Article Category: Affairs of the Nation

GOOD ENERGY NEWS?

May 18, 2023

It’s almost 20 years since Ireland’s first offshore windfarm came into operation. By today’s standards, the 2004 Arklow Bank windpark is a tiddler,... Read more »

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DENAMING TCD’S MAKTOUM CENTRE?

May 4, 2023
THE HIGH-profile decision of the board in Trinity College to ‘dename’ the Berkeley Library has attracted plenty of attention. Goldhawk wonders why there isn’t... Read more »

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HAMISH MACAULEY’S FISH SUPPER

May 4, 2023

GOLDHAWK THOROUGHLY enjoyed the Oirish Sun’s Punchestown splash on bloodstock agent Hamish Macauley last weekend. He is certainly a chap on the move... Read more »

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OONAGH BUCKLEY’S APOLOGY

May 4, 2023

IT DIDN’T take the interim chair of An Bord Pleanála (ABP) too long to issue an apology to top planning lawyer Fred Logue,... Read more »

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CATHERINE MARTIN’S SLOW PACE

May 4, 2023

WITH SPORT having lost out on increased funding this year, despite all the moolah sloshing around, the good news is that a new... Read more »

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NEW YORK’S FINEST

May 3, 2023

A SHORT and largely unnoticed announcement last week on the website of the American Irish Historical Society (AIHS) signalled an emphatic victory for... Read more »

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POLLUTERS PARADISE

May 3, 2023

The polluter’s paradox is the term given to the fact that the more polluting a company or sector is, the more it has... Read more »

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LIZ TRUSS FOR SECRET COURT CASE

May 3, 2023

THE BRIEFEST of British prime ministers, Liz Truss, could find herself called in a dramatic court case that her government is trying to... Read more »

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SEND HIM VICTORIOUS!

May 3, 2023

A SIGN of ‘how far we have come’, as some modernists put it, is the invite to its members from the Kildare Street... Read more »

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THE MOUSE THAT ROARS

May 3, 2023

MEDIA SPECULATION about the appetite of Tánaiste Micheál Martin for the post in foreign affairs – something that became very apparent in the... Read more »

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McREDMOND’S RTÉ CAMPAIGN BLOWS UP

April 19, 2023

DAVID McREDMOND came out with his hands up last Sunday issuing a statement saying he had “no further interest in a role at... Read more »

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LAW SOCIETY COCK-UP

April 19, 2023

THERE WILL have been some red faces in Blackhall Place this month when the solicitors’ body had to apologise for a warning notice... Read more »

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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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