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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: August 12, 2021 - Bog Cuttings

‘Heat Of The Moment’ Two Killarney brothers who were abusive towards gardaí, telling them to “fuck off” were convicted and fined at Killarney District Court. Patrick Dooley (36) and James Dooley (33) of 105 Ballyspillane, Killarney, were stopped by gardaí carrying out inquiries in the Ballyspillane area of Killarney on March 22 when they became… Read more »

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JOHN COLLISON’S COUNTRY TAB

Date: August 12, 2021 - High Society

IT WAS reported last weekend that John Collison paid a little more than half the asking price of €20m for the impressive AbbeyLeix House, which he acquired from David Davies. This is based on the €11.5m figure published on the Property Price Register but, presumably, it does not include the value attached to the surrounding… Read more »

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TAXMAN PLOT DEVICE

Date: August 12, 2021 - Behind the Scenes

IN A bumper year for the country’s ‘independent’ film and TV producers, 33 were given the green light by the Revenue in the second quarter of 2021. An increasing proportion of the beneficiaries are animation companies with substantial TV series and feature co-productions in the works. Cathal Gaffney’s Brown Bag Films had five shows approved… Read more »

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THE GARDEN - PAUL PERRY

THE GARDEN – PAUL PERRY

Date: August 12, 2021 - BooksReviews

DUBLIN-BASED Paul Perry’s first solo novel is a modern-day morality tale of obsession, outsiders and uncertainty about the future. The orchid farm setting with the sweltering Florida Everglades as its backdrop has been devastated by the worst hurricane in living memory. The atmosphere can be vivid, though Perry does ladle on a few too many… Read more »

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Alvaro Odriozola Arzalluz

REAL MADRID’S BIG SPENDER

Date: August 12, 2021 - Sport of Kings

WHEN SWISS billionaire Georg Von Opel emerged from relative obscurity at Goffs two years ago and splashed a few million on some yearlings in partnership with John Magnier’s Coolmore operation, it signalled real intent to be a player on the big stage. At the same time, a star of the Real Madrid team has started… Read more »

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Paul Murtagh

AFTER DENIS EGAN?

Date: August 12, 2021 - Sport of Kings

HAVING BEEN compared in recent oireachtas hearings to an old boys’ club, and coming under fire over transparency and corporate governance issues, it is rather surprising that there has not been any advertising by the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) for the soon-to-be-vacated position of chief executive. When Denis Egan announced in July that he… Read more »

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Barry O'Neill

NEW RUNNER ENTERS THE FIELD

Date: August 12, 2021 - Sport of Kings

A NEW entry in the online auction business looks set to shake up the old guard of Tattersalls and Goffs. The British outfit Thoroughbid – where Peter Walsh is in situ as managing director – has just launched and is seeking a slice of the action that has long been dominated by the two established… Read more »

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Oliver St Lawrence

ST LAWRENCE’S LAW

Date: August 12, 2021 - Sport of Kings

THE BUSINESS of bloodstock agents involves the pounding of the sales grounds hoping to earn an honest or, now and again, a dishonest wage. For decades the matter of ‘luck money’ has been seen as a harmless arrangement which involved the seller giving back €20 or €50 to the buyer or agent when a deal… Read more »

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Mohammed Al Zubair

HAPLESS AMINEX INVESTORS LEARN TO BE VERY PATIENT

Date: August 12, 2021 - Moneybags

THE HOPE that there could be a rapid development of Aminex into a profitable gas producing business on the back of Brian Hall’s big Tanzanian gas discovery in 2012 kept the long-suffering shareholders on board. It took, however, no less than five years to drill the second well, which further boosted optimism among investors, leading… Read more »

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Thierry Artaud

M-BIRR’S FADING EMBERS

Date: August 12, 2021 - Briefcases

GOLDHAWK WAS surprised to see a creditors’ meeting called for a company called M-Birr Ltd. It operates in the mobile money sector, focusing on the Ethiopian market and in recent years the founders, Jim Noctor and Thierry Artaud, have proved hugely successful at tapping investors for millions of euro. Birr does not refer to the… Read more »

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Michelle Hetherington

DJI’S €25,000 DESIGN FLAW

Date: August 12, 2021 - Briefcases

THE HIGH-profile design company David James Interiors Ltd (DJI) has been hit with a judgment for a paltry €25,000 by Reefer Tech Refrigeration. Maybe the principals have just been too busy to deal with the matter. Operating as DJI Design and Construct, David Clarke and Michelle Hetherington’s design company has built up a strong client… Read more »

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OFF THE MENU

Date: August 12, 2021 - Briefcases

FILINGS BY John Healy, liquidator of Super Miss Sue Ltd (SMS) – which was behind the restaurant of the same name and also the trendy Luna – reveal that unsecured creditors were owed €950,000. The liquidation is ongoing (see p5) and Healy’s statement of proceedings dated July 29 and filed last week reveal total receipts… Read more »

