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NOT SO TIDY

Date: August 22, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

THE NEXT AGM of Dún Laoghaire’s Eblana Club is likely to experience a stormy session regarding unsavoury reports emanating from the club about its alleged refusal to allow refugees to be part of a planned social function on its premises. The local tidy towns committee recently planned a get-together at the club for its volunteer… Read more »

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Ian O'Doherty

WORKING-CLASS HERO

Date: August 22, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

IRISH INDEPENDENT shock-jock columnist Ian O’Doherty is a fan of right-wing US libertarian politics. The born-again proletarian champion recently wrote how “the images from Belfast of working class loyalists joining up in a protest with working class nationalists were a sign of unity nobody could have predicted. What on earth could these two groups possibly… Read more »

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Budget Jack Chambers Nicki Minaj B’Tselem Phil Hogan UCD IRTA DIGI Katy Brown Rory Godson Pallonji Mistry Shark Hanlon Frances Ruane Taste of Dublin Listowel Writers’ Week Paddy Curran Harvey Norman Anton Savage Paul Hourican Enda O’Coineen PfP Red C Poll IFTA Ben Gilroy Luke Comer Sue Spence Fingleton Aubrey McCarthy Matt Cooper Parker Green Danny McConnell Gayle Killilea Maura Derivan Ed Honohan INS Arts Council EDAF Emuse Rosslare Golf Club Mairead Casey Colm O’Rourke Stephen Connolly Peter Aiken John Malone Tom Barry Anthony Halpin Ian Kehoe Kevin Bakhurst Geraldine O’Leary Dennis Horgan RUSI Gareth McAllister Ryevale House Joe Macken RUC Omagh Patrick Connolly Paddy Cosgrave The Ditch Newstalk Fake Tan Fred Logue Ian Paisley Sean O’Riordan Margaret Sweeney Jay Bourke Ellie Kisyombe Francesca McDonagh Ted Cunningham National Space Centre An Irish Goodbye Oscar Robert Quirke Ciara Kelly Executive Women Gathering Doug Taylor Florian Haufe Robbie Henshaw Bill Shipsey Breaking the Silence L’Ecrivain Ronan McNally National Lottery Michael Roche Energy Action Balls.ie Newspapers VAT Abbey Theatre Patricia Madden Irish Banking Culture Board Randox Aoife Gallagher Book Dalai Lama Trinity Trevor White RTÉ Chairperson Shane Houlihan Noel Smyth IKC Bob Geldof Landlord Ireland Neutrality Ukraine

SUE GRAY’S CONTROL

Date: August 22, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

PRIME MINISTER Kier Starmer’s chief of staff, Sue Gray, has for some time been accused by many in Britain as a powerful spook behind the scenes in government, especially when she worked north of the border. Now the most powerful woman in Britain has become a target for angry civil servants (former colleagues of Gray),… Read more »

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Freddie Scappaticci Iain Livingstone

MI5’S MISSING SCAPPATICCI FILES

Date: August 22, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

NO ONE familiar with the manner in which the UK has conducted inquiries into allegations of British dirty tricks over the last half century will be surprised that MI5 failed to furnish Operation Kenova with all of its Freddie Scappaticci files. Scappaticci was a British agent in the IRA and was responsible for a string… Read more »

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Niall Campion VRAI

VIRTUAL SOLDIERS

Date: August 22, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

DOES THE Government and defence minister Micheál Martin believe they have solved the recruitment crisis in the Defence Forces with pretend soldiers? RTÉ News recently ran a fluff piece on how the army is expanding its use of virtual reality (VR) simulators, with footage of a soldier driving an armoured car and the chief instructor… Read more »

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Dylan McGrath

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: August 22, 2024 - The Hot Air Brigade

Hospitality is changing and we believe our strong work ethic is better applied to new and different opportunities. Celebrity chef Dylan McGrath explains why he has closed two of his restaurants, Instagram His Nixonian restlessness is perfect for the age. Gerard Howlin on Simon Harris, Irish Times She merely wafted across the kitchen in her… Read more »

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Anne Rabbitte Lumcloon Energy

PSEUDO SOLAR GIFTS

Date: August 22, 2024 - Fowl Emissions

It’s not unusual for an energy company to throw a lot of cash at a rural community when trying to build a big fossil fuel plant in their midst. It’s an old trick that often ends up sowing bitterness and division but a cunning new twist to this ploy has come to light in east… Read more »

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Climate Disinformation Coillte Climate Action EU Livestock NDC Claude Etchelamendy Ed Brophy Richard Boyd-Barrett Kish Dale Crammond Frank Mitloehner Shell Greenwashing Meta Data Centres Ireland

WHAT A WIZZ!

