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‘SINDO’ BLUSTER

Date: October 31, 2019 - Fit to Print?

THE REACTION of the Sunday Independent to Boris Johnson’s abandonment of his hard line on Brexit, the north and his former ‘allies’ (the DUP) varied from denial to bluster to speechless. Eoghan Harris and Dan O’Brien had been leading a militant charge against the government line on the backstop, with Harris warning of a “green… Read more »

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‘IRISH TIMES’ CLIMATE ISSUE

Date: October 31, 2019 - Fowl Emissions

The ubiquitous ‘energy security’ bogeyman was enlisted for a recent survey by the Irish Offshore Operators’ Association, which asked was “finding more Irish natural gas more secure than importing from Britain post-Brexit”. Unsurprisingly, this very leading question provoked a majority to favour drilling for more gas. One would expect better from the Irish Times, but… Read more »

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Consuelo O’Connor

JOHN GIVEN’S HOUSE

Date: October 31, 2019 - High Society

FORMER Goodbody solicitor John Given has parachuted into Philip Lee law firm as a senior partner. He is one of the more interesting legal eagles on the circuit and one of the better off. Given made a killing as founding chairman of the controversial Malin Corp life sciences investment vehicle, having immediately before that been… Read more »

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SWAN DIVE

Date: October 31, 2019 - Briefcases

CARLOW businessmen John, Niall and Alex Swan have a very important date with insolvency specialist PJ Lynch next week in the Four Goldmines. Fans of Goldhawk will recall that Lynch is looking to have the three former directors of Swan Fruit Ltd disqualified for various alleged breaches of the Companies Act (see The Phoenix, 22/2/19)…. Read more »

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Emily O'Reilly

€40BN ARMAMENTS STROKE

Date: October 16, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

A SPEECH last year by then TD Mick Wallace and a short paragraph in the Sunday Times, of all places, are the only references Goldhawk can find on the most audacious, multi-billion-euro stroke pulled by the arms industry and its political supporters. A ruling on a complaint to European Ombudsman Emily O’Reilly gives a flavour… Read more »

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Conor McGregor

McGREGOR SPLITS MEDIA AWARDS

Date: October 16, 2019 - Fit to Print?

THE Newsbrands Journalism Awards judging process has proceeded with the usual behind-the-scenes bickering and lobbying. Already the Irish Mirror’s editor-in-chief, John ‘Jumbo’ Kierans, has notched up a first-round victory over the Star concerning the Mirror’s scoop about claims of Conor McGregor and a love child. In late September the overall judging panel received the sub-panels’… Read more »

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John FitzGerald

PROFILE: JOHN FITZGERALD

Date: October 16, 2019 - Pillars of Society

ONE OF Ireland’s pre-eminent economists, with a gargantuan academic and professional CV that includes membership of the Central Bank Commission and the Economic and Social Research (ESRI), Professor John FitzGerald has been at the centre of the main issues facing Ireland in recent decades. His latest mission is to save Ireland and the planet, being… Read more »

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David Gibney

YOUNG BLOOD: DAVE GIBNEY

Date: October 16, 2019 - The Young Bloods

With the spectre of an upcoming general election haunting the body politic, efforts are being made to reboot the Right 2 Change (R2C) electoral alliance. One of the chief architects of the 2016 pact between Sinn Féin, independent socialist TDs like Clare Daly and Richard Boyd Barrett’s People Before Profit (PBP) was David Gibney (39),… Read more »

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Pippa O’Connor

PIPPA O’CONNOR’S BEST LIFE

Date: October 16, 2019 - High Society

IT HAS been a busy few weeks for ubiquitous model-turned-blogger-turned-designer Pippa O’Connor, social media sensation and wife of TV presenter Brian Ormond. She has been energetically plugging her latest book and, Goldhawk can reveal, is also putting in place a brand new business. Ormond recently celebrated his 40th birthday with a knees-up for 200 guests… Read more »

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William Jones

WILLIAM JONES VS JOHN MAGNIER

Date: October 16, 2019 - Wigs on the Green

SPARE A thought for Goldhawk’s favourite ex-employee of John Magnier’s all-powerful Coolmore Stud operation – the irrepressible William Jones. Having set out to challenge the global bloodstock giant, he has ended up in very heavy ground and it looks like his race could now be run. Fans of Goldhawk will recall (see The Phoenix, 4/12/15)… Read more »

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Rachel Moran

RACHEL MORAN’S REACTIONS

Date: October 16, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

FORMER PROSTITUTE Gayle Dalton would have expected a reaction from high-profile, media-friendly anti-sex-work campaigner Rachel Moran after challenging the latter’s account of her past in various tweets. Moran has been quick to hit back when her views are challenged. Earlier this week, Moran marched into the Circuit Court seeking an injunction to prevent Dalton from… Read more »

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Leo Varadkar and Jimmy Fallon

