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Jeffrey Donaldson

DONALDSON UNDONE

Date: April 4, 2024 - Northwind

When the news broke at 1.00 pm on Good Friday that DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson had been charged with historical sex offences including rape, there had already been a fair amount of crisis management at play behind the scenes. Charges had been preferred on… Read more »

Derek Richardson

DEREK RICHARDSON’S SCRUM

Date: April 4, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

THE FORMER owner of bust English rugby union club Wasps – Derek Richardson – is keeping his lawyers busy. As has been reported, he is suing his legal advisers, Kennedys Law, over the demise of his Wasps club in 2022 with debts of £95m. Another front in his legal campaign features Mark Robertson and the… Read more »

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Ravil Maganov

RONAN COLLINS’S RUSSIAN CONNECTIONS

Date: April 4, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

LAST MONTH a US-backed nursing home operator, which surfaced in 2016 with big plans to take a chunk of the market here, was placed in examinership, having previously emerged from another rescue package. The Irish director and investor (10%) in Passage Healthcare International (Ireland) Ltd (PHII) is the busy Blackrock Co Dublin-based finance expert and… Read more »

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EN POINTE!

Date: April 4, 2024 - Behind the Scenes

THE DECISION by Anne Maher’s Ballet Ireland (BI) to withdraw a piece choreographed by Israeli Ohad Naharin from its Bold Moves programme raised eyebrows, given the predominantly conservative character of artistic companies dependent on the state for funding. The move was a provocative one from BI, which is chaired by the former MD of Irish… Read more »

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Johnnie Cooke

CATCHING UP WITH JOHNNIE COOKE

Date: April 4, 2024 - The Hot Water Brigade

ELSEWHERE IN this issue (see p19), Goldhawk takes a look at an operation called Green Bird, which was established by one Killian Bewley Poynton to provide concierge services to super wealthy clients who don’t have time to organise things themselves. It also turns out he had a loose connection to troubled celebrity restaurateur and caterer,… Read more »

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VOL 42 NO 07

Date: April 4, 2024 -

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JUDGING LUKE COMER JNR

Date: April 4, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

THE MINTED Comer family, who made hundreds of millions of euro from the building sector, has had its fair share of stumbles in the racing world, most notably the suspension of tax exile Luke Comer’s training licence for three years by the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB). Last month, it was Luke Comer Jnr who… Read more »

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Elisa O'Donovan

LEDDIN V O’DONOVAN

Date: April 4, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

THE ANTICIPATION that Limerick’s first directly elected mayoral contest would be a bottomless borefest may turn out to be quite mistaken and Goldhawk will be keeping a watchful eye for some interesting debates between two of the candidates in particular. Social Democrats councillor Elisa O’Donovan swore in 2021 that she would make it her business… Read more »

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Vanishing Triangle

VIRGIN’S ‘VANISHING TRIANGLE’

Date: April 4, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

THE OMENS weren’t good when The Vanishing Triangle, backed with moolah from the taxpayer, failed to appear in the autumn schedule for Virgin Media Television (VMTV) last year without explanation. Now that the production from Annemarie Naughton and Ivan Kavanagh (along with assorted other producers) has belatedly appeared on Irish screens, the critics have, predictably… Read more »

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Robin Jackson Drew Harris

BRITISH AGENTS AND DUBLIN BOMBS

Date: April 4, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

May 17 next will mark the 50th anniversary of the Dublin and Monaghan bomb massacres. One of the key figures in the Dublin leg of that operation was Robin ‘The Jackal’ Jackson of the UVF. He collected three devices from James Mitchell’s farm at Glenanne,… Read more »

Colin Duffy

INTERNMENT WITH TRIAL

Date: April 4, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

The wall of silence by southern media on the recent acquittal of dissident republicans Colin Duffy and Harry Fitzsimons is in marked contrast to the sensational headlines that many carried at the start of this case back in December 2013. Following a gun attack on a convoy of PSNI Land Rovers Duffy, Fitzsimons and Alex… Read more »

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Alex Kaplan Derek Blighe

MONEY TO BURN

Date: April 4, 2024 - Hush Hush

With European and local elections fast approaching, many candidates to the right of Fine Gael are declaring their intention to stand with the Irish Freedom Party (IFP), Ireland First (IF), Independent Ireland, the National Party (NP), Irish People Party and a variety of right-wing independents. And there is no shortage of money swirling about in… Read more »

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Bambie Thug

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: April 4, 2024 - The Hot Air Brigade

We firmly believe in the unifying power of music, enabling people to transcend differences and foster meaningful conversations. We feel it is our duty to create and uphold this space, with a strong hope that it will inspire greater compassion. Statement from nine Eurovision contestants, including Bambie Thug, explaining their reason for not boycotting the… Read more »

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COLOMBIA 3 MINING PROFITEERS

