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Paul Murtagh

PAUL MURTAGH’S LAW

Date: August 26, 2021 - Sport of Kings

THE IRISH Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) introduced new starting procedures in July, following a meeting between the Irish Jockeys Association, the IHRB starters and the IHRB’s registrar, Paul Murtagh. There has been some heavy going since. After last month’s meeting, jockeys were informed of the new procedures and, as a show of faith, all riders… Read more »

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Tomas O'Midheach

FBD’S STRATEGY COULD BACKFIRE AS AXA TARGETS GROWTH

Date: August 26, 2021 - Moneybags

THE ROLE played by the insurance sector during the pandemic has been less than edifying, with businesses denied cover from their business interruption policies. FBD Insurance was one of the most high profile players during this period, fobbing off its business policyholders, notably the approximately 1,000 publicans held on its books. The new CEO, Tomás… Read more »

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David Sturt

PETRONEFT SHAREHOLDERS HOPING THE RIDE CONTINUES

Date: August 26, 2021 - Moneybags

PETRONEFT was heading off the cliff at the beginning of the year, with the shares down to 0.6p. There has been a dramatic improvement this year on the back of the arrival of a new chairman and improved oil flows. What investors will want to know is whether Petroneft can finally deliver on some of… Read more »

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Diane Dodds

KAROL MCELHINNEY’S GOOD NEWS

Date: August 26, 2021 - Briefcases

AT LAST, there has been good news for Donegal moneybags Karol McElhinney, after Donegal County Council granted permission for a luxurious house near Ballybofey, over objections from An Taisce. This year had been not been a good one for McElhinney. In May, then Northern economy minister Diane Dodds reported that a £10m loan from Invest… Read more »

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A TAXING MATTER

Date: August 26, 2021 - Briefcases

DOCUMENTS FILED by Myles Kirby, the liquidator of Hynes Jewellers (Wexford) Ltd, shed a little more light on the scale of liabilities in the company, which appear to have totalled around €1m at the time of the liquidation. The documents show that secured creditors were owed €330,000, which is understood to relate to the Revenue… Read more »

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Leo Varadkar

VARADKAR TO FACE DPP SCRUTINY?

Date: August 12, 2021 - Last Refuge

IT HAS been said that former FF agriculture minister Dara Calleary, was not big enough to be given a free pass for his Golfgate indiscretion but that former taoiseach and current tánaiste Leo Varadkar is too big to be downed over his leaking of a confidential medical document. The trouble is that the legislation –… Read more »

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Paschal Donohoe

PASCHAL DONOHOE’S BANK OF IRELAND BLUNDER

Date: August 12, 2021 - Moneybags

IN ANNOUNCING on June 23 that he was planning to sell the state’s 14% stake in Bank of Ireland (BoI), finance minister Paschal Donohoe appears to have skirted a bit too close to the edge of both inside trading regulations and the rules relating to close period announcements, albeit not to the state’s benefit. The… Read more »

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Katherine Zappone

PROFILE: KATHERINE ZAPPONE

Date: August 12, 2021 - Pillars of Society

FOR YEARS Katherine Zappone was revered by Irish liberals as the most civilised, gender positive politician in 21st century Ireland. But, suddenly she is revealed to be a grasping opportunist who has benefited from her (male) cronies in the last two cabinets. Many in Fine Gael are now wondering just how Zappone managed to wheedle her… Read more »

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James Patrice

YOUNG BLOOD: JAMES PATRICE

Date: August 12, 2021 - The Young Bloods

THE HALLS of Montrose are littered with broadcasters who are either irredeemably anodyne or lamentably past it, but change may be afoot now that influencer-turned-presenter James Patrice looks set to be anointed as RTÉ’s new chosen ‘personality’. Perhaps the national broadcaster is taking note of the pulling power of camp, high-octane and personable presenters across… Read more »

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BARRY WHITE’S LEGAL BILL

Date: August 12, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

IT HAS taken quite a while but the final chapter is being written in the saga of former High Court judge Barry White’s 2015 legal challenge to the state and the Bar Council of Ireland. It has cost him a fair few bob. White caused quite a stir when he sought to return to practising… Read more »

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Catherine Martin

CATHERINE MARTIN’S GENDER BALANCE

Date: August 12, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

WITH IRELAND’S athletes returning form Tokyo, sports minister Catherine Martin finally got around to filling the vacancies on the board of Sport Ireland (SI), which had existed for nearly a year (see The Phoenix 2/7/21). Goldhawk understands that part of the reason for the delay was the insistence by Martin that enough of the names… Read more »

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HAS MYERS FOUND GOD?

Date: August 12, 2021 - Fit to Print?

