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Brendan Duke Adrian Murray Mick Bailey

NOT QUITE A DUNNE DEAL

Date: February 13, 2020 - Sport of Kings

WHEN TRAINER David Dunne received a €3,000 fine (including €1,000 towards Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board’s costs) after his 2019 Ballinrobe winner Druim Samhraidh tested positive for the anabolic steroid boldenone, there was little sympathy. The general consensus was that there is zero tolerance by the authorities when it comes to steroids. So it was quite… Read more »

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Liz Doyle IRTA

CHRIS GORDON’S HIGH-PROFILE CASE

Date: February 13, 2020 - Sport of Kings

AFTER THE Association Of Irish Racehorse Owners saw it doing battle with a lawsuit brought about by Jimmy Gough (see The Phoenix, 6/9/19), the Irish Racehorse Trainers Association (IRTA) is the latest racing body to be faced with another high-profile case. Chris Gordon, a retired Garda superintendent and head of security for the Irish Horseracing… Read more »

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Muireann O’Connell

THE LINE-OUT – VIRGIN MEDIA ONE

Date: February 13, 2020 - ReviewsTV

VIRGIN MEDIA has been making a lot of noise out of its exclusive (men’s) Six Nations rugby coverage and inevitably added one of those fun shows to “get you in the mood”. It turns out to be more All-Ireland League than Champions Cup, but there is enough on display to entertain the average fan. The… Read more »

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SCREEN IRELAND AUDITIONS

Date: February 13, 2020 - Behind the Scenes

THE CLOSING date has now passed for those interested in joining the board of the National Museum of Ireland (see The Phoenix, 31/1/20) and it will be interesting to see if any of the vacancies are filled before the change in government. In the case of the NMI, there are two empty seats as a… Read more »

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Áine Moriarty

ÁINE MORIARTY’S FIVE-YEAR PLAN

Date: February 13, 2020 - Behind the Scenes

FANS OF Goldhawk were previously alerted to the disappearance from the 2019 red-carpet calendar of the annual IFTA awards ceremony (see The Phoenix, 31/5/19). The academy – run by Áine Moriarty – had made no announcement about the 2019 no-show but instead, in late 2018, noted that IFTA was developing a five-year plan for 2019… Read more »

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Stephen Glancey

QUESTION MARK OVER C&C AFTER GLANCEY’S EXIT

Date: February 13, 2020 - Moneybags

STEPHEN GLANCEY surprised the market last month when C&C announced on January 16 that he was to step down as CEO “with immediate effect”. The ex-Scottish & Newcastle executive was primarily responsible for the game-changing decision to act on the €500m collapse of the UK Conviviality Brands group by picking up its big English Matthew… Read more »

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Cathal Friel

OPEN ORPHAN’S STOCK MARKET PRESCRIPTION

Date: February 13, 2020 - Moneybags

CATHAL FRIEL has been putting together a group of companies in the clinical research organisation sector. Rather than competing with the multi-billion euro Icon group (which grew out of Austin Darragh’s Institute of Clinical Pharmacology), Open Orphan is instead focused on offering a clinical services business targeting the so-called orphan drug sector. Although it is… Read more »

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MCKILLEN’S ISLE OF MAN FUSION

Date: February 13, 2020 - Briefcases

IT IS interesting to see that 73 North Wall Quay, Dublin 1, a protected structure purchased by developer and hospitality tycoon Patrick McKillen Jnr, has quietly changed ownership. McKillen purchased No 73 from Arthur Molloy of Molloy & Sherry Logistics for E10m in July 2019. The vehicle he set up to complete the purchase, Goldwing… Read more »

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Jim Wallace

DROPPED STITCH FOR JIM WALLACE

Date: February 13, 2020 - Briefcases

GOLDHAWK spotted a petition by Revenue to wind up Wexford textile firm JW Fashions Ltd, which listed local tailor Jim Wallace (cousin of Wexford-born MEP Mick Wallace) as a director until his departure two months ago. Wallace has been at the helm of garment business Acorn Fashions for the last 30 years. The business specialises… Read more »

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FEELEY’S HARD FEELINGS

Date: February 13, 2020 - Briefcases

Accountant John Feeley, the recently appointed CEO of troubled company Maximum Media (MM), has a lot on his plate. Morale among the ranks is low in the wake of a recent round of layoffs that took out almost 10% of the firm’s staff and sources told Goldhawk that further departures are imminent. Meanwhile, figures just… Read more »

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FASTNET SLOWS DOWN

Date: February 13, 2020 - Briefcases

CORK-BASED Fastnet Mussels Ltd, which lists John Murphy and Shane Murphy as its directors, was once considered one of the largest shellfish producers and processors in the state. Its fish produce was sold through a number of supermarket chains in Britain and France. These days, however, things are going less swimmingly for the company. The… Read more »

