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Simon Byrne

SIMON BYRNE AND MI5’S ECONOMIC WAR

Date: October 21, 2021 - Hush Hush

WHEN SIMON BYRNE was appointed head of the PSNI in July 2019 he showed what might be called a lack of empathy for the Peace Process culture in the north. Not a wet week in the job, when referring to republican and loyalist paramilitaries he said, “My message to them is if you carry on… Read more »

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Larissa Nolan

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: October 21, 2021 - The Hot Air Brigade

Bob Geldof is one of the coolest people ever – a fearless force of nature who makes me proud to be Irish. Larissa Nolan, Irish Independent The return of The Den to our screens was a huge success on RTÉ One. However, there are no plans for a new season at this time. Press release… Read more »

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David Frost

NORTH ELECTION NEXT MONTH?

Date: October 21, 2021 - Northwind

STORMONT IS in a state of limbo. The executive and the assembly go through the motions, but the critical political action takes place elsewhere: between the UK government and the EU; between the DUP and the UK government. Divided Stormont cannot participate. The outcome of that action will determine whether it can escape its current… Read more »

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Anthony Coughlan

ANTHONY COUGHLAN’S LATEST BROADSIDE

Date: October 21, 2021 - Last Refuge

THE EU’S most formidable Irish opponent for half a century is Tony Coughlan, associate professor emeritus at TCD and long-time political campaigner. Five years ago he launched a savage attack on SF, normally an ally in successive referendums on the EU, for capitulating to the EU over Brexit and, more recently, he did the same…. Read more »

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Cathal Crowe

FF: PARTITION ROWS, SEAT BATTLES AND WHAT TO DO WITH MICHEÁL

Date: October 21, 2021 - Last Refuge

THAT LIST of Fianna Fáil TDs noted in the Sunday Times as being opposed to the government sending ministers to mark the centenary of partition includes some who are more concerned with politics south rather than north of the border. But there are two separate motivations at play here. Willie O’Dea is the strongest FF… Read more »

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Jon Williams

RTÉ’S CHANGEABLE CLIMATE

Date: October 21, 2021 - Fit to Print?

RTÉ’S HEAD of news, Jon Williams, made some “important announcements” to staff recently as he completed a headlong retreat from the station’s previous position of ‘balance’ in its overage of climate change and whether it is even a reality. Science correspondent George Lee will henceforth be known as environment correspondent in a full-time role reporting… Read more »

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BARRY WALSH’S REVIEW

Date: October 21, 2021 - Fit to Print?

THE SOMEWHAT severe Sunday Times’ review of Conor Lenihan’s biography of late taoiseach and FF leader Albert Reynolds, entitled Albert Reynolds: Risktaker for Peace, was penned by one Barry Walsh. Walsh derided both the book’s billing as the first complete biography of Reynolds and also the title’s suggestion that it is a study of his role in the peace… Read more »

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Michael D Higgins

BAD BOY HIGGINS

Date: October 21, 2021 - Fit to Print?

GOOD TO see that more mature voices felt moved last weekend to correct the populist posturing over the commemoration of partition and the creation of Northern Ireland a full month after President Higgins declined to attend it. The country’s bestselling newspaper, the Sunday Independent and what may still be the most influential print title, the Irish Times, wheeled… Read more »

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Jennifer O'Connell

MEDIA COPS OUT

Date: October 21, 2021 - Fowl Emissions

WITH THE crunch COP 26 global climate conference in Glasgow kicking off at the end of the month, various media organisations have been burnishing their climate credentials ahead of time. As previously reported by Goldhawk, RTÉ has committed to drastically up its game on climate reporting, and both it and the Irish Times undertook the… Read more »

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FARMING SUPPLEMENTS

Date: October 21, 2021 - Fowl Emissions

WHO WOULD have guessed the Irish Farmers Association would be lobbying for more carbon taxes on road transport and aviation? The lobby group took out an expensive half-page ad in the Sindo recently with a series of graphics insinuating that the real culprits for soaring carbon emissions are transport and aviation. However, the IFA modestly… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: October 21, 2021 - Bog Cuttings

ROLLER RAIL HIDDEN IN TROUSER LEG A man who aggressively swore at gardaí, after being confronted when observed walking out in front of traffic in a drunken state, was handed a three-month prison sentence at Portlaoise District Court. Sgt JJ Kirby told the court that he observed Gavin Swayne (20), of 63 Hillview Drive, Knockmay,… Read more »

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Sally Rooney

LIR’S ROONEY BOUNCE

Date: October 21, 2021 - Behind the Scenes

WHILE NOVELIST Sally Rooney has been generating headlines over her stance on Israel, her influence is also being felt in Trinity College Dublin, where applications to study at its Lir drama academy have rocketed over the past year. Given the impact of the pandemic on Lir’s finances, founder Danielle Ryan will be grateful that the… Read more »

