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POETRY SURPRISE

Date: December 3, 2020 - Fit to Print?

DUBLIN LIBERALS at the Irish Times appear to have liberated their new charges at the Waterford News & Star, previously owned by Irish Examiner owners Landmark before the IT took over in 2018. For just the second time, the newspaper has brought out a standalone Christmas publication, Festive Star, reviving a tradition that began in… Read more »

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BAH HUMBUG!

Date: December 3, 2020 - Fit to Print?

HACKS as well as Bob Cratchit and other staff at the Irish Daily Star were overcome with gratitude at the recent munificence bestowed upon them by the new owners, Reach. The British publisher owns the Mirror titles and the Daily Express in Britain as well as the Irish Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror, Sunday People, RSVP… Read more »

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Robert O'Byrne

ROBERT O’BYRNE’S GEORGIAN DOC

Date: December 3, 2020 - High Society

THE COVER of the 2020 review from the Irish Georgian Society (IGS) features an Anthony Palliser painting of the society’s founder Desmond Guinness, who died last August. Not surprisingly, the publication features a lengthy tribute to Guinness, with contributions from the likes of former An Taisce chair Consuelo O’Connor, property/environment hack Frank McDonald and former… Read more »

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Johnnie Cooke

JOHNNIE COOKE’S COSTLY DISH

Date: December 3, 2020 - High Society

IT LOOKS like the latest recipe tried out by ‘celebrity chef’ Johnnie Cooke has failed to hit the spot and his company is now off the menu. This is bad news for the creditors and also investors, who include one Fiona Nagle (once better known as Mrs Breifne O’Brien) and tech millionaire Jim Mountjoy. After… Read more »

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Lisa McInerney

GLORIOUS HANDOUTS

Date: December 3, 2020 - Behind the Scenes

THE FILM and TV funding agency Screen Ireland (SI), still rolling with three board vacancies since the start of the year, has announced its latest round of funding for the luvvies. MVG Film & TV Ltd, which was set up in February by former SI production executive Rory Gilmartin, picked up a couple of development… Read more »

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EOIN MURPHY’S NEW HAT

Date: December 3, 2020 - Behind the Scenes

NEXT WEEK, Sunday World showbiz hack Eoin Murphy will join education minister Norma Foley’s team of advisors. Film director Lenny Abrahamson may be glad to see him move from the entertainment beat after a recent story on the tabloid’s website linked him to a Bono biopic. Murphy will bring a new sensibility to Foley’s press… Read more »

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Emmet Mullins

PAUL BYRNE’S BIG PLANS

Date: December 3, 2020 - Sport of Kings

IN JULY, when The Shunter made his debut for trainer Emmet Mullins at Tipperary after an unproductive spell for his previous trainer, it was a well-publicised and costly outing that culminated in a €6,000 fine for Mullins under the non-trier rule. But things have looked rather better since for the handler and owner, Paul Byrne…. Read more »

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RACECOURSE BLUES

Date: December 3, 2020 - Sport of Kings

THE NEWS that British racecourses can welcome back not just owners but also limited crowds with immediate effect is in stark contrast to the prognosis from Association of Irish Racecourses chief Paddy Walsh. Walsh told the Racing Post that crowds are unlikely to be seen on courses in Ireland in the first half of 2021…. Read more »

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MULLINS PREPARES FOR BATTLE

Date: December 3, 2020 - Sport of Kings

WILLIE MULLINS has finally taken the wraps off his army of national hunt stars after resisting running them until well into November. His practice of avoiding Down Royal’s headline meeting at the beginning of November allowed Gordon Elliott to hoover up the majority of big prize money on offer that weekend and, having bagged a… Read more »

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Anne Heraty

ANNE HERATY’S RECORD AT CPL RESOURCES

Date: December 3, 2020 - Moneybags

IN SELLING her recruitment company, CPL Resources, for €316m, CEO and main shareholder Anne Heraty has hit the jackpot and will personally walk off with €90m, while her separated husband, Paul Carroll, will get a significant €18m. While this is a hell of an achievement, the decision is not surprising given that Heraty has a… Read more »

