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MOYA DOHERTY’S LEGAL ADVICE

Date: June 3, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

THE PLOT thickens at RTÉ, where four vacancies on the board remain unfilled for months and now the legal eagles have been called in. It will be recalled (see The Phoenix 21/5/21) that the terms of the previous nominees selected by the Joint Oireachtas Committee (JOC) came to an end last year. The JOC on… Read more »

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Ivana Bacik

PROFILE: IVANA BACIK

Date: June 3, 2021 - Pillars of Society

FEAR STALKS the Fine Gael heartlands of Dublin 2, 4 and 6 as the Dublin Bay South byelection looms and with it the unthinkable prospect of losing ‘their’ seat in Sir Garret FitzGerald’s old constituency. The appalling possibility of Sinn Féin stealing the seat is one obvious concern, with Lynn Boylan poised to enter the… Read more »

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Niall Horgan

YOUNG BLOOD: NIALL HORGAN

Date: June 3, 2021 - The Young Bloods

AS THE chief executive of trendy athleisure brand Gym+Coffee, Niall Horgan’s most impressive achievement in business has been to persuade millennials and yummy mummies to part with €70 for leggings made in Asia. This is, in no small part, down to the Cork man’s ability to harness the star wattage of the likes of One… Read more »

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Stephen Evans-Freke

EVANS-FREKE’S ESCAPE

Date: June 3, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

GOLDHAWK’S favourite millionaire Wall Street banker, Stephen Evans-Freke, has had plenty to celebrate in recent weeks. First a plan for some houses near his splendid Castel Freke in Co Cork got the thumbs down from an Bord Pleanála (see page 38) and now the New York Supreme Court has dismissed a billion-dollar lawsuit against a… Read more »

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Michael O'Leary

RYANAIR SHARES OVERVALUED WHEN COMPARED WITH IAG

Date: June 3, 2021 - Moneybags

FLYING HIGH these days is the Ryanair share price despite the very evident turbulence. For some reason the airline is valued not far off its peak valuation of 2017, despite a very different environment and a collapse in returns in recent years. Mick O’Leary continues to chart a course towards huge capacity growth and is doubling… Read more »

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Jimmy Menton

JIMMY MENTON’S MEDICAL RECORD

Date: June 3, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

THE LATEST arrival on the board of exploration company Providence Resources is James ‘Jimmy’ Menton, the former number cruncher who has played a central role in the proposed move of the National Maternity Hospital to St Vincent’s hospital, which is operated by St Vincent’s Hospital Group (SVG Group), Menton’s name was relatively unknown outside the… Read more »

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The Strypes

LIQUIDATING THE STRYPES

Date: June 3, 2021 - Behind the Scenes

THE STRYPES, like a succession of Irish bands, were once (not so long ago) the next big thing but announced their break-up in 2018. More recently, they appeared together as members of the backing band of one Elton John in the 2019 biopic Rocketman but their latest credit is as the stars of a liquidation… Read more »

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The Doireann Project 2021

THE DOIREANN PROJECT – RTÉ PLAYER 

Date: June 3, 2021 - Reviews|TV

THE THIRD season of The Doireann Project – a sketch show starring 2FM Breakfast presenter Doireann Garrihy – arrives courtesy of RTÉ’s ‘The Lab’, a “multidisciplinary creative team within RTÉ Online”.  With its remit to focus on yoof ‘content’, The Lab’s output includes such essential programming as Agony OAPs, Marty In The Shed, and Kevin Paints, in which comic Kevin McGahern “attempts… Read more »

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Bernie Gallagher

BERNIE GALLAGHER’S BATHROOMS

Date: June 3, 2021 - High Society

THERE IS trouble brewing in leafy Herbert Park, Ballsbridge, where a substantial plan to revamp a protected house has elicited some strong opposition from neighbours and An Taisce. The couple behind the scheme are the minted John and Bernie Gallagher (daughter of PV Doyle). The impressive No 34 has lain vacant for many years, having… Read more »

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Lucinda Kelly

LUCINDA KELLY’S POP-UPS

Date: June 3, 2021 - Briefcases

WHAT POPS up must fall down, it appears. Popertee Ltd, the business set up by Lucinda Kelly six years ago, before attracting significant state backing, is being wound up at a creditors’ meeting this week on foot of debts built up. Based in Ashford, Co Wicklow, Kelly is well known in equestrian circles and competes… Read more »

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VOL. 39 NO. 11

Date: June 3, 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

AIRO’S HEAVY GOING

Date: June 3, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

THE GOING at the Association of Irish Racehorse Owners (AIRO) continues to be heavy. Chairman Brian Polly and member James Gough are already suing the organisation in the High Court, and now an EGM is proving divisive. This week’s meeting is being held 18 months after a previous EGM when AIRO was changed from an… Read more »

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Daniel McConnell

POL CORRS SPLIT ON BELARUS

Date: June 3, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

THE ETHICAL antennae of Irish political correspondents rarely twitch when members of their own peer group fall foul of the law as evidenced by the loud silence when film makers Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey were arrested in Belfast for alleged theft of police documents three years ago. But the heavy-handed behaviour of Belarus authorities… Read more »

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Frances Black

ISRAEL: WHAT NEXT?

