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Fans of Goldhawk will remember that during her term as DG, Dee Forbes often demanded for more taxpayers’ money with repeated requests for an increase in the annual €160 tv licence fee
FREE TO READ:
#RTEgate
#tvlicence
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Goldhawk has put a free RTÉ Guide in our brand new issue of The Phoenix and one for everyone in the audience - available in shops and online now!!
#RTE
#Tubridy
#DeeForbes
#NoelKelly
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CLARE DALY’S ENEMIES
IF Clare Daly manages to claim victory in the EU Dublin election it will be a remarkable feat given the serried rows of opponents on the right, the centre right and even the far left that have combined against this implacable enemy of militarism in Ireland,
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HELEN McENTEE PROJECT UNDONE
"....the absence of any real statement other than ‘all’s well with the capital city’ – a laughable response to the situation..."
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This has aged well - from an article that Goldhawk published in September 2022:
In an interview last month, RTÉ director general Dee Forbes said: “We are living month to month trying to manage the finances.”
FREE TO READ:
#DeeForbes
#Tubridy
#RTE
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MI5’S SERIAL KILLER
THE PHOENIX reported last May that the BBC was refusing to broadcast The Lost Boys, which has become the documentary du jour, because it linked the disappearance of five boys in Belfast to a paedophile ring employed by MI5
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CONGRATULATIONS TO 30-something former Arthur Cox associate-turned-dog-groomer, Nick Delehanty, who is running as an Independent in Dublin South East Inner City. His poster should see him safely over the line.
#LocalElections
#Independents
#Dublin
#NickDelehanty
#Goldhawk
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Our brand new issue is out tomorrow!!!
Available in shops & online - Goldhawk has all the inside stories for you 😉
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OUR BRAND NEW ISSUE IS OUT TODAY!!!
We've got all the inside stories for you...
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BONO’S WINDFALL
Fans of Goldhawk will be aware that a recent move by the singer saw him benefit from a financial deal funded by a bank entwined with the Israelis.
Free to read:
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More in the brand new issue of The Phoenix out tomorrow!!
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Wonder how many more RTÉ exit packages will be revealed 😉
Keep up with all the latest RTÉ drama in The Phoenix!
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Congrats to Trinity students for highlighting their college’s profiteering at the expense of Palestinians in Israeli occupied territories. Congrats also to singer Mary Coughlan for pointing to The Phoenix article that reported last December on Bono’s windfall from one such
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More in our latest issue available in shops & online today!!
#OireachtasTV
#Oireachtas
#RTEgate
#RyanTubridy
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The garda has moved with great energy and much publicity to try and establish who really killed Baby John from Cahirciveen 40 years ago, a killing that the garda pinned on Joanna Hayes at the time, supported by a ludicrous theory called fecundation. But along with the killing of
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Our brand new issue is out tomorrow!!!
Available in shops & online!
Goldhawk has all the inside stories...
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SINCE IT’S now out in the open that Ireland’s Defence Forces personnel are providing weapons training to the Ukrainian army and that our National Cyber Security Centre is working with the Ukrainian government, it should come as no surprise that Shannon Airport and Casement
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More in the brand new issue of The Phoenix out today!!
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THE IMPROPER sacking of Aodhagán Ó Súird as principal of Wexford primary school Gaelscoil Moshíológ has generated plenty of headlines given the 11 years it took for the matter to be finalised in the Four Courts earlier this month.
Goldhawk, however, feels that the starring role
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Do you think Helen McEntee and Drew Harris should resign 🤔
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Is deploying armed Gardaí in Dublin city centre a good idea 🤔
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One from our brand new issue of The Phoenix out later this week...
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THE €11m sale of land to the state by Devenish, whose CEO, tony McEntee, is the uncle and ex-director of elections of justice minister, Helen McEntee, is the basis of a story in the Irish Independent today. Below is the original story about the links between Devenish and the
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Tune in tonight as Dermot Bannon faces his toughest challenge yet!
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DIPLOMATIC IMPUNITY
THE DENIAL of atrocities by Israeli ambassador, Dana Erlich, in yesterday’s Irish Times is amoral and indefensible, but it is at least logical. Erlich’s childlike debating method of denying the obvious — genocide, that is — and metaphorically stamping her
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RTE heads will be envious of the manner in which the BBC has dealt with a crisis involving its highest paid northern broadcaster, Stephen Nolan (£400,000 circa or €467,000 pa). Nolan was reported in yesterday’s Irish News as having sent “sexually explicit images” of a later
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One of the most significant factors in the DPP’s rejection of the garda attempt to prosecute Ian Bailey for the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier was its description of the role of the media. Specifically, the DPP accused the gardai of manipulation of the media as part of their
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RTÉ reveals an all-star line-up for the new season!
