Affairs of the Nation

Maria Walshe

Affairs of the Nation

WALSH-MCGUINNESS SHOOT OUT

THE BLUEBLOUSE EU candidate in the Midlands-North-West (MNW), Maria Walsh, proved she is no wilting Tralee Rose with a retaliatory broadside against her running mate, Máiréad McGuinness, following the MEP’s... Read more »
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Affairs of the Nation

DER KAISER’S INDO DEAL

ALTHOUGH IT was Goldhawk who first revealed that Denis O’Brien wanted to sell up at Independent News & Media (see The Phoenix 8/2/19), the nature of the agreed exit deal... Read more »
Brendan Howlin

Affairs of the Nation

BRENDAN HOWLIN’S ATTACK

DOES Labour leader Brendan Howlin believe he is still minister in charge of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (DPER)? Howlin’s attack on the government for its green light... Read more »

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SAORADH CHIEF’S DÁIL AMBITIONS

BRIAN KENNA, chairman of Saoradh, which reflects the New IRA’s political outlook, was once a model of the Sinn Féin parliamentary road and had aspirations to be a TD. Kenna... Read more »
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Affairs of the Nation

PHELIM & MAGDALENA O’NEILL

In an article headlined ‘Phelim O’Neill’s many hats’, it was stated that the company called My Valuation Ltd, incorporated in 2012, ceased to trade in 2016 after its plans “came... Read more »
MacDara Kelleher

Affairs of the Nation

KELLEHER’S STRONG FOUNDATION

THE GIANT Apple TV streaming service launching later this year has commissioned the first 10-episode adaptation of sci-fi writer Isaac Asimov’s ‘Foundation’ series of books, which is to be filmed... Read more »
Mick Wallace

Affairs of the Nation

BY-ELECTION BLITZ?

IT NOW looks as though there could be four and possibly five Dáil by-elections within six months of the EU elections. TDs Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal), Billy Kelleher (Cork North-Central),... Read more »
Lynn Scarff

Affairs of the Nation

FIGHT AT THE MUSEUM

STILL NO word on the National Museum of Ireland’s internal review of its ‘Spanish Flu’ debacle last year. No doubt Catherine Heaney and her board are hoping that any allegations... Read more »
Hermann Kelly

Affairs of the Nation

PETER CASEY AND HERMANN KELLY

HAVE THOSE soul brothers on the right of Irish politics, EU candidates Peter Casey (Midlands North-West – MNW) and Hermann Kelly (Dublin) had a split already? Or is it that... Read more »
Nicolas Maduro

Affairs of the Nation

MADURO’S IRISH CRITICS

Exactly who were the Venezuelans so “enraged” by Clare Daly’s comments on the troubled country, according to a recent Sunday Times article? One is Luis Alvarez, a Dublin-based supporter of... Read more »
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Affairs of the Nation

JIM BAILEY

IN The Phoenix edition of April 19, 2019, it was stated that documentation ordering Jim Bailey to be detained in St Finan’s Mental Hospital in 1988 was signed by his... Read more »

Pillars of Society

Calre Daly

Pillars of Society

PROFILE: CLARE DALY TD

CLARE DALY’S EU election bid in Dublin – as well as her political and personal partner Mick Wallace TD’s outing in the South constituency... Read more »

The Young Bloods

Cathal Haughey

The Young Bloods

YOUNG BLOOD: CATHAL HAUGHEY

There is an old saying that it only takes three generations to ruin a family business. Cathal Haughey (22) will be hoping it’s just... Read more »

Fit to Print?

Colm O'Reilly

Fit to Print?

‘BUSINESS POST’ BUSINESS

SUNDAY BUSINESS POST chief executive Siobhán Lennon’s goodbye bash in Doheny & Nesbitt’s Baggot Street hostelry last week saw her replacement, Colm O’Reilly, mingle with the newspaper’s hacks and other... Read more »
John Delaney

Fit to Print?

DERVAN’S FIERY FAI DEBUT

THE THEN FAI boss John Delaney announced the appointment of veteran sports hack Cathal Dervan as the FAI’s director of public relations and communications, with the following remarks: “These are... Read more »
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Fit to Print?

NEW MEDIA CURRENCY

THE TWO Sunday Business Post journalists — ex-editor Ian Kehoe and executive editor Tom Lyons — who wanted to buy out their newspaper from their then publisher, Key Capital’s Conor... Read more »

Last Refuge

Shane Ross

Last Refuge

VARADKAR’S LEGAL PRECEDENT

WHAT AN interesting sequence of events has taken place since the New Year surrounding Shane Ross’s judicial appointments bill. Fine Gael and, in particular, Leo Varadkar appear to realise the... Read more »
Anne Rabbitte

Last Refuge

RABBITTE’S TUAM BABIES BLUNDER

FIANNA FÁIL has landed itself in la merde over the Tuam babies with a most disingenuous statement from TD Anne Rabbitte, expressing concern about 21st century children (as opposed to... Read more »
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Last Refuge

AK47 LIMBERS UP

ELECTORAL CATASTROPHE could be facing the Labour Party in the local elections if two recent polls are anything to go by. Labour had an abysmal local election in 2014, with... Read more »
Linda Farren-O'Shea

Last Refuge

FG PEMBROKE BLUE BLOODS

WHAT A stellar trio of candidates Fine Gael has assembled in the local election barony of Pembroke – formerly Pembroke-South Dock – which has been stripped of the jarring, proletarian... Read more »

Hush Hush

Freddie Scappaticci

Hush Hush

BRITISH SOLDIERS TAKE THE FLAK

Reports of the formal interview by police of top Force Research Unit (FRU) spook Brigadier Gordon Kerr got British media headlines last week. The FRU was a British army agent... Read more »

