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JUDGE KELLY VS JERRY BEADES

Date: October 3, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

WILL JUDGE Peter Kelly ever be rid of that inexhaustible lay litigant, Jerry Beades, whose legal actions to block Kelly’s appointment as High Court president have now been heard in the High Court, Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court? Undeterred by three rejections and having ‘exhausted all domestic remedies’, Beades is now bringing his… Read more »

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MORE LEFT SPLITS

Date: October 3, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

POLITICAL splits on the Left are mirrored by the disintegration of the Take Back the City (TBTC) campaign a year after its headline grabbing occupations. TBTC was a coalition of 15 smaller housing groups; students; and the Campaign for Public Housing (CPH), a joint effort between the Communist Party, Eirigi and the Workers’ Party (see… Read more »

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FRESH CLIMATE

Date: October 3, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

It seems that not everyone was thrilled with last month’s college campus walkout as part of the global ‘climate strike’. Although UCD gave its students a partial amnesty from classes to attend the march in Dublin, there was confusion among the heads of college societies about how their governing body, the Societies Council (SC), was… Read more »

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Jemil Saidi

JUDGE MCDONAGH’S DUCAC DOWNFALL

Date: October 3, 2019 - Student Life

A fiery row at Dublin University Central Athletic Club (DUCAC) has culminated in its most-esteemed chairman losing his re-election bid to a fourth-year engineering student. The outgoing chair just happens to be retired judge Donagh McDonagh, who – in a bruising contest at the body’s AGM – lost by just one vote to Jemil Saidi…. Read more »

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Michael Quinn

NIGERIAN ARMS AND BILLIONS

Date: October 3, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

Process & Industrial Developments (P&ID), founded by the late Mick Quinn, recently won an €8.6bn award against the Nigerian government, with the support of British home secretary Priti Patel (she who threatened Ireland with another famine recently) no less. But Quinn’s exploits over the last 30 years have been even more dramatic, if not quite… Read more »

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Imre Arakas

ALL-IRELAND KINAHANS

Date: October 3, 2019 - Hush Hush

AN EAST European 9mm Makarov semi-automatic pistol, or PM, is not one traditionally associated with gangland crime here in Ireland. However, the formerly unusual Makarov handgun that was used to murder top IRA commander Gerard ‘Jock’ Davison in May 2015 was in the news recently – it was revealed that the PSNI was aware that… Read more »

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Maria Steen

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: October 3, 2019 - The Hot Air Brigade

What are some of the hallmarks of paganism? Obvious examples include nature worship, ritual sacrifices and doomsday prophecies, all of which are present in the climate justice cult.” Maria Steen, the Irish Times, submitted by reader Their website explains that omakase means “I will leave it with you” and, in a twist on that, diners… Read more »

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UNIONIST ‘CONSENT’

Date: October 3, 2019 - Northwind

Earlier this week, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said, “The Irish government has always been open to a role for Stormont in any solution to Brexit.” He added, “It’s right that the elected representatives of the people of NI should have a role.” Varadkar was responding to British suggestions that ‘Unionist consent’ is necessary for any arrangements… Read more »

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Willie O'Dea

FF FRONTBENCH MEDICATION

Date: October 3, 2019 - Last Refuge

MICHEÁL MARTIN will not be pleased to see the row between Willie O’Dea and the more ‘responsible’ Fianna Fáil frontbench members spilling over into the media. The FF spokesperson on social protection has argued strongly that the party demand pension and social welfare increases in its budgetary negotiations with Fine Gael (see The Phoenix, 6/9/19)…. Read more »

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Paul Gogarty

FG WHITEWASH IN BY-ELECTIONS?

Date: October 3, 2019 - Last Refuge

LEO VARADKAR delivered a decidedly downbeat prediction for Fine Gael in the four upcoming by-elections – “only one of the seats is guaranteed” – but even that may be optimistic and chances are that FG could see a whitewash. Varadkar is certainly pessimistic about the party’s prospects in Dublin Fingal (MEP Clare Daly’s seat), where… Read more »

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Paul Murphy

THE FIRST ITEM

Date: October 3, 2019 - Last Refuge

INTERNECINE FEUDING within the far Left can be incomprehensible, but two things are clear about TD Paul Murphy’s apostasy and departure from the Socialist Party, aka, Solidarity. Firstly, he has realised that the refusal by SP/Solidarity TDs Ruth Coppinger, Mick Barry et al to work with capitalist lackeys and other renegades – like Sinn Féin,… Read more »

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Emmet Stagg

LABOUR’S ‘NEW GENERATION’

Date: October 3, 2019 - Last Refuge

‘GENERATIONAL CHANGE’ is how the party has pitched the withdrawal of Labour’s Wicklow general election candidate, Jack O’Connor, with Cllr Paul O’Brien replacing the ex-SIPTU boss. And the quest for a “new generation” is also the reason advanced by political director Nat O’Connor for former junior minister Kathleen Lynch’s replacement on the general election ticket… Read more »

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Pat Leahy

DIM FORECAST

Date: October 3, 2019 - Fit to Print?