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The impressive showing so far by jockey-turned-TV-celebrity
@ninacarberry
suggests the decision by
@FineGael
to keep her off the national airwaves as much as possible while promoting the Midlands-North-West candidate through online promotion has paid off. The blueshirts spent
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ONE OF the most prolific TDs with an impressive array of interventions on everything from health to homelessness, immigration and, of course, abortion is the Meath West deputy Peadar Tóibín, leader of Aontú, which is one of the smallest political parties in the state and
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Hidden €654,000 spend from barter account at RTÉ that went unreported.
What next?
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PROFILE: IAN BAILEY
Never was that perennial Faustian pact between journalists and Garda media manipulators manifest so blatantly and so effectively. And it was all in the quest to convict a suspect against whom there was, as a matter of legal fact, no evidence of having
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How could the handlers of
@MichealMartinTD
allow him to pose in a 'Top Gun' photo opp with tooled-up snipers and tell us that sending ammo to Ukraine does not affect neutrality? Is it Irish people or the EU Commission's HR dept that he is trying to impress?
#ukraine
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The billionaire brothers behind
@stripe
, John and Patrick Collison, are among the backers of a secretive project to build a new city 100 miles from San Francisco. Described as a cohort of "Silicon Valley elites", the investors quietly accumulated 55,000 acres of mostly
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Government approves interim funding of €56m for RTÉ
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KITSON’S DIRTY WAR
THE RECENT demise of General Sir Frank Kitson (see The Phoenix 12/1/24) was a blessing in disguise for the darker elements of the British establishment: Kitson cannot now let slip anything he knows about the roots of the ‘dirty war’ in Ireland.
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THE BRAND NEW ISSUE OF THE PHOENIX IS OUT TODAY!!
Available in shops & online 📰 👓
Goldhawk has all the inside stories!
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IRISH MEPs Clare Daly and Mick Wallace have become unpopular with the ‘responsible’, mainstream media for their defence of Irish neutrality and foreign policy views on Ukraine and elsewhere that do not chime with the pro-Western and Nato line pushed by such as the Irish Times.
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Criminal that guards can't have tattoos these days...
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Big day for Kevin Bakhurst...
More great cartoons in our brand new issue out this Thursday!
#RTE
#OireachtasTV
#RyanTubridy
#NoelKelly
#RTEgate
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IRISH ‘NON-LETHAL’ NEUTRALITY
SOONER OR later ministers were going to trip themselves up with contradictory and meaningless rhetoric about Irish neutrality being compatible with offering political, financial and military support alongside Nato and the EU in Ukraine.
Free to
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More excellent cartoons in our brand new issue out today!!
Available in shops & online 👓
#enochburke
#BackToSchool
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HELEN’S LEADERSHIP CAMPAIGN REVIVAL
The common and more damaging perception of Helen McEntee than the argument about maternity leave in her party is that she was promoted beyond her ability by Leo Varadkar, that she is scripted and packaged by handlers, and that she is capable
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THE MCGURK’S Bar bomb massacre in Belfast in 1971 claimed 15 lives. In 2011 the Police Ombudsman NI reported that it had no evidence relating to the three vehicles driven by the killers. It emerged a few weeks ago that it had a fingerprint ledger with two prints from one of the
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BLOODY SUNDAY: KITSON AND WILFORD
COL DEREK WILFORD, the commander of 1 Para in Northern Ireland in 1972, died last November. His former superior, Brigadier (later, General) Sir Frank Kitson, passed away earlier this month. Both men brought secrets about Bloody Sunday with them
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PACIFISTS SILENCED AT MARTIN’S FORUMS
Indications of the militarist tenor of Tánaiste and foreign affairs minister
@MichealMartinTD
Forum on International Security were noted in The Phoenix...
