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Patrick Coveney

GREENCORE’S SHARE-PRICE RISE DEFIES LOGIC

Date: January 16, 2020 - Moneybags

A READING of Greencore’s 2019 annual report could suggest a highly successful business that claims to be focusing on “sustained growth and returns from an industry-leading UK business”. It is headed up by Paddy Coveney, whose take-home package was a hefty €2.35m. Although Greencore has suffered a series of setbacks, the market appears to be… Read more »

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Dorothy Thompson

MARKET OVERDOES TULLOW SHARE COLLAPSE

Date: January 16, 2020 - Moneybags

THE SURPRISE stepping down on December 9 of Tullow Oil’s relatively recently appointed (April 2017) CEO, Paul McDade, and the equally sudden resignation of Angus McCoss, Tullow’s exploration director, shocked the market, driving the company’s shares down a whopping 70%. Not surprisingly, however, the market has overdone its reaction, with Tullow’s current 70c share price… Read more »

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William McGlade

HIPHIPSTAY’S ROWDY RESIDENTS

Date: January 16, 2020 - Briefcases

YOUNG GUN William McGlade (see p17) got a lot more than he bargained for when he began renting out a number of townhouses at 14-18 Grattan Court East, Dublin 2, on his short-term letting platform, HipHipStay. Unfortunately for McGlade, letting out these properties has placed him and his business interests in the crosshairs of Spanish… Read more »

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Mark Bereen

MARC BEREEN’S BARS

Date: January 16, 2020 - Briefcases

WILL SOMEONE please think of the hipsters in Dublin? They will surely be at a loss at the revelation that Papa Fred Ltd, the company behind trendy nightlife hotspot The South William bar (on South William St, D2) has collapsed into liquidation, with Nicholas O’Dwyer of Grant Thornton installed as liquidator. The South William was… Read more »

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Malcolm Denmark

DENMARK’S SHOPPING SPREE

Date: January 16, 2020 - Briefcases

MALCOLM DENMARK’S local-newspaper shopping spree shows no sign of ending soon. The British advertising tycoon has more than 20 regional titles here under his belt, held through a majority share of Irish publishing heavyweight Iconic Newspapers, and he has been eagerly picking up titles in recent years, ranging from the Dundalk Democrat to the Limerick… Read more »

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Richard Quirke

RICHARD QUIRKE’S RETURNS

Date: January 16, 2020 - Briefcases

IT IS surprising to see that profitable Dublin Pool and Juke Box Company Ltd (DPJB), the holding company of casino impresarios Richard Quirke and his wife Ann, was listed for strike off by the Companies Registration Office (CRO) at the tail end of 2019 for failing to file its accounts. The Quirkes now have until… Read more »

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FALLON & BYRNE’S BACKERS

Date: January 16, 2020 - Briefcases

WHAT NOW for the well-heeled food shoppers of D4 and D6? Following the decision by Fallon & Byrne owners Paul Byrne and Fiona McHugh to shutter their largest location in Rathmines, they may go hungry. The posh supermarket cut and run from its location in the Swan Centre in Rathmines just before the new year,… Read more »

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REINING IN THE BLOODSTOCK

Date: January 16, 2020 - Briefcases

MORE ON businessman Peter Kelly, whose Kildare bloodstock operation, Emerald Equine, was hit with a hefty €2.73m judgment in 2018 (see The Phoenix, 13/07/18). The judgment was registered by the US-based Kentucky-fried horseracing venture Keeneland Association Inc and was linked to a multi-national dispute over a bloodstock transaction with an unnamed Saudi Arabian party. The… Read more »

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Nual Teahan

TIME TO PAY THEIR DUES

Date: January 16, 2020 - Briefcases

SOME LEGAL eagles have had setbacks recently. Kinsale solicitor Nuala Teahan and her business partner, Kieran McCarthy, were handed a €250,000 judgment by Allied Irish Bank in late November 2019. The pair, who practice in Cork’s city centre, specialise in property, probate and family law. The sum relates to the purchase of a property at… Read more »

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SHANE ROSS’S LIFEJACKETS

Date: January 16, 2020 - Affairs of the Nation

WHILE SHANE Ross has been busy generating headlines for himself, one area of responsibility for his Department of Transport, the Irish Coast Guard (ICG), has attracted attention for all the wrong reasons. In November, the ICG withdrew all inshore boats from service due to concerns over malfunctioning lifejackets. A review was put in place that… Read more »

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Brendan Howlin

HOWLIN GOES FOR TÁNAISTE

Date: January 16, 2020 - Last Refuge

BRENDAN HOWLIN’S weekend jibes at the “Tory Boys” of Fine Gael and his gung-ho election demand to “bring it on” reflect his desire to reinvent Labour’s image created under his past coalition stewardship as the party of austerity. Emphasising the government’s health and housing failures, Howlin came across as James Connolly in disguise, but such… Read more »

