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Joan Burton

JOAN BURTON’S LAST STAND

Date: August 8, 2019 - Last Refuge

THE SUNDAY INDEPENDENT was kind to former Labour leader, Joan Burton, in its recent front page splash about tens of thousands of pensioners being deprived of thousands of Euro each due to a measure taken by the Fine Gael/Labour coalition government in 2012. The cut in pensioners’ income was made by the Labour minister for… Read more »

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JOSEPHA, SHANE, SHAY AND NEALE

Date: August 8, 2019 - Last Refuge

SHAY BRENNAN’S win at the Fianna Fáil Dublin Rathdown convention last week is but a small step in the party’s seemingly hopeless quest to take back the seat held by his late father, political titan Seamus Brennan, a TD and minister for decades. The real question in Rathdown is what will happen to the Fine… Read more »

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Freddie Scappaticci

THE SCAPPATICCI MYTH

Date: August 8, 2019 - Hush Hush

THE SUNDAY TIMES is cited in a ‘psyops’ complaint lodged at Belfast High Court recently by Belfast Solicitors, Brentnall Legal. The complaint takes the form of an application for a Judicial Review (JR) of Operation Kenova’s decision not to include psyops’ stories as part of its Stakeknife investigations. Operation Kenova, led by head of Bedfordshire… Read more »

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Michael Nugent

MICHAEL NUGENT’S LUNCH DATE

Date: August 8, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

INTERESTING TO see Atheist Ireland (AI) founder and High Priest Michael Nugent lending his impressive intellectual ballast to yet another unpopular cause. Last week, Nugent sent social media into a spin by tweeting a picture from a recent lunch he had with Father Ted co-creator Graham Linehan. Fans of Goldhawk will be well aware of… Read more »

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HERE COMES ANOTHER O’BRIEN

Date: August 8, 2019 - Sport of Kings

AS If Irish trainers hadn’t enough on their plates competing with the might of both Aidan and Joseph O’Brien on a weekly basis, it turns out that a third O’Brien will be graduating to the trainers’ ranks in the near future. the 21-year- old Donnacha O’Brien, like his older brother Joseph (a champion and classic-winning… Read more »

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KEEPING UP WITH JOHN McDONOUGH

Date: August 8, 2019 - Behind the Scenes

INFORMATION is fairly thin on the ground at the Department of Culture when it comes to discussing the filling of the €100,000 pa approx post of Director of the national archives of Ireland. In June this year, Goldhawk noted a press release from Dublin City University in which it announced the appointment of John McDonough… Read more »

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MAIREAD RONAN’S SCHEDULE

Date: August 8, 2019 - High Society

THERE HAS been plenty of showbiz coverage this month of Mairead Ronan’s landing of a prime time radio slot on Today FM. Radio presenting is, however, just one of the many talents of the increasingly ubiquitous Ronan. It has been pretty hard to avoid Mairead in recent times and apart from her very high profile… Read more »

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ALI BARKER’S BACKERS

ALI BARKER’S BACKERS

Date: August 8, 2019 - High Society

RESTAURATEUR Ali Barker has saved one of her companies from being struck off thanks to a last minute filing, which reveals some new investors. Last year, Barker and separated husband, Owen Owens, featured in a high profile case in the Four Goldmines that was happily settled before legal costs got too crazy. The couple appeared… Read more »

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BAHRAIN BLAST

Date: August 8, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

The recent executions in Bahrain of three Shi’ite activists were met with opprobrium from human rights groups and civil unrest in the Middle Eastern kingdom. One member of the country’s royal family, Sheikh Khalid Bin Hamad Al Khalifa, has some interesting Irish connections and for him the timing was not good. Sheikh Khalid is the… Read more »

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Queen Elizabeth

SEE THE QUEEN!

Date: August 8, 2019 - Affairs of the NationNorthwind

Boris Johnson arrived at Stormont on 31 July all bluff, bluster and bonhomie, urging the north’s parties to “seal the deal on power-sharing”. We’re told much has been agreed about the mechanics of a working assembly and executive, but the blockage remains over matters of rights, language, culture and identity. Shouldn’t be much trouble with… Read more »

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Paul Joyce’s Big Setback

Paul Joyce’s Big Setback

Date: August 8, 2019 - Briefcases

KILDARE developer Paul Joyce has just had his bell rung by Ulster Bank. The bank recently registered a judgment against the Turnerstown businessman for a hefty €4.2m but it’s far from his first run-in with a financial institution. Joyce had his fingers in several pies in the Midlands around the time of the crash, including… Read more »

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WRIGHT FAMILY AT WAR

Date: August 8, 2019 - High Society

INTERESTING TO see proceedings lodged in the Four Goldmines by assorted companies associated with the Wright fish dynasty in Howth. The matriarch here is former Aer Lingus air hostess Eileen Wright of Big Bamboo, Baily in Howth, who controls the bulk of the shares in the long-established north County Dublin empire of fish importers, bars… Read more »

