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Micheál Martin

DAMNED LIES AND MARTIN’S STATS

Date: July 29, 2021 - Last Refuge

MICHEÁL MARTIN’S PR maestro, Paul Clarkson, has been busy and successful in commandeering media exposure for the Fianna Fáil leader in recent months – as his brief entails – and as one handler remarked, recently, “at least people now know that Martin is actually the taoiseach”. Clarkson’s fingerprints could be seen all over two initiatives… Read more »

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Rebecca Moynihan

LABOUR’S SEAT TARGETS?

Date: July 29, 2021 - Last Refuge

IVANA BACIK’S Dublin Bay South byelection triumph has emboldened Labour and there has been much talk of a possible resurgence of the party’s electoral fortunes. It has even identified a raft of constituencies and candidates that will, it hopes, see half a dozen extra Labour seats at the next general election. Sinn Féin leader Mary… Read more »

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Eoghan Harris

‘SINDO’ HIDES HARRIS FROM VIEW

Date: July 29, 2021 - Fit to Print?

SUNDAY INDEPENDENT editor Alan English sacked long-time columnist Eoghan Harris last May because, he said, Harris had written “contemptible” tweets under the pseudonymous Barbara J Pym account. That was explained to readers by the editor who outlined how Harris had been exposed and how such subterfuge could not be countenanced by the newspaper in a… Read more »

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MONICA LEECH’S PARTNER

Date: July 29, 2021 - Fit to Print?

FORMER PR consultant Monica Leech last month suffered an adverse judgment including as yet indeterminate legal costs after she lost her appeal against a High Court taxing master’s ruling that she must pay a €165,000 fee plus other costs to McCann Fitzgerald (MCF). The law firm had represented Leech in a defamation action she took… Read more »

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RTÉ’S CHANGEABLE CLIMATE REPORTAGE

Date: July 29, 2021 - Fowl Emissions

IT’S BEEN an unusually bruising time for RTÉ managing director of news Jon Williams, culminating in his online mea culpa this week over the station’s dire performance on climate coverage. “We were wrong not to make clear connection between recent extreme weather events & climate change. Sin of omission & reported in good faith”, read… Read more »

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FARMERS’ “POSITIVE TRENDS”

Date: July 29, 2021 - Fowl Emissions

“IT’S THE way I tell ’em!” The famous Frank Carson catch-cry came to mind when reading various versions of a recent Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) report on water indicators. ‘Almost half of Irish rivers have unsatisfactory water quality levels’ read the IT report. ‘Really urgent action needed to reduce water pollution’ was how NewsTalk reported… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: July 29, 2021 - Bog Cuttings

‘Big Fucking Wages’ Kevin O’Flynn (23) of Glantane, Mallow, Cork, pleaded guilty to engaging in threatening behaviour and public intoxication after an altercation with members of the public and gardaí on Princes Street, Cork. Cork District Court heard that gardaí were called to deal with a man who had been drinking at a premises on… Read more »

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Gerardine Connolly

DÉJÀ VU IN HOWTH

Date: July 29, 2021 - High Society

IT LOOKS like a case of déjà vu on Howth Hill, where a planning row is brewing at the hilltop Heather Cottage, owned by sculptor Patrick O’Reilly (of bronze teddy bears fame) and his wife, legal eagle Gerardine Connolly SC, who is also a board member at Ballet Ireland. Connolly and O’Reilly previously owned a… Read more »

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Consuelo O’Connor

SILENT AT RUSSBOROUGH

Date: July 29, 2021 - High Society

HAVING BOUNCED into the black in recent years, it is not surprising that things took a turn for the worst at Russborough House during the pandemic. The good news is that the endowment fund continues to deliver and the Apollo Foundation has stepped into the breach. In 2019 things were starting to look somewhat rosy… Read more »

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Liz Brennan

LIZ BRENNAN’S BUDGET

Date: July 29, 2021 - Behind the Scenes

PERHAPS THE new chair of Screen Ireland, Susan Bergin, might move to speed up the publishing of its funding decisions. It can take a couple of years to find out what has been going on. In 2019 (see The Phoenix 29/11/19), Goldhawk asked the state film and TV funding agency how much moolah it had… Read more »

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MAUREEN KENNELLY’S EXPANDING COLLECTION

Date: July 29, 2021 - Behind the Scenes

WITH A fair amount of moolah sloshing around the arts world these days, it is not surprising that the Arts Council has announced the addition of yet more works to its collection. At the end of last year, Maureen Kennelly announced that a substantial 82 works had been added at a cost of about €450,000,… Read more »

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Poster Boys

POSTER BOYS

Date: July 29, 2021 - MoviesReviews

PUBLIC MONEY, even lots of it, is no guarantee of quality, as Goldhawk has noted in countless reviews of Irish films in recent years. A possible reason for the dearth of quality in such a wide field is that there are simply too many fingers in the development and finance pie, each with a self-interest… Read more »