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Rose Hynes

ORIGIN ENTERPRISES FAILS TO HIT OWN TARGETS

Date: December 3, 2020 - Moneybags

IN THE 2019 annual report, Rose Hynes, chair of Origin Enterprises, advised her shareholders of “medium-term financial targets to 2023 of upwards earning growth” of between 5% and 9% and also “a collective ambition and a roadmap to achieve these goals”. This year, however, when returns fell off the cliff, there is not even a… Read more »

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Cormac Farrelly

CORMAC FARRELLY’S CONTRACTS

Date: December 3, 2020 - The Hot Water Brigade

AN INTERESTING ruling last month saw Judge John O’Connor refuse to block a senior agricultural hack from moving to the Farmers Journal from her position with digital farm news publisher Agriland Media. It turns out that the latter company was a target for Independent News & Media before the media group developed its own successful… Read more »

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Katherine Sweeney

KATHERINE SWEENEY’S TANGLES

Date: December 3, 2020 - The Hot Water Brigade

WITH HAIR salons re-opening now that the country is out of Level 5, coiffeurs all over Ireland will be coining it in the next few weeks. One of those who won’t be enjoying the spoils, however, is Essex girl Katherine Sweeney, whose salon Preen has hit the wall. But some generous family backing will have… Read more »

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Ray Norton

WEBSITE WARNING

Date: December 3, 2020 - The Hot Water Brigade

GOLDHAWK WAS interested to see a warning notice appear on the website of the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) relating to a website selling phones, tablets and other hand-held devices. It turns out that one of the players associated with the venture has also been in business in the UK with Goldhawk’s old friend,… Read more »

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Sarah Newman

SARAH NEWMAN’S MASK

Date: December 3, 2020 - The Hot Water Brigade

SARAH NEWMAN announced her return to commercial life in the Business Post last year in an emotional and candid interview. The interview outlined how Newman, who now lives between London and Dublin, had just been appointed to the advisory board of start-up accelerator Continuous Ventures, which “marks her return to Irish business life”. At Continuous… Read more »

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STOKES FAMILY PLANNING

Date: December 3, 2020 - The Hot Water Brigade

IT HAS been an uphill battle for Pia and Jeff Stokes – formerly of the renowned Unicorn restaurant off Stephen’s Green – and the recent efforts to get planning on their Mill House on Enniskerry Road have proved no different. The couple, who got a generous €12m debt write-off when their business empire went bust… Read more »

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NO INVITE FOR FLORA OKOBI

Date: December 3, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

AN award for colour-blind stupidity should surely be granted to officials and councillors involved in the recently launched Meath and Louth Migration Strategy. According to the Drogheda Independent, neither the founder of Culture Connect in Drogheda, Flora Okobi, nor any member of the minority community was invited to attend the launch. And Okobi was not… Read more »

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Fionnan Sheahan

FIONNÁN SHEEHAN LETS FLY

Date: December 3, 2020 - Last Refuge

IRELAND EDITOR at Independent News & Media Fionnán Sheahan’s past affiliation to Fine Gael (Young FG chairman at UCC) has been cited by some – unconvincingly – as evidence of Blueshirt bias. More credible is that Sheahan always enjoyed a good professional relationship with Blueshirt beast Big Phil Hogan before, during and perhaps also after… Read more »

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Consuelo O’Connor

JAMIE’S FITNESS PROBLEM

Date: December 3, 2020 - High Society

ONE OF the sectors badly hit by the pandemic has been the gym business, with Nphet deciding that having a beautiful body is non-essential. It is surprising then to see no reference to Covid-19 in the accounts just filed for Vitruvian Fitness. This is the operation established by Jamie Myerscough, whose mother Jane (granddaughter of… Read more »

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Frank McNamara and Theresa Lowe could celebrate after the ending of their prolonged wrangle with vulture fund Tanager. Former Custom House Capital boss Harry Cassidy (below) was arrested by German police and voluntarily returned to Ireland to face the fall-out from his company’s collapse.