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Dara Murphy

DARA’S EUROPEAN PROGRESS

Date: December 12, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

IF DARA MURPHY has long since jettisoned his domestic career boosters – ex-taoiseach Enda Kenny, as well as Cork moneybags and Fine Gael trustee Jerry Carey (see p10) – as dispensable, he has made new friends in the right places in Euroland. These alliances explain his meteoric and most-lucrative rise to the cabinet of new… Read more »

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Claire Byrne

BOYLAN’S BRUISED BY BYRNE

Date: December 12, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

THE RAPTUROUS review of super-smooth gynaecologist Peter Boylan’s book, In the Shadow of the Eighth, by Indo columnist Martina Devlin, referred to his “courageous stance in working closely with… a female-led social movement” (the repeal the eighth referendum). Devlin also told how Boylan had worked “selflessly in the best interests of women” and much more… Read more »

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Richard Barrett

PROFILE: RICHARD BARRETT

Date: December 12, 2019 - Pillars of Society

ONE OF Fine Gael’s most trumpeted policies is the sprawling Rebuilding Ireland “action-driven plan to dramatically increase the delivery of homes nationwide”. The person who has been benefitting most from this “innovative and future-facing plan of action” is one Richard Barrett of Bartra Capital, the private group that has bulldozed its way into the social… Read more »

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Joe O'Brien

YOUNG BLOOD: JOE O’BRIEN

Date: December 12, 2019 - The Young Bloods

The Green surge in the local and European elections last June caused a tsunami of delight in the mainstream media – at last, there was an alternative to the Fine Gael/Fianna Fáil axis that didn’t revolve around Sinn Féin. In the aftermath, polling figures for the Green Party went up from a consistent low of… Read more »

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Chaos is a friend

CHAOS IS A FRIEND OF MINE – EWAN MACKENNA

Date: December 12, 2019 - BooksReviews

THERE IS no question that the Conor McGregor story is a classic of the sports genre: a man who once looked like he was on the path to sporting immortality has become a grotesque caricature of vulgarity and debasement, destroyed by his own success. So far there have only been hagiographical treatments of that story,… Read more »

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Graham McLaren

ABBEY’S BAD REVIEW

Date: December 12, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

FANS OF Goldhawk will be familiar with the goings on at the Abbey Theatre, where a near revolution among a sizeable chunk of the theatre community at the start of this year initiated a lengthy mediation process with the Abbey’s joint artistic directors, Graham McLaren and Neil Murray. It looks like the drama is about… Read more »

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Freddie Scappaticci

WHO REALLY RAN STAKEKNIFE?

Date: December 12, 2019 - Hush Hush

The new Glenanne Gang terror probe announced recently has attracted a surprisingly high level of support from collusion campaigners. But the fact that this probe will be carried out by English police chief Jon Boutcher and his Operation Kenova team has not impressed relatives of Belfast pensioner Francisco Notarantonio, whose murder by Loyalists – acting… Read more »

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Niall McGarry

NIALL MCGARRY’S TAX SCHEME

Date: December 12, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

ONE OF the potential side effects of the controversy surrounding the Maximum Media online publishing business (from which founder Niall McGarry has stepped back) concerns a group of Davy investors. They put millions into the company in return for tax relief and could now look to exit as soon as possible. This would create quite… Read more »

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Laura Harmon

LABOUR GRADUATES

Date: December 12, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

It has been a fruitful year for former Union of Students in Ireland (USI) presidents like Kevin Donoghue and Annie Hoey, who both secured local council seats in May’s elections for the Labour Party (see The Phoenix, 17/5/17). Now party colleague Laura Harmon a former USI president herself, has just launched her own campaign for… Read more »

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Fiona Muldoon

FIONA MULDOON LEAVES FBD STRUGGLING

Date: December 12, 2019 - Moneybags

DESPITE THE poor track record of Irish-owned general insurance companies – Equitable Insurance, PMPA, AIB’s Insurance Corporation of Ireland and Quinn Direct – Fiona Muldoon seemed to be sitting pretty in the insulated FBD Insurance, with its effective farming monopoly. With FBD profits of €50m last year and rising, she looked to have the next… Read more »

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Date: December 12, 2019 -

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RANDAL MACDONNELL’S OBITUARY

Date: December 12, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

SO FAREWELL then to dodgy Randal MacDonnell, whose adventures were chronicled by Goldhawk dating back 35 years (see The Phoenix, 24/5/8). While fans of The Phoenix enjoyed updates on a man who was somehow lumbered with the dual appellation of Count Randal MacDonnell and Chief of the Name, MacDonnell of the Glens, it was surprising… Read more »

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Anne-Marie McNally

GANNON’S GARDENS

Date: December 12, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

AS PREDICTED, Anne-Marie McNally, political director of the Social Democrats, had a by-election to forget in Dublin Mid West. An abysmal turnout probably had an impact but, behind the scenes, her supporters are wondering if the result might have something to do with the fallout from the O’Devaney Gardens sell-off row. Certainly, the Soc Dems… Read more »

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Samantha McCaughren

THE NEXT ‘SINDO’ EDITOR?

