Article Category: Affairs of the Nation

FRANK REEVES’S BIDEN BOOST

April 19, 2023

GOLDHAWK DOFFS his cap to the PR skills of Frank Reeves, the Irish businessman behind hotel booking software operation Avvio, which he set... Read more »

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COLIN MARRY’S SAUSAGES

April 19, 2023

GOLDHAWK WAS surprised to see that a company touted as being behind the farming of “pigs that could change the world” has just... Read more »

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IAN PAISLEY’S REAL RECORD

April 19, 2023

The BBC’s House of Paisley marathon trilogy ignored vital chunks of Ian Paisley’s stormy career, despite the fact it had exposed many of... Read more »

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SCAPPATICCI TALES

April 19, 2023

In the early 1970s, the IRA adopted a cellular structure. The overlap between cells was kept to a bare minimum, thereby limiting the... Read more »

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DAME TO SAVE IRISH NEUTRALITY

April 19, 2023
ONE TRUSTS that Tánaiste Micheál Martin’s recent failure to give Louise Richardson her full, proper title of Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order... Read more »

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SEAN O’RIORDAN’S RATIONALE

April 19, 2023

SOME SORT of award should be organised to encourage Irish journalists competing with each other to be the most enthusiastic champions of Nato... Read more »

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MARGARET SWEENEY’S BATTLE

April 19, 2023

AS GOOD old corporate battles are rare enough here, there is mounting interest in the open challenge by a leading shareholder in the... Read more »

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OFFICER CLASS IN RETREAT

April 6, 2023

THE SPECTACLE of Defence Forces Chief of Staff (c/s) Seán Clancy being pilloried for denying he had encountered any abuse issues as highlighted... Read more »

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GERRY O’CARROLL’S CRI DE COEUR

April 6, 2023

WITH EACH staging post along the 40-year-old Kerry Babies saga, the prevailing view is that several gardaí were involved in a travesty in... Read more »

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CLAIRE BYRNE’S ‘SUPER AGENT’

April 6, 2023

WITH THE clock ticking in the search for the new host of The Late Late Show (TLLS), there are those wondering if agent... Read more »

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JAY BOURKE’S STORIES

April 6, 2023

GOLDHAWK’S OLD friend Jay Bourke addressed the AGM of the insolvency specialists’ representative body, Restructuring and Insolvency Ireland (RII) last month. Judging by... Read more »

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MARC GODART’S TENANTS

April 6, 2023

FANS OF Goldhawk will have recognised the name of landlord extraordinaire Marc Godart on the front page of the Irish Times earlier this... Read more »

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NATIONAL PARTY ON THE RUN

April 6, 2023

After the fracas in Fermanagh, when antifascists confronted National Party (NP) members at their ard fheis in November, Goldhawk wonders whether, despite fighting... Read more »

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MI5’s BENIGN ROLE IN IRELAND

April 6, 2023

THE NEW book by veteran British author and broadcaster Peter Taylor, Operation Chiffon, has much to say about MI5’s activities in Ireland. It... Read more »

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ONLY OUR RIVERS RUN FREE

April 6, 2023

A PLANNING row that began in 2012 over an Athlone marina has turned into a major confrontation involving Waterways Ireland (WI), Westmeath County... Read more »

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ELLIE KISYOMBE KEEPS BUSY

April 5, 2023

NO DOUBT one-time Social Democrats local election candidate Ellie Kisyombe was breathing a sign of relief last month when she was given just... Read more »

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CIARA FLOOD’S BANKERS

April 5, 2023

AS THE dust settles on the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), assorted Irish customers with loan facilities are breathing a sigh of... Read more »

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FRANCESCA’S SWISS ROLE

March 23, 2023

WHILE THERE has been acres of space devoted to the trials and tribulations of Credit Suisse in the business media in particular, the... Read more »

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ENDA MCNULTY’S PERFORMANCE

March 23, 2023

IT HAS been hard to avoid the dulcet tones of former Armagh All-Ireland winning full-back Enda McNulty in recent weeks as he has... Read more »

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€20M ‘KIN’ CONUNDRUM

March 23, 2023

WHILE THE crux of the opening episode of RTÉ’s second series of Kin (see review p23) is the €90m cost of the Kinsella... Read more »

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TED CUNNINGHAM’S COURT CASE

March 23, 2023

THE LATEST development relating to Tipperary farmer Patrick Quirke’s conviction for murdering Bobby Ryan (aka DJ Mr Moonlight) in 2011 has been the... Read more »

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ENDA KENNY’S SPACE MISSION

March 23, 2023

THE COLOURFUL story of an alleged spy working for the National Space Centre (NSC) in Cork got quite the kicking in the Sindo... Read more »

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MICHEÁL MARTIN’S NEW FRIENDS

March 23, 2023

AS The Phoenix has repeatedly pointed out, the Government, and in particular Micheál Martin, has in the last year moved further and further... Read more »

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BARON’S PAEAN TO EOGHAN HARRIS

March 23, 2023

THE ULTIMATE British Tory journalist, Charles Moore – official biographer of the Iron Lady, Margaret Thatcher and past editor of the Daily Telegraph,... Read more »

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IFA ‘MODERATES’

March 23, 2023

If you run an industrial operation where there is a risk of pollution, you will require a licence from the Environmental Protection Agency... Read more »

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MANCHESTER BOMB: MI5 INCOMPETENCE

March 23, 2023

MI5 DIRECTOR GENERAL Ken McCallum has said he is “profoundly sorry” that his service did not prevent the Manchester Arena suicide bombing, in... Read more »

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SUE GRAY STILL TO RUN UK?

March 8, 2023

THE MOST powerful woman in Britain – according to various British sources – is Sue Gray and she has now emerged as British... Read more »

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LITTLE MUSEUM, BIG BRANDS

March 8, 2023

CLEVER TREVOR WHITE, director of the Little Museum of Dublin, exudes ethical concern for children, climate and other issues as manifest in various... Read more »

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MODEST ANNE HARRIS

March 8, 2023

THE HEROISM attributed to TD Catherine Murphy by Anne Harris in the Irish Times this week was a study in selfless endeavour untainted... Read more »

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BRENDAN MULLIN SCORES

March 8, 2023

INTERESTING TO see a judgment for the sum of €163,000 being registered against a property development company by one Brendan Mullin – former... Read more »

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PRINCE KHALED’S IRISH JET

March 8, 2023

GOLDHAWK WAS interested to see that a colourful Saudi prince, Khaled, who owns the most expensive house in the UK, is currently embroiled... Read more »

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TRICOLOURS AND THE FAR RIGHT

March 8, 2023

SOME OF the boneheads running the Irish far-right scene have stumbled on the contradictions of cosying up to right-wing extremists and criminals from... Read more »

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CONSULATE’S OSCAR PERFORMANCE

March 8, 2023

THERE IS one possible result at Sunday’s Oscars that may not be top of the wish list for film funding agency Screen Ireland.... Read more »

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ROBERT QUIRKE’S MALTESE MOOLAH

March 8, 2023

THE Comptroller and Auditor General’s scathing report into the farce surrounding HSE spending on ventilators in the early days of the Covid pandemic... Read more »

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BURNING ISSUE

March 8, 2023

If an outsider were to land in rural Ireland for the first time in recent weeks, what would be their enduring impression of... Read more »

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BERTIE AHERN’S REAL AGENDA

February 22, 2023

WHETHER INSPIRED by some devious and cunning politician or whether they became obsessed with Bertie Ahern’s presumed presidential ambitions, journalists en masse were... Read more »

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