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Cian O'Callaghan

YOUNG BLOOD: CIAN O’CALLAGHAN

Date: May 21, 2020 - The Young Bloods

THE SOCIAL Democrats were eclipsed in the general election by the stunning performance of Sinn Féin and the Greens’ considerable achievement in taking 12 seats, but the young party did well enough, coming back with six seats. Of these, Cian O’Callaghan is probably the most serious left-wing TD in the party. Róisín Shortall and Catherine… Read more »

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David Barniville

BARNSTORMING THE HIGH COURT

Date: May 21, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

RETIRING HIGH Court president Justice Kelly’s successor will likely come from that set which for years staffed the upper echelons of the Law Library, hogging the lucrative corporate, commercial briefs before going on to the bench. This elite includes ex-Attorney General Paul Gallagher SC, still a practicing barrister; Supreme Court judge Donal O’Donnell; Court of… Read more »

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Rory McIlroy

RORY MCILROY’S INVESTMENT

Date: May 21, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

RORY MCILROY made headlines last week after saying in an interview that he wouldn’t play golf again with Donald Tump. He has also been chipping in a fair few bob at an interesting Irish testing company. The multi-millionaire world No 1 golfer had been happy to do a round with the US prez in 2017,… Read more »

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MBS AND MCD

Date: May 21, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

THERE WERE glum faces earlier this month, including Denis Desmond’s, when MCD pulled the plug on the 2020 Electric Picnic. However, Goldhawk wonders how many young (or middle-aged) ‘revellers’ are aware of a new name on the share register of MCD’s parent company, Live Nation. Rock ’n’ roll is a finicky business at the best… Read more »

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Liam Clarke

MURDOCH’S HACKS AND HACKERS

Date: May 21, 2020 - Hush Hush

The idea that a veteran journalist might also be a state spy is unfortunately not as farfetched as it sounds. Former News of the World (NOW) senior hack Neville Thurlbeck announced his withdrawal from working life recently. Thurlbeck, who was jailed for hacking offences in 2014, was not only a former senior news editor at… Read more »

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CUNNINGHAMS MEET THEIR MATCH

Date: May 21, 2020 - Briefcases

GOLDHAWK WAS surprised to see a creditors’ meeting called for Market Match Ltd, a public relations and marketing business operating in Ranelagh, D6. The company is owned by high-flying art-collectors John and Audrey Cunningham. John Cunningham will be known to fans of Goldhawk thanks to his involvement with the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA),… Read more »

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Vol. 38 No. 10

Date: May 21, 2020 -

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Paul Reid

TROUBLE BREWING FOR TRACING APP

Date: May 21, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

THERE HAS been much talk by Paul Reid and the HSE about the proposed Covid-19 smartphone contact tracing app due out in the next few weeks. Given the special requirements in this country in relation to extensive cross-border traffic, Goldhawk was curious as to exactly what steps, if any, the HSE has taken to develop… Read more »

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Brendan McDonagh

MANDARINS DEFEND NAMA

Date: May 21, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

THE DEPARTMENT of Finance (DoF) went out to bat for Brendan McDonagh and Frank Daly (CEO and chair of Nama respectively), claiming that there was much ado about nothing on foot of a Comptroller and Auditor General Seamus McCarthy’s report that claimed the agency had missed out on €29m. As fans of Goldhawk will be… Read more »

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George McNeice

SPECIALISTS IN SPLITS

Date: May 21, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

THE HIPPOCRATIC Oath brigade are a great bunch for splits and it looks like another has emerged in recent weeks. The 400 private-only Spartan warriors in the Irish Hospital Consultants’ Association (IHCA) – who work only with privately insured patients and bravely repulsed the insulting offer of €190,000 contracts – have formed a new body… Read more »

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Aengus O'Snodaigh

AENGUS Ó SNODAIGH LEADS THE WAY

Date: May 21, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

THE MORE ‘respectable’ political parties were recently made to look amateurish and even disrespectful of parliamentary procedure by Sinn Féin. At a virtual meeting last week, Ceann Comhairle Seán Ó Fearghail felt compelled to deliver a stern lecture to the party whips that make up the business committee and who are supposed to agree the… Read more »

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Francesca McDonagh

BOI SUPERWOMAN

Date: May 21, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

Things seem to keep going from bad to worse for Bank of Ireland (BoI) boss Francesca McDonagh. Having spent days last week calming the markets after worse-than-expected first-quarter results, ‘Francey’, as Irish staffers call her, had to go into a charm overdrive with Irish brokers after the share price slid by 14.9% in one afternoon…. Read more »

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GERALDINE BYRNE NASON’S DIMPLOMACY

Date: May 21, 2020 - Hush Hush

OUR WOMAN at the United Nations, Ambassador Geraldine Byrne Nason – recently reported as having a sharp spat with Ireland’s military advisor to the permanent mission to the UN – is well used to the rough and tumble of office politics at the heart of the permanent government. One of the country’s leading mandarins, Geraldine… Read more »