ANNUAL 2020: HOT WATER BRIGADE 2020

Date: November 19, 2020 - The Hot Water Brigade

THE MORE things change, the more they stay the same. This year may have seen economic carnage like nothing before, but there were plenty of scraps and scrapes in the world of Irish business outside of the problems caused by the pandemic. Covid-19 did play a strong supporting role in an eventful year though. Quite… Read more »

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Michael O'Leary

ANNUAL 2020: MICHAEL O’LEARY’S PANDEMIC OPPORTUNITY

Date: November 19, 2020 - Moneybags

MICHAEL O’LEARY is facing an existential moment for Ryanair, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make a seismic difference to the company and help it change trajectory to take advantage of the current unprecedented circumstances for the aviation sector. There could be a landing slot for Ryanair in the highly lucrative aircraft leasing sector if Mick can… Read more »

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Cathal Friel

ANNUAL 2020 – STOCKS & SHARES: WINNERS AND LOSERS IN 2020

Date: November 19, 2020 - Moneybags

THIS YEAR, the company leading the winners’ table is one that has lost billions over the years, Providence Resources. The new management, under Pat Plunkett and Alan Linn, focused on farming out the already discovered Barryroe oilfield, with 350 million barrels of recoverable oil identified by the previous five wells. Even at the current subdued… Read more »

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Catherine FitzGerald and hubby Dominic West declared that they were “very much still together” after the latter was snapped in a compromising situation. Thirty-year-old John Collison (below) is now worth €3bn.

ANNUAL 2020: BILLIONAIRES COME AND GO IN 2020

Date: November 19, 2020 - High Society

IRELAND started off the year with the news that we had the fifth-largest number of billionaires per capita behind Hong Kong, Cyprus, Singapore and Switzerland, according to an Oxfam report for the World Economic Forum. The year didn’t quite turn out as expected for some of these billionaires and a nasty side-effect of Covid-19 turned… Read more »

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Sinéad O’Connor is preparing to publish her memoir next year and is “looking forward to dishing the sexual dirt on everyone I’ve ever slept with”. JK Rowling (below) has been the target of cancel culture after she was labelled a transphobe.

ANNUAL 2020 – ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT: 2020: CANCEL CULTURE, COVID AND CONTROVERSY

Date: November 19, 2020 - Arts & EntertainmentBehind the Scenes

THIS WAS a year not much like any other given that the arts were savaged by the pandemic. Nevertheless, it was business as usual for many – or at least those who managed to avoid being cancelled in an increasingly fraught cultural environment. Certainly getting on with things were Van Morrison, who celebrated his 75th… Read more »

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Most of the world took a sigh of collective relief as Donald Trump looked set to depart the White House. Simon Coveney (below) was delighted when Ireland won a seat on the UN Security Council and was happy to take most of the credit and glory of the win for himself.

ANNUAL 2020: BALLINA BIDEN TO BIFF BORIS?

Date: November 19, 2020 - Foreign Frolics

It’s been quite the rollercoaster year on the foreign affairs front. Covid-19 will of course be remembered as the defining global event of 2020. As the virus spread exponentially in March, caretaker Taoiseach Leo Varadkar decided to jet over to Washington DC for his St Patrick’s Day jolly all the same. It was a particularly… Read more »

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Even the most seasoned of learned friends in the Four Goldmines were in awe of Chief Justice Susan Denham’s ability to say so little with so many words . The High Court refused to authorise the extradition of Ian Bailey (below) to France over the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier.

ANNUAL 2020: INJUDICIOUS JUDGES

Date: November 19, 2020 - Wigs on the Green

IT WOULD be easy to think that nothing much happened in 2020 beyond the pesky coronavirus. In one way, that is right, but what the plague taketh away, it also giveth and there was plenty going on even while the country was locked down tight. Lawyers were squirrelling and beavering away, as is their wont,… Read more »

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Mary McAleese confirmed her position as the chief lay critic of misogyny and unaccountability in the Roman Church.

ANNUAL 2020- CLERICAL ERRORS: IRISH APOSTATES CAST OUT

Date: November 19, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

On Saturday November 28, Pope Francis will preside in Rome at a ceremony conferring red hats on 13 new Cardinals, but none of them will be either Diarmuid Martin (75), the Archbishop of Dublin and Elder Statesman of the Irish Church, or 59-year-old Archbishop Eamon Martin of Armagh, the All-Ireland successor of St Patrick. For… Read more »

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When she contracted Covid-19, Claire Byrne continued to broadcast from her “garden shed”, a structure with neither a garden tool nor a cobweb in sight. Other shows saw her in a mock-up hospital bed and a mock-up Covid testing facility.

