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Gavin Robinson

BORDER POLL SPECTRE

Date: January 28, 2021 - Northwind

SINCE THE Brexit Irish Sea border came into effect on 1 January, unionism has been in turmoil. There had been nervousness, resentment and denial in the autumn when the implications of what hardline unionists call “the Betrayal Act” (aka the Irish Protocol in the Withdrawal Agreement) became obvious. However, few imagined the practical effects would… Read more »

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Vol. 39 No. 02

Date: January 28, 2021 -

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ALI RYAN’S FIGURES

Date: January 28, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

ALI RYAN, Goldhawk’s favourite celeb spotter, and the chief executive of Goss Media, has been generating her fair share of headlines recently. Less publicised has been a slight setback in the company finances. The 2019 accounts for AS Goss Ireland Media Ltd reveal a loss of more than €60,000 for the 12 months resulting in… Read more »

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Colm Fox

FOX FAMILY LAWYERS UP

Date: January 28, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

THINGS ARE starting to get rather complicated in relation to the tragic death of detective superintendent Colm Fox almost three years ago. Three new sets of legal proceedings have just been lodged. Fox took his own life in Ballymun garda station, using a garda firearm, during the trial of Patrick Hutch, who had been accused… Read more »

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Gerry O’Carroll

KERRY BABIES: COLDEST CASE

Date: January 28, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

THE RECENT settlement between Joanne Hayes’ family and government (€2.5m) coupled with an apology and declaration that the Kerry Babies Tribunal reached incorrect conclusions afforded some justice to the family. But there are still some serious, unanswered questions about how and why the entire family incriminated themselves in crimes they could not possibly have committed…. Read more »

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Catherine Martin

CATHERINE MARTIN’S EMPTY CHAIR

Date: January 28, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

MEDIA, TOURISM and culture minister Catherine Martin was effusive in her praise of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) earlier this month when the agency unveiled its new three-year strategy statement. The Greens minister commended the “forward-looking strategy”, referring to the vital importance of a well-functioning media sector. She also noted that this is a… Read more »

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Rupert Murdoch

JUSTINE MCCARTHY’S MISCHIEF

Date: January 28, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

WHAT A curious and perhaps mischievous column Sunday Times journalist Justine McCarthy penned after Donald Trump supporters laid siege to Washington DC’s Capitol building. McCarthy wrote that while much of the American media (ie, Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News) was ultra right wing and thoroughly objectionable, the way to confront this was not via CNN’s “unapologetically… Read more »

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Willie Frazer

TORY RED HAND

Date: January 28, 2021 - Hush Hush

THE ASSASSINATION of yet another collusion campaigner will be commemorated soon – Lurgan solicitor, Rosemary Nelson, March 1999 – but that hasn’t stopped the Northern Ireland Office (NIO) from continuing its blatant attempts to curb Troubles ‘Legacy’ investigations. Northern Secretary of State, Brandon Lewis, signalled recently that he will ignore legacy investigation provisions approved under… Read more »

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DUP’S ‘PEACE-BUILDING’

Date: January 28, 2021 - Hush Hush

DUP LINKED human-rights-abusing countries such as Bahrain, Moldova, the Maldives, Sri Lanka and Israel have all received long-term military training from British armed forces, not only on UK territory but also on the ground in those countries. Two weeks ago the UK lobby group Campaign Against the Arms Trade demanded a probe into UK military… Read more »

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Kathryn Thomas

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: January 28, 2021 - The Hot Air Brigade

It’s not only billionaires who can work and travel at the same time. Kathryn Thomas, Irish Independent But somehow, Tubridy’s spiel doesn’t drag. If anything, the subatomic weightlessness of his subject matter adds zip to proceedings, allowing him to riff irreverently on themes. Mick Heaney, The Irish Times, submitted by reader I was sitting on… Read more »

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Jack Chambers

CHAMBERS CASHIERED BY COVENEY

Date: January 28, 2021 - Last Refuge

FLUSHED, APPARENTLY, with promotional success, Jack Chambers, told the Business Post on January 10 of a catalogue of initiatives he would be driving given his position as “the newly appointed minister of state for defence”. Already government chief whip and junior minister for sport and the Gaeltacht, the eager and ambitious Fianna Fáil politician listed… Read more »

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Shane Ross

BLUESHIRT VENGEANCE

Date: January 28, 2021 - Last Refuge

THE NEXUS between judges, legal eagles and politicians was unwittingly underlined by barrister Rossa Fanning’s recent onslaught in the Sunday Independent against ex-minister Shane Ross for his disrespectful criticism of main contender as the next chief justice, Donal O’Donnell. Rossa wrote of the “conspicuous brilliance of O’Donnell’s advocacy” as a lawyer; “the great appellate and… Read more »

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Eoin Ó Broin

SF COALITION PARTNERS

Date: January 28, 2021 - Last Refuge

RECENT REMARKS by Sinn Féin brainbox, housing spokesperson, Eoin Ó Broin, about potential coalition government with Fianna Fáil will have been listened to with as much interest by FF members as those in SF. Certainly FF leader and Taoiseach, Micheál Martin, normally seized with loathing for Mary Lou and comrades, made sure not to reject… Read more »

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John Cooney

McQUAID’S LONG SHADOW

Date: January 28, 2021 - Fit to Print?

