Article Category: Affairs of the Nation

KISS AND TELL?

December 15, 2022

THE MEDIA handling of that video showing incoming Taoiseach Leo Varadkar kissing a man in a nightclub combined a mixture of fear, ethical... Read more »

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BIO-BOYCOTT

December 15, 2022

THOUGH YOU would struggle to find a mention of it anywhere across Ireland’s media, the most important international conference on nature and biodiversity... Read more »

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A LOTTO MONEY

December 15, 2022

IRELAND’S NATIONAL Lottery has been in the spotlight recently as a result of the introduction of legislation relating to gambling and on foot... Read more »

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ROCHE BELOW PAR

December 15, 2022

THE AGM of Rosslare Golf Club last week proved rather eventful, with former senior newspaper man Michael Roche finding himself ousted as chairman.... Read more »

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MCNALLY’S NAGS

December 15, 2022

CONTROVERSIAL HORSE TRAINER Ronan McNally is planning heavy going for the stewards of the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) when his punishment is... Read more »

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RENA MAYCOCK’S MANY HATS

December 15, 2022

THE MULTI-TALENTED Rena Maycock was celebrating last week when she was informed that the state had become a major backer of her fledgling... Read more »

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NOT-SO-RICH FOOD

December 15, 2022

ALTHOUGH IT was announced nearly three years ago that high-profile Michelin-starred restaurant L’Ecrivain in D2 was to close down for good, it was... Read more »

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TOO MUCH INFORMATION?

December 15, 2022

HEATHER HUMPHREYS has been social protection minister for two-and-a-half years but appears to have been unaware until recently of the convulsions inside the... Read more »

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KELLY’S HEROES

December 15, 2022

HERMANN KELLY, leader of the Irish Freedom Party (IFP), has been reinvigorated in recent weeks. Not only has he led his party activists... Read more »

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LEO KICKS TO TOUCH

December 15, 2022

THERE HAS been plenty of water under the bridge since Goldhawk highlighted the hugely expensive arbitration process that was left hanging over IDA... Read more »

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BASHING BLACKROCK BOYS

December 1, 2022

RUADHÁN MAC CORMAIC has handled his first crisis as Irish Times editor by ignoring it and Róisín ‘Bungle’ Ingle’s loud, long sneer at... Read more »

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NEW CHAIRPERSON AT RTÉ

December 1, 2022

THE APPOINTMENT by Catherine Martin’s of Siún Ní Raghallaigh as chairwoman of RTÉ will not be too big a surprise to those who... Read more »

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BALLS.IE SCORES

December 1, 2022

WITH THE World Cup in Qatar driving footie fans even to the outer reaches of the internet in search of more and more... Read more »

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EAMON RYAN’S RED FACE

December 1, 2022

THERE MAY be a few red faces at Green Party headquarters this week as a result of the Energy Action board deciding to... Read more »

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ZERO VAT FOR WEALTHY MEDIA

December 1, 2022

PAUPERISED NEWSPAPERS and their websites recently reflected the windfall tax relief donated to them by the Government’s budgetary measures after a lengthy campaign... Read more »

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‘IRISH TIMES’ MUSICAL CHAIRS

December 1, 2022

THE RECENT reshuffle of top editorial and commercial positions at the Irish Times solved what looked at one stage to be a chaotic... Read more »

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BIODIVERSITY WAKE UP CALLS

December 1, 2022

DESPITE REPEATED attempts by vested interests trading on Ireland’s “green” reputation, Ireland’s biodiversity is in fact in freefall. Water pollution, largely as a... Read more »

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SUNDAY TIMES’ TRUMP CARD

December 1, 2022

ANOTHER EXCLUSIVE by the Aawrish edition of the Sunday Times on those dastardly Sinn Féin operators reported that the party has “taken a... Read more »

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SHEIKH FAHAD’S THOROUGHBREDS