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Diving for Pearls

DIVING FOR PEARLS – JAMIE O’CONNELL

Date: July 29, 2021 - BooksReviews

THIS DEBUT novel is set about a decade ago, mainly in Dubai, where the dead body of a young Emirati woman, Hiyam Husayin, is found in the city’s marina. The follow-up police investigation has devastating consequences for several people and exposes a clash of cultures based largely around social class and the exploitation of powerless… Read more »

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Philip Rothwell

ROTHWELL’S RANT

Date: July 29, 2021 - Sport of Kings

THE TRAINER Philip Rothwell has been moaning about ground conditions at some Irish tracks and it climaxed for him at Kilbeggan recently when he withdrew all his intended runners after walking the course. The ground was advertised as ‘Good, Good to Yielding’ but was amended to ‘Good’ after the first race. Rothwell, however, was convinced… Read more »

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Stephen Mahon

PISS-TAKE

Date: July 29, 2021 - Sport of Kings

THE CONTROVERSIAL Stephen Mahon continues to attract the wrong kind of attention, while he awaits the outcocme of his appeal for a four-year training ban following a high-profile neglect case. This can’t be easy for fellow trainer, the publicity-shy Pat Kelly. Since having had his licence suspended, Mahon has linked up with fellow Galway based-trainer… Read more »

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Michael Moloney

MOLONEY’S CROWD CONTROL

Date: July 29, 2021 - Sport of Kings

WHILE IT is round two of an essentially spectator-free Galway Festival this week, at least the 2021 event won’t be quite as soulless as last year’s effort, with the 1,000-person capacity giving the majority of owners who wish to attend the chance to do so. As witnessed at the Curragh on Derby day, the addition… Read more »

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John Osborne

JOHN OSBORNE’S HEADACHE

Date: July 29, 2021 - Sport of Kings

WITH HORSERACING keen to keep its nose clean after the PR mauling casued by the Gordon Elliott affair, there was some serious head shaking after the incendiary – and according to many in the sport, lob-sided – Panorama programme last week exposing some of the industry’s dirty deeds relating to the use of abattoirs.  … Read more »

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Alan Linn

TOP BRASS WEIGHS DOWN PROVIDENCE SHARE PRICE

Date: July 29, 2021 - Moneybags

THE FAILURE of Spot-On Energy to deliver the non-recourse funding elements of Providence Resources’ development programme, as envisaged in the farm-in programme for its Barryroe licence, inevitably meant there had to be changes. What was not expected was that it would be the non-executive chairman Pat Plunkett who would take the fall rather than the… Read more »

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Cathal Friel

OPEN ORPHAN IDEALLY PLACED TO BENEFIT FROM THE PANDEMIC

Date: July 29, 2021 - Moneybags

CATHAL FRIEL has been making a lot of bold moves as executive chairman of Open Orphan, such as the company’s strategic decision in March 2020 to develop a Covid-19 challenge test model. The aim was to elaborate on the design of a characterisation study to understand how to use the virus for a vaccine and… Read more »

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Marcus White

MARCUS WHITE’S LEGAL HEADACHE

Date: July 29, 2021 - Briefcases

THE FOUR Goldmines are beckoning for the irrepressible Marcus White, organiser of the Lisdoonvarna Matchmaking Festival and high-profile operator of a number of hotels in Clare and Donegal. Proceedings have just been lodged against him and some of his firms by other entities in the White tourism empire. This is not the first time White… Read more »

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Leigh Wrafter

JOHN WRAFTER’S WOES

Date: July 29, 2021 - Briefcases

A HIGH Court action has just been launched by the receiver of south Dublin firm WR Land Ltd. This turns out to be one of the interests on Goldhawk’s old friend, John Wrafter. The Wrafter family has had a chequered business history and John, in particular, will be familiar to readers of this magazine. One… Read more »

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Micheál Martin

MICHEÁL BEGINS HIS FIGHTBACK

Date: July 15, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

IT’S A long time since the Irish Times gave such unqualified and partisan backing to a Fianna Fáil leader but it was through that unlikely medium that Micheál Martin struck back this week against his party critics following the disastrous Dublin Bay South byelection. A most polemical editorial biffed leadership contender Jim O’Callaghan with everything… Read more »

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Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

IVANA’S COMRADES OLD AND NEW

Date: July 15, 2021 - Last Refuge

MEMBERS OF the Labour family clasped byelection winner Ivana Bacik to their bosom last week in a heart-warming display of comradeship, with former party leaders Pat Rabbitte and Ruairi Quinn especially anxious to display their devotion to victorious Ivana. But these two former leaders surely can’t believe that members – especially Bacik – will have… Read more »

