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MORE HEAT FOR HAVANA THERAPY

Date: December 12, 2019 - Briefcases

A DUBLIN company called Havana Digital Media Ltd (HDML) has just had a small tax judgment (€4,000) registered against it. Although their names don’t appear on company documents, the entity is linked to father and son duo Gary and Keith Hogan. It will be recalled that the Hogans were behind a laser treatment company called… Read more »

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JEAN LOGUE’S TAX BILL

Date: December 12, 2019 - Briefcases

A SMALL hotel company called Spanish Point Investments Ltd was named on the latest tax defaulters list. This is the entity behind the Bellbridge House Hotel in Miltown Malbay, Co Clare, which settled with the Revenue for €75,000 after being caught for underdeclaring PAYE and PRSI. The 100% shareholder here is Jean Logue, matriarch of… Read more »

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ALL THAT GLITTERS

Date: December 12, 2019 - Briefcases

NEXT WEEK the dreaded taxman will be in the High Court seeking to wind up the high-profile Hynes Jewellers (Wexford) operation. This is actually the second time creditors have come knocking, after a petition was lodged in 2014 by legal eagles Val Stone and Catherine Stack in relation to monies they claimed to be owed… Read more »

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IPA’S NEW DIRECTORY

Date: December 12, 2019 - Briefcases

GOLDHAWK looks forward to this time of year when the Institute of Public Administration’s indispensable annual directory, Ireland – A Directory, lands on his desk, jammed full of useful information about a whopping 9,000 public and private sector bodies. The 2020 edition contains the useful information, statistics and contact details for local councillors, civil service… Read more »

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MOYA DOHERTY’S STRIKE OFF NOTICE

Date: December 3, 2019 - Behind the Scenes

GOLDHAWK WAS surprised to see some of the companies owned by Moya Doherty and John McColgan listed for striking off by the Companies Office for failing to file accounts. Clearly, the high-profile celebrity couple have been very busy lately, so Companies Office deadlines may have slipped by. Doherty, for example, finds herself in the uncomfortable… Read more »

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Paul Henderson

MAIL’S (FE)MALE ‘ETHOS’

Date: November 28, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

EVOKE.IE, website of the Mail titles newspaper group (DMG Media Ireland), hosts a timely and most cautionary article this week about the perils of foolish, drink-fuelled behaviour at office Christmas parties. It warns that uninhibited activity can lead to “issues with sexual harassment” and the like, leading to serious repercussions such as “forced resignations”. Also… Read more »

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JUDGE GEARTY’S VIEW

Date: November 28, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

THE RECENT appointment of Mary Rose Gearty SC to the High Court bench means that two female barristers involved in the prosecution of Anglo-Irish Bank-related cases – Gearty and Úna Ní Raifeartaigh (now on the Court of Appeal) – have been made judges. But Gearty made her mark in a different judicial arena recently with… Read more »

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Noel Grealish

PROFILE: NOEL GREALISH

Date: November 28, 2019 - Pillars of Society

INDEPENDENT TD Noel Grealish was the first politician of substance to emit nakedly racist and even sectarian remarks before stealing away from public glare; job done with the recruitment of that roughly 20% of the electorate whose rage and frustration leads them to such ‘politics’. His Galway West constituency has an arty, bohemian, left-wing image… Read more »

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Conor Gallagher

YOUNG BLOODS: CONOR GALLAGHER

Date: November 28, 2019 - The Young Bloods

It’s been a bumper year for Irish Times crime correspondent Conor Gallagher (34), who has won fans and scooped awards for his widely praised coverage of the Ana Kriégel murder trial. But how did he manage to set himself apart from his fellow hacks during a trial in which the media’s conduct became a matter… Read more »

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Michael O'Leary

RYANAIR’S BOTTOM LINE BOOSTED BY BOEING’S BAD NEWS

Date: November 28, 2019 - Moneybags

NOT TOO many observers realise that the ongoing Boeing 737 Max debacle has had a beneficial side-effect for Ryanair shareholders, as it has put a stop to Mick O’Leary’s growth gallop. Given the ramifications from the tragic air accidents in Indonesia and Ethiopia in late 2018 and early 2019, the delivery of the 737 Max… Read more »

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Simone Rocha

SIMONE ROCHA’S PERFECT WEEKEND

Date: November 28, 2019 - High Society

LONDON-BASED Irish fashion designer Simone Rocha popped up in the Financial Times’s super glossy ‘How to Spend it’ supplement last weekend to reveal just how down to earth she is. But behind the Burdock chips and visits to second-hand bookstores, Simone’s business is a multi-million-euro operation. The article focused on Simone’s “perfect weekend in Dublin”… Read more »

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Triona Mullane

MULLANE’S MEDAL

Date: November 28, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

THERE WAS good news for mobile advertising tech businesswoman Triona Mullane this week when she landed the EY Entrepreneur of the Year award in the emerging category. But she may be better known to some as having been a €62,000 pa board member of Independent News & Media (INM), whose ties to one Denis O’Brien… Read more »

