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Sheikh Mohammed Al Maktoum

SHEIKH MOHAMMED’S KIDNAP CONUNDRUM

Date: March 12, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

GIVEN THE influence of the Dubai ruling Al Maktoum family here, the silence to date of the authorities on the explosive court ruling in London in the case between Princess Haya and Sheikh Mohammed may come as no surprise. The Maktoums are classified as good friends of Ireland and the horseracing industry in particular. But… Read more »

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Hugo MacNeill

HUGO MACNEILL AND THE ‘VAMPIRE SQUID’

Date: March 12, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

FOLLOWING THE recent election of Fine Gael’s Jennifer Carroll MacNeill, her hubby, Hugo MacNeill, is seeking to land a seat in the Seanad courtesy of Trinity College. Goldhawk was impressed with the high-profile nature of MacNeill’s backers and also with the 1980s photo of the former rugby international in action, ball in hand, that features… Read more »

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Maureen Kennell

MAUREEN KENNELLY’S TOP JOB

Date: March 12, 2020 - Behind the Scenes

THE APPOINTMENT of Maureen Kennelly as director of the Arts Council – to succeed Orlaith McBride, who was in situ for nine years – has been generally welcomed. This marks probably the most significant action that the Merrion Square Mafia chair, Kevin Rafter, will oversee while at the council. The new arrival is not unknown… Read more »

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Rachael Blackmore

BANKING ON BLACKMORE

Date: March 12, 2020 - Sport of Kings

THIS TIME last year, Rachael Blackmore was being tipped to make her Cheltenham Festival breakthrough. She duly delivered in style, booting home two winners, including her first at Grade 1 level when winning on Minella Indo for trainer Henry De Bromhead and owner Barry Maloney. Fast forward 12 months and the momentum that Blackmore has… Read more »

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Alan Kelly

LABOUR CONTEST: AK47 VS PC 2020

Date: March 12, 2020 - Last Refuge

LABOUR’S LEADERSHIP election – Guns vs Roses – is already over bar the counting; Alan Kelly is home and dry and the only question is the margin of victory. Apart from heightening his national profile with interventions on such as the cervical cancer controversy, AK47 has spent the last four years building his support base… Read more »

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Rory Best

LEGAL MAUL

Date: March 12, 2020 - Fit to Print?

EX-IRELAND rugby legend and captain Rory Best may have to shortly tog out for an off-field scrummage of far greater significance – legally and financially – than any Six Nations or World Cup contest. As has been reported, the Irish Independent has been taken to task for publishing remarks by Best about the legal team… Read more »

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HISTORY LESSON

Date: March 12, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

CONGRATULATIONS TO the Ireland Institute for Historical & Cultural Studies (IIHCS), which now boasts an historically good balance sheet. The institute – located at 27 Pearse Street in the family home of Patrick and Willie Pearse, central figures in the 1916 Easter Rising – has the aim of “promoting Gaelic culture and language”. It does… Read more »

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Date: March 12, 2020 -

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NIALL QUINN’S LOADED PAL

Date: March 12, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

WHILE THE FAI focuses on trying to qualify for Euro 2020 in play-off games in empty stadiums in Bratislava and (hopefully) either Belfast or Sarajevo, the recent changing of the guard that brought Niall Quinn into a specially created senior role also brings footie fan Dermot Desmond a step closer to the decision makers. Desmond… Read more »

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Micheal Ganley

THE ‘BURKEAN’ BUNCO

Date: March 12, 2020 - Student Life

IT HAS emerged that an online activist group purporting to be exposing far-right and fascist activity on third-level campuses in Ireland, Irish Students Against Fascism (ISAF), was in fact a “long-term investigative project” (sock puppet account) set up by right-wing college publication the Burkean to instead ‘expose’ opponents of the far-right. After weeks of breadcrumbing… Read more »

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Éamon Ó Cuív

COVID-19: FF ARD FHEIS 20/21

Date: March 12, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

JUST ONE of Micheál Martin’s problems in securing a coalition deal is the requirement in Fianna Fáil party rules for a special ard fheis to sanction any such move. This is by no means a done deal, with anger at Fine Gael and Martin (not necessarily in that order) rife among grassroots members. But a… Read more »

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Drew Harris

‘LET’S GET BREXIT DONE’

Date: March 12, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

GARDA COMMISSIONER Drew Harris drew fire from Sinn Féin over his IRA army council statement and he made another, em, forthright statement last weekend about the forced detention of people who refuse to self-isolate for coronavirus checks and the sealing off of areas by the gardaí. Harris conceded that these were “very extreme” scenarios, but… Read more »

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FRANCES RUANE’S NEW FACES

Date: March 12, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

AFTER AN unusually long hiatus, the Abbey Theatre has finally got around to filling four vacancies on its board that have lain vacant for over a year. The deadline for applications was January 8 and the new faces were chosen by the selection committee, which included Abbey chair Frances Ruane. Most unusually, in December the… Read more »

