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John Wenger

COVID-19’S CLIMATE CALAMITY

Date: April 9, 2020 - Fowl Emissions

THE CORONAVIRUS crisis has delivered a harsh reminder that all human enterprises ultimately exist at the whim of nature. The global spread of the virus has been like a silent tsunami, crashing economies, grounding airline fleets and bringing normal life to a juddering halt. The coronavirus has, in a matter of weeks, achieved what 30… Read more »

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Lisa Chambers

MARTIN’S SEANAD OUTCOME

Date: April 9, 2020 - Last Refuge

FIANNA FÁIL leader Micheál Martin gave a tentative sigh of relief when the election results for the Seanad were completed. Mickey is under growing pressure internally in Fianna Fáil because of his plans to form a coalition with the old enemy. As fans of Goldhawk are aware (see The Phoenix 27/3/20), Covid-19 has come to… Read more »

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Laura Harmon

NUI’S INSPIRING GRADUATES

Date: April 9, 2020 - Last Refuge

THOSE PATHETIC, second-rate graduates of Limerick and Dublin City universities, who are still deprived of a Seanad vote, can take solace that they didn’t have to wade through the worthy election material circulated by many of the National University of Ireland (NUI) candidates. Goldhawk did the dirty work for them. The NUI panel presented no… Read more »

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Eoghan Murphy

MURPHY’S RENTAL FLIP-FLOP

Date: April 9, 2020 - Last Refuge

HOUSING MINISTER Eoghan Murphy returned from his post-election vacation abroad in fine fettle, but still went into self-quarantine. Thankfully, the minister for more tents and higher rents enjoys robust good health, but he may have had a little bit too much sun exposure while he was away. How else can we explain his betrayal of… Read more »

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Micheál Martin

FF’S SOCIAL PARTNERSHIP

Date: April 9, 2020 - Last Refuge

THERE HAS been a quiet reappearance of the term “social partnership” in recent weeks and, for the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU), Covid-19 may help to open the door for the return of the unions to centre stage after a period of diluted influence. Micheál Martin stirred the pot last week when he called… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: April 9, 2020 - Bog Cuttings

Where’s The Brothel? JOSEPH KERR, of Monuienegh, Ballyheerin, Donegal, was charged in Letterkenny District Court in relation to an 2015 incident involving gardaí. Kerr came to the attention of a Garda patrol while being ejected from a nightclub on Ramelton Road. The gardaí initially instructed Kerr to leave the area under the public order act,… Read more »

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Brendan O'Connor

RTÉ’S COVID-19 MESSAGE

Date: April 9, 2020 - Fit to Print?

THERE WAS a noticeable shift in media coverage of the government’s efforts last weekend as hacks woke up to the fact that maybe there was some spinning going on. For the HSE and Department of Health in particular, it looks like the honeymoon is over as hard questions are being asked about actual number of… Read more »

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Loretta Brennan Glucksman

TRISTAN’S GOOD NEWS

Date: April 9, 2020 - Behind the Scenes

JUST AS the nation’s film and TV producers are facing into the Covid-19 production abyss, Michael O’Keefe’s Broadcasting Authority of Ireland has announced the rather timely allocation of €7m from Sound & Vision funding scheme. The bad news is that the €2.5m Covid-19 bail-out for radio broadcasters announced by Richard Bruton last week is not… Read more »

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The Arms Crisis of 1970

THE ARMS CRISIS OF 1970 – MICHAEL HENEY (APOLLO LONDON)

Date: April 9, 2020 - BooksReviews

IRISH POLITICS experienced a seminal moment in 1970, with two dismissed former ministers, Charlie Haughey and Neil Blaney, facing trial. The charges related to their alleged involvement in a conspiracy to smuggle arms into Ireland for the defence of nationalist areas in Northern Ireland against possible loyalist attack. The situation arose following sustained loyalist attacks… Read more »

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Peter Jackson

FLUTTER ENTERTAINMENT GETS THE FLUTTERS

Date: April 9, 2020 - Moneybags

COVID-19 has severely impacted Flutter Entertainment. CEO Peter Jackson has estimated that the closedown of global sporting events will hit the bottom line by a mid-point estimate of £100m and this on the optimistic basis that the situation “will only last up to the end of August”. It is not an ideal time to be… Read more »

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Catherine Wiley

CATHERINE WILEY’S COPYRIGHT HEADACHE

Date: April 9, 2020 - The Hot Water Brigade

LIKE MANY similar organisations that depend on donations to survive, the Catholic Grandparents Association Ltd (CGA) is facing a tough few months ahead. The problem is that the entity is already in the red and has also received a legal threat from across the Atlantic. The CGA was founded in 2003 by Catherine Wiley in… Read more »

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Ron Weisz

RON WEISZ’S SEMI-RETIREMENT

Date: April 9, 2020 - The Hot Water Brigade

THE CANNY old rancher, Leitrim-based American subprime lender Ron Weisz, might be semi-retired, but he’s still being kept busy by his high-interest money-lending business. Weisz’s latest legal adventure involves a case taken against him and Michael Condon by Thomas Morrin, who in December 2009 borrowed €320,000 from a company called Secured Property Loans (SPL), in… Read more »

