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Hugo McNeill Richard Moore

TOFFS AGAINST TERRORISM

Date: July 27, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

MI6 CHIEF Richard Moore paid a visit to Prague recently where he implored Russian officials to contact his service to help overthrow Vladimir Putin. Moore’s words were designed to prick Putin’s paranoia rather than a serious recruitment gambit. MI6 describes this sort of activity as ‘destabilisation’. Richard Moore is the grandson of a decorated Cork… Read more »

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JOHN MALONE’S TACTICS

Date: July 27, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

IT WAS hardly surprising that Virgin Media should wade into the RTÉ pay and governance row. The owner of the station is so-called ‘cable cowboy’ John Malone, who has, however, been facing some corporate governance criticisms of his own. Malone would be no fan of Montrose given that he competes directly with the station through… Read more »

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Fergus Cronin

FERGUS CRONIN’S NEXT GIG

Date: July 27, 2023 - Behind the Scenes

THE REMARKABLE level of promotion of the debut collection of short stories from septuagenarian businessman-turned-scribbler Fergus Cronin continues to impress Goldhawk. The latest gig for the fledgling artist is at the Arts Council (AC) funded Kilkenny Arts Festival next month. Cronin has clearly delivered with this buke given that a short story collection from an… Read more »

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LAURA BONNER’S BACKERS

Date: July 27, 2023 - High Society

INTERESTING TO see that legal eagle Joseph O’Malley has joined the board of Laura Bonner’s much-hyped booze operation, Muff Liquor Company (MLC). This follows on foot of a €¾m injection for a 30% stake by the celebrity-fuelled MLM Distillery Investments, whose shareholders include Ed Sheeran, Russell Crowe, Ronan Keating, Jimmy Carr, and one Noel Kelly… Read more »

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Alan Curran

BARRYROE SAGA STARTING TO LOOK VERY EXPENSIVE

Date: July 27, 2023 - Moneybags

THE SAGA of the attempts by Barryroe Offshore Energy (BOE) to develop a huge oil and gas field off the south coast of Ireland continues to cause headaches and, utterly unsurprisingly, assorted legal eagles have now been called into the fray. This follows on foot… Read more »

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VOL 41 NO 15

Date: July 27, 2023 -

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Phil Hogan UCD IRTA DIGI Katy Brown Rory Godson Pallonji Mistry Shark Hanlon Frances Ruane Taste of Dublin Listowel Writers’ Week Paddy Curran Harvey Norman Anton Savage Paul Hourican Enda O’Coineen PfP Red C Poll IFTA Ben Gilroy Luke Comer Sue Spence Fingleton Aubrey McCarthy Matt Cooper Parker Green Danny McConnell Gayle Killilea Maura Derivan Ed Honohan INS Arts Council EDAF Emuse Rosslare Golf Club Mairead Casey Colm O’Rourke Stephen Connolly Peter Aiken John Malone Tom Barry Anthony Halpin Ian Kehoe Kevin Bakhurst Geraldine O’Leary Dennis Horgan RUSI Gareth McAllister Ryevale House Joe Macken RUC Omagh Patrick Connolly Paddy Cosgrave The Ditch Newstalk Fake Tan Fred Logue Ian Paisley Sean O’Riordan Margaret Sweeney Jay Bourke Ellie Kisyombe Francesca McDonagh Ted Cunningham National Space Centre An Irish Goodbye Oscar Robert Quirke Ciara Kelly Executive Women Gathering Doug Taylor Florian Haufe Robbie Henshaw Bill Shipsey Breaking the Silence L’Ecrivain Ronan McNally National Lottery Michael Roche Energy Action Balls.ie Newspapers VAT Abbey Theatre Patricia Madden Irish Banking Culture Board Randox Aoife Gallagher Book Dalai Lama Trinity Trevor White RTÉ Chairperson Shane Houlihan Noel Smyth IKC Bob Geldof Landlord Ireland Neutrality Ukraine

