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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

RÓISÍN INGLE’S TWEETS

Date: July 1, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

LAST MONTH’s ruling against the Carlow Nationalist by the press ombudsman over the paper’s wrong story on the ‘body-shaming’ of girls at Presentation College Carlow left a few red faces at the likes of RTÉ, Newstalk, many of the dailies and, of course, on Twitter. Not all commentators were in a hurry to put their… Read more »

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MIND FULL - DERMOT WHELAN 

MIND FULL – DERMOT WHELAN 

Date: July 1, 2021 - BooksReviews

RADIO PRESENTER turned wellness ‘guru’ Dermot Whelan displayed his impressive marketing skills last month when advising his social media followers to “de-stress your dad!” by giving his buke as a Father’s Day pressie. There is plenty of competition, of course, as bookshop shelves have begun to creak under the weight of mental health-themed books from… Read more »

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Denis Desmond & Caroline Downey

DESMOND’S HIGH NOTES

Date: July 1, 2021 - Behind the Scenes

SINCE THE pandemic kicked in, arts minister Catherine Martin has been handing out grants like snuff at a wake and her latest announcement related to €25m to assist venues and promoters to plan live events. Some of the lucky recipients clearly needed the moolah more than others. Big winners turned out to include Denis Desmond… Read more »

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Tiarnan O’Mahoney

TIARNAN O’MAHONEY’S UPS AND DOWNS

Date: July 1, 2021 - Briefcases

A COMPANY called Rebenna Ltd has just ceased trading and the principal here is one Felicity Keane, wife of former Anglo Irish Bank senior suit and Celtic Tiger poster boy, Tiarnan O’Mahoney. The relatively recent history of Enniskerry-based O’Mahoney, who exited Anglo Irish in 2005 having failed to be appointed chief executive, could only be… Read more »

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Hubie de Burgh

HUBIE DE BURGH’S DOWNSIZING

Date: July 1, 2021 - High Society

GOLDHAWK SPOTTED the dissolving of a company called Huma Bloodstock Ltd last month, which was a business set up a couple of decades ago by bloodstock consultant extraordinaire Hubie de Burgh and a pair of loaded Swiss siblings. Also coming to an end is de Burgh’s association with his Oldtown stud in Co Wicklow, now… Read more »

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VOL 39 NO 13

Date: July 1, 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

LEAVING LISSADELL

Date: July 1, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

LAST MONTH, it was reported that the impressively renovated Lissadell pile on leafy Shrewsbury Road in D4 has been sold for a whopping €11m to property developer extraordinaire Pat Crean. The sellers are investment banker Martin Shields and his legal eagle wife, Francesca McWilliams. This is not the first time that Shields has attracted media… Read more »

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Sharon Alston

SHARON ALSTON’S MUSIC NOTES

Date: July 1, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

GOLDHAWK WAS delighted to se that his favourite music festival organiser and vet, Sharon Alston, was one of the lucky recipients of arts minister Catherine Martin’s €25m hand-out last month to the live performance sector. It looks like Sharon could do with all the help she can get. She is the founder of the fledgling… Read more »

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Jeffrey Donaldson

DONALDSON THE ‘MODERATE’

Date: July 1, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

DUP DARLING of RTÉ and the Irish Times, new party leader Jeffrey Donaldson has been presented as the civilised alternative to creationist Edwin Poots and other backwoodsmen in the party. But domestically and globally, Donaldson’s record is anything but moderate. In the north, Donaldson moved from being a protégé of British racist Enoch Powell in… Read more »

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Ned O'Sullivan

IRELAND’S PAST VERSUS FUTURE

Date: July 1, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

ROLE REVERSAL between Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil on the national question has been a feature of politics in recent years but FG’s Leo Varadkar and FF senator Ned O’Sullivan brought it to a new level recently. Last month’s ‘united Ireland’ speech by Vlad has been well publicised but the aggressive rhetoric from Ned at… 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

MARY DALY’S LECTURE

Date: July 1, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

PROFESSOR MARY E DALY, one of the members of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes, is already in hot water for declining an invite to address the oireachtas children’s committee. Now she is in trouble with Derek Leinster – a survivor of Bethany Home, the Church of Ireland mother and baby home –… Read more »

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Mary Kenny

THE MARYS’ HOLY WAR

Date: July 1, 2021 - Clerical Errors

IN AN arcane spat for the unofficial title of ‘Defender of the Faith’, Mary Kenny, the conservative Catholic writer has chided Mary McAleese, the darling of liberal Catholics and former president of Ireland, for “lacking in common sense” by calling into question the church’s traditional practice of administering baptism to infants. Delivering the annual St… Read more »

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Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid

€100M DOWN THE SWANEE

Date: July 1, 2021 - Clerical Errors

IT CAN’T be easy to spend €100bn and get absolutely nothing for your money, but the EU’s Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) has pulled it off. That’s how much was squandered from 2014-2020 on funding specifically earmarked to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture. A damning recent report from the European Court of Auditors (ECA) confirmed… Read more »

