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Michael Somers

MICHAEL SOMERS AND THE LAWYERS

Date: May 7, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

WITH THE state focused on the immediate impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and the associated mounting costs, a new front was opened by loaded former chief executive of the National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA) Michael Somers, who says he is “alarmed” at the tsunami of damages claims he expects to be lodged. While his analysis… Read more »

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Claire Byrne

PROFILE: CLAIRE BYRNE AND MIRIAM O’CALLAGHAN

Date: May 7, 2020 - Pillars of Society

WHEN SEAN O’Rourke recently told his morning radio audience that he was about to stand down from the highest seat of national broadcasting, he left most of his listeners flabbergasted, as he might say himself. The soon-to-be 65-year-old presenter was at the height of his powers and was steering hundreds of thousands of morning listeners… Read more »

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Elisha McCallion

YOUNG BLOOD: ELISHA MCCALLION

Date: May 7, 2020 - The Young Bloods

ON THE political roundabout that is modern Irish politics, there should be no recovery from defeat as abject as that of Derry’s Elisha McCallion, the 38-year-old former MP for Foyle. But, after losing her Westminster seat, she is now back in play as a newly elected member of the Seanad. McCallion astonished the political commentariat… Read more »

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Daisy Edgar Jones

NORMAL PEOPLE – RTÉ ONE

Date: May 7, 2020 - ReviewsTV

IF THE Joe Duffy outrage-ometer is anything to go by, the BBC/Hulu adaptation of Sally Rooney’s Normal People predictably generated oodles of publicity for the already much-hyped production. With rather more inflammatory material to be seen in further episodes, Liveline listeners could get yet more relief from Covid-19 material. Apart from the sexual high jinks,… Read more »

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Eamon Ryan

40 SHADES OF GREEN

Date: May 7, 2020 - Last Refuge

THE GREENS’ deputy leader, Catherine Martin, had no problem confirming to the media that she voted against the party holding government formation talks with Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael. This is because Martin has become the champion of the younger, more radical grassroots party members. But Martin is also an astute politician who believes that… Read more »

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Eoin Colfer

EOIN COLFER’S COFFEE

Date: May 7, 2020 - Behind the Scenes

BESTSELLING children’s fantasy fiction writer Eoin Colfer got a pat on the back recently from the Irish Mail on Sunday, which headlined a gushing piece, “Coffee for the frontliners thanks to Artemis Fowl writer and Dublin cafe”. This was because the author had committed to helping to cover the cost of coffee for essential workers… Read more »

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Caroline Boyle

CAROLINE BOYLE’S NEW MENU

Date: May 7, 2020 - High Society

AWARD-WINNING restaurant owner Caroline Boyle of Salamanca in D2 features in last weekend’s Irish Times in a piece looking at the impact of lockdown on the dining business. It’s not the first time the high-profile restaurateur’s name has featured in the media. Things had been going pretty well at Salamanca, which was selected the ‘Best… Read more »

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Date: May 7, 2020 -

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ANNE HERATY’S REWARDS

Date: May 7, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

INTERESTING to see that eager nurses who thought they would be recruited by the HSE when seeking to help fight the pandemic are instead being asked to sign precarious and short-term contracts of employment with CPL Healthcare. It looks like even Covid-19 can’t stop CPL boss Anne Heraty making a few bob. Recruitment giant CPL… Read more »

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Sinéad Flanagan

FESTIVAL FEELS THE PAIN

Date: May 7, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

WITH THE 61st Rose of Tralee hooley cancelled, it will be 2021 before the successor to Limerick’s Sinéad Flanagan is crowned. Given the financial strains showing in the operation, the cancellation of the five-day festival will hurt. At least the head honcho has experience of dealing with troubled times. The cancellation decision is also bad… Read more »

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TALES FROM THE FRONT

Date: May 7, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

THE SOOTHING tones of the messages pumped out on the state broadcaster, reassuring employers that the government of Ireland has their backs in keeping the better-paid staff on the books, shouldn’t fool anyone about the gigantic public costs still to come on the economic front in fighting the war against Covid-19. The tensions about the… Read more »

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Martin Varley

CONSULTANTS HOLD THE LINE

Date: May 7, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

THE SUDDEN appearance of what looks like a single, public-only health service has come as a shock to the better-paid specialist doctors in the Irish Hospital Consultants’ Association (IHCA). A select group within the IHCA ranks are the 550 private-only consultants, who often pocket well north of €350,000 a year, mainly from private health insurance…. Read more »

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Lucinda Creighton

LUCINDA TAKES ON LEFTIES

Date: May 7, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

LAST MONTH Lucinda Creighton got back into her Renua ‘flat-tax’ mode with hysterical attacks on harmless Labourites, do-gooder Social Democrats and environment-loving Greens as the “reckless radical left”. God only knows what she thinks of the People Before Profit hammer-and-sickle-wielding comrades. In the Business Post, Mayo’s finest set out to attack the embryonic FiannaFáil/Fine Gael… Read more »