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Elizabeth Brennan

LIZ BRENNAN’S MOVIE MONEY

Date: November 28, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

THE DEADLINE has now passed for submissions to the Workplace Relations Commission, which is carrying out an ‘audit’ of the film and TV sector, focused on “industrial relations generally”. One of the bodies that will have made its views known is Elizabeth Brennan’s lobby group, Screen Guilds of Ireland (SGI). This outfit has been very… Read more »

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Kevin Doyle

KEVIN DOYLE’S NEXT GOAL

Date: November 28, 2019 - Sport of Kings

SINCE RETIRING from a successful soccer career, ex-Ireland international star Kevin Doyle has been keeping himself busy developing the family’s Slaney River Stud in Wexford and adding to the farm’s band of broodmares. He has made some interesting acquisitions. One of the high-profile female additions to the farm last year was the ex-Graham Wylie and… Read more »

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Jim Sheridan

JIM SHERIDAN’S GOOD NEWS

Date: November 28, 2019 - Behind the Scenes

IT IS three years since Goldhawk reported on the then prospects for Jim Sheridan’s adaptation of Sebastian Barry’s The Secret Scripture (see The Phoenix, 23/9/16). Funded by Screen Ireland (SI) and the S481 tax break – twice – the film had been panned at initial screenings and was written down by its US backer. Secret… Read more »

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Date: November 28, 2019 -

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DUBLIN TOWN’S TASK

Date: November 28, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

THE ROW over the designation of part of Dublin 2 as the Grafton Quarter continues to reverberate and Dublin City Council remains under pressure to review the decision, which was taken by the low-profile Dublin Town organisation, funded mainly by rates levies on local business. From the public’s point of view, not a lot is… Read more »

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BLOXHAM PARTNERS ON THE HOOK?

Date: November 28, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

AFTER ALMOST a decade of inactivity, a High Court action involving the Solicitors Mutual Defence Fund (SMDF) and the various partners in the failed Bloxham stockbroking firm is about to kick off in earnest. There are millions of euro at stake here and it is interesting to see no less a figure than the Law… Read more »

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COVENEY ‘SUPPORT’ FOR PALESTINE

Date: November 28, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

AS EVENTS in the Middle East degenerate, Simon Coveney’s masterful Palestinian strategy has been laid bare. This follows Fine Gael’s revelation that its commitment in the programme for government to recognise Palestinian statehood was a verbal con trick. Apparently, what they meant all along was that recognition of Palestine could only be ceded if and… Read more »

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Feargal Purcell

KBC’S SMART PR

Date: November 28, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

THE WHIZZ media handler for KBC – the bank that told the Central Bank to “turn the page” on the tracker mortgage scandal – is Feargal Purcell, former government press secretary and head of public affairs for Edelman, the giant PR firm whose client KBC is. No surprise then that Edelman CEO Richard Edelman recently… Read more »

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Orlaith Carmody

COMMUNICATING WITH COMMUNICORP

Date: November 28, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

NEXT MONTH’S meeting of the compliance committee of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) concerning bans imposed by Denis O’Brien’s Communicorp group on certain journalist will be eagerly watched by the National Union of Journalists (NUJ). Meanwhile, the Oireachtas has been seeking to get in on the act. Last month, the NUJ expressed its concerns… Read more »

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Paul Bew

LORD BEW DISAPPEARS

Date: November 28, 2019 - Hush Hush

Paul Bew, or ‘Baron Bew of Donegore’, played a key role in the now discredited Boston Tapes project. However, so far, Bew – former advisor to unionist leader David Trimble – has escaped the devastating fallout from the tapes debacle, which came to full public prominence during the recent trial of former Belfast IRA commander… Read more »

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LESLIE REYNOLDS’S RECEIVERSHIP

Date: November 28, 2019 - Hush Hush

GOLDHAWK spotted last week the cessation of the long-running receivership of a company called Leslie Reynolds & Co, where number cruncher Declan Taite has completed the eight-year-long process. It turns out that little over €2.3m was realised from that receivership, but this pales into insignificance compared with the sums involved in Leslie’s adventures during the… Read more »

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Miriam O'Callaghan

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: November 28, 2019 - The Hot Air Brigade

People only ever say to me, ‘My god, you work very hard and all those children’. Miriam O’Callaghan, RSVP magazine, submitted by reader RTÉ needs root-and-branch reform. And I am better placed than most to point out the reforms needed because I am free to speak my mind. Eoghan Harris, Sunday Independent, submitted by reader… Read more »

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Nigel Dodds

ULSTER BETRAYED BY BORIS

Date: November 28, 2019 - Northwind

In the north, all eyes are on a few crucial constituencies in the forthcoming British general election; a toe-to-toe fight between Sinn Féin and SDLP in Derry, a no-holds-barred battle in North Belfast between the DUP’s Westminster leader Nigel Dodds and Sinn Féin’s John Finucane, and what seems to be a foregone conclusion, an SDLP… Read more »

