Article Category: Pillars of Society

ANNUAL 2024 – PROFILE: SIMON HARRIS

November 14, 2024

Heather Humphreys’ betrayal of Simon Harris on the cusp of his first electoral challenge as Taoiseach must have felt more like abandonment to... Read more »

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PROFILE: MARY LOU MCDONALD

October 31, 2024

IN MAY 2023 Goldhawk asked whether Sinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald could face down a hostile media and maintain SF’s unity and... Read more »

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PROFILE: PHIL HOGAN

October 17, 2024

HE’S BACK. The most driven politician in Ireland – former EU commissioner Phil Hogan – has returned from Brussels to a crucial, albeit... Read more »

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PROFILE: MICHAEL MULCAHY

October 3, 2024

AS A man with fingers in an extraordinary number of pies, the debonair Michael Mulcahy seems to have developed a winning strategy when... Read more »

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PROFILE: BRIAN POLLY

September 19, 2024

MOST OBSERVERS were shocked at the revelations to the Committee for Public Accounts (PAC) by Darragh O’Loughlin, CEO of the Irish Horseracing Regulatory... Read more »

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PROFILE: RODERIC O’GORMAN

September 5, 2024

JUST AS the Green Party faces up to the imminent slashing of its dozen TDs to about half that number – on a... Read more »

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PROFILE: MACDARA KELLEHER

August 22, 2024

THE NEWS that the 2002 Roy Keane/Mick McCarthy Saipan bloodbath is being brought to the big screen is set to bring some added... Read more »

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PROFILE: AENGUS Ó SNODAIGH

August 8, 2024

WITH SINN FÉIN under pressure after a disastrous local election, the promotion of 60-year-old Dublin South Central TD Aengus Ó Snodaigh is being... Read more »

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PROFILE: NEIL JORDAN

July 25, 2024

The presented persona of Neil Jordan seems rather at odds with how his frequent collaborator and sometime on-screen alter ego, Stephen Rea, characterised... Read more »

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PROFILE: JACK CHAMBERS

July 11, 2024
THE MEDIA consensus – or should that be group think – is that the newly elevated finance minister, 33-year-old Jack Chambers, is Ireland’s very... Read more »

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PROFILE: BRÍD SMITH

June 27, 2024
RECENT ELECTIONS stimulated much discussion about the centre-right, far-right, centre-left, Sinn Féin and so on, but very little about the small but sometimes significant... Read more »

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PROFILE: DAN HEALY

June 13, 2024

THE NOW characteristic line in fighting talk of Dan Healy was already very much in evidence when he blazed in to succeed John... Read more »

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PROFILE: CIARAN MULLOOLY

May 30, 2024

FORMER RTÉ midlands correspondent Ciaran Mullooly could become the first member of the European Parliament to emerge from a party of the new... Read more »

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PROFILE: ALAN MOLONEY

May 16, 2024

BACK IN 2016, film and TV producer Alan Moloney of Parallel Films; James Morris, founder of Windmill Lane and former Screen Ireland chairman;... Read more »

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PROFILE: HOLLY CAIRNS

May 2, 2024

As opinion polls indicate extreme volatility among the voters, is now the time for the Social Democrats to seize the day under its... Read more »

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PROFILE: JOHN MORAN

April 18, 2024
THE BRIGHTEST as well as the most self-confident Limerick luminary since Richard Harris has to be the former secretary general of the Department of... Read more »

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PROFILE: SIMON HARRIS

April 4, 2024
HOW DID 37-year-old Simon Harris beat off heavyweight contenders Paschal Donohoe and Simon Coveney, as well as Helen McEntee and other ambitious souls, to... Read more »

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PROFILE: MICHAEL MCDOWELL

March 21, 2024
MICHAEL McDOWELL was the stand-out personality in the referendums campaign and his elation at the count was visible as ‘no’ activists gathered eagerly around... Read more »

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PROFILE: JOHN MCGUIRK

March 7, 2024

THE EDITOR of Gript.ie, John McGuirk, has managed to look both foolish and incompetent in two legal stand-offs recently, just as his particular... Read more »

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PROFILE: MARY LOU MCDONALD

February 22, 2024

DESPITE THE recent triumph in the north for Sinn Féin vice-president Michelle O’Neill, it’s been a bad 12 months or so for party... Read more »

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PROFILE: IAN BAILEY

February 8, 2024
THE DEATH of Ian Bailey, ‘chief suspect’ for the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier in 1996, drew the sort of crowd that sometimes... Read more »

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PROFILE: AODHAIN ORIORDAIN

January 25, 2024

WHY DOES Labour Party TD and former junior minister Aodhán Ó Ríordáin want to run in the EU elections in Dublin? Does he... Read more »

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PROFILE: JOHN HEGARTY

January 11, 2024
TO ALL other media, the Irish Times exudes high principles, standards and a commitment to objective journalism. The paper claims to be liberal, a... Read more »

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PROFILE: VICKI NOTARO

December 14, 2023

HAVING LEFT her position as MD of VIP Publishing earlier this year, Vicki Notaro has impressed Goldhawk with her modus operandi as she... Read more »

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PROFILE: CHRIS ANDREWS

November 30, 2023

CHRIS ANDREWS TD is the latest Sinn Féin politician to be accused of abusing defamation law via his High Court action against the... Read more »

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ANNUAL 2023: PROFILE – MICHAEL D HIGGINS

November 15, 2023
In recent years supporters of the state of Israel in the US, UK, Germany and France have attempted to conflate criticism of its ruling... Read more »

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PROFILE: TERRY PRONE

November 2, 2023

THE QUEEN of public relations in Ireland, Terry Prone, has just published a select compilation of events amounting to an autobiography entitled Caution... Read more »

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PROFILE: MICHAEL MCGRATH

October 19, 2023

TO SUCCEED in political life, observed journalist and political commentator Malcolm Muggeridge, “it is necessary to conform either to the popular image of... Read more »

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PROFILE: NÓIRÍN HEGARTY

October 5, 2023

THE ANNOUNCEMENT that Nóirín Hegarty is stepping down as Ireland editor of the Times and Sunday Times Ireland after less than two years... Read more »

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PROFILE: DARRAGH O’LOUGHLIN

September 21, 2023
THE SHENANIGANS at RTÉ have hogged headlines in recent months and one outfit more than happy with this state affairs, surely, is the Irish... Read more »

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PROFILE: JUSTIN BARRETT

September 7, 2023

OVER THE almost four decades that Justin Barrett has been active on the extremes of Irish politics, he has shown a remarkable consistency... Read more »

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PROFILE: IAN KEHOE

August 24, 2023
IN A little under two months the latterly eventful five-year term of Ian Kehoe as a member and deputy chair of the RTÉ board... Read more »

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PROFILE – MICHAEL FITZMAURICE

August 10, 2023

IS THERE anybody in Leinster House who wants to be a minister more than Independent TD Michael Fitzmaurice? The Roscommon turf-cutting contractor recently... Read more »

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PROFILE: PASCHAL DONOHOE

July 27, 2023

IN 2002, Jim Mitchell TD was Fine Gael’s deputy leader and finance spokesman. Neither of those exalted positions saved him from losing his... Read more »

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PROFILE: PEADAR TÓIBÍN

July 13, 2023

ONE OF the most prolific TDs with an impressive array of interventions on everything from health to homelessness, immigration and, of course, abortion... Read more »

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PROFILE : SUE GRAY

June 29, 2023

British Labour Party leader Keir Starmer will likely come to power at the next UK general election. In 2019, the threat of a... Read more »

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