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Jimmy Tolan

COMING AND GOING AT REHAB

Date: May 7, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

THE PANDEMIC means that few – apart from regulators in HIQA and some funders in the Department of Health – have noticed the rapid exit of a layer of senior managers and some directors from Rehab, reflecting internal tensions. Chief executive Mo Flynn packed her bags in early March and will soon be followed by… Read more »

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RACEHORSE OWNERS SADDLE UP

Date: May 7, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

AFTER MEMBERS of the Association of Irish Racehorse Owners (AIRO) got quite the shock last year, there has been some corporate jockeying. The bolshy Jimmy Gough, AIRO’s representative on the board of Horse Racing Ireland, had launched legal proceedings after he was precluded from putting his name forward for another stint on the state body’s… Read more »

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Diarmuid Ferriter

ARMS TRIAL REPLAY

Date: May 7, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

THE Sunday Times selection of academic Eoin O’Malley – son of then justice minister Des O’Malley (Jack Lynch’s prodigy) – to review Michael Heney’s new book, Arms Crisis of 1970, is a predictable choice for Whitehall’s favourite Irish newspaper. But there are other tensions at play in the new and conflicting analyses of the Arms… Read more »

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Helena Sheehan

THE OFFICIAL LINE

Date: May 7, 2020 - Hush Hush

‘OPERATION SPLASH’ was a 1970s arms importation op by the Official Republican Movement organised by Séamus Costello and Cathal Goulding. That’s according to former ‘Sticky’ (Official Republican Movement) activist Helena Sheehan in her memoir, Navigating the Zeitgeist, a two-volume edition, this first volume going up to 1988. Put simply, the Official IRA’s insistence on keeping… Read more »

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EAMON FARRELL’S TIMING

Date: May 7, 2020 - Hush Hush

TIMING IS everything in showbiz, so spare a thought for Eamon Farrell, brother of Hollywood superstar Colin, whose National Performing Arts School has just filed its accounts for the year to July 31, 2019. The good news is that the operation made a small profit for the 12 months, reducing accumulated losses to €42,000. This… Read more »

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Róisín Ingle

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: May 7, 2020 -

Simon is a good name for a sourdough starter in this pandemic, I think, the name of two of the politicians trying to lead us through this. Róisín Ingle’s high praise, Irish Times, submitted by reader Is it just me, or has anyone else had a birthday during this Covid-19 lock-in? Stefanie Preissner’s statistical anomaly,… Read more »

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Michael Gove

BORIS’S REAL PLAN?

Date: May 7, 2020 - Northwind

BREXIT HAS reared its ugly head again, this time in the row about an EU office in Belfast to monitor imports from Britain that might go on south into the single market. The EU says it’s needed; the British say it isn’t. There is, however, a lot more to it than that. It looks like… Read more »

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Simon Coveney

SIMON COVENEY’S DOG WHISTLE

Date: May 7, 2020 - Fowl Emissions

AN INTRIGUING game of cat and mouse is being played out between the Green Party and Fianna Fáil/Fine Gael over the Greens’ so-called “red line” of not going into government unless the new administration signs up to emissions cuts of at least 7% per annum for the next five years. On last weekend’s Late Late… Read more »

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JOHN FITZGERALD’S GAS ADVICE

Date: May 7, 2020 - Fowl Emissions

THERE HAS been little reason for cheer in the oil and gas division of the Department of Climate Action & Environment in recent days, as both main political parties appeared to have delivered the coup de grace to Ireland’s offshore energy exploration sector. There had been some clever shadow-boxing around this issue last year, when… Read more »

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WILLIAM PRASIFKA’S POLITICAL PREFERENCES

Date: May 7, 2020 - Last Refuge

BABY BARRISTER William Prasifka was busy last month when his private social media message was reported on by the Sunday Times, “I have been talking to several lawyers and there is a general consensus that the recent regulations introduced by Simon Harris are unlawful.” He had previously penned his thoughts in the Irish Times, taking… Read more »

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Róisín Shorhall

SOCIAL DEMOCRAT FEUD

Date: May 7, 2020 - Last Refuge

THE NUMBERS in the new Dáil indicate that Sinn Féin will dominate the opposition benches – 37 seats to six each for Labour and the Social Democrats and a disparate group of Independents. Always assuming, of course, that the Greens enable the two recidivist government parties to resume feasting on their addiction to power. But… Read more »