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Fintan O'Toole

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: May 21, 2020 - The Hot Air Brigade

Bono may be the first Irish person since Bernard Shaw to have become a truly global celebrity. Fintan O’Toole, Irish Times Matt, I honestly feel like I’m about to throw up, that in a few seconds I’m going to wake up naked with drool on my pillow. Radio presenter Nathan O’Reilly of Spin 1038 keeps… Read more »

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Gerry Adams

THE MONEY BEHIND THE WIRE

Date: May 21, 2020 - Northwind

Last week’s unanimous decision by the UK Supreme Court quashing Gerry Adams’s convictions for twice trying to escape from internment in Long Kesh in 1973 sparked predictable outrage from Ulster Unionist politicians. The fact that it was their party leader, Brian Faulkner, who in 1971 insisted on the efficacy of internment as the way to… Read more »

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Richard Bruton

MOORE’S ALMANAC

Date: May 21, 2020 - Fowl Emissions

US FILM MAKER Michael Moore is doing his best to sabotage the boom in renewable energy with his latest attack documentary, Planet of the Humans. Desperate to rebuild his brand as a maverick “truth-teller”, Moore’s film purports to expose hypocrisy at the heart of the renewables movement, but it’s a bizarre mix of long-ago-busted myths,… Read more »

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NOEL SMYTH’S TACTICS

Date: May 21, 2020 - Fowl Emissions

Social distancing is suddenly bringing us the wider footpaths and cycle lanes that years of campaigning could not quite manage to do. It’s a double win, since investment in cycling and walking has to be a key element of any green recovery. But not everyone is happy. The Dublin City Centre Traders Alliance (DCCTA) got… Read more »

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Catherine Martin

GREENS LEFT-RIGHT LEADERSHIP CONTEST

Date: May 21, 2020 - Last Refuge

GOLDHAWK CAN put an end to speculation about whether or not Green deputy leader Catherine Martin TD will stand for the party leadership. Martin will definitely run for the position against current leader Eamon Ryan, with whom she has clashed in recent weeks over the terms of coalition talks with Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil…. Read more »

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SEAN KELLY’S HOT AIR

Date: May 21, 2020 - Last Refuge

THE GREENS’ response to the provocative demand from Fine Gael MEP Seán Kelly – a member of FG’s government formation reference group – to retain plans for the mammoth LNG fracked gas terminal was measured and pithy. It simply stated that FG and Fianna Fáil had already accepted the Green Party’s case that the LNG… Read more »

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Jim O'Callaghan

BARRISTERS VIE FOR CABINET

Date: May 21, 2020 - Last Refuge

MANOEUVRING AND speculation about who will get what cabinet postings is considered to be in poor taste in current pandemic circumstances, but that doesn’t mean it’s not happening. And the most intriguing, as well as Machiavellian, calculations are being made about the two judicial posts to be filled – that of Attorney General and Minister… Read more »

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James Kelly

ARMY VICTIMS AND VILLAINS

Date: May 21, 2020 - Last Refuge

MICHAEL HENEY, author of the explosive book The Arms Crisis of 1970, gave unstinting praise to the Army’s director of intelligence at the time, Colonel Michael Hefferon, when interviewed by RTÉ’s Miriam O’Callaghan recently. Hefferon, Heney argued, took the principled decision to resile from the manufactured line of taoiseach Jack Lynch and his allies that… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: May 21, 2020 - Bog Cuttings

Martial Arts Expert Damian Zygmunt, 28, appeared before Letterkenny Circuit Court charged with one count of burglary relating to an incident in 2018. Judge John Aylmer heard how Zygmunt broke into the home of one Josie Murray in April 2018. Murray was sitting in his home at The Maples in Lismonaghan, when he heard a… Read more »

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Philip Ryan

‘INDO’ POLITICAL TEAM

Date: May 21, 2020 - Fit to Print?

THE ELATION of Philip Ryan, newly appointed group political editor at INM, was evident on Twitter recently. Ryan enthused about the Indo’s newsroom, himself and his charges on “The Political Team” and patronised his former boss, Fionnan Sheahan, telling how he had learned so much since he was given his chance at the Indo by… Read more »

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MIRIAM ALLEN’S EDIT

Date: May 21, 2020 - Behind the Scenes

IN THE wake of similar announcements from Galway 2020 and the Galway Arts Festival, Galway Film Fleadh (GFF) chief executive Miriam Allen announced earlier this month that this year’s shindig will not take place. The fleadh operates on the basis of its €150,000 pa grant from the Arts Council and also gets a few bob… Read more »

