within... Read more »
Rí-Rá Irish Lager : Grá Mór Don Teach Tábhairne Gaelach
Based in Kilcoole Co Wicklow, Rí-Rá Brewing Company is an Irish-owned brewery that is deeply passionate about the Irish Pub. The brewing team collaborated with a former master brewer... Read more »