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David Dunne

DAVID DUNNE’S ANXIOUS WAIT

Date: October 16, 2019 - Sport of Kings

NORTH COUNTY Dublin trainer David Dunne could be facing a hefty fine and or a ban if the findings of an ongoing investigation into a positive test for anabolic steroids in one of his horses holds up. It was reported in the Sunday Times that the Dunne-trained Druim Samhraidh had tested positive for the steroid… Read more »

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Colin Keane

KEANE VS O’BRIEN

Date: October 16, 2019 - Sport of Kings

UNLIKE THE flat trainers’ championship, which has been won more or less every year this century by Aidan O’Brien, the flat jockeys’ championship has seen some tremendous duals over the years and this year’s title again looks likely to go down to the wire. The two fighting it out are Colin Keane and Donnacha O’Brien,… Read more »

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Robbie Colgan

ROBBIE COLGAN’S REPRIMAND

Date: October 16, 2019 - Sport of Kings

ROBBIE COLGAN obviously felt hard done by over a five-day ban handed to him at Listowel last month. This followed his second-place finish on the Tony Martin-trained Bigger And Better, having come from a very unpromising position early in the home straight. Colgan appealed the ban, which the race-day stewards deemed appropriate given their belief… Read more »

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LABHRÁS Ó MURCHÚ’S NARROW ESCAPE

Date: October 16, 2019 - Behind the Scenes

ALTHOUGH MINISTER for Culture Josepha Madigan was happy to boast after the Budget of a €5m hike in funding to €80m for the Arts Council, closer examination of the announcement showed that this included “€3.75m reallocated from within the department’s existing vote”. Apparently, this will “strengthen the breadth and reach of the Arts Council’s role,… Read more »

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Kathleen Holohan

TAXING MATTERS AT VISUAL IN CARLOW

Date: October 16, 2019 - Behind the Scenes

WHAT ON earth is going on at VISUAL, the multi-million euro contemporary arts centre in Carlow? The board has lost eight directors and there has been no chief executive appointed since Ann Mulrooney departed for the Science Gallery Dublin almost a year ago. It also turns out there is a tax issue raising concerns. Things… Read more »

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RECOVERING – RICHARD SADLIER (GILL BOOKS)

Date: October 16, 2019 - BooksReviews

ELEVEN YEARS ago, The Phoenix published a ‘Young Blood’ profile of former footballer Richie Sadlier, who impressed with his ambition, confidence and ability to take on – and defeat – a terrifying figure like Roy Keane. It turns out that during all of that time – from his first, injury-enforced retirement from football to his… Read more »

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Kevin Toland

ARYZTA’S SLOW RECOVERY REFLECTED IN SHARE PRICE

Date: October 16, 2019 - Moneybags

IT HAS never been explained why former Aryzta CEO Owen Killian bought a minority 47.8% stake in French frozen foods retailer Picard, for a huge €447m in August 2015, given that this acquisition made no strategic sense for the group, which has no retailing skills or knowledge. The deal proved to be sorely ill-advised, with… Read more »

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Denis Francis

PETRONEFT SHAREHOLDERS SHOULD PREPARE FOR THE WORST

Date: October 16, 2019 - Moneybags

THE RESIGNATION last November of the founder of PetroNeft Resources, Denis Francis, was merely another negative development for a company in way over its head and the situation now looks very bleak. It has been losing money since it was formed in 2004, when Francis paid $5m to acquire the 5,000sq km licence over Block… Read more »

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William Prior

WILLIAM PRIOR’S CHARITY PROBLEM

Date: October 16, 2019 - Briefcases

PROVIDING FINANCIAL advice to individuals struggling with debt and lack of credit lines has become a growth business since the economic collapse of 2008. One such organisation is Laois-based Phoenix Project New Beginnings, which turns out to have more than its fair share of serious financial problems, including issues with the taxman. Having initially attracted… Read more »

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LAR CORRIGAN’S APPEAL

Date: October 16, 2019 - Briefcases

WEXFORD businessman Lar Corrigan’s scrap with Deloitte accountant Ken Fennell looks to have finally wound down in the Four Goldmines. The toxic row had been rattling since 2015, when receivers were appointed by KBC Bank to a number of supermarket properties owned by Lar’s brother, Hugh Corrigan. Once upon a time, Hugh Corrigan operated a… Read more »

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JOHN WALSH’S FOXROCK ASSETS

Date: October 16, 2019 - Briefcases

SPARE a thought for Foxrock developer John Walsh and his wife Bronagh Walsh, who recently suffered a setback in the Four Goldmines after a scrap over their posh Westminster Road gaff. John Walsh was formerly a well-known player with fingers in numerous pies across the country and abroad. Through a company called Marydean Ltd, he… Read more »

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IRELAND FUND DONORS

Date: October 16, 2019 - Briefcases

WITH A new face on the board of the Ireland Funds (see p18), it is interesting to see that the charity has been upping its spending. The Ireland Funds is now chaired by ex-NCB suit Alan Foy, the chief executive of software company Blueface. Also on board is top legal eagle Emer Gilvarry, Gary McGann… Read more »