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Ger Daly

ACCENTURE’S BORDER WARS 

Date: July 1, 2021 - Hush Hush

MORE THAN 80 million people were forced from their homes globally during the year, with almost 35 million of these seeking refuge or asylum in other countries, 42% of them children. In the west we see little of these refugees or asylum seekers, as 86% are forced to seek help in developing countries who already… Read more »

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Ciara Kelly

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: July 1, 2021 - The Hot Air Brigade

That I feel at my most decadent now when I eat cheese. Ciara Kelly on embracing middle age, ‘Life magazine’ Sunday Independent Lineker has developed such a glossy TV persona – Des Lynam’s dream child – it is often overlooked that he harbours the gloomy and mordant spirit of Larkin. Keith Duggan conjures up some… Read more »

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David Frost

ORANGE CARD 2021

Date: July 1, 2021 - Northwind

IT IS an accepted fact that from the earliest days of the Troubles and throughout their duration British security forces, including the RUC, with the knowledge of British governments, colluded with and sometimes directed, loyalist terrorists. The 840-page Da Silva report on the murder of Pat Finucane gives chapter and verse on the sort of… Read more »

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David Stanton

BLUESHIRTS REVOLT

Date: July 1, 2021 - Last Refuge

DISCONTENT AMONG the Fine Gael grassroots at what is described as the control freakery of Leo Varadkar and the party’s career officials has simmered for some years with the usual complaints about the general secretary making the now retired Tom Curran a target for discontented members. But the advent of new general secretary John Carroll… Read more »

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Cllr Nick Killian

MINUTE MEATH MATTERS

Date: July 1, 2021 - Last Refuge

EFFORTS BY nine Meath county councillors to prise from council officials the recordings of their own council deliberations on the county development plan (see The Phoenix, 4/6/21) have been fended off again, with their Freedom of Information request denied recently. The matter was also raised at a recent council meeting where some of those model… Read more »

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Micheál Martin

AN TAISCE ‘TREASON’

Date: July 1, 2021 - Fowl Emissions

“WE WOULD like to acknowledge your important intervention on the matter of the challenge by an Taisce to the planning permission for the proposed cheese plant at Belview, Co Kilkenny,” gushed Glanbia Ireland CEO Jim Bergin and chairman John Murphy in a letter to taoiseach Micheál Martin. The letter, on official Glanbia Ireland letterhead, was sent to the taoiseach on May… Read more »

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Stephen Collins

COLLINS TURNS ON VLAD

Date: July 1, 2021 - Fit to Print?

TÁNAISTE LEO VARADKAR should be concerned at the apparent disillusionment of the IT’s Stephen Collins – with not only FG but its leader. Last February, he was relatively positive as he wrote that Vlad was the most popular party leader; that FG would likely win the next election; FF’s decline was scary and SF was… Read more »

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SINDO’S SF HEADACHE

Date: July 1, 2021 - Fowl Emissions

MEDIATION BETWEEN an aggrieved Derry woman and the Sindo over claims that the newspaper published incorrect assertions about her is due to take place next week as a preliminary to a possible investigation by press ombudsman Peter Feeney. The woman’s Facebook page made comments about the recent upheaval in Derry Sinn Féin involving the standing… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: July 1, 2021 - Bog Cuttings

Hiding Under Duvet Derry Magistrate’s Court heard the case of Paul Carr (29), who was handed a suspended prison sentence and fined for possessing cannabis and for causing criminal damage to electronic tags. A Public Prosecution Service (PPS) representative told the court that a bail check was carried out at Carr’s residence in Rock Mills,… Read more »

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Gerard McNaughten

GERARD’S TILES OF DOSH

Date: July 1, 2021 - High Society

WITH CINEMA owners complaining about the social distancing restrictions hitting their bottom line since reopening last month, it was not surprising to see the Irish Film Centre (IFI) highlighting the impact of the 50-person capacity on the operation’s finances, despite hefty support from the taxpayer. If things get bad maybe the directors could have a… Read more »

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IAIN WRIGHT’S AMAZING HOME

Date: July 1, 2021 - High Society

A HOUSE with a rather picturesque setting has been put on the market, complete with Hollywood CV. It is being offloaded for a hefty sum by an asset manager with a side interest in the energy game. Glenasmole Lodge has popped up on the big screen in the past, including an appearance in John Boorman’s… Read more »

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AGENTS OF INFLUENCE - AARON EDWARDS

AGENTS OF INFLUENCE – AARON EDWARDS

Date: July 1, 2021 - BooksReviews

THE BOOK’S front cover singles out the infamous Freddie Scappaticci in glorious technicolour. Everyone else in black and white. He is barely mentioned in this book, though. Readers are left flat where marketing clearly outpunched substance. In this instance it’s so true that you should never judge a book by its cover. Agents of Influence… Read more »

