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EOGHAN HARRIS’S LONG WAR
Date: November 15, 2023 -
IRISH TIMES correspondent Ronan McGreevy celebrated the “bravura performance” of Eoghan Harris when the latter concluded last week’s conference on southern Protestants in Dublin’s Buswell’s Hotel. Eoghan Harris complained of Protestant failure to recognise their dire predicament. The former senator and Sunday Independent columnist urged the Prods present to inhabit his historical imagination. It was… Read more »
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PIPPA O’CONNOR’S PLUG
Date: November 15, 2023 -
PIPPA O’CONNOR is expanding her empire with a new range of cosmetics and she must have been delighted with the drooling profile in the Sunday Times at the weekend that announced her latest move, Poco Beauty. Her former business partner will no doubt have read the 1,800-word plug. Readers were informed that Pippa was “radiantly… Read more »
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JACQUELINE HALL’S CULTURAL CREDENTIALS
Date: November 15, 2023 -
SO IT’S welcome to the Irish Georgian Society (IGS) for Jacqueline Hall, public relations hot shot and daughter of former Fine Gael matriarch Nuala Fennell (who was herself a significant shareholder in the PR company now controlled by Jacqueline). Well known in Blueshirt circles, Hall also appears to be an aspiring culture vulture. The holding… Read more »
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SISTERS CASHING IN
Date: November 15, 2023 -
AS USUAL, it was rather late in the day (and following a couple of queries by Goldhawk) when Désirée Finnegan’s Screen Ireland (SI) eventually got around to publishing its funding decisions made for the second quarter of this year. The total funding for the three months topped €14m and plenty of familiar female faces feature…. Read more »
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BONOBO BOYS’ APPEALING BEHAVIOUR
Date: November 15, 2023 -
A LARGE apartment scheme proposed for Smithfield by Durkan Residential has been shot down by An Bord Pleanála (ABP), overturning the decision of Dublin City Council (DCC). Among the appellants were the owners of Bonobo, the uber-trendy Smithfield bar, Shane Clifford, Hugh O’Farrell and Declan Murphy, the latter of whom is best known as the… Read more »
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COOLMORE’S CASH MACHINE
Date: November 15, 2023 -
AT THIS time of year, all the stallion farms announce their covering fees for the upcoming breeding season, which begins in February, and it is easy to see why developing stallions, while an extremely risky and expensive endeavour, is still the best way to make the really big money, as can be seen with Coolmore’s… Read more »
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ANNUAL 2023
Date: November 15, 2023 -
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NEALE RICHMOND’S FORUM
Date: November 15, 2023 -
WHILE THERE wouldn’t be oodles of interest in a worthy sounding body such as the Enterprise Digital Advisory Forum (EDAF), the imminent appointment of a new squad of techie types by junior minister Neale Richmond does have some popcorn value. In May last year then junior minister for enterprise, trade and employment Robert Troy (who… Read more »
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MARTIN MOVES EARLY
Date: November 15, 2023 -
CONGRATULATIONS ARE in order for arts and culture minister Catherine Martin, who recently advertised for would-be board members for the National Gallery of Ireland (NGI) before the terms of the current directors expire. This is certainly not her usual style. She may also have provided a clue about the next chair. As fans of The… Read more »
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NAZI REGALIA
Date: November 15, 2023 -
SHOCKED AND perplexed observers of National Party leader Justin Barrett turning up to an anti-immigrant protest last week dressed in an SS overcoat may be interested to learn the reasons for his apparel. In October Barrett appeared on a live X ‘spaces’ discussion, where the ongoing saga of the conflict within his party was raked… Read more »
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THE COUNTER-RESTORATION
Date: November 15, 2023 -
DESPITE THE very best efforts of the European agri-industrial lobby and its allies on the political right, the EU’s Nature Restoration Law (NRL) remains on track to come into legal effect after intensive negotiations involving the EU Parliament, Commission and Council of Ministers. While heavily watered down versus its science-based original targets, the NRL still… Read more »
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FACIAL ‘APARTHEID’?
