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Phil Hogan

BIG PHIL’S PAYBACK FROM LEO

Date: July 11, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

THE ANGST-RIDDEN debate on the EU deal with South American trading block Mercosur is one thing, and it may be that the government can minimise the fall-out among its farming base over time. But the re-appointment as EU commissioner of Big Phil Hogan is another matter and Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has scored another own goal… Read more »

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Sarah O'Shea

SARAH O’SHEA’S FOOTBALL SKILLS

Date: July 11, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

IF ALL goes according to plan on July 20, then the subsequent annual general meeting of the FAI could see a brand new 12-person board elected, including four independent directors and with a significantly enhanced gender balance. This explains why the name of legal eagle and sports consultant Sarah O’Shea has now surfaced as a… Read more »

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Micheál Martin

PROFILE: MICHEÁL MARTIN

Date: July 11, 2019 - Pillars of Society

SUDDENLY, after three years of being widely mocked as Leo Varadkar’s pussycat and pilloried by his own members for refusing to fight the Blueshirts, Micheál Martin appears to be vindicated. The polls are beginning to show Fianna Fáil edging ahead of Fine Gael and a real poll – the local elections – reflected that lead…. Read more »

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Sean McLoughlin

YOUNG BLOODS: SEÁN MCLOUGHLIN

Date: July 11, 2019 - The Young Bloods

Millionaire Internet entrepreneur Seán McLoughlin (29), better known to his fans as Jacksepticeye, appears to be one of the most successful young Irish businessmen of recent times. Thanks to his YouTube channel, the Offaly man has built a global brand with a monstrous reach that most traditional businesses could only dream of. Exactly how did… Read more »

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Mary Lou McDonald

MARY LOU RESHUFFLES SF DÁIL TEAM

Date: July 11, 2019 - Last Refuge

SINN FÉIN’S post-election revamp will see the restructure of various layers of the party, but already Mary Lou McDonald’s Dáil reshuffle involves a refocus on those TDs that need strengthening and greater exposure if they are to retain their seats. Bright stars Pearse Doherty, Eoin Ó Broin and Louise O’Reilly (finance, housing and health, respectively)… Read more »

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Cynthia Chua

CYNTHIA CHUA’S VIBRATIONS

Date: July 11, 2019 - High Society

IT’S INTERESTING to see that the colourful and loaded Cynthia Chua – who has recently been extolling the virtues of “perfuming your vejayjay” and giving “vulva facials” – has just registered her home address at the Deepwell mansion in Blackrock south County Dublin, five years after acquiring the impressive pile along with her hubby, renewable… Read more »

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Dermot Desmond

DERMOT DESMOND’S JET LAG

Date: July 11, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

SURPRISING to see three companies associated with Dermot Desmond’s former investment in a Swiss private jet hire operation being listed for striking off the Companies Register. His involvement in the jet business previously resulted in some unwelcome publicity for the billionaire. Back in 2007, Dermo acquired a 67.7% stake in the Swiss-based ExecuJet operation, aiming… Read more »

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Pat Quirke

PAT QUIRKE’S RESIGNATION

Date: July 11, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

THREE MONTHS on from Tipperary farmer Pat Quirke’s high-profile conviction for murder, the company he set up to run his business has just filed accounts showing the bottom line was looking good last year. Quirke, however, has now stepped down as a director. Pat Quirke set up Breansha Farms Ltd in March 2014, the year… Read more »

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Eugene Downes

EUGENE DOWNES’S NEW GIG

Date: July 11, 2019 - Behind the Scenes

GOOD NEWS for fans of Irish cultural promotion abroad. The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) has finally offered the new position of cultural director to the successful candidate, barely six months after advertising the job. However, the department is not yet saying who got the nod officially, with the position to become active… Read more »

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Michael O'Leary

O’LEARY’S FLAT AMBITIONS

Date: July 11, 2019 - Sport of Kings

WHILE MONEYBAGS Mick O’Leary begins winding down his extensive portfolio of national hunt horses, he is taking the opposite approach to his nascent flat-breeding enterprise. O’Leary has long claimed to be a die-hard jumps fan and has openly shown disdain for flat racing, yet an advertisement he placed recently in some industry papers seeking a… Read more »

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Vol 37 No 14

Date: July 11, 2019 -

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JUST NOT CRICKET

Date: July 11, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

IT’S JUST not cricket. As England’s lions bestride the sward at Lords in the Cricket World Cup, it must be recorded, with no little sadness, that Irish parliamentarians spurned Blighty’s gracious offer to play in the parallel contest, the Cricket Parliamentary World Cup. The tournament involves England, six other Commonwealth countries and Afghanistan. The churlish… Read more »

