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BLOXHAM PARTNERS ON THE HOOK?

Date: November 28, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

AFTER ALMOST a decade of inactivity, a High Court action involving the Solicitors Mutual Defence Fund (SMDF) and the various partners in the failed Bloxham stockbroking firm is about to kick off in earnest. There are millions of euro at stake here and it is interesting to see no less a figure than the Law… Read more »

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COVENEY ‘SUPPORT’ FOR PALESTINE

Date: November 28, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

AS EVENTS in the Middle East degenerate, Simon Coveney’s masterful Palestinian strategy has been laid bare. This follows Fine Gael’s revelation that its commitment in the programme for government to recognise Palestinian statehood was a verbal con trick. Apparently, what they meant all along was that recognition of Palestine could only be ceded if and… Read more »

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Feargal Purcell

KBC’S SMART PR

Date: November 28, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

THE WHIZZ media handler for KBC – the bank that told the Central Bank to “turn the page” on the tracker mortgage scandal – is Feargal Purcell, former government press secretary and head of public affairs for Edelman, the giant PR firm whose client KBC is. No surprise then that Edelman CEO Richard Edelman recently… Read more »

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Orlaith Carmody

COMMUNICATING WITH COMMUNICORP

Date: November 28, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

NEXT MONTH’S meeting of the compliance committee of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) concerning bans imposed by Denis O’Brien’s Communicorp group on certain journalist will be eagerly watched by the National Union of Journalists (NUJ). Meanwhile, the Oireachtas has been seeking to get in on the act. Last month, the NUJ expressed its concerns… Read more »

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Paul Bew

LORD BEW DISAPPEARS

Date: November 28, 2019 - Hush Hush

Paul Bew, or ‘Baron Bew of Donegore’, played a key role in the now discredited Boston Tapes project. However, so far, Bew – former advisor to unionist leader David Trimble – has escaped the devastating fallout from the tapes debacle, which came to full public prominence during the recent trial of former Belfast IRA commander… Read more »

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LESLIE REYNOLDS’S RECEIVERSHIP

Date: November 28, 2019 - Hush Hush

GOLDHAWK spotted last week the cessation of the long-running receivership of a company called Leslie Reynolds & Co, where number cruncher Declan Taite has completed the eight-year-long process. It turns out that little over €2.3m was realised from that receivership, but this pales into insignificance compared with the sums involved in Leslie’s adventures during the… Read more »

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Miriam O'Callaghan

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: November 28, 2019 - The Hot Air Brigade

People only ever say to me, ‘My god, you work very hard and all those children’. Miriam O’Callaghan, RSVP magazine, submitted by reader RTÉ needs root-and-branch reform. And I am better placed than most to point out the reforms needed because I am free to speak my mind. Eoghan Harris, Sunday Independent, submitted by reader… Read more »

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Nigel Dodds

ULSTER BETRAYED BY BORIS

Date: November 28, 2019 - Northwind

In the north, all eyes are on a few crucial constituencies in the forthcoming British general election; a toe-to-toe fight between Sinn Féin and SDLP in Derry, a no-holds-barred battle in North Belfast between the DUP’s Westminster leader Nigel Dodds and Sinn Féin’s John Finucane, and what seems to be a foregone conclusion, an SDLP… Read more »

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BEYOND THE RAINBOW

Date: November 28, 2019 - Last Refuge

HAS ANYONE noticed the make up of the ruling coalitions on the four Dublin councils? In Dublin City it is Fianna Fáil, Greens, Labour and Social Democrats. In Dún Laoghaire Rathdown a small FF complement nevertheless cobbled together a majority with Greens, Labour and Independents. And in Fingal, FF lead a coalition made up of… Read more »

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Jerry Buttimer

SARA MOORHEAD’S REPORT

Date: November 28, 2019 - Last Refuge

A MATTER of the most important, nay, vital national interest will be addressed in the Seanad next week as members of the upper house discuss the burning issue of payment for the lowest tier of politicians – namely, councillors. As far back as June 2018, Sara Moorhead SC was commissioned to compile a report on… Read more »

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Anne-Marie McNally

SOC DEM SPLITS

Date: November 28, 2019 - Last Refuge

SOCIAL DEMOCRAT political director Anne-Marie McNally is not expected to mount much of a challenge in this week’s Dublin Mid-West by-election and a certain faction within her party probably won’t shed too many tears should she fail. As readers will be aware at this stage, the brief history of the Soc Dems has been marred… Read more »

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Mark Daly

BORDER POLL: NO RISK?

Date: November 28, 2019 - Last Refuge

GOVERNMENT MINISTERS and a multitude of academics, diplomats and other establishment figures have warned of catastrophic outcomes if a border poll on a united Ireland is held any time soon (see The Phoenix, 1/11/19). In fact, the same siren voices argue that even talk of a border poll will create instability north and south. It… Read more »

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David McCourt

NOT IN FRONT OF THE HACKS

Date: November 28, 2019 - Fit to Print?