FOLLOWING THAT chastening experience over his anti-Semitic remarks about two Jewish BBC women, former ST columnist Kevin Myers appears to have retreated to religious commentary. Kevin was, by all accounts, the moving spirit before and during the Percy French Festival held in Castlecoote House, Co Roscommon, last month which featured a list of speakers most of… Read more »

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Joanna Sloan

JOANNA SLOAN’S GARDEN OF LIFE

Date: August 12, 2021 - High Society

VIEWERS OF RTÉ’s latest hit show, Ireland’s Garden Heroes, were given a glimpse of the splendid garden at the Old Rectory in Dunganstown, Co Wicklow, where one Joanna Sloan described the “regenerative healing ambience” she has created. Joanna also happens to be married to Simon Kelly, best known for his ill-fated exploits during the property… Read more »

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Reconstruction from ‘The Ballymurphy Massacre’

THE BALLYMURPHY MASSACRE – RTÉ ONE

Date: August 12, 2021 - ReviewsTV

THIS AUDACIOUS documentary, directed by award-winning film maker Callum Macrae with no little elan and produced in association with Channel 4, is powerful stuff. The ‘Ballymurphy Massacre’ occurred in West Belfast in an area that could have been Ballyfermot, Dublin, in appearance and demography. Over a two-day period, August 9-11, 1971, it began with the… Read more »

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Jay Krehbiel

KREHBIEL’S KERRY PLAN

Date: August 12, 2021 - High Society

FOLLOWING THE generally underreported death in June of Chicago moneybags Fred Krehbiel, there have been some changes on the board of the Ballyfin Demesne business. Krehbiel’s sumptuous restoration of the renowned Ballyfin Demesne in Co Laois – what is regarded as one of the finest neo-classical properties in Ireland – was a lengthy and hugely… Read more »

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Justin Green

JUSTIN GREEN’S GIGS

Date: August 12, 2021 - Behind the Scenes

THE REFUSAL to grant Electric Picnic a licence led to an immediate reaction from promoter extraordinaire Denis Desmond of MCD, who said he was gobsmacked, while partner Caroline Downey chose to put the boot into Nphet. DD was optimistic, however, that “there is still time if we can get a bit of a lobby going.”… Read more »

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Simon Coveney

APOLOGIES … AND OUR MAN IN TEL AVIV

Date: August 12, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

SIMON COVENEY’S purported concern for “freedom of expression”, manifest by Katherine Zappone’s appointment as UN special envoy in pursuit of this laudable goal, was hardly in evidence in the occupied territories of Palestine recently. The Irish woman who heads legal research and advocacy with one of the leading human rights organisations in Palestine has stepped… Read more »

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Vol 39 No 16

Date: August 12, 2021 -

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Budget Jack Chambers Nicki Minaj B’Tselem Phil Hogan UCD IRTA DIGI Katy Brown Rory Godson Pallonji Mistry Shark Hanlon Frances Ruane Taste of Dublin Listowel Writers’ Week Paddy Curran Harvey Norman Anton Savage Paul Hourican Enda O’Coineen PfP Red C Poll IFTA Ben Gilroy Luke Comer Sue Spence Fingleton Aubrey McCarthy Matt Cooper Parker Green Danny McConnell Gayle Killilea Maura Derivan Ed Honohan INS Arts Council EDAF Emuse Rosslare Golf Club Mairead Casey Colm O’Rourke Stephen Connolly Peter Aiken John Malone Tom Barry Anthony Halpin Ian Kehoe Kevin Bakhurst Geraldine O’Leary Dennis Horgan RUSI Gareth McAllister Ryevale House Joe Macken RUC Omagh Patrick Connolly Paddy Cosgrave The Ditch Newstalk Fake Tan Fred Logue Ian Paisley Sean O’Riordan Margaret Sweeney Jay Bourke Ellie Kisyombe Francesca McDonagh Ted Cunningham National Space Centre An Irish Goodbye Oscar Robert Quirke Ciara Kelly Executive Women Gathering Doug Taylor Florian Haufe Robbie Henshaw Bill Shipsey Breaking the Silence L’Ecrivain Ronan McNally National Lottery Michael Roche Energy Action Balls.ie Newspapers VAT Abbey Theatre Patricia Madden Irish Banking Culture Board Randox Aoife Gallagher Book Dalai Lama Trinity Trevor White RTÉ Chairperson Shane Houlihan Noel Smyth IKC Bob Geldof Landlord Ireland Neutrality Ukraine

IAN MADIGAN’S TACTICS

Date: August 12, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

FORMER LEINSTER and Ireland outhalf Ian Madigan has had a mixed few years in professional rugby having exited France and being deemed surplus to requirements at Bristol before ending up in Ulster when the pandemic was the only thing kicking off. He is also getting busy off the pitch. Madigan previously established a company called… Read more »

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Darragh O'Brien

DARRAGH AND VLAD’S HOUSING STAND-OFF

Date: August 12, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

POSTPONEMENT OF the ‘Housing for All’ plan was surrounded with gobbledygook, civil service jargon as well as pious editorials about the need for clarity in face of the revised National Development Plan and the oncoming budget. The delay was also accompanied with reassuring phrases from housing minister Darragh O’Brien about the need to iron out… Read more »

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Martin Fraser

FRASER UNDERSTUDY SET FOR SUCCESSION?