Date: November 15, 2023 -
In June justice minister Helen McEntee backed off a confrontation with her Green Party colleagues in Government when she agreed to remove aspects related to facial recognition technology (FRT) from the Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Bill 2022. What she was effectively doing, though, was kicking the proverbial can down the road. The whole area of… Read more »
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THE HOT WATER BRIGADE
Date: November 15, 2023 -
Maybe it’s something to do with the turn of the millennium, or the Great Crash, but at some powerful level, it is simply wrong to state that it is 50 years since 1973. Declan Lynch, Sunday Independent Life Magazine By demanding Israel’s diplomatic ostracisation from Ireland, [Martin] McGuinness’s Sinn Féin heirs have abandoned the former… Read more »
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CORMAC LUCEY’S HOT AIR
Date: November 15, 2023 -
Climate denial comes in all guises but Goldhawk was surprised to see it appear on the website of the august Chartered Accountants Ireland. There, accountant, TCD lecturer and Sunday Times columnist Cormac Lucey dismissed the “public hysteria” etc around the climate emergency. To support his, ahem, arguments, he cited notorious climate sceptic and game theory… Read more »
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BOOKS EDITOR’S ‘CLASSIC’ BOOK
Date: November 15, 2023 -
A NEW literary genius would appear to have been discovered and is working away, almost unknown and unrecognised, in the Irish media, judging by an especially favourable review in the Irish Times last month of Dirty Linen: the Troubles in My Home Place. Headlined “An important, humane book that will prove to be a classic”,… Read more »
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REVIEWING PAUL MURRAY
Date: November 15, 2023 -
ON NOVEMBER 26 assorted scribblers will find out if they have landed the literary sales steroid that is the Booker Prize. Two Irish novelists are in the mix – Paul Murray (The Bee Sting) and Paul Lynch (Prophet Song). While the latter is listed as 5/2 favourite, Murray’s effort has attracted a few bob to… Read more »
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BRIPPA’S PROPERTY
Date: November 15, 2023 -
ELSEWHERE (see p16) Goldhawk takes a look at the latest business move by Pippa O’Connor, who launched her Poco Beauty range this month. This seems to be completely separate from the rest of the business group controlled by O’Connor and hubby Brian Ormond. The couple have incorporated a new company, Ronnocob Ltd, for the move… Read more »
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DAVID BARNIVILLE’S LIST
Date: November 15, 2023 -
WITH THE deadline having now passed for applications for the €230,000-a-year job as chair of An Bord Pleanála (ABP), minister Darragh O’Brien will be anxious to get a permanent player installed. Certainly, the incoming head honcho – who will replace current interim chair, legal eagle Peter Mullan – will have plenty on his or her… Read more »
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EXPENSIVE TRIP FOR HARRINGTON
Date: November 15, 2023 -
THERE WAS plenty of Irish interest at the Breeders’ Cup in Santa Anita, California, and while most of it centred around Aidan O’Brien and the impressive win of Auguste Rodin in the $4m Breeders’ Cup Turf race, there was also plenty of chat about a few horses that didn’t even make it to the starting… Read more »
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STREWTH!
Date: November 15, 2023 -
THERE WERE some long faces in the parade ring from team Mullins after Vauban trailed home in 14th place in the Melbourne Cup under Ryan Moore. Confidence was high before the race that the horse would give Willie Mullins a first victory in the €5m race and everything seemed to go to plan in the… Read more »
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COLIN KEANE’S EDGE
Date: November 15, 2023 -
THERE WEREN’T too many surprises among the names at the top of the tables in the leading flat categories as the season wound to a close in November. Colin Keane added a fifth champion jockey title to his CV and, given he has yet to turn 30, he could yet match or exceed Mick Kinane’s… Read more »
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ANNUAL 2023: GOVERNMENT – VARADKAR TO CALL EARLY ELECTION?
Date: November 15, 2023 -
THE POLITICAL debate right now – public and private – is not simply who will win the next general election but when it will be called and will that make a difference. Two scenarios exist, with the first of these frightening the life out of Fianna Fáil TDs as suspicion grew over the past year… Read more »
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ANNUAL 2023: GOLDHAWK’S AWARDS FOR THE PASSING PARADE 2023
Date: November 15, 2023 -
DEE FORBES THERE WAS only ever one real contender for the 2023 Where’s Wally TV Drama Award. The biggest hit show this summer was without doubt Montrose, which was streamed daily to a gobsmacked public (formerly known as licence fee payers) starring ‘top talent’ Ryan Tubridy and a host of RTÉ extras. The nation became… Read more »
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ANNUAL 2023: OPPOSITION – SINN FÉIN: LEFT OR RIGHT?