WHAT A mischievous suggestion was recently published in the Irish Mail on Sunday in a speculative forecast about a Fianna Fáil/Green Party coalition – and a potential government press secretary, namely Irish Times political editor Pat Leahy. That FF leader Micheál Martin, Green leader Eamon Ryan and Leahy should be spotted lunching together formed the… Read more »

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‘MAIL’S’ MALE TALE

Date: October 3, 2019 - Fit to Print?

The Irish Daily Mail boasts of its special attention to women readers, but it’s uncertain how an online feature headlined “Dublin strippers reveal what it’s really like to work in a dance club in the city” went down with this target audience. A lengthy article on its website, Extra.ie – the brainchild of the Mail… Read more »

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John Fitzgerald

GREAT GAS GUYS!

Date: October 3, 2019 - Fowl Emissions

“IT’S OIL OVER!” declared the Irish Daily Mirror’s front-page headline, heralding Leo Varadkar’s ‘historic’ announcement at the UN Climate Summit in New York that Ireland would end oil exploration. It isn’t all over, of course. Scores of licences that companies have been sitting on for years are still valid, some into the 2030s. The “offshore”… Read more »

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SAFE CITY

Date: October 3, 2019 - Fowl Emissions

Dublin City Council has closed College Green to traffic on several Sundays recently, as an “experiment” – presumably to test whether civilisation would collapse. There was confusion about why steel barriers were erected between the footpath and pedestrianised street, but this was clarified during the most recent experiment. The barriers were there “to ensure shoppers… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: October 3, 2019 - Bog Cuttings

A hairy situation A FAIRHILL man who called a Blarney garda a “bald fucker” told a court today he had no problem with baldness and said he was bald himself. William O’Brien of Hillcrest, The Commons, Upper Fairhill, Cork, pleaded guilty to the charges of being drunk and a danger and engaging in threatening, abusive… Read more »

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Consuelo O’Connor

GREHAN’S STUD

Date: October 3, 2019 - High Society

INTERESTING to see Glenkerrin Homes boss Ray Grehan registering a couple of business names with a distinctly horsey ring to them. After being declared bankrupt in the UK in 2012, it was reported that Grehan had dusted himself off and got back into the saddle with his involvement in the u2m purchase of the Kill… Read more »

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Ian Switzer and Elizabeth Balbirnie

LIZ BALBIRNIE’S INTERIOR DESIGN

Date: October 3, 2019 - High Society

PROPERTY PORN continues to prove popular at RTÉ, where such programmes proliferate the airwaves. At the top of the tree is surely Home of the Year (HOTY), which gives viewers a sneaky peak around the interiors of some very swanky Irish homes. One pile to feature in the show was the ultra-modern abode of Liz… Read more »

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THE ABBEY’S CASTING CHALLENGE

Date: October 3, 2019 - Behind the Scenesscenes

STILL NO sign of a new board member at the Abbey Theatre, where there is a vacancy for someone who knows how to write plays. The vacancy was advertised a long time ago, but the process is dragging on. Meanwhile, the departure of Sarah Lynch from Lower Abbey Street may complicate matters. The advert seeking… Read more »

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BROWN BAG FIGURES

Date: October 3, 2019 - Behind the Scenes

CONGRATULATIONS to Brown Bag studios founder Cathal Gaffney, who is in the middle of a purple patch. Figures just filed by a company called Niagara Films Ireland Ltd (NFI) reveal the kind of moolah being generated by the animation business here. NFI was set up as the vehicle for the acquisition of Brown Bags in… Read more »

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Once Twice, three

ONCE, TWICE, THREE TIMES AN AISLING

Date: October 3, 2019 - BooksReviews

When the publishing phenomenon that is Aisling landed with the first Oh My God, What A Complete Aisling novel in 2017, it followed a well-worn fish-out-of-water trope as Aisling navigated Dublin while trying to retain her culchie values and fend off fearful ‘notions’. With the third book, Once, Twice, Three Times an Aisling, authors Emer… Read more »

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Ken Condon

CONDON APPEAL FAILS

Date: October 3, 2019 - Sport of Kings

Curragh trainer Ken Condon has experienced the dizzying highs of racing with his stable star, Romanised, and the Classic-winning colt has certainly delivered some rollercoaster emotions to connections this season. Having won a Group 1 worth over €500,000 in France in August, Condon sent Romanised back to France for a similar race at Longchamp in… Read more »

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SUPREME OR NOT SUPREME

Date: October 3, 2019 - Sport of Kings

The highly successful syndicate racing club Supreme Racing has been the victim of a vengeful doppelganger, who has set up an imitation Twitter site. The club’s top brass – whose horses are trained by Willie Mullins and includes such stars as Kemboy, Aramon and Cadmium – have their suspicions as to who might be behind… Read more »

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James Gough

GOUGH’S QUEST CONTINUES

Date: October 3, 2019 - Sport of Kings

The ongoing saga involving Jimmy Gough and the Association of Irish Racehorse Owners (AIRO) is the gift that keeps on giving and it seems there are plenty more worms left in the can. Gough’s legal crusade has already wiped out AIRO’s financial reserves. He won his case against the body and was awarded costs after his… Read more »