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Arnaud Gaultier’s fine whines

Date: August 8, 2019 - Briefcases

THERE was more hard cheese for Kildare-based wine importer Arnaud Gaultier in the Four Goldmines recently, where the Frenchman is failing to make any friends among the judiciary. The colourful businessman had another setback in a long-running scrap involving his import company, Loire Valley Ltd, the Revenue and the Registrar of Companies. Gaultier’s headaches began… Read more »

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Jeremy Masding can’t stop the rot at Permanent TSB

Date: August 8, 2019 - Moneybags

IT IS now over 10 years since the bottom of the crash and over seven years since Jeremy Masding was appointed CEO (2012) of Permanent TSB (PTSB), yet the bank is still seriously struggling. Last year, the European Central Bank (ECB) advised that because PTSB “has not met any of the significant criteria for three… Read more »

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TARGETING THE NUMBER CRUNCHERS

Date: August 8, 2019 - Briefcases

THERE WAS bad news for some number crunchers recently, with the Chartered Accountants of Ireland (CAI) disciplinary and conduct committees registering some hits, one rather more high profile than the others. The big fish last month was David Drumm, who was expelled from the CAI for his conduct when chief executive of Anglo Irish Bank…. Read more »

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Boris Johnson

SEZ THE MAN FROM THE DAILY MAIL

Date: August 8, 2019 - Fit to Print?

HOW IRONIC that the Aarish edition of the Sunday Times should pick up on the fake news peddled by the Daily Mail which claimed that Leo Varadkar was put in his box by Boris Johnson’s Brexit secretary, Steve Barclay, recently. According to Mail columnist, Richard Littlejohn, Barclay “has been to Dublin and read the riot… Read more »

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MICHAEL WRIGHT’S NEW BUSINESS PLAN

MICHAEL WRIGHT’S NEW BUSINESS PLAN

Date: August 8, 2019 - Briefcases

WHILE ONE of the siblings of the Wright ‘fish family’, Mark Wright, finds himself on the receiving end of High Court proceedings from his mother and sister and various compa- nies in the Wight group, the eldest brother, Michael Wright, has just filed some hair-raising accounts. Michael is the most high profile member of the… Read more »

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JOHN HEDIGAN’S REPORT

JOHN HEDIGAN’S REPORT

Date: August 8, 2019 - Behind the Scenes

WITH A new Director soon to head up the National Archives of Ireland, it is to be hoped that whoever does land the five-year contract can encourage the National Archives Advisory Council to get its act together when it comes to publishing prompt annual reports. The most up to date one currently available on the… Read more »

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Sally Ann’s Van

Sally Ann’s Van

Date: August 8, 2019 - Briefcases

GOLDHAWK was surprised recently to see the name of his old pal Sally Ann Luykx on the back of a van belonging to a Dublin corporate catering outfit called Let’s Eat. It turns out that Luykx has landed firmly on her feet, despite being restricted by the High Court from acting as a company director… Read more »

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APPEALING BEHAVIOUR

APPEALING BEHAVIOUR

Date: August 8, 2019 - Sport of Kings

THERE WAS mixed news for jockey MJ O’Connor last month after a couple of run-ins with the stewards resulted in a lengthy riding suspension. While the rider and trainer still faces a lengthy lay-off, the final outcome was rather better than he might have hoped for. O’Connor’s first incident was at a Waterford point-to- point,… Read more »

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COLETTE SEXTON’S CONVERSION

Date: August 8, 2019 - Fit to Print?

SUNDAY BUSINESS POST hack, Colette Sexton, will surely raise the tone and exper- tise of her new colleagues at Edelman which she joined recently. As media & marketing correspondent at the Post, Colette delivered a withering sermon to PR professionals (“necessary evils”) in 2016 starting with the advice, “Get to the point”; telling them off… Read more »

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MATT DEMPSEY’S CAMPAIGN

MATT DEMPSEY’S CAMPAIGN

Date: August 8, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

BEEF FARMERS make unlikely victims but former editor of the Irish Farmers Journal (IFJ), Matt Dempsey, has fought back against the “virulent vegan” vilification of the poor farmers. Dempsey, a beef farmer himself, recently demanded legal action against vegan advertisers (whom he accuses of being funded by unknown “venture capitalists”) for their adverts that “directly… Read more »

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FOR PEAT’S SAKE!

FOR PEAT’S SAKE!