Date: June 3, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

LITTLE OR no attention was paid by the media to a widely circulated video of the raising of the Irish flag to the sound of our national anthem – in Ramallah, Palestine – last week. This followed the Dáil motion calling out Israel’s illegal annexation of Palestinian territory. But if Ireland is now being vilified… Read more »

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Heather Humphries

JERUSALEM OR JERUSALEMA?

Date: June 3, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

HORIZON 2020 is an EU scheme to stimulate economic growth as well as create jobs… “to ensure Europe produces world-class science, removes barriers to innovation” and so on. With €8bn to be doled out, many organisations got in the queue and, it seems that if you are able to navigate the application forms, then just… 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

CATHERINE MARTIN’S FILM CREDIT

Date: June 3, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

CONGRATULATIONS TO communications minister Catherine Martin, who successfully shoe-horned herself into the PR blitz around the quarterly dishing out of funds to film and TV companies by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI). She was able to move centre stage thanks to €1.4m that was provided to the BAI for live music events. The minister’s… 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

PADRAIG HIGGINS’S TANGLE

Date: June 3, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

A HAIR salon business part-owned by Cork number cruncher Padraig Higgins has just been wound up but, it turns out, he is also involved in movie business financing. Higgins incorporated his Hansorc hairdressing business in 2013, and the listed directors are Padraig and Hannah Higgins, with the former holding 40% of the shares while the… Read more »

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Date: June 3, 2021 - Letters to the Editor

WP NOT PROVOS Dear Editor, I have been a supporter of the Workers’ Party for 53 years and was a teller at the January 1970 ard fheis when the emerging Provos walked out. I have condemned them ever since, so I resent being tagged as being part of a “Provo” wing. Indeed, those who now… Read more »

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Simon Coveney

THE EU AND AFRICA: BACK TO THE FUTURE

Date: June 3, 2021 - Hush Hush

GIVEN ITS capacity for Orwellian speak, the EU’s unveiling of something called the European Peace Facility (EPF), should make one sit up and pay attention. Finally signed off in March, the EU has committed €5bn to the EPF between 2021 and 2027 to equip and arm military forces, which are not EU members. The project… Read more »

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Kit Kemp

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: June 3, 2021 - The Hot Air Brigade

It is so important when dressing or designing any room to have a chat with it first. Designer Kit Kemp, Irish Examiner, submitted by readers Some of them have been around long enough to remember how they stopped getting greetings from voters in the street during the dark days of the last financial crash. One… Read more »

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Edwin Poots

IS PAISLEYISM DEAD?

Date: June 3, 2021 - Northwind

LENIN SAID “There are decades where nothing happens and there are weeks where decades happen.” The sudden transformative upheaval in the famously uncommunicative and disciplined DUP fits that pattern. As predicted here (see The Phoenix 7/5/21) the Edwin Poots-led insurgency has split the party down the middle. Its MLAs and MPs elected Poots by a… Read more »

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James Geoghegan

GEOGHEGAN’S MEMORY LAPSES

Date: June 3, 2021 - Last Refuge

FINE GAEL’S perfectly modelled candidate in the Dublin Bay South byelection, James Geoghegan, has had the shine taken off him since declaring his intention to succeed resigning housing minister Eoghan Murphy. For a start he offered a rather unconvincing dismissal of his involvement with the right-wing party Renua to the Irish Times recently. The newspaper… Read more »

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Brian Fitzgerald

MEATH MINUTES UNDER LOCK AND KEY

Date: June 3, 2021 - Last Refuge

A STAND-OFF between elected councillors and executive officials in Meath could be heading for an embarrassing public confrontation. Seven Independent councillors, as well as a Labour councillor and one from Aontú have supported a freedom of information request that recordings of all county council meetings held to discuss the county development plan be forwarded to… Read more »

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John Paul Phelan

JOHN PAUL PHELAN’S ANGST

Date: June 3, 2021 - Last Refuge

JOHN PAUL PHELAN certainly has a way with words. His description of Leo Varadkar and Simon Coveney bluffing their way through a Fine Gael parliamentary party meeting last February with long-winded speechifying – “the Fine Gael equivalent to a punishment beating” – had TDs in stitches. More recently, the Irish Independent reported how he attacked… Read more »

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Barra McGrory

DEFAMING THE NORTH’S DPP

Date: June 3, 2021 - Fit to Print?