Date: April 4, 2024 - Fowl Emissions

“ACTIVIST LUKE Holland has authored this report for Prime Time…” This was the rather odd introduction, read by Sarah McInerney, to an excellent and harrowing report last week from the notorious Cerrejón mine in Colombia. Describing Holland as an activist was apparently RTÉ’s way of distancing itself from this damning exposé of its fellow semi-state,… Read more »

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Sperrin Mountains Kevin McAleer

UNCLE COLM’S CONCERNS

Date: April 4, 2024 - Fowl Emissions

There’ve been some high-profile interventions in the long-running battle to prevent Canadian firm Dalradian digging up the Sperrin Mountains in Tyrone to mine billions worth of gold. Last year campaigners were outraged to discover, via a freedom of information request, that King Charles’s representative in the county, Robert Scott – aka Lord Lieutenant of Tyrone… Read more »

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Ivana Bacik Carol Reynolds

IVANA BACIK’S NEW GENERATION

Date: April 4, 2024 - Last Refuge

LABOUR LEADER Ivana Bacik recently deployed her considerable legal and verbal skills to exonerate the party’s local election Ringsend candidate, Carol Reynolds, who had said that Ireland had “too many immigrants” who regarded Ireland as “Treasure Island”. Reynolds had been interviewed for a video by far-right, anti-immigrant campaigner Gavin Pepper, in which they both discussed… Read more »

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KATE O’CONNELL THE DISRUPTER

Date: April 4, 2024 - Last Refuge

THE CLEAR desire of Simon Harris to add Kate O’Connell as a ‘partner’ to councillor James Geoghegan on the Dublin Bay South (DBS) general election ticket is going to upset a number of Fine Gael members and their political calculations. The primary person to be… Read more »

Micheál Martin

MARTIN TO PROVOKE MORE REFERENDUMS?

Date: April 4, 2024 - Last Refuge

MICHEÁL MARTIN’S move to legislate for the abolition of the triple lock could run into political, constitutional and even EU legislative trouble, judging by statements uttered by Martin himself and intergovernmental declarations made to facilitate a ‘yes’ vote in two EU referendums. The Dáil heard… Read more »

Hugh O'Connell

HUGH O’CONNELL’S LONG GOODBYE

Date: April 4, 2024 - Fit to Print?

THE EXIT of Hugh O’Connell from Mediahuis, where he was deputy group political editor working for the Sindo and Indo, came at a good time for the Aawrish edition of the Sunday Times, which has poached him (five years after Mediahuis poached him from the then Sunday Business Post). However, relying on the strict terms… Read more »

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TARGETING MARTIN MCGUINNESS

Date: April 4, 2024 - Fit to Print?

RECENT SUGGESTIONS from the Sunday Independent and interpretations by others that the BBC Two’s programme, The Secret Army, shows Martin McGuinness was an informer have their origins in the late Sean O’Callaghan’s book, The Informer. There, MI5 informer O’Callaghan, or his handlers, put such words about McGuinness in the mouth of fabled IRA commander Brian… Read more »

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Alison O'Connor Justine McCarthy

LIBERAL MEDIA DEBATES FAR RIGHT

Date: April 4, 2024 - Fit to Print?

APPEASEMENT IS a notion that some media columnists are using and debating right now in the face of a right-wing backlash against so-called ‘woke’ politics and legislation to criminalise hate behaviour. Two pundits that appear to have taken a different stance on how to confront this rush-to-the-right are Irish Times columnist Justine McCarthy and her… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: April 4, 2024 - Bog Cuttings

A GIANT TOOL A 24-year-old man who ran down North Main Street, Cork, waving a pitchfork in the early afternoon of July 3, 2023, was sentenced to three months in prison following a recent sitting of Cork District Court. Sergeant Gearóid Davis told the court that, on the date in question, gardaí were alerted to… Read more »

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Brendan Lynott

SMOCK ALLEY’S BAD REVIEW

Date: April 4, 2024 - Behind the Scenes

WITH DUBLIN City Council (DCC) preparing to take over Smock Alley Theatre (SAT) in Temple Bar, the board of the linked Gaiety School of Acting next door will be hoping that the planned changes don’t impact on their coffers. Fans of Goldhawk will not be… Read more »

Darragh O'Loughlin

APPEALING BEHAVIOUR

Date: April 4, 2024 - Sport of Kings

THE REVELATION last month that the IHRB had been described by consultants in 2021 as “not fit for purpose” was dismissed by the agency on the grounds that the new chief executive, Darragh O’Loughlin, has strengthened governance. Now Darragh O’Loughlin is preparing to fill the brand-new role of head of racing regulation and integrity. Topping… Read more »

