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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

FRANK REEVES’S BIDEN BOOST

Date: April 19, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

GOLDHAWK DOFFS his cap to the PR skills of Frank Reeves, the Irish businessman behind hotel booking software operation Avvio, which he set up in Limerick 20 years ago with his brother, Brian. There was plenty of commercial interest in Joe Biden’s visit, given the potential for delivering marketing opportunities courtesy of copy-hungry hacks. Reeves… Read more »

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Colin Marry

COLIN MARRY’S SAUSAGES

Date: April 19, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

GOLDHAWK WAS surprised to see that a company touted as being behind the farming of “pigs that could change the world” has just collapsed into liquidation. It appears that Louth entrepreneur and farmer Colin Marry has found that changing the world is an expensive business. Certainly, he has thrown an awful lot of moolah at… Read more »

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Gordon Elliott

ELLIOTT’S ID FARCE

Date: April 19, 2023 - Sport of Kings

GORDON ELLIOTT was summoned before an Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) referrals committee recently to explain how a significant mix-up in his yard led to two of the wrong horses being sent to compete at Navan in March. When the Elliott-trained filly Optoforce was presented by her groom for inspection to IHRB veterinary officer Emma… Read more »

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Noel Meade

NOEL MEADE’S PARTNER

Date: April 19, 2023 - Sport of Kings

THE PAST 10 years have seen a number of predominantly Wexford-based point-to-point trainers revolutionise the point-to-point game from what was an amateur discipline – often seen as a bit of fun for amateur riders and trainers – into what is now closer to a high-stakes poker game involving millions of euros worth of horseflesh. People… Read more »

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Silvana Landa

SILVANA’S LUXURY HANDBAGS

Date: April 19, 2023 - High Society

WHILE MOST of the big bucks invested in this country is focused on the likes of tech, pharma and property, there has been a fair few bob sloshing around in recent times looking for a home in the luxury goods market. One of those hoping to tap in here is Silvana Landa. As Goldhawk revealed… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: April 19, 2023 - Bog Cuttings

‘KING OF BALLINCOLLIG’ A 28-year-old who jumped on the bonnet of a patrol car during an altercation with gardaí was described by Judge Olann Kelleher at Cork District Court as acting as if he were “the king of Ballincollig”. Cillian Barry, formerly of Dromin Drive, Tower, Blarney, Cork, was spotted by patrolling gardaí acting in… 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

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Date: April 19, 2023 - Fowl Emissions

Given the constant chorus from the livestock sector claiming it is being unfairly demonised on emissions while fossil fuel companies are not subject to the same scrutiny, a new international media analysis on industrial meat and climate change had some surprising findings. It noted that while livestock accounted for a whopping 14.5% of global emissions,… Read more »

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Irish Aid Simon Coveney

IRELAND DUMPS ON AFRICA

Date: April 19, 2023 - Fowl Emissions

In his recent address to the Oireachtas, US President Joe Biden said that “Ireland remembers the painful hollows of the Great Hunger”. He praised the fact that the Irish aid budget is now expanding to help the most vulnerable, “especially partner nations across Africa”. And, for good measure, Biden added that Ireland was a “global… Read more »

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Justine McCarthy

‘IT’ DENOUNCES SECTARIANISM

Date: April 19, 2023 - Fit to Print?

JUSTINE McCARTHY recently thundered against the “sectarian criteria” of the planned scoping inquiry into the abuse of children in “schools run by religious orders”, an inquiry stimulated by reports of abuse in Blackrock and other Spiritan schools. Confining the inquiry to schools run by religious orders limits the exercise to Catholic schools as Church of… Read more »

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Cathal Berry

OFFICER CLASS MEDIA FIGHT BACK

Date: April 19, 2023 - Fit to Print?

THE DAMNING report of the Independent Review Group (IRG) into sexual assault and other abuses in the Defence Forces was given a supportive response by PDForra – representing enlisted members – but a somewhat more guarded welcome on its release by the officers’ organisation, RACO. Chief of Staff, Lt General Seán Clancy has so far… Read more »

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Áine Lawlor Matt Carthy

IS SHANNON NEUTRAL GROUND?

