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THE ‘REAL’ SPIES IN IRELAND
Date: November 14, 2024 -
IT’S WHAT is behind that recent story in the Irish edition of the Sunday Times alleging that a current Oireachtas member is a Russian agent – a man they labelled ‘Cobalt’ – that is the real story. Goldhawk’s sources insist that the real security concern here is that this story is a ‘black op’ inspired… Read more »
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SILENCE IN THE RANKS
Date: November 14, 2024 -
US Vice president-elect JD Vance has argued that America could drop support for Nato if Europe tries to regulate Elon Musk’s platforms. Social media, and in particular X, are increasingly having real-world impacts on both politics and militarisation. Goldhawk has been alarmed for some time that a number of members of the Defence Forces, on… Read more »
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THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN
Date: November 14, 2024 -
FIANNA FÁIL junior minister James Brown finally guided the Gambling Regulation Bill 2024 around the track to the finishing line, despite intense opposition by assorted groups ranging from commercial giants such as Flutter Entertainment (owner of Paddy Power) to Horse Racing Ireland, the statutory funding agency for horseracing, and lobby groups like the Irish Bookmakers… Read more »
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CANCELLED CATHOLIC
Date: November 14, 2024 -
APPOINTED CEO of Christian Blind Mission (CBM) Ireland – a disability rights organisation working predominantly in Africa and Asia – Dualta Roughneen claimed that, outside of work, he had limited spare time. Happily, however, since his appointment in June 2023 Roughneen has been able to find time to write regularly for the Irish Catholic, Catholic… Read more »
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‘VEXATIOUS’ LITIGANTS
Date: November 14, 2024 -
FOLLOWING THE Irish Times front-page story headlined “Vexatious claimants ‘making a mockery’ of courts”, the newspaper declined to give Cormac Butler, a consultant on banking regulation, a short rejoinder “to balance” its article. The recent article arose from Justice Michael Twomey’s damning comments on distressed borrowers. It may be that the IT was provoked into… Read more »
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ARTS COUNCIL ARRIVALS
Date: November 14, 2024 -
ON OCTOBER 29, arts minister Catherine Martin announced the appointment of two new members to the board of the Arts Council (AC), although one has yet to appear. Last December, the minister had sought expressions of interest for vacancies on the Merrion Square Mafia, many of which had existed for some time, including the position… Read more »
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HUTCH: ‘PUT HIM IN TO GET HIM OUT’
Date: November 14, 2024 -
SOMEONE IN Hutch’s retinue appears to be aware of the famous 1917 by-election slogan in South Longford, when Sinn Féin candidate Joseph McGuinness achieved victory under the slogan, “Put him in to get him out” – McGuinness had been jailed for his part in the 1916 Rising. Now, the more than a century old election… Read more »
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TONY SMURFIT’S FORM
Date: November 14, 2024 -
ELSEWHERE IN this issue (see p124) Goldhawk profiles Tony Smurfit, the chief executive of Smurfit Kappa Group, who has just pulled off an audacious (if maybe unwise) merger with US outfit WestRock to create the biggest packaging group on the planet. This is quite a result for Tony, although the jury will remain out for… Read more »
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NICK CAVE(MAN) PLAYS ISRAEL
Date: November 14, 2024 -
IT WAS interesting but not surprising to hear adverts for Nick Cave’s concerts at Dublin’s 3Arena still being broadcast right up to the day before his two concerts on Tuesday and Wednesday this week, indicating that ticket sales were not going at all well. This is most unusual for artists of this fame and the… Read more »
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DENIS DESMOND’S GUITAR BREAK
Date: November 14, 2024 -
GOLDHAWK was struck by the outpouring of gratitude for Denis Desmond and his Live Nation business partners for the proposed “donation” of Rory Gallagher’s 1963 Fender Stratocaster guitar to the National Museum of Ireland (NMI). It appears that there was little enough red tape for DD to overcome when getting the nod that a chunky… Read more »
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ANNUAL 2024: GOLDHAWK’S AWARDS FOR THE PASSING PARADE 2024
Date: November 14, 2024 -