December 1, 2022

THERE HAS, not surprisingly, been oodles of coverage over the last month of the Qatar’s sports-washing agenda, which is playing itself out for... Read more »

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GREENS DIVIDE ON CETA

November 17, 2022

GREEN PARTY TD Patrick Costello has gone from naive radical to triumphant litigant fighting the EU-Canada trade deal, Ceta, with his successful Supreme... Read more »

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VARADKAR’S BLACK AND BLUE SHIRTS

November 17, 2022

RECENT ATTACKS by Leo Varadkar on Sinn Féin have tried to link the party to far-right movements in Europe. At the launch of... Read more »

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EAMON MARRAY’S MASK PROTEST

November 17, 2022

THERE WERE fun and games in the Dublin County Registrar’s court last week when experienced commercial law barrister Eamon Marray made it pretty... Read more »

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PAUL HOURICAN’S RETURN

November 17, 2022

GOLDHAWK’S favourite landlord Paul Hourican is living proof that you can’t keep a good man down. Having been burned by his adventure with... Read more »

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DRINKAWARE’S BUSY YEAR

November 17, 2022

THE PRICE of alcohol was back in the news this month as giant brewer Heineken upped the cost of a pint by around... Read more »

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COP27: MARTIN ON CYNICISM

November 17, 2022

IT’S NOT unusual to hear politicians being called out by NGOs and activists for their empty words and hollow rhetoric on the climate... Read more »

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ANNUAL 2022: GOLDHAWK’S AWARDS FOR THE PASSING PARADE

November 17, 2022

MOYA DOHERTY WITH RTÉ on the hunt for a new board chair, outgoing chairwoman Moya Doherty will prove a hard act to follow... Read more »

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VAT’S THE PROBLEM?

November 15, 2022

FINANCE MINISTER Paschal Donohoe’s spokesperson told Goldhawk recently that although a newspaper is a periodical it can have a zero VAT rate applied... Read more »

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VAT RELIEF ONLY FOR ‘GOOD’ MEDIA?

November 2, 2022
FINANCE MINISTER Paschal Donohoe told the Dáil in his Budget 2023 speech that he was reducing VAT on newspapers from 9% to zero. The... Read more »

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PATRICIA MADDEN’S EXIT

November 2, 2022

BARRISTER AND long-time member and officer of the Irish Countrywomen’s Association (ICA) Patricia Madden has exited her position on the board. It remains... Read more »

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DEIRDRE CONROY’S DAY IN COURT

November 2, 2022

NEXT WEEK will see Fianna Fáil councillor, barrister and failed by-election candidate Deirdre Conroy finally get into the High Court, where she is... Read more »

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MUTINOUS JUDGES

November 2, 2022

THE WHIFF of mutinous protest pervades the courts and even the judiciary at present, with elders among them trying hard to restrain the... Read more »

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THE ABBEY’S WHISTLEBLOWER

November 2, 2022

THERE IS little sign of the drama waning at the Frances Ruane-chaired Abbey Theatre, with Goldhawk hearing that a dreaded ‘whistleblower’ has been... Read more »

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TRESPASS IN CHURCH CHARGE

November 2, 2022

THE SOCIETY of the Apostles of Jesus and Mary (SAJM) has been busy eschewing the links a number of its flock once had... Read more »

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ESCORT IRELAND’S FOREIGN FROLICS

November 2, 2022

IN TRUE tabloid style, the Sunday World last week ran the grim story of Bruno Binda De Souza, a transexual prostitute who was... Read more »

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FRENCH PERFIDY IN MALI?

November 2, 2022

IN 2018, with champagne corks popping in the background, the Department of Foreign Affairs issued a press release announcing Ireland’s election to the... Read more »

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MOUNTBATTEN QUERY

November 2, 2022

RESEARCHERS INTO the squalid Kincora scandal – authors Andrew Lownie and David Burke – have asked gardaí to release the logs made by... Read more »

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