Affairs of the Nation

Bono

Affairs of the Nation

BONO BENDS TO BIDEN

BONO’S FAWNING behaviour towards US presidents and other powerful western leaders while simultaneously crying peace and freedom have become too much even for many U2 fans. But his latest blessing... 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

BERNARD MCNAMARA’S CREDITORS

BOOM-TIME BUILDER extraordinaire Bernard McNamara has slowly but surely been building back up his business despite the odd setback. Now a couple of his firms are set to be liquidated.... 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

DEIRDRE VELDON’S FUNERAL NOTICES

THERE HAS, not surprisingly, been a fair deal of whingeing about the impact of the takeover of RIP.ie by the Irish Times, on foot of the hefty €100 charge for... Read more »

Affairs of the Nation

Nigel Farage

Affairs of the Nation

NIGEL FARAGE’S IRISH ALLY

REFORM UK leader Nigel Farage may have lost the support of Elon Musk but his ally in the north appears to be rock solid. Farage’s policy on Ireland is influenced... Read more »
Heather Humphreys

Affairs of the Nation

WUFF JUSTICE

WITH HEATHER Humphreys’ regulations banning the breeding and resale of XL bully dogs coming into force next month, it is not surprising that the ongoing rearguard action by animal charities... Read more »
Arts Council Maureen Kennelly

Affairs of the Nation

NOT SO MAGNIFICENT €7M PROJECT

THERE IS no sign of the Arts Council’s 2023 annual report, which was supposed to have been laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas by arts minister Catherine Martin months... Read more »
Ken McCallum

Affairs of the Nation

ENTRAPMENT STORY A POLITICAL TRAP

Last October the Sunday Times published an article asserting that ‘Cobalt’, a serving member of the Oireachtas, was a Russian agent. Cobalt denies this. Within days, the country was consumed... Read more »
Alfred Rosenberg

Affairs of the Nation

‘IRISH’ RACISM

ONE OF the most prolific publishers of antisemitic books in Europe is Omnia Veritas Limited (OV), which has been based in Ireland for over a decade. OV has a modern... Read more »

Pillars of Society

Oliver Sears

Pillars of Society

PROFILE: OLIVER SEARS

DESPITE IRISH people’s revulsion at Israel’s continued slaughter of Palestinian children and other civilians in Gaza, the ‘paper of reference’, the Irish Times, has... Read more »

The Young Bloods

Albert Dolan

The Young Bloods

YOUNG BLOOD: ALBERT DOLAN

IS THE success of 26-year-old Albert Dolan in taking Fianna Fáil’s seat in Galway East – displacing incumbent Anne Rabbitte in the process –... Read more »

Fit to Print?

Emma Blain

Fit to Print?

MAYOR BLAIN’S MEDIA EXPOSURE

NEWLY ELECTED Dublin lord mayor Emma Blain recently told readers of the Sunday Independent, her old employer, that people should “get over” her past as one of the newspaper’s O3... Read more »
Ivan Yates Nell McCafferty RTÉ Lord Laird Intro Matchmaking NewsBrands Martin McGuinness Dún Laoghaire Pat Leahy Cormac Lucey John Cooney Irish Journalism Awards Steve Aiken Anton Savage John Downing Lucinda Creighton Marina Sologub Eilis O'Hanlon Ian Kehoe Danny McConnell Sindo O'Connor Mediahuis Stephen Collins Book Justine McCarthy Rewriting the Troubles Lynn Ruane Sinn Féin

Fit to Print?

VIRGIN MEDIA’S NEWS BLACKOUT

THE GOVERNMENT’S refusal to accede to Virgin Media’s demand for a slice of the licence fee when it bailed out RTÉ last year has been cited by management as the... Read more »
John Bruton

Fit to Print?

JOHN ‘UNIONIST’ BRUTON

IRISH TIMES revisionism of national politics and modern history is one thing but revising the message purveyed in its own newspaper is pushing it a bit. Last week’s editorial attempt... Read more »

Last Refuge

Jimmy Carter

Last Refuge

JIMMY CARTER’S IRISH POLICY

IN THE second public reference recently to his stewardship of Anglo-Irish policy at home and abroad, Seán Donlon wrote in the Irish Times about the late US president Jimmy Carter’s... Read more »
Michael Lowry

Last Refuge

INDEPENDENT SUPER JUNIORS

LITTLE OR NOTHING was discussed between the two big Government parties and Independent TD groups over Christmas, despite insinuations and hints to media of serious policy negotiations. But Fianna Fáil... Read more »
Norma Foley

Last Refuge

NORMA FOLEY’S POOR HOMEWORK

EDUCATION MINISTER Norma Foley is expecting to either retain her current role or be moved sideways in Cabinet and with party leader Micheál Martin likely to have eight Cabinet places,... Read more »
Michael Moynihan

Last Refuge

VENGEANCE BEJAYSUS IN NORTH CORK

FIVE YEARS ago the failure of Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin to reward one of his most loyal followers, Cork North-West’s Michael Moynihan, with a junior minister’s job provoked a... Read more »

Hush Hush

Dame Richardson

Hush Hush

MURKY DEPTHS OF IRISH MILITARY

MicheÁl Martin and Dame Louise Richardson’s Forum on International Security Policy in June 2023 did not allow for unbiased debate and was widely seen as such. This has resulted in... Read more »

Bog Cuttings

Bog-Cuttings-Defaul

Bog Cuttings

BOG CUTTINGS

BATHROOM BREAK A man who entered a Garda station at 5:50am to use the toilet became aggressive towards gardaí after relieving himself, Portlaoise District Court has heard. The defendant, Gary... Read more »

Fowl Emissions

Donald Trump

Fowl Emissions

DRILL, BABY, DRILL!

