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Johnny Murtagh

CHAMPERS ALL ROUND

Date: October 8, 2020 - Sport of Kings

LUCK PLAYS a big part in the success or otherwise of horse racing, but one group of owners who must be pinching themselves are those involved in Fitzwilliam Racing. Set up around four years ago by private equity investor Mark Flood, the syndicate is now run by Paul McKeon and it pulled off a major… Read more »

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Henry Beeby

TOUGH GOING AT GOFFS

Date: October 8, 2020 - Sport of Kings

FEARS THAT the value of bloodstock would plunge due to the effects of Covid-19 (see The Phoenix 25/9/20) were justified when Goffs staged its annual Orby Yearling Sale at the company’s sister UK complex in Doncaster. Travel restrictions, economic hurdles, spending hesitancy by the top-level owners and the prospects of poor prize money in Britain… Read more »

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OISIN MURPHY’S DRUG WAR

Date: October 8, 2020 - Sport of Kings

THE NEWS that racing’s latest poster boy, Oisin Murphy, tested positive for metabolites of cocaine at Chantilly in July could prove a major blow to the career of the Kerryman and also to the image of the sport’s big attractions. While Murphy has strenuously denied having ever taken cocaine, with a hair sample analysis supposedly… Read more »

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Aidan O'Brien

NO GAIN FOR AIDAN O’BRIEN

Date: October 8, 2020 - Sport of Kings

WITH HEAVY rain in Paris scuppering the participation of Aidan O’Brien’s main challenger, Love, in the Arc de Triomphe, a last minute scare involving a contaminated batch of horse feed put the rest of the Ballydoyle squad on standby for the big event. There could be further repercussions. O’Brien’s horses are normally fed on horse… Read more »

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Nuala O'Connor

NUALA O’CONNOR’S NEW GIG

Date: October 8, 2020 - Behind the Scenes

THE APPOINTMENT of Nuala O’Connor to the government’s Future of Media Commission may draw some attention to one of the more successful production partnerships in the country. Until now, Dingle-based O’Connor has remained mostly in the background, while her partner and front man of the operation, Philip King, is best known as presenter of the… Read more »

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ROSE MCHUGH’S GOOD NEWS

Date: October 8, 2020 - Behind the Scenes

ROSE MCHUGH, Crawford Art Gallery chair, was smiling last month when the government finally put some real money on the table for the long-overdue upgrading of the building. The announcement of €3.2m for the upcoming stage of the redevelopment is the second piece of good news. Former culture minister Josepha Madigan, on her way out… Read more »

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Willie Walsh

WILLIE WALSH’S €2.7BN IAG LEGACY

Date: October 8, 2020 - Moneybags

WILLIE WALSH – the most admired airline executive in the world, according to Mick O’Leary – exited the IAG airline conglomerate (which owns British Airways, Aer Lingus, Iberia, Midland and Vueling) last month. He had just secured underwriting for the huge €2.7bn rights issue for IAG, but at a horrendous cost for its shareholders. It… Read more »

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Joe Purcell

MINCON BUCKS THE TREND

Date: October 8, 2020 - Moneybags

WITH MINING in the doldrums, the multinational Irish drilling equipment manufacturer Mincon should be really feeling the pinch, especially on top of the Covid-19 pandemic. In fact, it turns out that business is booming, although trading margins will need to improve if the share rating is to be justified. The company was set up by… Read more »

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Ian Drennan

IAN DRENNAN’S LATEST RESULT

Date: October 8, 2020 - The Hot Water Brigade

THE LATEST company director to come a cropper courtesy of Ian Drennan’s Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement (ODCE) is one Shane Murphy from Carrigaline, Co Cork. It is not the first time that he has come to the attention of Drennan et al. The ODCE carried out an investigation of Murphy’s company activities… Read more »

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Malcolm Denmark

MALCOLM DENMARK’S METHODS

Date: October 8, 2020 - The Hot Water Brigade

EARLIER THIS summer, the doughty old Munster Express, the grand old lady of The Quay in Waterford, celebrated the tremendous milestone of 160 years in print. Is a change on the horizon? The paper was first published on July 7, 1860, and the current managing director and editor, Kieran Walsh, wrote, “We at the Munster… Read more »

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KEATING’S PROBLEMS BUILDING

Date: October 8, 2020 - The Hot Water Brigade

FANS OF Goldhawk will not be surprised to hear that established construction and marine/civil engineering powerhouse Keating construction has applied for the protection of the courts. The high-profile company behind Keating construction was founded back in 1987 by Clare man Louis Keating, who exited as a director last year. This followed the earlier sale of… Read more »

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BLUE DIAMOND BOUNCES BACK

Date: October 8, 2020 - The Hot Water Brigade

GOLDHAWK WAS pleased to see the hard-working Boyle family at Dundalk Bureau de Change has bounced back from its little spot of difficulty in 2018. Terence Boyle and his son, Frances, are the principals in Blue Diamond Sports Ltd, the vehicle behind the bureau de change, which offers foreign exchange and money transfer services like… Read more »

