Article Category: Affairs of the Nation

MAYHEM ON MERRION SQUARE

February 20, 2025

AT LONG last the media (and Government) have caught up with Goldhawk’s investigation into the near €7m splurge on a useless information and... Read more »

TRINITY COLLEGE LOWERS THE TONE   

February 20, 2025

TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN (TCD) authorities will feel satisfied that it recently handled some ‘legacy’ racism in a deft manner. In 2022 students agitated... Read more »

SNUBBING CILLIAN MURPHY

February 20, 2025

THERE MAY have been some surprised cinephiles when the Bafta winners were announced last weekend. Where were the gongs for Small Things Like... Read more »

HUNTING THE MI5 MOLE

February 20, 2025

IT WILL soon fall to new Fianna Fáil justice minister Big Jim O’Callaghan to fully commence the Policing, Security and Community Safety Act,... Read more »

KEVIN MYERS LIVES

February 20, 2025

In recent years Goldhawk has been able to reveal the central role that Irish journalists have played in new media projects launched in... Read more »

CENTRAL BANK’S ISRAELI WAR BONDS

February 20, 2025

ASTONISHINGLY, THE Central Bank of Ireland (CBI) is enabling the sale of Israel bonds in Europe. As David Landy of Jews for Palestine... Read more »

CHINESE ORDER

February 20, 2025

MICHEÁL MARTIN made sure to get his mug in the papers this week when chumming up with Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi, who... Read more »

EU WANTS WAR

February 20, 2025

THE INSANE level of militarist, anti-Russian rhetoric that has engulfed EU states, including Ireland, is a classic case of decision makers believing their... Read more »

AG v. FORMER CLIENT MICHAEL LOWRY

February 6, 2025

EVEN BY the cloistered circumstances of the Four Goldmines, the interaction between Attorney General Rossa Fanning and legal issues concerning Michael Lowry is... Read more »

PATRICK O’DONOVAN’S ART ATTACK

February 6, 2025

FANS OF Goldhawk will be familiar with the drama that has been unfolding in the Arts Council in recent months, as the scale... Read more »

BAR COUNCIL TEA SHOCK

February 6, 2025

WHILE PLENTY of our learn’d friends in the Law Library are focused on recent activity over the the failure of the government to... Read more »

VERONA SELL OUT?

February 6, 2025

WAS IT the main government parties, Fianna Fail and Fine Gael that capitulated to the growing public anger at the Rural Independent Group... Read more »

THE BIG APPLE

February 6, 2025

IT ONLY took four months but the department of finance finally agreed to detail the names of the barristers and solicitors as well... Read more »

XL BULLY CAMPAIGN CONTINUES

February 6, 2025

THE CAMPAIGN by assorted charities against the implementation of the ban on the dangerous XL Bully breed of dog here continues to gain... Read more »

RIVAL OMAGH BOMBING CLAIMS

February 6, 2025

David Rupert, the FBI-MI5 spy who sat on the Army Council of the Real IRA, has said he is prepared to testify at... Read more »

TRULY LETHAL

February 6, 2025

THE CURRENT obsession with militarisation in Ireland and other EU states has more to do with stimulating armaments manufacturing in Europe than Ukraine.... Read more »

MARTIN BOWS TO TRUMP ON GAZA

January 23, 2025

The timing of Micheál Martin and the Government’s adoption of the pro-Israeli definition of antisemitism drawn up by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance... Read more »

PRESIDENT HIGGINS UNDER ATTACK!

January 23, 2025

IT WAS hardly surprising that when President Michael D Higgins had the temerity, at the BT Young Scientist Exhibition, to speak out against... Read more »

BEN SCALLAN’S PLATFORM

January 23, 2025

Francis Duffy, the Archbishop of Tuam, may have been surprised to receive criticism on the archdiocese Facebook page after a notice was posted... Read more »

NIAMH TALLON’S SPORTING PROWESS

January 23, 2025

CONGRATULATIONS TO Niamh Tallon, the founder of something called Her Sport Media Ltd (HSM), which has just landed a €10,000 grant from Coimisiún... Read more »

CHINESE WHISKEY SOUR

January 23, 2025

THIS WEEK a Chinese national named Yan Ma has been in the High Court seeking a summary judgment against Nephin Whiskey Company Ltd... Read more »

THE NAME IS MITTY, WALTER MITTY

January 23, 2025

The Irish News last week published a front-page story about London gangster and convicted killer Paul Cleeland with the headline: “MI5 recruited me to murder... Read more »

IRISH RIGHT’S FAR-OFF FRIENDS

January 23, 2025

The failure of new Irish right-wing parties to gain an electoral breakthrough has resulted in many of their members seemingly more concerned with... Read more »

BONO BENDS TO BIDEN

January 9, 2025

BONO’S FAWNING behaviour towards US presidents and other powerful western leaders while simultaneously crying peace and freedom have become too much even for... Read more »

WUFF JUSTICE

January 9, 2025

WITH HEATHER Humphreys’ regulations banning the breeding and resale of XL bully dogs coming into force next month, it is not surprising that... Read more »

NOT SO MAGNIFICENT €7M PROJECT

January 9, 2025

THERE IS no sign of the Arts Council’s 2023 annual report, which was supposed to have been laid before the Houses of the... Read more »

NIGEL FARAGE’S IRISH ALLY

January 9, 2025

REFORM UK leader Nigel Farage may have lost the support of Elon Musk but his ally in the north appears to be rock... Read more »

ENTRAPMENT STORY A POLITICAL TRAP

January 9, 2025

Last October the Sunday Times published an article asserting that ‘Cobalt’, a serving member of the Oireachtas, was a Russian agent. Cobalt denies... Read more »