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John McGuirk

PROFILE: JOHN MCGUIRK

Date: July 15, 2021 - Pillars of Society

THE LOUDEST, most contrarian and controversial political activist in Ireland has to be John McGuirk, editor of Gript, the right-wing website that exists to combat the liberal, secular media and its “headlong rush to the most extreme forms of liberalism”. McGuirk has been a member… Read more »

Philip Ryan

YOUNG BLOOD: PHILIP RYAN

Date: July 15, 2021 - The Young Bloods

PHILIP RYAN is one of the new breed of political correspondents who confronts rather than simply reports on political parties, personalities and issues. This provides a greater sense of political drama, but it can also rebound on the journalist and his newspaper. There was a time when political journalists were a cerebral bunch who gave… Read more »

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Richard Curran

IRELAND’S RICH LIST 2021 – RTÉ ONE

Date: July 15, 2021 - ReviewsTV

IF THE ‘rich list’ is the answer, what on earth is the question? Goldhawk found himself repeatedly wondering this over the course of a scarcely believable two hours, during which Richard Curran salivated over the fortunes of Ireland’s zillionaires. A ‘rich list’ is a bizarre concept, based on mostly guesstimates of bits and pieces of… Read more »

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John Teeling

JOHN TEELING EXPLORING A NEW DIRECTION

Date: July 15, 2021 - Moneybags

THE IRREPRESSIBLE John Teeling is set to take a back seat after decades of rollercoaster adventures, mostly in the oil exploration sector. He has also made quite a few bob in the whiskey business and remains a player but, his appetite for drilling around the globe is clearly no longer there, having just resigned from… Read more »

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Peter Dunn

PETER DUNN’S PAPAL GONG

Date: July 15, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

IT’S NOT every day that a ‘Pro-Ecclesia et Pontifice’ award (PEP) is dished out here but one was accepted last week by Peter Dunn of the Radharc Trust, which manages the archive of Radharc Films. The event didn’t attract any media attention, which is just the way the low-profile Dunn probably likes it. A PEP honours… Read more »

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CATHY DAVEY’S LOVELY CHARITY

Date: July 15, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

CONGRATULATIONS TO songwriter Cathy Davey, whose animal charity is doing better then observers may have expected. Last year, the Irish Times ran a piece headlined, “Animal charity run by Cathy Davey hits the financial buffers over Covid-19”. She set up My Lovely Horse Rescue in 2011 with her pals, Martina and Deborah Kenny. The name… Read more »

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David Davies

ACCOUNTING AT ABBEYLEIX HOUSE

Date: July 15, 2021 - High Society

WITH THE announced sale to Stripe co-founder John Collison of the Abbeyleix House estate in Co Laois, the owner since 1994 David Davies has found someone with deep enough pockets to absorb the running costs and maintain the ancient native woodland. Davies had prepared the ground well for his sale, even commissioning a glossy coffee… Read more »

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Yvonne Dolan

YVONNE DOLAN’S UNHEALTHY VENTURES

Date: July 15, 2021 - Briefcases

A CREDITORS’ meeting has been called for Yvonne Dolan’s Blendi Snacks Ltd, the highly rated health food company set up a couple of years ago, after a similar venture, focused on, er, ‘disrupting’ the smoothie market’, blended its final concoction. Dolan has been a darling of the health food sector and scooped a number of… Read more »

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VOL .39 NO. 14

Date: July 15, 2021 -

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GAISFORD ST LAWRENCE’S MANSION

Date: July 15, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

A LETTER from one Julian Gaisford St Lawrence popped up in the Irish Times last week. The address was given as Coolcarrigan in Co Kildare, which is where it turns out he has purchased a rather substantial pile after his exit from Howth Castle (see p18). In late 2019, a 5,200-sq-ft property called Castlesize House… Read more »

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CATHERINE MARTIN’S TEAM TACTICS

Date: July 15, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

FANS OF Goldhawk will be aware that Green party minister Catherine Martin has a tendency to leave boards under her remit full of vacancies for long periods. One of these turns out to be Sport Ireland (SI) and Goldhawk wonders if the subject came up at the pre-Tokyo shindig at the National Sports Campus this… Read more »

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Hazel Chu

HAZEL HOVERS

Date: July 15, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

MANY SEIZED on the elimination of Kate O’Connell by Fine Gael’s leadership and local members to explain the defeat of that party’s candidate, James Geoghegan, in the Dublin Bay South byelection. But the media has been very polite in avoiding serious scrutiny of the far heavier defeat of Green candidate Cllr Claire Byrne, who managed… Read more »

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Grafton College

REHMAN’S RESTRICTION

Date: July 15, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

ONE OF the directors of a private English language college that shut tis doors in 2018 has just been restricted from acting as a director for a period of five years. The Grafton College in Portobello hit the headlines just before Christmas 2018 after teachers occupied the premises in a bid to get paid. They… Read more »

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