Date: December 12, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

A DOZEN or more aspirant editors of the Sunday Independent, the biggest-selling newspaper in Ireland, are being interviewed over three days this week. The applicants are expected to make a PowerPoint presentation and provide estimates of the strengths and weaknesses of the paper, as well as solutions to various problems. (The interviews will be long… Read more »

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Edmund Honohan

LEGAL STORM BREWING

Date: December 12, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

A CONCERTED campaign by the judiciary to silence querulous voices – be they the Master of the High Court Ed Honohan or lay litigants like Jerry Beades – has been under way for some time, but the judges are meeting resistance from some quite interesting quarters. Honohan, who processes cases before they go to a… Read more »

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Miriam O'Callaghan

LARKIN DEFENDS RTÉ’S TOP TEN

Date: December 12, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

THE 1913 lockout is being re-enacted at Montrose, where Irish National Union of Journalists (NUJ) secretary Séamus Dooley has rallied to the clarion call from the Indo and Sindo (once owned by William Martin Murphy). The (S)Indo hacks have written of a “terrible betrayal” of RTÉ’s top 10 earners by their own NUJ brothers and… Read more »

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KEVIN TOLAND’S ADVICE

Date: December 12, 2019 - Hush Hush

YOU HAVE to hand it to the chief executive of troubled Swiss-Irish baked goods outfit Aryzta. Last month, the rather well-remunerated suit took it upon himself to warn the government that it would not be able to keep the best people in the most senior roles if it sticks to the cap on semi-state salaries…. Read more »

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Maura Derrane

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE 3724

Date: December 12, 2019 - The Hot Air Brigade

I never get messages asking what he should do, he just works it out himself in a very calm manner. Maura Derrane on husband John Deasy minding their son, RSVP magazine, submitted by reader My guilt is not a sin of commission; it is a sin of omission. Outgoing FAI president Donal Conway, as reported… Read more »

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Arlene Foster

STORMONT IN NEW YEAR — REALLY?

Date: December 12, 2019 -

Arlene Foster and Michelle O’Neill are both speaking the language of accommodation in advance of talks scheduled for Stormont next Monday. So what is the chance of success when Sinn Féin and the DUP meet? The signs don’t look good. Both Foster and O’Neill may say the right things, but both also hedge their remarks… Read more »

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Leo Varadkar

TREBLE JOBBER DARA MURPHY

Date: December 12, 2019 - Last Refuge

IN HIS anxiety to defend multiple jobber Dara Murphy, Leo Varadkar made some rather risqué remarks in the Dáil about double-jobbing members of the Fianna Fáil frontbench. Presumably he had FF’s justice spokesperson, Jim O’Callaghan (barrister); and public expenditure spokesperson, Barry Cowen (auctioneer); among others, in mind. But Vlad is wandering through a political minefield… Read more »

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Martin Kenny

LEITRIM IS A VERY FUNNY PLACE, SIR

Date: December 12, 2019 - Last Refuge

THE ASYLUM-seekers row in Ballinamore is not over yet, as reported – not by a long shot. Junior Minister for Integration David Stanton has reached a deal with the local protesters – led by members of his own Fine Gael party – allowing a fraction of the asylum seekers (27 out of 130) to enter… Read more »

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KEVIN DOYLE’S HARD SHOULDER

Date: December 12, 2019 - Last Refuge

MIRIAM LORD regaled Irish Times readers last weekend with a tale of how Indo group political editor Kevin Doyle was given the Florence Nightingale treatment by Sinn Féin health spokeswoman Louise O’Reilly at the party’s ard fheis in Derry. (Doyle dislocated his arm when he slipped on a wet floor in the gents during a… Read more »

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John McCartin

QUINN SUPPORTERS TAKE OUT McCARTIN

Date: December 12, 2019 - Last Refuge

LEO VARADKAR has been out-voted – or had his mind changed – by Fine Gael director of elections Paschal Donohoe and general secretary Tom Curran over the vexed question of their Sligo-Leitrim general election candidate ticket. Specifically, Vlad wanted to put Quinn Industrial Holdings (QIH) director John McCartin, a former councillor, on the ticket, but… Read more »

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Kevin Myers

MYERS’ DUAL LIBEL SUITS

Date: December 12, 2019 - Fit to Print?

KEVIN MYERS will be grateful for an extraordinary slip up by RTÉ in his High Court action for libel against a Morning Ireland report, a blunder that occurred in the midst of litigation triggered by a broadcast over two years ago. Myers was incorrectly described by broadcaster Audrey Carville as a “Holocaust denier” in her… Read more »

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HERMANN KELLY’S CORRECTION

Date: December 12, 2019 - Fit to Print?

HERMANN KELLY, founder of the decidedly, er, right-of-centre Irish Freedom Party and spin doctor for Nigel Farage has struck a blow for freedom against what he sees as the “slavishly pro-EU Irish Times”. Kelly wrung a correction out of the IT last week for its error in downplaying Ireland’s net contribution to the EU budget,… Read more »

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