‘SMILING CHILDREN, not sour-faced journalists’ is the best description of the urgent stratagem deployed by Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and communications minister Ricky Bruton at the signing and launch of the €3bn national broadband plan. There was much indignation from opposition politicians and a typically philistine response from cynical hacks covering the PR extravaganza in a… Read more »

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MATT COOPER’S MARKETING

Date: November 28, 2019 - Fit to Print?

IF SUNDAY Business Post editor Richie Oakley can surmount his awe of the paper’s new columnist, Matt Cooper (Richie’s editorial mentor at the Sunday Tribune 21 years ago), he might respectfully suggest to Mr Cooper, Sir, that he recalibrate his priorities. Perhaps because Cooper has had such an interesting and successful career, compared to the… Read more »

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Michael D'Arcy

D’ARCY SPURS GARDA PR CAMPAIGN

Date: November 28, 2019 - Fit to Print?

IT’S UNLIKELY that junior minister Michael D’Arcy will get much credit if the flurry of Garda activity in the violent campaign surrounding Quinn Industrial holdings (QIH) results in convictions. But D’Arcy certainly stimulated a frenetic PR campaign, carried out on behalf of the gardaí, following his criticism of senior gardaí in the area who had,… Read more »

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Paul Kehoe

LOAVES AND FISHES

Date: November 28, 2019 - Fowl Emissions

The biblical tale of the miracle of the loaves and fishes has nothing on Ireland’s world-beating beef and dairy sectors, which, if we are to believe the hype, are now helping to end world hunger by feeding the teeming masses. Taoiseach Leo Varadkar is so impressed by our productivity that he reckons the whole sector… Read more »

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DARRRAGH MCCULLOUGH’S ATTACK

Date: November 28, 2019 - Fowl Emissions

Are Ireland’s farmers at risk of becoming social pariahs? This claim was made not by the usual farmer-bashing eco types but by a son of the soil, Meath farmer and journalist Darragh McCullough. He broke ranks with the self-pitying agri-industrial chorus to call out the “dangerous nonsense” being spouted by all three contenders for the… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS 3723

Date: November 28, 2019 - Bog Cuttings

What a nightmare A DONEGAL insomniac, who hadn’t slept for three days, woke up in a school after causing nearly €2,000 worth of damage. Patrick McNamee (29) broke into the Finn Valley Education Centre in Stranolar, broke windows and computer monitors, but didn’t steal anything. Charged with burglary, McNamee appeared in Letterkenny District Court, where… Read more »

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Amer Abdulaziz

ABDULAZIZ’S PHOENIX FIASCO

Date: November 28, 2019 - High Society

FANS OF the turf will have been fascinated by the Racing Post revelation that the founder of the Phoenix Thoroughbreds ‘regulated fund’, Amer Abdulaziz, has allegedly been funding his global acquisition of high-end bloodstock through ill-gotten gains. Not surprisingly, some of the spending took place in Ireland. The alleged theft by Dubai-based Abdulaziz of $100m… Read more »

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Consuelo O’Connor

WILLIAM MCGLADE’S ‘SWAGGER’

Date: November 28, 2019 - High Society

THE 28-year-old William McGlade must be delighted with the plug for his upmarket Airbnb-style venture, HipHipStay, in the Business Post last weekend. Aimed at the market for short term renting of fancy Dublin gaffs, McGlade told the paper that he is looking for a certain “cool kind of swagger” evident in any properties to be… Read more »

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Nina Carberry

NOEL MEADE’S NEW TEAM

Date: November 28, 2019 - Sport of Kings

TED WALSH Jnr has experienced a varied career over the past decade, ranging from stints with the Irish Field and the Racing Post to running a hardware store and selling stallion nominations for Coolmore. His latest role is as PR/client relations liaison with top trainer Noel Meade. Walsh’s wife, Nina Carberry, had a long and… Read more »

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Brian Kavanagh

IT’S A LONG TIME TO TIPPERARY

Date: November 28, 2019 - Sport of Kings

IRELAND’S ongoing wait for a second all-weather track isn’t coming to an end anytime soon if the chatter from Horse Racing Ireland (HRI) is anything to go by. While Tipperary Racecourse is almost certainly the track of choice to be redeveloped, the question of funding is clearly an issue given that HRI’s sate grant for… Read more »

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John Clarke

JOHN CLARKE’S CONSULTING

Date: November 28, 2019 - Sport of Kings

HAVING SOLD his former Newmarket-based Plantation Stud to Mick O’Leary a few years ago, it looks like Dermot O’Rourke is consolidating his bloodstock activities at his Keredern House Stud in Naas. O’Rourke has been on the hunt for a stud manager to take control of the day-to-day activities on the farm and has enlisted former… Read more »

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Gerard Fleming

CLIMATE WEEK – RTÉ

Date: November 28, 2019 - TV

AS ENVIRONMENTAL anxiety becomes part of the mainstream news agenda, the public-service broadcaster’s focus on climate change coincided with Science Week. RTÉ’s rush to board the eco-friendly bandwagon came late in the day. To compensate, everyone of note – from George Lee and the even more photogenic Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin to Maura and Daithí –… Read more »

