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Declan Murphy

BONOBO’S NO-GO SMOKING ZONE

Date: February 27, 2020 - Briefcases

THE OWNERS of hipster haunt Bonobo in Smithfield, D7 – Shane Clifford, Hugh O’Farrell and Declan Murphy – have been hit with a setback regarding their bar’s outdoor smoking/dining area. Dublin City Council (DCC) has refused to grant retention permission for the unauthorised usage. Bonobo opened in April last year in the spot once occupied… Read more »

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RAVI’S HOT DISH

Date: February 27, 2020 - Briefcases

THE HEAT is being turned up at D4 Indian restaurant Ravi’s Kitchen. A meeting of creditors is to be held this week for Vanshav Ltd, the company behind the upmarket Ballsbridge eatery, where Ravi Shukla and Mamta Shukla are listed as shareholders and directors. The 2018 accounts for Vanshav show accumulated losses of almost €200,000,… Read more »

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ANY PORTER IN A STORM

Date: February 27, 2020 - Briefcases

TROUBLE IS brewing for Seamus Porter and his home building business Seamus Porter Siteworks Ltd (SPS). Vulture fund Cerberus has appointed Mazars’ Tom O’Brien as a receiver to the firm, which had to be restored to the Companies Registration Office (CRO) by the High Court. In 2010, Porter borrowed from Ulster Bank to facilitate the… Read more »

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SIMON PARLE’S SHED

Date: February 27, 2020 - Briefcases

WEXFORD PROPERTY developer Simon Parle, of Foulksmills in Co Wexford, has moved into a promising new area of real estate – converting sheds into living accommodation. But not everyone is impressed with this wheeze. In a planning application submitted to Wexford County Council (WCC), Parle had argued that, due to “financial circumstances and the need… Read more »

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DUBLIN AIRPORT TURBULENCE

Date: February 27, 2020 - Briefcases

ER Travel Limited (known as Easirent.com), a car rental firm that has been locked in a High Court spat with Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) for almost a year, suffered a setback last week. Judge Max Barrett granted DAA security for costs in the amount of €170,000, which ER Travel will now have to cough up… Read more »

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PHILIP MCGLADE’S LASER LAMENTS

Date: February 27, 2020 - Briefcases

THE ADVERTISING Standards Authority of Ireland (ASAI) has upheld a number of complaints made about advertisements from two different businesses owned by Dublin businessman Philip McGlade. The gripes relate to laser hair removal ads on the Thérapie Clinic website that featured misleading claims about the price and effectiveness of the service. Similarly, another complaint noted… Read more »

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MIZOW’S D2 MISHAP

Date: February 27, 2020 - Briefcases

WHAT NOW for Aussie-born, Dublin-based developer Paul Mizow, who will no longer be able to lease his D2 townhouses on William McGlade’s short-term letting platform HipHipStay? An application to retain the use of 14-18 Grattan Court East as luxury vacation lets – submitted to Dublin City Council on Mizow’s behalf in the name of McGlade’s… Read more »

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Micheál Martin

MICHEÁL MARTIN IN DEEP TROUBLE

Date: February 13, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

THE GENERAL election drama is only beginning and the desolation of Fianna Fáil TDs is turning from shock and trauma to anger with their leader, Micheál Martin, whose position is rapidly coming under serious threat. Senior frontbencher Jim O’Callaghan has taken the bare look off Fianna Fáil’s disastrous election result by placing a contrived onus… Read more »

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Kathryn Byrne

KATHRYN BYRNE’S BAD PR

Date: February 13, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

GOLDHAWK WAS surprised to see in Stubbs Gazette that a judgment was registered against high-profile public relations outfit Limelight Communications, where Fianna Fáiler Kathryn Byrne calls the shots. It is unlikely that new Dublin Bay South Sinn Féin TD Chris Andrews shed a tear. Byrne will be familiar to fans of Goldhawk courtesy of her… Read more »

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Mary Lou McDonald

PROFILE: MARY LOU MCDONALD

Date: February 13, 2020 - Pillars of Society

SINCE BECOMING Sinn Féin president two years ago, Mary Lou McDonald has endured opprobrium and adulation from party members in almost equal measure. Two electoral disasters for SF have now been followed by unexpected triumph, despite a last-ditch smear campaign centring on its reaction to the murder 13 years ago of South Armagh man Paul… Read more »

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Gavan Reilly

YOUNG BLOOD: GAVAN REILLY

Date: February 13, 2020 - The Young Bloods

As the previous generation of veteran broadcasters fades away, new faces of Ireland’s political coverage are beginning to come into focus – including that of rising star Gavan Reilly, political correspondent for Virgin Media Television (VMTV) and host of Newstalk’s Sunday morning show, On the Record. The tech-savvy TV presenter has become renowned for his… Read more »

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BORIS’S AWRISH PAL

Date: February 13, 2020 - Fit to Print?

