Article Category: Affairs of the Nation

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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MARY LOU CHILLS OUT MARTIN

October 19, 2022

MICHEÁL MARTIN, Shane Ross and other journalists have accused Sinn Féin, and Mary Lou McDonald in particular, of having a “chilling… spooked” effect... Read more »

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‘IRISH TIMES’ EDITORIAL WINS OUT

October 19, 2022

FOR MANY years the commercial side of the house in Tara Street tended to win out over the lofty editorial staff with their... Read more »

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FRANCES RUANE’S NEW DRAMA

October 19, 2022

GOLDHAWK WAS interested to see a tender notice has been published by the Abbey Theatre, seeking applications from consultants to carry out what... Read more »

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OUT OF AFRICA

October 19, 2022

IRISH WOMAN Lynn Sheehan has just been appointed head of operations of the EU’s advisory mission in Ukraine. This follows her service as... Read more »

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AOIFE GALLAGHER’S INSTITUTE

October 19, 2022

CONGRATULATIONS TO journalist-turned-analyst Aoife Gallagher, who has managed to generate a huge amount of publicity for her new book, Web of Lies (The... Read more »

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BERTIE MOVING BACK CENTRE STAGE?

October 19, 2022

WHY HAS the question of Bertie Ahern re-joining Fianna Fáil suddenly become an issue and why does the former taoiseach appear willing to... Read more »

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RANDOX’S RAP ON THE KNUCKLES

October 19, 2022

THE Advertising Standards Authority of Ireland (ASAI) has issued its latest findings into alleged breaches of its code, including complaints about the seriously... Read more »

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CULTURE CLUB

October 19, 2022

THERE HAS been a flurry of letter writing activity in the Irish Times this month relating to the little-known Irish Banking Culture Board... Read more »

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TEVIAN’S TRAVAILS

October 19, 2022

A JUDGMENT has just been registered by PR queen Caroline Kennedy against the fabulously named Tevian Mirrelson, who previously came to the attention... Read more »

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LAW SOCIETY ABSTENTIONISTS

October 19, 2022

HOW EMBARRASSING. With elections pending to the Law Society Council, members have been informed there will be no such election as not enough... Read more »

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MICHEÁL MARTIN’S NIMBYISM

October 6, 2022

TAOISEACH Micheál Martin became a little tetchy last Sunday when Justin McCarthy of RTÉ’s This Week programme reminded him that he had described... Read more »

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MICHAEL D’S NEW YORK PALS

October 6, 2022

TWO SIGNIFICANT twists in the ongoing saga of the attempt to sell off the prestigious American Irish Historical Society (AIHS) building in New... Read more »

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BARNIVILLE DEFENDS ‘PRIVATE’ JUDGES

October 6, 2022

WITH IMPECCABLE timing, just as the first ever judicial misconduct complaints procedure is due, High Court president Mr Justice David Barniville proceeds to... Read more »

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KINCORA COVER-UP — AGAIN

October 6, 2022
THE KINCORA Boys’ Home scandal, as old as the northern Troubles, not only refuses to go away but now threatens to burst into the... Read more »

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AID FOR DALAI LAMA

October 6, 2022

the 87-year-old Dalai Lama must be wondering where Robo is when you need her, as a Trinity College Dublin (TCD) committee agonises about... Read more »

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GUNS’N’HOUSES

October 6, 2022

THE “MODEST” 5.6% increase in Irish defence spending – to €1.174bn – in Budget 2023 appeared not to cause any negative reaction from... Read more »

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AER LINGUS HACKED AGAIN?

October 6, 2022

WHEN AER LINGUS suffered a significant IT outage on September 10, Goldhawk pointed out that the account provided by the airline made little... Read more »

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FINE GAEL BORDER POLL

October 6, 2022

MORE EVIDENCE of Leo Varadkar’s cunning plot to outmanoeuvre Micheál Martin on the national question (see The Phoenix 9/9/22) came with his appearance... Read more »

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FF/FG CIVIL WARS

October 6, 2022

THE PERSISTENCE of Cork City Fine Gael councillors and others in their quest to honour Michael Collins with the erection of a statue... Read more »

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CAUGHT RED HANDED

October 6, 2022

CONTROVERSIAL LOYALIST Jolene Bunting was elected to Belfast City Council in 2014. Offensive comments about Muslims, jokes about the famine and allowing British... Read more »

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RYANAIR’S BUSINESS CLASS

September 22, 2022

THERE WAS A bumpy landing for those financial hacks who booked their tickets for the Ryanair AGM in north County Dublin last week.... Read more »

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MYSTERY IT CRASH AT AER LINGUS

September 22, 2022

THE COMPUTERISED IT system at Aer Lingus suffered a significant crash on Saturday September 10, from 9am to 5.30pm. The disruption caused the... Read more »

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NEW CHAIR FOR RTÉ

September 22, 2022

NEXT WEEK is the closing date for applicants seeking to land the plum job of chairperson of RTÉ. There should be plenty of... Read more »

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BILL SHIPSEY’S ART WORK

September 22, 2022

IT WAS surprising to see former barrister Bill Shipsey caught in the crosshairs last week, when Amnesty International (AI) commenced legal proceedings against... Read more »

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