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CORPSE COUNT

Date: April 9, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

THE BIG avoidance in the Covid-19 crisis is discussion on how to cope with the potential surge in corpses. Not surprisingly, the army and civil defence were reluctant to talk to Goldhawk about it, while the HSE was rather annoyed when funeral directors brought up the issue of contaminated bodies when the death rate was… Read more »

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TULLOW’S AFRICAN ‘PARENT’

Date: April 9, 2020 - The Hot Water Brigade

AFRICAN BILLIONAIRE oilman Samuel Dossou-Aworet has pushed his stake in his Tullow Oil “baby” to more than 13%. Tullow’s share price has enjoyed a little jump in the last few weeks but, while Dossou-Aworet’s stake is twice as big as it was at the start of January, it’s worth a fraction of what he paid… Read more »

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RICHARD MEEHAN’S MENU

Date: April 9, 2020 - The Hot Water Brigade

A FEW short years ago, Richard Meehan was aiming to build his food distribution company to €30m by 2021. Unfortunately, his business took a 70% wallop thanks to the coronavirus lockdown, which has closed virtually every pub, restaurant and kitchen in the country. Last week, the High Court heard that the companies in Meehan’s group… Read more »

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Jim Durie

JIM DURIE’S FITNESS CHALLENGE

Date: April 9, 2020 - The Hot Water Brigade

At the same time that gyms have gone quiet during the lockdown, one of the bigger players in the game, the company behind the Énergie Fitness franchise, called a creditors’ meeting. It will be recalled that in 2018 the Énergie Fitness gym in Parkwest ran into a spot of bother when LDM Ventures Ltd, where… Read more »

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RICHARD BRUTON’S APPOINTMENT

Date: April 9, 2020 - Hush Hush

WHILE THE Greens may be determined to stay out of government despite the climate crisis, the wheels keep turning and Richard Bruton is looking for a chair of Sustainable Energy Ireland (SEI) to replace Julie O’Neill, whose term ends next month. The position comes with a €1,000 per month stipend, which isn’t too bad for… Read more »

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HOT STUFF

Date: April 9, 2020 - Fowl Emissions

IN THE middle of a national emergency, it requires a special type of reckless entitlement to be starting illegal fires on the mountains that endanger the lives of emergency service personnel and inflicts serious air pollution on local communities. But, this annual orgy of gorse burning, notwithstanding the current lockdown, is once again under way,… Read more »

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SINN FÉIN’S “BELLIGERENCE”

Date: April 9, 2020 - Fit to Print?

ACCORDING TO Irish Times northern editor Gerry Moriarty, the newly resurrected Stormont executive is in danger of falling apart and it’s all the fault of Sinn Féin’s “belligerence… trying to take total control”. The executive is “riven with tensions” about coronavirus. The “steam is beginning to pop the lid off the pot”. In an overwrought… Read more »

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MARTIN SHIELDS BOUNDS FREE

Date: April 9, 2020 - High Society

LAST MONTH was a memorable one for the owners of the sprawling Lissadell on leafy Shrewsbury Road, with financier Martin Shields managing to avoid a prison sentence, despite having been convicted by a court in Germany for serious tax evasion. It turns out that the moneybags and his wife also have an interest in computer… Read more »

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LOSSES AT ARDBRACCAN

Date: April 9, 2020 - High Society

THE SQUIRE of Ardbraccan House estate in Co Meath, US moneybags Charles E Noell III, must be pleased with the deal struck last month to sell an Irish software company to US investors. Less profitable has been his Irish estate. Noell bought David Maher’s splendid Ardbraccan House on 120 acres for €3.3m two years ago… Read more »

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Brendan McDonagh

THE REAL COST OF NAMA’S QUINLAN LOANS

Date: April 9, 2020 - Moneybags

MICK WALLACE may be gone to Strasbourg, but his legacy was evident last month with the publication of a report into the sale by Brendan McDonagh’s Nama of assorted loans linked to Quinlan Private that resulted in a stated loss of almost €30m. In fact, the actual loss to the taxpayer is probably closer to… Read more »

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Alan Kelly

KELLY TO PURGE APPARATCHIKS

Date: April 9, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

THE ELECTION of Alan Kelly has led to an expectation of a Stalinist-style clean-out of many of the Labour Party’s functionaries as the new man puts his stamp on a party in its death throes. Among those looking over their shoulders are the hapless apparatchiks who were in regular e-mail correspondence with Aodhán Ó Ríordáin… Read more »

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Catherine Martin

PROFILE: CATHERINE MARTIN

Date: April 9, 2020 - Pillars of Society

IT’S THE quiet ones you have to watch, as your mammy will have warned you. For four years, Catherine Martin sat dutifully in the Dáil chamber beside her party leader, lettuce grower and wolf-wilding advocate Eamon Ryan. Two peas in a pod, you’d have thought, the sole members of the Greens’ parliamentary party, perched side… Read more »

