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Luke Comer Ban

LUKE COMER’S FORM BOOK

Date: July 2, 2020 - Sport of Kings

LUKE COMER doesn’t appeal as a candidate for champion trainer this season if the exploits of his early season runners are anything to go by. He may yet have a tilt at the Irish St Leger though. Comer unleashed a number of last autumn’s expensive purchases in the opening few weeks of the season, but… Read more »

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FAMILIAR SOUNDTRACK AT THE CURRAGH

Date: July 2, 2020 - Sport of Kings

THE IRISH Derby weekend at the Curragh took place alongside a now familiar soundtrack, akin to Heuston Station, as the wind whistled through the E80m grandstand causing a screech of alarming decibels. The design issue that causes the eerie whine came to light last year soon after the grand opening and racegoers assumed it would… Read more »

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Sheila O'Riordan and Nina Gillett

KEY COLLECTIONS LOCKED OUT

Date: July 2, 2020 - The Hot Water Brigade

WITH THE pandemic causing havoc in the tourism sector, it is perhaps not surprising that some businesses are suffering coronavirus-related side effects. Nevertheless, the winding up last week of short-term let operator Key Collections comes as a bit of a shock. The company behind Key Collections is Roomyield Hospitality Ltd, which was set up by… Read more »

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Rick Delaney

LISA DELANEY’S JARRING EXPERIENCE

Date: July 2, 2020 - The Hot Water Brigade

GOLDHAWK spied a couple of companies being readied for striking off by the Companies Office. They turned out to be linked to Monaco-based Corkman Rick Delaney, whose Aqua Blue Sport professional cycling team recently careered off the track, despite some pretty big bucks having been pumped in (see The Phoenix 5/6/20). Delaney’s Aqua Blue Sport… Read more »

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DANNY KENNY’S LOW BAR

Date: July 2, 2020 - The Hot Water Brigade

A COMPANY called Midnight Entertainment Ltd is to be wound up at the end of this week. The owner here turns out to be an interesting chap by the name of Danny Kenny, with an address in Knocknacarra Park, Galway. He has had his fair share of adventures. Midnight Entertainment found itself in a spot… Read more »

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Lorraine Clifford-Lee

BALANCING CLIFFORD-LEE

Date: July 2, 2020 - Last Refuge

AN TAOISEACH Micheál Martin gave expression to his modern, inclusive new world last weekend with the appointment of Traveller activist Eileen Flynn to the Seanad. And just to underline his commitment to racial equality (as between racism and anti-racism), he also listed Fianna Fáil ex-senator Lorraine Clifford-Lee as another of the 11 nominees to the… Read more »

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Catherine Martin

GREEN PARTY HEAVE

Date: June 18, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

PREVIOUS FORECASTS about the Green Party’s leadership contest were that Catherine Martin would win if party members rejected the government deal, while Eamon Ryan would survive if the deal was accepted. But a lot has changed recently and Martin could be on course to win the leadership, regardless of the vote on the deal, having… Read more »

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John O'Donoghue

JOHN O’DONOGHUE’S LIBEL CASE

Date: June 18, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

A RE-RUN of the 2009 public debate about the excessive expenses claims of the then Ceann Comhairle and former minister, John O’Donoghue, is due for a re-run in the Circuit Court in Killarney shortly. O’Donoghue took serious exception to a story in Kerry’s Eye about his planned re-entry to local and national politics headlined, “The… Read more »

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Alan English

PROFILE: ALAN ENGLISH

Date: June 18, 2020 - Pillars of Society

THE NEW editor of the Sunday Independent, Alan English, seems determined to make readers sit up and notice him. English presents readers with a weekly epistle in which he has much to say, often about himself. Recently, he crossed a Sindo red line with an interview of Sinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald, following up with acres of… Read more »

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Alan Dillon

YOUNG BLOODS: ALAN DILLON

Date: June 18, 2020 - The Young Bloods

Enda Kenny could take some quiet satisfaction from the success of his local Castlebar protégé, Alan Dillon (37). Football hero Dillon held Kenny’s Castlebar seat ahead of Fianna Fáil’s Lisa Chambers – supposedly the coming force for that party in the west. But then, both the previously dominant parties are in decline, even in Mayo,… Read more »

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Brendan O'Connor

BRENDAN O’CONNOR – RTÉ RADIO ONE

Date: June 18, 2020 - RadioReviews

FOR MANY years, with programmes such as Don’t Feed The Gondolas and Brendan O’Connor’s Cutting Edge, Brendan O’Connor unconvincingly attempted to position himself as a maverick within RTÉ’s ranks. Unfortunately, these attempts at subversion were somewhat undermined by his status as the quintessential establishment figure, as evidenced by his regular right-wing diatribes in the Sindo…. Read more »

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James Morris

BONO’S FILM STUDIO ROLE?