CLARE DALY THE AWARD for Persecuted Dissident of the Year (in the minority, non-Russian category) goes to former MEP Clare Daly, who lost her Dublin seat in the European Parliament largely due to a witch hunt by the state/establishment-controlled media. This campaign was supplemented by a vote-splitting intervention from ‘comrades’ in People Before Profit –… Read more »
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ANNUAL 2024 – PROFILE: SIMON HARRIS
Date: November 14, 2024 -
Heather Humphreys’ betrayal of Simon Harris on the cusp of his first electoral challenge as Taoiseach must have felt more like abandonment to the man that she nominated for Taoiseach. She told the story of her first encounter with Harris as a TD to a chortling Dáil: “Ah, sure, he must be on a school… Read more »
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CORK WAGE SLAVES REBEL
Date: November 14, 2024 -
LAST CHRISTMAS the south Dublin proletariat at the Irish Times made angry noises about the austerity imposed on them due to losses at The Irish Times DAC. These bolshie attitudes were not assuaged when it emerged that such losses – and the consequent cuts in remuneration – were partly due to the €1.15m golden handshake… Read more »
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ANNUAL 2024: PRINT LEGACY HAUNTS IRISH PUBLISHERS
Date: November 14, 2024 -
ESTABLISHED BEFORE the internet age, the lofty Irish Times Trust has long declaimed the newspaper as some sort of trailblazer for taking a baby step into online publishing in 1994. The trust’s current board continues to hint at a rosy future, if only publishers could get rid of pesky printing plants and distribution trucks criss-crossing… Read more »
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ANNUAL 2024 – RTÉ: NORMAL SERVICE IS RESUMED
Date: November 14, 2024 -
They finally went and did it, as everyone on the inside always knew they would. The Government agreed to a massive bailout for RTÉ – €275m over three years, with no guarantee that it won’t be back for more. Rewarding a decade of bad management, excess and downright greed in Donnybrook, changes are promised –… Read more »
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ANNUAL 2024: PAPAL RULE OK!
Date: November 14, 2024 -
THE MARATHON Synod on Synodality convened in Rome recently by Pope Francis to update world Catholicism ended in the anticipated anti-climax. In his closing homily on Sunday October 27, the first Jesuit Pontiff extolled the participants on their prime duty of evangelising the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Amid glorious autumnal sunshine in St Peter’s Basilica,… Read more »
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ANNUAL 2024: KNOWLEDGE KNOWS NO PRICE
Date: November 14, 2024 -
LOSING ONE university president may be regarded as a misfortune but losing two… as Oscar Wilde nearly said. But even he would have been bemused by how well Ireland’s lost academic leaders are doing career wise since they fell on their presidential swords a few months ago – only to rise again. Professor Kerstin Mey’s… Read more »
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ANNUAL 2024: PEACE BREAKS OUT IN FOUR COURTS
Date: November 14, 2024 -
As the world around us descends not-so-slowly into a veritable state of chassis, it must have been a source of great comfort to the lords and ladies of the legal obsession to go to work each day and bask in the warm glow of friendship and collegiality. As the Middle East and the US tear… Read more »
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ANNUAL 2024: MICHEÁL MARTIN’S UNIVERSE
Date: November 14, 2024 -
“What planet are you living on?” is Tánaiste Micheál Martin’s response to questions on the state facilitating US arms deliveries through Shannon Airport in Nato’s proxy war against Russia in Ukraine. If the state was not officially militarily neutral and had we more than one planet on which to survive, not answering the question might… Read more »
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ANNUAL 2024: GENOCIDE, ROBOTS AND TAYLOR SWIFT
Date: November 14, 2024 -
THIS YEAR the cultural arena was dominated by two rather different personalities – Taylor Swift and Benjamin Netanyahu – both of whom managed to cause mayhem, albeit for very different reasons. The issue of Israel’s war in Gaza was rarely far from the surface for artists but, more often than not, the more familiar names… Read more »
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ANNUAL 2024: GOVERNMENT – SAME OLD GOVERNMENT AGAIN?
Date: November 14, 2024 -
LAST YEAR ended and this year began with a chorus line that said then taoiseach and Fine Gael leader Leo Varadkar would be going for a snap general election. Goldhawk also noted in last year’s annual that should Vlad fall – or be pushed – under a bus, Simon Harris would easily elbow aside his… Read more »
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ANNUAL 2024: OPPOSITION – CAN SINN FÉIN RECOVER?
