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David Horgan

CLIMATE DENIERS

Date: September 19, 2019 - Fowl Emissions

In the rich annals of human stupidity, it is unlikely that the phenomenon of organised climate denial will ever be surpassed for sheer bloody-mindedness. Yes, 2019 has seen an unprecedented series of catastrophic wildfires sweep the globe. Yes, the entire Amazon rainforest is fast approaching a critical tipping point towards collapse. Yes, biodiversity is in… Read more »

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RICHARD BRUTON’S SINK

Date: September 19, 2019 - Fowl Emissions

It may have been the excitement of the National Ploughing Championships, but climate action minister Richard Bruton rushed out a press release from the event that was, to put it mildly, puzzling. Discussing the need for resilience in the era of climate change, he said, “Agriculture is Ireland’s largest single source of greenhouse gas, but… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS

Date: September 19, 2019 - Bog Cuttings

ARRESTED TO SCORE POINTS A THIEF who stole a cancer charity collection box told the court that the crime was committed in order to be arrested so he could gain points for an online game. Andrea Zecchin, of Derramore Way, Cookstown, robbed the Marie Curie charity box from a pub in Cookstown. The police were… Read more »

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Consuelo O’Connor

SAMMY LESLIE’S ITALIAN DISH

Date: September 19, 2019 - High Society

SAMANTHA LESLIE, the chatelaine of Castle Leslie in Co Monaghan, has received some rare good financial news, relating to a charity she set up. Castle Leslie is the sprawling estate and hotel where the debts have piled up. The restoration and redevelopment of the castle and demesne has proved an expensive business, judging by the… Read more »

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Neven Maguire

NEVEN’S MAGUIRE’S INGREDIENTS

Date: September 19, 2019 - High Society

THE UBIQUITOUS Neven Maguire’s latest television dish kicked off last week on RTÉ One. And the second season of Neven’s Spanish Food Trials got its share of plugs both on the airwaves and from his fans in the print media Sindo. In return, the wily Neven is an accomplished name dropper when it comes to… Read more »

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Sarah Lynch

GOOD TIMES AT THE GATE

Date: September 19, 2019 - Behind the Scenes

THERE HAS been a cast change at the Abbey where its head of producing, Sarah Lynch, has decided to exit stage left after barely two years at the national theatre. She is heading up the street to the Gate, where Selina Cartmell apparently can do no wrong. Lynch is a well-known figure in Irish theatre,… Read more »

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RUTH MCGOWAN’S SPONSOR

Date: September 19, 2019 - Behind the Scenes

WHILE THE Dublin Theatre Festival is yet to kick off, Ruth McGowan’s Dublin Fringe Festival is just winding up its 25th hooley. She will be hoping to have sold a few more tickets than last year. The 2018 festival – funded by the Arts Council to the tune of €390,000, as is this year’s gig… Read more »

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John Cronin

JOHN CRONIN’S NEW ROLE

Date: September 19, 2019 - Behind the Scenes

THERE IS a new cast member at the Dublin Theatre Festival (which kicks off next week) in the form of high-flying legal eagle John Cronin of McCann Fitzgerald. No doubt, the Arts Council will be hoping his arrival helps to ensure that the financial wobble a couple of years ago is not repeated. The 2018… Read more »

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Paul Cawley

PRESENTING PAT KELLY

Date: September 19, 2019 - Sport of Kings

THE ENIGMATIC Pat Kelly – best known as the trainer of the Philip Reynolds-owned dual Cheltenham Festival winner Presenting Percy – fell foul of the Listowel stewards during the harvest festival. Kelly, whose attitude to the media is well known, was slapped with a €2,000 fine after his aptly named runner Costly Diamond was deemed… Read more »

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Jessica Harrington

BHA BLOOD WORK

Date: September 19, 2019 - Sport of Kings

THE BRITISH Horseracing Authority (BHA) has clearly stepped up its campaign to antagonise Irish trainers. Following several pre-race grillings of Charles Byrnes and Denis Hogan in recent months, focusing on their instructions to their jockeys, the BHA recently took a blood sample from a Jessica Harrington-trained runner at Salisbury just 35 minutes before the horse’s… Read more »

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FRANK FAHY FALTERS

Date: September 19, 2019 - Sport of Kings

MEDIA-SHY builder and property developer Frank Fahy hasn’t been spoilt with immediate success after taking the decision to get involved in a serious way in the racing and bloodstock game. Fahy’s purchase of Gerrardstown House Stud in Dunshaughlin a few years ago signalled his intent to start building up a portfolio of broodmares and he… Read more »

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SETBACK FOR UNCLE SAM

Date: September 19, 2019 - Sport of Kings

COOLMORE STUD’S latest poster-boy stallion, Justify, has found himself at the centre of an American doping scandal after it was reported in the New York Times that the horse, subsequently acquired by Coolmore, failed a drugs test after winning a race in California that qualified him for last year’s Kentucky Derby. This is now a… Read more »

