Affairs of the Nation

Vladimir Putin

Affairs of the Nation

HONEY TRAP: RUSSIAN OR BRITISH?

THE SUNDAY TIMES may have unintentionally opened a can of worms with recent articles claiming that the Russian secret service was running an agent dubbed ‘Cobalt’ in the Oireachtas. The... Read more »
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Affairs of the Nation

BIZ POST BLUNDER

READERS OF last weekend’s Business Post will have spotted a grovelling apology to one Ronan Minahan. But it looks like the issue has not gone away, with a High Court... Read more »
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Affairs of the Nation

HIGH-FLYING KITE

IT HAS BEEN an eventful month for Darren Smith’s Kite Entertainment TV production outfit. Last weekend, its new series for RTÉ of Ireland’s Fittest Families was postponed following the tragic... Read more »

Affairs of the Nation

Mary Lou McDonald

Affairs of the Nation

CHILD SAFETY POLITICAL DEBATE

GIVEN THE recent public debate about child safety and the allegations made against Sinn Féin and party leader Mary Lou McDonald by Government parties, Goldhawk assumed that the latter would... Read more »
Michael Finucane

Affairs of the Nation

CHAWKE AND CHEESE

SOLICITOR MICHAEL FINUCANE has taken a High Court defamation action against thejournal.ie following its coverage of his clients’ appearance in court on charges of violent assault. Gardaí told the District... Read more »
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Affairs of the Nation

LOUISE RICHARDSON’S DEFENCE

ON A trip back to the old sod recently, Louise Richardson – Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire – derided Irish neutrality as something that does not... Read more »
John 'Shark' Hanlon

Affairs of the Nation

SHARK ATTACKED

LAST WEEK the appeal by racehorse trainer John ‘Shark’ Hanlon against the severity of a 10-month suspension for bringing the sport into disrepute resulted in a reduction of his ban... Read more »
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Affairs of the Nation

LESLIE BUCKLEY’S HON DOC

JUST LIKE Goldhawk’s favourite former EU Commissioner, Big Phil Hogan, former Independent News and Media (INM) chairman Leslie Buckley had to wait rather a long time to collect his cap... Read more »
Heather Humphreys

Affairs of the Nation

DOG FIGHT CONTINUES

FOR THE last week or so the Facebook page of animal welfare group Working Animal Guardian (WAG) has been choc-a-bloc with emotional rhetoric following the euthanising of two bull breeds... Read more »
Harold Wilson

Affairs of the Nation

SIR GARRET MISLED BY HAROLD WILSON

OPERATION DENTON, led by Sir Iain Livingstone, is looking at the 1974 Dublin-Monaghan bomb atrocities. It lays much emphasis on the fact it is an analytical review that is diligently... Read more »

Pillars of Society

Mary Lou McDonald

Pillars of Society

PROFILE: MARY LOU MCDONALD

IN MAY 2023 Goldhawk asked whether Sinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald could face down a hostile media and maintain SF’s unity and political... Read more »

The Young Bloods

Sarah Ryan

The Young Bloods

YOUNG BLOOD: SARAH RYAN

Increasingly on Gript Media’s weekly podcast, The Week That Really Was (TWTRW), which Sarah Ryan co-hosts with John McGuirk, you can sense their shared... Read more »

Fit to Print?

Sean Ó Fearghail

Fit to Print?

Ó FEARGHAÍL’S PA: ISRAEL SHOCK JOCK

KILKENNY COMMUNITY RADIO listeners are privileged to regularly receive the views of intense supporter of Israel, presenter and producer Eugene Doyle, although his opinions may not be typical among the... Read more »
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Fit to Print?

SHANE ROSS’S RETURN

SUNDAY INDEPENDENT editor Alan English will be relieved to welcome back former minister and long-time Sindo columnist Shane Ross after an absence since the summer. The ex-politician’s first, predictable column... Read more »
Cyril Ramaphosa

Fit to Print?

‘IRISH TIMES’ BRICS IT

A SORROWFUL tone pervaded an Irish Times editorial last week regarding the Brics summit in Russia, with the first half of the tract concentrating on “eclipse of the empire” (no... Read more »

Last Refuge

Micheal Martin

Last Refuge

MICHEÁL MARTIN’S U-TURN

WHAT A rollicking Micheál Martin gave to coalition ‘partners’ Fine Gael last weekend, with justice minister Helen McEntee in particular and Taoiseach Simon Harris also getting politically assaulted in the... Read more »
Maria Walsh

Last Refuge

FINE GAEL IGNORES PALESTINE EU BODY

FINE GAEL MEPs have brought a new meaning to the boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign by Palestinian supporters with their own shunning of the European Parliament’s delegation for relations with... Read more »
Alan Shatter

Last Refuge

SHATTER: TD AGAIN OR MERE DISRUPTER?

FINE GAEL activists in Dublin Rathdown are becoming a little edgy about former justice minister and Israel champion Alan Shatter’s general election campaign, which they fear could sabotage their chances... Read more »
Clare Daly

Last Refuge

DALY TO HIT SOC DEMS AND GREENS?

