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Michael Creed

PROFILE: MICHAEL CREED

Date: September 19, 2019 - Pillars of Society

AGRICULTURE MINISTER Michael Creed has suddenly been thrust into the front line as the latest crisis in rural Ireland confronts the government – led by traditional farming champions, Fine Gael. The militant beef protest campaign is politically toxic for Leo Varadkar and his party, as hostility in their heartland of Munster farming spells electoral disaster… Read more »

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Lorna Fitzpatrick

YOUNG BLOOD: LORNA FITZPATRICK

Date: September 19, 2019 - The Young Bloods

THE Union of Students in Ireland (USI) president, Lorna Fitzpatrick, has taken charge of the national union at a trying time for the student movement as a whole. USI radicals have accused the union of taking its foot off the pedal on the thorny issue of higher-education funding, which is slowly returning to the foreground… Read more »

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Maria Bailey

MARIA BAILEY FIGHTS BACK

Date: September 19, 2019 - Last Refuge

IT LOOKS like controversial TD Maria Bailey is not going to go quietly, despite the leadership stratagem of leaving it to Blueshirts in her Dún Laoghaire constituency to do their dirty work for them. Readers will recall that Leo Varadkar and Fine Gael’s director of organisation and the general election, Paschal Donohoe, had determined that… Read more »

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Xavier McAuliffe

XAVIER MCAULIFFE’S SPEED VANS

Date: September 19, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

IT IS hard to believe that a consortium that works for An Garda Síochána providing the roadside speed detection service – GoSafe – is shacked up offshore and hides its accounts (legitimately) from public scrutiny. The same profitable outfit now finds itself under attack from Siptu over its failure to implement a Labour Court recommendation…. Read more »

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Patrick Prendergast

PRENDERGAST’S RANK PERFORMANCE

Date: September 19, 2019 - Student Life

It was a case of déjà vu again for Trinity College Dublin provost Patrick Prendergast last week when the 2020 Times Higher Education world university rankings were released. Trinners collapsed 44 places from last year to its worst-ever ranking of 164th in the world. For Prendergast, this has become a near-annual occurrence. Since coming to power,… Read more »

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Rena Maycock

RENA MAYCOCK’S BIG PLANS

Date: September 19, 2019 - High Society

THE MOST interesting name hired by Tom Lyons and Ian Kehoe as a contributor for their proposed online business news website, The Currency, is surely Rena Maycock, who will apparently be “writing a column from the coalface of Irish business”. Maycock is the co-owner of a Grafton Street-based matchmaking business called Intro Matchmaking and is… Read more »

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LEO VARADKAR’S NECK

Date: September 19, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

YOU’VE GOT to hand it to Leo Varadkar for pure neck. Earlier this month, Boris Johnson let fly with some colourful descriptions of opposition politicians – most notably Jeremy Corbyn was dismissed as a “big girl’s blouse”. Predictably, the PM came under fire for the unflattering and sexist term. Into the spat hopped Leo to… Read more »

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Stephen Rae

INM V ‘SUNDAY TIMES’

Date: September 19, 2019 - Fit to Print?

SUNDAY TIMES hack Mark Tighe is being pursued in the High Court by former Independent News & Media’s (INM) group editor-in-chief, Stephen Rae, for a story in the ST and an RTÉ interview on the same topic last year. Rae took exception to the story, based on claims by former INM chief executive Robert Pitt… Read more »

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Date: September 19, 2019 -

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Noel Grealish

NOEL GREALISH’S PAL

Date: September 19, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

THOSE REMARKS by Noel Grealish TD about “good Christian Syrians” as opposed to African “spongers” were from the heart. A devout Catholic, Noel once secured an audience with Pope Francis and he was a firm opponent of abortion. Confusingly, the Progressive Democrats, for whom Grealish was a TD for several years, once wanted to take… Read more »

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David McWilliams

DAVID MCWILLIAMS’S ‘RESEARCH’

Date: September 19, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

Readers of the Irish Times website last Saturday may have enjoyed David McWilliams musing on the future of global cities. The celebrity economist takes us on a whirlwind trip around Dhaka, Dublin and Dubai, concluding that in order to thrive, a city must not be “strangled by its own managerial incompetence”. Regrettably, however, much of… Read more »

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Simon Coveney

COVENEY’S SOLO RUN

Date: September 19, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

THE WILY Simon Coveney managed to come out of the Fine Gael think-in last week smelling of roses – at least as far as his constituents were concerned – by announcing early the green light for the troubled and increasingly expensive Cork Event Centre. The tánaiste was able to reveal that the moolah would be… Read more »

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PAT LENAGHAN’S CHAIRS

Date: September 19, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

More bad news for the family of colourful businessman and would-be casino boss Pat Lenaghan, owners of the Bridge House Hotel in Tullamore, Co Offaly. A judgment for u56,000 has just been registered against the entity behind the hotel by the owner of a Galway-based chair hire business. It’s just the latest setback for the… Read more »