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Charlie Gallagher

ABBEY’S IRISH PERFORMANCE LOOKS EMBARRASSING

Date: October 3, 2019 - Moneybags

CHARLIE GALLAGHER has managed to take his family shareholding in the ‘listed’ Abbey plc house-building group from 24% to 82%, while failing to take advantage of the Irish property crash even though the company had been perfectly positioned to pounce in 2009/2010, with €100m available in its coffers to buy up a huge chunk of… Read more »

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Tony O’Reilly Jnr

TONY O’REILLY JNR’S PROVIDENCE PANTOMIME

Date: October 3, 2019 - Moneybags

DEALING WITH the Chinese on the development of the Barryroe oilfield was never going to be easy, but it did hold out the brief prospect of significant reward for Providence Resources’s long-suffering shareholders. It is now clear that the farm-out agreement Tony O’Reilly Jnr signed up to with the Chinese company, APEC Energy Enterprise, resulted… Read more »

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CREDITORS’ BEEF WITH NYHAN BROTHERS

Date: October 3, 2019 - The Hot Water Brigade

DISGRUNTLED creditors of Rostella Properties Ltd received an update on the company’s troubled liquidation last week, but a report, prepared and presented to the creditors’ meeting by liquidator PJ Lynch, bore only bad news. Rostella was the entity behind three branches of the Nyhan Brothers chain of butchers in south Dublin until April 2014, when… Read more »

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Giovanni Viscardi

BAGOTS HUTTON’S LATE FILING

Date: October 3, 2019 - The Hot Water Brigade

GOLDHAWK spotted some recent activity at Urban Entertainment Ltd. This is the company behind the troubled Bagots Hutton restaurant and wine bar on Ormond Quay, D7, which has been embroiled in a planning row with Air Asia chief exec Tony Fernandes’s Monteco Holdings, owner of the neighbouring Ormond Hotel. Bagots Hutton owners Giovanni Viscardi and… Read more »

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GILMARTIN AGAIN

Date: October 3, 2019 - The Hot Water Brigade

GOLDHAWK got a blast from the past when he saw a receiver had been appointed recently to a small property company called Dalmark Inns Ltd by vulture fund Cerberus. The entity itself is fairly unremarkable – the receiver was appointed on foot of a 2008 Ulster Bank mortgage secured against a commercial property in Ballinamore,… Read more »

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VULTURES SWOOP ON SEAMUS GILLEN

Date: October 3, 2019 - The Hot Water Brigade

SEAN Lyons – the man behind controversial plans for a refugee reception centre in Oughterard, Co Galway – isn’t the only direct provision entrepreneur with headaches at the moment. Offaly businessman Seamus Gillen, who operates asylum centres like Globe House in Sligo, has had receivers appointed to his troubled Mid Town Property Development Unlimited Company…. Read more »

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JEFF LEO’S OTHER HEADACHE

Date: October 3, 2019 - The Hot Water Brigade

THE appointment of an examiner to Dublin data compliance and software outfit Altada Technology Solutions Ltd isn’t the only issue on former Morgan Stanley banker Jeff Leo’s plate. A separate company, Advanced Metadata Technologies International Ltd (AMTI), where Leo is listed as a director and shareholder, has just had a judgment registered against by its… Read more »

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NOT EMUSED!

Date: October 3, 2019 - The Hot Water Brigade

ANOTHER year, another scary set of accounts filed by Emuse Corporation Ltd. This is the D2 tech company that makes software for interactive TV programming used by the likes of ITV and Channel 5, and where chief executive Patrick Rainsford has had a lot on his plate for the past number of years. Once upon… Read more »

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JASON DENHAM’S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES

Date: October 3, 2019 - The Hot Water Brigade

MORE bad luck for Jason Denham. It looks like the Castleknock businessman couldn’t stand the heat at his high-end kitchen-fitting company, where the liquidator is being called in after just a few years in operation. Much to the delight of gourmands, Denham and his wife, Eileen Denham, brought posh French kitchen brand Schmidt to Ireland… Read more »

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Fionnan Sheahan

THE NEW ORDER AT INM

Date: September 19, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

BELGIAN PUBLISHERS Mediahuis may find that bending the querulous natives to their will at Independent News & Media (INM) is a little more difficult than suppression of dissent in the Belgian Congo a century ago. Perhaps this is why Mediahuis has begun by beheading big kahuna, INM editor-in-chief Fionnan Sheahan. Sheahan had shown disturbing signs… Read more »

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MYSTERY AT THE BERNARD SHAW

Date: September 19, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

A WEEK of social media breast-beating about the decline of Dublin’s nightlife has obscured the reasons for the impending closure of the Bernard Shaw on South Richmond Street. Precise explanations for leaseholder Trevor O’Shea’s decision to shut up shop are in short supply and matters haven’t been helped by an oblique statement posted on the… Read more »

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