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Ian Bailey

IAN BAILEY: THIRD TIME UNLUCKY?

Date: January 16, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

MUCH LEGAL comment has focussed on the change in extradition law and how this may enable the despatch of Ian Bailey to the tender mercies of the French for allegedly murdering Sophie Toscan du Plantier. Arguments surrounding Bailey’s extradition – the third effort to extradite him since 2010 – will be heard in the High… Read more »

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Paschal Donohoe

PROFILE: PASCHAL DONOHOE

Date: January 16, 2020 - Pillars of Society

For a finance minister and someone who holds not one but two powerful cabinet portfolios, Paschal ‘Dimples’ Donohoe is not exactly a household name outside Leinster House. Despite being in charge of the state’s purse, he has been elbowed out of the spotlight, at home and abroad, by Simon Coveney, as the foreign affairs minister,… Read more »

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William McGlade

YOUNG BLOOD: WILLIAM MCGLADE

Date: January 16, 2020 - The Young Bloods

Rich-kid William McGlade is hoping to square up to the likes of Airbnb, Travelocity and Booking.com with his short-term letting platform, HipHipStay. The business boasts a catalogue of so-called premium apartments with “swagger” that have equally premium (read ‘eyewatering’) price tags to boot. Yet the short-term hot-shot is already facing obstacles, ranging from aggrieved neighbours… Read more »

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Marian Finucane

MARIAN’S ADMIRERS

Date: January 16, 2020 - Fit to Print?

LIKE EVERY other media and many politicians, the Sunday Independent eulogised the late Marian Finucane, but there was a slight edge to Liam Collins’s profile. And Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald’s tribute did not reflect the antagonism her party felt for the broadcaster when she was alive. In his column, Collins effectively damned the… Read more »

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Sophie Cafolla

SOPHIE CAFOLLA’S BABY BOXES

Date: January 16, 2020 - High Society

AN ARTICLE in the Sunday Times business section last weekend featured advice for small businesses, with one of the players featured being Sophie Cafolla of baby clothing retailer The Stork Box. To some, Sophie is better known as Sophie Gleeson – a scion of a rather well-heeled Dublin 4 family and she has some interesting… Read more »

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Damien English

COVENEY’S €50M COUP

Date: January 16, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

WITH THE general election having been called, Tánaiste Simon Coveney must be relieved he got to deliver the news of a big funding boost in his Cork South Central constituency just 10 days earlier, with the help of his pal, Damien English. For years, the wily Coveney has been using the proposed Cork event centre… Read more »

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Joe Healy

VEGAN VAGARIES

Date: January 16, 2020 - Fowl Emissions

The agri-industrial sector has worked itself into a lather over what it clearly sees are threats to its core beef-and-dairy business, with the latest pro-vegan billboard campaign the target of the IFA’s ire. Outgoing president Joe Healy came out swinging, demanding to know where the dastardly vegans get their money. Sandra Higgins, director of Go… Read more »

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Ross Kierans

TOTE’S WOES, O’LEARY’S WINNERS

Date: January 16, 2020 - Sport of Kings

LEOPARDSTOWN’S annual Christmas festival had its usual mix of thrills and spills and, on the whole, it was considered a fine week for the track, with top-class racing and kind weather pulling in the crowds and ensuring a vibrant atmosphere. But not everyone was happy. The attendance at Leopardstown over the four days was up… Read more »

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Date: January 16, 2020 -

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ANGUS’S ASSETS

Date: January 16, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

THERE WAS a ﬂ urry of ﬁ lings around Christmas by players at the centre of a legal action by the Solicitors Mutual Defence Fund (SMDF) against assorted former partners of the failed Bloxham stockbroking ﬁrm, which is due back in the Four Goldmines next week. The litigation was reactivated late last year, with Law… Read more »

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Alan English

‘SINDO’ INSIDERS ‘SWOTTED’ ASIDE

Date: January 16, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

A MOOD of rejection and indeed resentment was palpable at Independent House last week as various ‘leading’ in-house contenders for the post of Sunday Independent editor were told they would not be called for a second, final interview. The mood worsened when the news spread that Alan English, group editorial director of Iconic Newspapers and… Read more »

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Brian O'Driscoll

TENEO’S SPORTING INTERESTS

Date: January 16, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

TENEO, THE global corporate communications outfit headed by Declan Kelly, brother of Labour TD Alan ‘AK47’ Kelly, has won a contract as PR and media advisor to Sport Ireland (SI), working alongside communications manager David Gash. SI is the body that doles out advice, encouragement – and funding – to sports groups in Ireland. Declan… Read more »

