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Simon Coveney Hamas

IRELAND AND PALESTINE NOW

Date: October 19, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

EXACTLY ONE year ago, European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said: “Russia’s attacks against [Ukrainian] civilian infrastructure, especially electricity, are war crimes. Cutting off men, women, children of water, electricity and heating with winter coming – these are acts of pure terror. And we… Read more »

Michael McGrath

PROFILE: MICHAEL MCGRATH

Date: October 19, 2023 - Pillars of Society

TO SUCCEED in political life, observed journalist and political commentator Malcolm Muggeridge, “it is necessary to conform either to the popular image of a bookie or a bishop”. Bookies carefully weigh up the odds of different alternatives before making a decision. Careful calculation is their essence. Bishops are true believers who approach problems already convinced… Read more »

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Ella Mac Lennan

YOUNG BLOOD: ELLA MAC LENNAN

Date: October 19, 2023 - The Young Bloods

TRINITY’S BRANCH of the radical, left-wing, student activist group Students4Change (S4C) has chosen its new leader. Ella Mac Lennan was recently unanimously elected as chairperson and now faces the challenge of leading this young group in fighting the good fight against the neoliberal agenda and the ghost of Adam Smith. Mac Lennan is only the… Read more »

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Garrett Harte Drinkaware

DRINKAWARE’S HANGOVER

Date: October 19, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

GOLDHAWK ALWAYS enjoys reading the annual report of the alcohol-industry-funded charity Drinkaware, and the one just published is as entertaining as always. It emerges in a year that has seen the drinks sector come under fire for exploiting a loophole to facilitate the advertising of brands at sporting events. Also, there was an end this… Read more »

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Alan Shatter Cyril's Lottery of Life

ALAN SHATTER’S ROMP

Date: October 19, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

CONGRATULATIONS TO loudmouth former politician Alan Shatter, whose saucy novel has been attracting rather a lot of media attention here. Given that it is a Benny Hill-style legal tale featuring an English town judge who “likes to retire to bed in a nappy and be… Read more »

Brendan Mullin

BRENDAN MULLIN’S TACKLE TECHNIQUE

Date: October 19, 2023 - Briefcases

WHILE ALL eyes have been on Paris for the rugger buggers, former Irish and Lions outside centre Brendan Mullin has been making his own tackles. It is unclear at this stage, however, if he is going to get a result out of his encounter with property developer John G Burns Ltd The last 18 months… Read more »

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Helen McEntee Devenish Nutrition

McENTEES: MEATH PATRIOTS

Date: October 19, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

THE McENTEE family has done the county proud in recent years and efforts by two or more of the boys to promote the county football team have been matched by another family member’s efforts in the field of local business. Meath County board chairman Conor… Read more »

Simon Kilroy

SIMON KILROY’S EXOTIC FISH

Date: October 19, 2023 - High Society

ONE OF the most expensive properties to come on the market in recent times is Rarc-an-Ilan, sitting on 0.6 acres of prime Dalkey land on leafy Coliemore Road, overlooking the Irish Sea. The 3,400 sq ft mansion was only built in 1993 after Mick Smurfit’s former right-hand man at the Smurfit cardboard group, Howard Kilroy,… Read more »

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Alan Clancy

ALAN CLANCY’S GLASS HOUSE

Date: October 19, 2023 - High Society

IT HAS been an eventful 12 months for nightclub and bar owner Alan Clancy, who started off the year by marrying Jacqueline Given, the sister of former Republic of Ireland and Manchester City goalkeeper Shay, and he has been busy expanding his empire ever since. His latest venture turns out to be Dublin’s first ‘glass… Read more »

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Eamon O'Brien IMC Exploration

IMC EXPLORATION’S GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY

Date: October 19, 2023 - Moneybags

IMC EXPLORATION is a tiny little Irish company that, although quoted on the London AIM stock exchange, remains very much under the radar in Ireland. This is despite the fact that the outfit owns the licences and mining rights around the old Avoca copper mine… Read more »

Rachel Kenny An Bord Pleanála

RACHEL KENNY’S WRITS

Date: October 19, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

A COUPLE of libel writs have just landed relating to recent coverage of events in An Bord Pleanála (ABP). It looks like the controversial planning appeals body will continue to generate headlines. ABP has been under intense scrutiny for the last 18 months or so as a result of media examinations of alleged conflicts of… Read more »

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VOL 41 NO 21

Date: October 18, 2023 -

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ABBEY THEATRE REVIEWS

Date: October 18, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

WHILE ARTS and media minister Catherine Martin has come in for criticism over her hands-off style when it comes to the unfolding debacle at RTÉ, this strategy is straight out of her playbook with the Abbey Theatre, where the off-stage drama has continued. It will… Read more »

