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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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Valerie Moran

BANKING ON THE MORANS

Date: June 3, 2021 - Sport of Kings

GORDON ELLIOTT and his team at Cullentra House will be crossing their fingers that there will be no loss of racing focus by the yard’s major investors – Noel and Valerie Moran – given the sudden impact on their coffers caused by publicity surrounding an investigation by the Central Bank into certain areas of the… Read more »

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Philip Rothwell

PHILIP ROTHWELL’S BAD DAY

Date: June 3, 2021 - Sport of Kings

WICKLOW TRAINER Philip Rothwell enjoyed his best year for a long time last season, which included training three winners at the Punchestown festival. But, he endured a frustrating day at two different tracks on the same day. Rothwell was on hand at Tipperary to supervise his runners and found himself before the stewards after the… Read more »

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Maurice Healy

GLANTUS BOTTOM LINE HIT BY PUNITIVE INTEREST RATES

Date: June 3, 2021 - Moneybags

SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT companies can prove irresistible to investors, who love nothing more than a ‘platform’ to throw their money at, despite the setbacks experienced by the likes of Datalex. The latest market float is Maurice Healy’s Glantus Holdings plc, a company that operates in the ‘accounts payable’ sector – what old-fashioned accountants would call managing… Read more »

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Emma Lucy O'Brien

VISUAL’S POOR PICTURE

Date: June 3, 2021 - Briefcases

THINGS AREN’T looking any better at the VISUAL arts centre in Carlow, where the colour red still dominates the accounts. The good news is that at least a little problem with the dreaded taxman has been sorted and this week the venue reopens. Last year, Carlow County Council had to bail out VISUAL, where the… Read more »

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LUNDIN’S €50M

Date: June 3, 2021 - Briefcases

A BLAST from the past with the winding-up of a company called Lundin Mining Ltd. The Lukas Lundin-chaired Canadian mining giant has operations around the globe, from Europe to South America, having most recently acquired mining interests in Brazil. The Irish link comes courtesy of one Tony O’Reilly, who having established Atlantic Resources back in… Read more »

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KING OF THE CASTLE

Date: June 3, 2021 - Briefcases

THERE WAS good news for former Wall Street banker Stephen Evans-Freke recently, when a proposed property development near his Co Cork castle got the thumbs down. Evans-Freke, son of Peter Evans-Freke, the 11th Lord Carbery, bought his ancestral home – Castle Freke near Roscarberry in Co Cork – 22 years ago through a British Virgin… Read more »

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BIROL NADIR’S PATIENT BACKERS

Date: June 3, 2021 - Briefcases

STILL NO sign of Birol Nadir’s long-awaited platform “on which real fans can interact with real stars and engage with others who share their interests and passions!” Meanwhile the losses build up. Happily, however, Darty-based Nadir has plenty of backers scattered around the globe. Eight years after the company was incorporated, it is still something… Read more »

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Thomas Leysen

MEDIAHUIS: ROGER CASEMENT’S NEMESIS

Date: May 20, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

LAST WEEK saw a corporate PR initiative designed to highlight the brand name of Mediahuis, new owners of the now defunct Independent News & Media (INM). In cheery, happy-clappy tones, various employees ‘volunteered’ expressions of delight via a video promotion with their new employer, Belgian… Read more »

David Frost

MARTIN’S ‘FROSTY’ CHEQUERS LUNCH

Date: May 20, 2021 - Northwind

LAST WEEK the taoiseach met Boris Johnson at Chequers. The verdict of the Ballymurphy inquest and the British intention to ditch the Stormont House Agreement on the past were on the agenda. Ostensibly Micheál Martin’s aim was to reset British-Irish relations. However, Britain’s Brexit negotiator, the aggressive, belligerent Lord David Frost – aka ‘Frosty’ –… Read more »

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Susan Kirby

PROFILE: SUSAN KIRBY

Date: May 20, 2021 - Pillars of Society

SUSAN KIRBY is less than six months in the post as chief executive of the film and TV business lobby group Screen Producers Ireland (SPI). This is the role she took on after her predecessor, Elaine Geraghty, moved to head up moneybags Joe Devine’s Ardmore… Read more »

Aoife Moore

YOUNG BLOOD: AOIFE MOORE

Date: May 20, 2021 - The Young Bloods

TALENTED, POPULAR in Dublin media circles and unashamedly a Derry Girl, it’s not at all surprising that the Irish Examiner’s Aoife Moore (30) found herself in former Sunday Independent godhead Eoghan Harris’s cross hairs. The political correspondent is now fighting back with a High Court action against Harris over his once-anonymous campaign. But why did… Read more »

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Lynn Boylan

BOYLAN WON’T BE PRESS-GANGED INTO DUBLIN BAY SOUTH

Date: May 20, 2021 - Last Refuge

MUCH AGONISING in Sinn Féin about its choice of candidate in the Dublin Bay South (DBS) byelection with electoral asset, former MEP Lynn Boylan an obvious candidate who would put up a strong showing. The other two possible candidates are Senator Fintan Warfield and local councillor, Daniel Ceitinn. However, SF has a different plan for… Read more »