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CORRECTION – MICHAEL BLOOMBERG

Date: September 19, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

IN The Phoenix edition of August 23 last, it was incorrectly stated that former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg had funded the Irish pro-tobacco group Retailers Against Smuggling and also that he had donated a total of $20m to pro-tobacco groups globally. We are happy to correct this untrue statement and to point out that… Read more »

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Lucinda Creighton

LUCINDA’S EU APOSTASY

Date: September 19, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

LUCINDA CREIGHTON’S take on Brexit and the backstop is strange indeed coming from a former minister for Europe who immersed herself in the EU apparatus as a minister for some years. She also threw herself into the EU political network as a young Fine Gael activist. Now she is publicly advising that her close pal,… Read more »

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John Halligan

CIA-FUNDED SCARE STORIES

Date: September 19, 2019 - Hush Hush

THE RECYCLING of propaganda by western spook ‘think-tanks’ presented as objective truths is reaching epidemic proportions in the media, with the ‘Aarish’ edition of the Sunday Times in particular behaving like cheer leaders for Whitehall and the US State Department. A recent front-page splash and special feature inside the newspaper castigated the Irish government for… Read more »

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David Quinn

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: September 19, 2019 - The Hot Air Brigade

The spontaneous healing of Marion Carroll confronts us with the literally awesome possibility that something miraculous might have taken place in Knock 30 years ago. This raises questions of incalculably greater and more timeless importance than whether a country called the United Kingdom leaves an organisation called the European Union this year or next. David… Read more »

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Claire Hanna

ANTI-BREXIT (DIS)UNITY

Date: September 19, 2019 - Northwind

On September 12, Sinn Féin’s northern leader, Michelle O’Neill, issued a statement calling for co-operation between Remain supporting parties in the north to oust DUP MPs in the imminent British general election. She said there was “a unique opportunity to show Dublin, London, Europe and the world [sic] that the DUP do not speak for… Read more »

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Declan Bree

BLUESHIRT’S RURAL REALITY

Date: September 19, 2019 - Last Refuge

THINGS ARE going from bad to worse for Fine Gael in rural Ireland. According to the latest analysis, Sligo-Leitrim (where the party took two seats out of three in the old Sligo-North Leitrim constituency in 2011) could end up with no FG seat at all in the new four-seat constituency. A recent party poll showed… Read more »

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President Higgins

PRESIDENT’S LATITUDE

Date: September 19, 2019 - Last Refuge

YET AGAIN President Michael D Higgins has incurred the displeasure of a po-faced media for allegedly ‘pushing the boundaries’ of his office and breaching the constitution with radical (and popular) statements. But despite his image as a dotty if highly educated eccentric, Higgins is no daw and he understands the political and constitutional rules that… Read more »

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David Stanton

MICHAEL CREED’S BACK YARD

Date: September 19, 2019 - Last Refuge

AGRICULTURE MINISTER Michael Creed has issues of national importance to deal with (those bolshie beef farmers, see profile, p14), but he also has a tricky general election coming up in his Cork North-West (CNW) constituency. However, the view is that a rather contrived deal, whereby his general election running mate – Cork County councillor John… Read more »

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THE CURRENCY’S CAST

Date: September 19, 2019 - Fit to Print?

HAVING FAILED to buy the Sunday Business Post (see The Phoenix, 3/5/19) Ian Kehoe and Tom Lyons – formerly editor and acting editor, respectively – seem intent on eclipsing their old newspaper with The Currency, an online-only outlet. The duo has assembled working capital, but not from moneybags Pete Smyth, founder of investment firm Broadlake…. Read more »

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Gerry Adams

BBC TV ‘TROUBLES’

Date: September 19, 2019 - Fit to Print?

THE BBC NI series Spotlight on the Troubles: A Secret History, which began last week, received a lyrical welcome from Máiría Cahill in the Sunday Independent. Cahill quoted Jennifer O’Leary and other programmers who spoke of their research into events during the Troubles that few wished to talk about. Cahill also declared her own interest… Read more »

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David Horgan

CLIMATE DENIERS

Date: September 19, 2019 - Fowl Emissions

In the rich annals of human stupidity, it is unlikely that the phenomenon of organised climate denial will ever be surpassed for sheer bloody-mindedness. Yes, 2019 has seen an unprecedented series of catastrophic wildfires sweep the globe. Yes, the entire Amazon rainforest is fast approaching a critical tipping point towards collapse. Yes, biodiversity is in… Read more »

