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Laura Whitmore

LAURA WHITMORE’S PURPOSE

Date: March 10, 2022 - High Society

IT LOOKS like bolshy blonde broadcaster Laura Whitmore had a hectic International Women’s Day, with an interview for something called the Executive Institute “in celebration of” the big day and the launch of her new podcast series. She also tweeted: “Ahead of International Women’s Day, who is the woman that inspires you?” Given that Laura… Read more »

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Budget Jack Chambers Nicki Minaj B’Tselem 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

ARAMARK’S ‘AMBASSADORS’

Date: March 10, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

WHILE THE National Gallery of Ireland (NGI) has come in for an awful lot of flak for contracting US company Aramark (owners of Avoca) to run its catering outlets, it is far from the first high-profile name to get into bed with the controversial direct provision provider. The NGI says it awarded its contract to… Read more »

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Again, Rachel

AGAIN, RACHEL – MARIAN KEYES

Date: March 10, 2022 - BooksBooks|ReviewsReviews

THIS SEQUEL to the mega-selling Rachel’s Holiday (1998) received a level of hype on a par with that accorded to Sally Rooney. So does Marian Keyes deliver? The veteran crowd pleaser’s novels have often reflected feminist issues, combining comic and tragic elements (but with a guaranteed happy ending). At the same time Keyes has frequently… Read more »

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Denis Desmond

MCD’S RIGHT NOTES

Date: March 10, 2022 - Behind the Scenes

LAST MONTH concert promoter extraordinaire Denis Desmond announced that it was “great to be back open”, promising to sell around 1.7 million tickets this year, including 70,000 for Electric Picnic in Stradbally. Goldhawk was more interested in some other figures that have just become, available courtesy of the UK-registered parent company. The 2020 figures just… Read more »

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Budget Jack Chambers Nicki Minaj B’Tselem 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

ASHFORD STUDIO PLOT TWIST

Date: March 10, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

WITH A new series of Vikings: Valhalla getting ready to start rolling at Ashford Studios (albeit a little late in the day) it looks like the biggest plot twist concerns the ownership of the Co Wicklow studio firm, where Joe O’Connell is calling ‘cut’. Ashford Studios was created by the conversion of warehousing owned by… Read more »

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Budget Jack Chambers Nicki Minaj B’Tselem 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

WAITING ON CATHERINE MARTIN

Date: March 10, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

MORE THAN a year after former chairman Pauric Travers exited the board of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI), there still remains a vacancy, given that Travers’s position was (eventually) filled by ordinary board member Mary Curtis. Well known to the big broadcasters here, and having completed senior stints at the likes of RTÉ and… Read more »

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Charlie McConalogue

McCONALOGUE AND THE KULAKS

Date: March 10, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

CHARLIE McCONALOGUE’S pitch for farmers to produce more grain sounds, ironically, like a Russian five-year plan from the Soviet era. But for the government over the past decade, the dominant narrative about Irish agriculture has been shaped by the agri-industrial giants and enthusiastically endorsed by farm organisations. This storyline is that break-neck expansion of the… Read more »

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Budget Jack Chambers Nicki Minaj B’Tselem 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

BERNARD MCCAULEY’S MOOLAH

Date: March 10, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

A CLEANING company called Grosvenor Cleaning Services (GCS) has just been ordered by the Workplace Relations Commission to pay a former employee €21,000 in compensation for transferring her on foot of a complaint from a customer. Rather more colourful was a high-profile defamation case back in 2011. It involved proceedings by GCS against Vodafone and… Read more »

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Bernard Caldwell

CALDWELL’S HORSE SENSE

Date: March 10, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

OUTSPOKEN RACEHORSE trainer Jim Bolger has been stirring things up in the sport of kings by claiming a ‘Lance Armstrong’ figure is set to emerge and throw the sport into disrepute. The comments have not resulted in much of a backlash, as evidenced by the election of his head lad to be the representative of… Read more »

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Vladimir Putin

IT’S THE PIPELINE, STUPID

Date: March 10, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

GOLDHAWK IS indebted to US journalist Mike Whitney and other players in the United States for explaining what has really happened in Ukraine and how the gameplan, if not the actual war in that country, is already over. Whitney argues – with evidence from various US analysts like geopolitical strategist George Friedman – that the… Read more »

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Archbishop Dermot Farrell

RATHGAR PARISH INQUISITION: PART II

Date: March 10, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

ALREADY PUZZLED Rathgar parishioners at the Church of Three Patrons will be scratching their heads at the contents of last week’s parish newsletter. Under the headline ‘Thank You’, newly installed parish priest Fr Andrew O’Sullivan wrote: “As part of the ongoing reorganisation within the parish” a named former popular pastoral worker had “sadly” left this… Read more »

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Simon Coveney

UKRAINIAN FASCISTS?

