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Eamonn Gibney

GIBNEY’S GUARDEX LOANS

Date: March 12, 2020 - The Hot Water Brigade

IT IS interesting to see that Eamonn Gibney, a former Army ranger and founder of the Kildare security firm GuardEx Limited, has taken out relatively large interest-free loans from his own firm. The latest accounts, which are for the year ending March 2019 and were signed off by directors Eamonn and his wife, Michelle Gibney,… Read more »

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Kevin Warren

STOKES IS NOT STOKED

Date: March 12, 2020 - The Hot Water Brigade

THE WICKLOW bar and gastropub belonging to serial entrepreneur Brian Stokes, Dante Catering Ltd (trading as Ashford House), has had Declan Taite of Duff & Phelps Chartered Accountants appointed as receiver. In 2018, Spinvale Ltd, a holding company under the control of investor Kevin Warren, had taken over a charge on almost a hectare of… Read more »

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GERRY COSGRAVE’S JUDGMENT

Date: March 12, 2020 - The Hot Water Brigade

KBC BANK Ireland has registered a judgment against Donnybrook developer Gerry Cosgrave for an eye-watering €2.3m. Cosgrave, the cousin of well-known Dublin property developers Michael Cosgrave and Peter Cosgrave, was a partner in the once-thriving Romanian property specialists RI Investments Group (RIIG), which he ran alongside Dublin businessman Paul Doody (brother of Indiana Jones actress… Read more »

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Umi Falafel

TAXMAN BITES BACK

Date: March 12, 2020 - The Hot Water Brigade

IT SEEMS as if two popular Dublin eateries have had a bite taken out of their finances, according to the Revenue’s list of tax defaulters published last week. Dublin New Food Limited (trading as Eastern food franchise Umi Falafel) settled with the taxman for €40,000 including interests and penalties after an audit case found that… Read more »

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Robyn's Nest

CALLAN AND HIS CHARGES

Date: March 12, 2020 - The Hot Water Brigade

NORTH COUNTY Dublin businessman Joe Callan was hit was a €100,000 judgment from the taxman this week, although he has already moved to pay of €7,000. Only €93,000 to go. The Swords native is a shareholder in a variety of businesses, including catering and retail company Bijou Catering Ltd that trades as the Cottage Café… Read more »

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ROOF COLLAPSE FOR CUSACK HOMES

Date: March 12, 2020 - The Hot Water Brigade

THERE’S MORE bad news for the Cusack group, the troubled Meath property and hotel development group led by the Cusack family. Cusack Homes Ltd (CHL), the group’s residential property development firm that lists Johnathan Cusack and Denise Cusack as directors, is set to be wound up. A meeting of creditors is to take place on… Read more »

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Kenneth Greene

GREEN FARM GOOSE IS COOKED

Date: March 12, 2020 - The Hot Water Brigade

GOLDHAWK IS intrigued by the latest developments at Green Farm Foods Limited (GFF), which was stung by the taxman for almost €500,000 for under-declaring corporation tax. As of the end of 2019, GFF had yet to pay off its settlement with Revenue. The Westmeath poultry business, owned by Ken Greene, was once one of the… Read more »

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Mary Lou McDonald

POST-ELECTION SF FRENZY

Date: February 27, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

MARY LOU MCDONALD might have expected or hoped that the Fianna Fáil/Fine Gael hysteria surrounding Sinn Féin would subside post election. Instead it has, if anything, ramped up with any and every syllable uttered by a Shinner presented by a willing media as threats to the state. Why are these quarters still in full-on battle… Read more »

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Brendan O'Connor

TOP-10-HEAVY RTÉ

Date: February 27, 2020 - Fit to Print?

THE PROCESS of Brendan O’Connor’s appointment as replacement for the late Marian Finucane’s weekend slot had all the finesse and transparency of a Papal bull. And it underlined yet again the contrast between the treatment of star presenters and RTÉ staff journalists. The appointment was preceded by a statement in early February from the head… Read more »

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Eoghen Harris

PROFILE: EOGHAN HARRIS

Date: February 27, 2020 - Pillars of Society

SUNDAY INDEPENDENT columnist Eoghan Harris, the ultimate Republican apostate, is given to bombastic claims about his political savvy, from his political predictions to his alleged influence with leading politicians. Will he now claim credit for Fianna Fáil’s and, in particular, Micheál Martin’s disastrous general election result? Martin may or may not end up as a… Read more »

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Jennifer Carroll MacNeill

YOUNG BLOOD: JENNIFER CARROLL MACNEILL

Date: February 27, 2020 - The Young Bloods

THE DIZZYING political ascent of recently elected Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown (DLR) Fine Gael TD Jennifer Carroll MacNeill, drafted in to replace Maria Bailey amid ‘Swingate’, may seem sudden. Even within the party, the upset on polling day, which saw her win out over sitting minister Mary Mitchell O’Connor for the constituency’s only FG seat, was a… Read more »