Date: June 18, 2020 - Behind the Scenes

THE NEWS that James Morris and Alan Moloney’s proposed 48-acre film studio and ‘media park’ in west Dublin is to involve the son of moneybags Paddy McKillen Snr – LA real estate mogul Tyrone McKillen – may suggest Bono is taking a quiet role as midwife to the project. Fans of Goldhawk will recall that… Read more »

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Brian Kingham

BRIAN KINGHAM’S NEW PLAN

Date: June 18, 2020 - High Society

ACROSS THE Irish Sea, villagers in Aldbourne in Wiltshire are up in arms at a contentions planning application to build 35 houses on agricultural land. The plan was submitted in the midst of the lockdown in the name of a company called Thornacre Land Ltd, where the principal is land agent Jamie Pearson, but the… Read more »

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Malachy McAllister

TRUMP OBLIGES LONDON

Date: June 18, 2020 - Hush Hush

The 1988 state-sponsored assassination attempt on Belfast man Malachy McAllister and his family is key to understanding the British government’s pursuit of McAllister and why he was finally deported from the US late last week as a “threat” to the country. Despite his INLA past in the early 1980s, McAllister clearly presents no terrorist threat… Read more »

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Drew Harris

DREW HARRIS’S ‘ABUSE OF POWER’

Date: June 18, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

THE ANNOUNCEMENT last November of yet another investigation into state collusion with loyalist murder gangs – this time the notorious Glenanne gang – saw some northern nationalists react with scepticism. Remarks on RTÉ’s Morning Ireland last week by the officer entrusted with leading the inquiry, ex-Bedfordshire Chief Constable Jon Boutcher, may not have assuaged such… Read more »

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Ivan Yates

IVAN’S HARD NECK

Date: June 18, 2020 - Fit to Print?

THE RETIREMENT of The Hard Shoulder presenter on Newstalk, Ivan Yates, was announced by the ex-Fine Gael minister in February following a settlement with AIB over his Wexford family home and is due in August when his two contracts expire. These are with Newstalk and Virgin Media One’s television programme The Tonight Show, both of… Read more »

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Simon Stokes

SIMON STOKES’S PHOTO

Date: June 18, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

GOLDHAWK SPOTTED High Court defamation proceedings lodged against the Mail on Sunday earlier this month by one Simon Stokes (no, not that one). It turns out to be a case of mistaken identity that could end up costing the Mail a few bob – and it is not the only newspaper caught in the crossfire…. Read more »

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John McGuckian

ICG SHAREHOLDERS FACING PERFECT STORM

Date: June 18, 2020 - Moneybags

IF EAMONN ROTHWELL thought that 2018 was his annus horribilis, then he ain’t seen nothing yet. Irish Continental Group (ICG) has been hit hard by the Covid-19 shutdown of the economy, but it is facing the even more daunting prospect of a potential hard Brexit. With very rough seas ahead and the shares still on… Read more »

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Vol. 38 No. 12

Date: June 18, 2020 -

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TENI’S FUNDING

Date: June 18, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

THANKS TO JK Rowling’s incendiary comments last week, the transgender debate got rather heated again, although here in Ireland the temperature remained relatively cool. John Boyne did dip a toe in the water, having last year been on the receiving end of a backlash to his novel, My Brother’s Name is Jessica. One of the… Read more »

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Cillian de Gascun

NPHET’S ACADEMIC MATTER

Date: June 18, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

IT’S HARD to keep everyone happy and in the snippy world of academia this is doubly true. Goldhawk is hearing grumblings about UCD’s influence at the National Public Health Emergency Team (NPHET). Certainly, some familiar faces from other colleges are noticeable by their absence. In April, the government unveiled the governance structure in the all-powerful… Read more »

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Michael D Higgins

ADMIRAL HIGGINS

Date: June 18, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

Gregg Bemis Jnr, American owner of the wreck of the Lusitania, (torpedoed by a German submarine off Kinsale in 1915), recently died aged 91. In his time, he ‘salvaged’ and sold the ship’s two bow anchors and thousands of other valuable items. Lax Irish marine law in those days (the 1980s) meant there was no… Read more »

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Micheal P O'Higgins

EUGENIE HOUSTON’S NEW FRONT

Date: June 18, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

AS IF barrister Eugenie Houston has not cost the Bar Council enough in recent times, she has just landed the esteemed legal eagles with another headache courtesy of a missive to Paschal Donohoe. Last year, a long-running saga involving Houston and the Bar Council saw High Court judge Michael Twomey describe many of her claims… Read more »

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Isabel dos Santos

RORY GODSON AND THE PRINCESS

Date: June 18, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

EMBATTLED BILLIONAIRE Isabel dos Santos – eldest daughter of the Angolan president of nearly 40 years, José Eduardo dos Santos – has hired Irish PR handler Rory Godson to assist in her defence against charges of fraud and money laundering on an industrial scale ($5 billion at the latest count, according to the authorities in… Read more »