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McENTEE: MISSION IMPOSSIBLE ENDS
UNLESS SOME additional, damaging information emerges in the next week or so, justice minister Helen McEntee will survive the current crisis. However, the real damage is not that inflicted on the minister in her role as guardian of the nation and
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As cuts loom at THE IRISH TIMES – there is indignation amongst staff in learning of not 1 but 2 sweetheart Golden deals given to recent Editor Paul O’Neill and MD Paul Mulvaney. Read all about it here -
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Should Breda O’Keeffe repay her exit package? 💰💰💰
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LUCINDA CREIGHTON'S ISRAELI CONNECTIONS
While the Irish government refused to enact a boycott and divestment policy against illegal Israeli settlers (coalition leaders refused to include the occupied territories bill in its programme for government in 2020 despite it having
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THE BRAND NEW ISSUE OF THE PHOENIX IS OUT NOW!!
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Our brand new issue is out tomorrow!!
Pick up a copy in your local shop or subscribe to have Goldhawk's latest revelations delivered straight to your door
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BRENDAN HOWLIN is one of five Labour TDs to lead the party in the last nine years and along with Joan Burton and Eamon Gilmore is now the third to exit from the Dáil — before he faced compulsory redundancy at the next election. The widespread negative read of Howlin’s prospects
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RESEARCHERS INTO the squalid Kincora scandal – authors Andrew Lownie and David Burke – have asked gardaí to release the logs made by the unit assigned to protect Lord Mountbatten while he was in Ireland in 1977.
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There is one issue that everyone, including SF, has failed to point out and that is the possibility, perhaps remote, that Sinn Féin may not need the support of any party to form a government...
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ISRAEL’S MEDIA CHAMPIONS
THE SUNDAY INDEPENDENT’S new columnist, David Quinn, has been regurgitating all the disingenuous clichés about Israel’s critics being anti-Semitic, Hamas using people as human shields and denials that Israel deliberately slaughters civilians.
Free to
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From the latest issue of The Phoenix. Pick up your copy when Goldhawk hits the shelves today.
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PHOENIX MAGAZINE EXCLUSIVE: SAM BUNGEY ON IAN BAILEY AND THE MEDIA
Sam Bungey (along with Jennifer Forde) created the 2018 13-episode ‘West Cork’ podcast on the Sophie Toscan du Plantier murder, which is Audible’s most listened to podcast ever.
'As Ian Bailey demonstrated last
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The brand new issue of The Phoenix is out now!!
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Our brand new issue is out tomorrow!!
Available in shops & online 👓
Goldhawk has all the inside stories!
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More in the latest issue of The Phoenix out now!
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40 years ago this week Eamonn Coghlan returned from Helsinki triumphant 🥇 the same year that Goldhawk was born!
Download our special 40th Anniversary issue of The Phoenix here:
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Our brand new issue is out tomorrow!!!
Available in shops & online!
Goldhawk has all the inside stories 😉
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Brand new issue of The Phoenix out today!!
Available in shops & online 📰 👓
Goldhawk has all the inside stories 😉
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LAST WEEK the Church of Ireland (CoI) and the Scouts Association forked out £100,000 in damages to Eddie Gorman, who was abused by Rev WG (Bill) Neely in Mount Merrion Church, Belfast. Neely also abused children as a scout leader. The scouts expelled Neely in 1976 but the CoI did
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With
@circlekireland
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No doubt
@BBCSport
got better value out of
@PatricKielty
when he lined out for its All-Ireland coverage than the execs
@rte
, who have had to hire in an additional (expensive) director for Kielty's
@RTELateLateShow
Free to read
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If you're looking for ways to spend your extra Bank of Ireland ATM cash we've got some excellent subscription offers 😉
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No doubt
@paddycosgrave
noted
@MichealMartinTD
speaking out against the firing of
@Wix
worker Courtney Carey, saying it was “unacceptable … employees should be allowed their individual viewpoints”. Unlike Paddy, Courtney has refused to apologise for upsetting some colleagues (in
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DUNNE- HAUGHEY: THE REAL STORY
Last Sunday Irish Times finance guru, Cliff Taylor, posted a story about how — and by who — the story about Charlie Haughey’s £1.1m bung from Ben Dunne was researched and published back in 1996.
Taylor wrote: “First, in November 1996, the Irish
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Why has no media or politician raised the attendance at the dinner of Cait Hayes, given her title and duties as Head of Protocol at the Houses of the Oireachtas?
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One for Conor McGregor from the brand new issue of The Phoenix out tomorrow!!
#Wonka
#WonkaMovie
#ConorMcGregor
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Happily the role of Ian Kehoe, editor
@thecurrency
, as deputy chair of RTE has not stopped RTE inviting The Currency CEO
@TomLyonsBiz
on air yet again today to discuss the Tubridy row. Good job Claire Byrne didn't get around to asking him for an assessment of the dysfunctional
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