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Holly Cairns

YOUNG BLOODS: HOLLY CAIRNS

Date: April 9, 2020 - The Young Bloods

THE STUNNING success of Sinn Féin and the Greens overshadowed the achievement of the Social Democrats in the recent general election, when the party increased its Dáil representation from two to a heady six, including the surprising success of Holly Cairns. The question is whether she would make it back if another election is called…. Read more »

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MICHAEL D’S ‘COCOONING’

Date: April 9, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

ONE PERSON valiantly trying to keep up with Leo Varadkar after that St Patrick’s Day broadcast is one Michael D Higgins, cocooned or not. Normally Michael Twee’s day to shine at home, the prez was upended by Leo’s state of the nation address. Higgins appears to have been in overdrive since, at least on the… Read more »

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THE (NOEL) KELLY GANG

Date: April 9, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

WITH COVID-19 keeping much of the nation glued to RTÉ, we have had more exposure than usual to the celebs managed by super-agent Noel Kelly. On Claire Byrne Live, viewers were almost treated to an interview with the never-annoying Baz Ashmawy, but the Skype connection didn’t work. The same week, Newstalk’s Ciara Kelly popped up… Read more »

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Michele O’Boyle

FRANCESCA MCDONAGH’S WITHDRAWAL

Date: April 9, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

FRANCESCA MCDONAGH, chief executive of Bank of Ireland (BoI), took everyone, including the government, by surprise with last month’s announcement that no less than 101 branches were being shuttered. Particularly peeved, it turns out, are the legal eagles. The government had met the bank bosses a week before the BoI bombshell and had emphasised that… Read more »

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Stephen Rae

STEPHEN RAE’S ‘STRAITS TIMES’

Date: April 9, 2020 - Fit to Print?

FORMER INDEPENDENT News and Media (INM) group editor Stephen Rae’s been out of the journalism business for a while, but he’s keeping his pen sharp as any subscribers to Singapore’s The Straits Times will know. He’s also been doing his bit to keep up the old INM tradition of never letting a chance to bash… Read more »

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Gerard Kiely

GERARD KIELY’S PR

Date: April 9, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

THE EU Commission’s local point man in Ireland, Gerard Kiely, has a tough job promoting a sense of EU unity when the Italians have been left in the lurch and Hungary is beginning to look a bit like it was in the 1930s before it snuggled up to Herr Hitler. Kiely has spent over 30… Read more »

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JOSEPHA MADIGAN’S PR INITIATIVE

Date: April 9, 2020 - Behind the Scenes

JOSEPHA MADIGAN suffered some Covid-19 political pain when her PR initiative to provide funding for artists and pat herself on the back was met by an immune response from the arts community. Certainly, the debacle has done little for Madigan’s chances of landing a cabinet seat, even if there aren’t too many women in the… Read more »

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Ali Hewson

ALI HEWSON’S FASHION CHANGES

Date: April 9, 2020 - High Society

THE DIRECTORS of ethical fashion business Edun Apparel have just passed a resolution removing Deloitte as the company’s auditors. It is unclear if this is linked to any plan to finally tidy up the structure of the operation, where the principals are Ali and Paul Hewson (aka Bono). As fans of Goldhawk are aware, the… Read more »

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Regina Doherty

REGINA’S BAD PANDEMIC

Date: March 26, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

OUTGOING MINISTER for Social Protection Regina Doherty looked like the first political victim of the Covid-19 virus last weekend, while colleagues Simon Coveney, Simon Harris and Leo Varadkar basked in the praise of their leadership. She has been forced to quickly and dramatically boost welfare payments and wage subsidies for those affected, having initially announced… Read more »

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Fred Barry

SIMON HARRIS’S OTHER HEALTH SCARE

Date: March 26, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

THE 24/7 CORONAVIRUS coverage means all eyes are focused on the unfolding calamity and, as a result, some other health scares are getting overlooked. One group probably glad of the media diversion is the board and management of the National Children’s Hospital (NCH), where former National Roads Authority boss Fred Barry is in the chair…. Read more »

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Kieran Corrigan

PROFILE: KIERAN CORRIGAN

Date: March 26, 2020 - Pillars of Society

FILMMAKER AND number cruncher Kieran Corrigan’s latest adventure – a film studio in a scrubby field at the back of Ashbourne Business Park, right on the Meath/Dublin border – draws the showbiz spotlight back on a man who has tended to maintain a low profile (save on the recent death of his former client, Marian… Read more »

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Neale Richmond

YOUNG BLOOD: NEALE RICHMOND

Date: March 26, 2020 - The Young Bloods

WHILE THE Blueshirts had a dismal election, losing 15 seats on top of the 26 they lost in 2016, one consoling light was the victory of 37-year-old Neale Richmond, who took Shane Ross’s Independent seat in Dublin-Rathdown, giving Fine Gael two out of three. Where now for the Commonwealth-pushing politician in a hurry? An ardent… Read more »

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