Date: August 22, 2024 - Fowl Emissions

Last week Hungarian budget airline Wizz Air launched an ‘All you can fly’ annual ticket. “What’s not to love?” asked a BBC online article. Indeed. On RTÉ’s News At One, Rachel English began her interview with flying pundit Eoghan Corry by saying she could “already see the horror on the faces of environmentalists”. Corry ignored… Read more »

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Conor Murphy Belfast Housing

HOUSING WHITEWASH

Date: August 22, 2024 - Northwind

Presented as a background to the race riots in unionist districts of Belfast, there was a pretty obvious attempt in the Aawrish edition of the Sunday Times on August 11 to rewrite the history of housing in the north, including whitewashing the record of unionism and unionists. Columnist Newton Emerson claimed that the Cameron report,… Read more »

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Janice Boylan Irish Military Mali Coolock Says No IFP Hermann Kelly Timmy Dooley Aontú Mal O’Hara Fintan O’Toole Josepha Madigan Eoghan Harris Ukraine War Micheál Martin Middle East Philip Ryan Seán Clancy Simon Coveney Hugo MacNeill Mountbatten Neasa Hourigan Green Party Martin NPT Ivana Bacik Independents Limerick Hospital Overcrowding Barry Cowen

IRELAND’S MALI ADVENTURE

Date: August 22, 2024 - Last Refuge

THE TRUTH behind media reports of a Mali-Islamic motive for the knifing of Fr Murphy in Galway will have to wait for the trial of the teenager charged with the attack. But the reality of Irish military involvement in Mali is not known to many Irish people in any case due to the diplomatic gobbledygook… Read more »

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Janice Boylan Irish Military Mali Coolock Says No IFP Hermann Kelly Timmy Dooley Aontú Mal O’Hara Fintan O’Toole Josepha Madigan Eoghan Harris Ukraine War Micheál Martin Middle East Philip Ryan Seán Clancy Simon Coveney Hugo MacNeill Mountbatten Neasa Hourigan Green Party Martin NPT Ivana Bacik Independents Limerick Hospital Overcrowding Barry Cowen

DARYL BARRON’S COMMUNITY WORK

Date: August 22, 2024 - Last Refuge

COOLOCK SAYS NO campaigners appear to have split several ways following their alliance with British fascists and loyalist paramilitaries in Belfast, with various new names being used by those claiming the anti-immigrant ‘mantle’ in Coolock. These include the original Coolock Says No (CSN); Coolock Stronger Together and Coolock Concerned Parents, a throw back to a… Read more »

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Jennifer Thatcher Carroll MacNeil

DEFENCE MINISTER DEFENCELESS

Date: August 22, 2024 - Last Refuge

THE NEWLY appointed junior minister for European affairs and defence, Jennifer Carroll MacNeill, has been putting herself about in the media since her assignment. This is partly down to her pique at being moved sideways rather than promoted – as she and indeed others see it – from her previous posting as junior finance minister…. Read more »

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Drew Harris Deputy Commissioner

GARDA INTEL FEARS

Date: August 22, 2024 - Fit to Print?

NATIONAL SECURITY fears were issued via the media and its supportive crime journalists late last year when the punitive pension tax bills facing those that might take the job of deputy commissioner deterred applications. Various arguments were used to support the potentially pauperised senior officers (tax bills of hundreds of thousands were talked of) but… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: August 22, 2024 - Bog Cuttings

‘STONE DRUNK’ Shane McKenny (37) of Tower View, Tenure, appeared before Drogheda District Court charged with the theft of €80 worth of perfume from Hickey’s Pharmacy in Drogheda on June 30, and a bottle of whiskey from Dunnes Stores on July 1. McKenny, who pleaded guilty to both charges, told the court that he was… Read more »

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Catherine Martin IMMA

CATHERINE MARTIN’S ‘NUANCE’

Date: August 22, 2024 - Behind the Scenes

GOOD TO see arts minister Catherine Martin finally getting around to advertising the vacancies on the board of the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA). The procrastinating minister has managed to leave the seats unoccupied for more than a year. It will be recalled (see The Phoenix 22/9/23) that arts consultant Ali Curran was appointed… Read more »

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PADDY LOU’S LOLLY

Date: August 22, 2024 - Behind the Scenes

EARLIER this month (see The Phoenix 9/8/24), when no 2024 quarterly funding decisions had appeared on the Screen Ireland (SI) website, a curious Goldhawk lobbed in a couple of queries that met with deafening silence. Subsequently, the film agency shouted ‘action’ and advised that “Q1 decisions were posted on our backend in early Q2, April… Read more »

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Brendan Holland

BREEZE DOWNS?