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IAN MARSHALL’S SF SUPPORTERS

Date: October 8, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

IS Micheál Martin about to make an embarrassing blunder by failing to present as unionist friendly, compared to those subversive, sectarian etc Sinn Féin scoundrels? Northern unionist and former Seanad member Ian Marshall, ex-president of the Ulster Farmers’ Union, was rebuffed by Fianna Fáil’s Martin, who failed to number him in the taoiseach’s 11 nominees… Read more »

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Dmytro Firtash

DARK MONEY DELUGE

Date: October 8, 2020 - Hush Hush

The fierce conflict raging at the moment between Azerbaijan fighters and the Armenian army seems a long way from money laundering and dubious financial transactions in Ireland and Britain, but a new link has been revealed via suspect payments in the international arms trade. Recent large-scale leaks of Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) filed to the… Read more »

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Ian Bailey

FRENCH GO FOR BAILEY — AGAIN

Date: September 24, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

THE SUPREME Court will rule next month on the appeal by Ian Bailey against the High Court endorsement of the latest French extradition warrant against him. Last year PJ Walsh, professor of law at Kent Law School and author of a book on criminal procedure, referred to the government’s move that may facilitate Bailey’s extradition…. Read more »

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Jim O'Callaghan

FF REBELS GROW IN NUMBERS

Date: September 24, 2020 - Last Refuge

DESPITE THE overall poll numbers, there will be no heave against Fianna Fáil leader and Taoiseach Micheál Martin until a semblance of post-Covid and Brexit stability descends. But if the party’s abysmal poll levels continue, a leadership battle is inevitable, probably in the new year. This is despite Martin’s media minders in the Sunday Independent… Read more »

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Ger Lyons

PROFILE: GER LYONS

Date: September 24, 2020 - Pillars of Society

THERE IS a friendly saying in racing circles along the lines of ‘the worse the jockey, the better the trainer’ and there are plenty of examples of former moderately successful jockeys who have gone on to become multiple Group 1-winning trainers. The likes of Richard Fahey, Kevin Ryan and David O’Meara are all perfect examples… Read more »

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Vol 38 No 19

Date: September 24, 2020 -

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Tommy Bowe

YOUNG BLOOD: TOMMY BOWE

Date: September 24, 2020 - The Young Bloods

Ever since long-term stalwarts Mark Cagney, Sinéad Desmond and Aidan Cooney departed from Ireland AM, the Virgin Media breakfast show has gone through a dizzying array of new presenters. The latest bottom to grace the Ballymount sofa is that of former Irish rugby international, fashionista and social influencer Tommy Bowe, who has achieved his dream… Read more »

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Kevin Myers

KEVIN MYERS’S LITTLE JOKE

Date: September 24, 2020 - Fit to Print?

A PROVOCATIVE statement from Merrion Press, publishers of Kevin Myers’s recent apologia, Burning Heresies, claims the author “was sacked from the Irish edition of the Sunday Times for allegedly anti-Semitic observations”. Allegedly? Is Merrion Press trying to provoke some extra publicity with this taunt about ‘alleged’ anti-Semitism? What Myers wrote, in reference to two well-paid,… Read more »

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Christy Kinahan

KINAHANS VS DISSIDENTS

Date: September 24, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

Failure to burn the getaway car after the murder of dissident republican Michael Barr eventually led to the apprehension and jailing of two key Kinahan cartel hitmen. Barr was shot dead in April 2016 at the Sunset House in Dublin. Liverpool-native David Hunter was jailed for life recently, with his accomplice, Eamon Cumberton, already serving… Read more »

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Eamon Ryan

GREEN PARTY TEST

Date: September 24, 2020 - Fowl Emissions

AFTER A torrent of negative publicity before and since joining the coalition, the Green Party urgently needs some good news stories if its political fortunes are to be revived. Months of in-fighting have taken their toll, including a bitter war of words between factions for and against the programme for government, compounded by a divisive… Read more »

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Consuelo O’Connor

BARRY CONNOLLY’S BIG MOVE

Date: September 24, 2020 - High Society

INTERESTING TO see the name of Barry ‘Red Bull’ Connolly associated with one of the biggest residential property purchases of the year, in Sandycove, south Co Dublin. Meanwhile, Connolly’s Foxrock house is on the market with a €3m asking price. Connolly’s modern L-shaped pile on the outskirts of Foxrock village is located off swanky Westminster… Read more »

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Boris Johnson

BORIS’S PROTOCOL

Date: September 24, 2020 - Northwind

All the hullaballoo about Britain’s Internal Market Bill (IM Bill) has been about the plan to ‘disapply’ – their euphemism for renege – sections of the Irish Protocol in the withdrawal agreement in defiance of international law. However, the bill, which has been mooted for two years, is about much more than an Irish Sea… Read more »