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Michael O'Leary

MICK O’LEARY’S REAL PROBLEM

Date: February 27, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

ONCE AGAIN, motor mouth Mick O’Leary has featured prominently in the headlines for all the wrong reasons – this time over comments about Muslims deemed racists by observers – even attracting a broadside from justice minister Charlie Flanagan, who described O’Leary’s comments as “simplistic” and “lazy”. The problem is, however, that the focus on the… Read more »

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Eoin Ó Broin

MCDOWELL’S GHOST PRISON

Date: February 27, 2020 - Last Refuge

Launching his Seanad re-election campaign, Michael McDowell SC showed an impressive, if belated, concern to increase the provision of public housing. In a plea in the Irish Times just four days after their election meltdown, he called for the Blueshirts and Soldiers of Destiny to form a coalition. McDowell advised all and sundry that there… Read more »

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Sinead Gibney

HUMAN RIGHTS NEW REGIME

Date: February 27, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

THE PROTRACTED saga and disputes over appointments to the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHREC) appear to have concluded with last week’s appointment of Sinéad Gibney as its new chief commissioner. It emerged last August that justice minister Charlie Flanagan had dispensed with the previously vigorous appointment methods for commissioners (see The Phoenix 23/8/19)…. Read more »

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Marian Keyes

IN PRAISE OF MARIAN KEYES

Date: February 27, 2020 - Behind the Scenes

WHILE GOLDHAWK has noted John Banville’s effective marketing of his latest novel, another writer who has been the subject of a huge amount of timely media coverage this month is Marian Keyes, whose The Grown Ups is her latest bestseller. Keyes raised eyebrows with a suitably incendiary comment about male writers, but she has little… Read more »

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TONY O’REILLY’S GOOD NEWS

Date: February 27, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

GOOD NEWS for Tony O’Reilly for a change. It looks like the former press (and bean) baron is about to exit bankruptcy, almost five years after he turned to the Bahamas courts for protection from his creditors. Now ensconced in a huge castle, he still has a legal headache in the form of litigation in… Read more »

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Richard Barrett

RICHARD BARRETT’S GREEN LIGHTS

Date: February 27, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

LAST WEEK, moneybags property developer Richard Barrett got another green light for his ‘Niche Living’ brand of shared accommodation developments, with An Bord Pleanála overturning the refusal of a Bartra Capital scheme in Rathmines, D6. This follows the thumbs-up for projects in Castleknock and Dún Laoghaire, with plenty more schemes to come. Barrett’s successes come… Read more »

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Date: February 27, 2020 -

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PASCHAL DONOHOE’S NEXT APPOINTMENT

Date: February 27, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

LAST WEEK was the closing date for applicants seeking a place on the board of the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland (SBCI), a little-known state institution that doles out hundreds of millions of euro to lenders every year. The SBCI, headed up by Nick Ashmore, was set up in 2014 to funnel low-cost moolah to… Read more »

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Peter Goulandris

PETER GOULANDRIS’S CBE

Date: February 27, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

GOLDHAWK was delighted to see that the low-profile moneybags, Peter Goulandris (older brother of Chryss), had landed himself a CBE for “services to business”. The Bahamas-based businessman has had some forgettable business experiences in Ireland. Goulandris’s Irish experience includes joining brother-in-law Tony O’Reilly to invest hundreds of millions in the doomed Waterford Wedgwood (WW). He… Read more »

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LILLIPUT’S INTERNSHIP

Date: February 27, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

A RECENTLY announced unpaid internship with Arts Council-funded Lilliput Press has not been well received and may run foul of a new policy promoted by the council in which it promises to only give grants to companies that pay creatives fairly. Indie publishing house Lilliput Press, owned by Trinity College modern history professor David Dickson,… Read more »

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Conor Reddy

COLLEGE POLITICS UP-AND-COMERS

Date: February 27, 2020 - Student Life

Reflecting the uptick in political youth engagement, the universities put forward some fresh faces who are bound to become election fixtures in the future. Trinity College Dublin produced a high number of general election candidates this year, one of which (Fianna Fáil’s new Cork East TD, 22-year-old James O’Connor) was successfully propelled to the Dáil… Read more »

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John Gore

TORY DONOR AND SINN FÉIN UNITE

Date: February 27, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

CONSERVATIVE PARTY donor to the tune of €5 million over the last three years, John Gore, who is also an award-winning Broadway producer, appears to have embarked on the reconquest of part of the 26 counties, namely the area around Moville and Greencastle in Donegal. And the Harrow-educated Gore has recently been involved in a… Read more »

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Michelle O'Neill

‘DISSIDENT’ ATTACKS ON SF

Date: February 27, 2020 - Hush Hush

GIVEN THE requirement to paint Sinn Féin rallies as somehow sinister and threatening, little attention has been given to the more substantial threats to SF members in the north. But mixed signals from police intelligence sources in Belfast regarding an imminent dissident republican attack on SF members carry the whiff of spookery about them. After… Read more »

