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May 17 - May 30, 2024
Affairs of the Nation
STARMER AND SUE GRAY’S ENEMIES
THE LIKELY advent of Labour leader Keir Starmer and his chief of staff, Sue Gray, at the helm of the British government is already causing ripples in Whitehall and Northern... Read more »
ENDA O’COINEEN’S STRATEGY
EARLIER THIS MONTH, the Business Post published a cry to arms under a headline that warned: “The Irish media sector won’t hold out against social media”. The piece was written... Read more »
PAUL HOURICAN’S SURPRISE
AN ENGLISH firm, Igniyte Ltd, has just registered a judgment for a paltry €15,000 against a company owned by Goldhawk’s favourite landlord, Paul Hourican. It appears to have something to... Read more »
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Ireland’s Economic Moment: Ibec Calls for Bold Action Ahead of Election
IBEC, the group representing Irish businesses, believes that Ireland’s current economic strength offers a generational opportunity for the next government to address barriers to growth and tackle areas that... Read more »
NATO: WHAT’S IN A NAME?
THE AVALANCHE of articles in mainstream media demanding that Ireland abandons neutrality has been accompanied by the Defence Forces becoming closer to both Nato and the EU’s burgeoning military forces.... Read more »
RWANDA WARNING IGNORED
THE DRAMATIC and forceful actions being taken by the current Government to address the refugee crisis, however unsympathetic they are to refugees, indicate a serious issue being tackled by a... Read more »
JAMES KELLY’S CRYPTO CHALLENGE
THE FIRST report from the liquidator of James Kelly’s collapsed crypto-trading operation, Gigabyte Investment Ltd (GIL), reveals that there is plenty of investigating to be done before this winding up... Read more »
PADDY MERRIGAN’S WILD RIDE
FORMER JOCKEY Paddy Merrigan – who once claimed to have blown a million quid on drink, drugs and women – delivered an extended live monologue about Irish racing through his... Read more »
BANK OF IRELAND’S ‘EXCEPTION’
LATER THIS month, Judge Nuala Jackson will deliver a ruling in the High Court on a matter than could have significant implications for Bank of Ireland (BoI). At issue is... Read more »
‘NEITHER FANCIFUL NOR ABSURD’
FIFTY YEARS ago this month, four UVF car bombs blew apart 34 people in Dublin and Monaghan. The late Henry Barron, a retired judge of the Supreme Court, investigated the... Read more »
BRITS ON STICKY WICKET
BRITAIN’S UNILATERAL decision to stifle victims’ ability to seek truth and justice via its Legacy Act has been condemned not only by the Irish Government but also by the Council... Read more »
Pillars of Society
PROFILE: ALAN MOLONEY
BACK IN 2016, film and TV producer Alan Moloney of Parallel Films; James Morris, founder of Windmill Lane and former Screen Ireland chairman; and... Read more »
The Young Bloods
YOUNG BLOOD: JOHN MCGAHON
WITH A third of Fine Gael TDs announcing that they will not be seeking a return to the Dáil at the next general election,... Read more »
Protecting Your Wealth with Merrion Gold
Used to store value and as currency for thousands of years, gold has consistently provided long-term returns for investors looking to protect their wealth. In recent years, many have... Read more »
Fit to Print?
‘INDEPENDENT’ MEDIA FUNDING
FOREIGN MINISTER and Tanáiste Micheál Martin continues to publicly and loudly mount a heroic defence against media minister Catherine Martin’s proposals for the state to fund RTÉ. The Tanáiste has... Read more »
STEPHEN REA’S PERFORMANCE
AN INTERESTING, alternative treatment of the 1974 Dublin/Monaghan bombings – one that involves award-winning actor Stephen Rea – is Frank Connolly’s novel, A Conspiracy of Lies, which was recently released... Read more »
O’DEA’S MEDIA MESSAGE TO MARTIN
MICHEÁL MARTIN’S media maestro, Paul Clarkson, and Martin’s political brain, Deirdre Gillane, will have been very interested in the take of former minister, Willie O’Dea, on the upcoming local and... Read more »
Last Refuge
MICHAEL McDOWELL LURKS STILL
THERE HAS been relative silence from Michael McDowell and his right-wing fellow travellers since he led the alarmingly successful revolt against the liberal establishment and Government’s referendums on ‘family’ and... Read more »
BERTIE AHERN TRIES TO SAVE FF
FIANNA FÁIL leader Micheál Martin may not appreciate it but one feels sure that his predecessor as leader, Bertie Ahern, had the best interests of the party in mind, and... Read more »
SENATOR MURPHY V JUDGE SIMONS
AN INTERESTING spat between Fianna Fáil senator Eugene Murphy and Friends of the Irish Environment (FIE) has arisen following remarks by Murphy in the Seanad recently concerning Judge Garrett Simons.... Read more »
DUBLIN EU NEW RIGHT COMPETITORS
THE RASH of candidates on the new right in the Dublin EU constituency – seven candidates come under this category – constitutes a surplus that is likely to damage all... Read more »
Hush Hush
BRITISH ARMS FOR A UNITED IRELAND!
