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Sarah McInerney

PROFILE: SARAH MCINERNEY

Date: April 22, 2021 - Pillars of Society

IS SARAH McINERNEY really a cross between Martha Gellhorn and Kate Adie? Or is she a competent journalist who struck it lucky by being, as she described herself, in “the right job at the right time for me and for the country” when filling in on Sean O’Rourke’s RTÉ morning show last summer? That gig,… Read more »

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Tom Gleeson

YOUNG BLOOD: TOM GLEESON

Date: April 22, 2021 - The Young Bloods

TOM GLEESON’S burger joint Bunsen recently issued High Court proceedings to block Dublin City Council from interfering with its food collection point in Ranelagh, which has been upsetting the local D6 residents. It marks a rare outing in the media spotlight for Tom, who has managed to become rather wealthy while keeping his head down…. Read more »

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Gerry O'Brien

GERRY O’BRIEN’S SEQUEL

Date: April 22, 2021 - Behind the Scenes

IT IS safe to say that the ‘Irish Film Agreement’ inked by Irish Actors Equity and Screen Producers Ireland (SPI) won’t be winning script awards anytime soon. The spear-carriers of the acting trade, and some of their better-known colleagues, blew a collective raspberry at the deal that was signed off by Irish Equity president Padraig… Read more »

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THE MARIO ROSENSTOCK PODCAST

Date: April 22, 2021 - PodcastsReviews

LAST AUTUMN saw the cancellation of Mario Rosenstock’s Today FM show, Mario’s Sunday Roast, due to – in the comic’s own words – “circumstances beyond my control”. The “circumstances” appeared to be quite straightforward – the show did not have a sufficiently high listenership. Naturally, there was only one answer. Like virtually every other Irish… Read more »

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JAMES GOUGH’S LIBEL ACTION

Date: April 22, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

BUSINESSMAN, BLUESHIRT and racehorse owner James Gough is building up quite a track record in the litigation stakes, with his most recent target being the Sunday Times. The latest legal action featuring the bolshie Gough follows on foot of an article published in the ST in February relating to references that had been provided for… Read more »

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Lars and Caroline Bjoerk

LARS BJOERK’S LIECHTENSTEIN LOANS

Date: April 22, 2021 - High Society

THE FORMER owners of Dollanstown Stud in Co Meath have moved to strike off the company behind the operation. It is clear that running the sprawling estate was an expensive endeavour, which was bankrolled by an offshore entity. The impressive Dollanstown Stud outside Kilcock was owned by Swedish moneybags Lars and his Irish wife, former… Read more »

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Helen McAlinden

HELEN McALINDEN’S BOTTOM LINE

Date: April 22, 2021 - High Society

EVERY SO often, Irish fashion designers pop up in the media with some words of wisdom for the locals. The latest to take a pop is Helen McAlinden, who “provides wardrobe solutions for the contemporary woman”. Maybe she should cast a critical eye over her own less than attractive figures. McAlinden’s views on Irish style… Read more »

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PAUL HOURICAN’S RENT ROLL

Date: April 22, 2021 - Briefcases

LAST YEAR a little noticed legal row over the sale of a €3m pile on Wellington Road D4 was quietly settled. The plaintiff here turns out to be a company owned by the low-profile Paul Hourican, who has become a major landlord in Dublin through Period Door Properties Ltd (PDP). In recent times, the company… Read more »

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VOL 39 NO 08

Date: April 22, 2021 -

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RICHARD CORRIGAN’S DIVIDENDS

Date: April 22, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

MOUTHY CELEBRITY chef Richard Corrigan has plenty to shout about as customers flock back to expensive restaurants in London. Accounts for 2019 signed off at the end of last month reveal that Corrigan and his fellow investors have shared a bumper £2.9m (€3.4m) dividend. Presumably, this pay day helped to ease them through the dark… Read more »

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Simon Coveney

IRELAND’S SECRET MILITARY PLANS

Date: April 22, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

AN ARTICLE in the Defence Forces Review 2020 has caused a spat between its authors, the Defence Forces and the Department of Defence over charges that the latter micro-manages and stifles the former. However, there is little or no such dissension among authors of the 29 articles in the review when it comes to Irish defence policy;… Read more »

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Ranjit Boparan

‘CHICKEN KING’ BOPARAN

Date: April 22, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

A COMPANY called Ilderstone Ltd has just been liquidated. This turns out to be an entity linked to the Harry Ramsden’s outlets in Ireland, a business until recently owned by the super rich ‘Chicken King’ Ranjit Boparan. It looks like the pandemic has claimed another victim. Ilderstone was incorporated in the 1990s but in 2010… Read more »

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Bishop Denis Nulty

BISHOP NULTY AND TAKING THE FALL

Date: April 22, 2021 - Clerical Errors

HE IS now known as Bishop Denis, the feminist menace. Denis Nulty, the twitter-loving Bishop of Kildare & Leighlin, is one of a new breed of lace-loving ultra-conservative prelates who deploy twitter as instruments of old-fashioned evangelism to reach the simple faithful. A Maynooth lightweight in theology but a heavyweight Dublin City University man in pastoral… Read more »