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SEAMIE HEFFERNAN DISMOUNTS

Date: April 4, 2024 - Sport of Kings

MEYDAN RACECOURSE Dubai was the location on Saturday afternoon where the spotlight really shone on Rebels Romance. Ballydoyle’s champion, Auguste Rodin, who had been so impressive at Dundalk under regular work rider Rachel Richardson, could only look on as Charlie Appleby’s charge showed them all the way home in the Longines Dubai Sheema Classic. Visibly… Read more »

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CORRECTING CHRISTINE DAVIES

Date: April 4, 2024 - High Society

THERE WAS some bad news for the glamorous Christine Jane Davies, owner of the sprawling Ballybla House and estate outside Ashford in Co Wicklow and sister of loaded Irish Georgian Society president David Davies. A recent planning decision means Christine will have to find another way to generate “additional sources of income”. La Davies applied… Read more »

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JOHN MAGNIER’S CEREMONY

Date: April 4, 2024 - High Society

THE ASSOCIATION of Irish Racehorse Owners (AIRO) has just published its annual report for 2023, showing income of €270,000, the majority of which (€169,000) was made up of members’ subscriptions. Nevertheless, the company, which boasts one employee (Regina Byrne) managed to post a loss of €15,000. One of the interesting aspects of AIRO’s spending is… Read more »

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Killian Poynton

KILLIAN POYNTON’S HIGH NET WORTH CLIENTS

Date: April 4, 2024 - High Society

GREEN BIRD Ltd, a company catering to the needs of so-called “high net worth individuals”, has found itself on the end of a judgment from the dreaded Revenue. Established by Killian Poynton – who hails from the Bewley family – and his Russian wife, it looks like the pandemic scuppered the couple’s big plans, although… Read more »

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Myles O'Grady

MYLES O’GRADY PUTS LID ON BOI SHARE PRICE

Date: April 4, 2024 - Moneybags

IT WAS pretty eyebrow-raising that when Bank of Ireland (BoI) released its full-year results for 2023, showing pre-provisional and pre-exceptional profits that had almost doubled to €2.4bn, the share price actually fell. This seems ridiculous given that, at the current share price of just on €9.50, the bank is capitalised at only €9.9bn. On top… Read more »

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Urs Jordi

ARYZTA’S RECOVERY NOW BAKED INTO SHARE PRICE

Date: April 4, 2024 - Moneybags

A COMPANY that has effectively disappeared off the radar here is Aryzta, which is not surprising given its Swiss quote, but there remains significant Irish interest. Although the group ended up a “shambles”, according to executive chairman Urs Jordi, the good news is that the ship has been steadied and is steaming in the right… Read more »

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NOEL MORAN’S CAR TROUBLE

Date: April 4, 2024 - The Hot Water Brigade

THERE WAS a potentially expensive setback in the High Court last month for Noel Moran of Noel Moran Recovery, when his damages claim against a company called Blackstar Management, concerning the towing and storage of vehicles on behalf of An Garda Síochána, was booted down to the Circuit Court. This was on the grounds that… Read more »

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Steve Parkin

HEAVY GOING FOR FOLEY AND PARKIN

Date: April 4, 2024 - The Hot Water Brigade

“WE’RE NEARLY like family and I treat him like a brother,” was a recent remark by the minted founder of Clipper Logistics, Steve Parkin, about his advisor, Joe Foley, owner of Ballyhane Stud in Co Carlow. It has come as quite a surprise then that the boys have suddenly parted ways, ending a near 20-year… Read more »

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CYRIL MURPHY’S NETWORK ERROR

Date: April 4, 2024 - The Hot Water Brigade

A MOBILE network data firm marked out as a future star player in the sector, Equiendo Ltd, has just had its connection cut and is to be wound up next week. This is bad news for the taxpayer. Equiendo, which was set up 20 years ago by its controlling shareholder, chairman and CEO, Cyril Murphy… Read more »

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EU ‘WAR ECONOMY’

Date: April 4, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

LAST OCTOBER The Phoenix quoted an impeccable authority on western political and military strategy – the Economist magazine – which warned that the imminent retreat of the US from the Ukrainian war with Russia would require the EU to fill this military vacuum: “Europe… has committed as much weaponry as America and far more financial… Read more »

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Gaza Micheál Martin

DON’T MENTION THE WAR

Date: March 21, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

LAST WEEKEND’S article in the Irish Times by novelist Sally Rooney represented one of the relatively few public criticisms of the US’s policy on Israel by a high-profile Irish writer. Coincidentally, in the paper’s Ticket supplement the same day, there was an article by Una… Read more »

Michael McDowell

PROFILE: MICHAEL MCDOWELL

Date: March 21, 2024 - Pillars of Society

MICHAEL McDOWELL was the stand-out personality in the referendums campaign and his elation at the count was visible as ‘no’ activists gathered eagerly around him. The same activists are aware that McDowell’s current agenda is greater than the binning of the constitutional amendments. The former… Read more »