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Eoghan Murphy

MURPHY’S CO-LIVING WITH VIRUS

Date: May 7, 2020 - Last Refuge

THE PANDEMIC is beginning to show up the folly of housing minister Eoghan Murphy’s planning ‘reforms’. Two years ago, he lowered apartment minimum standards to allow smaller rooms, fewer balconies, more crowded lifts and single-aspect apartments in a bid to help builders and developers. The minister was a particular fan of bijou co-living, describing these… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: May 7, 2020 - Bog Cuttings

‘Fucking Pig Guard’ JOHN MURRAY (40), of Derragh, Dunmanway, Cork, was handed a two-year suspended sentence in Cork Circuit Court following a bout of heavy drinking. Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin heard how the defendant crashed his car into the front of his local Garda station after a bout of heavy drinking. CCTV footage showed him… Read more »

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Leo Varadkar

VLAD TAKES GLOVES OFF

Date: May 7, 2020 - Fit to Print?

IT’S THE lure of dangling money at the broken newspapers for political purposes that Varadkar is about in stimulating those supportive media reports about how he is going to take on the tech giants “free riders”. The sitting taoiseach said recently that he intends to copy an Australian proposal to make Google, Facebook et al… Read more »

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ENDA O’COINEEN’S ADS

Date: May 7, 2020 - Fit to Print?

WITH THE media suffering a collapse in advertising (at least non-state advertising) it was nice for the Business Post to be able to run ads in some of its editions last month from a company called Grid Finance. Indeed, one of the adverts even occupied a prime spot on the front page. Grid Finance, headed… Read more »

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Quim Torra

HOMAGE TO CATALONIA

Date: May 7, 2020 - Fit to Print?

VILLAGE EDITOR Michael Smith has become embroiled in a six-month-long spat with journalist Jason O’Toole over the magazine’s publication of O’Toole’s interview with cervical cancer campaigner Vicky Phelan. O’Toole’s speciality is in-depth interviews for such as Hot Press and other media, and he secured an interview with Phelan for Village last November. However, when he… Read more »

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Date: May 7, 2020 - Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Regarding your article on my book, The Best is Yet to Come (see The Phoenix 24/4/20), it should be noted that, while focused on Ireland’s long-term growth in economy and population, it also predicted (chapters 4 to 6) the coming crisis and urged investment in housing to prevent construction job losses. Had the… Read more »

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ELAINE GERAGHTY’S SURVEY

Date: May 7, 2020 - Behind the Scenes

THE PANDEMIC has put a stop to assorted film and TV productions and has shone a spotlight on the precarious nature of work in this ‘glamorous’ business. Cue a survey of producers by Elaine Geraghty’s Screen Producers Ireland (SPI) lobby group. According to the ‘headline’ results of the SPI survey (which received responses from 69… Read more »

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Consuelo O’Connor

JOHN McGRANE’S FAMILY BUSINESS

Date: May 7, 2020 - High Society

IT IS unlikely that John McGrane – the head of the family business lobby and support organisation Family Business Network Ireland – is pleased with Paschal Donohoe’s €6.5bn package to help companies get through the pandemic. Last month, McGrane penned a piece for the Indo in which he pleaded for pure cash injections into family… Read more »

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JOE McCARTHY’S PRIVATE JETS

Date: May 7, 2020 - High Society

GOOD TO see that, while Mick O’Leary and Willie Walsh have been putting on the poor mouth, the sky appears to be the limit for sellers of private jets here, at least as far as Joe McCarthy is concerned. Certainly, McCarthy made owning a private jet look like a pretty straightforward deal, in an interview… Read more »

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Jason Hannon

MAINSTAY MEDICAL’S UNHEALTHY TREATMENT OF SHAREHOLDERS

Date: May 7, 2020 - Moneybags

MAINSTAY MEDICAL floated off in Dublin six years ago at €21 a share, raising €18m, but it has proved an underperformer ever since. The shares collapsed from €16.50 at the beginning of November 2018 to €2.40 at the end of that month due to disappointing trial results for the company’s back pain remedy and the… Read more »

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Michael Stanley

CAIRN HOMES FACING A TOUGH 2020

Date: May 7, 2020 - Moneybags

CAIRN HOMES has some notable features, including a huge number of new housing unit completions. Most notable, however, was the way in which the founders, including Mick Stanley and Alan McIntosh, scooped a massive windfall after they floated off Cairn. While McIntosh has returned to London, he is still sitting on 40 million shares, having… Read more »

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BART DALY’S CELTIC GOLD

Date: May 7, 2020 - Briefcases

AT THE weekend it was reported that insolvency specialists Jim Stafford and Tom Murray of Friel Stafford have adapted to the ‘new normal’ by hosting creditors meetings via Zoom. One of those companies is Marzean Services, where the principal player is multi-talented former legal eagle Bart Daly. Daly holds his stake in Marzean through a… Read more »

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