Affairs of the Nation

Pat Hickey

Affairs of the Nation

WHO PUT PAT BACK IN HIS BOX?

IS there not something very questionable behind the extraordinary arrest, imprisonment and personal humiliation of the president of the European Olympic Council and board member of the small (12) International... Read more »
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Affairs of the Nation

Drury’s redemption

AS The Phoenix reported (see edition, 30/6/2016) former consultant, businessman and PR smoothie Fintan Drury underwent an apparent Pauline conversion from businessman to refugee advocate. Just some of the corporate... Read more »
Nina Byrnes & Derek Richardson

Affairs of the Nation

DEREK RICHARDSON’S MEDICAL PROBLEM

GOLDHAWK was not surprised this week to see publicity-shy millionaire Derek Richardson seeking to have injunction proceedings against him thrown out by the High Court. He has managed to build... Read more »

Affairs of the Nation

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Affairs of the Nation

PAT HICKEY’S LEGAL EAGLE

MEDIA news desks and their libel lawyers became embroiled in litigious debate last week with solicitor Barry MacCarthy, he who relayed to Pat Hickey that memorable soundbyte about putting Shane... Read more »
henry-fitzsimons

Affairs of the Nation

HENRY FITZSIMONS’S WUFF JUSTICE

LEGAL PROCEEDINGS have just been filed in the High Court by an interesting chap by the name of Henry Fitzsimons, who is suing RTÉ over radio broadcast last summer about... Read more »
erica-fleming

Affairs of the Nation

ERICA FLEMING BROUGHT TO HEEL

HOW satisfying to see homeless, single parent of two Erica Fleming brought to heel by public spirited elements, in conjunction with the Sunday Independent last weekend. And what a timely... Read more »
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Affairs of the Nation

WOLFE AT ZAPPER’S DOOR

SENIOR citizen activist and dogged barrack room lawyer John Wolfe has taken a constitutional case against the state over its generous, unvouched mileage allowances for TDs and senators travelling to... Read more »
frances-fitzgerald

Affairs of the Nation

JOE RYAN’S SECURITY SERVICE

THERE WAS no disguising former soldier Joe Ryan’s pitch for business in a column he penned in the Sindo earlier this month. The article appeared to be aimed at the... Read more »
dermot-bannon

Affairs of the Nation

‘Starchitect’

FANS of Goldhawk will have been well aware of TV architect Dermot Bannon’s legal battle that hit the headlines last week. However, while that case by one Mary Moore is... Read more »

Pillars of Society

SHANE ROSS

Pillars of Society

SHANE ROSS

SHANE ROSS has spent much of his political life, spanning four decades, fighting with Fine Gael either as a party member, an Independent senator,... Read more »

The Young Bloods

Lynn Ruane

The Young Bloods

Young Bloods: Lynn Ruane

INDEPENDENT senator Lynn Ruane (31) has had a whirlwind 18 months after becoming the Student Union president at Trinity College in 2015 and winning... Read more »

Fit to Print?

tony-leen

Fit to Print?

DE PAPER’S QUEST FOR A NEW EDITOR

ONE of the Irish Examiner’s in-house front runners to replace outgoing editor Tim Vaughan is deputy editor/sports editor Tony Leen. But there are complications here created by Leen’s less than... Read more »
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Fit to Print?

Indo rules OK

THE evisceration of sports minister Shane Ross by the Irish Independent in recent weeks is only the latest of several campaigns and political interventions by that newspaper in the last... Read more »
Stephen Rae

Fit to Print?

DAMNED STATISTICS AND THE ‘INDO’

THE Irish Independent devoted its entire page three last Friday to a boastful commentary on the latest ABC circulation figures, year on year (the period January-June 2016 compared to Jan-June... Read more »

Last Refuge

Leo Varadkar & Paschal Donohue

Last Refuge

DONOHOE DOESN’T WANT TO BE LEADER

WHAT a modest political figure Paschal Donohoe cuts. The public expenditure minister denies that he has any leadership ambitions but at the same time he has given interviews with a... Read more »
Sean Hughes

Last Refuge

TARGETING ‘THE SURGEON’

ONE of Sinn Féin’s key organisers, north and south, is South Armagh man Sean Hughes whose alleged exploits as an “IRA commander” in the past are occasionally aired in the... Read more »
michael-cahill

Last Refuge

FF v Healy-Raes

HOSTILITIES have been renewed between the Healy-Rae brothers, TDs Michael and Danny, with accusations of bereavement exploitation by the two at local funerals and counter accusations of FF treachery over... Read more »
Willie O'Dea & Lisa Chambers

Last Refuge

FF FRONT BENCH SPLIT ON PENSIONS

WILLIE O’DEA has been chiding Fine Gael ministers for not committing to their own electoral commitment to raise pensions by €30 over the government life time and he roughed up... Read more »

Bog Cuttings

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Bog Cuttings

Bog Cuttings

THE BOULD HEALY-RAE A GROUP of young men from Kilgarvan – including Michael Healy-Rae’s son, Jackie Healy-Rae – are being hailed as heroes after they apprehended a youth who was... Read more »

Fowl Emissions

Ray Bates

Fowl Emissions

CHILLY ENVIRONMENT AT BAI

THE Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) hasn’t been making too many friends in environmental circles lately. This month it delivered a double-whammy of decisions that have caused reactions varying from... Read more »

Bird's Eye View

Clinton & Assad

Bird's Eye View

COULD A RUSSIAN-LED COALITION DEFEAT HILLARY’S WAR PLANS?

by GARY LEUPP THE REPRESENTATION of Russia by the US State Department as an “existential threat” to the US is preposterous fantasy. Just as the depiction of Iran as a... Read more »