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Niall Meehan

ECUMENICAL ERRORS

Date: April 22, 2021 - Clerical Errors

AN INTERESTING story about a Protestant woman’s High Court challenge to the report of the Commission on Mother and Baby homes centres on her claim that it misidentifies her as Catholic. She says that a raft of other details in the report also misidentifies Church of Ireland (CoI) individuals and surroundings as Catholic. The legal… Read more »

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DAVID KENNEDY’S CASE

Date: April 22, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

THIS WEEK will see the eagerly awaited 2020 annual report from the controversial Datalex firm. The impact of developments in China will be of particular interest to investors. Separately, Dermot Desmond’s favourite airline software business is facing legal action from its former chief financial officer (CFO). The problem for Datalex is that the giant Chinese… Read more »

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Alastair Adair

THEY HAVEN’T GONE AWAY, YOU KNOW

Date: April 22, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

THE GOOD Friday Agreement was signed almost a quarter of a century ago, with one of its key commitments that the north would be demilitarised. To some extent this has been delivered on, with spy towers torn down, army bases closed, military helicopters grounded etc. However, the retreat of the British army into the background… Read more »

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Damian O'Reilly

DOWN ON THE FARMERS

Date: April 22, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

WHATEVER ELSE you might say about RTÉ, it does take impartiality seriously. You would be generally hard pressed to say for sure how its presenters personally feel about the topics – and people – they cover professionally. As its Guidelines for Journalists state: ‘Trust is the cornerstone of RTÉ: our content should be honest, reliable,… Read more »

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John Douglas

HOW TO RECRUIT INFORMANTS

Date: April 22, 2021 - Hush Hush

THE DREGS of loyalist paramilitaries took a break in recent weeks from selling drugs on an industrial scale to rage against borders in the Irish Sea. However, this was in marked contrast to the officer class of British unionism in the north. Training and security firm Chenega Europe, based in Belfast, is staffed by the… Read more »

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STEFAN HALLENIUS’S LOSSES

Date: April 22, 2021 - Hush Hush

PUBLISHERS ARE among those struggling with Covid and Stefan Hallenius finds himself in the front line. He entered the Irish publishing world with the freesheet Totally Dublin in 2004 and, after shifting heavy losses, the publishing firm HKM Publishing (Ireland) Ltd collapsed into liquidation in 2009, owing creditors more than €¾m. Happily for Hallenius, the… Read more »

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Jon Williams

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: April 22, 2021 - The Hot Air Brigade

That’s what Prime Time’s new look – and its new set – is designed to do. To help us explain what’s really going on and get answers to important questions. Managing director of RTÉ News Jon Williams, Irish Independent The pandemic may be keeping us apart, but true friendships will last through these difficult times…. Read more »

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Nigel Dodds

DUP BOYCOTTS GOOD FRIDAY AGREEMENT

Date: April 22, 2021 - Northwind

THE DUP is boycotting Strand Two of the Good Friday Agreement (GFA) – north south institutions – and may extend the boycott to Strand Three – east-west. So far Arlene Foster has denied this, but the party’s deputy leader (now made Lord Dodds to compensate for losing his Westminster seat to Sinn Féin’s John Finucane),… Read more »

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President Higgins

PRESIDENT’S UNCIVIL LINE ON CENTENARIES

Date: April 22, 2021 - Last Refuge

THE LOOMNG centenaries of the Treaty and Civil War are causing tremors among various politicians, especially those in Fine Gael and especially also because of President Higgins’s trenchant views on these issues. Irish Times political editor Pat Leahy fretted last weekend about these events being the “difficult” parts of the decade of commemorations; how Higgins’s own… Read more »

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Neale Richmond

RICHMOND’S ROAD TO TOP OF GREASY POLE

Date: April 22, 2021 - Last Refuge

THE SCENT of long-term leadership ambition wafts from the utterances and persona of Neale Richmond, Fine Gael TD for Dublin Rathdown, who has made headlines with his call for the groundwork to be laid for a border poll – a most un-Blueshirt proposition. This proposal is also most un-Richmond-like as Neale is a Church of… Read more »

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Stephen Donnelly

DONNELLY’S ROLLERCOASTER

Date: April 22, 2021 - Last Refuge

HOW DID Stephen Donnelly go from zero to hero and back again to zero in a fortnight? When the health minister sensibly proposed to extend the mandatory quarantine list of countries early this month he provoked the obstinate opposition of Leo Varadkar and indignation verging on outrage of foreign minister Simon ‘Covetous’ Coveney. Donnelly also… Read more »

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Leo Varadkar

IRELAND’S WAR GAMES IN AFRICA

Date: April 22, 2021 - Last Refuge

THE ONLY article among 29 contributions in the Defence Forces Review 2020 that does not openly support or presume Ireland’s integration into an EU armed force concerns our involvement in Mali. This mission (MINUSMA) is regarded as one of the most dangerous United Nations projects in the world. And Ireland’s involvement is the product of… Read more »

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Prince Philip

ON AN ASS IN STEPHEN’S GREEN

Date: April 22, 2021 - Fit to Print?