WHEN EUROPEAN Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and Josep Borrell, the EU’s high representative for foreign affairs and security policy, recently introduced the first ever European Defence Industrial Strategy... Read more »
Bog Cuttings
BOG CUTTINGS
BAILED FOR 30 MINUTES A 43-year-old man was arrested for breaching the terms of his bail some 30 minutes after it had been granted. Peter Kelly, of Glendallon, Ballytivnan, Sligo,... Read more »
Fowl Emissions
CARELESS TCD
FOR THE embattled dons of Trinity College Dublin (TCD), one PR disaster – being forced by its students to divest from Israeli companies on a UN investment blacklist – was... Read more »
TOM LYONS’S AIRPORT ANXIETY
Won’t anyone think of Dublin Airport? Journalist and The Currency CEO Tom Lyons this week bemoaned the “myopic unwillingness” of our lily-livered politicians to make the “brave but necessary call”... Read more »
The Hot Air Brigade
THE HOT AIR BRIGADE
I know there’s a lot of celebrity people that sign their names to certain whiskeys. This is absolutely not the case with what we’re doing. Michael Flatley on the launch... Read more »
High Society
KEEPING UP WITH THE CURRANS
THERE WAS plenty of glowing prose in the Irish Times earlier this month when the property section extolled on the myriad attractions of Torry, a “large and lavish four-bed on... Read more »
META OSBORNE’S FAMILIAR GOING
IRISH NATIONAL Stud (INS) boss Cathal Beale has secured approval from agriculture minister Charlie McConalogue and public enterprise and reform minister Paschal Donohoe to continue in situ as chief executive... Read more »
Innovating Wellness with Cutting-Edge Technology
Eden One, Dublin’s premier health club and spa located on Shelbourne Road, Ballsbridge, is an elite destination redefining wellness. It seamlessly integrates cutting-edge technology, state-of-the-art equipment, and meticulously curated... Read more »
Behind the Scenes
RTÉ’S PLOT TWIST
THE 162-page RTÉ report from the “expert advisory committee” on contractor fees, human resources etc is most interesting, not for its focus on Montrose’s current woes but for its potential... Read more »
NATIONAL LIBRARY’S NEW EDITIONS
A WEEK after Goldhawk asked why the filling of three vacancies at the National Library of Ireland (NLI) was still overdue, arts and culture minister Catherine Martin has finally acted.... Read more »
Sport of Kings
COOLMORE BOYS’ BLUES
BALLYDOYLE’S WONDER horse, City of Troy, went off odds-on favourite for the Qipco 2000 Guineas at Newmarket but failed to justify his starting price. The thrice-raced unbeaten colt – owned... Read more »
AINE O’CONNOR’S WHIP HAND
BOOKMAKERS AND punters might have been excused for diving for cover as the wayward Familiar Dreams carted a whipless Aine O’Connor to victory in the Grade 3 Weatherbys Mares Bumper... Read more »
Moneybags
AIB’S ‘ODD-LOT OFFER’ LEAVES MUCH TO BE DESIRED
AIB IS more profitable than ever, recording a €2bn profit last year, but the decision to buy in the holdings of tiny shareholders only serves to highlight the scale of... Read more »
TIME FOR ABF TO SPIN OFF PENNEYS/PRIMARK
THERE ARE critics who suggest that Arthur Ryan’s Penneys/Primark legacy will not stand up in the online world. This is a dilemma for retailers but Ryan’s successor, Paul Marchant, has... Read more »
Gold Surges to New Heights: Why Now is the Time to Invest
“PRICE OF gold bar hits $1m for the first time!” This was one of the many striking headlines last month, soon followed by “A gold bar is now worth... Read more »
The Hot Water Brigade
RAYMOND KIRK’S BLOCKBUSTERS
CONGRATULATIONS ARE in order for Raymond Kirk, a Dublin 2-based first assistant director who has clearly been doing rather well for himself, courtesy of assorted Hollywood blockbusters. Kirk has worked... Read more »
RESTRICTING PAUL NYHAN (II)
AFTER A whopping 38 outings in the High Court, insolvency expert PJ Lynch has finally witnessed the restriction of Paul Nyhan, one of the directors of Rostella Properties Ltd (RPL).... Read more »
RORY FITZPATRICK’S ‘SPACE DEBRIS’
EARLIER THIS week, Rory Fitzpatrick, chief executive of the National Space Centre (NCS) in Cork, popped up as a speaker in Istanbul at something called CubesatVision International Space Defence Workshop.... Read more »
DAVID STONE’S ROCKY PATCH
CONTROVERSIAL businessman David Stone found one of his myriad companies on the end of a winding-up petition from a disgruntled creditor last month. It is not the first time the... Read more »
PUNCHESTOWN HIGH FLYERS
THERE WERE a couple of familiar moneybags getting stuck into the action at the Punchestown horse racing festival earlier this month, with mixed results. The Ladbrokes Punchestown Gold Cup saw... Read more »
Lifeline Ambulance Service Leading in Patient Care
Lifeline Ambulance Service holds the position of the second-largest ambulance provider in the state. Established in 1998 by CEO David Hall, Lifeline operates from 11 different bases nationwide, with... Read more »
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