THE NOW-stateless author, journalist and former spokesman for EU Commissioner Ray MacSharry, Scottish-born John Cooney has refused to renew his British passport in protest at Britain’s withdrawal from the EU. In a vociferous statement to the UK-based Catholic journal The Tablet, Cooney – a long-time religious and political correspondent for the Irish Times and other… Read more »

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Eoghan Murphy

EOGHAN MURPHY’S FIGHT BACK

Date: February 13, 2020 - Last Refuge

A panic-stricken Eoghan Murphy spent a fortune over the last two weeks of the election campaign stuffing the letter boxes of Dublin Bay South (DBS) with extravagant election literature – and not just the usual single leaflet, which appeared around the third week of January. The troubled housing minister followed up with a glossy, four-page… Read more »

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Domini Kemp

DOMINI KEMP’S MENU CHANGE

Date: February 13, 2020 - High Society

IT HAS been hard to pick up a magazine or TV listings supplement in recent weeks without reading about the new television series fronted by chef-cum-entrepreneur Domini Kemp. This week, Animo Media’s Prison Breaks kicked off on Virgin, featuring Kemp in the educator role for prisoners being trained in the restaurant business. Certainly, the all-rounder… Read more »

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John Banville

JOHN BANVILLE’S ROYAL FLUSH

Date: February 13, 2020 - Behind the Scenes

THE ANNOUNCEMENT of a new annual Irish literary award last week came as a pleasant surprise to Irish writers, who have had limited opportunities to make real moolah. With the new Dalkey Book Festival gongs worth a combined €30,000, they should inject some much-needed liquidity into the scribbling sector. In a report in the Irish… Read more »

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JOE RYAN’S SKILLS

Date: February 13, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

GOLDHAWK was interested to read the press release on the five-year plan published last month by the Irish Film and Television Academy (IFTA). It notes that among the attendees were IFTA committee members like broadcaster Brendan Courtney and Cartoon Saloon’s Paul Young. Also on hand were IFTA board members such as film finance expert John… Read more »

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NO SWEAT

Date: February 13, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

THE RECENT judgment by High Court Judge Mark Heslin in favour of the Church of Scientology’s drug rehab centre in the Meath village of Ballivor makes it clear that there was never any legal doubt over the controversial project. Happily for An Bord Pleanála, the judge did not have to consider “the manner in which… Read more »

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W2’S ‘VIKINGS’ RAID

Date: February 13, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

THE LATEST plot development in the blockbuster courtroom drama playing at the Four Goldmines between producers Morgan O’Sullivan and James Flynn, and plaintiff, German moneybags Winni Hammacher is an offer of mediation on the part of the veteran Irish production duo. It looks like this could be the only way to save the upcoming lucrative… Read more »

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IRFU: THE WEST’S AWAKE

Date: February 13, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

THE IRISH rugby team has shown renewed fighting spirit in the Six Nations Rugby Championship competition so far, but there are allegations of rough play at inter-provincial level. The Club Affairs Committee (CAC) of the Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU) has been hunting down clubs it considers to be in breach of the organisation’s Regulation… Read more »

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Paul O'Neill

PRESS COUNCIL VS ‘IRISH TIMES’

Date: February 13, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

HAS THE Press Council become the editorial arbiter between the Irish Times and complainants who demand fairness and transparency in the ‘paper of reference’, as its journalists now like to describe it? Recently, Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign spokesperson Betty Purcell threatened the newspaper with the Press Council unless it came clean on the Israeli-funded visit… Read more »

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JOHNNY COLLINS DISMOUNTS

Date: February 13, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

HAVING HAD a very successful 2019, this year has not proved quite so memorable for Carrigtwohill, Co Cork, racehorse trainer John Collins, who found the going heavy in the Circuit Court. Earlier this month, Collins pleaded guilty to putting around 45,000 tonnes of rubble in a wildlife lagoon that was a special area of conservation…. Read more »

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Freddie Scappaticci

WHO WIELDED THE STAKEKNIFE?

Date: February 13, 2020 - Hush Hush

Operation Kenova’s investigations into the so-called Stakeknife affair have now, inevitably, led it to turn its gaze upon RUC Special Branch. Given that head of Kenova Jon Boutcher made an unsuccessful application for the PSNI’s chief constable post in early 2019, he may now find it embarrassing to investigate a covert police relationship with British… Read more »

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ARC’S ADVERTISING BUDGET

Date: February 13, 2020 - Hush Hush

ACCOUNTS JUST filed for the Abortion Rights Campaign (ARC) show a significant increase in spending in the year to the end of March 2019, the period that included the May 25 referendum to repeal the eighth amendment. ARC was founded by, among others, Gráinne Griffin, although she resigned from the limited company in November last… Read more »

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Rory McEIlroy

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE 3803

Date: February 13, 2020 - The Hot Air Brigade

In the year 170, at night in his tent on the front lines of the war in Germania, Marcus Aurelius, the emperor of the Roman Empire, sat down to write. Paul Kimmage on Rory McIlroy’s method of coping with losing to Tiger Woods, Sunday Independent, submitted by reader Yet even before the Ryder Cup, the… Read more »

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Arlene Foster

THE VIEW FROM ‘UP THERE’

