IssueM Articles

Archives: Articles

articles
Marcus Carne

ANNE HERATY’S KINGSPAN SHARES

Date: February 11, 2021 - Briefcases

GOLDHAWK UNDERSTANDS that when you’ve just sold your company for an eye-watering €318m, six-figure sums might seem particularly trifling – forgettable, even. But it was nonetheless surprising to find that when Anne Heraty was first appointed as a director of Kingspan, she and the company plum forgot to mention that she had more than €100,000… Read more »

To access this content, you must be a Phoenix subscriber.

Get access to The Phoenix online for as low as €1.50 per week. Read all the regular online only Phoenix stories AND receive the packed digital edition every fortnight (25 per year). Great value for so many inside stories!

Subscribe Now! I’m a Subscriber

WAVF Castleknock Hospitality BAL Susan Bergin Tixserve EOG Fergal Naughton hot-water-brigade def

WINDING UP KEATING

Date: February 11, 2021 - Briefcases

FANS OF Goldhawk may not be too surprised to hear that Clare-headquartered construction and marine/civil engineering powerhouse Keating has ended up in liquidation. This comes four months after a High Court examinership process was kick-started. It will be recalled (see The Phoenix 11/9/20) that the first sign of trouble was a judgment registered against the… Read more »

To access this content, you must be a Phoenix subscriber.

Get access to The Phoenix online for as low as €1.50 per week. Read all the regular online only Phoenix stories AND receive the packed digital edition every fortnight (25 per year). Great value for so many inside stories!

Subscribe Now! I’m a Subscriber

WAVF Castleknock Hospitality BAL Susan Bergin Tixserve EOG Fergal Naughton hot-water-brigade def

SEAN GANLEY CALLS TIME

Date: February 11, 2021 - Briefcases

SEAN GANLEY, brother of Rivada boss Declan, has called time on GSC International Business Development, an ambitious effort to provide paid advice to the business leaders of the world. GSC was set up in 2018 and the younger Ganley brother leaned heavily on the family contacts to, as the website put it, “bring together a… Read more »

To access this content, you must be a Phoenix subscriber.

Get access to The Phoenix online for as low as €1.50 per week. Read all the regular online only Phoenix stories AND receive the packed digital edition every fortnight (25 per year). Great value for so many inside stories!

Subscribe Now! I’m a Subscriber

Simon Coveney

IRELAND TO ALLY WITH ISRAELI ARMY?

Date: January 28, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

THERE HAS been no coverage by Irish media of a dramatic EU decision that could see EU states – including Ireland – involved in military action abroad alongside the Israeli Defence Forces. EU defence ministers, who met on November 20 last, endorsed a series of decisions about Pesco (Permanent Structured Cooperation, aka the EU’s incipient… Read more »

To access this content, you must be a Phoenix subscriber.

Get access to The Phoenix online for as low as €1.50 per week. Read all the regular online only Phoenix stories AND receive the packed digital edition every fortnight (25 per year). Great value for so many inside stories!

Subscribe Now! I’m a Subscriber

Bethany Home

BETHANY BABY HOME AND THE IRISH TIMES

Date: January 28, 2021 - Pillars of Society

THE REPORT of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes dominated news coverage recently, especially in the Irish Times which has always focused on the treatment of children by the religious, especially Catholic clerics. However, the paper of record stands accused of having a one-sided approach to such abuse. By and large it… Read more »

To access this content, you must be a Phoenix subscriber.

Get access to The Phoenix online for as low as €1.50 per week. Read all the regular online only Phoenix stories AND receive the packed digital edition every fortnight (25 per year). Great value for so many inside stories!

Subscribe Now! I’m a Subscriber

Jake Browne

THOMAS ARNOLD & JAKE BROWNE

Date: January 28, 2021 - The Young Bloods

If we’re to give them credit for anything around the shambles that was the Goat/Go House, it’s that its co-founders Thomas Arnold and Jake Browne can pedal a stellar line in self-promotion. The duo impressively convinced landlords to allow a bunch of young TikTok wannabes – including four teenagers – to move into their expensive… Read more »

To access this content, you must be a Phoenix subscriber.