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IFTAS ‘GLITZ AND GLAM’

Date: July 1, 2021 - Behind the Scenes

ÁINE MORIARTY’S annual IFTA gong show will be brought to you by Virgin Media One on July 4, and fronted by Gráinne Seoige (remember her?). Goldhawk can safely predict that little mention will be made of the IFTA companies’ borrowings from Moriarty’s one-woman operation, Irish Film Research Ltd (IFR), which runs the IFTN website.  The… Read more »

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Gordon Elliott

AND THE BANNED PLAYED ON

Date: July 1, 2021 - Sport of Kings

EARLIER THIS year the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) handed out two six-month bans to two high-profile trainers – Charles Byrnes and Gordon Elliott. While such sanctions would be expected to have significant repercussions for those involved, the good news is that little has changed in their day-to-day operations. When Byrnes failed in his appeal… Read more »

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Luke Comer Ban

COMER’S RARE MARE

Date: July 1, 2021 - Sport of Kings

LUKE COMER seems as enthusiastic as ever about the racing game despite his usual lack of success on the track. The gelding, He Knows No Fear, who famously won last year at Leopardstown at odds of 300/1, has been Comer’s only winner so far this year when coming home in front last month again at… Read more »

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John Magnier

MAGNIER’S CONUNDRUM

Date: July 1, 2021 - Sport of Kings

AFTER NEGATIVE press coverage at Sheikh Mohammed al Maktoum’s treatment of his daughter, Sheika Latifa, the headlines were rather more positive following the Irish Derby victory of his Hurricane Lane, registering a rare Epsom/Curragh derby double for the Dubai moneybags’ Godolphin operation and trainer Charlie Appleby. The outcome was all the more impressive as it… Read more »

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Seamus Heffernan

BACK TO SCHOOL FOR SEAMUS HEFFERNAN

Date: July 1, 2021 - Sport of Kings

THIS TIME last year, the hapless Seamie Heffernan landed one of the longest whip bans received by any jockey. The French stewards banned him for 22 days over his use of the stick on the Aidan O’Brien-trained Order Of Australia in the French Derby, but it appears that Heffernan hasn’t fully learnt his lesson from… Read more »

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Sean Corkery

DATALEX’S SURPRISE €25M EQUITY RAISE

Date: July 1, 2021 - Moneybags

WHAT A surprising move Datalex made earlier this month when issuing a fundraiser, a year ahead of what observers would have predicted after a recent reorganisation of its debt situation. The company recorded an underlying loss of $3.7m in 2020 but with no further update on this state of affairs, CEO Sean Corkery pulled the… Read more »

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Carl McCann

CARL MCCANN’S REMARKABLE FRUIT SALAD

Date: July 1, 2021 - Moneybags

CARL MCCANN is about to create a global fruit and vegetable colossus courtesy of his merging of Total Produce and Dole Food Company (DFC) into one giant group with sales of €8bn. The plan involves floating the huge merged entity, Dole plc, on the New York Stock Exchange and at the same time raising between… Read more »

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Barry Napier

BARRY NAPIER’S €1M JUDGMENT

Date: July 1, 2021 - Briefcases

SURPRISING TO see the highly respected telecoms entrepreneur Barry Napier finding himself on the end of a judgment from AIB for a cool €1m. The multitalented Napier has made quite an impact in the mobile tech sector but delivered a rather less impressive performance when it came to the business of owning pubs. Enniskerry, Co… Read more »

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FAT CAT FAILINGS

Date: July 1, 2021 - Briefcases

WHILE THE name may sound impressive, Fat Cat Property Holdings Ltd (FCP) doesn’t look like it is about to join the ranks of the big boys any time soon judging by accounts just filed. One of the players here turns out to be accountant and former tax inspector Martin Grennell, who operates these days as… Read more »

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Mairead Mulhern

MAIREAD MULHERN’S ‘FANTASIC ADVENTURE’

Date: July 1, 2021 - Briefcases

THE LIQUIDATION of Teilifís Mhaigh Eo Teo (TME), the company that was behind the ill-fated Irish TV channel, has finally been completed. Not surprisingly, there was sod all for creditors, notably the hapless UK taxi moneybags John Griffin. Out of total receipts of a mere €400,000, the combined costs of the examinership and liquidation, including… Read more »

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Bob Geldof

GEOFF HOGAN’S HIGH COURT PETITION

Date: July 1, 2021 - Briefcases

FANS OF Goldhawk will not have been overly surprised by the decision of Period Door Properties Ltd (PDP) to petition the High Court this week to have an examiner appointed to the Dublin subletting firm. Trouble had been brewing since the pandemic hit but the severity of the problems does seem to have come as… Read more »

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