Article Category: Affairs of the Nation

COALITION LEADERS’ TENSIONS ALREADY

March 20, 2025

IT’S EARLY days but with Donald Trump creating a daily sense of geo-political crisis, Taoiseach Micheál Martin and Tánaiste Simon Harris are already... Read more »

RTÉ’S EMPTY CHAIRS

March 20, 2025

WITH WEB Summit co-founder Daire Hickey kicking off a possible nine-week battle in the Four Goldmines with former pal Paddy Cosgrave this week,... Read more »

ANNE O’LEARY’S META HEADACHES

March 20, 2025

IT HAS been a busy couple of weeks for the boss of Mark Zuckerberg’s sprawling Meta operation in Ireland (and also Ibec president),... Read more »

HEATHER TO SET THE PARTY BLAZING?

March 20, 2025

THE LIST of potential candidates for the Fine Gael nomination for a presidential contest includes former tánaiste Frances Fitzgerald; former European commissioner Mairead... Read more »

GANGING UP ON GLENANNE

March 20, 2025

Marie Anderson, the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland, has postponed the release of her Operation Newham report on the UVF’s Glenanne gang. The... Read more »

SUBVERSIVE IRISH LANGUAGE

March 20, 2025

FOLLOWING GERMANY’S general election, the electoral surge for the far-right Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) received much Irish media coverage. The resurgence of the... Read more »

TRUMP V MARTIN

March 6, 2025

WHILE MANY columnists and ‘opinion formers’ have been generously dispensing advice to An Taoiseach, Micheál Martin, on how to evade a Zelenskyy-type thrashing... Read more »

DECLAN GANLEY’S RENEWED AMBITION

March 6, 2025

DESPITE RECENT setbacks for Hermann Kelly and his Irish Freedom Party (IFP), the success of the party’s weekly X Space has brought a... Read more »

MAKHLOUF’S ISRAEL WAR BONDS

March 6, 2025

FLYING UNDER the radar, thanks to a most responsible media, is the arresting issue of the Central Bank of Ireland’s (CBI) enabling the... Read more »

OH WHAT A LOVELY WAR!

March 6, 2025

GOLDHAWK CANNOT recall any political campaign more hysterical, ill-informed and downright dishonest than that which in recent years has sought to drag Ireland... Read more »

IRELAND’S MEGA CLIMATE DEBT

March 6, 2025

This week’s bombshell report from the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (IFAC) shows Ireland to be the worst-performing EU country per capita in terms... Read more »

JAMES BROWNE’S KILLARNEY HOUSE

March 6, 2025

THE NEWLY appointed housing and heritage minister, James Browne, has bigger fish to fry but there are begrudging noises coming from Killarney with... Read more »

MI5/6 AND THE DUB-MON BOMBS

March 6, 2025

DESPITE GOVERNMENT pledges to assist the Omagh Bombing Inquiry, two UK-based inquiries into the UVF’s Glenanne gang – Operation Denton and that of... Read more »

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 »