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TAX CASES NOT THEIR FORTE

Date: February 13, 2020 - Briefcases

More tax trouble for Wexford café owner Annino Forte. A judgment for no less than €2.7m was registered against him by the Revenue last month. Revenue first applied for this summary judgment against Forte in 2017, along with a judgment for €2.5m against his son, Goldhawk’s old pal Corrado Forte. This was after the taxman… Read more »

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Pat Crean

PAT CREAN’S PLAN

Date: February 13, 2020 - Briefcases

Fresh-faced developer Pat Crean has lobbed in a planning application for the demolition of properties at Dublin’s Sir John Rogerson’s Quay. The south docks waterfront site was the subject of a high-profile High Court battle between Crean and property kingpin Johnny Ronan (see The Phoenix, 13/07/17). Crean and his company, Balark Investments Ltd (part of… Read more »

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ADIOS TO RIOS

Date: February 13, 2020 - Briefcases

RIOS PROPERTIES (Cork) Limited, a company that lists Cork-based Denis O’Sullivan and James Rigby as directors, fell into liquidation last month, with accountant Finbarr Buckley of Buckley Scriven O’Regan appointed to wind up the company. Rigby, whose listed address is in Hertfordshire in the UK, is Rios’s majority shareholder. He set up the company with… Read more »

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IN THE SWAMP

Date: February 13, 2020 - Briefcases

Ireland’s fashionistas were no doubt devastated last month at the revelation that indigenous clothing brand Swamp, owned by husband-and-wife team Kieran Coogan and Donna Coogan, had ceased trading after more than 30 years in business. This led to the closure of two stores in Cork, as well as outlets in Tralee, Waterford, Limerick, Galway and… Read more »

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Knightsbrook Hotel

CALLING UP CUSACKS’ DEBTS

Date: February 13, 2020 - Briefcases

THE LIQUIDATION of Navco Ltd, the company behind Navan’s Newgrange Hotel in Co Meath, is gathering pace. PWC liquidator Michael O’Regan, who was appointed in April 2019, has asked creditors to submit the particulars of their debts to him before March 19. Accounts for 2017 show that Navco had been operating at a loss for… Read more »

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Vol 38 No 03

Date: February 13, 2020 -

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HUGH GETS HOT AND BOTHERED

Date: February 13, 2020 - Briefcases

JOE.ie reporter Carl Kinsella got more than he bargained for when he took at pop at the Twitter habits of certain Irish journalists. Using Indo pol corr Hugh O’Connell as an example, Kinsella took to Twitter to deride the practice of over-hyping pedestrian statements from election candidates – complete with the liberal use of the… Read more »

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Simon Coveney Cerrejon

COVENEY LURKS

Date: February 13, 2020 - Last Refuge

TÁNAISTE and foreign minister Simon Coveney recently spoke in disarming, even endearing terms about how close he was to his leader, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar. He also made no bones about what a bad result the general election was for their party. Continuing the maxim of keeping your enemies close, Vlad projected his chummy relationship with… Read more »

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Alan Kelly

AK47 HOVERS AGAIN

Date: February 13, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

IT’S NOT just Micheál Martin and Leo Varadkar that face career-ending prospects in the coming weeks or months. Labour leader Brendan Howlin is also fretting as the political dance plays out, with Mary Lou McDonald’s pirouetting likely to be just the first act in the pretend waltz of ‘Left coalition’. The grown-ups know that a… Read more »

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Eoghan Murphy

MURPHY’S LAW RUNS IN RANELAGH

Date: January 30, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

Even if Eoghan Murphy is relieved of his environment ministerial portfolio, he may not be free from planning issues. The local worthies in Ranelagh were less than impressed when, on the day the election was announced (January 14), their much loved Natural Bakery outlet at 44 Ranelagh closed its doors. Half-starved voters in the Dublin Bay… Read more »

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Leo Varadkar

VARADKAR’S RUNNING MATES

Date: January 30, 2020 - Last Refuge

IT’S HARD to recall any taoiseach that has failed to bring in a running mate in their own constituency at a general election and, certainly, Goldhawk’s voluminous files show that, as far back as Jack Lynch in the 1960s and even further, no taoiseach has failed to do so. Successive taoisigh in the last half… Read more »

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Eamon Ryan

PROFILE: EAMON RYAN

Date: January 30, 2020 - Pillars of Society

IS EAMON RYAN poised to become tánaiste in a coalition government that again involves the Green Party? And again with Fianna Fáil? The Green surge was much commented on prior to the election, but strangely the party has been sidelined by media focus on the three big parties – FF, Fine Gael and Sinn Féin… Read more »

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James O'Connor

YOUNG BLOOD: JAMES O’CONNOR

Date: January 30, 2020 - The Young Bloods

YOUNG FIANNA Fáil candidate James O’Connor was lucky to land on the general election ticket in the Cork East constituency, but the whippersnapper may not be so fortunate come voting time. Despite many media outlets predicting he’ll take what is assumed to be a vulnerable Sinn Féin seat, Pat Buckley may be harder to budge… Read more »