TOM BARRY’S FERTILE PROFITS

Date: July 27, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

CONGRATULATIONS ARE in order for agribusiness operator and property investor Tom Barry, who has been making hay while the sun shines. Clearly, he has put his embarrassing carry-on in the Dáil well behind him. Blueshirt Barry represented Fine Gael in the Cork East constituency after being elected in the 2011 general election. He proved a… Read more »

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Paul Cullen Climate

RYANAIR’S HOT AIR

Date: July 27, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

THIS YEAR is, according to the Climate Change Advisory Council (CCAC) “a critical year for delivery of Ireland’s national climate action”. Given that total national emissions reductions in 2022 amounted to a paltry 1.9%, and which doesn’t even include fast-rising emissions from aviation, and with the emissions-intensive livestock sector doubling down on dairy intensification, any… Read more »

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Lucinda Creighton Mali

MALIGN MALIAN MISSION

Date: July 27, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

SOMETIMES THE language of western diplomats jars with reality, especially when explaining the high-minded, humanitarian reasons for invading countries or even, as recently, when rationalising a hasty exit when things are not going to plan. The explanation for the presence of Irish troops in the EU Training Mission (EUTM) Mali – a former French colony… Read more »

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Malcolm Byrne Aodhagán Ó Súird

MALCOLM BYRNE’S “EXTRAORDINARY” EVIDENCE

Date: July 27, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

THE IMPROPER sacking of Aodhagán Ó Súird as principal of Wexford primary school Gaelscoil Moshíológ has generated plenty of headlines given the 11 years it took for the matter to be finalised in the Four Courts earlier this month. Goldhawk, however, feels that the starring… Read more »

Moya Doherty

RTÉ BOARD BACK IN THE MONEY

Date: July 27, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

WITH THE wait for RTÉ’s 2022 annual report going on, there will be some information included that may be of interest to followers of events at Montrose, specifically a return to the good old days of fees for the directors. When the Moya Doherty-chaired board… Read more »

Andrew Cottey Signal

DEFENCE FORCES DIFFER ON SECURITY

Date: July 27, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

IN THE summer edition of Signal, the biannual magazine of the Representative Association of Commissioned Officers (RACO), Micheál Martin, Tánaiste and Minister for Defence and Foreign Affairs, again went nuclear when the issue of Irish neutrality was alluded to. Signal editor, Ruairi Kavanagh merely asked, “should the government, and indeed past governments, have done more… Read more »

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Mícheál Martin

DECOMMISSIONING ARMS?

Date: July 27, 2023 - Hush Hush

LAST MONTH the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), the most prominent of Britain’s defence and security think tanks, issued a report, “The Defence Industry in Northern Ireland: Leveraging Untapped Potential”. As planned expenditure by the British Ministry of Defence over the next 10 years is estimated to be in the region of £242bn, the report… Read more »

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Pat Kenny

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: July 27, 2023 - The Hot Air Brigade

All we wanted the board and the council to do was to follow the rules and those rules involve protecting the badger. This is the badgers’ Alamo – they have nowhere else to go. Pat Kenny on permission being granted for the development of a nursing home bordering his property, Irish Independent A move to… Read more »

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Padraig Fogarty

CENSORSHIP AT WILDLIFE TRUST

Date: July 27, 2023 - Fowl Emissions

ONE OF Ireland’s leading environmental NGOs, the Irish Wildlife Trust (IWT) has been thrown into chaos following the resignation of its campaigns officer, Pádraic Fogarty. Fogarty’s decision followed a move by the board of IWT to censor his blog published on the trust’s website that had been highly critical of a perceived lurch to the… Read more »

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Luke Holland Climate Denial John Fagan Wolf Europe David Quinn Duncan Stewart Data Centre Carbon Emissions Conor Skehan Chris Hazzard

DAVID QUINN’S CONVERSION

Date: July 27, 2023 - Fowl Emissions

IN A shocking epiphany, Iona Institute director and media commentator David Quinn has finally admitted the climate change is… real. “I think a lot of it is caused by us”. This breakthrough comes after years of mockery and denial by Quinn in assorted newspaper columns…. Read more »