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David Moloney

BÓTHAR’S FUNDING ROADBLOCK

Date: May 20, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

THE CHARITY Bóthar has been rarely out of the headlines since the story of the misappropriation of funds first surfaced in the High Court last month. It turns out that there were question marks over aspects of the charity dating back quite some time, at least as far as the civil servants in Iveagh House… Read more »

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Consuelo O’Connor

MAIREAD RONAN’S BUSINESS PARTNER

Date: May 20, 2021 - High Society

THERE IS a new name at the Faro Beauty operation co-owned by radio and TV presenter Mairéad Ronan. Mairéad’s marketing pal, Aoife Dunne, has just joined the party. Dunne is behind something called The Social Editor, which is a social media branding consultancy. The good news for her clients is that the business “is constantly… Read more »

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RTÉ’S EMPTY CHAIRS

Date: May 20, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

STILL NO sign of white smoke from the media department, where minister Catherine Martin continues to sit on the names of the nominations from the Joint Oireachtas Committee (JOC) to Moya Doherty’s RTÉ board. Patience is wearing pretty thin. The terms of the previous JOC nominees – Eoin McVey, Fionnuala Sheehan, Margaret Ward and Shane… Read more »

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Ashling Kilduff

ASHLING KILDUFF’S DESIGN FLAW

Date: May 20, 2021 - High Society

GOLDHAWK WAS surprised to note a creditors’ meeting has been called for the company behind the well-known Design Centre in the Powerscourt Townhouse Centre. The fashion outlet has been part of the centre since the 1980s and for the past 15 years or so has been under the control of long-term manager Ashling Kilduff, although… Read more »

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Henry Beeby

BEEBY ROLLS THE DICE

Date: May 20, 2021 - Sport of Kings

THE NEWS that Goffs is wheeling out its tried and tested ‘Million’ formula this year came as something of a bolt from the blue but the auction house was desperate to hold onto customers. The surprise move can be easily explained by the fact that the auction house’s flagship yearling sale – the Orby Sale… Read more »

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Hibernian Hotel

IAN SKEFFINGTON’S BIG PLANS

Date: May 20, 2021 - Briefcases

A PLANNING application has been lodged by a company called Flodale Ltd for the retention of accommodation at the Hibernian hotel in Abbeyleix, which operated these days as a direct provision centre by former chartered surveyor Ian Skeffington. He also has big plans to expand his group. The planning application is seeking the retention of… Read more »

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Simon Coveney

CUNNING COVENEY’S CONTORTIONS

Date: May 20, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

FOREIGN MINISTER Simon Coveney always likes to come over as the Palestinians’ best friend in public but his latest pronouncements are especially duplicitous. In an effort to divert from his sabotage of the Occupied Territories Bill during government formation talks last year, Covetous last week attacked the Aunt Sally target of the EU for having… Read more »

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Vol. 39 No. 10

Date: May 20, 2021 -

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ACTING UP

Date: May 20, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

THINGS ARE heating up off screen over relations between the Irish Equity actors’ union and the lobby group for production companies, Screen Producers Ireland (SPI). Elsewhere in the magazine (see p14) Goldhawk profiles Susan Kirby, the chief executive of SPI, who is faced with a rebellion from an increasingly bolshie Equity, just months after an… Read more »

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Eoghan Harris

HARRIS HOIST

Date: May 20, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

THE DEFENESTRATION of Eoghan Harris by Sunday Independent editor Alan English and publisher Peter Vandermeersch had little to do with sexism and everything to do with the national question, despite the tone of the debate surrounding the writer’s demise. Harris’s fans still exist but they were long ago eclipsed by events and the new politics… Read more »

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PETER KELLY’S ROUGH RIDE

Date: May 20, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

FILINGS IN the Companies Office throw some light on the scale of last year’s collapse of businesses controlled by Ballymore Eustace bloodstock breeder Peter Kelly. He found himself in a bit of a pickle in 2018, after he got embroiled in a row over a big overseas bloodstock deal. This resulted in his Emerald Equine… Read more »

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Catherine Martin

FILM BOARD’S NEW CAST

Date: May 20, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

RATHER LATE in the day, the board of the state funding agency for film and television, Screen Ireland (SI), has finally been appointed by arts minister Catherine Martin. Remarkably, the SI board had muddled along with just four of its quota of seven members for a full 12 months before the terms of those remaining… Read more »

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President Deby

IRISH COLONIAL ADVENTURE

Date: May 20, 2021 - Foreign Frolics

TUCKED AWAY at the bottom of page 7 of the Irish Times on April 21 last was a short, innocuous report headlined, “Chad’s long-time president Déby killed after battle with rebels”. How much does this matter to Irish people, one might ask? Quite a lot, actually. The deepening involvement of Irish soldiers in what is… Read more »

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Peter Vangeel

KBC’S IRISH AFFAIR

Date: May 20, 2021 - Foreign Frolics

KBC BANK Group has had a tangled relationship with Ireland since coming here in the late 1970s but, happily, despite rejecting the Irish market it has managed to maintain positive coverage from an accommodating Irish media. Take the announcement two years ago that KBC chairman Thomas Leysen was to stand down after eight years at… Read more »

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