Date: August 8, 2019 - Fowl Emissions

When it comes to failing on climate dialogue, it would be hard to beat the mess over Ireland’s peat and coal burning power stations, and the Government’s baffling refusal to sit down with unions to agree a ‘just transition’ for affected workers. You’d be forgiven for thinking the Government was taken by surprise by the… Read more »

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FILM PLOT THICKENS

FILM PLOT THICKENS

Date: August 8, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

EARLIER THIS month, the latest episode of the ongoing film and TV union saga played out at a meeting to discuss assorted plot lines, including the increasingly contentious issues of bullying and blacklisting. Fans of Goldhawk will be well aware of the film industry acrimony that has bubbled to the surface following a succession of… Read more »

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BERNARD MCCABE’S RETURN

BERNARD MCCABE’S RETURN

Date: August 8, 2019 - Last Refuge

MANY OF the dinner ‘guests’ at the recent barristers fund raiser for Fine Gael (see The Phoenix, 28/6/19) would have political as well as professional motivation in forking out €600 (senior counsel) and €400 (juniors) for the pleasure. One table saw James Geoghegan who took a seat in Pembroke in local elections; Geoghegan’s election handler,… Read more »

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DANIELLE’S TWEET

Date: August 8, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

GOLDHAWK was curious to read a report of defamation proceedings by the father of rugby player Paddy Jackson over comments circulated on Twitter by two Dublin women in the wake of the Belfast rape trial. Oddly, the Irish Times report failed to identify the parties but Goldhawk can reveal that one of the women is… Read more »

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Ger Rabbette

Question marks over Uniphar’s prescription for success

Date: August 8, 2019 - Moneybags

IN RAISING E135m at E1.15 a share by floating on the Dublin Euronext junior Growth market and London’s AIM market, Uniphar has signalled that it plans to break out of the limited Irish pharmaceutical wholesale distribution market. This float is significant in that the capital raised nearly doubles the total equity, with the new shares… Read more »

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GALWAY RADICALS

GALWAY RADICALS

Date: August 8, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

FOLLLOWING THE recent attack on the Galway Maryam Mosque, the president of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Association of Ireland, Dr M A Malik, pointedly remarked that “radicalisation is not only limited to one group … radicals can be found in any community”. Perhaps the cleric was too polite to spell it out but the obsession in… Read more »

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HEATHER’S HOUSE

Date: August 8, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

SPARE a thought for Mark Thornburgh, who stumped up over E170,000 to help his sister Heather Perrin – the only Irish judge ever to be jailed – and her hubby Albert, to hold on to their impressive family home in Malahide. Bankruptcy official Chris Lehane has thrown a costly spanner in the works. Former solicitor… Read more »

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Corrado Forte’s latest headache

Corrado Forte’s latest headache

Date: August 7, 2019 - Briefcases

MORE woe for Wexford businessman Corrado Forte, who has just had two tax judgments registered against him for a total of over €92,000. Forte has had a lot on his plate for the past few years, as fans of Goldhawk will be well aware. In 2017, the Revenue secured judgment against him for €2.5m and… Read more »

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Kitty Holland

‘MACHO BOYS CLUB’ AT THE ‘IRISH TIMES’

Date: July 25, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

THE MOST shocking news likely to be (not) reported in the Irish Times for years is the document drawn up by women in the paper’s newsroom and which alleges a catalogue of sexist behaviour, bullying and discrimination. The incendiary document was researched by social affairs correspondent Kitty Holland; Newsbrands Ireland journalist of the year 2018,… Read more »

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Declan Cregan

DECLAN CREGAN’S US TROOP MOVEMENTS

Date: July 25, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

INTERESTING TO see that US customs and border pre-clearance at Shannon Airport is being expanded to include corporate jets from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The service (which allows passengers remain on board their comfy jets during the pre-clearance process) is provided exclusively by an Irish limited company, US Alliance Flight Support Ltd (US Alliance),… Read more »

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Paul Kehoe

PROFILE: PAUL KEHOE

Date: July 25, 2019 - Pillars of Society

PAUL KEHOE, minister with special responsibility for defence and former Fine Gael chief whip, has become one of the latest government whipping boys in another sense, ie as the target for unprecedented anger in the pauperised ranks of the Defence Forces. But Kehoe’s problems are not confined to his ministerial brief and, as the electorate… Read more »

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Lisa Duffy

YOUNG BLOOD: LISA DUFFY

Date: July 25, 2019 - The Young Bloods

From tiny boutique owner to red carpet designer and Instagram influencer, fashionista Lisa Duffy (39) has been one of the more compelling Irish success stories of the social media era. But has the sudden collapse of two companies in her Cari’s Closet group put an asterisk next to her brand? On all fronts, it’s been… Read more »

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TIME FOR WESTONS TO SPIN OUT PENNEYS/PRIMARK

Date: July 25, 2019 - Moneybags

THE LATE Arthur Ryan was a retailing genius who founded the Penneys/Primark retail clothing giant, which today trades out of 364 stores occupying 15 million sq ft of retail space, heading for sales of £8bn this year. Based on impressive trading margins approaching 12%, this is set to deliver operating profits of close to £1bn…. Read more »

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KEVIN MYERS’S LIBEL WRIT

Date: July 25, 2019 - Fit to Print?

THE BROODING Kevin Myers, sacked from the Sunday Times for penning an anti-semitic jibe about BBC Jewish journalists, has re-entered the public arena with a libel writ against the Sunday Business Post. If it results in a High Court hearing, this will provide the most stimulating argumentation and cross-examination. Myers was recently included in a… Read more »

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