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Bob Geldof

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Date: March 12, 2020 - The Hot Air Brigade

You’re listening to Radio Luxembourg and the improbable microstate lowers down the golden thread and I grabbed hold of it. Bob Geldof reminisces about a radio station, Irish Times, submitted by reader A Sinn Féin government would be a disaster on literally every single level in this country. Neil Francis, writing in his, er, sports… Read more »

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Arlene Foster

MAKING A HASH OF CASH FOR ASH

Date: March 12, 2020 - Northwind

Three weeks ago, a Stormont committee gave the officials in charge of communications and executive support a grilling. Chris Stewart, director of executive support and programme for government, told the committee it was “a challenge” and that, after three years in mothballs and taking time to restart some systems, there had been “a loss of… Read more »

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Hazel Chu

GREEN POWER PLAY

Date: March 12, 2020 - Last Refuge

TWO PUTATIVE Green Party dynasties had their wings clipped during and after the general election and party leader Eamon Ryan showed that he learned a thing or two from his counterparts in government between 2007 and 2011. Ryan is sitting on a most formidable couple in his Dublin Bay South (DBS) party organisation, namely Cllr… Read more »

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Simon Coveney

COVENEY RETREATS

Date: March 12, 2020 - Last Refuge

DESPITE SIMMERING anger at grassroots level following Fine Gael’s electoral panning, the parliamentary party is unlikely to see a leadership challenge from Simon Coveney any time soon. The main reason is that other scapegoats have been identified by many members – for the moment – but Covetous did not cover himself in glory while Leo… Read more »

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EOGHAN MURPHY’S NEW PARTNER

Date: March 12, 2020 - Last Refuge

HOUSING MINISTER Eoghan Murphy TD’s replacement of Kate O’Connell as his new Fine Gael ‘partner’ in Dublin Bay South (DBS) is likely to be Cllr James Geoghegan. The smooth barrister possesses the most distinguished legal and political pedigree (see The Phoenix 28/6/19) and is certainly less abrasive than O’Connell. However, he may prove to be… Read more »

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SISI’S SUPPORT

Date: March 12, 2020 - Fit to Print?

A THUNDERING Irish Times editorial marking the recent death of the Egyptian “dictator”, President Hosni Mubarak, sympathised with the Egyptians who had lived under his tyranny. A concerned editorial writer also remarked, “Egyptians have continued to live, since the 2013 coup, under the iron fist of autocrat President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, whose modus operandi, military… Read more »

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Allison Morris

JOURNALIST STALKED

Date: March 12, 2020 - Fit to Print?

THE “abominable” stalking of Irish News security correspondent Allison Morris, whose life and that of her family was rendered unbearable for three years, has been well aired in numerous broadcast and print interviews recently. Morris’s former boyfriend, Fernando Murphy, was jailed for 14 months after conviction on nine such charges last October. But a backstory… Read more »

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Helen Dixon

WECKLER’S COMMISSION OMISSION

Date: March 12, 2020 - Tech-Tonic

Adrian Weckler, top tech correspondent and gadget-obsessive at the Indo, has written at length about the impending Data Protection Commission (DPC) fines on tech firms such as Facebook, Twitter and Google, yet he has not said much about the long-awaited DPC ruling regarding INM’s own notorious data breach. INM’s IT system back-up tapes were removed… Read more »

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Prince William

IMPRESSING OUR GREEN CREDENTIALS ON THE ROYALS

Date: March 12, 2020 - Fowl Emissions

No celebrity visit to Ireland would be complete without the now-mandatory photo op involving a pint of Guinness. And so it was when Prince William and Kate Middleton came to town recently. Next stop for the royal bandwagon was a visit to a Teagasc-run farm in Trim, Co Meath. Here, the royals were told all… Read more »

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Date: March 12, 2020 - Bog Cuttings

‘The Fuck Word’ Gavin Tierney (43) of The Park, Grange Rath, Drogheda pleaded not guilty to using threatening, abusive or insulting behaviour with the intention of causing a breach of the peace in Drogheda District Court. Two plain clothes gardaí had approached Tierney at a Maxol garage about his tax disc and became aggrieved when… Read more »

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Pat and Dermot Desmond

THE DESMONDS IN DUBLIN 4

Date: March 12, 2020 - High Society

NOT SURPRISINGLY, billionaire Dermot Desmond’s cunning plan to fix the housing problem attracted plenty of attention, including a fawning interview on Radio 1 with Miriam O’Callaghan. Meanwhile, his wife, Pat Desmond, is involved in a legal challenge to the fast-track planning laws that could affect plans for thousands of houses, apartments and student accommodation spaces…. Read more »