Get access to The Phoenix online for as low as €1.50 per week. Read all the regular online only Phoenix stories AND receive the packed digital edition every fortnight (25 per year). Great value for so many inside stories!

Subscribe Now! I’m a Subscriber

Sean Haughey

HAUGHEY TELLS MARTIN TO GO

Date: January 28, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

THE NORMALLY inoffensive Fianna Fáil TD, Seán Haughey, let loose with both barrels against his leader, Micheál Martin, last weekend, remarking sweetly that the Taoiseach was unlikely to lead the party into the next general election. “The decision is his”, he said, qualifying the remark with the comment, “to a certain extent”, before going on… Read more »

To access this content, you must be a Phoenix subscriber.

Get access to The Phoenix online for as low as €1.50 per week. Read all the regular online only Phoenix stories AND receive the packed digital edition every fortnight (25 per year). Great value for so many inside stories!

Subscribe Now! I’m a Subscriber

Ailish Kelly

AILISH KELLY’S ‘ZOOM BOOM’

Date: January 28, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

PRESUMABLY cosmetic surgery queen Ailish Kelly and her daughter, Niamh Murdock, were delighted with a plug – in the Business Post of all places – that they received earlier this month. Readers were informed that there is something called a ‘Zoom boom’ in play these days, with clinics claiming “a surge in the number of… Read more »

To access this content, you must be a Phoenix subscriber.

Get access to The Phoenix online for as low as €1.50 per week. Read all the regular online only Phoenix stories AND receive the packed digital edition every fortnight (25 per year). Great value for so many inside stories!

Subscribe Now! I’m a Subscriber

Conor McGregor

CONOR MCGREGOR’S LENDERS

Date: January 28, 2021 - Briefcases

CONOR MCGREGOR, who is battling a million-euro assault claim in the High Court, reportedly made more than €5m in his humbling defeat to Dustin Poirier last weekend. The defeat will have nudged his estimated net worth – estimated by the financial boffins at the Sunday Times ‘Rich List’, at any rate – close to €140m,… Read more »

To access this content, you must be a Phoenix subscriber.

Get access to The Phoenix online for as low as €1.50 per week. Read all the regular online only Phoenix stories AND receive the packed digital edition every fortnight (25 per year). Great value for so many inside stories!

Subscribe Now! I’m a Subscriber

Georg von Opel

COOLMORE’S GERMAN PAL

Date: January 28, 2021 - Sport of Kings

THE COOLMORE gang seems to have cemented a strong relationship with a German billionaire named Georg von Opel. This looks to have resulted in a very nice bit of business for one Annemarie O’Brien. Billioniare Von Opel, a great grandson of the founder of the Opel car manufacturer, burst onto the bloodstock scene in the… Read more »

To access this content, you must be a Phoenix subscriber.

Get access to The Phoenix online for as low as €1.50 per week. Read all the regular online only Phoenix stories AND receive the packed digital edition every fortnight (25 per year). Great value for so many inside stories!

Subscribe Now! I’m a Subscriber

Diageo Dana An Garda Síochána IT Trust No Stone Unturned Irish Times Black Friday Vicky Conway

SUCCEEDING FRANK FITZGIBBON

Date: January 28, 2021 - Fit to Print?

THE EDITOR’S seat at the Aawrish edition of the Sunday Times is still vacant since the announcement by Frank Fitzgibbon that he was retiring from the hot spot. That was last October and acting editor, John Burns, is still in limbo awaiting a decision by MI5’s favourite newspaper in London about whether he or someone… Read more »

To access this content, you must be a Phoenix subscriber.

Get access to The Phoenix online for as low as €1.50 per week. Read all the regular online only Phoenix stories AND receive the packed digital edition every fortnight (25 per year). Great value for so many inside stories!

Subscribe Now! I’m a Subscriber

John Power

JOHN POWER’S NEW HAT

Date: January 28, 2021 - High Society

THERE HAVE been a couple of new riders introduced on the board of the Curragh Racecourse Ltd, including Horse Racing Ireland (HRI) senior suit Paul Dermody and Limerick solicitor John Power. Although the latter is representing the Turf Club, he also turns out to have links to a couple of familiar zillionaires who have helped… Read more »

To access this content, you must be a Phoenix subscriber.