Sammy Wilson Sunak DUP

SUNAK PLAYS THE DUP

Date: July 27, 2023 - Northwind

WHEN LEO Varadkar met Rishi Sunak in Moldova on June 1 he asked to be “kept informed” of any deal with the DUP about re-entering the Stormont executive. He added, “we would just like to be aware so we’re not caught off guard or by surprise and that there’s nothing that would concern us in… Read more »

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Mairead McGuinness

McGUINNESS PLAYS HARD TO GET

Date: July 27, 2023 - Last Refuge

DESPITE A glowing profile in the Business Post who last weekend depicted Heather Humphreys as a hot tip to be Fine Gael’s presidential candidate in 2025, Goldhawk believes that this nomination is firmly in the grasp of the, em, grasping hands of EU Commissioner, Mairead… Read more »

Leo Varadkar and Volodymyr Zelenskyy

MARTIN GAZUMPS VLAD

Date: July 27, 2023 - Last Refuge

NO SOONER had Tánaiste Micheál Martin departed on a week-long trip to South Africa and Mozambique that he hoped would further burnish his reputation as a great European statesman, than Taoiseach Leo Varadkar made a daring – and unannounced – dash to war-torn Kyiv to… Read more »

Deirdre O’Brien Ned O’Keeffe

O’KEEFFE DYNASTY AWAKENS

Date: July 27, 2023 - Last Refuge

SPECULATION ABOUT candidates for the Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) has alerted some of the more paranoid members of both Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael to the spectre of a cunning plan by the long-time FF TD, Ned O’Keeffe and his brood to make a comeback. Time was when Ned O’Keeffe was a junior minister for… Read more »

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Niall Meehan Dean Robert McCarthy

SECTARIAN SCOPING INQUIRY

Date: July 27, 2023 - Fit to Print?

The Irish Times is refusing to publish on its news pages the fact that a ministerial scoping inquiry into abuse in day and boarding schools excludes Protestant participation. Academic Niall Meehan, who has pursued the issue with the education minister, sent the paper a letter,… Read more »

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BUGGER OFF!

Date: July 27, 2023 - Fit to Print?

IN WHAT must have ageing PSNI officers heaving with laughter at the sheer irony of it all, it has emerged that the filmmakers who were arrested following their award-winning documentary, No Stone Unturned, may also have been bugged. According to the Guardian this week, the secretive Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) is now investigating the complaint… Read more »

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Genivieve Carberry Review

AI REPORT PROLONGED

Date: July 27, 2023 - Fit to Print?

IRISH TIMES hack, Jennifer O’Connell was not five minutes in the role of opinion editor when that bogus article claiming the use of fake tan by Irish women is a form of “cultural appropriation” was published, and she came under critical scrutiny in the days immediately afterwards. Editor, Ruadhán Mac Cormaic quickly issued a statement… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: July 27, 2023 - Bog Cuttings

DANGEROUS STREETS MATTHEW CONROY, of Kilcommon, Tipperary appeared before Nenagh District Court charged with a number of public order offences. Gardaí discovered an intoxicated Conroy behaving erratically in The Square, Nenagh, where he was “swerving from side to side” on his feet. The court heard that the defendant staggered across a road, without looking left… Read more »

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MACDARA’S NEW CAST

Date: July 27, 2023 - Behind the Scenes

THIRD PLACE on the list of Screen Ireland’s upcoming productions is an “Untitled Universal Monster Thriller”, which is being produced by Wild Atlantic Pictures (WAP), owned by Macdara Kelleher. The project turns out to be a movie known variously as Abigail, Abducting Abigail, and even Dracula’s Daughter, and is currently filming in Dublin and Boston,… Read more »

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John ‘Shark’ Hanlon

SHARK ATTACKS GALWAY

Date: July 27, 2023 - Sport of Kings

WELL-KNOWN trainer John ‘Shark’ Hanlon must be increasingly focused trying to land back-to-back runnings of the Galway Plate with stable-star and bargain extraordinaire Hewick. A good Galway festival would be just what the doctor ordered for the struggling Shark. Hewick, which was bought by Hanlon for only €850, faces no easy task in the €¼m… Read more »

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WHAT ABOUT SUNDAY?