Date: August 12, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

SECRETARY GENERAL at the taoiseach’s department, Martin Fraser, is most unusual in that top civil servants outside the Department of Foreign Affairs do not normally get to be ambassadors to London, Washington or anywhere else. Indeed, Iveagh House mandarins are not at all impressed with Fraser’s elevation to one of ‘their’ plum posts. But when… Read more »

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Budget Jack Chambers Nicki Minaj B’Tselem Phil Hogan UCD IRTA DIGI Katy Brown Rory Godson Pallonji Mistry Shark Hanlon Frances Ruane Taste of Dublin Listowel Writers’ Week Paddy Curran Harvey Norman Anton Savage Paul Hourican Enda O’Coineen PfP Red C Poll IFTA Ben Gilroy Luke Comer Sue Spence Fingleton Aubrey McCarthy Matt Cooper Parker Green Danny McConnell Gayle Killilea Maura Derivan Ed Honohan INS Arts Council EDAF Emuse Rosslare Golf Club Mairead Casey Colm O’Rourke Stephen Connolly Peter Aiken John Malone Tom Barry Anthony Halpin Ian Kehoe Kevin Bakhurst Geraldine O’Leary Dennis Horgan RUSI Gareth McAllister Ryevale House Joe Macken RUC Omagh Patrick Connolly Paddy Cosgrave The Ditch Newstalk Fake Tan Fred Logue Ian Paisley Sean O’Riordan Margaret Sweeney Jay Bourke Ellie Kisyombe Francesca McDonagh Ted Cunningham National Space Centre An Irish Goodbye Oscar Robert Quirke Ciara Kelly Executive Women Gathering Doug Taylor Florian Haufe Robbie Henshaw Bill Shipsey Breaking the Silence L’Ecrivain Ronan McNally National Lottery Michael Roche Energy Action Balls.ie Newspapers VAT Abbey Theatre Patricia Madden Irish Banking Culture Board Randox Aoife Gallagher Book Dalai Lama Trinity Trevor White RTÉ Chairperson Shane Houlihan Noel Smyth IKC Bob Geldof Landlord Ireland Neutrality Ukraine

‘COROPRATE HEROES’

Date: August 12, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

FOR ASSORTED grey suits, there was no little interest in the announcement that the Institute of Management Consultants and Advisers ((IMCA) and the Corporate Governance Association of Ireland (CGAI) are combining “to put good governance front and centre of everything they do”. While the move is being presented as a blockbuster merger, the hapless CGAI… Read more »

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John Farrell

SUPER MISS MURPHY

Date: August 12, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

HIP RESTAURATEUR John ‘777’ Farrell has adopted restricted status under the Companies Act, which means he cannot act as a director for five years. Happily, his business partner in the collapsed Super Miss Sue and Luna restaurants in D2, Stella-Maria Murphy, has walked away unscathed from the liquidation that has left unsecured creditors owed almost… Read more »

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MICHEÁL MARTIN’S FF CRITICS

Date: August 12, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

‘RETROSPECTIVE, BELATED, political cover’, these were just a few of the taunts thrown at the government for securing the comforting advice of attorney general Paul Gallagher on the complicated regulations covering outdoor social gatherings, including Katherine Zappone’s Merrion hotel bash. However, it was left to oireachtas Fianna Fáil members, ex-minister Willie O’Dea TD and Senator… Read more »

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Tom Arnold

ARNOLD’S FOOD PLAN CAUSES INDIGESTION

Date: August 12, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

THE GROUP photo at government buildings for the unveiling of the grandly titled ‘Food Vision 2030 – a world leader in sustainable food systems’ saw Green party ministers Eamon Ryan and Pippa Hackett wheeled out to give it the ‘green gloss’, standing alongside a clearly delighted Micheál Martin, agriculture minister Charlie McConalogue, and chair Tom… Read more »

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Bono

FOUL FEEDBACK TO KILDARE WIND FARM

Date: August 12, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

HACKLES HAVE been raised in the townlands of Quinnsboro/Coolsicken in south Co Kildare where Norwegian giant energy company Statkraft was refused planning permission for a five-turbine wind farm by Kildare County Council in March. However, it ploughed ahead with the erection of an 80-metre meteorological mast at the site at the end of July, two-and-a-half weeks… Read more »

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Simon Coveney

HAS SYRIA BEEN ZAPPED?

