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Micheál Martin

MARTIN IN LAST-CHANCE SALOON

Date: November 14, 2019 - Pillars of Society

The year of our Lord 2020 will be make or break for the man his chief rival calls the Priest. But if Micheál Martin is to avoid what once seemed his pre-ordained place as the first Fianna Fáil leader never to be taoiseach, he may need divine intervention. His almost nine-year tenure at the helm… Read more »

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SUDDEN EXIT AT ARTS COUNCIL

Date: November 14, 2019 - Behind the Scenes

IT LOOKS like we will have to wait a while longer to have a full Arts Council following the sudden resignation of one of the new appointees. As fans of Goldhawk will be aware, there has been a definite lack of urgency on culture minister Josepha Madigan’s part when it comes to filling vacancies at… Read more »

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ANTHONY CAFFERKEY’S BAD INVESTMENT

Date: November 14, 2019 - Briefcases

A TROUBLED Kildare property company called Cafferkey Investments Ltd (CIL), which has called in the liquidator, rang a bell with Goldhawk. It turns out to be owned by the family of low-key Leixlip builder Anthony Cafferkey, who readers will recall had the misfortune of being landed with an eye-watering tax judgment in 2012 (see The… Read more »

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NO SO EMUSING

Date: November 14, 2019 - Briefcases

ONE of Emuse group’s creditors has lost patience with the ailing technology business. The taxman has just registered a judgment for a measly €3,400 against a group entity called Emuse Technologies Ltd (ETL), the cause of many a headache for chief executive Patrick Rainsford in recent times. ETL is a D2 tech company that makes… Read more »

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CON CREEDON’S MEDICAL MATTER

Date: November 14, 2019 - Briefcases

THE TAXMAN has just registered a judgment for €43,000 against a medical accreditation company based in Sandymount, D4. This represents more bad news for the hapless principals here, Con and Hollie Creedon. The Creedons arrived on the scene in late 2015, when founder Eoin Ryan sold out to Hollie and Rachael Creedon, who are the… Read more »

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ANNUAL 2019

Date: November 14, 2019 -

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Dermot Desmond

DERMOT DESMOND AND THE DATALEX DISASTER

Date: November 14, 2019 - Moneybags

THE COMPANY that has provided the most entertainment to market watchers this year is without a doubt Datalex, the deeply troubled airline booking software provider. The turbulence surrounding the company since January has only grown stronger and it is unclear if it can pull out of its current tailspin. The passenger with the most to… Read more »

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Timmy Dooley

DOOLEY: TO PURGATORY OR HELL?

Date: November 14, 2019 - Last Refuge

THE REAL fall out for Fianna Fáil frontbenchers Timmy ‘Dolittle’ Dooley and Niall Collins must await the result of Fine Gael TD Noel Rock’s complaint to the Committee on Members’ Interests. Relegation from the frontbench or even a downgrading in a reshuffle is not in itself that serious, but it would indicate who is likely… Read more »

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DRINKAWARE’S STRATEGY

Date: November 14, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

NEWS THAT a ban on alcohol advertising within 200 metres of a school or crèche from later this month will have been clocked by the good people in Drinkaware, the alcohol industry-funded group that campaigns for educational measures to persuade consumers to drink responsibly – as opposed to nanny-state measures to curb advertising and promotion… Read more »

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Peter Clohessy

WINDING UP PETER CLOHESSY

Date: November 14, 2019 - Briefcases

THE Taxman has put in a late tackle on a pub company once linked to bankrupt former Ireland and Munster rugby player Peter Clohessy. A petition to wind up Crokers Bar and Restaurant Ltd (CBRL) has just been filed in the High Court by the Revenue, but it turns out that the entity has already… Read more »

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ALL IN – JAMIE HEASLIP (GILL AND MACMILLAN)

Date: October 31, 2019 - BooksReviews

“I REALISED I had a problem in my relationship with the media and that I contributed to that, and I couldn’t just blame individual reporters or the media in general for not giving me a fair shake.” Jamie Heaslip knows he has an image problem, but he’s not sure why. At times, he almost seems… Read more »

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Niall Collins

COLLINS, DOOLEY: FF FALL-OUT

Date: October 31, 2019 - Last Refuge

THE POLITICAL hit on frontbenchers Timmy Dooley and Niall Collins may be temporary as far as Fianna Fáil is concerned. However, Micheál Martin will be worried about the direct transfer of his party’s lost vote (3%) to Fine Gael (up 4%) in the Red C weekend poll. But the damage inflicted on the two lads… Read more »

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Richard Oakley

PROFILE – RICHIE OAKLEY

Date: October 31, 2019 - Pillars of Society

THE LATEST in a long line of Sunday Business Post editors is Richie Oakley, late of the now-defunct Times Ireland, which crashed and burned in May. Previous Post editors were invariably journalists with a strong business record and a catalogue of news reports and investigations of their own before taking the top job. Oakley, however,… Read more »