Date: August 22, 2024 - Sport of Kings

BRENDAN ‘BLARNEY’ Holland of Grove Stud – the newly elected chairman of the Breeze-Up Consignors Association (BUCA) – has spooked the horses over proposed new breeze-up sales at Goffs and Goresbridge in 2025. Having just been voted on to the saddle, Holland delivered a written mandate to Goresbridge and Goffs, which stated it had been… Read more »

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Ed Dunlop David Dunsdon Sarah Lynam Rebecca May Wayne Hassett Eoin O'Brien Michael Burke Aine O’Connor Ashroe Diamond Thomand O’Mara Peter Keatley Timmy Hyde Coolmore All About Sunday Colin Keane Ronan Whelan JP McManus Jessica Harrington Dundalk Racecourse Paul Hensey Irish National Hunt Horse-racing Doping Paddy Walsh Tom Kelly Suspension

‘AL RIFFA’S’ FRENCH ADVENTURE

Date: August 22, 2024 - Sport of Kings

The Joseph O’Brien-trained Al Riffa was the subject of some bluster on X, courtesy of Kevin Blake, following the nag’s win at Hoppergarten in the Group 1 German Westminster 134th Grosser Preis von Berlin. Despite defeats at the Curragh, Deauville, Longchamp, Saratoga and Sandown since Al Riffa’s last victory nearly two years ago, Blake tweeted:… Read more »

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Brendan Duke Adrian Murray Mick Bailey

DUKE DELIVERS

Date: August 22, 2024 - Sport of Kings

POPULAR CURRAGH trainer Brendan Duke returned from the wilderness earlier this month to saddle the Liam Tougher-owned Ballysax Hank for a win in the bank holiday bumper at Cork. Ridden by top amateur Derek O’Connor, the former Katy Brown-trained five-year-old passed the post on the second anniversary of Duke’s last winner. In an emotional post-race… Read more »

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John Reddington

REDDINGTON’S RIDE

Date: August 22, 2024 - High Society

CONGRATULATIONS TO London-based construction magnate John Reddington, who hails from Bohola in Co Mayo. Last week, the minted part-time jockey returned west of the Shannon to give his racehorse, Love At Sea, a hell of a ride when he beat the Willie Mullins-trained Surfin USA by 20 lengths at Sligo. The punters at the scenic… Read more »

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MAGNIER’S RACING ROYALTY

Date: August 22, 2024 - High Society

FANS OF Goldhawk will know about the various private tours of horse racing establishments now being offered by top trainers and breeders, proving them with a welcome additional income stream (see The Phoenix 9/8/24). One option, however, stands out above all the others. Among those offering tours are trainers Jessica Harrington (€200 a head) and… Read more »

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Tresillian House

DISCOUNT SPECIAL IN FOXROCK

Date: August 22, 2024 - High Society

GOLDHAWK SPIES that the sale of a Brighton Road pile called Tresillian House, sitting on an acre (and including a two-bedroom bungalow), has finally taken place, a full three years after it was put on the market with a remarkably optimistic looking price tag. At the time the Foxrock property went for sale, the Irish… Read more »

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Rita-Rose Gagne

HAMMERSON DROPS €½BN ON ITS SALE OF VALUE RETAIL STAKE

Date: August 22, 2024 - Moneybags

INVESTORS DON’T like surprises. The CEO since November 2020 of Hammerson plc, the largest retail property investor in this country, is Rita-Rose Gagné and she seemed a strange enough choice when she arrived mid-pandemic. Last month, very surprisingly, the CEO moved to sell off the group’s £1.1bn stake in Value Retail, which holds stakes in… Read more »

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Myles O'Grady BoI

BANK OF IRELAND PROFITS FROM DUOPOLY BUT SHARES UNDERVALUED

Date: August 22, 2024 - Moneybags

ALONG WITH seeking to ensure that the Irish banking system is a solid one, the Central Bank of Ireland (CBI) has a key role in facilitating a competitive banking system in this country. In this latter crucial role, the performance of the CBI has not been one that would land it anywhere the near the medals… Read more »

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Bill McCabe

BILL MCCABE’S IMPLANTS

Date: August 22, 2024 - Briefcases

A FEW months after the liquidation of the heavily indebted breast implant manufacturer Global Consolidated Aesthetics Ltd (which was backed by the likes of veteran investor Bill McCabe), another company in the group has been wound up, this time as a solvent liquidation, which appears to be part of a restructuring involving Tim Flynn’s London-based… Read more »