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Emmet O’Neill

EMMETT O’NEILL’S STRATEGY

Date: July 11, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

REPORTS last week that former Topaz chief executive Emmett O’Neill is looking to sell his Lovin Media group won’t have surprised Phoenix readers. Denis O’Brien’s nephew, O’Neill, is the largest shareholder in LD Lovin Dublin Ltd and has been eager to improve the fortunes of the once-troubled company, clearly gearing up for a sale over… Read more »

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Alan Lloyd

STRIKING OFF ALAN LLOYD

Date: July 11, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

GOLDHAWK spotted a legal notice last month published by the Law Society of Ireland’s Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal proclaiming that Alan Lloyd had been struck off the Roll of Solicitors by order of the High Court. Lloyd, formerly of AM Maloney & Co in Tullamore, caused quite a stir last year when it was suggested that… Read more »

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Enda O'Coineen

‘POST’ BACKS RTÉ

Date: July 11, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

COMING JUST days after The Phoenix broke the story about Sunday Business Post owner Enda O’Coineen’s bid to buy the RTÉ Guide (see edition, 28/6/19), the Post’s championing of RTÉ’s demand for a licence fee increase seems a touch inappropriate (or should that read, entirely logical). Barry J Whyte wrote a lengthy, full-page spread amounting… Read more »

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THRIFTY PROTESTANTS

Date: July 11, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

LAST MONTH, the Irish Times carried an article headlined ‘Protestants outlive Catholics, study shows’, based on a report from the CSO. The report showed that, for example, people living in affluent areas lived longer, as did owner-occupiers over renters and managers over those with just a primary school education. In terms of religion, Protestants did… Read more »

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Ursula von der Leyen

WAR LIKE FRAU

Date: July 11, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

AMID THE reams of media commentary about new EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, just the barest mention has been made of her enthusiastic championing of a European military force and her claim that “Europe’s army is already taking shape”. Whenever fuddy-duddy defenders of Irish neutrality claim that a European army is being formed,… Read more »

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Denis Donaldson

DONALDSON THROWN TO WOLVES

Date: July 11, 2019 - Hush Hush

MI5’s SPY in Sinn Féin, the late Denis Donaldson, is so (in)famous that he has made it into the Royal Irish Academy’s Dictionary of Irish Biography. Donaldson was close to the Adams/McGuinness leadership and thus able to provide strategic intelligence, but he was not at the very heart of the Provo beast. But Donaldson’s biog… Read more »

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DREW HARRIS’S COLLUSION CONCERNS

Date: July 11, 2019 - Hush Hush

GARDA COMMISSIONER Drew Harris’s presence at the head of a Garda/PSNI contingent at the Dublin Pride parade received many plaudits. But Harris was well aware that day that a hugely significant collusion judgement concerning his time in the PSNI was imminent. Last week Belfast’s Court of Appeal ordered the PSNI to set up an independent… Read more »

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Maura Higgins

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: July 11, 2019 - The Hot Air Brigade

Maura was both a symbol of modern Irish femininity, loudly opinionated with sexual agency to spare; and a colonial parody of the savage native, uncivilised and promiscuous… Maura went from an amusing and kind of embarrassing sideshow to the people’s princess, the Virgin Mary of not-virgins. Ciara O’Connor, reviewing Love Island in the Sunday Independent… Read more »

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Gavin Williamson

BORIS AND THE DUP

Date: July 11, 2019 - Northwind

There should have been a second election to a northern assembly in 2017 after the parties failed to establish an executive following the election in March. That’s the law, but it would have been an election to what? There was no chance of Sinn Féin and the DUP forming an executive. That remains the position…. Read more »

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Simon Coveney

BLUESHIRTS BATTLE FOR TOP JOBS

Date: July 11, 2019 - Last Refuge

THE BACK-room machinations by EU states’ leaders in the divvy up of EU top jobs last week were naïve child’s play compared to the parallel manoeuvring and jockeying for advancement played out at the highest level in Fine Gael. The concerted media campaign by Leo Varadkar and government handlers in staving off the threat to… Read more »

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ANYBODY BUT REILLY

Date: July 11, 2019 - Last Refuge

ABR is the acronym of the message and mission handed down from Taoiseach Leo Varadkar to his chief of staff, Brian Murphy, in the urgent matter of the Dublin Fingal by-election to replace newly elected MEP Clare Daly. ABR stands for Anybody But (James) Reilly, as this urgent assignment has become known among Vlad’s close… Read more »

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Damien English

FINE GAEL BULLIES?

Date: July 11, 2019 - Last Refuge

REPORTS OF bullying, racist remarks and persecution of female members in Meath East Fine Gael have led to an inquiry by the party’s national executive. But the aggressive style of debate engaged in by some of the elder, male FG members has also led to distress in the Meath West constituency organisation. Female FG members… Read more »

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Gerry Adams

GERRY ADAMS LIBELS

Date: July 11, 2019 - Fit to Print?