Date: February 13, 2020 - Northwind

That now famous exit poll on the night of 8 February, which horrified Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, contained a lot more information than merely voting intentions. People were asked what their most important issues were. There were no surprises: health, housing, pensions, jobs, the economy. The north was nowhere as everyone knew. Yet during… Read more »

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Vincent P Martin

GREEN BLUESHIRT ALLIANCE

Date: February 13, 2020 - Last Refuge

THE HIGHEST vote getter of those Green Party candidates that nearly won a seat was Vincent P Martin SC, who came fifth in four-seat Kildare North. But the silver-tongued barrister made a breakthrough in the Four Goldmines by recruiting staunch Blueshirt Gareth Robinson to his team of canvassers, along with other legal eagles. Robinson was… Read more »

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Danny McCoy

IBEC VS SINN FÉIN

Date: February 13, 2020 - Last Refuge

IBEC HEADS were in shock when the Shinners came top of the Irish Times pre-election poll. After decades of lecturing workers on the need “to embrace change and workplace flexibility”, this was a step too far for the Taylorist technocrats and six-sigma managers who embrace the tax-avoiding multinationals. Director general cum CEO Danny McCoy was… Read more »

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Regina Doherty

‘INDO’ ATTACKS POLITICAL BIAS

Date: February 13, 2020 - Fit to Print?

MEDIA REACTION to Fine Gael’s election meltdown plunged to further depths the day before the general election when the Irish Independent front page “revealed” that Fianna Fáil’s Jim O’Callaghan had previously worked as a barrister for Gerry Adams. FG’s Regina Doherty then relentlessly harangued O’Callaghan about the issue over the course of an RTÉ interview… Read more »

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CONOR LENIHAN’S PREDICTION

Date: February 13, 2020 - Fit to Print?

FORMER MINISTER Conor Lenihan was introduced, humorously, to RTÉ’s Election 2020 programme last Sunday as personifying the only Russian influence in the general election. (Lenihan was for some years VP of the Moscow-based Skolkovo Foundation). Lenihan went on to deliver an erudite and mature analysis of the election campaign and the mistakes of the two… Read more »

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Eamon Ryan

GREEN ON GREEN

Date: February 13, 2020 - Fowl Emissions

It was supposed to be the climate election, but the shade of green that came to dominate Election 2020 was that of republicanism rather than ecology. Amid all the understandable brouhaha about Sinn Féin’s electoral breakthrough, the Greens’ Lazarus act is almost as remarkable. It entered the ill-starred coalition with Fianna Fáil in 2007 with… Read more »

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JOHN FITZGERALD’S EMISSIONS

Date: February 13, 2020 - Fowl Emissions

Has veteran economist Prof John FitzGerald been outfoxed by the Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA)? FitzGerald, who chairs the government-appointed Climate Change Advisory Council (CCAC), perhaps unwisely accepted an invitation to speak at an IFA event on agri emissions in January. Goldhawk wondered (see The Phoenix, 30/1/20) about the wisdom of the CCAC chair taking part… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS 3803

Date: February 13, 2020 - Bog Cuttings

Swapped Urine For Toilet Water A Thurles resident was disqualified from driving for four years and fined €250 after interfering with a urine sample. Teresa Byrne of 3 Maple View, Abbey Road, Thurles, was taken into custody by gardaí after they found her “intoxicated” and “unsteady” at the site of a road traffic collision. Sgt… Read more »

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Consuelo O’Connor

ROPEY CARRY-ON IN ELM PARK

Date: February 13, 2020 - High Society

THE MEMBERS of D4 golf club Elm Park received an interesting email from course director and chairman Tom Ryan pointing to the activities on the course of a mysterious vandal who is also apparently a member. Shurley shome mishtake! Ryan’s missive highlights the growing number of knots appearing in the ropes that are used for… Read more »

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Arthur Ffrench O'Carroll

FFRENCH O’CARROLL’S D4 PILE

Date: February 13, 2020 - High Society

A DISTINCTIVE pile on Wellington Place in the heart of Dublin 4 being plugged in the property supplements should attract plenty of interest, despite its €3m price tag. No 9 Wellington Place, a protected structure, is also known as St John’s and was the hunting lodge of the Duke of Wellington. More recent owners are… Read more »

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Philip Fenton

FENTON’S FALSE START

Date: February 13, 2020 - Sport of Kings

PHILIP FENTON has been working hard to rebuild his training career after spending three years on the sidelines serving a ban for possessing animal steroids – and he could do with a change of luck if a recent episode is anything to go by. Fenton’s highest-rated horse, Atlantic Shore, was due to contest a beginners’… Read more »

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Charles Byrnes

BYRNES GETS BURNED

Date: February 13, 2020 - Sport of Kings

AS SOMEONE partial to pulling off the odd monster gamble, Charles Byrnes’s horses are often the subject of extra scrutiny by race-day stewards. Those on duty at Naas recently came down heavy on Byrnes’s runner, Kendancer. The former French-trained flat winner was having his second start for Byrnes and his ninth-place finish in the maiden… Read more »

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