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SUSAN BERGIN’S STRATEGY

Date: October 21, 2021 - Behind the Scenes

WHEN SCREEN Ireland (SI)chair Susan Bergin and chief executive Desiree Finnegan launched the agency’s strategy, ‘Building for a Creative Future 2024’ earlier this month, it was clear that arts minister Catherine Martin would deliver the funding requirement in Budget 2022. Where else was the dosh going to come from for new strategy initiatives in training… Read more »

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ARRACHT – DIRECTED BY TOM SULLIVAN

Date: October 21, 2021 - MoviesReviews

PERHAPS THE most telling aspect, for purely anglophone audiences of Tom Sullivan’s debut film Arracht, is the translation of the title as béarla – ‘Monster’. It’s a meaning that can shift the understanding of what the film is actually about, broadly famine-era Ireland, say, to something else – a story for which famine-era Ireland happens… Read more »

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Johnny Farrelly

FARRELLY’S LIFETIME BAN

Date: October 21, 2021 - Sport of Kings

DUBLIN NATIVE Johnny Farrelly’s training career in the UK has come to a shuddering halt after the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) served him with a permanent exclusion from the sport. In what is obviously a sensitive case, the BHA’s statement revealed very little detail of Farrelly’s alleged wrongdoing, save for the fact he was deemed… Read more »

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Joseph O'Brien

O’BRIEN’S RATING GAME

Date: October 21, 2021 - Sport of Kings

RACING FANS might imagine that Joseph O’Brien has a few more things to worry about than a 2lb differential in the rating of one of his lesser performing horses but perhaps that’s what has made him so successful. The trainer went to the trouble of appealing a decision by Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) handicapper… Read more »

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BALLYDOYLE RUES THE RULES

Date: October 21, 2021 - Sport of Kings

FOR SOMEBODY with a reputation for diplomacy, trainer Aidan O’Brien surprisingly used a recent Racing Post interview to get a few things off his chest. O’Brien took aim at the current interference rules and how the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board is managing the situation. Presently, it is accepted that a jockey can bend the rules… Read more »

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Bernard Caldwell

CALDWELL’S CLARION CALL

Date: October 21, 2021 - Sport of Kings

THE HEAD of the Irish Stable Staff Association, Bernard Caldwell, doesn’t pop his head over the parapet too often, but tends to make plenty of noise when he does. It could be argued, however, that he was trying to do the job of Irish Racehorse Trainers Association chief Michael Grassick rather than his own, when… Read more »

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Michael Stanley

CAIRN SHARE PRICE LEAVES ROOM FOR UPSIDE

Date: October 21, 2021 - Moneybags

FROM A standing start in 2015, when Cairn Homes delivered a mere 11 houses, the output figure hit 1,080 in 2019. This was not that much of a task, however, given that Cairn Homes CEO Mick Stanley and his Scottish mentor/partner, Alan McIntosh, had the benefit of a hefty €400m raised since 2015. Subsequently, there… Read more »

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Jonathan Laredo

YEW GROVE’S HIGH-RANKING TENANTS GUARANTEE DIVIDENDS

Date: October 21, 2021 - Moneybags

YEW GROVE REIT came late to the party, only floating off in June 2018 and raising a relatively modest €75m. Significantly, the company did not kick off with a huge internal managers’ bonus scheme but rather is managed straightforwardly by its three executive directors – Jonathan Laredo, Charlie Peach and Mick Gibbons – admittedly with… Read more »

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John O'Meara

JOHN O’MEARA’S PRESCRIPTION

Date: October 21, 2021 - Briefcases

THIS IS turning into an annus horribilis for the hapless pharmacy group owner John O’Meara. He is currently the subject of a fitness to practise inquiry by Joanne Kissane’s Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland (PSI), which is seeking a ban of up to 10 years, and now his business is headed into examinership. The PSI inquiry… Read more »

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Nerano House

PAURIC CALDWELL’S GIBRALTAR CONNECTIONS

Date: October 21, 2021 - Briefcases

ONE OF the most expensive houses to come on the market is recent times is the splendid Nerano House in Dalkey, which carries a price tag of an impressive €7.25m. What is far from clear, however, is who is selling the south Co Dublin pile, which is linked to assorted Gibraltar-based individuals. After the house… Read more »

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Paul Gallagher

MICHEÁL MARTIN’S DOUBLE-JOBBING AG

Date: October 7, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

IT WAS good to finally hear from the taoiseach Micheál Martin on the generous leeway afforded to his attorney general Paul Gallagher in the lucrative, double-jobbing latitude allowed to him. Up until very recently, statements on the matter were from government; from tánaiste Leo Varadkar; and even public expenditure minister Michael McGrath. And last Sunday… Read more »

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‘IRISH TIMES’ HACKS’ COMRADELY REVIEWS