MANY RTÉ listeners might wonder why the Today With Claire Byrne programme asked a British defence correspondent to ruminate about the recent acquittal of two parachute regiment soldiers accused of murdering Official IRA man Joe McCann in 1972. Certainly there was much head scratching in RTÉ’s legal department following an airing of the programme that in turn produced… Read more »

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SUING THE SUNDAY TIMES

Date: June 3, 2021 - Fit to Print?

FOLLOWING AN incorrect report in the Sunday Times last March that the Smithwick Tribunal had found that a garda sergeant in Dundalk had colluded with the IRA to kill senior RUC officers, Harry Breen and Bob Buchanan, the newspaper published a correction. It stated: “In an article last month, ‘Sinn Fein needs to apologise for… Read more »

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Ger Colleran

‘DAMNING JUDGMENT’ IN KERRY

Date: June 3, 2021 - Fit to Print?

‘KERRY’S EYE’ editor Ger Colleran is not the sort of person to gloat in victory but his reporting of a win at the Press Council – in an appeal against an adverse verdict of Press Ombudsman, Peter Feeney – contained just a hint of satisfaction. Kerry’s Eye reported last October how “All District Courts in… Read more »

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SCREEN IRELAND MOOLAH

Date: June 3, 2021 - Behind the Scenes

SCREEN IRELAND has announced its funding decision for the first quarter of 2021. The loans are the first to be published since the recently appointed chair designate, Susan Bergin, and her new board were announced – although they pre-date their arrival. Two of the outgoing board members, Kate McColgan and Marian Quinn, were reappointed by… Read more »

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Belinda Kieswetter

KIESWETTERS’ STUD FEES

Date: June 3, 2021 - High Society

RACING IS not for the faint-hearted, at least in financial terms, and the relatively new bloodstock business based out of Barnane Stud in Co Tipperary managed to build up losses of just on €2m by the end of 2020, according to the accounts signed off last month. More than €6m has been pumped into the… Read more »

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ALISON’S ORANGERY

Date: June 3, 2021 - High Society

A PLANNING application has been lodged to convert a substantial Ballsbridge property back to residential use. It was lodged in the name of one Alison Quinn – daughter of Lochlann and Brenda Quinn – and her legal eagle partner John Whelan (the couple announced their engagement in Christmas 2019). The three-storey house on the corner… Read more »

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Dr Faith Birol

OIL INDUSTRY SURRENDERS?

Date: June 3, 2021 - Fowl Emissions

FOR DECADES, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has been the de facto voice of the global fossil fuel industry. Just last July, it warned that the resurgence of Covid-19 was “casting a shadow” over the oil industry’s recovery from the pandemicinduced slump in demand. The same organisation has since undergone what may be one of… Read more »

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TIM CULLINAN’S MINIMUM TARGET

Date: June 3, 2021 - Fowl Emissions

THE COMMON Agriculture Policy “is a tumour in the EU’s body politic”. This is the considered view of the distinctly right-of centre Economist magazine, which explained how 20% of the EU’s biggest farms hoover up some 80% of the massive €270bn annual CAP budget. Having had it all their own way for decades, agri groups… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: June 3, 2021 - Bog Cuttings

‘DODGY CIGARETTES’ Kevin Doherty (45) of Fern Park, Derry, pleaded guilty in Derry Magistrates’ Court to the fraudulent evasion of customs duty charges on goods for selling ‘dodgy cigarettes from his mobile phone shop’. According to Doherty’s charge sheet, the off ence involved nearly 7,000 cigarettes and 1.9kg of rolling tobacco. Judge Barney McElholm told… Read more »

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THE RULES OF REVELATION - LISA McINERNEY

THE RULES OF REVELATION – LISA McINERNEY

Date: June 3, 2021 - Books|Reviews

FOLLOWING THE success of The Glorious Heresies (2015) and The Blood Miracles (2017), this is the concluding part of Lisa McInerney’s self-described “unholy trinity”. It all turns out to be a bit predictable. Her two previous novels graphically portrayed Cork’s underworld and drew comparisons with Irvine Welsh’s offbeat fiction. While the frenzied humour and desolate… Read more »

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Ger Lyons

HUNTING LOGO HUNTER

Date: June 3, 2021 - Sport of Kings

RACEHORSES CAN make fools of even the top players in the game – think of Willie Mullins selling subsequent Grade 1 winner Skyace for a mere £600 to John ‘Shark’ Hanlon – and it looks like another top trainer, Ger Lyons, has let a potential superstar slip through his fingers for chump change. Logo Hunter… Read more »

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Kenny Alexander

KENNY’S KEBAB WOES

Date: June 3, 2021 - Sport of Kings

FORMER SENIOR gambling suit Kenny Alexander has become used to seeing his name in the headlines – linked to his star racing mare Honeysuckle (Champion Hurdle winner at Cheltenham) – but he recently made the headlines for more embarrassing reasons. Scottish moneybags Alexander has about a dozen horses in training in Ireland, split between Henry… Read more »

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