ISN’T IT time the London based Sunday Times filled the editor’s post at its Aawrish edition – vacant since Frank Fitzgibbon announced his retirement last October – with a trusted Irish journalist? Despite the exaggerated mantra about Irish people being enthralled by the British monarchy, the outpouring of grief and monarchic servility by the ST’s Irish edition following the… Read more »

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FORBES’S FOIBLES

Date: April 22, 2021 - Fit to Print?

FORBES MAGAZINE obviously values its reputation as one of the most authoritative financial publications in the world. This helps to explain why the mag dumped all over Stephen McBride, the Dublin-born financial journalist that referred to Limerick’s reputation with jibes about its murder rate and its former nickname, ‘Stab City’ in an article about the… Read more »

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Tom Fitzpatrick

‘EXAMINER’ SEES RED ON GREEN COLUMN

Date: April 22, 2021 - Fowl Emissions

IT’S ALWAYS a little embarrassing when a newspaper removes an opinion column from its online edition after publication. Embarrassing both for the journalist and the editors. Even more so when the columnist in question is one of those editors. Efforts by new Irish Examiner editor Tom Fitzpatrick to position the paper as a voice of… Read more »

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Climate Disinformation Coillte Climate Action EU Livestock NDC Claude Etchelamendy Ed Brophy Richard Boyd-Barrett Kish Dale Crammond Frank Mitloehner Shell Greenwashing Meta Data Centres Ireland

WES EDEN’S NEXT ATTEMPT?

Date: April 22, 2021 - Fowl Emissions

THE GOVERNMENT is irrelevant. That seemed to be a High Court message recently, when Judge Garrett Simons agreed with barristers for Eamon Ryan’s department that, under the 2015 Climate Act, only “relevant bodies” must have regard to national climate policy and, while a minister constitutes a relevant body, the government does not. In the case… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: April 22, 2021 - Bog Cuttings

‘Slapped Bare Backside’ Patrick Lynch (18) appeared before Buncrana District Court to face numerous charges of dangerous driving. The defendant, of Inch Road, Burnfoot, came to the attention of gardaí after committing several driving offences over a few days. In one instance, Lynch and another man made ‘hand gestures’ at a passing patrol car. When… Read more »

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Consuelo O’Connor

FRAGRANT FAREWELL

Date: April 22, 2021 - High Society

SO FAREWELL then International Cosmetic & Fragrances (ICF), part of the cosmetics business developed here by German businessman Claus Michel. The move to dissolve ICF earlier this month comes many years after the company had ceased trading and rather a long time later than expected. Claus Michel made his fortune in the cosmetics business and… Read more »

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OPEN CALL WINNERS

Date: April 22, 2021 - Behind the Scenes

WHILE ARTS minister Catherine Martin has been throwing millions of euro at the arts during the pandemic, the Arts Council has also been getting in on the act, and this month dished out €1m to “innovative arts projects” by the likes of Dublin Fringe Festival (DFF) and Poetry Ireland under the Open Call 2020 banner,… Read more »

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THE ART OF FALLING – DANIELLE McLOUGHLIN

Date: April 22, 2021 - BooksReviews

ONE OF Danielle McLoughlin’s writing strengths comes from her powerful depictions of everyday life, often with undertones of sinister uncertainty. This was evident in Dinosaurs on Other Planets, her 2015 collection of short stories, many of which featured volatile characters whose lives were in transition. McLoughlin’s debut novel – set mainly in contemporary Cork and… Read more »

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Michael O'Leary

O’LEARY PROVES POINT

Date: April 22, 2021 - Sport of Kings

AS IF Michael and Eddie O’Leary needed another opportunity to annoy the wider racing community, then their recent handling of Tiger Roll served such a purpose. Their well-publicised spat with the English handicapper over Tiger Roll’s allotted weight in the Grand National led the O’Leary boys to throw their toys out of the pram and… Read more »

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Douglas Taylor

DOUG’S ROLL OF THE DICE

Date: April 22, 2021 - Sport of Kings

A SURPRISE name among the entries for Punchestown this year is the grade 1 winning mare Laurina, who was retired from racing by her former trainer Paul Nicholls last winter. She was then put up for auction by former owner Jared Sullivan and was snapped up as a broodmare prospect by Douglas Taylor for a… Read more »

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Rachael Blackmore

GAME ON FOR BLACKMORE

Date: April 22, 2021 - Sport of Kings

AS THE jumps season draws to a close, there is one final task to be achieved by wonder jockey Rachael Blackmore – to win the jockeys’ championship. It looked like it was game over in this particular race at Easter when she trailed Paul Townend by 10 winners but a foot injury sustained by Blackmore’s… Read more »

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