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HOLD ME NOW – JOHN MACKENNA

Date: May 21, 2020 - BooksReviews

THIS NOSTALGIC love story, spanning several decades from the late 1980s onwards, is loosely framed against the backdrop of the Eurovision song contest and is the literary equivalent of an unsuccessful semi-final entry. Narrated by Sean Sherrard (Johnny Logan’s real name), it’s a slender offering, barely more than a novella, with short undemanding chapters. Song… Read more »

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Richard Wood

OPPOSING RICHARD WOOD

Date: May 21, 2020 - High Society

INTERESTING TO see an objection filed in the Companies Office late in day in relation to the striking off of a company called Rockroan Estate Ltd, which is one of the vehicles associated with the hapless businessman, art collector and general culture vulture Richard Wood. Poor Richard has had his fair share of setbacks, mostly… Read more »

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Consuelo O’Connor

GEORGIANS’ “APPROPRIATE DESIGNATION”

Date: May 21, 2020 - High Society

WITH SOME new faces arriving at the Irish Georgian Society, the shots are still being called by the company behind the heritage body, the Irish Georgian Foundation (IGF). IGF chair is all-rounder Michael Wall SC, a barrister-cum-architect with a significant presence in the culture sector, holding directorships at the Abbey Theatre and Irish National Opera…. Read more »

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Roisin Lyons

ROISIN LYONS’ DREAM HOME

Date: May 21, 2020 - High Society

WHILE THERE was good news for businesswoman Roisin Lyons earlier this year when she was elected the ladies’ captain at Carton House demesne golf club in Co Kildare, she could end being bunkered when it comes to moving into the €1.5m dream home being developed with husband Vincent Lyons on the estate overlooking the golf… Read more »

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Barry O'Dowd

YEW GROVE REIT’S PANDEMIC VACCINE

Date: May 21, 2020 - Moneybags

NOT ONLY was Yew Grove REIT a late arrival to the Irish property recovery party, but with a portfolio of €141m, it is also a relative minnow in comparison to other REITs – Green, Hibernia and I-Res. Nevertheless, it looks like the group has made the right choices to see it through the current chaos…. Read more »

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ANTHONY FITZPATRICK’S ‘FLAWED’ STRATEGIES

Date: May 21, 2020 - Briefcases

ONE OF Goldhawk’s old friends got a bit of a kicking from Judge John MacMenamin in the Supreme Court recently, when liquidator Anthony J Fitzpatrick was found to be personally liable for the costs of a failed appeal by a company called Eteams (International) Ltd. This is far from the first time Fitzpatrick has come… Read more »

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TRIONA HARRINGTON’S HEAVY GOING

Date: May 21, 2020 - Briefcases

THERE WAS good news for the horseracing community last week when the government brought forward the proposed restart date for the sport to June 8. Among those most happy with the decision are surely the bookies, which have been starved of contests to tempt the punters in. For Harrington Bookmakers (HB), however, the news was… Read more »

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Harry Lorton

CALLING IT A DAY AT H&A

Date: May 21, 2020 - Briefcases

THREE YEARS after it exited examinership, Healy Design & Advertising Ltd (the company that was behind the H&A Advertising agency) has been quietly wound up. One player well-removed from the action is former CEO of Permanent TSB Harry Lorton. Lorton, who grew up in Cork, is very much part of the establishment and currently has… Read more »

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Michael McNamara

NURSING HOME CASH

Date: May 21, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

INDEPENDENT CLARE TD Michael McNamara will have his work cut out running the new Oireachtas Covid-19 committee. Real teeth will be needed to get to the bottom of the bonanza accruing to private care and residential homes. Over the past three months, the media focus has been on the traditional, one-off nursing homes that are… Read more »

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Virginia Teehan

UPDATING THE HERITAGE COUNCIL

Date: May 21, 2020 - Behind the Scenes

AS THE coalition negotiations drag on, more state boards are running out of time. One of these is the Heritage Council, where historian and former council member Virginia Teehan is in situ as chief executive since last year. The term of the 11-member board expires in two months and culture and heritage minister Josepha Madigan… Read more »

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Albert Manifold

CRH: ASIAN NIGHTMARE AND AMERICAN DREAM

Date: May 21, 2020 - Moneybags

ON FOOT of the pandemic-induced shutdown in March, CRH’s shares collapsed from €36 in February to a low of U16 the day after St Patrick’s Day – a drop of 56% that represented a huge over-reaction. Swedish “activist investor” Cevian took advantage to build its stake up to over 3% and the next move may… Read more »

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Micheál Martin

MICHEÁL MARTIN’S APPALLING VISTA

Date: May 7, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

THE REMARKABLE aspect of the current crisis in Fianna Fáil is the almost deafening silence, not just from senior politicians but the media, which, by and large, has lapsed into that deadly condition of ‘responsible’ journalism – ie don’t upset progress towards government formation. The decline of perhaps the most successful political party in Europe… Read more »

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