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HERBIE BOYLE’S JUDGMENT

Date: August 12, 2021 - Briefcases

NUMBER CRUNCHER Herbie Boyle found himself on the end of a €100,000 judgment last month from Shankill-based Dermot Fahy, who was for many years the face of the Black and Decker operation in Ireland (and apparently was the youngest MD in the world for the multinational when appointed at 29 in the late 1980s.) Eglington-Road-based… Read more »

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GEORGINA APPELBE’S APPEAL

Date: August 12, 2021 - Briefcases

THERE WAS good and bad news for one Georgina Appelbe in the Court of Appeal on July 26 when she was allowed to have a full hearing in relation to a €3.4m claim against her by a vulture fund. On the subject of a separate €100,000, the outcome was less satisfying. Georgina is the wife… Read more »

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ORLA DEANE’S APARTMENT

Date: July 29, 2021 - Briefcases

BAD NEWS last week from Dublin City Council for Orla Deane’s proposed apartment scheme in Ranelagh D6. The planners were not taken by an attempt to bolt on an extra tow-bedroom apartment at the third floor that would have increased the number of units from six to seven and also substantially increased the profit margin…. Read more »

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Sophie Toscan du Plantier

MEDIA STILL HUNTS IAN BAILEY

Date: July 29, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

WHEN FINTAN O’TOOLE gets it wrong he really gets it wrong, but his recent column on Ian Bailey, dressed up in liberal, feminist language, misses the point by a country mile. With unconscious irony, O’Toole condemned journalists for feeding Bailey’s alleged need for notoriety, before… Read more »

Mary Lou McDonald

JEFFREY AND MARY LOU’S POLITICAL DANCE

Date: July 29, 2021 - Northwind

THERE’S BEEN a bit of a shift in the balance of power in the northern executive since the DUP’s near death experience throughout May and June. The DUP has been seriously, some would say permanently, weakened by the deep cleavage that was exposed after the ejection of Arlene Foster at the end of April. The… Read more »

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Brandon Lewis

PROFILE: BRANDON LEWIS

Date: July 29, 2021 - Pillars of Society

After AN uneventful 14 months since his appointment, the northern secretary Brandon Lewis has had his plate full since the beginning of April. First, there were riots in loyalist districts, mainly sparked by the DPP’s decision not to prosecute any republicans for breaking Covid restrictions during last year’s huge IRA funeral of veteran IRA army… Read more »

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Peter Kavanagh

YOUNG BLOOD: PETER KAVANAGH

Date: July 29, 2021 - The Young Bloods

ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES are being forcibly driven into our consciousness by the devastating floods in Europe, especially Germany. With the Green party still doing poorly in Irish opinion polls, questions are being asked about the potential of new voices like South Dublin mayor, 36-year-old Peter Kavanagh, and if he can bring a Bacik-like bounce to the… Read more »

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Simon Coveney

OUR LINE IN TEL AVIV

Date: July 29, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

FOREIGN MINISTER Simon Coveney has ducked and dived when confronted with Israeli depredations against the Palestinians but he appears to have been struck dumb by a speech from our man in Tel Aviv, Ambassador Kyle O’Sullivan. Twice now Coveney has been asked by Sinn Féin foreign affairs spokesman John Brady to say if the ambassador’s… Read more »

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Kilmurry House

JAMES HENNESSY’S SAMURAI WARRIORS

Date: July 29, 2021 - High Society

THERE WAS a glowing write-up in the Business Post last weekend of the impressive Kilmurry House in Co Kilkenny, a mid-18th century pile on 90 acres that has just gone on the market with a price tag of a whopping €8.8m. Goldhawk is happy to reveal that the owner, James Hennessy, an Irish but mostly… Read more »

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NEIL FRANCIS’S TACTICS

Date: July 29, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

NEIL FRANCIS was never slow to dish it out, whether on the pitch or as a pundit, so there was a pretty long queue to put the boot in when his ‘colourful’ comments about English rugby player Marcus Smith emerged this month. Cabinteely-based Franno got roughed up in the media but what might hurt more… Read more »

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Stuart McGoldrick

STUART MCGOLDRICK’S SKI ACCIDENT

Date: July 29, 2021 - Briefcases

THERE WAS bad news for customers of the Dublin Ski Centre in Sandyford this month when the facility announced it was keeping it doors shut. A creditors’ meeting will take place next week, representing the first setback in recent years for Stuart McGoldrick, founder of the high-profile Spectrum health group. Many moons ago, Ampleforth College-educated… Read more »

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Paul Collins

PAUL COLLINS’S LIBEL ACTION

Date: July 29, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

BANDON-BASED businessman Paul Collins has fingers in many pies but his provision of accommodation for asylum seekers has often landed him in the media spotlight for all the wrong reasons. Now he has lodged libel proceedings, a year after events in Cahirciveen, Co Kerry, put him on the front page. Long before Collins opened a… Read more »

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Desmond O’Malley

DES O’MALLEY’S MEDIA FOES

Date: July 29, 2021 - Fit to Print?