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RICHARD BRUTON’S SINK

Date: September 19, 2019 - Fowl Emissions

It may have been the excitement of the National Ploughing Championships, but climate action minister Richard Bruton rushed out a press release from the event that was, to put it mildly, puzzling. Discussing the need for resilience in the era of climate change, he said, “Agriculture is Ireland’s largest single source of greenhouse gas, but… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: September 19, 2019 - Bog Cuttings

ARRESTED TO SCORE POINTS A THIEF who stole a cancer charity collection box told the court that the crime was committed in order to be arrested so he could gain points for an online game. Andrea Zecchin, of Derramore Way, Cookstown, robbed the Marie Curie charity box from a pub in Cookstown. The police were… Read more »

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Consuelo O’Connor

SAMMY LESLIE’S ITALIAN DISH

Date: September 19, 2019 - High Society

SAMANTHA LESLIE, the chatelaine of Castle Leslie in Co Monaghan, has received some rare good financial news, relating to a charity she set up. Castle Leslie is the sprawling estate and hotel where the debts have piled up. The restoration and redevelopment of the castle and demesne has proved an expensive business, judging by the… Read more »

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Neven Maguire

NEVEN’S MAGUIRE’S INGREDIENTS

Date: September 19, 2019 - High Society

THE UBIQUITOUS Neven Maguire’s latest television dish kicked off last week on RTÉ One. And the second season of Neven’s Spanish Food Trials got its share of plugs both on the airwaves and from his fans in the print media Sindo. In return, the wily Neven is an accomplished name dropper when it comes to… Read more »

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Sarah Lynch

GOOD TIMES AT THE GATE

Date: September 19, 2019 - Behind the Scenes

THERE HAS been a cast change at the Abbey where its head of producing, Sarah Lynch, has decided to exit stage left after barely two years at the national theatre. She is heading up the street to the Gate, where Selina Cartmell apparently can do no wrong. Lynch is a well-known figure in Irish theatre,… Read more »

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RUTH MCGOWAN’S SPONSOR

Date: September 19, 2019 - Behind the Scenes

WHILE THE Dublin Theatre Festival is yet to kick off, Ruth McGowan’s Dublin Fringe Festival is just winding up its 25th hooley. She will be hoping to have sold a few more tickets than last year. The 2018 festival – funded by the Arts Council to the tune of €390,000, as is this year’s gig… Read more »

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John Cronin

JOHN CRONIN’S NEW ROLE

Date: September 19, 2019 - Behind the Scenes

THERE IS a new cast member at the Dublin Theatre Festival (which kicks off next week) in the form of high-flying legal eagle John Cronin of McCann Fitzgerald. No doubt, the Arts Council will be hoping his arrival helps to ensure that the financial wobble a couple of years ago is not repeated. The 2018… Read more »

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Paul Cawley

PRESENTING PAT KELLY

Date: September 19, 2019 - Sport of Kings

THE ENIGMATIC Pat Kelly – best known as the trainer of the Philip Reynolds-owned dual Cheltenham Festival winner Presenting Percy – fell foul of the Listowel stewards during the harvest festival. Kelly, whose attitude to the media is well known, was slapped with a €2,000 fine after his aptly named runner Costly Diamond was deemed… Read more »

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Jessica Harrington

BHA BLOOD WORK

Date: September 19, 2019 - Sport of Kings

THE BRITISH Horseracing Authority (BHA) has clearly stepped up its campaign to antagonise Irish trainers. Following several pre-race grillings of Charles Byrnes and Denis Hogan in recent months, focusing on their instructions to their jockeys, the BHA recently took a blood sample from a Jessica Harrington-trained runner at Salisbury just 35 minutes before the horse’s… Read more »

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FRANK FAHY FALTERS

Date: September 19, 2019 - Sport of Kings

MEDIA-SHY builder and property developer Frank Fahy hasn’t been spoilt with immediate success after taking the decision to get involved in a serious way in the racing and bloodstock game. Fahy’s purchase of Gerrardstown House Stud in Dunshaughlin a few years ago signalled his intent to start building up a portfolio of broodmares and he… Read more »

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Justify in action

SETBACK FOR UNCLE SAM

Date: September 19, 2019 - Sport of Kings

COOLMORE STUD’S latest poster-boy stallion, Justify, has found himself at the centre of an American doping scandal after it was reported in the New York Times that the horse, subsequently acquired by Coolmore, failed a drugs test after winning a race in California that qualified him for last year’s Kentucky Derby. This is now a… Read more »

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Kirill Golovanov

OVOCA BIO WORTH DOUBLE ITS CURRENT SHARE PRICE

Date: September 19, 2019 - Moneybags

OVOCA BIO is one of the more unusual companies on the Irish Stock Exchange. Not only has it had a rather bizarre history, but it is now capitalised at less than the value of its liquid assets. The current share price of 13 cent represents a near 50% discount on the value of the assets… Read more »

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