WIDESPREAD MEDIA speculation about Gerry Adams being either involved in or having knowledge of the 1991 murder of alleged informer Tom Oliver appears to have been scotched by a recent libel settlement between Adams and Louth radio station LMFM. LMFM last week stated, “A number of false and defamatory comments were made regarding Gerry Adams… Read more »

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FIONNAN SHEAHAN’S “EMPLOYEE EXPERIENCE”

Date: July 11, 2019 - Fit to Print?

DECIPHERING the recent INM advert for an employee communications and experience manager demands a post-graduate degree in HR gobbledygook. Apparently, the core function of the job is “defining and enhancing the end-to-end employee experience… which support the evolving approach to ‘Employee Experience’ within INM, with an additional specific focus on ‘Internal Communications’”. The phrase, end-to-end… Read more »

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Richie Oakley

TO HELL OR CORK

Date: July 11, 2019 - Fit to Print?

AFTER TWO years as editor of the now-defunct Times Ireland edition, Richie Oakley has spent several weeks weighing up offers to edit the Irish Examiner or the Sunday Business Post and has finally plumped for the latter. A circular to the breathless and leaderless Post hacks last week said that information about the appointment of… Read more »

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Mark Menezes

‘FREEDOM GAS’

Date: July 11, 2019 - Fowl Emissions

When your industry is dirty, it helps to be well connected. Making cement is a filthy business and Irish Cement’s plant in the Limerick suburb of Mungret is a frequent fixture on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) worst-offender list. So it may help that parent company Cement Roadstone Holdings (CRH) – Ireland’s largest firm – has… Read more »

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MARK MENEZES’S SALES PITCH

Date: July 11, 2019 - Fowl Emissions

The decision by Leo Varadkar’s cabinet last week to finally kill off TD Bríd Smith’s bill to halt new exploration licences shows the fossil fuel industry can still rely on loyal political hit men as it battles to delay its extinction. It can also count on a media often blissfully unwise to its misinformation and… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: July 11, 2019 - Bog Cuttings

‘INEXPLICABLE’ STUPIDITY A NEWTOWNSTEWART man, who exposed his backside, has been spared a jail sentence. Martin Mongan (28) from Mourne Park was previously convicted of four public order offences pertaining to May 27 last year. The prosecutor told the court the police received a report of an ongoing disturbance at Mourne Park. They observed a… Read more »

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Consuelo O’Connor

MUBARAK AL NAEMI’S NAGS

Date: July 11, 2019 - High Society

THE UPCOMING (July 24) auction at the Dunraven Arms in Adare of the impressive Kilfrush Stud in Co Limerick should attract plenty of attention from horsey types. With a U5.5m price tag it is, however, only for those with deep pockets, but the current owner knows all about the cost of playing the sport of… Read more »

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Judy Woodworth

JUDY WOODWORTH’S BEIT STRATEGY

Date: July 11, 2019 - High Society

LAST MONTH saw the inaugural Kaleidoscope festival take place in the grounds of Russborough House in Co Wicklow. Given the positive feedback, it looks like the latest addition to the festival scene (albeit focused on families) is here to stay – good news for Judy Woodworth and her trustees on the Alfred Beit Foundation (ABF),… Read more »

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SHARON ALSTON’S ANIMAL CHARITY

Date: July 11, 2019 - Behind the Scenes

THE MUSIC festivals just keep coming and there is now fierce competition for music fans’ moolah. While Electric Picnic is still going strong, other festivals have seen part of their demographic targeted by the likes of the recently arrived All Together Now. Last weekend, another festival entered the crowded market, where its unique selling point… Read more »

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Brendan Halligan

BRENDAN HALLIGAN’S CHINESE FRIENDS

Date: July 11, 2019 - Behind the Scenes

THE RECENT debut of the China Ireland International Film Festival – which took place at assorted Dublin cinemas as well as the UCD Confucius Institute – represents the latest stage in the ongoing relentless drive to increase ties between Ireland and the economic superpower that is China. While the names associated with the festival organisers… Read more »

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SOVEREIGN’S COOLMORE SETBACK

Date: July 11, 2019 - Sport of Kings

THERE WAS some top notch racing over Derby weekend at the Curragh, but what to make of the Derby result? While observers might assume that John Magnier and his Coolmore cohort would be delighted to continue their Derby dominance when Sovereign stormed home under super-sub Padraig Beggy, the commercial reality is it wasn’t a particularly… Read more »

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DEREK McGRATH’S DERBY DILEMMA

Date: July 11, 2019 - Sport of Kings

THE CURRAGH racecourse came under intense scrutiny during the Irish Derby Festival. The timing of the weekend was less than ideal, given that Kildare was entertaining Tyrone down the road in Newbridge in the All-Ireland football championship. Bigger numbers were expected for Derby Day itself and a crowd of just under 12,000 was recorded. While… Read more »

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