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Róisín Shortall

SINKING SOC DEMS

Date: January 16, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

THE SOCIAL Democrats might be staring into the abyss at this election. The centre-left group, headed by TDs Catherine Murphy and Roísin Shortall, had pretensions of replacing the moribund Labour Party. Now Labour, the resurgent Green Party and even Fianna Fáil threaten to put the kibosh on that Soc Dem breakthrough. The party’s best chance… Read more »

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Brigid Laffan

TRUMP CARD FOR EU ARMY

Date: January 16, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

THOSE MODERATE Irish Europhiles who are so aghast at Donald Trump’s belligerent foreign policy have managed to use his latest excess against the Iranians as another argument to create an EU army. Some 24 hours after a US drone killed Iran’s General Qassem Suleimani, an Irish Times column by EU proselytiser Professor Brigid Laffan told… Read more »

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GAME OVER

Date: January 16, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

A COMPANY called Tag Media Ltd (TML) has shut it doors, but a new one has opened for its principal. The digital print design company was founded by Jesse Morris, who turns out to be an interesting chap – at least if you are a fan of fantasy TV. TML was set up in Tullamore,… Read more »

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Lorna Fitzpatrick

STUDENTS NO-VOTE

Date: January 16, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

THE CONTROVERSY over the voter register for next month’s election threatens to undo a lot of the Union of Students in Ireland (USI) work over the past year. It was reported this week that thousands of people who registered to vote in the last eight months might not be eligible to vote on February 8…. Read more »

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Stephen Travers

MIAMI SHOWBAND: NEW EVIDENCE

Date: January 16, 2020 - Hush Hush

SEISMIC NEW evidence regarding the 1975 Miami Showband massacre will be revealed at Belfast High Court in the coming months by bass player Stephen Travers who survived the gun and bomb attack. Travers is suing the British Ministry of Defence (MOD) and the PSNI for their “direct complicity” in the murders. The atrocity, which was… Read more »

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ALAN HYDE’S PROVISION CENTRE

Date: January 16, 2020 - Hush Hush

GOLDHAWK NOTES that an old friend is to close the doors of his direct provision centre next month. The Mount Trenchard operation in Foynes, Co Limerick, has been described as an “open-air prison” and has attracted its fair share of criticism down the years. A statement issued by the direct provision NGO Doras described the… Read more »

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Nigella Lawson

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: January 16, 2020 - The Hot Air Brigade

The Domestic Goddess ordered various puddings and wines and insisted – almost matronishly – that I taste all of them with her. She spoon-fed me and ordered me – utterly matronishly! – to drink out of her wine glass. Barry Egan reminisces about his 2004 meeting with Nigella Lawson, Sunday Independent, submitted by reader In… Read more »

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Julian Smith

NEW DEAL — BIG DEAL?

Date: January 16, 2020 - Northwind

THE TAOISEACH joined Boris Johnson at Stormont on Monday for a lap of honour, meeting and greeting the new executive set up on Saturday after the labours of Simon Coveney and Julian Smith over the previous month. It took a whole day out of the “unﬁnished business” Varadkar told RTÉ he had to do before… Read more »

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COVENEY’S RIGHT HAND MAN

Date: January 16, 2020 - Last Refuge

FINE GAEL had been hoping to restore the natural order of things in Cork South-West by running Senator Tim Lombard with junior minister Jim Daly to take the two seats normally held in Michael Collins territory at the general election. The polls indicated that this was a tall order in the first place, but Daly’s… Read more »

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Michael McDowell

MCDOWELL’S CHOICE

Date: January 16, 2020 - Last Refuge

HAVING MARSHALLED his resources for a comeback in the general election in Dublin Bay South (DBS) former minister and PD leader, Senator Michael McDowell has dashed Goldhawk’s prediction that he would go for the Dáil. But he has taken the sensible precaution of opening a second front for the Seanad with a pitch to NUI… Read more »

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Simon Coveney

REBELS COVENEY AND O’CALLAGHAN

Date: January 16, 2020 - Last Refuge

THE DUAL war of words over commemoration of the RIC and advance discussions on a united Ireland has not created a fundamental rift between Leo Varadkar and Micheál Martin, but cracks are appearing within their respective parties on the ‘national question’. A barely noticed comment from Simon Coveney, reported on New Year’s Eve, was that… Read more »

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Stephen Collins

RIC AND THE ‘IRISH TIMES’

Date: January 16, 2020 - Fit to Print?

THE Irish Times may be ruing its own campaign – via former political editor Stephen Collins and its own editorial platform – in support of the state’s decision to “acknowledge the contribution” of the RIC during the Tan war, as its editorial put it when welcoming the planned event. Presumably that “contribution” includes the selection… Read more »

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CONOR GANNON CLEANS UP

Date: January 16, 2020 - Fit to Print?

