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PROFILE: TOM CLONAN

March 20, 2025

FORMER ARMY officer, journalist, military analyst and Independent senator Tom Clonan is an unusual army vet. A strong advocate of neutrality, he has... Read more »

PROFILE: MAUREEN KENNELLY

March 6, 2025

IT IS possible that Maureen Kennelly could be the last director of the €140m-a-year Arts Council in its current form as the vultures... Read more »

PROFILE: VOGUE WILLIAMS

February 20, 2025

WITH HER autobiography, Big Mouth, due out in May and a live show in Vicar Street scheduled for the same month, Vogue Williams’s... Read more »

PROFILE: JIM O’CALLAGHAN

February 6, 2025

AMONG THE winners and losers of the general election it’s clear that Fianna Fáil’s Micheál Martin bested Fine Gael’s Simon Harris. But within... Read more »

PROFILE: MICHAEL LOWRY

January 23, 2025

DESCRIPTIONS OF Michael Lowry as ‘kingmaker’ in government formation talks have been rejected by Micheál Martin and Simon Harris, who argue that the... Read more »

PROFILE: OLIVER SEARS

January 9, 2025

DESPITE IRISH people’s revulsion at Israel’s continued slaughter of Palestinian children and other civilians in Gaza, the ‘paper of reference’, the Irish Times,... Read more »

PROFILE: CIAN O’CALLAGHAN

December 12, 2024

BEHIND EVERY great leader, there’s a deputy leader and Social Democrats head Holly Cairns was temporarily replaced by her deputy, Cian O’Callaghan, for... Read more »

PROFILE: MICHEÁL MARTIN

November 28, 2024

YOU HAVE to hand it to Micheál Martin – or to chance – he has presided over the continued, resilient existence of Fianna... Read more »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

Michael D Higgins has faced accusations of over-stepping his role following comments he has made on a range of topics during his presidency.

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 »

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 »

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 »