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Frances Ruane

QUESTIONS FOR THE ABBEY

Date: November 28, 2019 - Behind the Scenes

EARLIER THIS month, the Abbey Theatre published its 2018 annual report, which generated mainly positive media coverage. However, there are some unusual entries that bear further scrutiny by chair Frances Ruane and her increasingly depleted board. The accounts painted a relatively positive picture thanks to a “healthy year” for the box office, but a huge… Read more »

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Martin Keane

GLANBIA’S ACQUISITION STRATEGY FAILS TO DELIVER

Date: November 28, 2019 - Moneybags

FROM BEING one of the darlings on the stock market, Glanbia’s star has waned over the last year. The shares fell back from a peak of U19 in March 2019 to E14 just before the poorly-received half-year results were announced on July 31, after which they dropped further to the current €11. The earnings multiple… Read more »

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Francesca DeCataldo

STRIKING OUT FRANCESCA DE CATALDO

Date: November 28, 2019 - Briefcases

AFTER a few quiet years, it was interesting to see Killiney businesswoman Francesca De Cataldo pop up, not once but twice in the last few months. The company behind posh Dublin supermarket and restaurant Fallon & Byrne has just got the green light from the High Court to have her 2010 personal injuries claim struck… Read more »

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MYLES CROFTON’S NEW PROJECT

Date: November 28, 2019 - Briefcases

HOW interesting to see Myles Crofton back in the headlines thanks to his involvement in a plan to develop 300 homes in Monkstown. Crofton, alongside fellow boom-era developer Bernard Doyle, is engaged in a consultation process with An Bord Pleanála (ABP) to deliver the scheme in the gardens of the plush Dalguise House on Monkstown… Read more »

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NO MERCY FOR BRENDAN AND SHEILA HADE

Date: November 28, 2019 - Briefcases

NOVEMBER has been a very bad month for Goldhawk’s old pals, Brendan and Sheila Hade, whose prayers have gone unanswered. Rathfarnham-based Brendan Hade is well known to fans of Goldhawk (see The Phoenix, 13/1/12) as a result of his role as senior pastor of the Victory Christian Fellowship (VCF) non-denominational church, where he was also… Read more »

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Eamonn McCann

WINDING UP EAMONN MCCANN

Date: November 28, 2019 - Briefcases

A NEW YORK-based energy company called Hydromine Inc is petitioning the High Court to have Lugano Properties Company Ltd, a small Dublin 4 property vehicle, wound up. Lugano turns out to be owned by Belfast concert promoter Eamonn McCann, a former business partner of Denis Desmond no less. For many moons, McCann was best known… Read more »

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Eamon Waters

PANDA WASTE’S TIME WASTING

Date: November 28, 2019 - Briefcases

INTERESTING to see another judgment registered against one of the companies in Ireland’s largest waste management group. The €44,000 hit comes courtesy of a factory operative who previously won a substantial personal injuries claim against the group last year. Fans of Goldhawk will recall that Tomasz Zdejszy sued his employer, Stewart Foil Ltd, and Panda… Read more »

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LIAM HOWARD’S PAPER PROFITS

Date: November 28, 2019 - Briefcases

CONGRATULATIONS to Kilworth, Co Cork businessman Liam Howard, who is retiring after 41 years as the owner and proprietor of the Avondhu, the Fermoy-based newspaper and website. Howard has just put the company behind the local rag, Avondhu Press Ltd – where he is listed as a director alongside his wife, Maureen – into voluntary… Read more »

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JIM FERRY’S FINANCES

Date: November 28, 2019 - Briefcases

COUNTY DONEGAL illegal waste operator Jim Ferry has had plenty on his plate in recent times, so it is unlikely he will lose too much sleep over the fact that the Companies Office has just struck off his company, Ferry Refuse Collection Ltd, for failing to file accounts. Given the trouble Ferry has been having… Read more »

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Martin Kenny

RACISM OR FILTHY LUCRE?

Date: November 14, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

THE RECENT debate between Sinn Féin TD Martin Kenny and Ballinamore Community Group spokesman Gordon Hughes on RTÉ’s Claire Byrne Live was respectful and calm, but decidedly cool. Kenny and his family were in their Ballinamore home when his car, which was parked outside, was torched, with the common assumption being that the attack was… Read more »

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John McCartin

QUINN DIRECTOR TO STAND FOR FG?

Date: November 14, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

FINE GAEL handlers are still mobbing mountains to persuade former Independent MEP Marian Harkin to stand at the general election in Sligo-Leitrim. They do not have confidence in Senator Frank Feighan to retain the seat and seem to have given up hope of getting TD Tony McLoughlin to return and save FG’s only seat in… Read more »

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NOEL ROCK WALKS ALONE

Date: November 14, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

The only thing red about Ballymun Blueshirt TD Noel Rock is his soccer jersey. The Fine Gael Tory boy and chair of the Oireachtas housing committee is a dyed-in-the-wool Liverpool supporter, well known for his copious tweets about Jürgen Klopp’s side and chatting publicly about the club with other fans, like Irish Independent journalist Hugh… Read more »

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