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Kirill Golovanov

OVOCA BIO WORTH DOUBLE ITS CURRENT SHARE PRICE

Date: September 19, 2019 - Moneybags

OVOCA BIO is one of the more unusual companies on the Irish Stock Exchange. Not only has it had a rather bizarre history, but it is now capitalised at less than the value of its liquid assets. The current share price of 13 cent represents a near 50% discount on the value of the assets… Read more »

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Pat McCann

UNBALANCED DALATA HOTELS’ BEDROOM PROBLEM

Date: September 19, 2019 - Moneybags

BREXIT HAS been causing concern in the tourism sector, given that the Brits account for over 40% of current tourist visitors to the Republic. It is not just the technical difficulties that could depress the figures, but also the affect on tourism of a general slowdown in the UK economy and its knock-on weakening of… Read more »

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Myles Kirby

ANTHONY J FITZPATRICK VS MYLES KIRBY

Date: September 19, 2019 - Briefcases

LIMERICK LIQUIDATOR Anthony J Fitzpatrick suffered another setback in the latest round of his bust-up with Dublin liquidator Myles Kirby. A Court of Appeal judgment reveals that Fitzpatrick lost his appeal against a 2017 finding by Judge Mary Faherty that he had breached an order of the High Court. The row relates to the long-running… Read more »

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Paul McKeon

PAUL MCKEON’S TOUGH RACE

Date: September 19, 2019 - Briefcases

ACCOUNTANT AND entrepreneur Paul McKeon has a number of irons in the fire. The horseracing fan is currently chairman of a health clinic search website called WhatClinic, which has been haemorrhaging money in recent years, requiring plenty of transfusions of moolah. McKeon is a serious backer of the sport of kings and owns a number… Read more »

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CORRADO FORTE’S APPEAL

Date: September 19, 2019 - Briefcases

MORE ON Wexford Town businessman Corrado Forte, who had tax judgments totalling over €92,000 registered against him during the summer (see The Phoenix, 9/8/19). Goldhawk spotted a recently published judgment, which reveals that he also lost his appeal against an eye-watering 2017 Revenue judgment. In 2017, the taxman secured summary judgments against former Cappucino’s Restaurant… Read more »

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Richard Barrett

BARTRA CAPITAL’S ‘NICHE’ LIVING

Date: September 19, 2019 - Briefcases

BETWEEN public scepticism and pernickety planners, Richard Barrett’s Bartra Capital is having a hard time getting its ‘co-living’ concept off the ground in south Dublin. The former Treasury Holdings boss has just suffered another major setback in the heart of housing minister Eoghan Murphy’s constituency, where the council has refused permission for one of Bartra’s… Read more »

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Pearse Phelan

PEARSE PHELAN’S FAULTY PRESCRIPTION

Date: September 19, 2019 - Briefcases

SURELY THE most interesting name on the latest list of tax defaulters is Mediserve Homecare Ltd, which was identified as agreeing a settlement for an impressive €858,000 as a result of underdeclaration of corporation tax, PAYE, PRSI, USC and VAT. The company is controlled by Goldhawk’s old friend Pearse Phelan, a doctor whose business ventures… Read more »

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HAZELWOOD DEVELOPMENT’S DEMISE

Date: September 19, 2019 - Briefcases

THERE WAS a setback this month for Cork property company Hazelwood Development Ltd, which was wound up at a creditors’ meeting in Youghal. The company is somewhat typical of ventures established during the boom to take advantage of the property mania. Hazelwood was set up in 2003 to develop a housing scheme in Middleton, with… Read more »

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DISCIPLINING JAMES DORNEY

Date: September 19, 2019 - Briefcases

CORK legal eagle James Dorney has been grounded by the Law Society’s Solicitor’s Disciplinary Tribunal. The solicitor has been suspended from practice arising from a number of findings of misconduct. Dorney first fell foul of the Law Society in 2017 for failing to provide an accountant’s report for the financial year. For that offence, he… Read more »

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Maria Bailey

MARIA BAILEY FOR THE CHOP

Date: September 5, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

WHAT A confusing series of leaks there has been about Maria Bailey and the Fine Gael general election ticket in Dún Laoghaire in the last week. Cui Bono? Richard Bruton’s recent elder-lemon statement appeared at first sight to be an indirect, unofficial leadership edict to lay off poor Maria. This would reflect a recent surge… Read more »

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Mary McAleese

MARY MCALEESE’S LATEST GIG

Date: September 5, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

WHAT IS it with Trinity College Dublin, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the preference for chancellors named Mary? Last month, the Irish Times reported that Mary McAleese is set to be nominated as the successor to Mary Robinson for the role of chancellor at the university. No doubt, provost Paddy Prendergast is on side… Read more »