A FORMER clerical student at the Pontifical Irish College in Rome, Conor Gannon, is ploughing his way, so far successfully, through a raft of eight libel actions against various newspapers. In May 2018 the Irish Times incorrectly identified Gannon – without naming him – as having been expelled from the college along with another student… Read more »

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JOHN PAUL PHELAN’S CHEAP SHOT

Date: January 16, 2020 - Fowl Emissions

Embattled Australian PM Scott Morrison has shipped plenty of well-earned flak for his staunch defence of the most polluting industries in his country. And, as the country burned, he retreated to every slippery politician’s favourite talking point: how puny Australian emissions are compared to, well, everyone else’s. This is almost identical to the excuses repeatedly… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS 3801

Date: January 16, 2020 - Bog Cuttings

Stolen Elvis Picture A 43-year-old Roscommon Town woman who stole a picture of Elvis Presley from a house was given a suspended sentence at a recent District Court sitting. Nell Mongan entered an elderly person’s house in the town while extremely intoxicated. When she was confronted by the occupant of the house, she became belligerent,… Read more »

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Consuelo O’Connor

NEW FACES AT IMMA

Date: January 16, 2020 - High Society

THERE ARE some vacancies to be filled on the board of Imma that should appeal to culture vultures out there. The vacancy that arises from the exit at the end of September last by Limerick-based historian Sheila O’Regan is now to be filled, with Monday January 20 the closing day for applicants willing to devote… Read more »

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Martin Carway

FOUR FAULTS IN CONNAUGHT

Date: January 16, 2020 - High Society

THERE WERE fun and games last week at a specially convened (and ultimately especially heated) meeting of the Connaught region of Showjumping Ireland (SJI) in Co Mayo, which ran until 1.30am when members of the new committee were finally installed. One of the incoming members is familiar with equine-related spats. The problems at Connaught Region… Read more »

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Valerie Moran

ELLIOTT’S CATCH OF THE DAY

Date: January 16, 2020 - Sport of Kings

GORDON ELLIOTT was obviously one of the chief beneficiaries of the Gigginstown success at Leopardstown, but he will also have gained plenty of satisfaction from the success of The Bosses Oscar. This horse carried the colours of Noel and Valerie Moran – a couple relatively new to the sport of kings but with the resources… Read more »

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NO LENIENCY FOR COLM MURPHY

Date: January 16, 2020 - Sport of Kings

THE OPENING day of racing in 2020 saw the stewards at Fairyhouse on New Year’s Day hand out their first big fine of the year and it was ironic that the recipient was a former employee of the Irish Horse Racing Regulatory Board (IHRB). Colm Murphy – the multiple Grade 1 winning handler who quit… Read more »

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Paul Dermody

HRI CUTS ITS CLOTH

Date: January 16, 2020 - Sport of Kings

THE 2020 budget for Horse Racing Ireland (HRI) was approved just before Christmas and, given the government’s standstill allocation to racing, it was no surprise to see the development of a new all-weather track at Tipperary shelved due to a lack of funding. Meanwhile, integrity services look set to be curtailed. Brian Kavanagh and the… Read more »

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Eithne O’Halloran and Joanne Smyth

GREAT IRISH INTERIORS – RTÉ 1

Date: January 16, 2020 - ReviewsTV

AS PART of the national broadcaster’s “jam-packed” Christmas schedule (ie seasonal specials and jaded family-friendly staples), Great Irish Interiors followed the work of interior design teams as they restored three historical country piles. This three-part series wasn’t a repeat, but it might as well have been because the format has become so familiar over the… Read more »

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Donall Curtin

DÓNALL CURTIN’S COMMITTEE

Date: January 16, 2020 - Behind the Scenes

OVER ON Merrion Square, the Arts Council has been adding to its sprawling art collection with the purchase of 19 new works from assorted creative types. The artists whose work has now been added to the Collection are Sven Anderson, Rachel Fallon, Marielle MacLeman and Vagabond Reviews – the er, “interdisciplinary platform” founded by Ailbhe… Read more »

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KEVIN RAFTER’S REQUEST

Date: January 16, 2020 - Behind the Scenes

AS FANS of Goldhawk are aware (see The Phoenix, 29/11/19), the Abbey Theatre is looking to fill three seats on its board that have lain vacant for around a year. The deadline for applications was January 8 and a decision will now be made by the selection committee. Last month, the long-overdue call for expression… Read more »

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Kieran Corrigan

MARIAN FINUCANE’S ADVISOR

Date: January 16, 2020 - Behind the Scenes

GOLDHAWK WAS interested to hear his old friend, tax accountant-cum-filmmaker Kieran Corrigan, pop up briefly at the end of the radio tribute to Marian Finucane hosted on Radio 1 by Rachel English earlier this month. A man with fingers in many pies, he played a significant part in maximising Finucane’s impressive income stream. In the… Read more »

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