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Mark Kennelly

ENDA KENNY’S CADDY

Date: October 3, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

CONGRATS TO Mark Kennelly, former chief of staff to Enda Kenny during his reign as taoiseach, who has landed the plum post of Golf Ireland CEO in a hotly contested, “extensive” competition, which saw Mark drive down the fairway and come in well under par. But it is Kennelly’s assumed skills on the 19th hole… Read more »

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Simon Coveney

SAUDIS BACK IRELAND AT UN

Date: October 3, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

FOREIGN MINISTER Simon ‘Covetous’ Coveney and Iveagh House mandarins will have been pleased at receiving Saudi Arabia’s support last week for the government’s aching desire to win a seat on the UN security council. But this short-term diplomatic success may prove damaging in the long run given the pointed pat on the back Ireland received… Read more »

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John Arkins

PROFILE: JOHN ARKINS

Date: October 3, 2019 - Pillars of Society

THE IRISH film and TV business is a glamorous one to outsiders and Leo Varadkar milked his Hollywood visit – ‘to double’ the E1bn Irish audio-visual sector – for all its worth last week. But the industry is also heavily dependent on the taxpayer. About €100m a year is injected from the public coffers by… Read more »

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Paddy Holohan

YOUNG BLOOD: PADDY HOLOHAN

Date: October 3, 2019 - The Young Bloods

As if being a vocal Republican and former professional mixed martial artist wasn’t enough to unnerve the chattering classes, Sinn Féin councillor Paddy Holohan (31) proved to be a popular and headline-grabbing addition to his party with a star performance in May’s local elections. Could he eventually succeed sitting Dublin South West (DSW) TD Seán… Read more »

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Marty Whelan

MARTY WHELAN’S JERUSALEM JUNKET

Date: October 3, 2019 - Fit to Print?

VIEWERS OF RTÉ’s coverage of the Eurovision Song Contest final in May will have heard presenter Marty Whelan speak of a “visit to Jerusalem earlier in the week”, noting “it was quite spectacular to be at the Wall” and “get a sense” of the city. The Western Wall is in Jerusalem’s Old City in Israeli-occupied,… Read more »

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Katherine Zappone

ZAPPER FOR UN?

Date: October 3, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

KATHERINE ZAPPONE’S appointment as the government’s “special envoy” in the urgent quest for a UN security council seat is a strange one, even allowing for Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and Tánaiste Simon Coveney’s usual willingness to indulge Zapper. Isn’t the securing of the prestigious prize of a security council seat Coveney’s job, along with his jealous… Read more »

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Diarmuid Wilson

SENATOR WILSON VS LADY KILBRACKEN

Date: October 3, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

A FEUD between Fianna Fáil senator Diarmuid Wilson and Lady Kilbracken is now the subject of an inquiry by party leader Micheál Martin, with recriminations and allegations echoing around Co Cavan and beyond. The quarrel began with country and western singer Eamonn Jackson (real name Eamonn Mulvanney), whose puppy farm was found by the ISPCA… Read more »

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Juerg Von Geitz

JUERG VON GEITZ’S ROLEX

Date: October 3, 2019 - High Society

AN INTERESTING set of proceedings has just been initiated in the Circuit Court featuring Dublin financier Juerg von Geitz and the long-established Dawson Jewellers on Dawson Street. At the heart of the case is a vintage Rolex watch. Fans of Goldhawk will be familiar with von Geitz, who, for example, was involved with legal eagle… Read more »

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Rachael Blackmore

BLACKMORE’S BIG APPLE EXPERIENCE

Date: October 3, 2019 - Sport of Kings

It’s not unusual for some of the world’s top flat jockeys, like Ryan Moore and Frankie Dettori, to be riding in different parts of the world on consecutive days. They would be no strangers to being jetted between Ireland, France, America and the southern hemisphere as their employers dictate. However, such a situation for a… Read more »

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Vol 37 No 20

Date: October 3, 2019 -

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O’LEARY’S ‘HELL’

Date: October 3, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

AS BREXIT neurosis sweeps the country, the citizenry can always turn to the sagacious and comforting insights of Michael O’Leary. The Ryanair boss said this week that Britain would agree an orderly exit from the EU because it would not allow damage to its economy. Other perceptive comments from O’Leary about the EU came in… Read more »

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Judge Peter Kelly

JUDGE KELLY VS JERRY BEADES

Date: October 3, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

WILL JUDGE Peter Kelly ever be rid of that inexhaustible lay litigant, Jerry Beades, whose legal actions to block Kelly’s appointment as High Court president have now been heard in the High Court, Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court? Undeterred by three rejections and having ‘exhausted all domestic remedies’, Beades is now bringing his… Read more »