STRANGELY, IN his recent Irish Times column titled “McQuaid’s long shadow hangs over baby homes” – and on RTÉ with Claire Byrne – Ireland’s best-known historian, Diarmaid Ferriter, omitted to mention allegations of Archbishop John Charles McQuaid’s sexual sins. The controversial Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation report has seen RTÉ and the Irish Times defer to the… Read more »

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George Nkencho

SINDO REVERTS TO TYPE

Date: January 28, 2021 - Fit to Print?

THE NEED to stand out and be contrarian, even provocative, has become almost de rigueur for many hacks trying to build a profile for themselves. But it’s not what one normally expects from Shane Coleman, Newstalk Breakfast presenter and Sunday Independent columnist. His Sindo love letter to assertive, publicity-attracting mandarin Robert Watt last weekend was… Read more »

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CORRECTION

Date: January 28, 2021 - Last Refuge

In an article in The Phoenix, 15 January, 2021, headlined ‘HEALTH MINISTER’S FUTURE’, Cllr Rory O’Connor was incorrectly named as Seán O’Connor, and Wicklow Times editor Shay Fitzmaurice was incorrectly named as Shay Donnelly. Apologies to those concerned.

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Eamon Ryan

CETA: RYAN RULES

Date: January 28, 2021 - Fowl Emissions

BACK IN 2017, when Green Party leader Eamon Ryan was front and centre in the civil society campaign against CETA, the EU-Canada trade deal, his party adopted a policy that described the deal as “an affront to democracy”. Four years on, that phrase neatly sums up the feelings of many party members on Ryan’s U-turn… Read more »

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NOT SO CUDDLY CANADA

Date: January 28, 2021 - Fowl Emissions

CANADA HAS a fairly benign image here, personified by heart-throb prime minister Justin Trudeau, but its corporate sector is far from cuddly. Quite a few of the Canadian firms operating in Ireland are in the business of gouging the earth. Canadian mining companies are drilling or prospecting in Clare, Connemara and elsewhere, while Topaz and… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: January 28, 2021 - Bog Cuttings

Following Orders Letterkenny District Court heard the case of a man who compared customs officials to Nazi officers when stopped at a checkpoint. Michael McGee, of Glenleigham, Fintown, was stopped by customs officials who detected illegal diesel in the fuel tank of McGee’s Volkswagen Passat. A customs official told the court that McGee became unco-operative,… Read more »

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Leonard and Hungry Paul

LEONARD AND HUNGRY PAUL – (RÓNÁN HESSION)

Date: January 28, 2021 - BooksReviews

THE NEW One Dublin One Book offering this year is the debut novel by musician Hession (aka Mumblin’ Deaf Ro), which was first published in March 2019. It’s a strange choice given the competition out there. The story’s two title characters are thirtysomething friends who take walks, play board games and enjoy comfortable silences. Their… Read more »

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Swiftwood

NOEL McMAHON’S PENTHOUSE

Date: January 28, 2021 - High Society

SOME PROPERTIES that went on the market during the pandemic have been receiving a second round of media plugs, using the lockdown theme to draw in potential punters. For example, Chris de Burgh’s 27-acre Bushey Park estate in Co Wicklow got a boost from the Irish Times last week, which highlighted its appeal to “those… Read more »

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Sh!t Happens

GET MY SH!T TOGETHER – RTÉ PLAYER

Date: January 28, 2021 - ReviewsTV

ALONGSIDE COVID, a silent epidemic has been quietly building in recent times – that of half-arsed lockdown programming on the RTÉ Player. Following on from the dire socially distanced dating show Love Is In The Air, we now have self-styled “feelgood fest”, Get My Sh!t Together. Notably, the series is co-hosted by Pamela Joyce, best known as an early… Read more »

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Consuelo O’Connor

MICHEAL MAUGHAN’S EXIT

Date: January 28, 2021 - High Society

GOLDHAWK NOTES that moneybags Michael Maughan has stepped down from the board of the Friends of the National Gallery of Ireland, where there are now only six directors left in situ. Ailesbury Road-based Maughan, best known for the long established Gowan Group and its holding company, Convest, had been the longest-serving board member at the… Read more »

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Joseph O'Brien

JOSEPH O’BRIEN’S JUMPING

Date: January 28, 2021 - Sport of Kings

JOSEPH O’BRIEN must be looking forward to the resumption of flat racing this spring after enduring a challenging time with his jumps string in recent times. Although a Galway Plate win in July with the JP McManus-owned Early Doors leaves him high up on the trainers’ table, the recent run of form of his jumps… Read more »

