Article Category: Affairs of the Nation

SHARK ATTACKED

October 31, 2024

LAST WEEK the appeal by racehorse trainer John ‘Shark’ Hanlon against the severity of a 10-month suspension for bringing the sport into disrepute... Read more »

SIR GARRET MISLED BY HAROLD WILSON

October 31, 2024

OPERATION DENTON, led by Sir Iain Livingstone, is looking at the 1974 Dublin-Monaghan bomb atrocities. It lays much emphasis on the fact it... Read more »

SINN FÉIN’S WOES

October 17, 2024

Mary Lou McDonald is fire-fighting on several fronts: north and south, in the media, the Dáil and the Stormont assembly. But the real... Read more »

A SPOOK NAMED SUE

October 17, 2024

AS GOLDHAWK commented recently, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s recently deposed chief of staff (C/S), the spooky Sue Gray, had become a target... Read more »

IN PRAISE OF SIR MICK

October 17, 2024

MICK SMURFIT must have been delighted with David Whelan’s gushing Succession documentary on him for RTÉ last week. Goldhawk was disappointed that it... Read more »

JIM BROWNE’S HEALTH CHECK

October 17, 2024

CHILDREN’S HEALTH Ireland (CHI) – the outfit that runs the paediatric hospitals at Crumlin, Temple Street and Tallaght – is also closely connected... Read more »

DREARY EU RHETORIC

October 17, 2024

EOIN DREA wrote in Politico.ie last May that, despite the Ukraine war, “there’s one member country that won’t be helping to defend... Read more »

HUMAN + UNKIND

October 17, 2024

VISITORS TO the website for the vegan, cruelty-free cosmetics brand Human + Kind might not notice a single sentence at the end of... Read more »

THATCHER’S IRON PRINCIPLES

October 17, 2024

IN THE last edition of The Phoenix, Goldhawk reported how three former Irish diplomats had rallied to defend the reputation of the late... Read more »

IRISH ‘ACTIVE CLUBS’

October 17, 2024

Last October The Phoenix (see edition 20/10/23) detailed the activities of Comhaltas na nGaedheal (CnG), which is a local manifestation of the global... Read more »