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Ciaran O'Carroll

YOUNG BLOOD – CIARÁN O’CARROLL

Date: October 31, 2019 - The Young Bloods

With the arrival from the UK and Europe of Extinction Rebellion (XR) protests on Irish shores, 32-year-old scientist and marketing executive Dr Ciarán O’Carroll is becoming one of the more familiar faces of the publicity-hungry movement. From where has the group come and what, if any, impact will O’Carroll and his comrades have on Irish… Read more »

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Alan Barrett

WHO FEARS TO SPEAK OF BORDER POLL?

Date: October 31, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

CONCERNED NOISES are emanating from the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI), the only entity in the southern establishment that has clocked the political dynamics pushing the north towards a possible border poll and a united Ireland (see p3). The ESRI has admonished not only the government in recent days, it has also effectively set… Read more »

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Imelda Munster

SINN FÉIN GONE TO THE DOGS

Date: October 31, 2019 - Last Refuge

Sinn Féin’s business spokesperson, Imelda Munster, certainly reveals an aptitude for business, but the Louth TD has also found herself in the firing line over the party’s dramatic U-turn on funding for the Irish greyhound industry. Greyhound welfare campaigners accuse the Shinners of hypocrisy for holding a fundraising night at Dundalk Greyhound Stadium while demanding… Read more »

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Pierre le Brocquy

PIERRE LE BROCQUY’S GRIPE

Date: October 31, 2019 - High Society

THE ROW over RTÉ’s decision to offload some artworks, most famously two by Louis le Brocquy, rumbles on. It is not surprising to see Louis’ son and former agent, Pierre le Brocquy, wade in last week when he claimed RTÉ had promised never to sell the works. Indeed, he told the Oirish Mail on Sunday,… Read more »

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Mark Ruffalo

RYAN WOBBLES ALREADY

Date: October 31, 2019 - Fowl Emissions

After years as a fringe resistance movement in Kerry and Clare, the battle against Shannon LNG has suddenly gone implausibly mainstream, with a Hollywood star and the pope entering the fray. Mark Ruffalo, who plays the Incredible Hulk in the Avengers movies, has been suitably angry, telling climate action minister Richard Bruton that importing US… Read more »

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Jess Ryan

JESS RYAN’S BEAUTY BUSINESS

Date: October 31, 2019 - High Society

EARLIER THIS year one of Ireland’s top retailers, Arthur Ryan – the power behind Penneys/Primark – passed away. His daughter, the glamorous Jess Ryan, has been forging her own path in business in recent years, although so far there is no sign that she will be delivering the kind of gigantic profits that daddy was… Read more »

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John Malone

JOHN MALONE’S HOTEL RATES

Date: October 31, 2019 - Briefcases

THE HIGH Court has just issued a ruling that looks set to have significant implications for low-paid workers. The case involved staff in a Dublin 2 hotel that is controlled by Colorado-based billionaire John Malone of Liberty Global fame, owner of Humewood Castle in Co Wicklow as well as Virgin Media. Malone picked up a… Read more »

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Date: October 31, 2019 -

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MARY ROBINSON’S SHRINE

Date: October 31, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

THERE HAVE been some changes to the board of The Victoria House Foundation, the legal entity set up to progress the Mary Robinson shrine in Ballina, Co Mayo – aka the Mary Robinson Centre (MRC). Meanwhile, the funding situation looks challenging. Two former high-profile academics have resigned from the Emer Gilvarry-chaired board – ex-Trinity College… Read more »

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Patrick Dorgan

LAW SOCIETY ROW: LIBEL THREATS

Date: October 31, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

THE NORMALLY sedate AGM of the Mayo Solicitors’ Bar Association (the Mayo branch of the Law Society) was enlivened this year when a row about donations to a charity for legal eagles provoked loud recrimination and even threats to sue society president Patrick Dorgan. Dorgan and director general Ken Murphy attended the meeting of their… Read more »

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Andrew Deeks

UCD REVOLT OVER NEWMAN BOYCOTT

Date: October 31, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

UCD’S CRASS decision to boycott the canonisation of its founder, John Henry Newman, was reversed, the university said, because the government had reconsidered its own decision to ignore the event and had belatedly delegated education minister Joe McHugh to attend the event in Rome. The rationale for UCD’s reversal was almost as inane as its… Read more »

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Karl Brophy

RED FLAG AGGRO

Date: October 31, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

The recent release of Environmental Protection Agency data for 2018, revealing spiralling agri emissions, seemed like an odd day to unveil a new campaign promoting the most emissions-intensive forms of agriculture. Warring farm groups and meat factories have declared a temporary truce and formed an uneasy alliance with such as the Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA),… Read more »