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MORE LEFT SPLITS

Date: October 3, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

POLITICAL splits on the Left are mirrored by the disintegration of the Take Back the City (TBTC) campaign a year after its headline grabbing occupations. TBTC was a coalition of 15 smaller housing groups; students; and the Campaign for Public Housing (CPH), a joint effort between the Communist Party, Eirigi and the Workers’ Party (see… Read more »

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FRESH CLIMATE

Date: October 3, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

It seems that not everyone was thrilled with last month’s college campus walkout as part of the global ‘climate strike’. Although UCD gave its students a partial amnesty from classes to attend the march in Dublin, there was confusion among the heads of college societies about how their governing body, the Societies Council (SC), was… Read more »

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Jemil Saidi

JUDGE MCDONAGH’S DUCAC DOWNFALL

Date: October 3, 2019 - Student Life

A fiery row at Dublin University Central Athletic Club (DUCAC) has culminated in its most-esteemed chairman losing his re-election bid to a fourth-year engineering student. The outgoing chair just happens to be retired judge Donagh McDonagh, who – in a bruising contest at the body’s AGM – lost by just one vote to Jemil Saidi…. Read more »

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Michael Quinn

NIGERIAN ARMS AND BILLIONS

Date: October 3, 2019 - Affairs of the Nation

Process & Industrial Developments (P&ID), founded by the late Mick Quinn, recently won an €8.6bn award against the Nigerian government, with the support of British home secretary Priti Patel (she who threatened Ireland with another famine recently) no less. But Quinn’s exploits over the last 30 years have been even more dramatic, if not quite… Read more »

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Imre Arakas

ALL-IRELAND KINAHANS

Date: October 3, 2019 - Hush Hush

AN EAST European 9mm Makarov semi-automatic pistol, or PM, is not one traditionally associated with gangland crime here in Ireland. However, the formerly unusual Makarov handgun that was used to murder top IRA commander Gerard ‘Jock’ Davison in May 2015 was in the news recently – it was revealed that the PSNI was aware that… Read more »

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Maria Steen

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: October 3, 2019 - The Hot Air Brigade

What are some of the hallmarks of paganism? Obvious examples include nature worship, ritual sacrifices and doomsday prophecies, all of which are present in the climate justice cult.” Maria Steen, the Irish Times, submitted by reader Their website explains that omakase means “I will leave it with you” and, in a twist on that, diners… Read more »

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UNIONIST ‘CONSENT’

Date: October 3, 2019 - Northwind

Earlier this week, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said, “The Irish government has always been open to a role for Stormont in any solution to Brexit.” He added, “It’s right that the elected representatives of the people of NI should have a role.” Varadkar was responding to British suggestions that ‘Unionist consent’ is necessary for any arrangements… Read more »

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Willie O'Dea

FF FRONTBENCH MEDICATION

Date: October 3, 2019 - Last Refuge

MICHEÁL MARTIN will not be pleased to see the row between Willie O’Dea and the more ‘responsible’ Fianna Fáil frontbench members spilling over into the media. The FF spokesperson on social protection has argued strongly that the party demand pension and social welfare increases in its budgetary negotiations with Fine Gael (see The Phoenix, 6/9/19)…. Read more »

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Paul Gogarty

FG WHITEWASH IN BY-ELECTIONS?

Date: October 3, 2019 - Last Refuge

LEO VARADKAR delivered a decidedly downbeat prediction for Fine Gael in the four upcoming by-elections – “only one of the seats is guaranteed” – but even that may be optimistic and chances are that FG could see a whitewash. Varadkar is certainly pessimistic about the party’s prospects in Dublin Fingal (MEP Clare Daly’s seat), where… Read more »

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Paul Murphy

THE FIRST ITEM

Date: October 3, 2019 - Last Refuge

INTERNECINE FEUDING within the far Left can be incomprehensible, but two things are clear about TD Paul Murphy’s apostasy and departure from the Socialist Party, aka, Solidarity. Firstly, he has realised that the refusal by SP/Solidarity TDs Ruth Coppinger, Mick Barry et al to work with capitalist lackeys and other renegades – like Sinn Féin,… Read more »

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Emmet Stagg

LABOUR’S ‘NEW GENERATION’

Date: October 3, 2019 - Last Refuge

‘GENERATIONAL CHANGE’ is how the party has pitched the withdrawal of Labour’s Wicklow general election candidate, Jack O’Connor, with Cllr Paul O’Brien replacing the ex-SIPTU boss. And the quest for a “new generation” is also the reason advanced by political director Nat O’Connor for former junior minister Kathleen Lynch’s replacement on the general election ticket… Read more »

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Pat Leahy

DIM FORECAST

Date: October 3, 2019 - Fit to Print?

WHAT A mischievous suggestion was recently published in the Irish Mail on Sunday in a speculative forecast about a Fianna Fáil/Green Party coalition – and a potential government press secretary, namely Irish Times political editor Pat Leahy. That FF leader Micheál Martin, Green leader Eamon Ryan and Leahy should be spotted lunching together formed the… Read more »

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