Drew Harris Dáil Protest

BUDGET BLUES

Date: October 18, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

FROM UNDER- to over-reaction, the gardaí lockdown around the Dáil and Government Buildings on budget day, to ward off protests, reminded Goldhawk of British royal visits during and after the Troubles – except there was no trouble this time around. There wasn’t a single protester to justify the overtime bonanza for the boys in blue…. Read more »

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Charlie Flanagan

RIC PARTY POOPERS

Date: October 18, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

CHARLIE FLANAGAN is hanging up his blue shirt at the next election with the great disappointment that his “postponed” Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) celebration may never happen. Back in the run-up to the 2020 election Charlie BlackandTanAgain got the bright idea to have a knees-up in Dublin Castle for the RIC. He was ably supported… Read more »

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Robert Rundo Comhaltas na nGaedheal

‘WARRIOR CLASS OF OUR RACE’

Date: October 18, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

MARK TWAIN’S assertion that “history never repeats itself but it does often rhyme” definitely holds water when you consider the composition of the various far-right movements to emerge in the last decade. In Ireland as elsewhere, on surveying the far-right scene, just as in the 1930s you find a similar coalition of conspiracy theorists, esoteric… Read more »

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Jiri Sedivy EDA

ARMS AND THE CORKMAN

Date: October 18, 2023 - Hush Hush

LATE last month Tánaiste and defence minister Micheál Martin rolled out the red carpet for a visit from the European Defence Agency (EDA), the heroes that orchestrate the manufacture of serious weaponry in the EU. The EDA was set up in 2004 by the Council of the European Union and works with all 27 EU… Read more »

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Sinead Kissane

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: October 18, 2023 - The Hot Air Brigade

Au revoir too to the incredible magic the Irish fans brought here to France, to Zombie-singing, metro-hopping, Paris-crossing, missed meals, melted heads, hoarse throats, getting bitten by mosquitoes, avoiding the bed bugs, too much coffee, too little rosé and the mash-up of spending six weeks here but leaving with the feeling of going home too… Read more »

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Myles Allen

DAIRY STORIES

Date: October 18, 2023 - Fowl Emissions

Of late, undisputed climate expert Prof Myles Allen of Oxford University has filled the gap left by departed ‘experts’ in greenhouse gas emissions. The Farming Independent last year quoted Allen, ahead of his Oireachtas committee hearing, contend that a tweak to how methane is calculated, known as GWP-star, should be implemented. According to the Indo’s… Read more »

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JOHN FAGAN’S FARM

Date: October 18, 2023 - Fowl Emissions

Congratulations to Westmeath County Council for its recent courageous decision to reject planning permission to local farmer John Fagan. In 2019, Fagan applied for permission to build a massive 450-unit milking parlour, silage pits etc. No problem, said the council. John Fagan decided instead to go green and applied for permission for a solar farm,… Read more »

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Jeffrey Donaldson

DUP SPLIT: DONALDSON V DODDS

Date: October 18, 2023 - Northwind

The DUP holding its annual conference last Saturday in Belfast’s Crowne Plaza hotel was tempting fate. It was in this venue in May 2021 that the DUP publicly fell apart. At a meeting called to ratify newly elected leader Edwin Poots (by a majority of two over Jeffrey Donaldson), the gathering descended into a shouting… Read more »

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Brendan Howlin Labour TD

LABOUR’S RUFFLED FEATHERS

Date: October 18, 2023 - Last Refuge

FEATHERS THEN LABOUR TD Colm Keaveney received a white feather in his internal Leinster House mailbox in 2012 with a message that said: “This traditional White Feather is presented to you for your cowardice and betrayal of the Irish people. May this great shame be… Read more »

Leo Varadkar

FF FEAR VLAD AMBUSH

Date: October 18, 2023 - Last Refuge

ONE OF the few real advantages Leo Varadkar has over Micheál Martin is that he is currently the rotating Taoiseach in situ and, therefore, can decide on the date of the next election. Martin and Fianna Fáil are consequently fretting over the strong temptation for… Read more »

Nóirín Hegarty Andrew Cody

OFFALY ‘MURDER’ AND JUDGE’S ORDERS

Date: October 18, 2023 - Fit to Print?

DISTRICT COURT judge Andrew Cody clearly possesses a sophisticated and flexible legal brain and he has not moved to haul the Sunday Times into court over what some have described as a potential breach of several orders he made recently in Tullamore District Court. When… Read more »

Bono

‘ISRAEL’S BLOODY SUNDAY’

Date: October 18, 2023 - Fit to Print?