Date: November 15, 2023 -
Can the forward march of Sinn Féin be halted? Will the party be left like Peri at the gates of paradise gazing on the promised land but unable to get past the door? Or will it put together a coalition for change that will make… Read more »
ANNUAL 2023: INDEPENDENTS/TROTS – NON-REPUBLICAN LEFT SQUEEZED
Date: November 15, 2023 -
READING HEADLINE coverage of political opinion polls, things could hardly be better for opposition parties and for the left in general. The conventional parties (Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael) are in retreat and the combined parties of the left have around 50% support. In the past, that’s been enough to assemble an overall majority. What… Read more »
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ANNUAL 2023: NORTHERN IRELAND – NORTH’S COMA
Date: November 15, 2023 -
The British government’s best effort at making political progress in the north was the Windsor Framework, which was agreed with the EU on February 27. In the words of the DUP’s Ian Paisley MP, it “did not cut the mustard”. The DUP has refused to join an executive at Stormont since collapsing it last year…. Read more »
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ANNUAL 2023: PROFILE – MICHAEL D HIGGINS
Date: November 15, 2023 -
In recent years supporters of the state of Israel in the US, UK, Germany and France have attempted to conflate criticism of its ruling ideology, Zionism, with anti-Semitism. They use anti-racism to justify a racist message. After Hamas launched its October 7 attack, Israel supporters… Read more »
ANNUAL 2023: PRINT MEDIA NOT YET ON THE ROCKS
Date: November 15, 2023 -
IRELAND’S PRINT media resembles the Titanic. With print revenues falling and digital income insufficient to make up the difference, disaster seems pre-programmed. But, while the Titanic’s collision with an iceberg came as a terrible surprise, the slow strangulation of the Irish newspaper and magazine industry has been under way for a long time. Every year,… Read more »
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ANNUAL 2023 – AIRWAVES – 2023: RTÉ’S END GAME?
Date: November 15, 2023 -
AFTER YEARS of dire warnings about incompetent management, waste and dubious work practices, the scandal surrounding secret payments to Ryan Tubridy finally laid bare the whole decaying edifice and the end of RTÉ, as we know it, is coming fast. In March Tubridy made the… Read more »
ANNUAL 2023: CLERICAL ERRORS – McALEESE FIGHTS ON
Date: November 15, 2023 -
THE MONTH-LONG Synod on Synodality convened in Rome by Pope Francis to update world Catholicism ended in anti-climax on Sunday October 29. This means that unresolved issues – such as same-sex unions and the ordination of the 600 million women who constitute half of Church membership – have been deferred until next autumn, when the… Read more »
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ANNUAL 2023: WIGS ON THE GREEN
Date: November 15, 2023 -
THE THEME of the legal system this year was very much a religious one so the end of year round-up fits very nicely. For example, a monk was in court – and then he wasn’t. The legal system is really all about hierarchies, temporal or spiritual — someone is at the bottom and someone is… Read more »
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ANNUAL 2023: ACADEMIA – ACADEMIC ‘ARSE COVERING’
Date: November 15, 2023 -
It hasn’t been a great year for the university sector. The glitz began to come off the new technological universities (TUs), while a couple of the longer-established unis ran into heavy weather over governance issues. They also earned a rebuke from education minister Norma Foley over their generosity in issuing honours degrees. They had criticised… Read more »
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ANNUAL 2023: FOREIGN FROLICS – IRISH FOREIGN POLICY REVERTS
Date: November 15, 2023 -
Foreign affairs have been dominated for most of the year, as they were last year, by the ongoing war in Ukraine. Now, however, the horrors of that war have been added to by the savage Israeli assault on Gaza, supposedly in retaliation for an astonishing assault by Hamas militants within Israel itself. The Israeli assault… Read more »
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ANNUAL 2023: BEHIND THE SCENES – BONO, BANSHEES AND BRENDAN BEHAN
Date: November 15, 2023 -
ONCE AGAIN, Bono, Larry Mullen Jr, Adam Clayton and The Edge were the subjemuch of the entertainment media’s focus in 2023, notably thanks to their effectively hyped Las Vegas stint, which has seen the boys in receipt of an award greater than any prize – oodles of cash. The band did have some competition for… Read more »
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ANNUAL 2023: HIGH SOCIETY – 2023: MONEY AND INFLUENCE
Date: November 15, 2023 -
AS ALWAYS, the year features an awful lot of people spending an awful lot of money and, in many cases, a large chunk ended up in the coffers of the legal eagles as parties fell out for assorted reasons. When they weren’t slugging it out… Read more »
ANNUAL 2023: MONEYBAGS – WHO WILL OVERCOME THE INTEREST RATE AND GEOPOLITICAL CHALLENGES IN 2024?
Date: November 15, 2023 -
AFTER A decade of unprecedented low interest rates, the market is not finding it easy to cope with the very hefty 5% increase in ECB base rates, from a minus 0.5% to the current positive 4.5%. Combined with inflated energy prices, which have not returned to pre-Ukraine war levels, and the disruption to supply lines,… Read more »
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