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Consuelo O’Connor

DOMHNAL SLATTERY’S AWARD

Date: March 12, 2020 - High Society

AVIATION moneybags Domhnal Slattery of the Avolon leasing group must have been delighted with the Glucksman Award for Leadership that he picked up last month in New York. Presumably, he was also chuffed with the rather generous-looking U108m personal wealth ascribed to him by the Sindo in its annual ‘Rich List’. Given that Slats now… Read more »

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Mark O'Neill

MARK O’NEILL’S NEW TAX BILL

Date: March 12, 2020 - High Society

IT LOOKS like artist Mark O’Neill has been just a little careless, given that he has ended up on the list of tax defaulters for a second time. This time, however, the under-pressure artists exemption scheme can have had no role given that the Revenue investigation related to capital gains tax. O’Neill has been rather… Read more »

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Douglas Taylor

DOUG TAYLOR’S JET SET

Date: March 12, 2020 - Sport of Kings

DUBLIN SUIT Douglas Taylor enjoyed five minutes of fame 10 years ago when he orchestrated a well-executed gamble on his horse, D Four Dave, at Kilbeggan. Taylor, the chief executive of outsourcing company MCR Group, had equipped a number of his employees with a ‘betting kit’ and instructions to hit a wide range of bookies… Read more »

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CROSSED WIRES FOR DENIS HOGAN

Date: March 12, 2020 - Sport of Kings

THE ACTIONS of senior management at the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) – where chief executive Denis Egan calls the shots – are coming under intense scrutiny at the moment as a result of media coverage of the ongoing Chris Gordon defamation case. While the top officials are immersed in this long-running legal saga, there… Read more »

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Nicky Hartery

HRI FOLLOWS THE MONEY

Date: March 12, 2020 - Sport of Kings

THE five-year strategic plan up to 2024 was recently launched by Horse Racing Ireland (HRI) and it contained no real surprises. The development of a new all-weather circuit at Tipperary Racecourse is, however, committed to being ready for use within two years. Given the project was shelved due to lack of funding late last year,… Read more »

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APEIROGON – COLUM McCANN (BLOOMSBURY)

Date: March 12, 2020 - BooksReviews

BEST KNOWN for his hugely successful Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann’s inventive fiction ranges widely and is generally international in scope. His latest book has resurrected jaded questions about apparent ‘cultural appropriation’ and whether outsiders should “dip their pens in somebody else’s blood”. The author clearly contests well-worn arguments that no one should… Read more »

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CULTURE NIGHT RECORDS

Date: March 12, 2020 - Behind the Scenes

LAST WEEK, the Irish Heart Foundation kicked up over the alleged failure of certain public officials to keep records of meetings with lobbyists (Ibec) seeking to influence health policy. It is not only in the health area that records are thin on the ground. Last year, the Arts Council (AC) apparently received a €5m boost… Read more »

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Eleanor McEvoy

PICKING UP THAT BAI BOUNTY

Date: March 12, 2020 - Behind the Scenes

WHILE THE spotlight turns regularly on the winners in Michael O’Keefe’s generous Sound & Vision funding rounds at the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI), the agency’s other funding streams tend to avoid scrutiny. Its recent press release – headlined “Sponsorship and sectoral learning and development funding for 2020” – didn’t dwell on who got what,… Read more »

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Margaret Sweeney

I-RES REIT NEEDS TO ACT ON BIG CANADIAN FEES

Date: March 12, 2020 - Moneybags

THE GIANT Canadian Capreit residential investment group manages 50,000 apartments across the Atlantic and has being doing rather nicely out of the Irish market too, having established I-Res here. The time has now come, however, for the board and management of the Irish-listed company to pull the plug on the remarkably generous fee arrangement with… Read more »

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Pat McCann

DEPRESSED DALATA FACES DOUBLE WHAMMY

Date: March 12, 2020 - Moneybags

WITH A likely hard Brexit coming down the tracks at the end of this year and Ireland’s tourist trade hugely dependent on the 40% of British visitors, CEO Pat McCann made a bad strategic mistake in committing Dalata Hotels to such a high level of dependence on the Dublin market. The group has circa 5,000… Read more »

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Margaret and Anna Saccone

SACCONE’S BILL

Date: March 12, 2020 - The Hot Water Brigade

SOME BAD news for Margaret Saccone, mother of American-Irish mummy YouTube blogger Anna Saccone. Margaret, whose listed address is in Rochestown in Co Cork, was on the Revenue’s list of tax defaulters, having paid almost €270,000, including interest and penalties. The settlement arose after a Revenue enquiry found that Margaret Saccone had undeclared more than… Read more »

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CORCORAN’S TAX RETURNS

Date: March 12, 2020 - The Hot Water Brigade

MORE ON Cork solicitor Ger Corcoran, who has been fined €3,750 by the Revenue for failing to submit income tax returns on time, according to the list of tax defaulters published last week. When asked by Goldhawk why the returns were late, Corcoran (now working at Appelbe & Thornton Solicitors in Bandon, Co Cork) told… Read more »

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