Get access to The Phoenix online for as low as €1.50 per week. Read all the regular online only Phoenix stories AND receive the packed digital edition every fortnight (25 per year). Great value for so many inside stories!

Subscribe Now! I’m a Subscriber

Patrick Doran

PATRICK DORAN’S BIG BUCKS

Date: January 28, 2021 - Affairs of the Nation

INTERESTING TO see an Irish-backed operation raising big bucks in the US. One of the principals here turns out to be Patrick Doran, a super rich recent arrival on Shrewsbury Road. Clearly, he has plenty of moolah to throw around and shortly before Christmas offloaded the previous family home, Woodberry in Foxrock, for €3.05m.This is… Read more »

To access this content, you must be a Phoenix subscriber.

Get access to The Phoenix online for as low as €1.50 per week. Read all the regular online only Phoenix stories AND receive the packed digital edition every fortnight (25 per year). Great value for so many inside stories!

Subscribe Now! I’m a Subscriber

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 »

To access this content, you must be a Phoenix subscriber.

Get access to The Phoenix online for as low as €1.50 per week. Read all the regular online only Phoenix stories AND receive the packed digital edition every fortnight (25 per year). Great value for so many inside stories!

Subscribe Now! I’m a Subscriber

Vol. 39 No. 02

Date: January 28, 2021 -

To access this content, you must be a Phoenix subscriber.

Get access to The Phoenix online for as low as €1.50 per week. Read all the regular online only Phoenix stories AND receive the packed digital edition every fortnight (25 per year). Great value for so many inside stories!

Subscribe Now! I’m a Subscriber

article-default

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 »

To access this content, you must be a Phoenix subscriber.

Get access to The Phoenix online for as low as €1.50 per week. Read all the regular online only Phoenix stories AND receive the packed digital edition every fortnight (25 per year). Great value for so many inside stories!

Subscribe Now! I’m a Subscriber

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 »

To access this content, you must be a Phoenix subscriber.

Get access to The Phoenix online for as low as €1.50 per week. Read all the regular online only Phoenix stories AND receive the packed digital edition every fortnight (25 per year). Great value for so many inside stories!

Subscribe Now! I’m a Subscriber

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 »

To access this content, you must be a Phoenix subscriber.

Get access to The Phoenix online for as low as €1.50 per week. Read all the regular online only Phoenix stories AND receive the packed digital edition every fortnight (25 per year). Great value for so many inside stories!

Subscribe Now! I’m a Subscriber

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 »

To access this content, you must be a Phoenix subscriber.

Get access to The Phoenix online for as low as €1.50 per week. Read all the regular online only Phoenix stories AND receive the packed digital edition every fortnight (25 per year). Great value for so many inside stories!

Subscribe Now! I’m a Subscriber

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 »

To access this content, you must be a Phoenix subscriber.

Get access to The Phoenix online for as low as €1.50 per week. Read all the regular online only Phoenix stories AND receive the packed digital edition every fortnight (25 per year). Great value for so many inside stories!

Subscribe Now! I’m a Subscriber

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 »

To access this content, you must be a Phoenix subscriber.

Get access to The Phoenix online for as low as €1.50 per week. Read all the regular online only Phoenix stories AND receive the packed digital edition every fortnight (25 per year). Great value for so many inside stories!

Subscribe Now! I’m a Subscriber

HushHush-def

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 »

To access this content, you must be a Phoenix subscriber.

Get access to The Phoenix online for as low as €1.50 per week. Read all the regular online only Phoenix stories AND receive the packed digital edition every fortnight (25 per year). Great value for so many inside stories!

Subscribe Now! I’m a Subscriber

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 »

To access this content, you must be a Phoenix subscriber.

Get access to The Phoenix online for as low as €1.50 per week. Read all the regular online only Phoenix stories AND receive the packed digital edition every fortnight (25 per year). Great value for so many inside stories!

Subscribe Now! I’m a Subscriber

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 »

To access this content, you must be a Phoenix subscriber.