Date: April 19, 2023 - Last Refuge

In two recent Morning Ireland interviews, Áine Lawlor has interrogated the details of Sinn Féin’s commitment to neutrality, a sensitive issue given the upcoming National Consultative Forum on Ireland’s International Security Policy. SF’s newly appointed spokesperson on foreign affairs and defence, Matt Carthy, was interviewed recently alongside Fianna Fáil MEP Barry Andrews. Carthy was definitive… Read more »

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Eviction Ban Leo Varadkar

NO COUNCIL HOUSES – NO COUNCIL DEBATE

Date: April 19, 2023 - Last Refuge

DAYS BEFORE Sinn Féin’s Dáil motion on ending the eviction ban and a fortnight before the ban was due to expire, Tánaiste Micheál Martin rounded on local councils and accused them of “resistance” to the scheme of buying homes with tenants in situ. The Fianna… Read more »

Tony Murphy Darragh O'Brien Balbriggan Housing

HOUSING FOR ALL… ELSEWHERE

Date: April 19, 2023 - Last Refuge

FIANNA FÁIL insiders raised an eyebrow last week at an Irish Independent report that housing minister Darragh O’Brien continues to send constituents with housing queries to an Independent councillor rather than a party colleague. But locals in Balbriggan have focused instead on the fact that the housing minister’s councillor of choice opposes housing developments. As… Read more »

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Terence O'Neill Jeffrey Donaldson

18 KIDS ON THE DOLE

Date: April 19, 2023 - Northwind

“It is frightfully hard to explain to Protestants that, if you give Roman Catholics a good job and a good house, they will live like Protestants because they will see neighbours with cars and television sets; they will refuse to have 18 children. But if a Roman Catholic is jobless and lives in the most… Read more »

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Mary Robinson

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: April 19, 2023 - The Hot Air Brigade

I told him that I’ve brought the famous light in the [Áras] window down to Ballina, so it will now be housed in the Mary Robinson Centre opposite where he will be speaking tonight. Mary Robinson gets her priorities right when asked about meeting US President Joe Biden, RTÉ’s News at One We believe anything… Read more »

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Bryan MacDonald Evan Gershkovich

MOBILE MEDIA ETHICS

Date: April 19, 2023 - Hush Hush

A common trope in the Irish media is the accusation of censorship by the Chinese Communist Party and the Russian government. According to Irish and most western media, since the invasion of Ukraine Russia has effectively criminalised opposition to the government and any independent reporting of the news. But what is the cause of the… Read more »

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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

IAN PAISLEY’S REAL RECORD

Date: April 19, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

The BBC’s House of Paisley marathon trilogy ignored vital chunks of Ian Paisley’s stormy career, despite the fact it had exposed many of them in the past. In 2019, former British army officer David Hancock told BBC NI’s Spotlight programme that Paisley had helped finance the Silent Valley bombing in 1969. It was a false… Read more »

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Freddie Scappaticci

SCAPPATICCI TALES

Date: April 19, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

In the early 1970s, the IRA adopted a cellular structure. The overlap between cells was kept to a bare minimum, thereby limiting the damage a British agent could inflict if he infiltrated one compartment. One of London’s spies in the IRA, the recently deceased Freddie Scappaticci, managed to breach the new arrangement. Scappaticci was run… Read more »

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Louise Richardson

DAME TO SAVE IRISH NEUTRALITY

Date: April 19, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

ONE TRUSTS that Tánaiste Micheál Martin’s recent failure to give Louise Richardson her full, proper title of Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (DBE) was a lapse in his usual respect for British authority and not an effort to obscure… Read more »

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

SEAN O’RIORDAN’S RATIONALE

Date: April 19, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

SOME SORT of award should be organised to encourage Irish journalists competing with each other to be the most enthusiastic champions of Nato and/or an EU army with Ireland to the fore. The Henry Kissinger Pacifism Award or the Orwellian Literary Prize might produce improved arguments that say battle groups are not real armies or… Read more »

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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

MARGARET SWEENEY’S BATTLE

Date: April 19, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

AS GOOD old corporate battles are rare enough here, there is mounting interest in the open challenge by a leading shareholder in the giant Ires Reit property rental company to the re-election of much of the board. It looks like the very well paid CEO, Margaret Sweeney, will have to earn her crust in the… Read more »

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VOL 41 NO 08

Date: April 19, 2023 -

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Army Report Sean Clancy

OFFICER CLASS IN RETREAT

Date: April 6, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

THE SPECTACLE of Defence Forces Chief of Staff (c/s) Seán Clancy being pilloried for denying he had encountered any abuse issues as highlighted by the Independent Review Group (IRG) is ironic. Ever since he was appointed c/s in 2021, Clancy has been a target for the more conservative, male officers in the army who regard… Read more »

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Barry Connell

PROFILE: BARRY CONNELL

Date: April 6, 2023 - Pillars of Society

SINCE THE beginning of this year, racehorse trainer Barry Connell had been telling everyone who would listen that his horse, Marine Nationale, would win the opening race of the Cheltenham Festival – the Grade 1 Supreme Novices Hurdle – and he duly delivered. This was the latest significant step taken by the Dublin-based hedge fund… Read more »