Just before Christmas Donald Trump ordered the EU to step up imports of US oil and gas. “Otherwise, it is TARIFFS all the way!!!” he warned. The US president-elect’s ultimatum... 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

NIGEL’S ‘ENERGY INDEPENDENCE’

Last summer Tullamore company Lumcloon Energy drummed up widespread community support in Coolpowra in east Galway for a supposed solar farm but then caused great upset by instead applying for... Read more »

The Hot Air Brigade

Sonya Lennon

The Hot Air Brigade

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

I spend a lot of time working in Zurich, and Kronenhalle is just about the best place to have smoked salmon blinis and a glass of Champagne while soaking up... Read more »

High Society

High Society

Laughing Waters

High Society

MAGNIER’S LAUGHING WATERS

WHILE THE increasing appetite of John Magnier’s Coolmore operation for agricultural land has become something of a talking point here in the last couple... Read more »

High Society

Simone Rocha

High Society

SIMONE’S ‘SUBVERSIVE WORLD’

FASHION DESIGNER du jour Simone Rocha will be hard-pressed to top her performance in 2024, which started with her outfits on show at Jean... Read more »

High Society

IHT CHL The Lion in Winter Racing Royalty Le Brocquy City of Troy Fitzwilliam Square AIRO Dermot Smurfit Ballinacarrig Park Club Cosgrave Fitzpatrick Keith Jameson National Gallery Collection Marissa Carter VG Tom Higgins Neil Jordan Laura Bonner Paul Ward Variety Jones Dtat Eathos Sharon Keegan Angela Scanlon Desmond Canouan Bellair Estate Bobby Flay John O’Conor Portrait of Omai Eibhlín Ní Chonghaile Wedding NGI Board Rachel Flynn JP McMahon Ash Quinn Pamela Laird Abdullah Al Naboodah Boundless Ocean

High Society

ALLEN KRAUSE’S MADRID MOVES

GOLDHAWK’S FAVOURITE Mexican-English millionaire, Allen de Jesus Sanginés-Krause – the squire of Killua Castle in Co Westmeath, where he lives much of the year with his glamorous wife, Lorena –... Read more »

Behind the Scenes

Andrew Lowe and Ed Guiney

Behind the Scenes

BIG BUDGET PÁLÁS FLOP

THE LATEST plot twist in the tortuous tale of Galway’s Pálás arthouse cinema (controlled offshore since 2020) is the decision of Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe to call ‘cut’ on... Read more »

Sport of Kings

Johnny Dineen

Sport of Kings

DINEEN V NICHOLLS

CORK PUNTER and racing pundit Johnny Dineen recently expressed his opinions on social media regarding the lack of success of the Paul Nicholls string, most especially at the Cheltenham festival.... Read more »
Ed Dunlop David Dunsdon Sarah Lynam Rebecca May Wayne Hassett Eoin O'Brien Michael Burke Aine O’Connor Ashroe Diamond Thomand O’Mara Peter Keatley Timmy Hyde Coolmore All About Sunday Colin Keane Ronan Whelan JP McManus Jessica Harrington Dundalk Racecourse Paul Hensey Irish National Hunt Horse-racing Doping Paddy Walsh Tom Kelly Suspension

Sport of Kings

HOLIDAY CRACKERS

WILLIE MULLINS and Nicky Henderson faced off at Kempton Park on St Stephen’s Day, when the Rich Ricci-owned Lossiemouth challenged Michael Buckley’s Constitution Hill in the Grade 1 Ladbrokes Christmas... Read more »

Moneybags

Moneybags

Dalton Philips

Moneybags

DALTON PHILIPS’S LIMITED HORIZONS AT GREENCORE

IT MUST be surprising for those 10,000 stranded passengers who tried to fly out of Dublin Airport in May 2022 to see the Irish... Read more »

Moneybags

Ralph Findlay

Moneybags

C&C’S BEWILDERING PERFORMANCE AND FIGURES

THE UNFORTUNATE shareholders in C&C Group have had a torrid time since the company’s shares peaked at £11 in 2007 and it was not... Read more »

Briefcases

Gina Miltiadou

Brief Cases

ZAHRA PUBLISHING’S RED INK

GOLDHAWK WAS interested to see that a company called Zahra Publishing Ltd (ZPL) entered the Scarp company rescue process just before Christmas. The move comes not long after the principals... Read more »
John Rocca

Brief Cases

ROCHA FAMILY OVER THE MOON

ELSEWHERE IN this issue (see p18) Goldhawk looks at the high-flying, high-fashion phenomenon that is London-based Simone Rocha, recently crowned British Womenswear Designer of the Year. While she has been... Read more »
Eva Orsmond

Brief Cases

DR EVA’S NEW REGIME

FANS OF health guru Dr Eva Orsmond had a nice start to the new year thanks to the Indo giving the celeb lots of space to plug her new book,... Read more »
Neil Francis

Brief Cases

FRANNO’S SCORES

INTERESTING TO see a judgment mortgage registered against a company called KC Property Developments Ltd (KCP) by Killarney-based plant and tool hire company Allosales, following an outing in Mallow District... Read more »