Article Category: Affairs of the Nation

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

ERICA FLEMING BROUGHT TO HEEL

August 24, 2016

HOW satisfying to see homeless, single parent of two Erica Fleming brought to heel by public spirited elements, in conjunction with the Sunday... Read more »

HENRY FITZSIMONS’S WUFF JUSTICE

August 24, 2016

LEGAL PROCEEDINGS have just been filed in the High Court by an interesting chap by the name of Henry Fitzsimons, who is suing... Read more »

PAT HICKEY’S LEGAL EAGLE

August 24, 2016

MEDIA news desks and their libel lawyers became embroiled in litigious debate last week with solicitor Barry MacCarthy, he who relayed to Pat... Read more »

DEREK RICHARDSON’S MEDICAL PROBLEM

August 24, 2016

GOLDHAWK was not surprised this week to see publicity-shy millionaire Derek Richardson seeking to have injunction proceedings against him thrown out by the... Read more »

Drury’s redemption

August 24, 2016

AS The Phoenix reported (see edition, 30/6/2016) former consultant, businessman and PR smoothie Fintan Drury underwent an apparent Pauline conversion from businessman to... Read more »

WHO PUT PAT BACK IN HIS BOX?

August 24, 2016

IS there not something very questionable behind the extraordinary arrest, imprisonment and personal humiliation of the president of the European Olympic Council and... Read more »

IAN BAILEY’S DOUBLE JEOPARDY

August 10, 2016

IAN BAILEY’S request that the Director of Public Prosecution reconsider its decision not to prosecute him for the alleged murder of Sophie Toscan... Read more »

Sindo on Halawa

August 10, 2016

FOLLOWING Eoghan Harris’s recent attack on Ibrahim Halawa – jailed for three years and facing a possible death penalty in Egypt – Sindo... Read more »

Isolated?

August 10, 2016

DIARMUID MARTIN has been isolated from his 25 episcopal colleagues in alleging the existence of a gay culture in Maynooth. But he has... Read more »

LEO SHERLOCK’S LIBERAL AGENDA

August 10, 2016

WHAT AN interesting family the Sherlock clan from Louth are. Cora Sherlock is one of the most strident spokespersons for the pro-life movement,... Read more »

BORELAND SHOT IN LOYALIST FEUD

August 10, 2016

John Boreland Raymond McCord LAST SUNDAY night a notorious UDA gangster John Boreland (47) was shot dead. It was a botched murder attempt... Read more »

Fraser rules OK

August 10, 2016

THE strangled diplomatic language coming out of the Taoiseach’s office about the sudden transfer back to the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) of... Read more »

€40,000 HIT AGAINST JAMES CAHILL

August 10, 2016

DEAR me, what a stern judgment was delivered recently by Mr Justice Michael Moriarty (he of the tribunal of the same name) in... Read more »

Indo hacks Shane Ross

August 10, 2016

AS Irish Independent readers can probably tell, Fine Gael ministers are very cross with their one time party colleague, Shane Ross. Last month,... Read more »

DUBLIN MAYOR IN HIGH COURT ROW

August 10, 2016

DUBLIN Lord Mayor Brendan Carr expressed unalloyed “joy” at his recent elevation as well as much gratitude to not only his own Labour... Read more »

JOINING NATO BY STEALTH

July 28, 2016

THE NATO summit in Poland this month was regarded as a key event in the US and European powers strategy of military expansion... Read more »