Get access to The Phoenix online for as low as €1.50 per week. Read all the regular online only Phoenix stories AND receive the packed digital edition every fortnight (25 per year). Great value for so many inside stories!

Subscribe Now! I’m a Subscriber

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 »

To access this content, you must be a Phoenix subscriber.

Get access to The Phoenix online for as low as €1.50 per week. Read all the regular online only Phoenix stories AND receive the packed digital edition every fortnight (25 per year). Great value for so many inside stories!

Subscribe Now! I’m a Subscriber

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 »

To access this content, you must be a Phoenix subscriber.

Get access to The Phoenix online for as low as €1.50 per week. Read all the regular online only Phoenix stories AND receive the packed digital edition every fortnight (25 per year). Great value for so many inside stories!

Subscribe Now! I’m a Subscriber

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 »

To access this content, you must be a Phoenix subscriber.

Get access to The Phoenix online for as low as €1.50 per week. Read all the regular online only Phoenix stories AND receive the packed digital edition every fortnight (25 per year). Great value for so many inside stories!

Subscribe Now! I’m a Subscriber

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 »

To access this content, you must be a Phoenix subscriber.

Get access to The Phoenix online for as low as €1.50 per week. Read all the regular online only Phoenix stories AND receive the packed digital edition every fortnight (25 per year). Great value for so many inside stories!

Subscribe Now! I’m a Subscriber

Janice Boylan Irish Military Mali Coolock Says No IFP Hermann Kelly Timmy Dooley Aontú Mal O’Hara Fintan O’Toole Josepha Madigan Eoghan Harris Ukraine War Micheál Martin Middle East Philip Ryan Seán Clancy Simon Coveney Hugo MacNeill Mountbatten Neasa Hourigan Green Party Martin NPT Ivana Bacik Independents Limerick Hospital Overcrowding Barry Cowen

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.

To access this content, you must be a Phoenix subscriber.

Get access to The Phoenix online for as low as €1.50 per week. Read all the regular online only Phoenix stories AND receive the packed digital edition every fortnight (25 per year). Great value for so many inside stories!

Subscribe Now! I’m a Subscriber

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 »

To access this content, you must be a Phoenix subscriber.

Get access to The Phoenix online for as low as €1.50 per week. Read all the regular online only Phoenix stories AND receive the packed digital edition every fortnight (25 per year). Great value for so many inside stories!

Subscribe Now! I’m a Subscriber

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

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 »

To access this content, you must be a Phoenix subscriber.

Get access to The Phoenix online for as low as €1.50 per week. Read all the regular online only Phoenix stories AND receive the packed digital edition every fortnight (25 per year). Great value for so many inside stories!

Subscribe Now! I’m a Subscriber

Bog-Cuttings-Defaul

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 »

To access this content, you must be a Phoenix subscriber.

Get access to The Phoenix online for as low as €1.50 per week. Read all the regular online only Phoenix stories AND receive the packed digital edition every fortnight (25 per year). Great value for so many inside stories!

Subscribe Now! I’m a Subscriber

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 »

To access this content, you must be a Phoenix subscriber.

Get access to The Phoenix online for as low as €1.50 per week. Read all the regular online only Phoenix stories AND receive the packed digital edition every fortnight (25 per year). Great value for so many inside stories!

Subscribe Now! I’m a Subscriber

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 »

To access this content, you must be a Phoenix subscriber.

Get access to The Phoenix online for as low as €1.50 per week. Read all the regular online only Phoenix stories AND receive the packed digital edition every fortnight (25 per year). Great value for so many inside stories!

Subscribe Now! I’m a Subscriber

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 »

To access this content, you must be a Phoenix subscriber.

Get access to The Phoenix online for as low as €1.50 per week. Read all the regular online only Phoenix stories AND receive the packed digital edition every fortnight (25 per year). Great value for so many inside stories!

Subscribe Now! I’m a Subscriber

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 »

To access this content, you must be a Phoenix subscriber.

Get access to The Phoenix online for as low as €1.50 per week. Read all the regular online only Phoenix stories AND receive the packed digital edition every fortnight (25 per year). Great value for so many inside stories!

Subscribe Now! I’m a Subscriber