Date: March 10, 2022 - Hush Hush

LAST SEPTEMBER Simon Coveney was visiting the USA for the start of the 76th Session of the UN, when he made time to call over to the Atlantic Council (AC) to participate in an hour-long public discussion on Ireland’s foreign policy priorities. It took place on Zoom and was broadcast on YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook. AC… Read more »

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Linda Coogan Byrne

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: March 10, 2022 - The Hot Air Brigade

She is a legendary activist, a thought leader, a culture changer and one of the most well-known music industry publicists there is. New Arts Council member Linda Coogan Byrne, as described on her own website A new style (two cameras, more filming days, long uninterrupted takes) keeps the action rolling alongside the cajoling… So we… Read more »

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Jeffrey Donaldson

PUTIN PLUGS PROTOCOL

Date: March 10, 2022 - Northwind

WE MAY be in the midst of the biggest geopolitical shift since the Berlin wall came down in 1989. Thousands are dying in Ukraine, homes and hospitals are being blown to bits, more than a million refugees are in flight, petrol and gas prices are going through the roof here, but in the north the… Read more »

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Joan Burton

LABOUR’S FEMINIST ALBATROSS

Date: March 10, 2022 - Last Refuge

JUSTIFICATION FROM Alan Kelly’s assassins relied greatly on the view that the former minister’s role in government hung like an albatross around his neck and that of the party. His enthusiasm for water charges when in cabinet is cited as a particular example. But are Ivana Bacik’s choir boys and girls really unaware of their… Read more »

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John Carroll

FG’S ‘GENDERGATE’ PAY-OFF

Date: March 10, 2022 - Last Refuge

IT IS indeed heartening for Goldhawk to know that senior Fine Gael persons not only read his scribblings but, from time to time, even take the advice of the wise old bird. In recent weeks they sensibly hoisted the white flag and cut a deal to keep the dreaded trade unions off their backs. It… Read more »

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Michael McDowell

MCDOWELL’S WAR ON COUGHLAN

Date: March 10, 2022 - Fit to Print?

IT’S NOT just the media – the Irish Times as well as tabloid titles – that have reduced polemic about Russia, Ukraine, the EU and Nato to abusive hysteria against anybody that does not toe the western line. Distinguished advocate, former attorney general, former justice minister and IT columnist Michael McDowell recently responded to an… Read more »

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Tim Cullinan

‘DEMONISING MEAT’

Date: March 10, 2022 - Fowl Emissions

IT ISN’T often that a letter published in a specialist medical journal prompts a press release from the Irish Farmers Association (IFA) and two articles in its in-house paper, the Farmers Journal. The breaking news, or rather, letter in the Lancet recently was so pressing that IFA president Tim Cullinan announced that he was writing… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: March 10, 2022 - Bog Cuttings

‘Waddle, Waddle, Waddle’ A Borrisoleigh man who shouted insulting comments at a brother and sister about their weight was fined €250 at Thurles District Court. Judge Elizabeth MacGrath was told that the siblings were walking in Sli Aoibhan, Borrisoleigh, on September 21, 2020, when they were verbally abused by Martin Treacy, of 42 Mountgeorge, Borrisoleigh,… Read more »

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Rena Maycock

MAYCOCK’S MANY HATS

Date: March 10, 2022 - High Society

WHILE FORMER justice minister Michael McDowell is probably the most interesting name connected to The Currency media site courtesy of his loan to the founders, Tom Lyons and Ian Kehoe, another name that caught Goldhawk’s eye is that of Rena Maycock, who was signed up a couple of years ago by the two boys to… Read more »

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D6 ‘BARGAIN’

Date: March 10, 2022 - High Society

A VICTORIAN five-bedroom detached house on leafy Temple Road in Rathgar has just been sold albeit at a significant discount to the asking price. The new owner could be a familiar face. The listed D6 pile came on the market last year with a price tag of a chunky €5.25m. It had been is use… Read more »

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Katherine Lynch

THE WAY WE WERE – RTÉ ONE

Date: March 10, 2022 - ReviewsReviews|TV

IT IS surely only a matter of time before Montrose execs commission a series in which talking heads reflect on RTÉ’s voluminous catalogue of nostalgia shows. To the national broadcaster’s ever-expanding canon of retro-themed output has been added series two of The Way We Were, a solid – if decidedly unspectacular – look at how Irish… Read more »

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Breaking Point

BREAKING POINT – EDEL COFFEY

Date: March 10, 2022 - BooksBooks|ReviewsReviews

THE DEBUT novel from journo Edel Coffey arrived with a fairly rapturous fanfare as it climbed the Irish bestsellers list. The sensitive subject matter (infant death and societal attitudes towards working mothers) should be deeply engaging – and even harrowing. But, the author doesn’t quite succeed in addressing these compelling themes. Coffey has decided to set… Read more »

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GERRY O’BRIEN’S GRIPES

Date: March 10, 2022 - Behind the Scenes

THE ACTORS keep threatening to act up as evidenced by a cross border union initiative this week. Whether a predictable ending is in store is the question the luvvies are asking. There was something of a revolution among the ranks of the lesser known luvvies in the actors’ union Irish Equity at its AGM a… Read more »

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Simon Kerins

TOPSY TURVY AT TATTS

Date: March 10, 2022 - Sport of Kings

SINCE THE turn of the year, there have been a lot of comings and goings at the Tattersalls Ireland headquarters in Fairyhouse. Within a short space of time, former finance director Roger Casey left to become chief financial officer at Horse Racing Ireland, taking the position made vacant by the promotion of Suzanne Eade to… Read more »