High Society

High Society

Theresa Marnane

High Society

THERESA’S FRENCH FROLICS

WHILE THE sport of kings is dominated here by Aidan O’Brien and the Coolmore operation, there are rich pickings to be had for wily... Read more »

High Society

Christian Stokes

High Society

CHRISTIAN STOKES’S HIGH FLYERS

A NEW private jet hire service has arrived in Ireland and got a nice plug in the Indo earlier this month. However, there was... Read more »

High Society

Peter and Kerri Cullen

High Society

CULLEN’S CANDY IS DANDY

THE FRONT page of the Sunday Times property supplement last weekend featured a Killiney pile owned by former candy czar Peter Cullen and his wife, Kerri, who are “downsizing” to... Read more »

Behind the Scenes

Darryl Downey

Behind the Scenes

DARRYL DOWNEY’S SAD SONG

WITH Electric Picnic set to kick off next month the festival season proper draws to a close. Meanwhile, the fall-out continues from the last-minute cancellation of a music festival in... Read more »

Behind the Scenes

Anne Clarke’s opera award

CONGRATULATIONS to theatre producer Anne Clarke who goes from success to success. The Arts Council has now greenlighted a huge €½m grant from its opera project fund for a new... Read more »
barbara-galavan

Behind the Scenes

BARBARA GALAVAN’S ‘KEY ASKS’

THERE WAS a time when Barbara Galavan’s lobby group Screen Producers Ireland (SPI), claimed over 200 members – film and television outfits that refer to themselves as “independent” companies but,... Read more »

Sport of Kings

DERMOT WELD

Sport of Kings

ME TARAZANI, YOU EXPLAIN

DERMOT WELD usually ends the Galway festival week of racing as the top trainer, but the honour this year was claimed by Willie Mullins, who had far fewer runners than... Read more »

Sport of Kings

MORE MONEY FOR POWERS

THE EUROPEAN yearling sales season kicked off in glamorous Deauville at Arqana in France earlier this month and Irish eyes were certainly smiling, based on the prices some Irish vendors... Read more »
Sheila Lavery

Sport of Kings

LAVERY’S CLOSE CALL

SUMMERHILL, County Meath trainer Sheila Lavery had a close call recently when she almost fell victim to a scam. Lavery was contacted by some individuals, believed to be from India,... Read more »
gillian-walsh

Sport of Kings

WAGS’ MELBOURNE DREAM

THE SUCCESS of the Ruby Walsh-ridden Clondaw Warrior in the E300,000 Galway Hurdle last month sparked some joyous scenes. This was not surprising given that Walsh’s wife, Gillian, is part-owner... Read more »

Reviews

Reviews

VIVA – DIRECTED BY PADDY BREATHNACH

THE LATEST feature from Irish director Paddy Breathnach is a set in a world of preening exhibitionists. And no, it’s a not a documentary about Leinster House, even if one... Read more »
WILD QUIET - ROISÍN O’DONNELL (NEW ISLAND)

Reviews

WILD QUIET – ROISÍN O’DONNELL (NEW ISLAND)

THIS MUCH PRAISED debut short story collection by Dublin-based Roisín O’Donnell is the latest to tap into the experiences of Ireland’s multi-racial society. While the collection fails to live up... Read more »
OBSERVE THE SONS OF ULSTER ... - ABBEY THEATRE

Reviews

OBSERVE THE SONS OF ULSTER … – ABBEY THEATRE

IN HIS decade-long tenure as director of the National Theatre, Fiach MacConghail has made a point of presenting diverse voices and points of view. Despite its widely noted tendency towards... Read more »

Moneybags

Moneybags

michael-carvill

Moneybags

Mick Carvill survives Kenmare restructuring

MICK CARVILL has not had a good record and possibly the most imprudent move he ever made was to decide in 2010, at the... Read more »

Moneybags

fiona-muldoon

Moneybags

Muldoon’s clean sweep puts FBD on course

FIONA MULDOON has really shaken up the FBD Holdings insurance group. It had previously struggled to expand away from its farmer customer base, setting... Read more »

Brief Cases

John Sheehan

Brief Cases

John Sheehan’s strike off

THERE was more bad news for Goldhawk’s old pal, Cork property developer and ex-security industry mogul John Sheehan, when receiver Michael McAteer of Grant Thornton was appointed to his company,... Read more »

Brief Cases

Marie Gorman’s rub of the green

GOLDHAWK spotted an interesting judgment recently, related to Roscommon agricultural consultant Pauraic Larkin and his wife, Marie Gorman. Larkin owned a company called Pauraic Larkin & Associates Ltd, which provided... Read more »
Ian Lucey

Brief Cases

Offside with Jamie Heaslip

A DUBLIN company called Lucey Technology Ltd (LTL) has had a judgment for unpaid services registered against it by a consultancy outfit. Blackrock businessman Ian Lucey is the largest shareholder... Read more »
Stephen Evans-Freke

Brief Cases

Stephen Evans-Freke’s castle battle

CONGRATULATIONS to Stephen Evans-Freke who had a great day in the High Court before Judge David Keane ahead of the summer recess. Moneybags businessman, Evans-Freke – son of Peter Evans-Freke,... Read more »
michael and seamus doody

Brief Cases

Michael Doody’s tax woes

CORK legal eagle Michael Doody has had yet another judgment registered against him by the Revenue, his seventh since 2012. The judgment against Michael, who is the principal at the... Read more »
Temple Garner

Brief Cases

Odessa Club soldiers on

IT’S BEEN a tough couple of years for popular Dublin bar and restaurant Odessa Club with the company that operates the venue, Odessa Club and Restaurant Ltd, taking on a... Read more »