Date: July 27, 2023 - Sport of Kings

FANS OF racing investment syndicates might be wondering what is going on at the All About Sunday racing club, which offers micro ownership shares in racehorses. There has been significant activity on the website that appears to reflect a change of structure. The outfit was founded a number of years ago by Noel Hayes and… Read more »

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Brownstown Estate

BROWNSTOWN’S PANAMA PARENT

Date: July 27, 2023 - High Society

A PIECE in last weekend’s Business Post puffed up the sprawling Brownstown Regency estate outside Navan, Co Meath, which has just come on the market with a total price tag (including the 560 acres of land) of a cool €9m. With its “magnificent reception rooms”, wine cellar, equestrian facilities, and dairy farm, the property should attract… Read more »

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David Harvey IMMA

WAITING AT EXPANDING IMMA

Date: July 27, 2023 - High Society

WITH IMMA boosting its collection courtesy of some munificence from arts minister Catherine Martin, there will be an expanded collection waiting for the incoming chair of the museum whenever he or she is finally put in place. Earlier this year, Martin advertised for expressions of interest in the role of chairperson in Kilmainham. This was… Read more »

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Gene Murtagh

KINGSPAN SHARES CLEARLY NOT FIRE RESISTANT

Date: July 27, 2023 - Moneybags

WHILE KINGSPAN is in the news for the wrong reasons again – this time due to criticism of its sponsorship deal with Ulster Rugby – the really big concern is, of course, the final report of the Grenfell Inquiry due later this year. The Irish insulation behemoth has shipped serious damage over its handling of… Read more »

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Garry O’Sullivan

HOLY MOLY!

Date: July 27, 2023 - The Hot Water Brigade

HATS OFF to Garry O’Sullivan, who is proving that even if it is notoriously difficult for a rich man to enter the kingdom of Heaven, the editor of the Irish Catholic has no trouble filling the boots. Last year, publisher Garry set up a new… Read more »

Ian Redmond

IAN REDMOND’S BUM NOTE

Date: July 27, 2023 - The Hot Water Brigade

DESPITE THE much hyped efforts of the Give Us the Night campaign, Dublin’s rapidly declining nightlife offering was dealt another blow this month with the closure of the Tramline nightclub off D’Olier Street in D2. A notice posted by the owners stated, “The pandemic, together with the costs now associated with running a business in… Read more »

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DERMOT DESMOND’S DIRECTOR

Date: July 27, 2023 - The Hot Water Brigade

DERMOT DESMOND continues to slowly ring the changes at his Sporting Emporium casino business off Grafton Street. Last month, he pulled in the skills and expertise of Carol Markey, the number cruncher who currently acts as a director of the next-door Zozimus cocktail bar, a project of Dermo’s son, Dery. As fans of Goldhawk are… Read more »

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Patrick Kielty

PATRICK KIELTY’S RIGHT HAND MAN

Date: July 27, 2023 - The Hot Water Brigade

WHILE THERE has been plenty of media coverage of the gap between the pay packet for the incoming host of The Late Late Show, Patrick Kielty and the rather well remunerated Ryan Tubridy, the saving will not be all it’s cracked up to be. When… Read more »

Judge Eileen Roberts Barth O’Neill

BARTH O’NEILL’S INTERESTING LENDER

Date: July 27, 2023 - The Hot Water Brigade

AN ENTERTAINING tussle between Kerry builder Barth O’Neill and his lender, Golden Door Lending (GDL), was settled in the Four Goldmines recently. In 2018, O’Neill’s construction firm, Dunboy Greener Homes (DGH), was a borrower with GDL where the main player is Cheng Bi, who hails from far off Vanuatu. Cheng holds his shares in the… Read more »

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Niamh Brennan

NIAMH BRENNAN’S TRANSPARENCY

Date: July 13, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

AS THOSE RTÉ committee hearings concluded this week, the focus moved to the clean up at Montrose, which is being spearheaded by Niamh Brennan (aka Mrs Michael McDowell). The question must be, why. Last week, media minister Catherine Martin announced “an independent root-and-branch examination of… Read more »