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BEYOND THE RAINBOW

Date: November 28, 2019 - Last Refuge

HAS ANYONE noticed the make up of the ruling coalitions on the four Dublin councils? In Dublin City it is Fianna Fáil, Greens, Labour and Social Democrats. In Dún Laoghaire Rathdown a small FF complement nevertheless cobbled together a majority with Greens, Labour and Independents. And in Fingal, FF lead a coalition made up of… Read more »

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Jerry Buttimer

SARA MOORHEAD’S REPORT

Date: November 28, 2019 - Last Refuge

A MATTER of the most important, nay, vital national interest will be addressed in the Seanad next week as members of the upper house discuss the burning issue of payment for the lowest tier of politicians – namely, councillors. As far back as June 2018, Sara Moorhead SC was commissioned to compile a report on… Read more »

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Anne-Marie McNally

SOC DEM SPLITS

Date: November 28, 2019 - Last Refuge

SOCIAL DEMOCRAT political director Anne-Marie McNally is not expected to mount much of a challenge in this week’s Dublin Mid-West by-election and a certain faction within her party probably won’t shed too many tears should she fail. As readers will be aware at this stage, the brief history of the Soc Dems has been marred… Read more »

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Mark Daly

BORDER POLL: NO RISK?

Date: November 28, 2019 - Last Refuge

GOVERNMENT MINISTERS and a multitude of academics, diplomats and other establishment figures have warned of catastrophic outcomes if a border poll on a united Ireland is held any time soon (see The Phoenix, 1/11/19). In fact, the same siren voices argue that even talk of a border poll will create instability north and south. It… Read more »

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David McCourt

NOT IN FRONT OF THE HACKS

Date: November 28, 2019 - Fit to Print?

‘SMILING CHILDREN, not sour-faced journalists’ is the best description of the urgent stratagem deployed by Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and communications minister Ricky Bruton at the signing and launch of the €3bn national broadband plan. There was much indignation from opposition politicians and a typically philistine response from cynical hacks covering the PR extravaganza in a… Read more »

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MATT COOPER’S MARKETING

Date: November 28, 2019 - Fit to Print?

IF SUNDAY Business Post editor Richie Oakley can surmount his awe of the paper’s new columnist, Matt Cooper (Richie’s editorial mentor at the Sunday Tribune 21 years ago), he might respectfully suggest to Mr Cooper, Sir, that he recalibrate his priorities. Perhaps because Cooper has had such an interesting and successful career, compared to the… Read more »

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Michael D'Arcy

D’ARCY SPURS GARDA PR CAMPAIGN

Date: November 28, 2019 - Fit to Print?

IT’S UNLIKELY that junior minister Michael D’Arcy will get much credit if the flurry of Garda activity in the violent campaign surrounding Quinn Industrial holdings (QIH) results in convictions. But D’Arcy certainly stimulated a frenetic PR campaign, carried out on behalf of the gardaí, following his criticism of senior gardaí in the area who had,… Read more »

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Paul Kehoe

LOAVES AND FISHES

Date: November 28, 2019 - Fowl Emissions

The biblical tale of the miracle of the loaves and fishes has nothing on Ireland’s world-beating beef and dairy sectors, which, if we are to believe the hype, are now helping to end world hunger by feeding the teeming masses. Taoiseach Leo Varadkar is so impressed by our productivity that he reckons the whole sector… Read more »

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DARRRAGH MCCULLOUGH’S ATTACK

Date: November 28, 2019 - Fowl Emissions

Are Ireland’s farmers at risk of becoming social pariahs? This claim was made not by the usual farmer-bashing eco types but by a son of the soil, Meath farmer and journalist Darragh McCullough. He broke ranks with the self-pitying agri-industrial chorus to call out the “dangerous nonsense” being spouted by all three contenders for the… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS 3723

Date: November 28, 2019 - Bog Cuttings

What a nightmare A DONEGAL insomniac, who hadn’t slept for three days, woke up in a school after causing nearly €2,000 worth of damage. Patrick McNamee (29) broke into the Finn Valley Education Centre in Stranolar, broke windows and computer monitors, but didn’t steal anything. Charged with burglary, McNamee appeared in Letterkenny District Court, where… Read more »

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Amer Abdulaziz

ABDULAZIZ’S PHOENIX FIASCO

Date: November 28, 2019 - High Society

FANS OF the turf will have been fascinated by the Racing Post revelation that the founder of the Phoenix Thoroughbreds ‘regulated fund’, Amer Abdulaziz, has allegedly been funding his global acquisition of high-end bloodstock through ill-gotten gains. Not surprisingly, some of the spending took place in Ireland. The alleged theft by Dubai-based Abdulaziz of $100m… Read more »

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