IF DES O’MALLEY did not suffer fools gladly he endured certain hacks – those who were not part of the near idolatrous Desocrats fan club – with even less grace. An RTÉ radio producer wrote to O’Malley in an effort to entice him on to the Vincent Browne radio show for the usual cage fighting… Read more »

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VOL39 NO15

Date: July 29, 2021 -

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YVONNE DOLAN’S BLENDI BACKERS

Date: July 29, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

AS FANS of Goldhawk are aware, Yvonne Dolan’s award-winning Blendi Snacks business ran out of flavour recently and the company was due to be wound up on July 15. The meeting was, however, stymied at the last minute and will not be heard until next week. Dolan has been a darling of the healthfood sector… Read more »

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TENI’S TIMING

Date: July 29, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

AT LONG last Transgender Equality Network Ireland (TENI) has got around to filing its out-of-date 2019 accounts, which just might smooth the way for further funding. The good news for the lobbying group, chaired by Sara R Phillips, is that TENI has received a nice chunk of moolah from international donors. The accounts that TENI… Read more »

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Frank O'Mara

CHARITY BEGINS ON THE FARM

Date: July 29, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

ONE OF the most intriguing questions awaiting the incoming director of Teagasc, the state agriculture research and training agency, is: what kind of organisation, exactly, is he heading? Prof Frank O’Mara takes over the reins of the organisation, which receives a massive €198m in funding, this September following the retirement of Prof Gerry Boyle. Teagasc… Read more »

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Fiona O'Leary

REBELS IN WEST CORK

Date: July 29, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

A BIZARRE stand-off in west Cork involving the Society of Saint Pius X Resistance. (SSPX Resistance), local campaigner Fiona O’Leary and gardaí is just the latest episode involving religious factionalism in the church globally. Pope Francis has overturned his predecessor Benedict XVI’s legislation Summorum Pontificum, which in 2007 allowed greater use of the pre-Vatican II Latin… Read more »

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Tom Clonan

TCD BYELECTION

Date: July 29, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

THE SUNDAY TIMES has already plugged long-time former Goldman Sachs director Hugo McNeill in the early reckoning for the Seanad’s Trinity College Dublin seat vacant after Ivana Bacik’s election to the Dáil. McNeill has attempted to soften his image as a posh rugger-bugger married to a right-wing politician (Fine Gael TD Jennifer Carroll McNeill). Before… Read more »

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Rupert Murdoch

MURDER, BENT COPS AND DUBLIN MEDIA

Date: July 29, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

COMMENTING ON the latest report that found the London Met guilty of “institutional corruption” in its treatment of the 1987 murder of Daniel Morgan, former home secretary David Blunkett made a qualified allusion to the TV series, Line of Duty. A private investigator, Morgan was murdered with an axe outside a London pub and, six… Read more »

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James Reynolds

RIGHT-WING SCAPEGOAT

Date: July 29, 2021 - Hush Hush

THE RECENT Dublin Bay South (DBS) byelection has damaged the political career of Longford man James Reynolds, founder and deputy leader of the National party along with leader Justin Barrett. Reynolds has spent three decades ploughing a lonely furrow on the far right of the Irish political spectrum. It was a rocky start for the… Read more »

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Diarmuid Gavin

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: July 29, 2021 - The Hot Air Brigade

It was very rock ’n’ roll. I used to go to the Hootenanny with Jools Holland every year and the rock stars thought we were the rock stars. Diarmuid Gavin, Irish Independent, submitted by reader Euporia Crush, a blend of pineapple, grapefruit and ‘sunbeams’, to be served up with ice and a slice of lime;… Read more »

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Roisin Shortall

SOC DEMS LEADERSHIP HEAVE

Date: July 29, 2021 - Last Refuge

LABOUR’S BYELECTION triumph was not the root cause of the current split in the Social Democrats but it was certainly the catalyst to the leadership crisis now being played out in the party. Ideologically, Ivana Bacik could be in either Labour or the Soc Dems (if anything she is closer to the latter), but she… Read more »

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MICHEÁL MARTIN’S TIMELINE

Date: July 29, 2021 - Last Refuge

THAT MIDDLE ground group of Fianna Fáil TDs that has recently formed “to support Martin”, according to a headline in an Irish Times analysis piece last week, is not homogenous. Neither are they all as philosophical about the party leader as sources indicated, with some mildly critical while others named are regarded as life-long loyalists…. Read more »

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