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‘VANISHING TRIANGLE’ SIGHTED
Date: November 2, 2023 -
FANS OF Goldhawk will be familiar with Virgin Media TV’s (VMTV) ‘missing’ drama series, The Vanishing Triangle – a six-part effort from Ivan Kavanagh and Annmarie Naughton’s Park Films based on the story of several women, missing and presumed dead, in the Dublin hinterlands (see The Phoenix 8/9/23). It has finally turned up, albeit far… Read more »
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AMNESTY’S CAMPAIGN WOES
Date: November 2, 2023 -
GIVEN THE turmoil in the Middle East, it is not surprising that Amnesty International Ireland (AII) has been extra busy, for example through its central role in the Irish Anti-Apartheid Campaign for Palestine, which issued a statement this week calling for “an immediate ceasefire”. Another statement that may concern AII chairwoman Bríd Cannon and her… Read more »
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COLM WU’S TAXING MATTERS
Date: November 2, 2023 -
IT LOOKS like 2023 is ending with Goldhawk’s old friend, hospitality operator Colm ‘Bo Vision’ Wu, on the back foot, just as he ended 2022. Next week, no less than four of his many companies are facing winding-up proceedings in the High Court courtesy of the dreaded taxman, who has also just registered a judgment… Read more »
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IRELAND AND PALESTINE NOW
Date: October 19, 2023 -
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 »
PROFILE: MICHAEL MCGRATH
Date: October 19, 2023 -
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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YOUNG BLOOD: ELLA MAC LENNAN
Date: October 19, 2023 -
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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DRINKAWARE’S HANGOVER
Date: October 19, 2023 -
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’S ROMP
Date: October 19, 2023 -
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’S TACKLE TECHNIQUE
Date: October 19, 2023 -
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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McENTEES: MEATH PATRIOTS
Date: October 19, 2023 -
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’S EXOTIC FISH
Date: October 19, 2023 -
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’S GLASS HOUSE
Date: October 19, 2023 -
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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IMC EXPLORATION’S GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY
Date: October 19, 2023 -
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’S WRITS
Date: October 19, 2023 -
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 -
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 »
BUDGET BLUES
Date: October 18, 2023 -
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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RIC PARTY POOPERS
Date: October 18, 2023 -
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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‘WARRIOR CLASS OF OUR RACE’
Date: October 18, 2023 -
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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ARMS AND THE CORKMAN
Date: October 18, 2023 -
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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THE HOT AIR BRIGADE
Date: October 18, 2023 -
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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DAIRY STORIES
Date: October 18, 2023 -
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 -
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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DUP SPLIT: DONALDSON V DODDS
Date: October 18, 2023 -
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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LABOUR’S RUFFLED FEATHERS
Date: October 18, 2023 -
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 »
FF FEAR VLAD AMBUSH
Date: October 18, 2023 -
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 »
HOW ‘AL-QUDS FLOOD’ ALTERED THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PALESTINE AND ISRAEL FOREVER
Date: October 18, 2023 -
THE MASSACRE by Hamas of over 1,000 Israeli civilians a fortnight ago has been the justification for the current slaughter by Israel of at least 3,000 Palestinian civilians in Gaza in just over a week. Western media has concentrated mainly on the trauma of Israelis… Read more »
OFFALY ‘MURDER’ AND JUDGE’S ORDERS
Date: October 18, 2023 -
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 »
‘ISRAEL’S BLOODY SUNDAY’
Date: October 18, 2023 -
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 »
JOHN COONEY’S DEBATE
Date: October 18, 2023 -
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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McGRATH’S MOVIE PLOT
Date: October 18, 2023 -
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 -
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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ALAN AHERN’S TEST
Date: October 18, 2023 -
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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KARLOSS’S WIN
Date: October 18, 2023 -
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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UNIPHAR’S SHARE SLIDE DEMANDS NEW PRESCRIPTION
Date: October 18, 2023 -
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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NICHOLAS WICKHAM’S GOLDEN SHOT
Date: October 18, 2023 -
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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