FORMER MEP Clare Daly lost her EU seat last June due to a combination of factors, with one being a media witch hunt against her because of her anti-western politics... Read more »

Hush Hush

Sean Clancy

Hush Hush

EU’S BEST FORM OF DEFENCE 

THE European Union’s appointment this autumn of Lithuania’s Andrius Kubilius as the blocs first defence commissioner is a clear sign of an increase in the momentum towards militarisation of the... Read more »

Bog Cuttings

Bog-Cuttings-Defaul

Bog Cuttings

BOG CUTTINGS

‘GALLANT’ STAND LEADS TO ALTERCATION Cork District Court heard the case of a “gallant” man, who called an off-duty garda a “prick” and a “langer” following an altercation with security... Read more »

Fowl Emissions

Simon Harris

Fowl Emissions

HARRIS/FITZMAURICE AGREE ON AGRI

With the general election just weeks away, competition is hotting up as to which politician can most cravenly capitulate to special-interest lobbying from the agri-industrial sector. Though relatively new in... Read more »
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Fowl Emissions

DOIREANN BREATHNACH’S ADVICE

Congratulations to climate warrior Doireann Breathnach for making quite a splash in her role with consultancy firm Accenture. She recently stood down as Irish Refugee Council chair and has also... Read more »

The Hot Air Brigade

Donncha O'Callaghan

The Hot Air Brigade

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Like, I look at someone like Ian Dempsey and I feel like genuflecting. Anyone that sees that man should hug him. To have done what he has done [presenting breakfast... Read more »

High Society

High Society

JP McManus

High Society

JP McMANUS’S ANNUS HORRIBILIS

THIS YEAR has turned out to be a forgettable one for Geneva-based zillionaire JP McManus. Hot on the heels of a ruling by a... Read more »

High Society

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High Society

SLOWLY DOES IT AT ABBBEYLEIX HOUSE

IT WAS reported recently that John and Patrick Collison purchased a nice pile on Ailesbury Road, D4, which is now being given as the... Read more »

High Society

Alias Tom

High Society

ALIAS TOM’S FASHION STATEMENT

THE PROPOSED High Court winding up of Alias Tom Ltd – the company behind the eponymous high-end men’s fashion retailer off Dublin’s Grafton Street – does not have the support... Read more »

Behind the Scenes

Mark Elliott

Behind the Scenes

FIDGET FEET’S SHORTAGES

LAST MONTH saw the launch at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance in Limerick of Micheál Ó Súilleabháin: A Life in Music. The venue was certainly apt given... Read more »
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Behind the Scenes

MARY MCCARTHY’S ADDITIONS

CONGRATULATIONS TO Mary McCarthy et al at the Crawford Gallery in Cork, who have just landed some acquisitions to bolster the national collection. Catherine Martin’s arts department has provided €69,000... Read more »

Sport of Kings

Katy Brown

Sport of Kings

KATY BROWN’S ALL-CLEAR

THE BOWLER Hats of the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) were kept busy last month. Along with backtracking on the high-profile Shark Hanlon horse carcass case, they concluded the investigation... Read more »
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Sport of Kings

ERIC McNAMARA’S GOOD BUY

HAVING SADDLED five winners at September’s Listowel Harvest Festival, Rathkeale trainer Eric McNamara continued his recent hot streak when saddling Real Steel to a front-running success in Limerick’s BoyleSports JT... Read more »

Moneybags

Moneybags

Eamonn Crowley

Moneybags

PTSB STILL FAILING TO CHALLENGE PILLAR BANKS

THE RECENT half-year figures for Permanent TSB (PTSB) reveal that annualised earnings for 2024 are around 15c, which leaves these shares on a prospective... Read more »

Moneybags

Seamus Keating

Moneybags

FD TECHNOLOGIES NOW A PALE SHADOW OF FORMER SELF

THIS MONTH’S £230m sell-off of the original core derivatives activity of FD Technologies group – founded by the impressive Brian Conlon, who died in... Read more »

Brief Cases

Deirdre Veldon

Brief Cases

DEIRDRE VELDON’S SMOOTH RIDE

READERS OF The Currency online business publication were treated to yet another gushing interview with a publishing figurehead at an acquisitive media group last week, this time in the form... Read more »
Keith McDonnell

Brief Cases

KEITH MCDONNELL’S BIKE CRASH

IT WAS something of a surprise to see a creditors’ meeting called for next week for an outfit called The Lazy Bike Tour Company Ltd. Currently in the saddle here... Read more »
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Brief Cases

DUNNES STORES STATS

THERE WAS much interest in the Sindo’s exclusive last weekend on the contents of the will of Frank Dunne, brother of Margaret Heffernan and the late Ben Dunne, who died... Read more »
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Brief Cases

BAD ATTITUDE

THE DREADED taxman has tracked down a company that was set up in Cork to develop and distribute pet GPS systems. Back in 2015 Rochestown-based Chinese national Songtao Dai founded... Read more »
Sharon Keegan

Brief Cases

SHARON KEEGAN’S ‘EMPOWERMENT BRAND’

GOLDHAWK IS sad to see that the leisurewear company set up by his favourite “inspirational leader”, Sharon Keegan, is being wound up next week. The liquidation is bad news for... Read more »