Date: November 14, 2024 -
HOW THE mighty have fallen! A year ago, Sinn Féin was riding high in the opinion polls at 35% and confidently expected to be in with a real chance of leading the next government. Now all that is in tatters. The latest Red C poll puts the party at 17%. SF’s support fell in opinion… Read more »
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ANNUAL 2024: INDEPENDENTS/TROTS – DIVIDED LEFT TO STAY IN OPPOSITION
Date: November 14, 2024 -
DESPITE THE decline in Sinn Féin’s vote, the minor left parties have failed to capitalise on SF’s drop in support and joining in the media frenzy against SF – as Labour and the Social Democrats did – has done nothing to lift them either. Support for People Before Profit (which opposed the blitz against SF),… Read more »
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LEST WE FORGET…
Date: November 14, 2024 -
HAS SIMON HARRIS dropped his first clanger in Anglo-Irish matters with a deliberate failure to attend the annual Remembrance Sunday Commemoration in Enniskillen – a failure made infinitely worse given Sinn Féin vice-president Michelle O’Neill’s attendance at a commemoration in Belfast? Harris told the Sunday Independent that he was giving the event a miss because… Read more »
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SARAH NEWMAN’S BARON
Date: November 14, 2024 -
GOLDHAWK IS delighted to report that businesswoman-turned-celebrity-turned-bankrupt Sarah Newman has had a fairytale ending to 2024, marrying her titled beau, Lord Henry Digby, aka the Baron of Offaly. Having experienced some pretty bruising media scrutiny after she turned up on this side of the Irish Sea, it is likely that the new Lady Digby will… Read more »
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ANNUAL 2024: 2024 GETS BOOMIER … FOR SOME
Date: November 14, 2024 -
WHILE AROUND the world there were warning signs of the brakes being applied to the economy and a slowdown in spending at the luxury end of the market was becoming evident, in Ireland the party has continued as the rich and (increasingly) the super rich spend like there is no tomorrow. Property prices at the… Read more »
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ANNUAL 2024: MONEYBAGS – SHARES SET TO THRIVE IN UNCERTAIN 2025
Date: November 14, 2024 -
FOLLOWING ON from a decade of low interest rates running at nil or even negative percentages – the predictable fallout from the 2008 global economic crash – business has recently had to get used to a less hospitable environment. Along with a reversion of the interest regime, there is the ongoing impact of the war… Read more »
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ANNUAL 2024: MONEYBAGS – WINNERS AND LOSERS IN 2024
Date: November 14, 2024 -
THE BEST performing stock for 2024 is something of an outlier, Ovoca Bio, with its stock doubling, albeit from a really low 1c price. It is noteworthy that Ovoca fell from a recent high of 13p, which it hit in August last year on the back of Australian trials for its drug, Orenetide, designed to… Read more »
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ANNUAL 2024 – MONEYBAGS: TONY SMURFIT
Date: November 14, 2024 -
NOW 60, it is gobsmacking that Tony Smurfit finds himself as the boss of the largest packaging company in the world, Smurfit Westrock, after pulling off a deal on a scale few thought him capable of. It is a bit of a head-scratcher though, given his pretty underwhelming performance as the very well paid CEO… Read more »
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ANNUAL 2024: FROM LOADED ADVERSARIES TO FLEEING RUGBY STARS
Date: November 14, 2024 -
IN 2024 there was no shortage of excitement in the business world, with company collapses and expensive court outings aplenty. While some of the usual suspects popped up in a spot of bother, it was perhaps surprising to see media shy billionaire John Magnier dragged into a high-profile scrap over a multimillion-euro estate in Co… Read more »
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ANNUAL 2024
Date: November 14, 2024 -
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HEALTH CHECK
Date: November 14, 2024 -
DOCUMENTS FILED in the Companies Office reveal that the grandly titled Institute of Health Sciences (IHS), which closed its doors last year, owed unsecured creditors €¾m when its own health finally gave in. The institute was incorporated here back in 2008 and the main listed players were Suzanne Laurie, a lecturer at the institute, and… Read more »
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SLOWLY DOES IT
Date: November 14, 2024 -
IN THE last edition of The Phoenix it was noted that Sinn Féin has for some years been guided by a comprehensive, 40-page child protection document with protocols and links to procedural guidelines of the HSE and gardaí, as well as the PSNI and social care trusts in the north. Given the intense media and… Read more »
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HONEY TRAP: RUSSIAN OR BRITISH?
Date: October 31, 2024 -
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 real scandal more likely relates to a British secret service asset operating inside Garda intelligence, who was responsible for the leak of the fishy allegation… Read more »
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PROFILE: MARY LOU MCDONALD
Date: October 31, 2024 -
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 cohesion as it looked like heading for government. We also asked if coming over as the essence of sweet reason and moderation was the way to deal with the media. The… Read more »
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YOUNG BLOOD: SARAH RYAN
Date: October 31, 2024 -
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 frustration at the failure of Ireland’s new right-wing political projects to have an impact. And there is something deeply ironic in the fact that Ryan, who abandoned what seemed like the… Read more »
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