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DERMOT O’LEARY’S SOLUTION

Date: June 18, 2020 - Hush Hush

THE OIREACHTAS Covid-19 Committee has been presented with an exciting submission from Dermot O’Leary’s National Bus and Rail Union (NBRU), namely the extension of bus and rail travel to a 24-hour cycle. This, says the union, would see businesses trade throughout the night on a round-the-clock society in a post-Covid world. It would, of course,… Read more »

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Niall McGarry

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: June 18, 2020 - The Hot Air Brigade

The business is too big to fail. It plays too important a role in the Irish media scene. Niall McGarry’s detached analysis of his Joe.ie website, Irish Independent Staycation is the hottest word on the planet right now. Bobby Power of tourism publisher Go Wild, Sunday Independent I can’t walk anywhere. I mean you go… Read more »

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Boris Johnson

NEW APPROACH, SAME RESULT

Date: June 18, 2020 - Northwind

In the New Decade New Approach (NDNA) document of January, which got the parties in the north back into an executive, the British government promised to publish within 100 days legislation to implement the 2014 Stormont House Agreement (SHA) on dealing with the past. The Irish government, party to the SHA, also promised in its… Read more »

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Seamus Woulfe

GAS ‘STORIES’

Date: June 18, 2020 - Fowl Emissions

If the programme for government is green-lighted next week, it will spell the end not only for new oil and gas exploration licences, but will also make Ireland the first country in the world to ban the importation of fracked gas. The 14-year saga of Shannon LNG (first proposed in 2006 by one Micheál Martin… Read more »

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LOBBYING THE AG

Date: June 18, 2020 - Fowl Emissions

Meanwhile, the Irish Offshore Operators’ Association is understandably less than pleased about the promise to end exploration. Its CEO Mandy Johnston – Bertie Ahern’s former press secretary – was this week trying to revive the scare story about Ireland running out of gas. Speaking to RTÉ’s Sarah McInerney, she cited attorney general Séamus Woulfe, making… Read more »

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Eamon Ryan

GURRIER GREENS VS GENTLE GREENS

Date: June 18, 2020 - Last Refuge

THE MEDIA mantra about the Greens has changed from one condemning the party for not simply capitulating to Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael to an attack on Catherine Martin. According to media analysis, in their quest to elect Martin as leader and reject coalition government, the new wave of Greens is like a bunch of… Read more »

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Micheál Martin

MARTIN SWEATS IT OUT

Date: June 18, 2020 - Last Refuge

THE NEUROTIC behaviour of Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin as he closes in on the long-cherished, moist dream of becoming taoiseach – at the possible expense of his party’s destruction – has been apparent to observers and participants in party negotiations for some time. As the clock ticks down to the formation of what looks… Read more »

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Frances Black

UN SECURITY COUNCIL FODDER

Date: June 18, 2020 - Last Refuge

FOREIGN MINISTER Simon Coveney’s repetitive explanation to the Irish public of the government’s refusal to enact the Occupied Territories Bill (OTB) – passed by majorities in the Dáil and Seanad – is that it could damage Ireland’s efforts to win a seat on the United Nations security council. And both Fianna Fáil and the Greens… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: June 18, 2020 - Bog Cuttings

Rugby Tackled Roadworker A Tipperary man was arrested for rugby tackling a roadworker operating a stop/go sign outside Nenagh, Tipperary, following an altercation. James Sage of Glenacre, Ballina, Tipperary, had been flagged down by the roadworker at a controlled stop. The court heard that Sage, 50, jumped from his vehicle and proceeded to abuse the… Read more »

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BRENDAN O’CONNOR’S REINVENTION

Date: June 18, 2020 - Fit to Print?

THE REINVENTED, caring Brendan O’Connor is beginning to grate almost as much as when he prided himself on dishing it to every vulnerable group in society. But at least RTÉ can relax a little in the knowledge that its weekend radio host is unlikely to incur serious complaints – as happened on foot of a… Read more »

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Sinead O'Connor

‘SINDO’ SENSITIVITY

Date: June 18, 2020 - Fit to Print?

WEDNESDAY’S Irish Times opinion and analysis page has recently resembled an old Sunday Independent edition, with former Sindo personalities Anne Harris and Michael McDowell dominating the section. McDowell has had a slot for some time, but Harris was filling in for resident columnist Kathy Sheridan, who returned this week after she broke her arm in… Read more »

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RHA GALLERY’S ROADMAP

Date: June 18, 2020 - Behind the Scenes

THE GOOD news is that the RHA Gallery re-opens in late July, although a max of 40 visitors an hour will be permitted, with online booking required. And October 13 is the new opening date for the annual exhibition. A record-breaking 4,200 works were submitted (digitally) for this year’s 190th annual exhibition, with 700-plus chosen… Read more »

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