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Ed Dunlop David Dunsdon Sarah Lynam Rebecca May Wayne Hassett Eoin O'Brien Michael Burke Aine O’Connor Ashroe Diamond Thomand O’Mara Peter Keatley Timmy Hyde Coolmore All About Sunday Colin Keane Ronan Whelan JP McManus Jessica Harrington Dundalk Racecourse Paul Hensey Irish National Hunt Horse-racing Doping Paddy Walsh Tom Kelly Suspension

THE CHELTENHAM SHOWDOWN

Date: March 10, 2022 - Sport of Kings

AFTER LAST year’s total domination by Irish trainers at Cheltenham, when they claimed 23 of the 28 races, the question this year is which Irish trainer will end up in the No 1 spot at the four-day festival? Not surprisingly, the answer is surely either Willie Mullins or Gordon Elliott, as the pair will field… Read more »

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JP McManus

McMANUS DERBY DREAM

Date: March 10, 2022 - Sport of Kings

WHEN A horse called Martinstown is registered with Horse Racing Ireland it should come as no surprise that there is a JP McManus connection. It turns out that the name was applied recently to a three-year-old colt by the late Galileo belonging to Sue-Ann Foley – daughter of JP and Noreen. The colt was also… Read more »

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Kia Joorabchian

JOSEPH O’BRIEN’S NEW GOAL

Date: March 10, 2022 - Sport of Kings

JOSEPH O’BRIEN can already list an international football star as one of his owners and recently he welcomed controversial UK-based football moneybags Kia Joorabchian into the fold at Carriganog Racing. Iranian-born Joorabchian has accumulated a fortune managing the economic rights of international soccer players, a practice that has attracted plenty of attention over the years…. Read more »

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Kevin Nowlan

HIBERNIA REIT’S DEAL GIVES NOWLAN BREATHING SPACE

Date: March 10, 2022 - Moneybags

JUST BEFORE Christmas, Hibernia REIT chief executive Kevin Nowlan announced a truly impressive deal, with the pre-let sign-up of KPMG for a 20-year deal on 288,500 sq ft of office space in Hibernia’s redevelopment on Harcourt Square, D2. There is a possible profit in store of about €230m, which is very good news for investors…. Read more »

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Henry Beeby

GOING IS GOOD AGAIN BUT GOFFS STILL HANDICAPPED

Date: March 10, 2022 - Moneybags

THE IRISH horseracing bloodstock sector is a huge earner and one of the players joining the gallop is Goffs auction house. The company, however, continues to struggle to deal with the level of competition from UK rivals Tattersalls despite having a number of inherent advantages. The decision by Goffs CEO Henry Beeby and chairman Eimear… Read more »

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Wissam Al Mana

WISSAM’S IRISH PROFITS

Date: March 10, 2022 - Briefcases

WITH BROADCASTER Miriam O’Callaghan extracting a grovelling apology out of Facebook Ireland over “malicious” ads posted on the social media platform, Goldhawk wonders if Qatari moneybags and art collector Wissam Al Mana will be next to score a hit against Mark Zuckerberg et al. The head of the Al Mana luxury brands conglomerate has also… Read more »

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Colm Wu

COLM WU’S BUSY SCHEDULE

Date: March 10, 2022 - Briefcases

BUSY PROPERTY owner Guoquing Wu (known here as Colm Wu) has started off this year as he ended the last, with a lot on his plate. Wu recently put two prime city centre properties on the market – 67 Lower Leeson Street and 37 Dame Street, both in D2 – with a combined asking price… Read more »

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Skeffington Arms Hotel

JOHN CALLANAN SAVES THE SKEFF

Date: March 10, 2022 - Briefcases

GOLDHAWK WAS relieved to hear of some good news, finally, for John Callanan of Callanan Hotels – owner of the Skeffington Arms Hotel, Co Galway, the venue known locally as the Skeff. Callanan had been trying to get planning permission to knock the nightclub portion of the hotel and build 44 extra hotel rooms in… Read more »

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Myles Kirby

WILLIAM GOUGH’S WOES

Date: March 10, 2022 - Briefcases

INTERESTING TO see one that William Gough, with an address in Glynstown, Glanmire, Co Cork, has been adjudged a bankrupt. His name may ring a bell with fans of Goldhawk, given his bruising encounter with liquidator Myles Kirby that almost resulted in a stint in the slammer for the hapless developer. Gough featured in these… Read more »

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VOL 40 NO 05

Date: March 10, 2022 -

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Simon Coveney

IRELAND JOINS BIG BOYS IN WAR GAMES

Date: February 24, 2022 - Affairs of the Nation

IT IS both apt and ironic that the Defence Forces should emulate warmonger Winston Churchill’s dictum, ‘Never let a good crisis go to waste’. The top brass and sympathetic ministers, led by Simon ‘Covetous Coveney’, utilised the Ukrainian crisis to great effect in recent weeks in support of their desire for serious weapons of war… Read more »

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