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Bob Geldof

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE 3805

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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BOG CUTTINGS 3805

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 - Briefcases

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 - Briefcases

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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Eamonn Gibney

GIBNEY’S GUARDEX LOANS

Date: March 12, 2020 - Briefcases

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 - Briefcases

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 - Briefcases

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 - Briefcases

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 - Briefcases

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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Knightsbrook Hotel

ROOF COLLAPSE FOR CUSACK HOMES

Date: March 12, 2020 - Briefcases

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 - Briefcases

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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