Date: August 12, 2021 - Hush Hush

SURELY KATHERINE ZAPPONE doesn’t need to suffer the carping of the Shinners or Social Democrats? Sure as special envoy didn’t she take Ireland from the margins of world politics and elevate us onto the world stage at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC)? On taking up our seat foreign minister Simon ‘Covetous’ Coveney, highlighted Syria as… Read more »

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Pat Spillane

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: August 12, 2021 - The Hot Air Brigade

If Tinder did provincial championships, I’d be swiping right to Ulster. Pat Spillane, The Saturday Game Live, RTÉ Two Curves are the new angles… After 18 months of pandemic living and being driven to find meaningful connections, we yearn for comfort and curves. Orla Nelligan, Irish Independent, submitted by reader Demography is destiny. David McWilliams,… Read more »

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Jeffrey Donaldson

NO END TO ASSEMBLY SPLITS ON ABORTION

Date: August 12, 2021 - Northwind

STAND-OFFS ARE stacking up ahead of Stormont’s return in September. There’s the Irish protocol, with ‘grace periods’ on handling imports of various products including chilled meat, due to end, in October (or not). There’s the continuing impasse on Irish language legislation. Will the British government make good on its deal with Mary Lou McDonald to… Read more »

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Katherine Zappone

ZAPPONE’S FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION

Date: August 12, 2021 - Last Refuge

KATHERINE ZAPPONE’S title of special envoy for freedom of expression was bestowed on her by the minister for foreign affairs, Simon ‘Covetous’ Coveney, a designation that implies a commitment to free and open exchange of information. Examples of this culture were in evidence last week when Goldhawk put a few basic queries about this impressive… Read more »

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Ivana Bacik

HOTEL CALIFORNIA, DUBLIN 2

Date: August 12, 2021 - Last Refuge

ZAPPER’S MERRION hotel guests included tánaiste Leo Varadkar, for obvious reasons, ie, Vlad is leader of the party to which Simon Coveney – the foreign minister who selects diplomatic envoys – also belongs. But what were the Green party’s chief of staff Dónall Geoghegan and recently elected Labour TD Ivana Bacik doing there? Geoghegan was… Read more »

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Helen McEntee

LEADERLESS BLUESHIRTS

Date: August 12, 2021 - Last Refuge

GENERAL EOIN O’DUFFY must be gyrating in his grave as Fine Gael resembles a rudderless, high-born rabble with neither its most capable nor patrician standing up to lead against adversity. Will July 30 go down as the day that Simon ‘Covetous’ Coveney lost both his cool and his leadership prospects with a motorway pile-up interview?… Read more »

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Emma Tucker

BURNS SWEATS AS EMMA EYES SUITORS

Date: August 12, 2021 - Fit to Print?

IT HAS been 10 months since Frank Fitzgibbon vacated the editor’s post at the Sunday Times (and Times Ireland) and his successor has still not been named. It had been assumed that the appointment of acting editor John Burns was a mere formality, but the 10-months-long tension must be killing him – and others –… Read more »

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Sam McBride

NORTHERN INVASION AS SAM JOINS ‘SINDO’

Date: August 12, 2021 - Fit to Print?

LAST MAY Goldhawk advised readers north of the border that they could expect a concerted effort by the Sunday Independent to reintroduce the newspaper to the northern market (see The Phoenix, 7/5/21). This was tried some years ago but bombed as the Sindo brand of Free State unionism was anathema to northern nationalists but not… Read more »

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Antonio Guterres

GREEN LIGHT FOR ENNIS’S ‘CODE RED’ DATA CENTRE?

Date: August 12, 2021 - Fowl Emissions

“THE SAME as having a goldmine,” was how former Fianna Fáil councillor Tom McNamara described the vast data centre Clare County Council wants to build in a field just outside Ennis. The mining analogy is apt, but not in the way the ex-councillor intended. Mining for gold is highly environmentally destructive, and Ennis Data Centre… Read more »

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THE DELANEYS’ DATA CENTRE

Date: August 12, 2021 - Fowl Emissions

BUILDING AND running a data centre is a complicated business. So it’s just as well the directors of the company applying to build Ennis Data Centre have so much experience. Lucan couple Brendan and Deborah Delaney, the only two listed directors and shareholders of Art Data Centres, have been the directors of a whopping 6,688… Read more »

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