Article Category: Affairs of the Nation

Denis O’Brien’s safe haven

October 20, 2016

LISTENERS to Denis O’Brien’s Newstalk were brought up to date on developments in Haiti last week during the breakfast news show fronted by... Read more »

SHANE ROSS’S ABORTION DEAL

October 20, 2016

A STRANGE and little noticed U-turn by Taoiseach Enda Kenny a fortnight ago saw him tell the Dáil he was appointing – immediately... Read more »

JOHN DELANEY’S OLYMPIC DENIAL

October 5, 2016

IT WAS surprising to see FAI boss John Delaney saying that he never heard of the controversial Olympic ticketing company, Pro10 Sports Management... Read more »

MARTIN’S WATERY STRATEGY

October 5, 2016

FIANNA FAIL’S gyrations on Irish Water may not make any sense in terms of the actual issue, but its latest, hard line position... Read more »

SPOTLIGHT’S GERRY ADAMS ‘SCOOP’

October 5, 2016

THE BBC Spotlight programme’s ‘scoop’ on Gerry Adams’ alleged order to kill MI5 informer, Denis Donaldson, marks a watershed of sorts for the... Read more »

MORE WOE FOR SINEAD O’CONNOR

October 5, 2016

TROUBLED singer Sinead O’Connor made the headlines last week after being named on the Revenue’s latest list of tax defaulters. The outspoken superstar... Read more »

DIAGEO’S WINNING CAMPAIGN

October 5, 2016

A DEVASTATING critique of the Diageo funded campaign, Stop-Out-Of-Control-Drinking (SOOCD), chaired by long time spin doctor, Fergus Finlay, has just been published. Written... Read more »

REVIEWING ROBBO’S FOUNDATION

October 5, 2016

WHILE MARY Robinson attracted plenty of media attention for her recent comments on eating (or rather not eating) meat, there was rather less... Read more »

ISRAELI FIGHTBACK AGAINST BDS

October 5, 2016

THE DECISION by Bank of Ireland (BoI) to close the three bank accounts of the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) raises some serious... Read more »

SWAN LAKE CARTHY

October 5, 2016

RUSSIAN ballet fans may not recognise Tchaikovsky’s original story line or dance form in a re-working of his Swan Lake in the Dublin... Read more »

GALWAY’S PICTURE PALACE BLACK HOLE

October 5, 2016

UNTIL LAST month, barely a peep was raised by the national media (except Goldhawk) about the financial black hole created over a decade... Read more »

O’LEARY’S TURBULENCE IN D4

September 21, 2016

WHILE RYANAIR boss Mick O’Leary is clearly annoyed at objections to the planned new Dublin Airport runway, he is also facing an objection... Read more »

KEVIN McGARRY’S VERY PRIVATE SECURITY

September 21, 2016

INTERESTING to see an apology in The Irish Times earlier this month to company KTech Security and its owner Kevin McGarry, who turns... Read more »

PICKARD’S CRIME BACKGROUND

September 21, 2016

THE mystery of just who murdered Charles Brooke Pickard – whose remains the gardaí hope to find in Kerry’s Ballaghisheen mountain pass –... Read more »

JOHN BURNS’S COMRADES

September 21, 2016

WHAT a cheeky chappie Sunday Times associate editor John Burns is. He penned a wry sarcastic article last weekend about junior minister and... Read more »

GERRY CALLANAN’S HORSE TRADING

September 21, 2016

WITH AN appeal lodged by Horse Racing Ireland (HRI) against a recent Small Claims Court ruling, it appears the innocuous looking challenge by... Read more »

TIME WARP IN THE HIGH COURT

September 21, 2016

GOLDHAWK recently spotted a very odd High Court judgment in a case initiated in 1996 but, bizarrely, only heard in court this year.... Read more »

KENNEDY: A BRIDGE TOO FAR?

September 21, 2016

HAS Ireland, and even Wexford, finally been overcome by ennui with the cult of the dead Kennedys? A row has broken out in... Read more »

BLUESHIRT TICKET TROUBLE

September 21, 2016

FINE GAEL ladettes Senators Michelle Mulherin and Catherine Noone walked into an accidental ambush in O’Brien’s, the sporty Dublin 2 pub, on the... Read more »

JOHN GRIFFIN’S TV STATION

September 21, 2016

DOCUMENTS released to Goldhawk by the Department of Communications reveal the strategy being adopted by the Irish TV channel to reduce fees being... Read more »

HILCO’S ‘GANGSTER CAPITALISM’ IN HMV

September 21, 2016

THE SUDDEN closure of Clery’s generated plenty of media criticism given the manner in which the hapless staff were treated. Now over in... Read more »

WHO WILL STOP DENIS?

September 7, 2016

INM’s intended purchase of another raft of regional newspapers is a measure of Denis O’Brien’s apparently well-founded belief that nothing and nobody will... Read more »

INDO’S APPLE PIE

September 7, 2016

LAST WEEK the Indo was remarkably supportive of Apple in relation to the tax row, which may not be a surprise after last... Read more »

STEPHEN DONNELLY WALKS

September 7, 2016

GIVEN that Stephen Donnelly had about as much time for social democracy as Danny Healy-Rae it is hardly surprising that his split from... Read more »

BLUE BLOUSE TRUSTEES

September 7, 2016

FINE GAEL general secretary Tom Curran must be hoping that a robust and defiant letter sent recently to Sligo councillor Hubert Keaney, as... Read more »

KEITH DUFFY’S CHARITY COSTS

September 7, 2016

B-LIST entertainer Keith Duffy responded like an A-List diva recently to remarks allegedly made by the chief executive of Irish Autism Action (IAA),... Read more »

SIMON COVENEY SLIPS UP

September 7, 2016

THE little noticed announcement last July by environment minister Simon Coveney of the Constituencies Commission to scrutinise and revise electoral boundaries has dismayed... Read more »

TIERNAN BRADY’S BRAINSTORM

September 7, 2016

“WORLD renowned marriage equality campaigner” was just one of the accolades showered on Ireland’s Yes Equality political director Tiernan Brady by the Australian... Read more »

Trouble at Yeomanstown stud

September 7, 2016

HOW UNFORTUNATE for the respected O’Callaghan family of Yeoman Stud fame to find themselves caught up in a controversy, following the alleged discovery... Read more »

SARAH KEANE’S OLYMPIC AMBITIONS

September 7, 2016

THE IRISH Rio Olympics controversy is not going away any time soon, with Pat Hickey – president of the OCI until he stepped... Read more »

‘Starchitect’

August 24, 2016

FANS of Goldhawk will have been well aware of TV architect Dermot Bannon’s legal battle that hit the headlines last week. However, while... Read more »

JOE RYAN’S SECURITY SERVICE

August 24, 2016

THERE WAS no disguising former soldier Joe Ryan’s pitch for business in a column he penned in the Sindo earlier this month. The... Read more »

WOLFE AT ZAPPER’S DOOR

August 24, 2016

SENIOR citizen activist and dogged barrack room lawyer John Wolfe has taken a constitutional case against the state over its generous, unvouched mileage... Read more »