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JOHN DRENNAN’S GRIPT GIG

Date: February 27, 2020 - Hush Hush

GOLDHAWK NOTICED that former Sindo columnist turned Renua spin doctor John Drennan has joined John McGuirk’s Gript media. His freshman offering for the right-wing Irish website is, unsurprisingly, an analysis of the rise in public support for Sinn Féin. The columnist claims the current “strange air of barely suppressed mass hysteria” and “evolution of anti-Semitism… Read more »

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THE HOT AIR BRIGADE 3804

Date: February 27, 2020 - The Hot Air Brigade

Paul Hewson’s top three moments have to include encouraging Dylan to record the 1989 album Oh Mercy, his own band’s The Joshua Tree and, as of last Tuesday night, serving Johnny Sexton dinner bumps his humanitarian efforts in Africa. “I am your waiter,” Bono told Sexton. “So sir, [sauce] with your rice?” Gavin Cummiskey reflects… Read more »

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Sue Gray

WHO REALLY RUNS THE NORTH?

Date: February 27, 2020 - Northwind

When is devolved government not devolved government? Answer: when the central government exercises powers that were supposed to be devolved, ignoring the objections of the so-called devolved government. Another answer, of course, applies to the north, where the administration isn’t a government at all, but a glorified county council with no pretensions to take on… Read more »

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CATHERINE MURPHY’S ODD BEHAVIOUR

Date: February 27, 2020 - Last Refuge

HOW STRANGE that Social Democrats co-leader Catherine Murphy would even consider running for the post of Ceann Comhairle, given that her party – now six strong TDs post election – is poised to compete for the role as the new voice of the Left. In her statement saying she had decided not to contest the… Read more »

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Micheál Martin

MARTIN’S MASTERFUL SCREW-UP

Date: February 27, 2020 - Last Refuge

PUTATIVE TALKS between Leo Varadkar and Micheál Martin may now be the main political agenda, but Martin’s negotiating position, as well as his own leadership, has been seriously weakened. The memory of the immediate aftermath of the election count and the four days that followed may be erased but, in that period, Martin undermined his… Read more »

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Mick Barry

FAR-LEFT COALITION SPLITS

Date: February 27, 2020 - Last Refuge

COALITION SHADOW boxing between the three big parties is child’s play compared to the ongoing battle for ascendancy between the two Trotskyist factions in Solidarity-People Before Profit (PBP). Solidarity is the Socialist Party (SP) and PBP is the Socialist Workers’ Party (SWP), both in disguise, and the fragile balance of power between them has been… Read more »

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PHELIM MCALEER’S OLD COLLEAGUE

Date: February 27, 2020 - Fit to Print?

JOURNALISTS PHELIM McAleer and his partner, Anne McElhinney, have homed in on the Harvey Weinstein trial with daily podcasts, according to an obliging snippet in the Sunday Times. The article describes the couple, in an off-hand way, as “conservative”, but it helpfully refers to their other work as climate change deniers and in support of… Read more »

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Theresa May

RUSSIAN AGENTS ON IRISH LAND AND SEA

Date: February 27, 2020 - Fit to Print?

SUNDAY TIMES intelligence sources have stimulated yet another Russian scare and the paper recently exposed a dastardly plot by Russian agents operating in Ireland to tap or sabotage fibre-optic cables between the US and Europe. The article by the ST’s crime corr, John Mooney, cited Irish security services’ fears about the Russian agents activities, but… Read more »

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Éamon Ó Cuív

ELECTRIC AVENUE

Date: February 27, 2020 - Fowl Emissions

The outgoing government’s promise to fill the nation’s roads with electric vehicles (EVs) will not solve the climate crisis or ease traffic congestion, but it does have the benefit of allowing road-building enthusiasts to give their arguments a green retrofit. Roads can be eco-friendly because the cars on them will be fossil-free. Eventually. Take the… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS 3804

Date: February 27, 2020 - Bog Cuttings

‘FUCK off and mind your own business’ A Kerry man was given a month in jail for swearing at gardaí and throwing himself on the floor of the emergency department at University Hospital Kerry. Paddy Coffey, of Flat 2, No 11 Upper Castle Street, Tralee, believed he was unwell and became irritated with staff after… Read more »

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MARIA WALSH’S VOTES

Date: February 27, 2020 - Fowl Emissions

“A kick in the teeth to Kerry people,” was how Michael Healy-Rae described MEP Maria Walsh’s decision to vote against the Shannon LNG terminal to import fracked gas. Healy-Rae implied that, if the Kingdom makes you Rose of Tralee (Walsh took the crown in 2014), you have a duty of loyalty to the county –… Read more »

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Jamie Oliver

JAMIE’S OFFSHORE RECIPE

Date: February 27, 2020 - High Society

THERE WAS mixed news on the restaurant front this month. Following a spate of high-profile closures in January, Derry and Sallyanne Clarke announced they will close their highly regarded L’Ecrivain on Dublin’s Upper Baggot Street next summer. Ahead of that, however, celebrity chef Jamie Oliver and his Irish partner, Gerry Fitzpatrick, are set to open… Read more »

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