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Ben Dunne

BEN DUNNE’S PREMIER PROBLEMS

Date: September 24, 2020 - The Hot Water Brigade

SPARE A thought for Ben Dunne, who hasn’t been able to open his gyms since March and has now lost a keenly fought planning battle with Premier Inns. As far back as 2018, Dunne has been trying to stop the development of a hotel in Twilfit House, which is a three-storey building on Jervis Street… Read more »

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Leo Varadkar

BLUESHIRTS BROKE

Date: September 24, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

A HARDENED electorate will hardly weep, but Fine Gael is facing a financial crisis, partly because of Covid-19 but also because of post-election factors and even resentment among the ranks. The party has taken a very big hit for simply being in government. If the Blueshirts had gone into opposition, as originally projected, it would… Read more »

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Michael Creed

MICHAEL CREED’S LEGACY

Date: September 24, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

IRELAND’S NEW 10-year Agrifood 2030 strategy is in breach of national and EU law and “will expose the department and the state to multiple legal actions”, according to a devastating analysis by An Taisce. As Goldhawk previously reported (see The Phoenix 30/7/20), the 31-person ‘stakeholders’ committee charged with shaping the future of Irish agriculture is… Read more »

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Brendan O'Connor

NEW BROOM AT ‘SINDO’

Date: September 24, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

What’s in a name? That’s a question that Alan ‘New Broom’ English has likely been pondering since taking over at the Sunday Independent. With that in mind, the departure of long-term features editor Mary O’Sullivan has further severed the familial ties that have flourished at the paper since her brother-in-law, Aengus Fanning, took over as… Read more »

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Denis McCarthy

FEXCO’S COVID ADVICE

Date: September 24, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

FEXCO chief executive Denis McCarthy, son of Fexco founder Brian McCarthy, recently revealed a hitherto unknown medical bent as well as a Donald Trump-like approach to Covid-19. And he expressed sympathy for Big Phil Hogan as he pooh-poohed the “ongoing national over-reaction to Covid-19 that has ripped the fabric of the country apart”. In an… Read more »

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Helen Dixon

TRUSTING CYBER CRIMINALS

Date: September 24, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

SURPRISINGLY LITTLE attention was paid to the cyber ransomware attacks early this year against at least two Irish universities – NUI Galway and Maynooth University – as well as dozens of other universities and charitable institutions in Ireland, Britain and North America. This is especially surprising as the third-party service provider for these entities, Blackbaud,… Read more »

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Jack Sen

BRITISH-IRISH PATRIOTS

Date: September 24, 2020 - Hush Hush

FRANTIC SPECIAL Branch briefings to security correspondents last weekend about growing fascist-linked street violence produced reams of congratulatory copy in the media. Much of this dwelled on how much knowledge gardaí have compiled about such groups because of the close attention the Special Branch has been mounting on the extreme right in Ireland. Such attention… Read more »

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COLLUSION DENIALS

Date: September 24, 2020 - Hush Hush

THE UNIONIST Belfast Newsletter last week cited unnamed senior police sources as rubbishing the Unquiet Graves film broadcast on RTÉ last Wednesday week. Much of the film centred on the testimony of former ‘Bronze’ Special Patrol Group (SPG) officer and convicted murderer John Weir. Along with several other SPG men, Weir was part of the… Read more »

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Natasha Rocca

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: September 24, 2020 - The Hot Air Brigade

He knows more than anyone across the board, from all these different facets of music industry across different eras. So whatever he comes out with, people have to respect, because he knows what he’s talking about. Natasha Rocca Devine on stepdad Van Morrison – Irish Independent No more fascist bullies, disturbing our peace. No more… Read more »

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GREENWASHING PETROL

Date: September 24, 2020 - Fowl Emissions

It’s a sign of the changing times when an Irish petrol retailer is promoting its ‘green’ credentials. Applegreen claims that “carbon released from our PowerPlus fuels is 100% offset by carbon capture and carbon reductions in Africa”, including planting 300,000 trees. Not everyone is convinced. The whole project has been labelled “greenwash” by the Irish… Read more »

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Declan Kelly

ALAN KELLY VS DECLAN KELLY

Date: September 24, 2020 - Last Refuge

WHAT A fascinating public relations appointment health minister Stephen Donnelly has made by hiring “the global CEO advisory firm” Teneo to remedy the chaotic Covid messaging coming from his department. On the one hand, Donnelly has employed one of the world’s largest PR agencies, headed up by Declan Kelly, a former friend of the Clintons… Read more »

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Joe O'Reilly

PHIL HOGAN LIVES

Date: September 24, 2020 - Last Refuge

THE BACKSTAGE machinations and paybacks behind the election of Senator Joe O’Reilly as leas cathaoirleach of the Seanad would provide a good script for a political drama. To begin with, Varadkar’s decision to allow his senators to elect someone to the position – as opposed to the usual leader’s appointment – irritated even some of… Read more »

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