ANNUAL 2020 – AIRWAVES: COVID: A GOOD NEWS STORY

Date: November 19, 2020 - Fit to Print?Radio

While COVID nearly destroyed the economy and laid waste to the independent TV sector right across the country, the disaster zone that has been 2020 might just have saved RTÉ and Dee Forbes’s bacon. In a year that saw many casualties on the airwaves, with old friends bowing out and others being pushed, long-running programmes… Read more »

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Former INM group chairman Leslie Buckley launched a court bid to have High Court inspectors removed from their investigation into an alleged data breach.

ANNUAL 2020: ABC OF MEDIA ABANDONED

Date: November 19, 2020 - Fit to Print?

Hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic, the print media still managed to afflict some of the comfortable during a torrid year. Just ask the various worthies who thought it was a good idea to attend the Oireachtas Golf Society dinner in Clifden. Clear winner of the scoop of the year was the Irish Examiner. “Golfgate”,… Read more »

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Micheál Martin announced that sharing the island of Ireland, rather than reuniting it, was his goal.

ANNUAL 2020 – PROFILE: WILL MARTIN MAKE IT TO 2022?

Date: November 19, 2020 - Pillars of Society

‘FIANNA FÁIL can kiss my ass – I’ve got the taoiseach’s job at last.’ That seems to be the political ditty that Micheál Martin hums to himself as his members see him strip away all the basic tenets of their party’s identity. Does he care? It doesn’t look like it as he believes he is… Read more »

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Sinn Féin’s Michelle O’Neill finally became deputy first minister in Nothern Ireland (or joint head of government, as SF calls her). She pressed for an all-Ireland approach to the Covid-19 pandemic, but the unionist-leaning northern media castigated her for breaking consensus.

ANNUAL 2020: STORMONT RETURNS: PLUS ÇA CHANGE

Date: November 19, 2020 - Northwind

IS COVID-19 a Fenian virus? Does it mutate when it transfers to Protestant victims? Stormont’s DUP agriculture minister, Edwin Poots, injected a virulent northern strain into the Covid debate this year, claiming that Catholic areas had six times the infection rate incurred in law-abiding unionist districts. Stormont was back all right. On January 9 politics… Read more »

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Frank Clarke

WOULFE IN JUDGE’S CLOTHING

Date: November 19, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

HAVING BEEN transformed from predator into the hunted one vis-à-vis Supreme Court ‘colleague’ Séamus Woulfe, Chief Justice Frank Clarke may now feel he laid too much stress on a legal and political precedent that few other judges and legal correspondents seemed to have noticed. In 1999, Supreme Court judge Hugh O’Flaherty and High Court judge… Read more »

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Joe Biden

BIDEN AND IRISH NEUTRALITY

Date: November 19, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

AS VICTORY for Joe Biden’s US presidential campaign inched closer, the Irish Times’s EU warriors became more exercised about the consequences for what is quaintly called “EU security”. On the one hand, warned one hack, Nato HQ and various EU governments would be pleased, as Biden could be relied on to be more assertive in… Read more »

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Nicola Mitchell

UNICORNS’ PROFITS

Date: November 19, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

LAST YEAR the Dáil declared a biodiversity emergency and, in recent months, the EU’s Farm To Fork strategy set out ambitious targets to cut the use of environmental poisons like chemical pesticides. Tough times, in other words, to be in the pesticide business right now. However, rather than being seen as pariahs in a sunset… Read more »

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Theresa May

IRELAND’S SPYCOPS

Date: November 19, 2020 - Hush Hush

A British spy in the Real IRA, Dennis McFadden, is alleged to have a ‘love child’ with a woman from Donegal, whom he is said to have left shortly before the birth of the child. On settling in Belfast, he then had a child with a new partner, who seems to have left Belfast at… Read more »

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Arlene Foster

COVID SAVES EXECUTIVE

Date: November 19, 2020 - Northwind

Former BBC journalist and veteran commentator Brian Rowan recently quoted a senior unionist who said, “The executive is on sticky ground. If we didn’t have Covid, it wouldn’t last.” That was before the behaviour of DUP executive ministers in the second week of November, when they twice used a blocking device – in effect a… Read more »

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