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Pádraig O’Sullivan

YOUNG BLOOD: PÁDRAIG O’SULLIVAN

Date: April 6, 2023 - The Young Bloods

WITH FIANNA FÁIL continuing to lag in the polls and its support among young people at catastrophic levels, the party is hoping its young breed can find a way forward. Cork North Central (CNC) TD Pádraig O’Sullivan then has a pivotal role to play in the hoped-for regeneration of FF. But does he share the… Read more »

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Gerry O'Carroll

GERRY O’CARROLL’S CRI DE COEUR

Date: April 6, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

WITH EACH staging post along the 40-year-old Kerry Babies saga, the prevailing view is that several gardaí were involved in a travesty in which six members of Joanne Hayes’s family in Abbeydorney confessed to crimes in 1984 they could not possibly have committed. One such garda is retired Det Inspector Gerry O’Carroll, one of two… Read more »

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Claire Byrne

CLAIRE BYRNE’S ‘SUPER AGENT’

Date: April 6, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

WITH THE clock ticking in the search for the new host of The Late Late Show (TLLS), there are those wondering if agent Noel Kelly can make it a hat-trick, given that he also represents Ryan Tubridy and Pat Kenny. No doubt the influential owner of NK Management was delighted that the Mail on Sunday… Read more »

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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

JAY BOURKE’S STORIES

Date: April 6, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

GOLDHAWK’S OLD friend Jay Bourke addressed the AGM of the insolvency specialists’ representative body, Restructuring and Insolvency Ireland (RII) last month. Judging by a report in the Irish Times, bankrupt Jayo was most effusive, as is his style – when it suits him. RII is chaired by Mark Woodcock of Fieldfisher but not on the… Read more »

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Marissa Carter

MARISSA CARTER’S GLOW-UP

Date: April 6, 2023 - The Hot Water Brigade

IT HAS been a busy few months for Marissa Carter, who was chosen as Newstalk’s Eversheds Sutherland-sponsored ‘Business Person of the Month’ for March. She also launched her budget cosmetics range, Carter Beauty, in Dubai a month earlier. In other good news, the tan queen appears less browned off with her business partners these days…. Read more »

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Milltown Golf Club Ann Marie Powell

ELECTIONS AT MILLTOWN

Date: April 6, 2023 - High Society

IT’S NEVER all that easy to secure membership of the more sought after golf clubs, especially those in and around south Co Dublin. One of these is obviously the venerable Milltown Golf Club, founded way back in 1907 and the 19th tee for many of Dublin’s most prominent business, professional and legal players. Last month,… Read more »

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Barry O'Kelly

MARC GODART’S TENANTS

Date: April 6, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

FANS OF Goldhawk will have recognised the name of landlord extraordinaire Marc Godart on the front page of the Irish Times earlier this week when he was ordered to cease short-letting apartments in a block on Dublin’s Reuben Street in Dolphin’s Barn. He has quite the record. The latest run-in relates to notices of termination… Read more »

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National Party Justin Barrett

NATIONAL PARTY ON THE RUN

Date: April 6, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

After the fracas in Fermanagh, when antifascists confronted National Party (NP) members at their ard fheis in November, Goldhawk wonders whether, despite fighting talk, they have thrown in the towel. At its recent ard fheis, leader Justin Barrett claimed the NP only wanted a calm and quiet debate but “if they want the other way,… Read more »

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GOD’S CREATURES

Date: April 6, 2023 - MoviesReviews

FITTINGLY FOR a movie set in a rural fishing village, God’s Creatures arrived on a tidal wave of hype now standard for any Paul Mescal film. This time, the golden boy of Irish cinema plays Brian, a moody young man whose return from Australia to his close-knit Kerry village sparks major drama, which unfortunately unfolds… Read more »

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Peter Taylor

MI5’s BENIGN ROLE IN IRELAND

Date: April 6, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

THE NEW book by veteran British author and broadcaster Peter Taylor, Operation Chiffon, has much to say about MI5’s activities in Ireland. It also includes a claim by one spook, ‘Robert’, of how he and other British agents helped to advance the peace process. Taylor’s book does not include one interesting story, which has been… Read more »

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Michael Barrett

ONLY OUR RIVERS RUN FREE

Date: April 6, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

A PLANNING row that began in 2012 over an Athlone marina has turned into a major confrontation involving Waterways Ireland (WI), Westmeath County Council, litigation and hearings at the Oireachtas joint committee on public petitions. Lakeside Marina owner Michael Barrett is rather cheesed off because since 2011 he has spent a lot of moolah negotiating… Read more »

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New IRA John Caldwell

NEW IRA HASN’T GONE AWAY

Date: April 6, 2023 - Hush Hush

In the last few years, a number of militant dissident republican groups have announced ceasefires or merely faded away. The Republican Network for Unity, Republican Sinn Féin and 32 County Sovereignty Movement continue to exist but have been unable to develop a political project beyond interpreting the actions of armed republicans. However, when MI5 released… Read more »

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