Date: October 7, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

GOOD TO see the Irish Times literary corps dropping the modest posturing and indulging instead in honest-to-God literary praise of each other’s personal outpourings. Last weekend’s Irish Times magazine contained a long – very long – interview conducted by IT columnist Jennifer O’Connell with IT mag columnist Emer McLysaght along with Sarah Breen. The two… Read more »

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Jim Bolger

PROFILE: JIM BOLGER

Date: October 7, 2021 - Pillars of Society

BOLSHY TRAINER Jim Bolger has had a banner year on the racetrack in 2021, courtesy of his Classic winning homebred three-year-old colts Poetic Flare and McSwiney but, off the course, he has had a rougher ride after his whistleblowing efforts failed, so far at least, to unearth any specific wrongdoings in the sport. It is,… Read more »

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Claire Kerrane

YOUNG BLOOD: CLAIRE KERRANE

Date: October 7, 2021 - The Young Bloods

GIVEN THE growing importance of the youth vote in Irish politics, and the opinion poll figures showing Sinn Féin solidly at the top of young voters’ preferences, it is no surprise that the party’s youngest TD, 29-year-old Claire Kerrane, is being increasingly put forward by the party as an official spokesperson on current affairs programmes…. Read more »

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Ivana Bacik

AK47, THE LADY IVANA AND LEFT BATTLES

Date: October 7, 2021 - Last Refuge

IT WILL be interesting to see just how much prominence Labour leader Alan ‘AK47’ Kelly affords the party’s Dublin Bay South byelection victor Ivana Bacik at next month’s party conference. It’s not that Kelly feels personally threatened by The Lady Ivana (not in the short term, anyway) but her Dublin Bay South (DBS) byelection triumph… Read more »

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Simon Coveney

PARTITION ROW: COVENEY GOES AWOL

Date: October 7, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

THE ‘IRISH TIMES’ was chief among those who blamed both sides in the President Higgins partition row for not sorting it out long before it became such a controversial issue. But it appears that foreign minister Simon Coveney had much to do with the ill-preparedness of the official response as well as the confusion of… Read more »

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Tanya Airey

TANYA AIREY’S TRAVEL DISRUPTION

Date: October 7, 2021 - Brief CasesBriefcases

GOLDHAWK’S EYES were watering reading the news reports of travel agent Tanya Airey’s difficult 2020, with her revenues plummeting €23m thanks to the Covid-19 shutdown of the travel industry. Having recorded revenues of €33m in 2019, these collapsed to just on €10m last year, producing a pre-tax loss of more than €360,000 compared with a… Read more »

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Consuelo O’Connor

MARTIN’S MODUS OPERANDI

Date: October 7, 2021 - High Society

IT WAS interesting to see how developer extraordinaire Pat Crean registered the purchase of his Shrewsbury Road pile, Lissadell, on the property price register in May this year. As the Irish Times reported, simply using the Irish language option meant it took a little longer than normal for the €13.25m deal to surface publicly. The… Read more »

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Désirée Fiinegan

DESIREE FINNEGAN’S SCREEN CHALLENGE

Date: October 7, 2021 - Behind the Scenes

GIVEN THE release of the widely praised Rose Plays Julie, on the weekend of September 17 (see review p20), Goldhawk took a gander at how Irish films have been doing at cinemas since they reopened. The omens were not good. Rose Plays Julie – the best of the films by a country mile, only managed… Read more »

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Simon Coveney

WHAT IS OUR FOREIGN POLICY?

Date: October 7, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

AS ‘PHOENIX’ readers will know, Iveagh House mandarins have for years been determined to move away from the traditional Irish policy of neutrality. At first glance there does not seem to be much logic or pattern to the various initiatives that this has led to. However events in Mali in recent weeks might point a… Read more »

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Vol 39 No 20

Date: October 7, 2021 -

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BANK OF POPPIES

Date: October 7, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

INTERVIEWED BY the Sindo’s Samantha McCaughren recently, Bank of Ireland CEO Francesca McDonagh emphasised her Irish background with references to her Irish antecedents. It may have been a response to the Irish public’s antipathy to the banks but Francesca spoke of her childhood visits to Ireland for holliers and family occasions. She also outlined her… Read more »

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Caroline Costello

LEGAL SAGA NEAR AN END?

Date: October 7, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

A 15-YEAR-OLD legal conflict between Louth couple Bernard and Viola Bingham and their former solicitor Barry Sheehan began in 2006 and recently reached the Supreme Court. Sheehan, who had previously been found guilty of professional misconduct, was denied the right to raise certain jurisdictional issues over the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) by the High Court… Read more »

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WE’RE FRACKED

Date: October 7, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

WILL THE government, despite its Green component, capitulate in face of the relentless campaign by energy companies to import fracked gas? When John Mullins, former chair of the Port of Cork Company, argued a year ago for the development of LNG (liquified natural gas), he warned it would be “dangerous” to abandon Shannon LNG as… Read more »

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