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Mark Quick 9th Impact

9TH IMPACT’S TAX GAME

Date: August 22, 2024 - Briefcases

DIGITAL GAMING is big business and an Irish company that has been at the forefront in recent years is 9th Impact, which was set up a decade ago by pals Finn Krewer and Mark Quick. It turns out that the company is not too hot when it comes to the game of paying the taxman…. Read more »

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Joan Fitzpatrick KML

KITE MEDICAL’S TURBULENCE

Date: August 22, 2024 - Briefcases

A YEAR and a half after collapsing into liquidation, the final wind up meeting has been held for Kite Medical Ltd (KML). While there was a few bob to be shared with the unsecured creditors, the backers of HBAN Medtech Syndicate might be scratching their heads over an oddly timed investment by the angel investment… Read more »

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Denis Coleman Cognito HRM

WORKCOMPASS LOSES ITS WAY

Date: August 22, 2024 - Briefcases

ELSEWHERE IN this issue (see p5) Goldhawk looks at the adventures of Dundrum-based businessman, landlord and philanthropist Aidan Corless, who is now in situ as CEO of a software outfit called Cognito HRM Ltd, following a €200,000 investment in the troubled company that trades as WorkCompass. He came on board last year when the business… Read more »

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Johnny Adair Patrick Quinlan

NEW RIGHT (DIS)UNITY

Date: August 22, 2024 - Hush Hush

EFFORTS BY disparate new right groups to translate anti-immigration sentiment into unified electoral success have been seriously undermined by a section of the anti-immigrant movement in the south recently lining up alongside Ulster loyalists and British fascists in Belfast.  Before the racist riots in Belfast, the National Party (NP), Ireland First (IF) and Irish People… Read more »

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Derry O’Rourke

‘IRISH TIMES’ CENSORS

Date: August 22, 2024 - Fit to Print?

COVERAGE OF the recent conviction of prolific child abuser Derry O’Rourke in the Irish Times was a commendable, warranted catalogue of outrage against O’Rourke and empathy with his victims, expressed over a week in thousands of words. Every word was the truth, but not the whole truth. For many years the IT has published reams… Read more »

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Huw Edwards

HUW EDWARDS AND MI5

Date: August 8, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

HOW DID Huw Edwards, the former face of BBC News, maintain virtual immunity for so long given the evidence of his crimes involving sexual pictures of children? Police presented evidence at Westminster Magistrates’ Court last week of Edwards sharing indecent images of children as far back as December, 2020. Yet the extent of MI5 surveillance… Read more »

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Aengus Ó Snodaigh

PROFILE: AENGUS Ó SNODAIGH

Date: August 8, 2024 - Pillars of Society

WITH SINN FÉIN under pressure after a disastrous local election, the promotion of 60-year-old Dublin South Central TD Aengus Ó Snodaigh is being seen as a gesture of reassurance to the membership that the leadership means what it says about reverting to basic left-republican politics. So, in addition to his long-standing responsibility for SF policy… Read more »

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Esme Dunne

YOUNG BLOOD: ESME DUNNE

Date: August 8, 2024 - The Young Bloods

ESME DUNNE has been making waves in activist circles these past few years as founder of the Dublin branch of Empower The Voice, a non-profit organisation dedicated to raising awareness of the issue of sexual harassment. Apparently unafraid of – even welcoming – controversy, Dunne’s group has amassed thousands of followers on social media and… Read more »

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Anne Davy

ANNE DAVY’S CHILD’S PLAY

Date: August 8, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

THREE MONTHS after agreeing to settle High Court proceedings involving 41 children, creche operator Hyde & Seek Childcare is clearly well able to afford the payouts and legal costs. The Hyde & Seek group, owned by Anne Davy, hit the headlines after a 2019 RTÉ Investigates documentary showed children being roughly handled in secretly recorded… Read more »

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Eoin Ó Broin SF Housing

CAN MARY LOU BOUNCE BACK?

Date: August 8, 2024 - Last Refuge

PUBLICATION LAST week of the revised housing policy of Sinn Féin (SF) – originally scheduled for next month – is part of a concerted effort by Mary Lou McDonald, Eoin Ó Broin et al to reset the political debate away from immigration and back to housing, where the party has its strongest hand. For eight… Read more »

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Una Healy Westmeath Bachelor Festival

BACHELOR FESTIVAL BLUES

Date: August 8, 2024 - Affairs of the Nation

A COUPLE of high-profile names found themselves with a free Friday night in the run-up to the August bank holiday weekend, having originally committed to being judges in the one and only Westmeath Bachelor Festival. The hooley, however, never made it to the altar this year. Having bounced back on to the scene after Covid-19,… Read more »

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