LEO’S HOLLYWOOD LUVVIETHON

Date: October 16, 2019 - Behind the Scenes

WITH LAST month’s coast-to-coast luvviethon in the US – which saw Leo Varadkar hobnobbing with Jimmy Fallon and NBC/Universal in New York and then pressing the film and TV studio flesh – the juiciest supporting cast roles went to very familiar faces. While a few currently ‘hot’ artistes were rustled up for Varadkar’s photo ops… Read more »

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Jamie Heaslip

JAMIE HEASLIP’S TACTICS

Date: October 16, 2019 - Briefcases

FORMER Irish rugby captain Jamie Heaslip is everywhere at the moment. When he’s not appearing on RTÉ’s Rugby World Cup panel, the Newbridge native is doing the media rounds in aid of his recently released autobiography, All In. Readers of his book – a memoir of his years on the field – probably shouldn’t expect… Read more »

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Danielle Meagher

DANIELLE MEAGHER’S TARGETS

Date: October 16, 2019 - Briefcases

ALTHOUGH SHE is now based in sunny California, Danielle Meagher (formerly ‘Dr Botox’) continues to create waves this side of the Atlantic. Now known as Danielle Collins, the dentist-turned-beautician-turned-actor is involved in a couple of legal spats, in both Dublin and Belfast. Earlier this year, Danielle found herself on the end of a judgment for… Read more »

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Vol 37 No 21

Date: October 16, 2019 -

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VLAD’S PLANS

Date: October 16, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

THOSE who believe Leo Varadkar is not even considering an early election should revisit his recent taunts about the Fianna Fáil frontbench. Vlad compared the FF amateurs to Fine Gael’s opposite numbers in cabinet, singling out ‘super ministers’ Simon Coveney and Paschal Donohoe. FF’s Brexit spokeswoman, Lisa Chambers, marks Coveney and it takes two men,… Read more »

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LIAM LYNCH’S LOSSES

Date: October 16, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

THE NEWS that Enda O’Coineen is about to purchase Irish Tatler magazine from Irish Central Media (ISM) suggests that Liam Lynch and Niall O’Dowd could be making a swift exit from the Irish market at a hefty cost. ISM was set up in November 2017 when New York-based Lynch’s operation bought out Norah and Ciaran… Read more »

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Jackie Cahill

RTÉ VS OIREACHTAS

Date: October 16, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

A MOST interesting and possibly expensive conflict between RTÉ’s Prime Time Investigates programme and members of an Oireachtas committee will play out in the High Court unless somebody blinks in a forthcoming libel case being taken by a well-known greyhound trainer against the station. Much of PT’s special on the greyhound industry focused on the… Read more »

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Michael Noonan

FG GONE TO DOGS

Date: October 16, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

How embarrassing that the first greyhound to be traced under the Irish Greyhound Board’s (IGB) new ‘care line’ is still registered to an Oireachtas syndicate of Fine Gael senators and TDs, including former finance minster Michael Noonan. Swift Starlet, a former winner, is registered to the Oir Syndicate, but has not been listed on the track… Read more »

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Áine Moriarty

IFTA’S MYSTERY PLOT

Date: October 16, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

EARLIER THIS year (see The Phoenix, 8/2/19) Goldhawk noted a potential lacuna in the diaries of the nation’s celebs with the non-appearance on the calendar of this year’s IFTAs ceremony – Áine Moriarty and Deirdre Hopkins’s annual gong-fest for our deserving film and TV luvvies. Last year, the film and TV awards ceremonies took place… Read more »

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Patrick Dorgan

LEGAL LIGHTS

Date: October 16, 2019 - Wigs on the Green

LAW SOCIETY president Patrick Dorgan will be hoping that the bad vibes engendered by some of his ‘filthy’ trainees last week will be eclipsed by the society’s upcoming charitable event. Dorgan recently reminded his colleagues that “the solicitors’ profession has long supported the fight against homelessness”, as he urged law firms’ managing partners and business… Read more »

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William Frazer

WILLIE FRAZER’S ‘VICTIMHOOD’

Date: October 16, 2019 - Hush Hush

Justice Minster Charlie Flanagan’s praise for Loyalist killer Willie Frazer, now deceased, looks a little misjudged. Flanagan’s posthumous eulogy to Frazer was posted on twitter after the death of the ultra-loyalist arms distributor last June, with the minister speaking of Frazer’s “unstinting campaigning for victims”. But the BBC Spotlight programme recently made clear what everyone… Read more »

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Stephanie Preissner

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: October 16, 2019 - The Hot Air Brigade

Is it just me, or has anyone else wondered where do we go when we die? Stephanie Preissner asks the big questions no one else has considered, Sunday Independent, ‘Life’ magazine I believed it. John Banville’s reaction to hearing that he had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, the Irish Times, submitted by reader… Read more »

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Arlene Foster

ARLENE, THERESA AND BORIS

Date: October 16, 2019 - Northwind

With the obvious exception of Garda Commissioner Drew Harris OBE (€200,000+ pa), a policeman’s lot is not a happy one. But being a copper is a feather bed containing 77 virgins when compared with the lot of a DUP leader. Ask Arlene Foster. Some years ago, there were Republican mutterings about a border poll, which… Read more »