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Micheál Martin

SF SPECTRE LOOMS

Date: January 30, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

FIANNA FÁIL TDs believe that Micheál Martin will be forced to do the U-turn of the millennium and form a coalition government with Sinn Féin after the arithmetic reality in the next Dáil kicks in. Others believe Martin will stand and fight against ‘the Provisionals’, as Eoghan Harris calls them, in which case Martin will… Read more »

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Robert Nairac

ROBERT NAIRAC OUTED

Date: January 30, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

BRITISH ARMY undercover operative Captain Robert Nairac’s central involvement in the 1975 Miami Showband Massacre has now been finally confirmed at Belfast High Court, as Goldhawk predicted (see The Phoenix, 17/1/20). A secret military intelligence file obtained by survivors’ solicitor Michael Flanigan contains this and other startling revelations and formed the basis of last week’s… Read more »

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Eva Orsmond

DR EVA’S PRISON

Date: January 30, 2020 - High Society

FANS OF health guru Dr Eva Orsmond have presumably been glued to the TV on Sunday nights to watch Dr Eva’s Great Escape, in which the bolshy medic heads to sunny Portugal to try to open a “weight-loss prison” alongside her South African hubby, Wyatt Orsmond. Although the couple split up in 2016, they reunited… Read more »

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Tony Ensor

TACKLING TONY ENSOR

Date: January 30, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

FORMER LAW Society president and international rugby star Tony Ensor exposed a soft shoulder to High Court president Peter Kelly earlier this month. The judge ruled in favour of an appeal by the Property Services Regulatory Authority (PSRA) against a decision made by its own appeals board, until recently chaired by Ensor. Ensor is well… Read more »

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BLINDBOY BOATCLUB – BOULEVARD WREN AND OTHER STORIES (GILL BOOKS)

Date: January 30, 2020 - BooksReviews

THE FIRST laugh generated by Boulevard Wren unintentionally arrives courtesy of the publishers, Gill Books, which assert that Blindboy Boatclub is “one of Ireland’s most anarchic satirists”. It’s a description that scarcely fits the author, whose most recent appearance on Irish TV – a pre-Christmas slot flogging the book on the Late Late Show –… Read more »

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Clodagh Edwards

IMAGE MEDIA’S IMAGE PROBLEM

Date: January 30, 2020 - Briefcases

A BAD HAIR day for Image Publications CEO Clodagh Edwards, whose Irish female-fronted glossy monthly Image magazine came under fire online earlier this month over the late payment of freelancers. Image writer and Irish Times columnist Roe McDermott blasted the publishing house on Twitter, complaining of emails ignored and alleging that swathes of writers and… Read more »

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Volume 38 Issue 02

Date: January 30, 2020 -

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JOSEPHA’S VACANCIES

Date: January 30, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

ONE OF the games played by politics watchers around election time is clocking how many board appointments the various outgoing ministers manage to make before a new government is finally installed. One minister who has her fair share of significant vacancies to sort out is culture minister Josepha Madigan, currently battling it out with fellow… Read more »

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TARGETING THE SCIENTOLOGISTS

Date: January 30, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

THE RULING earlier this month by High Court judge Mark Heslin greenlighting the Scientologists’ multi-million euro drug treatment centre in the Meath village of Ballivor has put the issue back on the agenda and shaken up the election race in the county. Heslin overturned An Bord Pleanála’s decision that the Scientologists needed planning permission to… Read more »

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John Paul O'Shea

FARMERS’ VENGEANCE ON CREED

Date: January 30, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

A BIG scalp hiding in plain sight is that of Michael Creed but, if the agriculture minister loses his seat, which Fine Gael members fear will happen, it will be as much self-inflicted as any Fianna Fáil stratagem in Cork North-West (CNW). Creed and Cork East junior minister David Stanton moved heaven and earth two… Read more »

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Jack Chambers

FOLLOW THE MONEY

Date: January 30, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

Leo Varadkar’s two-and-a-half years as taoiseach saw him use the previously obscure ‘money message’ to block 55 pieces of legislation that had won majority Dáil support. Frustrated opposition parties last year sought to beat Vlad’s trickery by amending Dáil rules, with Fianna Fáil golden boy Jack Chambers briefly leading the charge before he mysteriously went… Read more »

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ARTHUR NUGENT’S LICENCE

Date: January 30, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

GOLDHAWK has reported elsewhere (see p5) on the bruising judgment issued by Judge Peter Kelly in the High Court in relation to an appeal lodged by the Property Services Regulatory Authority (PSRA). It turns out that the star player in the story has had his wings clipped. The appeal that ended up before the High… Read more »

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