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LIMERICK STUDENTS GO LOGO LOCO

Date: October 31, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

Branding fever is once again gripping the University of Limerick (UL), where students are up in arms about a controversial new logo. At the time of writing, nearly 1,900 people had signed an online petition calling for the college to “repeal” the redesign of its logo and brand identity, which was unveiled late last month…. Read more »

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Ed Guiney and Andrew Love

REVIEWING GALWAY’S €10M CINEMA HORROR

Date: October 31, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

FANS OF Goldhawk are well acquainted with the historical horror-show behind Galway’s bijou Pálás cinema, originally promoted by Lelia Doolan’s Solas Galway Picture Palace group and very heavily backed by the taxpayer through assorted agencies (See The Phoenix, 6/10/17). A spending review has now been quietly published by the Department of Culture and while many… Read more »

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Tapaas Chakravarti

CATCHING UP WITH PETER PAN

Date: October 31, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

A RECEIVER has just been appointed to the Irish end of a multi-million euro Indian animation outfit that is behind international TV shows such as Jungle Book, Peter Pan and Robin Hood. It looks like there are big bucks involved. DQ Entertainment (Ireland) was set up in Galway in 2008 and directors include India-based Tapaas… Read more »

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John McMichael

LOYALIST THREATS

Date: October 31, 2019 - Hush Hush

THERE IS something ironic about PSNI chief constable Simon Byrne’s unprecedented political intervention last week, with his warnings about loyalist violence in the wake of Brexit. This was preceded by an anonymous loyalist threat to bomb Limerick in the event of a Green Brexit. Byrne has spent his career outside the north, but many of… Read more »

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Cathy Kelly

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: October 31, 2019 - The Hot Air Brigade

While Agatha Christie is known as the queen of crime, Cathy Kelly has built a reputation as the queen of romance. Pavel Barter, Sunday Times O’Connell’s ‘fusion’ bears little resemblance to the anaemic faux-Asian faffing around of almost two decades ago; this is of an entirely different order, visceral, even sanguinary cuisine. Big booming flavours… Read more »

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Leo Varadkar

AUGUSTINE POLICY

Date: October 31, 2019 - Northwind

The taoiseach told Today FM in a recent phone-in that he’d like to see a united Ireland in his lifetime, “but it must be a warm place for unionists and British people”. If he had substituted “and” for the word “but”, it would have been a positive development. That “but” is his sneaky get out… Read more »

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MARIAN HARKIN TO RESCUE FG?

Date: October 31, 2019 - Last Refuge

FORMER MEP Marian Harkin will either save Fine Gael in Sligo-Leitrim or sink them, with feelers going out to her from a desperate FG that has so far failed to persuade its retiring TD, Tony McLoughlin, to stand again. FG private polls show Left Independent Declan Bree within striking distance of the fourth seat (out… Read more »

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Richard Boyd Barrett

BOYD BARRETT AND CO FACING WIPE-OUT

Date: October 31, 2019 - Last Refuge

IF SINN FÉIN is worried about dropping six or more of its 23 Dáil seats at the general election, the Trotskyist Solidarity/People Before Profit (PBP) should be worried about a possible wipe-out of their combined six seats total. The Shinners lost half their councillors in the local elections (158 down to 77) but Sol-PBP went… Read more »

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Samantha McCaughren

INM’S BELGIAN BEER INTERVIEWS

Date: October 31, 2019 - Fit to Print?

SUNDAY INDEPENDENT editor Cormac Bourke’s “new role” as editor of the Irish Independent was announced in the Sindo recently, with Cormac quoted as looking forward to the “new challenge”. The Sindo published a (nearly) exhaustive list of Bourke’s editorial roles, which include various editorial roles at the Indo and other non-INM titles. All of which… Read more »

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Barry Egan

JOURNO AWARDS EGO FEST

Date: October 31, 2019 - Fit to Print?

DIGITAL-SAVVY hacks got into the Newsbrands Journalism Awards website some weeks ago (the gong circus is to be held in the Mansion House in a fortnight) and accessed the articles submitted – intended for shortlist judges’ eyes only. The security breach enabled some journalists to scrutinise competitors’ articles, however the really creative work was contained… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS 3722

Date: October 31, 2019 - Bog Cuttings

Lunged at ALL-IRELAND STAR A DRUNKEN man picked on a garda who has five All-Ireland senior football medals to his name, solicitor Pat Enright told Listowel District Court. When Jeff Connolly, 21 Rathoonane, Tralee, lunged at Garda Tom O’Sullivan in Ballyduff, it proved to be “an unequal battle since [O’Sullivan] was probably able to handle… Read more »

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