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Paul O'Neill

PROFILE – PAUL O’NEILL

Date: September 5, 2019 - Pillars of Society

PHOENIX READERS will have been entertained by the anguished debate in which Irish Times journalists have become embroiled over alleged sexism at the “macho”, male-dominated newspaper (see edition, 23/8/19). But while editor Paul O’Neill must deal with the fall-out from these claims of most un-Irish Times behaviour, he will be more concerned at the latest… Read more »

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Roderic O'Gorman

YOUNG BLOODS – RODERIC O’GORMAN

Date: September 5, 2019 - The Young Bloods

Can Roderic O’Gorman ride the green wave all the way to Leinster House? To do so, the Green Party councillor will have to win a seat in Dublin West, where he has fought and lost no less than three general elections and two by-elections since 2007. But the wind is changing in his constituency as… Read more »

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Diarmuid Martin

DERMO DENIED RED HAT – AGAIN

Date: September 5, 2019 - Bird's Eye View

AN unprecedented public insight into the arcane world of how Rome deals with ageing Church leaders was provided by the normally taciturn papal nuncio, 62-year-old Nigerian-born Archbishop Jude Thaddeus Okolo. Pope Francis’s ambassador in Dublin reportedly told a Catholic gathering recently that there would be “no vacancy” soon in Dublin for the most prestigious, but… Read more »

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Rose Hynes

REAPPOINTING ROSE

Date: September 5, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

WHILE THE decision by Shane Ross to quietly extend the tenure of Shannon Airport chair Rose Hynes did not come as a shock, not everyone is happy with the decision. The high-flying Limerick legal eagle has drawn harsh criticism in her neck of the woods. Hynes is well used to landing government appointments and was… Read more »

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Michelle O'Neill

SF DEMOCRACY DEBATE

Date: September 5, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

THE CHALLENGE to Sinn Féin’s vice-president, Michelle O’Neill, from Assembly heavyweight John O’Dowd could become a test of the party’s willingness to embrace political debate and internal democracy. That, at least, is what some of O’Dowd’s supporters are arguing. O’Neill is VP because she is a woman, a northerner and for many years a part… Read more »

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Ross Lewis

ROSS LEWIS’S PLANNING RECIPE

Date: September 5, 2019 - High Society

WHILE TOP chef Ross Lewis is best known for his uber-popular and award-laden Chapter One restaurant on Dublin’s Parnell Square, he also controls a southside operation at The Malting Tower in the trendy Grand Canal Quay area populated by Google types. Unfortunately, some local residents – and Dublin City Council (DCC) – are less than… Read more »

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Tara Fay and Bruce Russell

TARA FAY’S BUSY SCHEDULE

Date: September 5, 2019 - High Society

VIEWERS of RTÉ are getting a taste of the recently launched autumn season, which features the usual mixed bag. One programme that kicks off a new season next week is My Big Day: Home or Away, which features two wedding planners offering their different takes on the big day out to young couples. The wedding… Read more »

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Claire Kilroy

JOSEPHA’S FAMOUS FIVE

Date: September 5, 2019 - Behind the Scenes

LAST WEEK, culture minister Josepha Madigan announced the first €20,000-a-head winners of the Markievicz Awards – the minister’s new bursary scheme to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the first female cabinet member, Constance de Markievicz. The scheme is aimed at supporting artists in producing “work that reflects the role of women in the period covered… Read more »

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VOL 37 No 18

Date: September 5, 2019 -

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JAMES GOUGH’S GRIPE

Date: September 5, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

JAMES GOUGH continues to be a thorn in the side of the Association of Irish Racehorse Owners (AIRO). Having taken a successful legal action against the body after he was precluded from seeking renomination for another term as the AIRO representative on the board of Horse Racing Ireland, the Racing Post notes that Gough is… Read more »

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Michael Doorly

ABC ANSWERS ELUSIVE

Date: September 5, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

ONE QUESTION that arises from Independent News & Media’s (INM’s) decision to withdraw from the Audited Bureau of Circulations (ABC) is whether it was INM or its new owners, Mediahuis, that took the decision. In the best traditions of openness, truth in the news and stuff like that, two public relations firms were deployed to… Read more »

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John Murray

JAW-JAW AND WAR-WAR

Date: September 5, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

US VICE-PRESIDENT Mike Pence set the scene for two upcoming conferences on war when he praised the “security partnership” between Ireland and the US and our “close co-ordination” with “US military operations around the world”. Aptly, he made the comments on landing at Shannon Airport. Pence was too honest for those busy trying to undermine… Read more »

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Ger O'Neill

EXPERTS GULLED BY FRAUDSTERS

Date: September 5, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

AN Irish Independent report last June of an accident claim dismissed as “not credible” by a High Court judge greatly understated Judge Michael Twomey’s dramatic and damning conclusions. “Not credible” does not cover what the judge several times referred to as a “fraudulent” claim on the part of one claimant and who dismissed the other… Read more »

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