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EAMON RYAN’S MEDIA CRUSADE

Date: October 16, 2019 - Last Refuge

WHO KNEW what champions of free speech and the media the main Dáil parties are, as exemplified by their leaders’ bold call to Denis O’Brien’s Communicorp radio stations to drop the ban on journalists from the Irish Times and the Currency website? Most Oireachtas members have refused to either support an RTÉ licence fee increase… Read more »

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Marian Harkin

BLUESHIRT SURGERY IN SLIGO AND CAVAN

Date: October 16, 2019 - Last Refuge

THE SPECTRE of former MEP Marian Harkin haunts Fine Gael in Sligo-Leitrim, where the already nervous party members believe that her possible entry to the general election would put paid to the sole seat currently held there by Tony McLoughlin. Even if Harkin (65) does not run, FG could be in trouble as without McLoughlin… Read more »

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Terence Flanagan

FG’S PRODIGAL SON, FLANAGAN

Date: October 16, 2019 - Last Refuge

GOD LOVES a trier and former Dublin North-East Fine Gael poll topper in the 2011 general election, Terence Flanagan, might well believe that his Catholic crusade against abortion entitles him to God’s support in his quest to return to the Dáil – or at least a place on the Dublin Bay North (DBN) general election… Read more »

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Mary Lou McDonald

SINN FÉIN DAMAGE LIMITATION

Date: October 16, 2019 - Last Refuge

SINN FÉIN’S local election plunge to 9.5% from 16% in 2014 (and 13.9% in the 2016 general election) is far more significant than its cack-handed presidential disaster. Privately, neither Mary Lou McDonald nor any SF TD or activist will deny that the upcoming general election can only be described as a damage limitation exercise. Gone… Read more »

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John Banville

AND THE WINNER IS…

Date: October 16, 2019 - Fit to Print?

“WHY WOULD I not believe it?” was the plaintive cry of non-Nobel prize-winner John Banville, quoted in the Irish Times last weekend. Banville later emphasised that the joke was on the Swedish Academy rather than him in an effort to diminish his alacrity in believing the faintly ridiculous proposition that he had won the Nobel… Read more »

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ULICK O’CONNOR’S SPECIAL SEAT

Date: October 16, 2019 - Fit to Print?

ARGUMENTATIVE, hot-tempered and sometimes even threatening, writer and critic Ulick O’Connor was Goldhawk’s favourite rebel contrarian – even when being verbally abused by him. O’Connor’s literary and other works have been well chronicled by the mainstream media, but little mention has been made of the battles he fought against powerful bureaucracies in the establishment as… Read more »

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WHAT’S A HYBRID CAR?

Date: October 16, 2019 - Fowl Emissions

Earlier this month, RTÉ’s website ran a scoop, headlined, ‘Toyota to drop petrol versions of Corolla and C-HR’. Motoring editor Donal Byrne explained that the Japanese manufacturing giant expects 92% of its cars to be “fully hybrid by the end of next year”. Toyota Ireland’s CEO, Steve Tormey, called it “a brave move given the… Read more »

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CALM REBELLION

Date: October 16, 2019 - Fowl Emissions

“Gardaí we love you, we’re doing this for your children too.” This was the surreal chant emanating from the Extinction Rebels during a recent sit-in at Leinster House. Some gardaí were reportedly close to tears. It was a long, long way from Jobstown. There is probably nothing in the Templemore training manual on how to… Read more »

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BOG CUTTINGS 3721

Date: October 16, 2019 - Bog Cuttings

‘TRAPPED IN BALLYPHEHANE’ A MAN who found the road closed during last year’s Cork City marathon became agitated at the though of being “trapped in Ballyphehane”.Gordon Forde (47) of Hillside, Ard Na Greinne, Banduff Road, Cork, pleaded guilty to threatening, insulting and abusive behaviour. Sergeant John Kelleher told the court that the road was closed… Read more »

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Consuelo O’Connor

ANGELA MOORE’S SEAT

Date: October 16, 2019 - High Society

THERE IS a new face on the board of the Ireland Funds here. Virginia-based Angela Moore has just been appointed a director and joins the Alan Foy-chaired board. The most recent new face on the Ireland Funds board before Moore was Peter Rooney, the D4-based nephew of former US ambassador to Ireland and Ireland Funds… Read more »

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David Raethorne

DAVID RAETHORNE’S ‘FABULOUS’ HOUSE

Date: October 16, 2019 - High Society

THE INDO went to town in its property supplement last week, gushing about Brentwood House in Dundrum, Co Dublin, which is on the market with an asking price of E4m. This turns out to be the abode of low-profile moneybags David Raethorne and his wife, Susan Claffey. Headlined ‘The real Dundrum Castle’, the article took… Read more »

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Charles Byrnes

BYRNES BASHES THE BOOKIES

Date: October 16, 2019 - Sport of Kings

THE BOOKIES at Roscommon were caught on the hop recently by Charles Byrnes as the fearless punter carried off another successful coup via his runner, The Big Galloper. The horse had only shown glimpses of ability in nine previous starts; a second placing in a bumper at Limerick 18 months ago was his most prominent… Read more »

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