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David Mullins

MULLINS BOWS OUT

Date: January 28, 2021 - Sport of Kings

IT IS very rare when a 24-year-old multiple Grade 1 and Grand National-winning jockey decides to hang up his boots without the excuse of injury or weight issues but that is exactly what the talented David Mullins has decided to do. Mullins, who rode Rule The World to win the Aintree Grand National for Mick… Read more »

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Charles Byrnes

DRONE MOAN

Date: January 28, 2021 - Sport of Kings

THE LENGTHS some dodgy overseas punters will go to in order to get an edge in their betting has been highlighted by the recent suspension of trainer Charles Byrnes. Although he was not connected with betting irregularities (and is appealing the penalty), the referral committee’s report described the modus operandi adopted by third parties far… Read more »

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Eva Kenny

EVA KENNY’S APPOINTMENT

Date: January 28, 2021 - Behind the Scenes

CULTURE MINISTER Catherine Martin was busy in the run-up to Christmas, filling some vacancies on the board of IMMA, although there is only one new face. There are other seats due to be filled imminently and presumably a full complement will be in place when the gallery’s 30th anniversary rolls around later this year. In… Read more »

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THE TAXMAN GIVETH

Date: January 28, 2021 - Behind the Scenes

WITH THE taxman having just published details of fourth quarter 2020 beneficiaries of the generous film and TV tax incentive Goldhawk wondered about the cost to the taxpayer of the scheme for 2020 and 2019. The Revenue noted, “a company must file its Corporation Tax return, and pay the balance of tax due, nine months after… Read more »

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Peter Jackson

FLUTTER ROLLS THE DICE IN THE USA

Date: January 28, 2021 - Moneybags

AS THE US sports betting sector gradually opens, there is clearly a huge market emerging as individual states legislate for online sports betting. This is proving a slow process, however, with only five US states having made the move so far and, significantly, none of the prime states like California and New York. At the… Read more »

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Patrick Coveney

GREENCORE’S SHARES CONTINUE TO STRUGGLE

Date: January 28, 2021 - Moneybags

PADDY COVENEY has now been CEO of Greencore for more than a decade. His core objective was to turn the group into “a leading international manufacturer of convenience food” but Greencore has instead shrunk. The figures for the year to September 2020 were worse than anticipated from a profitability point of view and the shareholders… Read more »

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Judge Aileen Donnelly

ANTHONY FITZPATRICK’S ‘OBJECTIVE BIAS’ CLAIM

Date: January 28, 2021 - The Hot Water Brigade

FANS OF Goldhawk will be familiar with a legal saga surrounding the liquidation of Star Elm Frames Ltd (SEF), which was the subject of a winding-up petition in June 2016 by the Revenue on foot of an unpaid tax bill of more than €½m (see The Phoenix 9/9/16). There has been a raft of litigation… Read more »

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Jim Farrell

HRI HANDICAPPED

Date: January 28, 2021 - The Hot Water Brigade

GOLDHAWK WAS interested to see the Irish Examiner reporting that Horse Racing Ireland, (HRI) has claimed to the Public Accounts Committee that it dropped €390,000 as a result of the liquidation of a cash-in-transit provider it had been using in 2019. The company provided services to both HRI and Tote Ireland, although a new contract… Read more »

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David McKeown

TIKTOK TENANTS

Date: January 28, 2021 - The Hot Water Brigade

ELSEWHERE in this issue Goldhawk takes a look at the TikTok players who set up the so-called The Go House before going offline in the run-up to Christmas. The operation, which was previously known as the GOAT House, had initially been based in a modern pad on Lansdowne Lane. This property had been put on… Read more »

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Stephen Evans-Freke

CASTLE FREKE’S VIEWS

Date: January 28, 2021 - The Hot Water Brigade

GOLDHAWK favourite millionaire Wall Street banker, Stephen Evans-Freke, has suffered a setback in his efforts to block the demolition of a former hotel and the construction of nine houses near his luxurious Castle Freke in Cork. Evans-Freke is the son of Peter Evans-Freke, the 11th Lord Carbery, and he bought his ancestral home, Castle Freke,… Read more »

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Darragh O’Brien

FF: O’BRIEN ENTERS THE STAGE

Date: January 14, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

A FLURRY of statements, off-record briefings and spin from Fianna Fáil personalities in the Christmas/new year period has triggered renewed pressure on Micheál Martin’s leadership. There appeared to be no particular political blunder or negative development – not even the pandemic surge – that sparked the renewed leadership speculation. Nor was there any significant drop… Read more »

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Graeme De Renzy

PROFILE: GRAEME DE RENZY

Date: January 14, 2021 - Pillars of Society

LATER THIS month, the Four Goldmines will be the setting for a face-off between Irish wheeler-dealer, named Graeme de Renzy and Harvey Boulter, the Ferrari-driving boss of Cayman Islands-based cryptocurrency outfit GuardianCoin. At stake is the small matter of $60m. How did Castleknock-based GDR get to play in such a high stakes poker game and… Read more »

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