THE ISRAEL Defense Forces (IDF) may be good at carpet bombing Palestinians in civilian areas of Gaza but its public relations expertise leaves a lot to be desired and its recent PR initiative involving Ireland and U2 lead singer Bono blew up in its face…. Read more »

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JOHN COONEY’S DEBATE

Date: October 18, 2023 - Fit to Print?

VETERAN AUTHOR and journalist John Cooney led the successful opposition to a students’ motion “regretting the fall of religion” at Trinity College Dublin Philosophical Society last week. But the most sulphurous intervention in the debate was Cooney’s remarks about Archbishop John Charles McQuaid. Cooney – who held the prestigious posts, uniquely, of religious affairs correspondent… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: October 18, 2023 - Bog Cuttings

‘LOWLIFE SCUMBAGS’ Frank Brassil (41) of Main Street, Collon, appearing before Drogheda District Court, pleaded guilty to engaging in threatening, abusive or insulting behaviour relating to an incident on April 22, 2020. The court heard that the defendant was walking past the Garda station at Fr Connolly Way in Drogheda on the date in question… Read more »

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Cillian Murphy Michael McGrath

McGRATH’S MOVIE PLOT

Date: October 18, 2023 - Behind the Scenes

THE NEWS that the first budget script of finance minister Michael McGrath contained extra moolah for the country’s movie moguls was greeted with the usual chorus of appreciation. The leading plot line here is a rise in the tax credit cap from €70m per production to €125m. The question is, what conditions will be attached… Read more »

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NEW CAST FOR THEATRE FESTIVAL

Date: October 18, 2023 - Behind the Scenes

WITH THE Dublin Theatre Festival (DTF) having wound down this week, there will be a couple of new faces added to the cast, although the process has proved less than smooth. Two new roles were advertised this summer but the closing date for applications had to be delayed from July to mid-September to allow for… Read more »

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Lucinda Russell Flemensface

ALAN AHERN’S TEST

Date: October 18, 2023 - Sport of Kings

A RECENT referrals case at the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB), involving a point-to-point winner that failed a post-race dope test, looks set to have significant ramifications for the sport. Flemensface, trained by point-to-point handler Alan Ahern, tested positive for clenbuterol (aka bute), after the point to point in Cork. Bute is an anti-inflammatory used… Read more »

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Samuel Drinkwater Karloss

KARLOSS’S WIN

Date: October 18, 2023 - Sport of Kings

A HORSE previously trained by Charles Byrnes popped up in England under the care of low-key trainer Samuel Drinkwater and managed to land a significant gamble, winning at Sedgefield last week. Karloss had been an intended runner at Downpatrick at the end of August on the day Byrnes and his son, Philip, combined for a… Read more »

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Maurice Pratt

UNIPHAR’S SHARE SLIDE DEMANDS NEW PRESCRIPTION

Date: October 18, 2023 - Moneybags

FOUR YEARS after floating in Dublin, Uniphar has grown significantly but suffered a significant setback when its attempted takeover of Navicorp was shot down at the end of 2022. Although the group’s market presence internationally has been expanding, the shares have been underperforming and there is little sign of the right medicine being prescribed to… Read more »

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Myles Kirby Nicholas Wickham

NICHOLAS WICKHAM’S GOLDEN SHOT

Date: October 18, 2023 - Briefcases

THE ANTICS of Nicholas Wickham, founder of Irish Gold & Silver Bullion Ltd (IGSB), have been well aired in the High Court, although the process of getting a few bob for the unfortunate investors tempted into buying previous metals is ongoing. The latest development this month is the withdrawal of a strike-off notice for a… Read more »

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Miceal Sammon BTP Construction Ltd

MICEÁL SAMMON’S SCARP SETBACK

Date: October 18, 2023 - Briefcases

THE LATEST company that has failed to emerge successfully from the erratic Scarp protection process is BTP Construction Ltd, which turns out to feature a couple of high-profile building names who know a thing or two about company collapses. BTP was set up almost five years ago and the founders and directors here were Waterford-based… Read more »

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Ger Colleran New Fortress Energy

ANOTHER FRACK UP IN KERRY

Date: October 18, 2023 - Briefcases

LAST MONTH was a bad one for US giants New Fortress Energy (NFE), with An Bord Pleanála putting the kibosh on its Irish subsidiary’s plan to construct a €650m liquified natural gas (LNG) terminal on the Shannon Estuary near Ballylongford Co Kerry. Another casualty was… Read more »