Bog Cuttings

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Bog Cuttings

BOG CUTTINGS

Judge jibes over thrown traffic cones A LEMYBRIEN man, who was observed throwing traffic cones around the street late at night, was asked by the judge if he had aspirations... Read more »

Fowl Emissions

Ian O'Doherty

Fowl Emissions

REBELS AND REACTIONARIES

THE Extinction Rebellion movement brought civil disobedience on to streets across the world last month in a furious, but carefully planned, response to the twin existential threats of climate breakdown... Read more »
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Fowl Emissions

TREE TOPPLING TIME

In case you needed another reason to believe insurers are sucking the life out of us, the industry has been identified as the dark force behind the slaughtering of thousands... Read more »

The Hot Air Brigade

Maria Walsh

The Hot Air Brigade

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

I think the most important thing here is the fact that it was an interesting line in the sense that people look at perhaps me or any other female candidate... Read more »

High Society

High Society

Danielle Ryan

High Society

DANIELLE RYAN AT CANNES

CONGRATULATIONS are due to Fantastic Films, which saw its Vivarium selected to compete at the snooty Critics’ Week at the Cannes Film Festival. While... Read more »

High Society

Consuelo O’Connor

High Society

NIAMH PATTEN’S JEWELLERY

A JEWELLERY venture established by Niamh Patten shut its doors recently after a short-lived existence in the city centre. Despite the backing of a... Read more »

High Society

Lauriston

High Society

OFFLOADING LAURISTON

AN EDWARDIAN house on Ranelagh’s Park Drive (backing onto the playing fields of Gonzaga College) caught the eye of the Sindo last weekend, with the “elegant” and “gorgeous” D6 property... Read more »

Behind the Scenes

Kevin Rafter

Behind the Scenes

KEVIN RAFTER’S CV

NOT TOO late in the day, Blueshirt Minister for Culture Josepha Madigan has appointed Kevin Rafter as Sheila Pratschke’s replacement in the chair of the Arts Council. The journalist and... Read more »
Neil Jordan & Chloe Grace-Moretz

Behind the Scenes

NEIL JORDAN’S ‘LUDICROUS THRILLER’

NEIL JORDAN’S latest opus, Greta, opened to predictably ‘mixed’ reviews over the Easter weekend. The Financial Times’s opening salvo referred to the “ludicrous thriller” and went downhill from there. Irish... Read more »

Sport of Kings

Michael O'Leary

Sport of Kings

JAMIE MORRIS VS MICK O’LEARY

THE TRAINER Mouse Morris has had one of the longest serving relationships with Gigginstown and Mick O’Leary, but that relationship looks like it’s being put to the test following a... Read more »
Brendan Duke Adrian Murray Mick Bailey

Sport of Kings

DUNDALK’S BIG TRACK SURFACE BILL

PERHAPS IT should not come as a surprise that the manager of Dundalk’s racing track is set to lash out circa €3m to provide a replacement running surface. The question... Read more »
Niall Cronin

Sport of Kings

NIALL CRONIN’S STRATEGY

THE IRISH Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) has decided to up its communications strategy, announcing the Herald’s former racing corr, Niall Cronin, as its new communications manager. Cronin has been acting... Read more »
Kenneth Alexander

Sport of Kings

ALEXANDER THE GREAT

THIS SEASON has seen Scottish bookmaking supremo Kenny Alexander emerge as a growing force among the Irish jumps ownership ranks. While Alexander, the chief executive of GVC Holdings, has had... Read more »

Moneybags

Moneybags

Margaret Sweeney

Moneybags

WHY I-RES SHOULD END THE CANADIANS’ SWEET DEALS

IRELAND’S HOUSING crisis has provided opportunities for certain players, notably Irish Residential Properties Reit (I-Res), where the Canadian founders have been doing very well... Read more »

Moneybags

Kathryn Purves

Moneybags

THE INCREDIBLE €240M CASH TAKEOUT OF IFG

THE £200m Elysian Fuels controversy is still unresolved and a further £5m provision has had to be made to cover potential further sanction charges... Read more »

Briefcases

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Briefcases

SEAN LYONS’S DOOMSDAY SCENARIO

IS THE apocalypse approaching for Sean Lyons’s troubled company, Doomsday Challenge Ltd? Yet again, the firm is listed to be struck off the Companies Register for failure to file accounts,... Read more »
Pete Queally

Briefcases

PETER QUEALLY’S FOUL EMISSIONS

GOLDHAWK wasn’t too surprised to see Kildare-based food-processing giant Arrow group on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) latest ‘name and shame’ list. The group – run by beef baron brothers... Read more »
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Briefcases

PAT MCCAUGHEY’S SPICY MEATBALL

UNFORTUNATELY for businessman Pat McCaughey, former boss of Dublin-based spice burger maker Walsh Family Foods Ltd (WFF), the crash is still leaving a bad taste. The Castleknock businessman has just... Read more »
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Briefcases

MARTIN TUBRIDY’S TAX TROUBLES

THE REVENUE moved this week to wind up a company owned by one Martin Tubridy in Co Clare. The publican-cum-engineer has had a tough few years and now his GMD... Read more »
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Briefcases

FAREWELL FIMAK

A COMPANY that found itself the subject of some media coverage last year over the operation of the student Leap Card system has wound itself up, although people might not... Read more »
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Briefcases

DAVID SMYTH’S BLACKHALL BLUES

INTERESTING to see that the Law Society has just registered a judgment against Waterford tech outfit Agenda Computers Ltd, where the principal is one David Smyth. The judgment relates to... Read more »